‘Haunted’ Upstate asylum where 1,700 died crowned NY’s creepiest place

East Bethany, N.Y. — Goosebumps are guaranteed at a “haunted” former asylum in Upstate New York that just earned a terrifying title.

Rolling Hills Asylum, a former poorhouse in Genesee County where over 1,700 people reportedly died, has been crowned the creepiest place in New York. The asylum — which paranormal investigators consider alive with supernatural activity — received the spooky honor from HGTV, which released a list of the creepiest places in every state just in time for Halloween.

Rolling Hills made the list alongside the Sloss Furnaces of Alabama, where dozens of workers died, to Bonaventure Cemetery in Georgia, the haunted graveyard featured on the cover of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”.

New York’s infamous East Bethany asylum opened in 1827 in a former stagecoach tavern, according to Rolling Hills. Originally called the Genesee County Poorhouse, the institution housed everyone from “habitual drunkards” and “lunatics” to people who were destitute, had disabilities, or were widowed or orphaned, the asylum said.

Everyone who lived in the poorhouse was called an “inmate”, Rolling Hills said, and those who were physically able to work labored on the property’s farm — raising animals, growing vegetables, running a bakery and building coffins.

Countless bodies were buried in a potter’s field. But when the asylum closed in 1974, the cemetery gradually crumbled as plants crept over the grounds.

Since its closure, ghost hunters have flocked to Rolling Hills in search of the asylum’s ghostly secrets.

Some of the hunts have been televised. The Travel Channel even compiled a rundown of Rolling Hills’ most famous spirits — ranging from Roy, an inmate with gigantism who lived in the asylum from age 12 until his death at 62, to Nurse Emmie, an infirmary worker with a reputation for cruelty and a rumored penchant for Satanic rituals.

Rolling Hills Asylum is now open for guided tours, ghost hunts and —…