'Haunted Catskills'Washington Irving called the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York a "spellbound region," and the ghosts that linger from more than four hundred years of history provide proof of Irving's intuition. In Hudson, Maggie Houghtaling's ghost haunts the "Register Star" building, where she was hanged in 1817 for murdering her child a crime for which she was later cleared. The ghost of a young Native American girl haunts Claverack Creek, where she threw