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Naples - Cracker Barrel on 951 - In the mid 1990's in the freezer some employees were tied up and gagged and then had their throats slit Their killers are now on death row. As a former employee when we would go in the walk in freezer and adjacent cooler the dim lights have power surges and the cool air blowing in does strange things. You get a feeling of being watched even when you are in one of the coolers alone. It has also been reported by morning shift workers that the ghost(s) like to move things around in the front store as a joke.
Naples - Witch's Brew - Witch's Brew is a nightclub, reports of a dark shadowlike figure has been seen and lights flickering on and off, my dad has also come back to find all the cables to his music equipment rearranged and unplugged and such
Narcossee - stretch or road toward Cocoa Beach - Around mile marker 15 there is said to be the ghost of a teenage girl, who died in a head on car crash, on her way to the beach on prom night. Moving puddles of blood have been sighted on the road at night
Newberry - Newberry Cemetery - There are about 70 orbs, a gatekeeper at the back gate of the cemetery, 3 shadow krakens, and other unexplained phenomena. Very strange place.
New Smyrna - Beacon Theater - In the girls bathroom there have been reports of sinks coming on by themselves and the stall doors opening and closing when nobody is in the stalls.
New Smyrna - Indian River Inn - There is believed by many witnesses that is haunted with many spirits. You can see strange lights in there at night and the sound of people moving around.
North Fort Myers - Motel 6 - There are 4 buildings at this Motel 6 property. - reports mainly from staff at the motel, that noises, and the feeling of being watched. Also, footsteps in the puddles of water, strange screeching noises, screams, and moans of agony, a very strange odor of a female's perfume, and temperature changes.
Ocala - Old Downtown Graveyard - Many people have had strange things happen in this graveyard. The most significant of which can occur almost any night. After dark if you drive thru the cemetery, near the back stretch over a large crack in the weathered roadway, your car will shift into neutral. This has happened many times to many people. All type of cars and almost all makes.
Ocala - Ritz Historical Inn - Rich socialite from NY would spend summers here and would have parties during prohibition. During one such party, a fire started (reason unknown) and several people died including the woman and her 2 dogs. To this day you can here the sounds of that party in her room and also the sounds of people running into the hall and down the stairwell trying to escape the fire.
Ocala - St. James Church - (now vacant) - This is the Church used in the film "Jeepers Creepers" it lies just west of town off hwy 40. This site was used in the movie "Jeepers Creepers". At night the church has a strange fog that surrounds it and strange light come from inside. On the same site, a small graveyard almost touches the roadway and scrambles car radio and cell phone signals briefly. - October 2003 Update:The church has been torn down due to 2 local teens setting fire to the structure.
Ocala - The Old Silver Springs Shores Hotel- It has been closed for longer than twenty-two years but even before then numerous accounts of hauntings had been reported. Kids flock to this abandoned building now only to return with terrors of apparitions in their eyes.
Ocklawaha - Ma Barker's Residence - The home of Ma Barker and her sons at the time of their fatal shoot-out with the FBI and local police. It's located in the town of Ocklawaha on Lake Weir. It's said that you can sometimes see Ma Barker on the premises'. It is reported that the house is in original condition and still has the bullet holes as a result of the shoot-out and hasn't been changed.
Oldsmar - Suncoast allstar gym - In the year of 2000 employees heard sounds of gym equipment being used. No one was in the gym but employees. When one of the employees went to look who was there he could find no one. but there was signs of trampoline being used recently.
Olustee - Olustee Battle Field - Orbs and figures can be seen late at night or when the re-enactment comes orbs and figures with the actors. Sometimes voices can be herd.
Orange City - Blue Springs - rail road tracks - a old house that has been there for years, its falling apart and the windows are broke, some say a old man killed himself in there, at night you can see him on the door step, some have seen him on the rail road tracks right next to blue springs, the legend is he overdosed on pills if you go in the building you can feel a unhappy spirit there and you feel cold lonely and not wanted there.
Orange City - Lankford Funeral Home - third floor room is haunted by the ghost of a daughter of the people who originally built the house back in 1918, long before it became a funeral home. The story goes that she contracted some kind of infectious disease common around those times and was cared for in third floor bedroom to keep here away from the rest of the family. She eventually succumbed to the disease. A ghost of a young girl has been spotted looking out the third floor window. And the few people who have lived in the second floor apartment have talked about hearing the floor creaking on the third floor, as if someone is walking around.
Orange City - Natures garden - One day a face appeared in the window and seamed as if he was in agonizing pain and screaming.
Orlando - Annie Russell Theater - one particular chair was always in the same spot no matter how many times it was moved to another location.
Orlando - Citrus Center - Republic bank/Orange Ave. - Numerous employees and visitors have witnessed apperitions of a shadow type figure as well noises, doors opening and shuting,elevators with no one on them moving with footsteeps coming off of them. Numerous siteing of a female looking at you in restroom mirrors and then vanishing.
Orlando - Cricket Club Apartments - Strange smells emanating from one of the apartments in the complex, strange forms seen at night walking around outside. Strange voices heard also. Cannas explain.
Orlando - Disney World - There is known to be a tan figure walking down the streets in front of the castle.
Orlando - Disney World - Pirates of the Caribbean - The spirit of "George" a worker who died there when a beam fell on him during construction still haunts the attraction. At the beginning of the day and at the end of the day attractions workers must come on the PA system and tell George good morning and good night. If not the attraction has been know to shut itself down adding more work before the workers came go home for the night. - March 2004 Addition/ correction - when the ride was being built in the early 70's (it opened Dec. 15, 1973) , George was a welder who clearly, welded different parts of the scenes on the attraction together. One particular area on the ride, called the "burning city", required George to climb up quite high above the ground. George lost his balance, and fell to his death. If you talk to any of the employees at pirates, they will either know of someone who has had an incident with George, or there is a chance they move have had one themselves.
Orlando - Evans High School - The drama students and teacher have reported strange howling sounds, lights going on and off, and even people being locked in rooms (mainly the green room woman's restroom, and the costume room). - March 2005 Correction: The current auditorium is haunted by a man that hung himself in the gym back in the 60's. The door on the costume room does not lock and there is no ladies restroom in the green room, because there is no green room. What can be heard is noises of something moving on the catwalk above the stage and the lights around the stage will come on and go off with out anyone working them. As a former Drama student and graduate of Evan's, as well as many of the students have experienced the guy from the gym in the auditorium. He has never tried to harm anyone or scare anyone at all. It is belived he just wanders around the school and doesn't want to leave,you can feel him in different parts of the school.
Orlando - Leu Botanical Gardens - The old mansion in the Harry P. Leu Botanical Gardens is haunted by the ghosts of the former residents. Visitors to the house on guided tours have reported cold spots in the upper bedrooms and tour guides have reported spirits. The gardens are off of S.R. - 1792 (Orlando Ave.) east of down town Orlando.
Orlando - Little Econ River - Every October 13th a spirit of Christopher Klink appears under the bridge on Old Econ Rd. A light will flash under the bridge highlighting Killer Klink's tag which is written under the bridge. (Dated October 13, 1987.) It will get extremely cold, and the river will then flow the other direction. You will then see an image of Klink hanging from the bridge, and suddenly disappear. Then the water will start flowing back in its original direction.
Orlando - Miller Sellen - Its an old historic house from the early 1900's. A former employee states People that had worked there for awhile would talk of strange noises like someone running though the hallways when no one was there. One employee got a call from an inside line only to hear static and a sound of a little girl playing on the phone. Problem was everybody was out to lunch.
Orlando - Naval Recruit Training Center - The second floor of the Division Ten barracks gives you a vrey bad feeling while making your rounds during watch. The whole floor sounds like it's breathing. - October 2004 Update; was torn down in 2002
Orlando - Oviedo - Andrew St. - Apparitions of children playing in the field, hearing someone whisper in the ear, "help me." It sounded like children or a child.
Orlando - Oviedo - Anders street on Chapman - The celery field on this dirt road is haunted. People have seen a man in between 2 pillars (electric fence) dressed in a suit carrying a suitcase. you can hear children's laughter and see kids playing in the field and a shadowy figured man.
Orlando - Oviedo - Baseball field - There was an Indian seen before, going into the woods around the 7:00 at a base ball game.
Orlando - Oviedo - Boston Hill Cemetery - There is a image of a man hanging in the trees and a lady kneeling at the mans feet. The woman is weeping and praying. Foot steps heard on the ground and the grass was seen moving. Also reports of pockets of fog spinning in circles. There were many cold spots.
