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Hyde Park Ghosts Presents the Hallows and Hauntings Walking Tour
4407 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538
Research updated August 2026
Age
All ages
Cost
$$
Priced from $32 per person per the operator's GetYourGuide listing; simply bring an ID, no printed ticket required.
Access
Wheelchair OK
About 1 mile of Hyde Park's Albany Post Road corridor near the Vanderbilt Mansion grounds.
Equipment
Photos OK
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
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.
A 1-hour, roughly 1-mile walking tour meeting at the entrance of the Vanderbilt Mansion, Albany Post Road at Vanderbilt Park Road, Hyde Park, NY 12538. The route covers the Vanderbilt Mansion, Stoutenburgh Cemetery, and St. James Chapel, framed around Hyde Park's Gilded Age estates and early settler history. Runs nightly.
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Meeting point and featured stop; the operator's story centers on a young cook who died in an accident at the mansion.
Stop on the tour; the operator ties reported activity to Jacobus Stoutenburgh and the Berg-Stoutenburgh House.
Stop on the tour; the operator's story centers on Sara Roosevelt's reported presence near the family plot.
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