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LOCATION:
The Bank Street House is located in New York City
on Bank Street, near West 11th Street.
1957
This house was 125 years old and
in excellent condition. After buying the house from a Mrs. M, Dr. S
and his wife remodeled this 19 room boarding house into a single family,
3 story home. On the first floor, there was one long living room, from
the front of house to the back, with a door at the back of this living
room leading to an outside garden. A narrow staircase connected the
first floor to the second floor.
1) After moving into their newly
remodeled home, Dr. S and his wife started to hear, when the house was
quiet, a woman's footsteps going up the staircase, which sometimes continued
across the upper floors. Also, they heard a sound like a light hammering.
Both the footsteps and the hammering sounds happened mostly during the
daylight hours.
2) Arthur B, their English carpenter, and Sadie,
the maid, also heard the footsteps and hammering. All the people in
this house became used to these manifestations, accepting the fact
that there was an unseen resident.
A SURPRISE FIND:
Arthur B., while hammering on the ceiling,
was surprised when suddenly a bunch of plaster & dust fell down,
along with a heavy container, a little bit bigger than a coffee can,
which tumbled down as well, hitting the floor with a thud. The container
held the cremated ashes of Elizabeth Bullock, who was killed by a speeding
car, in 1931, just a few blocks from the Blank Street House. While Elizabeth
had never lived in the Blank St. House, the undertaker had lived on
West 11th St, which isn't far away. The mysteries to answer: How did
the container of ashes wind up in the old 1880 ceiling of the Blank
St. House? Why was Elizabeth Bullock's spirit so restless?
The mysteries of the hidden ashes
and the restless spirit were solved as a result of a seance held by
Hans Holzer and his medium friend, Ethel Meyers, on 7/17/57. Contact
was made with the ghost of Elizabeth Bullock, who explained that she
had married outside her Catholic faith, causing a major brewha between
herself and her family. When Elizabeth was killed, her husband had stolen
her ashes, so she wouldn't be buried in the Catholic Cemetery, and had
hid the container in a house which was close to the Blank Street House.
The ashes were later hidden in the ceiling of the Blank St. House, while
the original house that was picked to hide the ashes was being remodeled.
Elizabeth was unhappy and restless because
her ashes were never buried anywhere, and that her mother had never
forgiven her. Thus, her family strife problems had never been resolved.
Another reason Elizabeth's ghost was unhappy was because she was also
in a major quandary about where her ashes should be buried. The Catholic
Cemetery wouldn't do, nor would being buried with her husband be right
either. So, the owners of the Blank St House, Dr. S and his wife, arranged
a simple grave in the garden, with a simple, non-denominational cross.
No.
Elizabeth Bullock's spirit found
peace there in the garden grave site and there were no more footsteps
or hammering noises.
WITNESSES:
Dr. S & his wife, Arthur B., Sadie,
Hans Holzer & Ethel Meyers.
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