St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery graveyard lore

St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, founded in 1799, has an adjacent historic graveyard with 18th- and 19th-century burials that local tour guides and writers have long linked to reports of unexplained noises, footsteps, and sightings. The church's cemetery includes marked graves and monuments of early New Yorkers, which contribute to its frequent inclusion on Manhattan ghost-walking routes. These accounts are anecdotal and have not been scientifically verified.