float through doorways andwalls 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 jamd jimmy walker. was a real dandy. he reportedly housed his mistress there for years. the house was apparently home to the howdy doody guy, the puppeteer frank paris. i don t think there are any allegations of howdy doody haunting the place. that would be the most freaking terrifying to me. but the ghost story about that place is that successive owners of that townhouse at 12 gay street in new york city has
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.