Orlando - Oviedo - The Celery Fields of Chapman Road - There have been numerous sightings of children walking through the tall grass and wondering around on the streets of the neighborhood that now stands where the field had been.
Orlando - Oviedo - Chapman open fields - There is a field down a dirt road in between two sets of telephone poles which people always hear screams after driving down the road. There is always fog around the at location also no matter how the weather is.
Orlando - Oviedo - The Econ River - Lots of very strong spirits. Mindless whispers and some even violent ones...There are MANY patches around Geniva and Chilioda. Behind still water, there is this pit in the econ. by a moldy blanket.. there is a lot of action there and more spiritual patches.
Orlando - Oviedo - Oviedo High School - auditorium - light room. figure and flashes have been seen.
Orlando - Oviedo - Oviedo High School - Baseball field outskirts - on the out skirts. There is spiritual patches and portals.. There are red marks on the trees and other stuff like that. You'll see orbs in the distance and suction like feeling towards it.
Orlando - Oviedo - Oviedo High School - the girls dressing room - There sits a girl crying and blood on her dress. she has long brown hair and is sad and pale. She’ll follow you though and stalk you for a little while. She'll tell you her story and try to scare you. She stalked students for days at a time, and they claim she has followed them home.
Orlando - Oviedo - The Oviedo Lights - These eerie lights can be seen from a bridge where a young man killed himself after he lost his love. It is well know to native Oveidans. And has been seen by many, many people. The mans ghost has also been seen in the area below the bridge.
Orlando - Oviedo - St. Luke’s cemetery - In the small building in the center of the cemetery the corner to the right of the door you feel an odd and almost threatening presence. Upon entering the corner it is reported some feel it is hard to breath, hands tingle as well as some reports of marks appearing on their necks.
Orlando - Peabody Hotel - cold spots and apparitions experienced.
Orlando - Rouse Road Cemetery - The ghost of a man who died in the 1840's is seen here. He is seen often as a shadowy figure in period clothing in the cemetery, the adjacent woods and the fields across the street. The apparition is known as Benjamin Miles, a local settler who is buried there in an unmarked grave. It is said that this is a particularly angry and dangerous spirit. His presence is accompanied by a chill in the air and the call of an owl. The sound of that owl is said to be a warning that Benjamin Miles is nearby. All of these phenomena are almost always seen at night usually in the fall and winter seasons
Orlando - Walt Disney World - EPCOT - Spaceship earth - a small girl with long blonde hair has been seen riding in a car & a boy run in front of her and vanish at the same location (outside during the day).
Orlando - Walt Disney World - Tower of Terror - There has been a story among employees of a ghost walking around the "Tower of Terror" at off hours; he's usually found walking the wrong way, does not respond to calls and then disappears.
Orlando - Sunland Hospital - Sunland was an old Mental hospital in the Pine Hills section of Town. Many reports of poltergeist activity voices and screams. - This submission was originally posted as " “Belleview Mental Hospital" It has now been demolished and turned into a park where it is still believed to be haunted. And interesting link can be found here
Orlando - Super 8 Motel - Room 206 - I-drive - room 206 is haunted by the ghost of a man who rises from bed also bed shakes, and feels like someone is getting in bed beside you when no one is there. The room stays cold and it feels as if you’re being watched. The sink also comes on by itself.
Orlando - Tabu Night Club - formerly posted as "Zuma Beach Night Club" - an old woman ghost has been seen by the stage. When she comes it gets real cold.
Orlando - Union Park Elementary - the girls bathroom is haunted. Witnesses report the sinks and all the doors started to shake and hearing a loud- but faint yell, and seeing a little girl with a white dress. Believed to be Mary, the daughter of the janitor that works there.
Pace - Wal-Mart - Orbs in the maternity section
Palatka - San Mateo First Church of the Nazarene - The ghost of an old man who used to attend the church shuffling up the aisle, just the same as he always did when he was alive. In the nursery the ghost of a pilgrim times woman, (you can only see her shadow, but you can tell by the way her shadow's dress is shaped) screams. It sounds like she in sheer terror.
Palm Beach - Flagler Mansion - There is said to be ghosts all throughout the many rooms of the Henry Flagler Museum and mansion.
Palm Beach Island - This is called the witches road, numerous reports of peoples electronics in there cars messing up while on this road
Panama City - Confetti's a Nightclub/Eatery - Objects moving and a smoky apparition have been observed by the staff here.
Panama City Beach - Holiday Inn - In one of the rooms near the top floor, the ghost of a man was seen standing between the two double beds. He wears a white T-shirt and sunglasses around his neck, but his head cannot be seen. Strange occurrences also happened, such as radio stations turning by themselves, belongings missing and then reappearing, and being mysteriously woken up every night at the same time (around 4 a.m.).
Pembroke Pines - Publix 528 - In Pembroke Pines in store 528 at Silver Lakes. There was a customer that was a lady by the sea food area, wearing a purple sweater, that had a heart attack and died. Several years later it has been said by a couple of associates that when the store is closing, a lady has been seen walking by the sea food area wearing a purple sweater. When the manager went to get a customer count the lady is nowhere to be found. It is said until this very day that she still haunts the sea food area of Publix 528.
Pensacola - Cazenovia Seville Quarter - The man who died at Seville Quarter was named Wesely. He fell in the beer cooler and hit his head, knocking himself out and he died of hypothermia.
Pensacola - Dorr House - There is a floor to ceiling mirror in the 'Formal' sitting room... when a female visitor stands in its sights, if they have on a short skirt, they report feeling a 'tugging' as if someone is trying to make the skirt longer. Many visitors and guides have reported smelling Roses (fresh cut) at intervals followed by an EXTREMELY COLD spot. Roses were Mrs. Dorr’s favorite flower. Visitors have reported hearing soft crying coming from the sick room/sewing room. A word of warning to all who visit, MIND YOUR MANNERS... Mrs. Dorr doesn't allow rudeness and has been known to 'make sure' the perpetrator doesn't stay or wants to leave posthaste. This ex-Docent has seen first hand that Mrs. Dorr is still the 'LADY' of the house.
Pensacola - Fort Pickens - Visitors feel presences in certain rooms; it seems like someone is watching you.
Pensacola - House on Alcaniz Street - The Gray House on Alcaniz Street, which faces the Dorr House across Seville Square is said to be haunted. The ghost of a sea captain named Thomas Moristo who lived there in the 1700s is believed to still reside there. When the home is vacant, a man has been seen peering through the windows. Many people who have lived there have reported that they will turn on the stove, go upstairs, then come down and find the stove turned off. On one incidence, a resident was painting the house and left the paint inside the front foyer. The next morning he found all the paint had been moved outside. - The house was once in a bad fire, and it is believed the ghost does these things attempting to prevent another fire. Many people have become too frightened and refused to live in this house, and some residences have claimed to see apparitions of the old man while inside the house.
Pensacola - Light House - There is a story about the light house on the navy base (NAS) being haunted by the former keeper. People have felt cold spots while touring the light house.
Pensacola - New World Inn - The Inn and bar are said to be haunted by the previous owner. Several employees have reported seeing him.
Pensacola - NAS Whiting Field - Branch Medical Clinic - The ghost of a navy corpsman killed while stationed there reportedly roams the hallway between the lab and X-ray departments. He always is seen carrying something in his hands and wears a tech jacket.
Pensacola - Original Sacred Heart Hospital - There is a hallway that is about where the nuns would cross to go to the chapel of the hospital. It is been reported that there is the kind old spirit of one of the sisters that frequents the hallway and corridor. She will often tap people on the shoulder from behind, much as she did in life.
Pensacola - Seville Quarter - About ten years ago there was a man who would visit the bar at Seville Quarter frequently. He would visit so much, that he was offered a bartending job there. He worked there for a while and everyone loved him. He died in the bar one night (not exactly sure how) but people have reportedly seen his ghost in the bar area
Pensacola - St. Michael’s Cemetery - This is a large cemetery that was started when Pensacola was settled. This cemetery contains famous people and people that helped to shape Florida in history, politics, and commerce. People say they have seen lights circling gravestones. They have also heard voices inside the cemetery at night.
Pensacola/ Dasanai - Crampton Brewery - In this building sightings are expected because they happen like clockwork. Many people have said to see an elderly man walking the halls with an old lantern, he speaks in another language. He is said to appear in a mist and vanish in a bright flash of blue light. When the people see him, they are not afraid because he is not an evil spirit, but instead he is kind and helpful. Some workers in the building said that if they knock something off the wall or shelf he will catch it hand place it back where it was, they say that he even helps them clean messes and junk.
