THE NEW EVERYTHING CROTON: 11/12/22

Saturday, November 12, 2022

11/17 SENIOR CITIZENS- CROTON HARMON H.S. SPECIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE ACCLAIMED MUSICAL----25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

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SENIOR CITIZENS

CROTON HARMON H.S. SPECIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE ACCLAIMED MUSICAL----25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE

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----THE FULL DUTCHESS TEA AT CROTON CORNERS/HUDSON TEA (1) Facebook (PLEASE NOTE THIS BUSINSSED CLOSED IN JUNE 2023)

FROM THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY FB PAGE - THE HARMON PLAYHOUSE GHOST

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FROM THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY FB PAGE - THE HARMON PLAYHOUSE GHOST

Although most Croton ghost stories date to the 18th and 19th centuries, the tales about the ghost haunting the Harmon Playhouse—said to be Clifford Harmon himself—appear to date to the 1940s. 

Now a private home on Truesdale Drive, adjacent to the home that was the Nikko Inn, the Playhouse hosted theatrical productions from roughly 1908 into the 1930s until it was purchased by Dr. Samuel Kahn, a controversial psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who had studied with Freud.

While living in the house the Kahns became interested in psychics and invited one to visit. Accompanying her was Hans Holzer, an Austrian-American author and parapsychologist. He wrote more than 120 books on supernatural and occult subjects as well as several plays, musicals, films, and documentaries, and he hosted a television show, Ghost Hunter.

After the psychic demonstrated her abilities to the Kahns and a group of their friends and neighbors, Holzer spoke to Mrs. Kahn who said, “You know, I think we’ve got a ghost.”

“He’s a whistling ghost,” she confided, “always whistling the same song . . . a happy tune. I guess he must be a happy ghost!” Mrs. Kahn explained that although her husband had never heard the whistling, he heard strange raps in their bedroom, late at night. The previous winter they both heard loud knocking on their front door, but when they opened it there was no one there.

As Holzer questioned the Kahns about the history of the house and their experiences he became convinced that the ghost was Clifford Harmon himself, who the Kahns said—incorrectly—had been murdered by the Nazis during World War II.

A medium was later brought in to communicate with Harmon and other spirits in the house. Holzer pieced together their stories of a lost love between Harmon and a woman and jealous man who would knock on the front door.

In 1975 the house was purchased by Mike and Lucy Martineau. Mike was a talent agent, who represented groups like the Commodores and Average White Band, and Lucy was a model.

They had heard the ghost stories before they bought the house, but thought the whole thing was very funny . . . until strange things started to happen.

They’d come home and find all the lights in Mike’s photographic studio on; mirrors smashed into powdered glass or simply removed from the walls and placed on the floor; doors with triple latches unlocked, and other unexplainable occurrences. Several friends from England and Europe had stayed in the house one night and vowed never to stay again.

Lucy Martineau managed to track down Hans Holzer. “Holzer wore a smoking jacket,” she told the Ossining Citizen-Register in 1977, “and had an accent like Bela Lugosi.”

He agreed to hold another seance, with a medium from New Jersey, who communicated with two more ghosts. One was a woman who was waiting for her dead husband and son to come home. The other was a man named Ralph, who had been cheated in a business deal, killed one of his partners, and was hiding out from the police. Holzer convinced both ghosts to leave and the Martineaus recalled that when the ghosts left, the temperature in the room dropped by about 20 degrees.

The strange occurrences didn’t stop after the seance, but Lucy and Mike reported that they were no longer frightened their ghostly housemates.

This was originally published in the Fall 2021 issue of our quarterly newsletter, The Croton Historian. You can subscribe for $10 a year. 

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, DUO CHARGED WITH STEALING CAR, CREDIT CARDS IN CROTON

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Duo Charged With Stealing Car, Credit Cards In Croton-On-Hudson: PoliceTwo people, one a minor, have been charged with stealing a car and other items in Northern Westchester, police say.

On Monday, Nov. 7, police responded to a report that two suspects were trespassing on private property and attempting to break into locked vehicles in Croton-on-Hudson, according to Croton-on-Hudson Police.

Police soon located the two suspects and found them to be in possession of stolen property, including two credit cards, police said. MORE AT

Duo Charged With Stealing Car, Credit Cards In Croton-On-Hudson: Police | Cortlandt Daily Voice

CHRISTMAS TRAIN DAY IS HERE!

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR, HUDSON SOLAR, DOMNA CANDIDO

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RESIDENTS FOLLOWING THE HUDSON NATIONAL SOLAR PROJECT will have an interest in a letter to the editor from Domna Candido in the latest edition of the Gazette. The paper does not have an online presence but is available just about everywhere.

For the petition and more info, go to Petition · SAY "NO" to SOLAR ON SLOPES...DON'T DESTROY CROTON! · Change.org

BRAIN INFLAMMATION & THE MRNA VACCINES, A PEER REVIEWED STUDY

The blog has been getting quite a bit of commentary on this issue. It is best to refer readers to what is currently out there instead so that you can form your own opinions.

Brain inflammation and the mRNA vaccines--Three large insurance databases showed sharp increases in cases of severe brain inflammation after the Covid mRNA shots, according to a new peer-reviewed paper.

People who received the Pfizer jab or booster had a 40 to 70 percent higher chance over the next six weeks of encephalitis or encephalomyelitis. The Moderna jab carried an even higher risk after the second primary dose or a booster.---more at Brain inflammation and the mRNA vaccines - by Alex Berenson (substack.com)

NOVEMBER 1960 DAYS AT OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH

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By special request, and courtesy of the outstanding archives maintained by the volunteers of The Croton Historical Society, we bring you OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH, NOVEMBER 1960. Click on the images below.

AND MORE 1960 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT--SOME BITS & PIECES FROM CROTON IN NOVEMBER OF 1960--- EverythingCroton: BY SPECIAL REQUEST: SOME BITS & PIECES FROM CROTON IN NOVEMBER 1960, LOTS OF FAMILIAR CROTONITES

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