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"The three "X's" were supposedly where three witches
were hanged. For years, there was rope hanging from the
thickest part of the tree nearest the road, and the tale was
that it could not be pulled, broken, cut, or burned."
were hanged. For years, there was rope hanging from the
thickest part of the tree nearest the road, and the tale was
that it could not be pulled, broken, cut, or burned."
"I know who found the farmer dead, layed out in a cross shape in front of the front porch, eyes open, gone. I used to feel something
looking at me from the window that was on the third floor of the house, facing west, which I could see from my bathroom window, a
dark hole of terror, I went in the house, cluttered with junk and went into the Buckhout mansion at 13, scared, Love Lane, the
slaughter houses, the church that was trashed, saw a car off the road once, and the best is probably when I was maybe 13 or 14,
walking past the small graveyard, jumped up on the wall, and saw in horror (at 14) the empty freshly dug pit that contained Mary
Buckhout's coffin, stolen, with two shovels left behind. She had a stone up there, and they were all knocked over" - Rick
looking at me from the window that was on the third floor of the house, facing west, which I could see from my bathroom window, a
dark hole of terror, I went in the house, cluttered with junk and went into the Buckhout mansion at 13, scared, Love Lane, the
slaughter houses, the church that was trashed, saw a car off the road once, and the best is probably when I was maybe 13 or 14,
walking past the small graveyard, jumped up on the wall, and saw in horror (at 14) the empty freshly dug pit that contained Mary
Buckhout's coffin, stolen, with two shovels left behind. She had a stone up there, and they were all knocked over" - Rick
| NATIVE FOLKLORE: The Legends Begin in The 1600's |
| THE INFAMOUS ALBINO HOUSE |
| There have been stories surrounding the Buckout Road area for decades...and in one case as early as the late 1600s. Native American legend claimed that a Great White Deer visited the area at during a full moon and would bring good fortune and success to the person who saw it. Natives traveled from as far away as the Great Lakes in hopes of seeing it. A native known as “Indian Dan” returned once a month from 1805 to 1866 to seek out the Great White Deer (Reminds me of Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin). There is a newer road in the Buckout Rd vicinity known as White Deer Lane named after this legend. A little ironic; 1600's we have Indian Dan looking for an albino deer ... 400 years later we have people looking for cannibal albinos. Go figure. |
The story is that if you stop in front of a particular red house
on Buckout Road and beep your car horn three times then
flesh eating albinos will attack you.
As ridiculous as this sounds, people have sworn this has
happened to them. The chance of being an albino is about 1
in 17,000. When two carriers of the albinism gene have a
child together, that child has a 1 in 4 chance of receiving two
albinism genes. Thus a family of albinos is unlikely but
possible. The chances of that same albino family however
being cannibals is even more unlikely if not absurd.
Regardless, folks have honked their horns in front of this
house until it ultimately burned down and subsequently
demolished in early 2009.
on Buckout Road and beep your car horn three times then
flesh eating albinos will attack you.
As ridiculous as this sounds, people have sworn this has
happened to them. The chance of being an albino is about 1
in 17,000. When two carriers of the albinism gene have a
child together, that child has a 1 in 4 chance of receiving two
albinism genes. Thus a family of albinos is unlikely but
possible. The chances of that same albino family however
being cannibals is even more unlikely if not absurd.
Regardless, folks have honked their horns in front of this
house until it ultimately burned down and subsequently
demolished in early 2009.
| THE HANGING BOYFRIEND AT SERIAL KILLER'S HOUSE |
This is the story of a guy and a girl who drove
on the road on a rainy night in the 1970s. The
car battery died, so the boyfriend got out
knocked on the nearest door for assistance .
Moments later, the girlfriend hears three
thumps on the roof of the car. When she gets
out to investigate, she sees her boyfriend
hanging from a tree. To heighten the .. eerie
factor in this story, the aforementioned house
was once inhabited by notorious 1920's serial
killer Albert Fish.
on the road on a rainy night in the 1970s. The
car battery died, so the boyfriend got out
knocked on the nearest door for assistance .
Moments later, the girlfriend hears three
thumps on the roof of the car. When she gets
out to investigate, she sees her boyfriend
hanging from a tree. To heighten the .. eerie
factor in this story, the aforementioned house
was once inhabited by notorious 1920's serial
killer Albert Fish.
Some locals have claimed to have seen the apparition of infamous The Leatherman
near Pop’s Cave on Buckout Rd. Pop’s Cave was used during the Revolutionary
War to store ammunition and it was the reported hangout for “The Leatherman”
when he roamed through the area in the 1880s. Jules Bourgalay was born in France
and fell in love with a woman named Margarette Larson who’s family owned a
leather business there. Mr Larson was against his daughter dating Jules, so Jules
agreed to work for him for one year free of charge to prove himself worthy. If after
one year of free labor Mr Larson did not gain approval of Jules, then he would leave.