Perry - Their was a family that lived in this house back in the early 1900's and they often had bad fight's that resulted in her death. And it was never lived in for year's it has only recently been renovated and families have lived in it on and off. Because she still stands her ground. Everyone that has ever lived in it has had problems with fighting. If you have a fight she will haunt you till you move, although she has never hurt anyone. Wanting only to let them know that there will be no more fighting in her once owned home. She will turn lights on and off and turn on the water and plug up the sinks to let them over flow, and she move object's around in the day while no-one is home. Families don't stay living there long.
Pine Island - Capt n' Cons - There is a lot of strange occurrences, such as, the dumpster lid slamming up and down, as well as sightings, voices, and loss of breath.
Part Charlotte - Restlawn Memorial Gardens (Cemetery) - The first house ever built in Port Charlotte is located adjacent to the cemetery. The house is said to have been owned by a farmer who murdered his wife. After the structure fell into a state of disrepair, the county decided to condemn the old shack. Since that time, many have reported hearing eerie noises coming from the area that the house is located in. Also, a ghostly figure has been spotted roaming around the cemetery late at night. Also, the sound of swarms of bees has plagued neighbors around the area for years.
Ponce de Leon - Corinth Church - This church is believed to be haunted. The story behind the church is that back in the late 60s early 70s and young boy was playing in the church at the time, an escaped convicted was hiding in the back pew, and brutally murdered the little boy. In the church can be found blood handprints all over the walls and ceiling, small enough to belong to a young child. Among walking in the church you will encounter cold spots and scratching noises on the left hand wall if entering from the side doorway.
Port St. Lucie - Oak Hammock Park - When you walk down the trail it gets very cold. Weird noises come from the girls bathroom. It sounds like someone slamming the stall door. When you go in there no one will be there. Weird things appear in pictures.
Port St. Lucie - Oak Hammock Park - The Devil Tree - Oak Hammock Park is a local hangout for fishermen and boaters along the C-24 Canal. On January 8th, 1973, long before the park was built, the deranged serial killer beat, raped, hung, then buried 2 girls beneath the "Devil Tree". Over the next few days he returned to commit lewd acts to the bodies. In January 1977, almost 4 years to the day that the murders were committed, two fishermen discovered the skeletal remains of the two bodies, and the hanging ropes were also found. Over the years people have reported hearing screaming, and seeing hooded figures walking around the woods. In 1993 an exorcism was held, and a cross was erected, after two boys claimed to have seen a Satanic ritual taking place near the tree, and being chased away by the Satanists who yelled that they wanted their blood. Before the park was built, they were going to cut down the tree, but their chainsaws kept malfunctioning in the area surrounding the tree. They tried to cut down the tree manually with a two-man saw, but the teeth of the saw broke off, so they left the tree where it was.
Port St. Lucie - Sanctuary Apartments - noises in the club house numerous reports of ghost sightings.
Quincy - Quincy Leaf Theatre - Numerous spirits haunt this building in downtown Quincy. There are several in the balcony and upstairs area, some in the backstage area, and some on the main floor in the seating area. None seem to be malevolent as there are many theatre productions that go off without a hitch.
Riviera Beach - Suncoast High School - In the schools auditorium there is said to be a phantom ghost on top of the rafters that frequently makes noise and startles the drama students. The ghost is speculated to be the ghost of a boy who was buried on the schools campus
Rockledge - Ashley's restaurant - has a ghost that will often "play" with employees and guests. The building is right on the railroad tracks it's rumored that a woman was killed by a train there. - December 2003 Update/addition: It is said that Ashley's Restaurant was built over a train stop which had caught fire and burned down. The train stop, it is also said, was built over an Indian Burial spot.
Safety Harbor - The Safety Harbor Spa Resort - Several housekeepers tell of hearing their name called from the woman's bath area of the spa-and nobody is there. During a renovation in the mid-90's, the front desk would receive phone calls from empty guestrooms in the dead of night. When security would investigate, they could hear voices in the totally empty building.
Sanford - New Tribes Mission - Former hotel is now home to missionaries from New Tribes Mission. In the East Wing there have been disturbances of many kinds including poltergeist activity and cold spots. To date there has been no formal paranormal investigation due to fear of bad press, but an informal check shows that something is going on there.
Sanford - Shiloh Cemetery - this cemetery dates back to the 1700's & is the largest in the city it covers approx. four city blocks.
Sarasota - Palms of Sarasota - There's an abandoned Mental Hospital in Sarasota near the Interstate, there at night you can hear people swimming in the pool but the pool is filled in with rocks, you also hear screaming and sometimes laughter, sometimes people even see shadows and strange things show up when you take pictures. - December 2003 update: The Palms of Sarasota was bulldozed earlier this year! Nothing but a few sewage drains remain on the property.
Sarasota - Ringling School of Art and Design - The Old Women's Dormitory - has been haunted for decades by a ghost named Mary. It used to be a hotel in the 20s and she committed suicide in the stairwell between the second and third floors. It is now an unused fire escape. She has been observed walking the corridors (out of the corner of the eye, turning a times, a resident would enter her room and her paintbrushes would be slowly swirling in the water of the rinse cups as if someone had just spun them around and let go.
Sarasota - Ritz Carlton Sarasota - formerly known as Ringling Towers - built in the early 1900 this hotel housed the richest of the rich, presidents, movie stars. After it's demise[date unknown]satanic worship and black masses were known to be held there. The stairs still had red carpet on them but no railings. The top penthouse floors have various cold spots. freezing room temp. in the summer. Feelings of being watched. in the lobby there is a very evil feeling. - - May 2005 Update: it's been demolished and a new building occupies the site.
Sarasota - Timberchase Apartments - In 1992 a young woman was stabbed to death in her apartment on N. Briggs (Timberchase). A neighbor who lived directly across from the victim was leaving and noticed her friend’s front door slightly opened. The neighbor thought her friend accidentally left her door open so she went over to confirm. She found her friend on the floor stabbed multiple times. To this day there is not a suspect. Reports of eerie feelings & apparitions of a young woman. - May 2005 update: The Ringling Towers where demolished in 2003 and the Ritz Carlton now stands in this spot.
Sebring - Harder Hall - Harder hall is a large hotel that was first built in the 1920's. It has changed hands MANY times, and every owner has died under extremely strange circumstances, most of the time, right in the hotel. There have been many accidents in the hotel, and all of which had at least 1 fatality. Some of the accidents include: fire, flood, floor collapse, innumerable suicides, murders, and others. Witnesses see lights inside and hear music. Most anyone can see the people peering out from the windows, and/or see the multitude of people roaming around in the courtyard, searching for something. - August 2004 update: they are remodeling it and there are rumors of them making it into a museum.
Sebring - Kenilworth Lodge - The stairs definitely have an eerie feeling to them. Many guests have reported doors opening and closing on their own accord.
Shalimar - End of Garniers Buyou - Many Indians Used to live in this area. Some nights on full moons shadows of Indians appear in the fog over the swampy land. Sometime depicting scenes of Indians being slaughtered by white men taking there land.
Silver Springs - Silver Springs "Bridal Chamber" - apparition of 2 people in an embrace seen in the water.
Silver Springs - Old Six Gunn Territory Property - Once the land, which now is filled partially by a shopping center, was the location of "Six Gunn Territory" a attraction which lasted many years. On this site 2 tourists were killed, both accidentally. It is said at certain times screams are heard and upon investigation, nothing is found. Some remains of the rail-road which visitors would ride can still be located among a heavily wooded area. The rail car was a factor in one of the deaths. The park was closed in the early 80's.
Spring Hill - Hungry Howies - formerly 7-11 - In the early 1980's in the town of Spring Hill which is outside the city of Brooksville there was a 7-11 convenience store which took in most of this towns business. And since it sat along the towns main road it was easy to access Highway 19 to the west about 3 miles away, or the longer haul 7 miles to the east. At one point during the night in the late 80's a drunk male came into the store to buy a case of beer. But the clerk decided out of his own good will to not sell the case feeling the man was drunk enough already and did not want him to drive back to the store later on. The man became angry yelling and cursing so on and so fourth. So instead of buying beer he decided he wanted a pack of cigarette’s. After the purchase the clerk turned his back toward the man to grab some cleaning stuff from under the counter. At this point the man revealed a .357 revolver and shot the clerk in the back of the head killing him instantly. Now the 7-11 has since moved and now it is a Hungry Howies pizzeria, and as the night moves further on more this will happen. The saloon doors to the kitchen will swing open, cups and utensils will fall off the tables and onto the ground. The hanging lights will start swinging back and fourth and the lights and arcade games will suddenly shut off. The strangest occurrence happened one night when one worker left the store one night after setting up for a new promotion and came back a few hours later to help the owner for the early shift and found all the pictures and posters laying on the ground or on the counters directly under where they were placed and the security camera tape was blank but yet still recording.
