Updated September 15, 2006

Long Island has never had a shortage on Urban Legends, with Halloween
just around the corner; I thought it would be fun to have a look at some of these legends and find the spookiest places on Long Island. So here’s our list in order from least to most scary:

5) Lake Ronkonkoma – The legend states that there were once two tribes of Native Americans living across the lake from one another. A princess from one of the tribes and a warrior from the other had fallen in love. They planned to meet in the middle of the lake at midnight and elope. On the night in question the princess rowed to the center of the lake and waited for her lover to arrive. For some reason the warrior never made it to the designated meeting place. It’s said that the girl died waiting for her fiancée. The princess is said to claim the life of one boy every year.

4) Mary Hatchet – In this legend a young girl kills her entire family with a hatchet then takes her own life. The legend states that the family house sunk into the ground leaving only the chimney. There are two locations for this site, either in Cedarhurst or Mount Misery.

3) Mary’s Grave – There are several versions of this story and several supposed locations. Usually, Mary is a young girl who is killed in a brutal fashion, it’s said that if you shine a flashlight on her headstone at night you’ll see her face. Among the alleged locations for Mary’s Grave are Head of the Harbor and Mount Misery

I remember as a teenager, driving around looking for Mary’s Grave in the Miller Place/Setauket area. While, we never found it, it sure made for some interesting evenings.

2) Reid’s Ice Cream – Located in Blue Point, this storage facility (now torn down), is the scene of two different legends. The first involves a dancer or stripper back in the 1950’s who is supposed to have gone into Reid’s to “be with a man” and was killed. Witnesses have reported scary things like the sound of a woman screaming, or a women walking around, some say with no eyes. The other legend involves a young boy who was killed either in the facility or near the area. Witnesses say they’ve heard a child humming and even the patter of small feed.

1) The Amityville Horror House – On a quite side street in Amityville is the site of one of the most infamous haunted houses of all time. The subject of two motion pictures and countless articles and news stories, this is it, our pick for the spookiest place on Long Island.

I don’t know if the house is really haunted, the fact is that a brutal multiple murder took place in the DeFeo family home. The only survivor Ronald DeFeo was later convicted of the murders. The house was then sold to George And Kathy Lutz and their three children. The Lutz’s lived in the house for only 28 days during which they claim all kinds of really bad things happened. Proceed with Caution!

So that’s our list of the five spookiest places on Long Island. Want more in-depth information about any of these sites visit, LIOddities.com.

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