A year later, Jules left France and headed to the US by boat. He became known as
“The Leatherman” and was first sighted in CT in 1862. He was a wandering hobo
who frequented the Buckout woods before passing in March 1889, in Mount
Pleasant, N.Y., after cancer ate away his mouth and jaw. The coroner's report
indicated he was 50 to 55 years old. The Leatherman was said to a bone comb and
rosary wherever he went and also frequented a cave in the near by Saw Mill River
Woods. Rumors still continue to circulate that Bourglay buried money in one of these
two locations and some have claimed that they have been confronted by either
Leatherman’s ghost or a Leatherman double.
near Pop’s Cave on Buckout Rd. Pop’s Cave was used during the Revolutionary
War to store ammunition and it was the reported hangout for “The Leatherman”
when he roamed through the area in the 1880s. Jules Bourgalay was born in France
and fell in love with a woman named Margarette Larson who’s family owned a
leather business there. Mr Larson was against his daughter dating Jules, so Jules
agreed to work for him for one year free of charge to prove himself worthy. If after
one year of free labor Mr Larson did not gain approval of Jules, then he would leave.
A year later, Jules left France and headed to the US by boat. He became known as
“The Leatherman” and was first sighted in CT in 1862. He was a wandering hobo
who frequented the Buckout woods before passing in March 1889, in Mount
Pleasant, N.Y., after cancer ate away his mouth and jaw. The coroner's report
indicated he was 50 to 55 years old. The Leatherman was said to a bone comb and
rosary wherever he went and also frequented a cave in the near by Saw Mill River
Woods. Rumors still continue to circulate that Bourglay buried money in one of these
two locations and some have claimed that they have been confronted by either
Leatherman’s ghost or a Leatherman double.
| THE LEATHERMAN AND HIS GHOST |
Another Buckout Rd urban legend that has survived for
decades is about Mary’s Lantern. Basically there’s a
statue of Mary on someone’s front lawn and the legend
was that if the statue was illuminated then it was safe to
precede and if the statue was not lit then there was
potential danger ahead. There are variations of this
story which include the statue crying (ie some form of
stigmata). Another variation is of a different statue
holding a lantern ...which would be lit if it was safe and
dimmed if it wasn't.
I have also been informed of an urban legend pertaining
to a demonic doll in someone’s attic with a story that
goes if you stare into the doll’s eyes then you become
possessed.
decades is about Mary’s Lantern. Basically there’s a
statue of Mary on someone’s front lawn and the legend
was that if the statue was illuminated then it was safe to
precede and if the statue was not lit then there was
potential danger ahead. There are variations of this
story which include the statue crying (ie some form of
stigmata). Another variation is of a different statue
holding a lantern ...which would be lit if it was safe and
dimmed if it wasn't.
I have also been informed of an urban legend pertaining
to a demonic doll in someone’s attic with a story that
goes if you stare into the doll’s eyes then you become
possessed.
| MARY'S LANTERN |
"A common story going around at the time was about the 'White
Lady'. Supposedly, this was the ghost of Mary Buckhout, who had
allegedly hanged herself from a tree in the woods up there
someplace, and now haunted the area in the form of an all white
apparition. I had one friend who actually lived on Buckout Road.
She swore that her father on several occasions had seen the
French doors leading to an outside porch that faced the woods
fly open on their own, even though they had been locked. He
would then see a whitish looking apparition of a woman float
past him. She also claimed to have seen several occurrences of
apparent grave robbery in the Buckhout family cemetery, which
was right on Buckout Road. Her house was almost right across
the street from it. On several occasions, she claimed to have
seen dug up graves, and various things left scattered around the
dug up area" -
1977 White Plains High School graduate who did not want to use
his name
| THE LADY IN WHITE |
THE WITCHES - THREE X'S MARK THE SPOT ...
For decades there has been a story about three women who were accused of being
witches and subsequently burned at the stake in the 1600s by locals in the area that
is now Buckout Road. People have said to have felt their presence and seen
apparations in the Buckout woods. The story is that three X's were marked on the
road where these three women were killed and if you drive over the X's strange
things will happen to you. The place on Buckout Road where the three X's were
marked in spray paint was on the crest of the hill that overlooked the
Buckhout/Baldwin/Foster family cemetery. After the construction on the road a few
years back, the hill was leveled and the X's were paved over and are no longer there.
There is another story pertaining to a small house which was located in the center of
a lake on Buckout Road where a witch was rumored to have lived.
