After this survey of Rochester's super natural history and tradition, ""the Flour City"" will never look the same! Avenging specters, demon-tortured roads, holy miracles, weird psychic events, prehistoric power sites, ancient curses, Native American shamans, active battlefields, ghost ships, black dogs, haunted monuments and the phantoms of Rochester's famous--all are part of the legacy of Rochester and the lower Genesee. Supernatural historian Mason Winfield and the research team from Haunted History Ghost Walks, Inc., take us on a spiritual safari through the Seneca homeland of the ""Sweet River Valley"" and the modern city in its place. After their survey of Rochester's super natural history and tradition, ""the Flour City"" will never look the same. Author, researcher, and supernatural historian Mason Winfield has published five books: Spirits of the Great Hill, A Ghost Hunter's Journal, Haunted Places of Western New York, Village Ghosts of Western New York and the regional sensation Shadows of the Western Door. Winfield designed and appeared on The Phantom Tour, a 2-hour TV program / DVD on haunted history in Western New York, has appeared on NBC's Today Show, and stars in a 2006 episode of Legend Hunters. He is the founder of Haunted History Ghost Walks, Inc., a company that designs and develops various forms of haunted" tourism, including walking and carriage tours, conferences, and performances. Cultural, historic, and architectural preservation are vital issues to Winfield, and Haunted History Ghost Walks, Inc. is proud to support those causes through their partnerships with cultural organizations." Haunted Rochester A Supernatural History of the Lower Genesee By Mason Winfield, John Koerner, Tim Shaw, Rob Lockhart The History Press Copyright © 2008 Mason Winfield All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-59629-418-9 Contents Preface, Introduction: Young Lion of the West, NATIVE SPIRITS, Old Genesee Ancestors, Power Places, The Legend of Long Pond, The Deerhorn Cups, The Wailing Spirit, Two-Time Cain, The Curse of the Bones, THE GHOSTS OF WAR, The Lore of War, Ganondagan, Patriot Hill, Faded Coat of Blue, Blood Knee Deep First!, Ghost Ships, THE VALLEY HEAVIES, Ghostly Forms, Hell's Herder, Lady of the Lake, The Demon Road, The Dust Devil of Boughton Hill, Jesus on the Thruway…and Friends, ONE-SHOT WONDERS, Psychic Happenings, A Head Start on Hell, The Phantom and the Faustus, The Goblin Slinger, The Teddi Dance, The Blue Mary, SWEET VALLEY SITES, Haunted Buildings, Rochester: Ghost of a Building, Irondequoit: The Reunion Inn, Rochester: The Powers That Be, Greece: Mother of Sorrows, Pittsford: Powder Mills Park, Fairport: The Green Lantern, Fishers: Valentown, Rochester: House of Pain, Rochester: The Dinosaur, Rochester: Architect of the Occult, Rochester: Of Owls and Architecture, Rochester: The Rundel Memorial, Rochester: Field of Spirits, PHANTOMS OF THE FAMOUS, The George Washington Effect, Two Voices Falling, To Drive Like Hell, The Lady and the Tracks, The Douglass House, Flower City Suffragette, He Does It Right, Son of Rochester, The Collector, About the Authors, CHAPTER 1 NATIVE SPIRITS OLD GENESEE ANCESTORS Ghosts and Revenants, Memory, History, and Folklore" was the theme of the 2007 World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, New York. A guest of honor and featured speaker was Abenaki author and publisher Joseph Bruchac, who told ghost stories of the native Northeast. The Abenaki are not even linguistic cousins of the Iroquois nations, but they come from the same region as the easternmost Mohawks. Someone summarized the tone of the evening as a lot of tales about "skeletons" and "cannibals." Most Native Americans of the Northeast, including the Iroquois, believe in ghosts, and they know the haunted places in their current and former territories. But they don't develop stories of the European style. The creepiest aspects of their folklore feature supernaturally powerful human eaters and corpses reanimated into forms that might in other traditions be labeled revenants, ghouls, zombies and vampires. Even today, the Iroquois attitude toward ghosts is different from that of most other Americans. Many Iroquois have a strong faith in presences that we might call spirits — of the human dead or otherwise. But these are not ghosts — apparitions. They are invisible. They could quite well be gods, Little People (the Iroquois fairies), animal spirits, acts of magic, the powers of fate or entities of other sorts that were never incarnated. Most Iroquois reports of ghosts imply that they are some leftover of the human personality, as if the orenda ("life force") that filled people when they lived might occasionally congeal and re- project their image in some environment that was once natural to them. This makes a lot of sense when you go by the reports of witnesses worldwide. But no Iroquois I know would put it that w