Sorrento - Al Capone's house - There is a still standing, beautiful Victorian style home, that residents still believe is Capone’s home. Many, many people have tried to live in this home, but no one lasts. They are frightened by pots and pans banging at night (as if someone is cooking in the kitchen), by lights going on and off, voices of what is believed to be deceased notorious gangsters, and what feels very much like a body crawling into bed with the people who reside there.
St. Augustine - Abbot Mansion - haunted by 2 spirits, Miss Lucy and The Captain.
St. Augustine - Augustin Inn - Saw the ghost of a man wearing a white suit with white hair walking through my fully restored ground floor guest room (first room off the ground floor parlor). He simply walked through the room and through the door. It was daylight.
St. Augustine - Casa Monica Hotel -There are many employees that can recall hearing strange noises, almost as though someone is trying to say words but the wind carries their voice off into the distance.
St. Augustine - Casablanca Bed and Breakfast - Some have witnessed a light of a lantern flashing in the night.
St. Augustine - Casablanca Inn at 24 Avenida Menendez- This beautifully restored Inn is known to be haunted by an elderly lady that once owned it during the 1920's. She too ran it as in Inn. The lady was a key player in helping booze smugglers during the prohibition by going up on the widow's walk of the building and waving a lantern back and forth. This was to let smugglers know the coast was clear and since the house is located right on the bay front, this was most useful. People have claimed to still see the lantern light from atop the house to this day, especially those out at sea and in the harbor. She has also been known to appear inside of the Inn. Guests have reported seeing an apparition in the hallways and stairway, feeling cold spots, and complaining about items disappearing from their rooms and reappearing later on in strange places. The lady is buried in the nearby Huguenot Cemetery.
St. Augustine - Castillo de San Marcos - Some of the most unusual occurrences include the "Battle Echoes" heard by visitors. By placing an ear to the wall, it is said you can hear the echoes of cannon fire and yelling. There is also telling of a young solder that can be seen leaning on the outside wall facing the bay after sundown.
St. Augustine - Flagler College - Ponce de Leon Hall - once Ponce de Leon Hotel, has numerous ghost stories, most of which are in Ponce de Leon hall, the girls' dormitory. One such story is how the mistress of Henry Flagler haunts the 4th floor where she hung herself. The room is boarded up, but some students venture up to peek in the keyhole still. Also believed, When Flagler died; his funeral was held in the front hall of the college (the one with the tile floor). They had all the windows open so his spirit could "fly away" instead of being trapped in the hall forever. As a janitor was passing by during the funeral, he noticed that all the windows and doors were open, so he closed them. People felt a big gust of wind, supposedly Flagler’s spirit. It had not made it in time, all the windows and doors where shut. It is said that his spirit hit a window and bounced back and landed in one of the tiles. So to this day, you in a certain tile to the left of the doors and towards the back of the hall, there is the face of Henry Flagler.
St. Augustine - Florida School for the Deaf and Blind - Gregg Hall Dormitory - There is one ghostly figures that wander around the 1st floor east wing, a boy, in his teens, he is almost solid and you notice him clearly, he has blonde hair and wears really old fashioned clothes sticks to the bathroom only he never comes out and girls using the bathroom late at night, are met by a horrific sight, he’s dangling from the shower rods and his neck is nearly severed and he gets down and walks in to the wall with his head hanging on his neck and disappears and a trail of blood follows him and he’s laughing in a really weird high pitched voice and suddenly a fierce wind starts blowing and pins u up against the wall and the doors slam shut and 2 big pairs of red eyes looms out towards you.. And you hear a really high pitched cackling afterwards then all of a sudden it stops the lights go back on again and you fall on the floor and it all looks normal as if nothing ever happened. Upon research nothing has been found on any type of murder on the premises.
St. Augustine - Fort Castillo De San Marco - The night watchman of the fort has witnessed a young woman in a white dress wandering about the fort grounds and vanishing behind trees and walls. Young Spanish soldier also spotted looking for a ring on the outer grounds of the fort. History tells of him being killed by a cannon ball while searching for this ring.
St. Augustine - Huguenat Cemetery - Photos have been taken that show orbs and what looks to be a spirit in the trees.
St. Augustine - Old City Gates - As the story goes, at the time an epidemic of Yellow Fever was going around and a little girl about 13 or 14 years old wearing a white dress was found dead by the City Gates. No one claimed her. But sometimes around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning you may see her dancing on the Old City Gates. - October 2004 update: her name is believed to be Elizabeth.
St. Augustine - Spanish Military Hospital - now that it is a tour, people have seen ghosts and flashes. The ghost is known as a one-legged man that roams around the back room.
St. Augustine - St. Augustine Lighthouse - A ghost of a girl has been seen in the windows of the lighthouse.
St. Augustine - St. Francis Inn - There has been reports of doors slamming ,lights flickering, and once a man woke up and found himself wedged under a bed, the fire department had to be called to free him. The incident is blamed on a ghost of a servant girl.
St. Augustine - the Florida school for the deaf and blind - several apparitions are seen on campus and in the dormitories. These sightings have been witnessed for years and most of the staff and children are not alarmed by the strange noises, smells and cold spots allover this beautiful school.
St. Augustine - The old Jail - This jail was built at the turn of the century by Henry Flagler because the jail across from his magnificent hotel was offensive to his "newport clientele" It is located north of the old town on San Marco. Tour guides and tourists alike have experienced the sound of shuffling feet, the smell of putrid unwashed bodies and sanitary facilities(a bucket for 4 prisoners), cold spots and even a shadow entity of an extremely large man- sheriff Perry ( the first sheriff) was over 6'5" tall. Students have even seen a man in a "funky plaid suit" in the main cell block.
St. Cloud - Hunter Arms Hotel - This hotel believed to be haunted by 'Vivian.' If you ask the owner of the hotel, she could probably tell you more about Vivian. Guests staying in it have reported strange noises, sudden coldness, and doors slamming and water turning on, if my memory recalls correctly.
St. Cloud - The Old Cannery - This old cannery was used during W.W.II. The building was burned down a number of years ago and sat empty for quite some time. Recently, a group of school kids started restoring it into a museum. Strange noises and sightings have been reported.
St. Cloud - Narcoossee - It is said that at the end of Jones Road there is a haunted creek. A little boy died in it several years ago. He was swinging on a rope attached to a tree that hung over the creek. The rope broke, and the boy feel on some rocks in the middle of the creek and died. If you go to the creek you can hear the little boy. He's very angry and doesn't like people to come back there. The creek is in the middle of woods so it's usually always dark.
St. Leo - St. Leo's College - A young lady has been witnessed walking through walls.
St. Petersburg - Ft. Desato State Park - Voices can be heard around the old fort at night. Also footsteps can be heard in the southern most powder room.
St. Petersburg - Boatyard Village - One couple report visiting the museum to old warplanes sit. “One day, we went to see the planes and there was a B52 bomber with a man sitting inside it. He smiled at me and waved and I told my fiancée to take a picture. We thought it was great they put on a show with men dressed the part like soldiers of the war. As we left, we told the keeper what a great idea that was. He didn't know what we were talking about; telling us no one sits in any of the planes. We ran back to look again but there was no one there. When the pictures were developed, there was only a bright light where the man was sitting, as if the sun reflected off the window.” - May 2004 Additional information: this area is no longer accessible to the public. The area is completely blocked off. The buildings are no longer there either.
St. Petersburg - Don Cesar Resort - Reported sightings of the now deceased owner.
St. Petersburg - Downtown - There is a ghost that haunts an old turn-of-the-century theatre named "Puckets". The theatre is now a private store of some sort that sells mannequins and garment racks. Employees have seen apparitions and have felt a presence, which they say is very positive. Also, in the theatre part, apparitions can be seen on stage. - May 2004 Correction: the Pucket's Theatre really isn't downtown St. Petersburg. It was built in the 50's/60's. It's just a plain, old looking building. Nothing at all ornate or turn of the century. In addition, the theatre no longer sells mannequins or whatever it was selling a couple of years ago. It is now closed and vacant. A sign went up, about two years ago, promising to be the future home of Hospice. Needless to say, Hospice has never moved in. Maybe it could be due to the current ghostly residents.
St. Petersburg - Haslam's Book Store 2025 Central Ave. - A book-store since 1933. Apparition seen, books moved, employees feeling someone else is there after closing.
