Yonkers Residential Street with Documented Poltergeist History
Yonkers, NY
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All Ages
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Free
Public street — no admission. The homes are private residences; do not approach or trespass.
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Wheelchair OK
Paved residential street
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Lee Avenue runs only a few blocks in the Yonkers section of Westchester County, New York. The street is primarily two-family residential housing, typical of early 20th-century Westchester suburban development.
The block's paranormal reputation centers on events documented in first-person accounts by Donna Parish-Bischoff, who lived in a two-family home on Lee Avenue from approximately 1974 to 1979, from ages six to twelve. Before her family moved in, the home had a documented history of violent deaths: the upstairs owner's mother had died by hanging in the house, and a previous downstairs tenant had died by suicide. Parish-Bischoff's account, published as The Lee Avenue Haunting (first edition 2012, second edition 2013), describes a sustained period of unexplained activity across the five-year residence.
An earlier documented account of unusual activity on the street dates to the early 1900s, when a British gentleman named Henry Mund, then living in a farmhouse on Lee Avenue, wrote letters to his mother describing inexplicable experiences that he said drove him to mental breakdown.
The street is not associated with any commercial ghost tour or organized investigation program. All of the residences are private homes.
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What makes Lee Avenue unusual in the regional record of reported paranormal activity is the geographic spread across multiple homes on a single short block. Rather than a single house with a singular history, multiple neighbors described comparing notes after noticing they were experiencing similar phenomena independently.
The Parish-Bischoff family documented the most sustained account. Over five years, the household experienced what the author described as persistent poltergeist activity: an unseen presence that lay on top of household members as they attempted to sleep, objects moved between rooms, voices heard speaking in reversed or distorted patterns in the middle of the night, and chairs overturning in rooms with no one present.
A detail reported across more than one home on the block: the names of neighborhood children, written in marker on the kitchen walls of several separate houses. No source elaborates on whether these were the children of the household or names of children from outside the families.
Nursery rhymes were reported heard from inside closets in at least one of the homes, but the sound would stop when anyone approached and resume when they stepped back.
The Parish-Bischoff family eventually moved away. Author Donna Parish-Bischoff later returned to the home for the second edition of her book and met with current owners. The Yonkers Ghost Investigators, a local paranormal research group, has documented Lee Avenue as one of Westchester County's verified historically active sites.
Lee Avenue is a short residential street in Yonkers, New York. All homes are private residences; no access or approach is permitted. View from the road only. The events documented by author Donna Parish-Bischoff occurred primarily in the early-to-mid 1970s in a two-family home on this block.
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