Carol Ann McNally of Sag Harbor, a nurse for more than 40 years, died at Southampton Hospital on Sept. 28. She was 86.

“We are here to talk to the air and hope something talks back,” said James Saccone of Smithtown, the tech manager of the Long Island Paranormal Investigators, while walking through the blacked-out halls of the Nathaniel Rogers House as a group of ghost hunters attempted to bridge the gap between the physical world and what lies beyond. 

Phyllis Ann Lomitola of Montauk, who had a long career with Gurney’s Resorts, died on Oct. 20 in Tennessee at the age of 70.