Gold Coast Mansion Adventure Long Island Castle My Haunted Diary
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Gold Coast Mansion Adventure Long Island Castle My Haunted Diary

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Exploring Long Island Gold Coast Mansion called Oheka Castle. This is not a paranormal investigation but footage from 2 visits of me filming around the castle on my own, and with a tour group. But I do capture, what appears to be the response from the original owner of the castle during a spirit box session in the tunnel entrance. An interesting EVP captured saying the current owners name as well. Also, I supply a photo my cousin took that captures a light manifestation on the grand staircase. Plus, other stuff in this over an hour-long episode. Check it out.

Filmed in 2014 and 2015 visit. Also, a moment where outdoor light is swinging from a final visit in 2015. I film inside and outside this fortress, provide old photos, and video on the history of the place. Even present crime footage based on the shooting of the current owner.

You will hear stories about the original owner, Otto Herman Kahn, and current owner Gary Melius. Also, how the mansion changed hands after the time of the Kahn’s. I show photos from the 6 years when the Mansion was abandoned and vandalized to compare to its current beautifully restored state credited to Gary Melius. I weave in a lot of sound track music during the sections of my footage to set a mood. I also filmed around the preparing of a wedding event, giving glimpses of what often takes place during this incarnation of the mansion.

There is more on the way from my time exploring and investigating other spooky locations, plus more with my wife Martie as well. My channel keeps growing with explorations into the supernatural in some of the most haunted places in the US. So, make sure you subscribe.

Location: Huntington, NY (Long Island)
Date: June 2014, August 2015, additional quick footage October 2015
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A My Haunted Diary Production
A Film by James Edward Garcia
Production music by www.epidemicsound.com (http://www.epidemicsound.com/)
Some sound effects from Apple Final Cut.
Partial opening theme music written and performed by James Edward Garcia.
News Videos, Mega Mansion video clips, found audio and photos used from postings on the internet.
Otherwise all video and photos done by James Edward Garcia.

Brief history of the Castle taken from the current web site oheka.com

A century ago, financier and philanthropist Otto Hermann Kahn built OHEKA CASTLE in the middle of a 443-acre plot on the highest point on Long Island in Cold Spring Harbor for an estimated cost of $11 million ($158 million in today’s currency). At the time of its construction, the French-style chateau was—and still is today—the second-largest private residence ever built in America. During the Gilded Age of the 1920s, Kahn used the 109,000-square-foot, 127-room estate as a summer home where he hosted lavish parties and regularly entertained royalty, heads of state, and Hollywood stars.

After Otto Kahn died in 1934, the estate changed hands several times, serving as a retreat for New York sanitation workers and a government training school for Merchant Marine radio operators. In 1948, the Eastern Military Academy bought OHEKA, bulldozed the gardens, subdivided the rooms, and painted over the walls. After the school went bankrupt 30 years later, OHEKA stood abandoned, except by vandals who set numerous fires over five years. In 1984, developer Gary Melius purchased OHEKA and the remaining 23 acres that surrounded the estate and began the painstaking challenge of restoring the Castle to its original grandeur.

Intent on preserving the authenticity of OHEKA, architects, historians, and researchers were brought in to corroborate every detail. Slate roof tiles, used in the two-year restoration of the roof, were sourced from the same Vermont quarry where Kahn had purchased the originals. More than 222 windows and doors were replaced with custom-made duplicates. The handcrafted wrought-iron railing on the Grand Staircase took two months to be refinished. Faux Bois specialists were brought in to restore the walls in the Library and rubber casters were hired to restore the beautiful plaster mouldings in the Ballroom and the Library. The Formal Gardens were recreated using original drawings from The Olmsted Brothers, resurrecting the eight reflecting pools and three fountains.

Today, after $40 million in restoration, the largest in American History, OHEKA CASTLE is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a member of Historic Hotel of America.

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