The book Weird New York Book Cover PicWeird New York: Your Travel Guide to New York’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets by Chris Gethard is full of references to Putnam County and the surrounding area.  Page 31 has info on North Salem’s Balanced Rock.  Page 134 is about Patterson’s Texas Taco.  A picture of the milk bottle statues of Bottlegate Farm on Rt 52 in Kent graces page 141.  The creepy happenings around Southeast’s Federal Road/Milltown Road area are the subject of pages 181-183.  The graveyard in the parking lot of Palisades Mall on the other side of the Hudson is on page 219.  America’s oldest Pet Burial Ground in Scarsdale is on page 226.  A cool pic of the Hudson River’s Bannerman Castle graces page 230, with details on page 241-242.  And the abandoned Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in Wingdale is covered on pages 255-257.