Westchester County’s alleged
haunted street
The woodsy back road that connects the eastern part of White Plains NY to the western part of neighboring Harrison within Westchester County has been the center of urban legends, ghost stories, and bizarre history for decades. |
The street is named after the once prominent Buckhout family that initially lived in Sleepy Hollow NY with later generations living and buried on what was once East Cottage Avenue … now known as Buckout Road. Some members of the Buckhout family were victims of murder, war veterans, and one notorious Buckhout was hanged in White Plains after committing multiple murders! |
“I know who found the farmer dead, laid 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 Foster’s coffin, stolen, with two shovels left behind. She had a stone up there, and they were all knocked over” – Rick |
Visitors of the road including current & former residents often share their stories via this website: |
Buckout Road’s most infamous urban legends include the presence of flesh eating albinos, the ghost of a lady in white that haunts a cemetery of freed slaves, and the ghost of Mary Foster. But that’s just the beginning. The area’s history dates back to the Siwanoy tribe in the 1600’s. In the 1800’s, Quakers that lived on the road didn’t believe in slavery and therefore not only illegally freed slaves but also gave them land to live on. The community became the largest Black population in New York State at the time. |