St. Petersburg - The Don CeSar Beach Resort and Spa - The Don CeSar Resort was once the private residence of Thomas Rowe. He had studied in London during his youth and fell in love with a girl named Lucinda. Her parents sent her away however, so when Thomas returned home, he never saw her again. He built the castle to look like the one where they met. His ghost can be seen walking hand-in-hand with a beautiful dark-haired woman along the shore.
St. Petersburg - Florida Sunshine Skyway Bridge - This bridge was the scene of a tragic accident during the early 1980's. The bridge was struck by a boat and collapsed, killing a great deal of people. The ghost that haunts the bridge seems to be unrelated to the accident. He is a hitchhiker that will climb into peoples' cars at the bottom of the bridge. By the time the unlucky individual gets to the other side, the hitchhiker is gone. Also, There is a woman dressed in a nightgown that appears usually around 12am at the top of the bridge and hitches a ride with oncoming cars. One semi truck had his story printed in the paper where he said he picked up a young woman, dripping wet and she told him to drop her off on other side of bridge but as soon as he got there, she was gone. There were many sightings of this woman on the bridge who locals believe was a suicide victim, one of many jumpers on the bridge. The Skyway Bridge is 200 feet tall and connects St. Petersburg to Sarasota. - May 2004 Correction: This is a correction to the story already listed. a long time resident of St. Petersburg and knows for a fact that the spectral hitchhiker of the Skyway is not male, but instead female. She is a young blonde woman who has been seen wearing a tight t-shirt and jeans. I have never heard of a male hitchhiker who disappears after being picked up. In addition, they have never heard of the woman in a nightgown, only of the woman in the t-shirt/jeans.
St. Petersburg - Royal Palms Apartments - Residents have reported feeling a tugging on their pillow, a very hard tugging. Felt like the pillow would come out from underneath their head. Seeing a man standing by their beds, being paralyzed, as well as strange incidents with water coming from no where.
St. Petersburg - Rutland Manor - October 2004 UPDATE: This is now private property. NO TRESPASSING - around the 1950s a servant was taking a bath when her radio fell in and killed her. also, prior to that event, a murder was committed inside the estate. footsteps can be heard inside house, along with lights and faces in the windows on several accounts during the late evening to early morning.
St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg High School - This school is said to be haunted by students that have had some tragic death while attending the school. Teachers and students have said to hear strange noises and sightings of strange movements on the third floor of the main buildings. Some of the late night workers have even said to have seen hauntings in the auditorium where the old gym use to be.
St. Petersburg - Vinoy Hotel - A Major league ball player stated that he was visited at night by a spirit that; While asleep in his room, someone pressed on his back and awakened him. At which time he looked at a man in a top hat and long coat standing beside his bed. When he refocused his vision, the man was still there. He rolled over to turn on the over head light, and when he turned around, the man was gone. He stated this actually happened and has several major league ballplayers say the same thing happened to them while staying at the Vinoy hotel.
St. Petersburg - Weeden Island - Reported 4 men in a vehicle where driving on a road, the driver almost hit a woman in the road, swerved and got killed, the 3 other passengers witnessed the event coming out of the wreck unscathed, the woman was never found.
Sunnyside - Sunnyside House - Just a flat out, freaky place. Not known if anyone lives there. But green lantern like lights has been seen inside.
Tallahassee - Florida State University - Teenage cadets of the famed West Florida Cadet Battalion. Still drill on the ROTC parade ground on the campus where they once drilled during the civil war.There have been numerous reports of electricity going off in individual rooms during showers. When the person gets out of the shower to investigage, the lights mysteriously turn back on and the mirror appears fogged up with the letters "TB" drawn out on it. Another incident involves a nude, hairy, figure appearing next to women walking on the outskirts of campus in the late evening hours, usually just before midnight.
Tallahassee - Florida State University - Cawthon Hall Dormitory- According to a story reported in the University newspaper, The Florida Flambeau during the summer of 1971, numerous students have related encounters over the years with a poltergeist in an old dormitory. According to the report, several years prior to the University's becoming coed in 1949, a female student was sunbathing on a balcony on the roof of the shadowy gothic building. As is typical in Florida, a sudden and particularly violent thunderstorm arose to the east of the building, and welled up ominously over the campus. Although the sky directly above the dormitory was blue, a freak lightning bolt snaked across the sky, curling over the building's turrets striking a sunbathing female student, killing her instantly. Since that time, subsequent occupants of the room she occupied have reported mysterious object movements, unexplained sounds in the room at night, and at times an overwhelming sense of another individual present in the room. Sometimes students would find that common items, such as stacks of books or pictures, would be moved around during the day, with no apparent rhyme or reason, other than perhaps a restless spirit seeking to maintain her link with the world of the living.
Tallahassee - Florida State University - The head master's building - An apparition of a young woman is said to be seen walking around the halls at night.
Tallahassee - Jefferson Correctional Institution - Inmates and guards all report late at night you can see in the dorms kids playing and, One night a girl thought that the officer was tapping her to get up and then when she looked up there was no one there this went on for a month or so. Found out it happened to others in the dorm as well. Another inmate also saw a big 8 foot angel in dorm g. officers said they heard keys hit the bars in lock up when there was no one there and a little girl haunts lock up crows sits outside. Reports of a man on a horse outside at night. The prison was built on a graveyard.
Tallahassee - Leon County Jail - The new Leon County Jail was constructed in the early 1990's. It was built on the same location that the old jail was built. (Ted Bundy was housed there for some time.) According to locals, the site it is built on is an air field. Corrections Officers and medical staff claim to have seen a woman in period clothing walking the halls crying, late at night, in the medical department. Also shadows seen and the feeling of not being alone.
Tallahassee - The Lively Building - The Lively Building, located at the SW corner of Monroe Street and College Avenue, was the location of The Leon Bar. It operated from 1892 to 1904, and was a gathering spot for the roughest sort of element. Many shootings occurred there, as well as murders. The City passed an ordinance in 1904 that outlawed the sale of alcohol within the city limits, effectively putting The Leon out of business. Today, there is rumor that some of the "Crackers" (slang for the cowboys who frequented the bar, so named for the whips they used to corral the cattle) are still hanging around the corner where The Leon was once located.
Tallahassee - Oak Lawn Cemetery - A man by the last name of Phillips built a 20ft Mausoleum for himself so that he could go there to die. He also placed a Cherry Wood coffin in it and gave a friend a key to close it up after he died. People have reported feeling eerie feelings after leaving this site.
Tallahassee - Oshman's Supersports - It is believed that a ghost haunts this building. There have been numerous unusual occurrences such as motion sensors going off when no one is around, shoe boxes being thrown to the ground, and other flying objects during non business hours.
Tallahassee - Sunnyland Hospital - It used to be a hospital for people with T.B, back when there was no immunization, and people would go crazy. Then it became a hospital for mentally insane people or mentally challenged people that families didn't want to take care of. It was closed down several years ago (at least 15) . The place has had all the windows and doors busted out, but beds still remain made with hospital paraphernalia lying around. The weirdest thing is that the third floor - (some say it is the fourth floor) - has always remained locked and no one has ever been able to get in there. If you go to the hospital late at night you can here shuffling and whispering coming from up there. And the sound of things being dropped .
Update: Has recently been condemned
Tallahassee - Tallahassee Community College - Reports of a strange light that moves around in circles.
Tallahassee - The old mental hospital - is rumored to be haunted. Apparently, many of the residents were not treated properly and some even died. Although the hospital has been closed for years, curious ones who drive by claim to see lights on inside and people looking out the windows then disappear.
Tallahassee - Velda Mound Park - Old Indian Village. Sometimes at night, you can see visions of Indian’s keeping warm by a fire, but in a split second, they're gone. There is sometimes said that there is a white wolf that glows that can be seen there, and neighbors often say that they can hear it howling throughout the night.
Tampa - Britton Cinema - Doors in the ladies room are reported to shut and lock and toilets flush when no one is in the restroom is in there (except for the frightened customer). Also, multiple ghosts have been reported by managers past in the upstairs theaters that used to be one large balcony. Voices have been heard in the hall near auditorium #5 late at night when no one was in the building. An usher once heard someone call his name in auditorium #3 late at night when no one was around. And, last, an assistant manager once told me she had been followed up the hall by a shadow figure on the wall that was not hers.
Tampa - Howard W. Blake High School - Auditorium - Years ago a teacher died in the auditorium (area 1) of a heart attack during a pep rally. A cold spot can be felt while walking into the auditorium for every pep rally.
Tampa - Howard W. Blake High School - Library - the library where another teacher died. Near the tables in the back of the library you can feel a strange chill rise up your spine.