To determine whether or not three women were burned at the stake for witchcraft on
Buckout Road, let's educate ourselves a bit on the subject of burning witches. It was
once commonly believed that a witch's power could be nullified by blooding her or
by destroying her blood in a fire, hence the practice of burning at the stake. Just how
many were burned? I have read estimates ranging from 1-9 million women burned at
the stake throughout Europe. In 1484 Pope Innocent VIII issued a bill declaring the
reality of witches and initiated the accusation, torture,and execution of "witches" all
over Europe. All costs of investigation, trial, and execution of witches were borne by
the accused or her relatives, including per diems for private detectives, torturers and
tar. The members of the tribunal for each witch burned received a bonus, and
remaining property was divided between Church and State .The first Anglo settlers in
North America were the Puritans who arrived first in 1620. The Puritans murdered
and stole land from Native Americans. They burned at the stake - in public forums
for all to see anyone whose beliefs were different than there own; this included
witches. When most people think of 'witch trials' they think of Salem, Mass where 19
were executed duringthe witch hysteria of 1692. None were burned at the stake. In
1664, Setauket, NY resident Ralph Hall and his wife Mary were accused of
witchcraft. In 1665 a trial was held which was the first witch trial in New York state.
Oddly enough, the place on Buckout Road where the three women were said to
have been burned at the stake for witchcraft is where Buckout Road turns into Hall
Ave. Even more odd...a second woman who was tried in New York state for witchcraft
was named Katherine Harrison, who resided in the Towne Of Westchestre. However
both the Halls and Katherine Harrison were released. I have not been able to find
any records pertaining to this alleged urban legend.
For decades there has been a story about three women who were accused of being
witches and subsequently burned at the stake in the 1600s by locals in the area that
is now Buckout Road. People have said to have felt their presence and seen
apparations in the Buckout woods. The story is that three X's were marked on the
road where these three women were killed and if you drive over the X's strange
things will happen to you. The place on Buckout Road where the three X's were
marked in spray paint was on the crest of the hill that overlooked the
Buckhout/Baldwin/Foster family cemetery. After the construction on the road a few
years back, the hill was leveled and the X's were paved over and are no longer there.
There is another story pertaining to a small house which was located in the center of
a lake on Buckout Road where a witch was rumored to have lived.
To determine whether or not three women were burned at the stake for witchcraft on
Buckout Road, let's educate ourselves a bit on the subject of burning witches. It was
once commonly believed that a witch's power could be nullified by blooding her or
by destroying her blood in a fire, hence the practice of burning at the stake. Just how
many were burned? I have read estimates ranging from 1-9 million women burned at
the stake throughout Europe. In 1484 Pope Innocent VIII issued a bill declaring the
reality of witches and initiated the accusation, torture,and execution of "witches" all
over Europe. All costs of investigation, trial, and execution of witches were borne by
the accused or her relatives, including per diems for private detectives, torturers and
tar. The members of the tribunal for each witch burned received a bonus, and
remaining property was divided between Church and State .The first Anglo settlers in
North America were the Puritans who arrived first in 1620. The Puritans murdered
and stole land from Native Americans. They burned at the stake - in public forums
for all to see anyone whose beliefs were different than there own; this included
witches. When most people think of 'witch trials' they think of Salem, Mass where 19
were executed duringthe witch hysteria of 1692. None were burned at the stake. In
1664, Setauket, NY resident Ralph Hall and his wife Mary were accused of
witchcraft. In 1665 a trial was held which was the first witch trial in New York state.
Oddly enough, the place on Buckout Road where the three women were said to
have been burned at the stake for witchcraft is where Buckout Road turns into Hall
Ave. Even more odd...a second woman who was tried in New York state for witchcraft
was named Katherine Harrison, who resided in the Towne Of Westchestre. However
both the Halls and Katherine Harrison were released. I have not been able to find
any records pertaining to this alleged urban legend.
| Haunted Mansion, slaughter houses, ... Buckhout Mansion To the best of my knowledge this was the estate where John Buckhout once lived. The site included the main house, a farm house, and several 'slaughter houses in the nearby area. I randomly met a guy named Pete in 2002 who told me his father owned Buckhout Mansion and was using it as an office for his fuel company. Pete had described the inside of the mansion as "creepy" and I was denied entrance when asked if I could visit the mansion with a camera. Pete also told me of an experience regarding him in the attic of the mansion and finding neckties "from another century" on the door knobs and that "a lot of murders happened in the house". He also told that a night watchman at the estate had some strange experiences so I went there one night with several friends to speak to the guy. He told me he knew nothing and referred me to a “very good web site about the area”; my site. The mansion used to be located off of Buckout Rd behind a locked gate. Behind the gate was a path which led to several abandoned slaughterhouses and a farm house. I have stopped on the road in front of the particular location on several occasions and heard unusual banging and chopping noises. Frequently photographs of the mansion would come out with visible orbs (solid sphere balls which are believed to be a form of a spirit). The mansion was torn down in 2003. Since then a new house is up in its place; the last house at the end of (new road) Old Carriage House Road, off of Buckout Road. There was another story I had first heard about ten years ago regarding a babysitter who was working at a mansion on Buckout Road and began receiving strange phone calls. Upon calling the police, she was notified the calls were coming from inside the house, and the children she was sitting for were murdered. Oddly enough, this was the plot of the 1979 film When A Stranger Calls. |