Montauk Manor

The haunting accounts at Montauk Manor divide into two categories: auditory reports of drumming and chanting heard around the property with no identifiable source, and visual sightings of a figure described as a man in Native American dress appearing on the fourth floor.

The Long Island Paranormal Investigators note that Signal Hill, where the hotel was built in 1927, has documented Montaukett significance — including accounts of a 17th-century conflict between the Narragansett and Montaukett peoples in the area, and the hill's prior use for burial and gathering purposes. The LIPI documentation notes that construction of the hotel disturbed the terrain substantially. Some accounts name Chief Wyandanch, a 17th-century Montaukett sachem, in connection with the figure seen on the fourth floor; this attribution comes from oral tradition rather than documented evidence and should be understood as local legend.

The Montauk Library's retrospective blog post on the Manor's haunting reputation collected multiple accounts: a guest whose bathroom door slammed on a family member, furniture moved without explanation, belongings knocked off surfaces, and a resident of the fourth floor who described being lifted from the bed. A 2024 guest account described flickering bathroom lights and smoke-like movement.

Insider Hamptons places the Manor within a broader context of Montauk haunting tradition, noting cold spots, flickering lights, and apparitions in the hallways — particularly a woman in 1920s attire who has been attributed to the hotel's Depression-era heyday.

The sensitivity around the indigenous narrative here is real: the burial-ground tradition is plausible given Signal Hill's documented history, but it was not confirmed by tribal sources in the research available. The drumming and chanting reports are the most widely corroborated phenomenon across unconnected accounts.