Stambovsky was from New York City and was not aware of the folklore of Nyack, including the widely known haunting story. Stambovsky made a $32,500 downpayment on the agreed price of $650,000 for the house. Neither Helen Ackley nor her real estate broker, Ellis Realty, revealed the haunting to Jeffrey Stambovsky before he entered a contract to purchase the house in 1989. She recounted to the press several instances in which the poltergeists interacted directly with members of her family. She had reported the existence of ghosts in the house to both “Reader’s Digest” and a local newspaper on three occasions between 19, when the house was included on a five-home walking tour of the city. So during the course of her ownership of the property at issue, Helen Ackley and members of her family had reported the existence of numerous poltergeists in the house. Mark Kavanagh lived in the home briefly while engaged to Cynthia, he purported hearing conversation from a vacant room.Helen claimed that her son came “eyeball-to-eyeball” with the figure of the Revolutionary Navy Lieutenant.Helen’s daughter-in-law was gifted disappearing coins in the same manner, and Cynthia as an adult, claimed to receive silver sugar tongs.Helen’s grandchildren allegedly received trinkets, such as rings, from the ghosts.Helen reported to neighbors that they heard phantom footsteps and slamming doors.The next morning she was not awoken by a shaking bed. When Cynthia was out of school for spring break she announced loudly before going to bed that she did not have school in the morning and would like to sleep in. Helen’s daughter, Cynthia, when she was a child, reportedly would be woken most mornings by one of the spirits shaking her bed.I asked if he approved of what we were doing to the house, if the colors were to his liking. Sitting in midair, watching me paint the ceiling in the living room, rocking back and forth… I was on an 8-foot stepladder. In 1995 Merrill and Johnson published a book about their findings entitled Sir George, The Ghost of Nyack (Deer Publishing, Beaverton, Oregon) – still available on Amazon. The pair met with Helen and disclosed that the couple were likely the poltergeists of Sir George and Lady Margaret who lived in the region in the 18th century.
In 1993 she was contacted by paranormal researcher Bill Merrill, and medium Glenn Johnson who claimed to have already made contact with two of the spirits at 1 LaVeta Place. She described two as a married couple who lived in the 18th century, and the other as a Navy Lieutenant in the American Revolution. Helen Ackley claimed there were at least three ghosts in the residence. Local children purportedly warned them that the house was haunted, though no prior paranormal incidents appear to have been published. The house had been vacant and was in disrepair when the Ackleys moved into the waterfront home in the 1960s. In the 1991 landmark case known as the Ghostbuster ruling, the New York Supreme Court ruled that 1 Laveta Place was “legally haunted.” The Stambovsky vs Ackley lawsuit is such a landmark case that it is widely printed in textbooks and taught in US law schools.Īs the story goes, the previous owners, the Ackley family, lived in the home knowing that there was paranormal activity for over 20 years before they put the house on the market in 1989.
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