2026 Spooky Snug Harbor Tour
October 24, 2026 · 7:30 PM
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island
A nighttime walking tour led by Michael Pelczar exploring Snug Harbor’s history and haunting legends, with optional use of ghost-hunting equipment.
Explore Snug Harbor’s haunted history on a guided nighttime walk with Michael Pelczar, with an opportunity to use ghost-hunting equipment.
Snug Harbor is one of Staten Island’s most beautiful historic destinations. And, if the legends are true, one of its most haunted… This fall, join us for “Spooky Snug Harbor,” a series of nighttime walking tours aimed at shedding light on Snug Harbor’s darkest history. Guided by local history enthusiast Michael Pelczar, founder of Spooky Staten Island, your tour group will hear never-before-published information. Visitors will also have the opportunity to use ghost-hunting equipment during each tour session. Can we make contact with the other side? On October 31st 9:00-10:30 Join our Halloween Special Spooky Snug Harbor tour, you'll journey back in time to learn about murder, mayhem, and hauntings at Snug. You will visit the final resting place of Captain Robert Randall, whose wealth willed Snug Harbor into existence. You'll ponder the mystery of Chaplain Quinn's murder, a crime that gripped the nation. You'll learn about the 19th century disaster that rattled the harbor's buildings... and the unlikely reason its sole survivor escaped. You'll discover a disappearance that sent the institution into a frenzy, and so much more...