Tampa - Howard W. Blake High School - Main Theatre - To roll with the typical "all theatres have their ghosts" you can see strange lights in the wings, music, and occasional whistling. Things seem to go wrong during every show staged in that theatre.
Tampa - Falk Theatre - Believed to be haunted by Bessie Snavely. In her time, it was the Park Theatre. Bessie Snavely was an actress whose dressing room was on the third floor of this theatre. She hung herself there.
Tampa - Old Tampa Theater - It is an old theater that is very intricately detailed inside and has a particularly haunted look to it anyway. A young man in the 1940's started working there, his job running the projector. He loved his job and continued to work there until his death. Now employees have said that they occasionally hear footsteps and chains in deserted hallways behind the stage and have spotted someone in the projecting room even though there was no one up there at the time. Also reports of smell rancid smells, such as vomit and garbage, drafts of icy air, reports of something grabbing workers by the neck.
Tampa - University of Tampa - This place used to be a hotel over a hundred years ago. Theodore Roosevelt even stayed in it once. The second floor is blocked off and said to be unsafe because of age. Tour guides report seeing apparitions from the windows outside.
Tampa - University of Tampa - Frank Theater - A building owned by the University, actually off campus called the Falk theater is said to be haunted by a women who used to be an actress there. For some reason she hung herself and her apparition has been seen as well as strange voices.
Tarpon Springa - Brooker Creek Elementary - There has been ghosts looking like he is jumping off the balcony.
Tarpon Springs - Former winter home of Al Capone- The "Manors"-Known for hundreds of sightings. Screams in the dead of night. Faces appearing in windows. Also known for women in white, on roof looking over the edge. - December 2003 update/addition: this building has been torn down. about a month ago only the bottom floor of the entire building was left now it appears to be cleared ground.
Titusville - Emma Parrish Theater - As entering the attic noises have been heard while no one else is in the building
Treasure Island - The bridge at John's Pass - reported to be haunted by the spirits of two farmers who were pro-union during the Civil War. They were murdered by local rebel militiamen and buried on the south end at the mouth of the pass. On nights of the new moon, some have seen the two walking near the bridge or even silently sailing by in their boat trying to return home, some say the rotten stench of decaying flesh accompanies the apparitions.
Umatilla - Stanna's Restaurant - In the early 1900's, a young woman hanged herself on the third floor above the restaurant. Several workers and customers have had experiences with her ghost. People have claimed to see shadows of her in a long dress and wicker baskets falling off the women's bathroom wall. Several customers have complained of cold spots and strange laughing accompanied by piano playing.
Umatilla - Umatilla Cemetery - The Umatilla Cemetery in the city of Umatilla. Many people have heard strange noises and sometimes what sounds like the faint sound of a woman screaming. Other times You will hear what sounds like a woman’s voice calling for help. Many orb and ecto pictures have been taken in that cemetery. Sometimes You just plain get an eerie feeling when in the Umatilla Cemetery. There are four cemeteries that are either in or around the city of Umatilla. Well actually only two of them are really in the city limits but the one spoken of is located off Golden Gem road in Umatilla. The cemetery is on either side of the street but most of the activity seems to come from the older section in the back. The newer section of the cemetery is on a hill that goes down to a lake the older section where most of the activity is reported is surrounded by orange groves on all three side of it. This can certainly be verified by quite a few people. NOTE: it is not a good idea for inexperienced ghost hunters or kids looking for a cheap thrill to go there at night. The Spirit(s) that are hear are not benevolent, and it could be dangerous. You should have experience and have permission to be in there after hours as we did but even then it is advise them to be cautious.
Venice - Pelican Alley Restaurant - Believed to be haunted by the previous owner, staff members hear foot steps, feel odd presences, watch the door open and close by itself and thing move around by themselves.
Wauchula - Popash School - Located on SR 64, this condemned school building has been known to have sounds of children playing in it when no one is in it. People have also been spotted in the windows.
West Palm Beach - Burger King - a young man haunts this store. He has been seen by numerous employees.
West Palm Beach - Our Lady Queen of Peace Cemetery - Strange fogs have been reported, described as looking like individual strands of something moving within the fog. Appearing and disappearing. The mist seems to form in to something, very dense. You could see it moving all different directions. Noticeable temperature change, uneasy feelings, and feelings of felt like someone was right behind you. Then it feels like whatever it this is trying to grab your arm. upon developing the film one of the pictures one witness took had an orb in it. only taken 4 pictures that night and the one picture that had an orb in it was the picture taken right by this grave. The orb is located right next to the flower arrangement.
West Palm Beach - Palm Beach Atlantic University - The library, built many years ago is claimed to be haunted by an old janitor. He worked there for many years and then mysteriously disappeared. He is claimed to be heard rummaging through the old janitors closet that has been locked up ever since the day of his odd disappearance.
West Palm Beach - St. Juliana Catholic School - The walls rattle during school and especially at night.
Williston - A small old cemetery - A historian going there to do research felt "a very alarming wave of panic while in the cemetery." She fled and never returned.
Winter Garden - Dead Man's Tree - A figure of a man can be seen hanging from the tree occupancies by a chill in the air.
Winter Haven - JPV Woods - Every 13th of August it is said that when you go into the woods and walk along the old dirt trail, about 11:30 to 12:30 you can hear children screaming and crying for help and the little hairs on the back of your neck will rise without intention.
Winter Haven - Scotty's Distribution Center - There was said to be a man of Brian Foreman who once worked there as a forklift driver. Workers say that his head was completely amputated by a forklift because of the mistake done by a trainee. The trainee continued to work there but mysteriously disappeared. It is said that you can see a headless man driving a forklift every 4th of March.
Winter Park - Alabama Hotel - Built when Winter Park was founded, several guests were murdered on opening night. They have been seen walking the halls and blamed for murders that occurred in the fifties. It has been abandoned until 1998, when it was converted into a personal mansion.
Winter Park - Annie Russell Theatre - Annie Russell is widely believed to haunt this theatre named for her in the early 1930's. She was a teacher and director at Rollins College. She has been seen and even spoken to by numerous people. There are stories of former students who had encounters with Annie while working in the theatre on audition pieces, sets, or lights. One story in particular that sticks in my mind is there was a guy who was working alone in the theatre on the light grid. Suddenly he fell off the ladder. He was all alone in the theatre and lay there for a few minutes. Someone came in a few minutes later and saw him laying there. The person immediately went to call an ambulance and was told that they had already been called and one was on it way. A minute later, an ambulance appeared and took the injured boy to the hospital. There was no one in the theatre when that boy was initially injured. There have been other stories of people seeing Annie's statue (a bust of her head) moving across the theatre. Also, Annie had a seat that she always sat in when she watched rehearsals- that seat has often been heard banging up and down, pulled down when no one was sitting in it, and clapping has been heard coming from that area of the theatre.
Winter Park - Rollins College - Ann Russell Theater - Ghost of Anne Russell comes out sometimes during rehearsals. She has been seen sitting in prop rocking chair or seeing her walking around at night wearing a purple dress. There have also been reports of ghosts appearing in the theater balcony.
Winter Springs - Tuskawilla Country Club - Every Last Friday of the month, there is a young male, about 22 years old who can be seen cleaning the bar table. No one knows who he could have been, or why he was there. But there have been witnesses that say he tries to attack the people that see him.
Naples - Witch's Brew - Witch's Brew is a nightclub, reports of a dark shadowlike figure has been seen and lights flickering on and off, my dad has also come back to find all the cables to his music equipment rearranged and unplugged and such
Narcossee - stretch or road toward Cocoa Beach - Around mile marker 15 there is said to be the ghost of a teenage girl, who died in a head on car crash, on her way to the beach on prom night. Moving puddles of blood have been sighted on the road at night
Newberry - Newberry Cemetery - There are about 70 orbs, a gatekeeper at the back gate of the cemetery, 3 shadow krakens, and other unexplained phenomena. Very strange place.
New Smyrna - Beacon Theater - In the girls bathroom there have been reports of sinks coming on by themselves and the stall doors opening and closing when nobody is in the stalls.
New Smyrna - Indian River Inn - There is believed by many witnesses that is haunted with many spirits. You can see strange lights in there at night and the sound of people moving around.
North Fort Myers - Motel 6 - There are 4 buildings at this Motel 6 property. - reports mainly from staff at the motel, that noises, and the feeling of being watched. Also, footsteps in the puddles of water, strange screeching noises, screams, and moans of agony, a very strange odor of a female's perfume, and temperature changes.
