Halloween in Hudson NY

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Weintraub House, excerpt from October issue, Hudson Magazine

  

I’ve actually seen a ghost
walk through our bedroom.

I can’t pin down the exact
year…sometime between 1990
and 1992. It was on a weekend
during the middle of the night.
He looked at me and went out

a back door (which didn’t exist

until the 1900s), which leads me to think it was one of Herb Weintraub’s family…we bought the building from him in 1990.

His family had owned it

since 1900, when a back door  was added on the second floor.  

Everyone’s take on this “event”

that I’ve talked is that it was a good thing. Whoever he was, we think he was just making sure the building was being cared for. I’d put his “look” circa 1920–30. He was whitish translucent,
in his sixties and had a
moustache…taking all of about  five to ten seconds at best to  pass by the bed and through the door. Then I hid under the covers!

We never got to talk to

 Herb Weintraub, the previous owner,about our experience, but it might
have made sense that it was his father.
The back addition to the building
 was added in the 1920s, and the figure
 I saw had the same build as Herb.
There is a store opposite Town Fair,
which was the Wolf Weintraub paint/
wallpaper store. It was a one-time
time event, but I know what I saw. He
left and never came back.”
A home and gallery now exists in
the former Bank of Hudson, 1809
which was later a private residence
owned by the Weintraubs. Sometimes
events, emotions or even weather
conditions trigger what’s known as a
residual haunting; a sighting of an
entity that seems to follow the old
layout of a house. More history of this
house can be read in Haunted
Catskills/The History Press.
Images courtesy Bruce C. Bergmann, BCB Gallery