and walter gibson, legend has it, lived in a haunted house in new york city. a haunted house on a crooked little street in greenwich village, a street with a funny name, called gay street, but not for that reason. mr. gibson, at one point, said he dreamt up the lamont cranston character while he lived there, because the place was so spooky, it made it easy to imagine a man who could float through doorways and float through walls and disappear in a puff of smoke. it was the inspiration for the scary character lamont cranston in the shadow. that three-story house has since become a stop on the new york city ghost tour because, you know, people like a ghost story and you ve got to put something on the tour. this house was a former speakeasy called the pirate s den. it was reportedly the former home of the a new york city mayor named jimmy walker.
invezzer visible, use that to scare the bejesus out of criminals and ultimately to solve crimes. so there were these detective stories and novels in shadow series. orson welles played lamont cranston. but the man who came up with the characters and wrote the series the shadow was walter gibson. and walter gibson, legend has it, lived in a haunted house in new york city. a haunted house on a crooked little street in greenwich village, a street with a funny name, called gay street, but not for that reason. mr. gibson said that he dreamt up the lamont cranston character while he lived there because the place was so spooky, it made it easy to imagine a man that could