Ocala - Old Downtown Graveyard - Many people have had strange things happen in this graveyard. The most significant of which can occur almost any night. After dark if you drive thru the cemetery, near the back stretch over a large crack in the weathered roadway, your car will shift into neutral. This has happened many times to many people. All type of cars and almost all makes.
Ocala - Ritz Historical Inn - Rich socialite from NY would spend summers here and would have parties during prohibition. During one such party, a fire started (reason unknown) and several people died including the woman and her 2 dogs. To this day you can here the sounds of that party in her room and also the sounds of people running into the hall and down the stairwell trying to escape the fire.
Ocala - St. James Church - (now vacant) - This is the Church used in the film "Jeepers Creepers" it lies just west of town off hwy 40. This site was used in the movie "Jeepers Creepers". At night the church has a strange fog that surrounds it and strange light come from inside. On the same site, a small graveyard almost touches the roadway and scrambles car radio and cell phone signals briefly. - October 2003 Update:The church has been torn down due to 2 local teens setting fire to the structure.
Ocala - The Old Silver Springs Shores Hotel- It has been closed for longer than twenty-two years but even before then numerous accounts of hauntings had been reported. Kids flock to this abandoned building now only to return with terrors of apparitions in their eyes.
Ocklawaha - Ma Barker's Residence - The home of Ma Barker and her sons at the time of their fatal shoot-out with the FBI and local police. It's located in the town of Ocklawaha on Lake Weir. It's said that you can sometimes see Ma Barker on the premises'. It is reported that the house is in original condition and still has the bullet holes as a result of the shoot-out and hasn't been changed.
Oldsmar - Suncoast allstar gym - In the year of 2000 employees heard sounds of gym equipment being used. No one was in the gym but employees. When one of the employees went to look who was there he could find no one. but there was signs of trampoline being used recently.
Olustee - Olustee Battle Field - Orbs and figures can be seen late at night or when the re-enactment comes orbs and figures with the actors. Sometimes voices can be herd.
Orange City - Blue Springs - rail road tracks - a old house that has been there for years, its falling apart and the windows are broke, some say a old man killed himself in there, at night you can see him on the door step, some have seen him on the rail road tracks right next to blue springs, the legend is he overdosed on pills if you go in the building you can feel a unhappy spirit there and you feel cold lonely and not wanted there.
Orange City - Lankford Funeral Home - third floor room is haunted by the ghost of a daughter of the people who originally built the house back in 1918, long before it became a funeral home. The story goes that she contracted some kind of infectious disease common around those times and was cared for in third floor bedroom to keep here away from the rest of the family. She eventually succumbed to the disease. A ghost of a young girl has been spotted looking out the third floor window. And the few people who have lived in the second floor apartment have talked about hearing the floor creaking on the third floor, as if someone is walking around.
Orange City - Natures garden - One day a face appeared in the window and seamed as if he was in agonizing pain and screaming.
Orlando - Annie Russell Theater - one particular chair was always in the same spot no matter how many times it was moved to another location.
Orlando - Citrus Center - Republic bank/Orange Ave. - Numerous employees and visitors have witnessed apperitions of a shadow type figure as well noises, doors opening and shuting,elevators with no one on them moving with footsteeps coming off of them. Numerous siteing of a female looking at you in restroom mirrors and then vanishing.
Orlando - Cricket Club Apartments - Strange smells emanating from one of the apartments in the complex, strange forms seen at night walking around outside. Strange voices heard also. Cannas explain.
Orlando - Disney World - There is known to be a tan figure walking down the streets in front of the castle.
Orlando - Disney World - Pirates of the Caribbean - The spirit of "George" a worker who died there when a beam fell on him during construction still haunts the attraction. At the beginning of the day and at the end of the day attractions workers must come on the PA system and tell George good morning and good night. If not the attraction has been know to shut itself down adding more work before the workers came go home for the night. - March 2004 Addition/ correction - when the ride was being built in the early 70's (it opened Dec. 15, 1973) , George was a welder who clearly, welded different parts of the scenes on the attraction together. One particular area on the ride, called the "burning city", required George to climb up quite high above the ground. George lost his balance, and fell to his death. If you talk to any of the employees at pirates, they will either know of someone who has had an incident with George, or there is a chance they move have had one themselves.
Orlando - Evans High School - The drama students and teacher have reported strange howling sounds, lights going on and off, and even people being locked in rooms (mainly the green room woman's restroom, and the costume room). - March 2005 Correction: The current auditorium is haunted by a man that hung himself in the gym back in the 60's. The door on the costume room does not lock and there is no ladies restroom in the green room, because there is no green room. What can be heard is noises of something moving on the catwalk above the stage and the lights around the stage will come on and go off with out anyone working them. As a former Drama student and graduate of Evan's, as well as many of the students have experienced the guy from the gym in the auditorium. He has never tried to harm anyone or scare anyone at all. It is belived he just wanders around the school and doesn't want to leave,you can feel him in different parts of the school.
Orlando - Leu Botanical Gardens - The old mansion in the Harry P. Leu Botanical Gardens is haunted by the ghosts of the former residents. Visitors to the house on guided tours have reported cold spots in the upper bedrooms and tour guides have reported spirits. The gardens are off of S.R. - 1792 (Orlando Ave.) east of down town Orlando.
Orlando - Little Econ River - Every October 13th a spirit of Christopher Klink appears under the bridge on Old Econ Rd. A light will flash under the bridge highlighting Killer Klink's tag which is written under the bridge. (Dated October 13, 1987.) It will get extremely cold, and the river will then flow the other direction. You will then see an image of Klink hanging from the bridge, and suddenly disappear. Then the water will start flowing back in its original direction.
Orlando - Miller Sellen - Its an old historic house from the early 1900's. A former employee states People that had worked there for awhile would talk of strange noises like someone running though the hallways when no one was there. One employee got a call from an inside line only to hear static and a sound of a little girl playing on the phone. Problem was everybody was out to lunch.
Orlando - Naval Recruit Training Center - The second floor of the Division Ten barracks gives you a vrey bad feeling while making your rounds during watch. The whole floor sounds like it's breathing. - October 2004 Update; was torn down in 2002
Orlando - Oviedo - Andrew St. - Apparitions of children playing in the field, hearing someone whisper in the ear, "help me." It sounded like children or a child.
Orlando - Oviedo - Anders street on Chapman - The celery field on this dirt road is haunted. People have seen a man in between 2 pillars (electric fence) dressed in a suit carrying a suitcase. you can hear children's laughter and see kids playing in the field and a shadowy figured man.
Orlando - Oviedo - Baseball field - There was an Indian seen before, going into the woods around the 7:00 at a base ball game.
Orlando - Oviedo - Boston Hill Cemetery - There is a image of a man hanging in the trees and a lady kneeling at the mans feet. The woman is weeping and praying. Foot steps heard on the ground and the grass was seen moving. Also reports of pockets of fog spinning in circles. There were many cold spots.
Orlando - Oviedo - The Celery Fields of Chapman Road - There have been numerous sightings of children walking through the tall grass and wondering around on the streets of the neighborhood that now stands where the field had been.
Orlando - Oviedo - Chapman open fields - There is a field down a dirt road in between two sets of telephone poles which people always hear screams after driving down the road. There is always fog around the at location also no matter how the weather is.
Orlando - Oviedo - The Econ River - Lots of very strong spirits. Mindless whispers and some even violent ones...There are MANY patches around Geniva and Chilioda. Behind still water, there is this pit in the econ. by a moldy blanket.. there is a lot of action there and more spiritual patches.
Orlando - Oviedo - Oviedo High School - auditorium - light room. figure and flashes have been seen.
Orlando - Oviedo - Oviedo High School - Baseball field outskirts - on the out skirts. There is spiritual patches and portals.. There are red marks on the trees and other stuff like that. You'll see orbs in the distance and suction like feeling towards it.
Orlando - Oviedo - Oviedo High School - the girls dressing room - There sits a girl crying and blood on her dress. she has long brown hair and is sad and pale. She’ll follow you though and stalk you for a little while. She'll tell you her story and try to scare you. She stalked students for days at a time, and they claim she has followed them home.
Orlando - Oviedo - The Oviedo Lights - These eerie lights can be seen from a bridge where a young man killed himself after he lost his love. It is well know to native Oveidans. And has been seen by many, many people. The mans ghost has also been seen in the area below the bridge.
Orlando - Oviedo - St. Luke’s cemetery - In the small building in the center of the cemetery the corner to the right of the door you feel an odd and almost threatening presence. Upon entering the corner it is reported some feel it is hard to breath, hands tingle as well as some reports of marks appearing on their necks.
Orlando - Peabody Hotel - cold spots and apparitions experienced.
