Haunted WNY: History Lurking Within The Shadows at The Hinsdale House
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“To be able to go into the community and tell the folklore and the stories about the area,” he said, it’s been a useful way to straighten out years of rumor and supposition. Tours and overnight investigations are offered regularly. Klaes says a priest came to the house and performed an exorcism, but it didn’t work.
Once upon a time
As one can see the smaller building seated just south of the farm house was vacant at the time. In speaking with historians from the area, it is guessed that it was burned down. At no time in history were either the farm house, surrounding barns or this vacant home once belonging to Charles Everts and family used as an Inn.
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Daniel has had a lifelong interest in the paranormal field since he was a child. In 2012, he co-founded the Greater Western New York Paranormal Society which was responsible for tackling some of the most challenging paranormal cases in the New York region. Daniel Klaes bought the house to save it from the wrecking ball. He hosts paranormal investigators from around the world as a way to help pay for some of the massive repair bills.
Buffalo’s Best Haunted Place: The Hinsdale House
"I was on the podium looking out into the sea of purple shirts. We had over 3,000 participants all walking together. My kids ran it. It was just a really nice event bringing together the community and people," she said. Thukral, who now works at Northwestern, was walk co-chair last year as well, when the event made history by raising more than $770,000. "It was just really inspiring to be there," she said.
The actual house has a webcam feed on its site you can look for ghosts on. There’s the occasional footage of a glowing orb, but it doesn’t do much except drift around. Hinsdale House is 65 minutes of people wandering around in the dark saying they’re scared. The last half-hour features the final girl doing such a bad job of faking crying and wailing that if I wasn’t going to review it, I would have turned it off. And that doubly sucked because she handled her more normal scenes quite well. Smith says her parents both support her paranormal investigation hobby, although her dad took some convincing.
Forty-nine sponsors to date have signed on to support the event financially, which Kolavennu sees as significant. More than 3,200 people already plan to show up May 5. As of Wednesday, $589,000 of the $750,000 goal had been raised. Thukral appreciates the fact that anyone can participate in the walk - and registration extends up until the start of the event. "One of the ideas we came up with this year is to really help keep families, especially young kids, engaged," Thukral said.
Trabold stated that one cannot ‘exorcise a building, only a person.” The Dandy family agrees with these statements, and when speaking to the director of the footage taken day, it was again confirmed. Tanous wrote about his expedition to the Hinsdale hill in his publication, Beyond Coincidence (Doubleday; 1st. ed edition (1976)). There is also a transcription of the recording readily available from the Tanous Foundation, run currently by his niece and historian Alice. Any historical researcher of the area would note that Native Americans settled in valleys, near waterways. Without a source of water, life would be very difficult.
A priest from St. Bonaventure University was at the house more than once to perform an exorcism which worked for awhile but as time went by the Dandy family lost the battle and ended up leaving the house for good. Where mounds are not located are on a hill top in Hinsdale, New York, where they have been stated for several years to exist. Rumors of a chief’s burial and several mounds have swirled for several years since a quote by a local was published in the newspapers. Countless historians have attempted to combat this rumor, but despite efforts it continues to breathe life. As recent as 2016, publications are still regurgitating the false stories that the house was built over 800 Native American graves and the site of a horrific massacre.
They ran from present day NY Route 16 and beyond, and the present-day Haskell Road through the Haskell Flats Valley. The LaFever Hotel, currently stands on Haskell road, Cuba, as stated above. I will not share the location of this building due to current “ghost chasers” causing havoc in their pursuit of the supernatural. Though I feel it is important to note it a second time that no one was ever murdered at either hotel. This fabrication of history by the present owner of the Hinsdale farm property, not only has no historical backing, but again, is chasing the deed misinterpretation from the archives of Fr. Dennis McMahon was deeded the Hinsdale farm property on February 3, 1912.
To unfold 50 years of historical error of the beautiful areas of Hinsdale, Olean, and the Haskell Flats. Alphonsus; to finally answer the questions he had unanswered upon his death in 2006. In the early 1970s, the Dandy family moved into the century-old farm house thinking they’d finally found their dream home in the country, but they would soon discover that the truth was far more terrifying. Within days they began to experience strange paranormal activity that only continued to grow worse as time went on. Most often the phenomena would manifest in the form of mysterious phone calls and a variety of poltergeist activity.
Sometimes, the family would even hear chanting emanating from the nearby woods. Mary Ball has come to the house and run tours for many years, she had an experience that seems to support that theory. Trabold was no stranger to the study of darker avenues and paranormal research. He is noted as preforming several exorcisms within his lifetime in the surrounding areas. He did not perform one with the Dandy family at the Hinsdale Farm. The local newspaper headlines screamed with the spooky story and the hero friar, but in no time was an exorcism done on that property.
As the years passed by, a few families have lived in the home but didn’t stay for long. The last occupants of the Hinsdale House were Joe and Florence Misnik, who passed away a few months from one another. Smith says leading others in the upcoming investigation will present challenges. The more people involved, she says, the more potential for the investigators to create their own noise, which could make it hard to differentiate legitimate paranormal activities, if there are any. For Klaes, he’s happy that people are interested in learning from the house, including groups of schoolchildren who tour the home.
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