Buffalo Ghost Tour


Buffalo Ghost Tour and John Rzeznik Tour

   The Buffalo Ghost Tour provides information about The Iron Island Museum, John Rzeznik's (Lead singer of The Goo Goo Dolls) neighborhood and The Buffalo Central Terminal.

                                      

Buffalo Central Terminal

The Buffalo Central Terminal opened to the public on June 22, 1929. Built by the New York Central Railroad and designed by architects Alfred T. Fellheimer & Steward Wagner, the art deco style station was built to accommodate up to 3200 passengers per hour, or 200 trains per day. The complex consists of the main concourse, a 17 story office tower, a four story baggage building and two story mail building along Curtiss Street, and the now detached train concourse. The complex sits on a 17 acre site 2.5 miles east of downtown Buffalo.

The Iron Island Museum

  Recent findings include the fact that there was a small wooden church  at this site in 1888 with a parsonage erected to the west at 994  Lovejoy Street. Drawings were gleaned from the archives at the  Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society and further information  was obtained regarding Henry Lovejoy who is the namesake of  Lovejoy Street. The brick church was erected in 1895 and was  well- attended by the congregation of the Methodist-Episcopal  denomination. A photo of the first board members was also obtained  for our records. The building was abandoned for a short while until a  funeral director took over in the late 50's. To accomodate services, a  building was built inside the church with three viewing rooms. There  is an apartment attached which is now used   for  meetings and  various other events. The viewing rooms now contain countless  artifacts and
one room is the New York Central Terminal Gallery  which includes a model of the terminal building.
The Iron Island Museum is about 1 mile from The Buffalo Central Terminal.
Buffalo Central Terminal Ghost Hunt Poster

Buffalo Central Terminal Ghost Hunt T-Shirt


John Rzeznik's Buffalo Neighborhood Tour


John Rzeznik, lead singer of the Goo Goo Dolls, lived a few streets over from The Buffalo Central Terminal on Buffalo, NY's Polish East Side.

The Broadway - Fillmore neighborhood is characterized by large, ornate 19th century churches, most of them Roman Catholic; and  modest 1.5 story wood frame cottages, many with progressively smaller rear additions that give the houses a telescoping  effect.


Ghost Hunters Buffalo Central Terminal Halloween 2010

 

 Moved by Terminal Spirits

 Syfy channel's 'Ghost Hunters' to host live Halloween show from Buffalo's haunting, haunted  art deco train station.

 Unseen voices. Sounds of footsteps. Mysterious human forms.

 Those are some of the paranormal — some might prefer to just say "haunted" — phenomena  Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson say they encountered two years ago at the Central Terminal.

 Now, the hosts of the popular Syfy show "Ghost Hunters" are returning to host a live, six-hour  Halloween special beginning at 7 p.m. Sunday, filming from the historic art deco train station  that saw its last Amtrak car pull away 31 years ago.

 "[The cast] will brave the cavernous halls of Buffalo Central Terminal where full-bodied  apparitions roam the concourse, restless spirits hover on the third floor and female voices cry  out for help in an elevator shaft near the baggage claim," the "Ghost Hunters" Web site claims.

 


Ghost Hunters Buffalo Central Terminal 2010 Halloween Special Recap


An all-star line up joins the hunt with TAPS, including host Josh Gates of Destination Truth and co-host Allison Scagliotti of Warehouse 13. Plus see other exclusive guests like: Kofi Kingston of WWE, Joe Maddalena of Hollywood Treasure, Ben Hansen from Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files and Being Human actress Meaghan Rath. During the event, we’re offering an arsenal of special features on the official Ghost Hunters Halloween Live site:

Chat Live - Ask questions, get answers and chat live with TAPS throughout the hunt.

Panic Button - If you see something, say something! Click the panic button to send red alerts to the team.

Live Video - Experience the action from home with exclusive live video feeds.


Ghost Hunters Academy Buffalo Central Terminal

 Title: "Drama Queen"
 Original Air Date: December 2, 2009 - Episode Number: 104 (4)

 Ghost Hunters Academy (abbreviated as GHA) is a paranormal reality television series  that  premiered on November 11, 2009 on the Syfy channel. The program is the third  spin-off  series based on Ghost Hunters (after Ghost Hunters International and UFO  Hunters). The  show features TAPS members Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango as  they  lead a group of  prospective investigators on various ghost hunting cases at  locations that  are allegedly  haunted, and which had been previously investigated by  TAPS.[1] The  tagline of the show is:  "Get schooled...in the paranormal."

The team is unsettled heading to their latest investigation at Buffalo's Central Terminal, both because of the loss of dismissed recruit Heathyr and because the enormous terminal presents a daunting investigative challenge. Steve and Tango detail some of the paranormal phenomena that have been sighted, including full-bodied apparitions in the concourse, spirits around an alcove on the third floor where a water fountain once stood, and female voices coming from an elevator shaft in the baggage claim area. There's also an abandoned apartment where the owner of the building used to reside, and some claim that his presence still lingers.


Video: All-Access Tour Of The Central Terminal

In October 2009, News editorial writer Dawn Marie Bracely and Joseph Popiolkowski were given an all-access tour of Buffalo's cavernous Central Terminal. Led by Mark Lewandowski, president of Central Terminal Restoration Corp., they explored the grounds, main concourse, basements and tower floors of the vacant train station.

That footage remained locked away for a full year -- until now. With interest in the Central Terminal at an all-time high due to the popular Syfy show "Ghost Hunters" returning to host a live, six-hour Halloween special, we decided to pull this video out of the vault and give viewers a rare look inside the -- possibly haunted -- historic art deco train station that saw its last Amtrak car pull away 31 years ago.


Prison OF The Psychotic Damned Clip
Five ghost hunters spend the night in "The Terminal" a long abandoned train terminal located deep in the heart of Buffalo's notorious East Side ghetto. The Terminal is said to be haunted by all those who have died within its cold stone walls. What begins as a joke turns into a terrifying nightmare as the five are assaulted by hordes of psychotic dead.

Five eccentric psychics plan an overnight expedition into an abandoned insane asylum in search of ghosts from the past for their documentary film. Once inside they find that the ghosts they seek are actually the tortured souls of former patients who were subjected to medical experimentation, and have now returned from the grave as horrifically disfigured bloodthirsty creatures waiting to rip their human flesh apart one-by-one.

Prison of the Psychotic Damned

 

 

 

 

About Me

My family lived in the area around what is now the Terminal for over 110 years. More recently my family and I lived on the street next to the Terminal. My grandparents lived in the house next to the Terminal while it was in operation. I'm the same age as John Rzeznik and have the same backround. He lived 4 streets over from the Terminal. I'm one of those kids who used the Terminal and the area around it as a playground in the 1970s and know it inside and out. This makes me completely qualified to act as guide.

michael@buffaloghosttour.com