Exclusive | These are the most haunted toilets across NYC: They sent a resident minister to have a bathroom blessing
New York can be a scary place — to use the bathroom.Ahead of Halloween, Gotham residents shared with The Post eerie encounters they’ve had in some of NYC’s spookiest places.
And, strangely, several of the ghost stories took place in the toilet.So make sure you look before you go.The Bronx — Fordham University’s Martyrs’ CourtA decade ago, on the eve of Halloween, freshman Monica Fafaul found out why Fordham is ranked No.1 as the most haunted university in the nation.
She woke up in her dorm room in Martyrs’ Court and couldn’t move.“I was laying in bed face up, and on the ceiling, this white, long figure appeared with no face, and white, long clothes and long hair.
And I felt like I was being choked.I remember trying to scream my roommate Emma’s name and I couldn’t,” Fafaul, now 27, recalled.
The apparition vanished but days later, one of her dormmates “was alone in the bathroom on our floor and a piece of toilet paper started floating on the ground in a circle and slammed back down,” she said.Fafaul and her friends were so “freaked out,” they alerted their resident assistant, who promptly called campus ministry.“They sent a resident minister to have a bathroom blessing on our floor.We said prayers and walked up and down the hallway and through the bathroom throwing holy water on all the doors,” she said.
“After that we had no more issues.”Before it was a university, Fordham, where parts of the 1973 horror classic “The Exorcist” were filmed, was a private residence called Rose Hill Manor, built by Benjamin Corsa in 1751 — and some believe it’s haunted by one of Corsa’s descendants.Queens – Sac’s Place in Kaufman Astoria StudiosThe Astoria eatery Sac’s Place, for which the “Soprano’s” character Johnny Sac is named, is housed on the lot of Kaufman Astoria Studios — and a woman believed to have died there allegedly haunts the restaurant.Co-owner Anthony Sacramone had his first run-in with the ghost...