Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site · Hyde Park's Gilded Age estate district · St. James Episcopal Church and Roosevelt family history
Hyde Park Ghosts is a city-specific program of US Ghost Adventures (USGA), a multi-city ghost-tour chain. The Hyde Park tour, marketed as Hallows and Hauntings of Hyde Park Ghost Tour, meets at the entrance of the Vanderbilt Mansion at Albany Post Road and Vanderbilt Park Road and runs nightly year-round as a roughly 1-mile, 1-hour walking tour. Two Tripadvisor reviews from July 2026, both naming the same guide, corroborate that the tour is actively operating.
The Vanderbilt Mansion, a Gilded Age estate now a National Historic Site, is already documented independently in the corpus. The route also covers Stoutenburgh Cemetery, an early Hyde Park burial ground tied to the Stoutenburgh family, and St. James Chapel, a historic Episcopal chapel associated with the Roosevelt family plot.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/hyde-park-ghost-tour/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60801-d34378039-Reviews-Hallows_and_Hauntings_of_Hyde_Park_Ghost_Tour-Hyde_Park_New_York.html
ApparitionsResidual Haunting
According to the operator, the Vanderbilt Mansion is haunted by the spirit of a young cook who died in an accident on the grounds, said to appear and vanish near the estate. At Stoutenburgh Cemetery, the operator's story centers on Jacobus Stoutenburgh, whose spirit is said to haunt both the family burial ground and the nearby Berg-Stoutenburgh House. St. James Chapel is framed by the operator around the spirit of Sara Roosevelt, said to keep watch over the family plot.
All of this reflects the tour operator's own marketing and storytelling, not documented history independently verified for this listing. It is included here strictly as a description of the tour's advertised content, not as an endorsement of any specific haunting claim.
