Tap a pin. Uncover the hidden history of Long Island, the haunted places, shipwrecks, ghost towns, and true crime stories your hometown tried to forget.

Footprints of Long Island is an interactive history map for explorers, history buffs, and the just-plain-curious. Every story is pinned to the real location where it happened — from Montauk to Brooklyn, Fire Island to the Gold Coast — and backed by the historical record: old newspapers, government archives, museums, and original documents.

WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER
● Shipwrecks & maritime disasters along the Atlantic coast and Long Island Sound
● Ghost towns, vanished islands & lost landmarks — hotels, amusement parks, whole villages erased from the map
● True crime & unsolved mysteries from the 1600s to the 1930s
● Haunted places, local legends & unexplained events — sourced, not invented
● Rumrunners & speakeasies of the Prohibition era
● Revolutionary War spies, whaling ports, Gilded Age mansions & early aviation
● Native American history and the deep past of Nassau, Suffolk, Queens & Brooklyn

FEATURES
● INTERACTIVE MAP — hundreds of pinned stories on a beautiful antique-style map with aerial and topo views
● STILL STANDING — filter for historic places that survive today, then go stand where it happened
● NEAR ME — surface the hidden history around you right now, perfect for road trips and day trips
● THIS DAY IN HISTORY — a new story tied to every calendar date
● SEARCH & SAVE — find any story, bookmark your favorites, build your own expedition
● TAKE ME SOMEWHERE STRANGE — one tap, one random rabbit hole
● LONG READS — deep-dive investigations for the stories that deserve more
● SHARE — send any story to a friend in one tap

REAL PLACES. REAL RECORDS.
No clickbait, no invented ghost stories. Every pin cites its sources — newspaper archives, court records, museum collections — so you can see the evidence yourself. Where a legend can't be proven, we say so.

Whether you're into local history, urban exploring, dark tourism, genealogy, or you just want a weekend adventure near NYC — this is the Long Island you never knew.

100% free to explore at launch. Download and find the footprints near you.