Orlando - Rouse Road Cemetery - The ghost of a man who died in the 1840's is seen here. He is seen often as a shadowy figure in period clothing in the cemetery, the adjacent woods and the fields across the street. The apparition is known as Benjamin Miles, a local settler who is buried there in an unmarked grave. It is said that this is a particularly angry and dangerous spirit. His presence is accompanied by a chill in the air and the call of an owl. The sound of that owl is said to be a warning that Benjamin Miles is nearby. All of these phenomena are almost always seen at night usually in the fall and winter seasons
Orlando - Walt Disney World - EPCOT - Spaceship earth - a small girl with long blonde hair has been seen riding in a car & a boy run in front of her and vanish at the same location (outside during the day).
Orlando - Walt Disney World - Tower of Terror - There has been a story among employees of a ghost walking around the "Tower of Terror" at off hours; he's usually found walking the wrong way, does not respond to calls and then disappears.
Orlando - Sunland Hospital - Sunland was an old Mental hospital in the Pine Hills section of Town. Many reports of poltergeist activity voices and screams. - This submission was originally posted as " “Belleview Mental Hospital" It has now been demolished and turned into a park where it is still believed to be haunted. And interesting link can be found here
Orlando - Super 8 Motel - Room 206 - I-drive - room 206 is haunted by the ghost of a man who rises from bed also bed shakes, and feels like someone is getting in bed beside you when no one is there. The room stays cold and it feels as if you’re being watched. The sink also comes on by itself.
Orlando - Tabu Night Club - formerly posted as "Zuma Beach Night Club" - an old woman ghost has been seen by the stage. When she comes it gets real cold.
Orlando - Union Park Elementary - the girls bathroom is haunted. Witnesses report the sinks and all the doors started to shake and hearing a loud- but faint yell, and seeing a little girl with a white dress. Believed to be Mary, the daughter of the janitor that works there.
Pace - Wal-Mart - Orbs in the maternity section
Palatka - San Mateo First Church of the Nazarene - The ghost of an old man who used to attend the church shuffling up the aisle, just the same as he always did when he was alive. In the nursery the ghost of a pilgrim times woman, (you can only see her shadow, but you can tell by the way her shadow's dress is shaped) screams. It sounds like she in sheer terror.
Palm Beach - Flagler Mansion - There is said to be ghosts all throughout the many rooms of the Henry Flagler Museum and mansion.
Palm Beach Island - This is called the witches road, numerous reports of peoples electronics in there cars messing up while on this road
Panama City - Confetti's a Nightclub/Eatery - Objects moving and a smoky apparition have been observed by the staff here.
Panama City Beach - Holiday Inn - In one of the rooms near the top floor, the ghost of a man was seen standing between the two double beds. He wears a white T-shirt and sunglasses around his neck, but his head cannot be seen. Strange occurrences also happened, such as radio stations turning by themselves, belongings missing and then reappearing, and being mysteriously woken up every night at the same time (around 4 a.m.).
Pembroke Pines - Publix 528 - In Pembroke Pines in store 528 at Silver Lakes. There was a customer that was a lady by the sea food area, wearing a purple sweater, that had a heart attack and died. Several years later it has been said by a couple of associates that when the store is closing, a lady has been seen walking by the sea food area wearing a purple sweater. When the manager went to get a customer count the lady is nowhere to be found. It is said until this very day that she still haunts the sea food area of Publix 528.
Pensacola - Cazenovia Seville Quarter - The man who died at Seville Quarter was named Wesely. He fell in the beer cooler and hit his head, knocking himself out and he died of hypothermia.
Pensacola - Dorr House - There is a floor to ceiling mirror in the 'Formal' sitting room... when a female visitor stands in its sights, if they have on a short skirt, they report feeling a 'tugging' as if someone is trying to make the skirt longer. Many visitors and guides have reported smelling Roses (fresh cut) at intervals followed by an EXTREMELY COLD spot. Roses were Mrs. Dorr’s favorite flower. Visitors have reported hearing soft crying coming from the sick room/sewing room. A word of warning to all who visit, MIND YOUR MANNERS... Mrs. Dorr doesn't allow rudeness and has been known to 'make sure' the perpetrator doesn't stay or wants to leave posthaste. This ex-Docent has seen first hand that Mrs. Dorr is still the 'LADY' of the house.
Pensacola - Fort Pickens - Visitors feel presences in certain rooms; it seems like someone is watching you.
Pensacola - House on Alcaniz Street - The Gray House on Alcaniz Street, which faces the Dorr House across Seville Square is said to be haunted. The ghost of a sea captain named Thomas Moristo who lived there in the 1700s is believed to still reside there. When the home is vacant, a man has been seen peering through the windows. Many people who have lived there have reported that they will turn on the stove, go upstairs, then come down and find the stove turned off. On one incidence, a resident was painting the house and left the paint inside the front foyer. The next morning he found all the paint had been moved outside. - The house was once in a bad fire, and it is believed the ghost does these things attempting to prevent another fire. Many people have become too frightened and refused to live in this house, and some residences have claimed to see apparitions of the old man while inside the house.
Pensacola - Light House - There is a story about the light house on the navy base (NAS) being haunted by the former keeper. People have felt cold spots while touring the light house.
Pensacola - New World Inn - The Inn and bar are said to be haunted by the previous owner. Several employees have reported seeing him.
Pensacola - NAS Whiting Field - Branch Medical Clinic - The ghost of a navy corpsman killed while stationed there reportedly roams the hallway between the lab and X-ray departments. He always is seen carrying something in his hands and wears a tech jacket.
Pensacola - Original Sacred Heart Hospital - There is a hallway that is about where the nuns would cross to go to the chapel of the hospital. It is been reported that there is the kind old spirit of one of the sisters that frequents the hallway and corridor. She will often tap people on the shoulder from behind, much as she did in life.
Pensacola - Seville Quarter - About ten years ago there was a man who would visit the bar at Seville Quarter frequently. He would visit so much, that he was offered a bartending job there. He worked there for a while and everyone loved him. He died in the bar one night (not exactly sure how) but people have reportedly seen his ghost in the bar area
Pensacola - St. Michael’s Cemetery - This is a large cemetery that was started when Pensacola was settled. This cemetery contains famous people and people that helped to shape Florida in history, politics, and commerce. People say they have seen lights circling gravestones. They have also heard voices inside the cemetery at night.
Pensacola/ Dasanai - Crampton Brewery - In this building sightings are expected because they happen like clockwork. Many people have said to see an elderly man walking the halls with an old lantern, he speaks in another language. He is said to appear in a mist and vanish in a bright flash of blue light. When the people see him, they are not afraid because he is not an evil spirit, but instead he is kind and helpful. Some workers in the building said that if they knock something off the wall or shelf he will catch it hand place it back where it was, they say that he even helps them clean messes and junk.
Perry - Their was a family that lived in this house back in the early 1900's and they often had bad fight's that resulted in her death. And it was never lived in for year's it has only recently been renovated and families have lived in it on and off. Because she still stands her ground. Everyone that has ever lived in it has had problems with fighting. If you have a fight she will haunt you till you move, although she has never hurt anyone. Wanting only to let them know that there will be no more fighting in her once owned home. She will turn lights on and off and turn on the water and plug up the sinks to let them over flow, and she move object's around in the day while no-one is home. Families don't stay living there long.
Pine Island - Capt n' Cons - There is a lot of strange occurrences, such as, the dumpster lid slamming up and down, as well as sightings, voices, and loss of breath.
Part Charlotte - Restlawn Memorial Gardens (Cemetery) - The first house ever built in Port Charlotte is located adjacent to the cemetery. The house is said to have been owned by a farmer who murdered his wife. After the structure fell into a state of disrepair, the county decided to condemn the old shack. Since that time, many have reported hearing eerie noises coming from the area that the house is located in. Also, a ghostly figure has been spotted roaming around the cemetery late at night. Also, the sound of swarms of bees has plagued neighbors around the area for years.
Ponce de Leon - Corinth Church - This church is believed to be haunted. The story behind the church is that back in the late 60s early 70s and young boy was playing in the church at the time, an escaped convicted was hiding in the back pew, and brutally murdered the little boy. In the church can be found blood handprints all over the walls and ceiling, small enough to belong to a young child. Among walking in the church you will encounter cold spots and scratching noises on the left hand wall if entering from the side doorway.
Port St. Lucie - Oak Hammock Park - When you walk down the trail it gets very cold. Weird noises come from the girls bathroom. It sounds like someone slamming the stall door. When you go in there no one will be there. Weird things appear in pictures.
Port St. Lucie - Oak Hammock Park - The Devil Tree - Oak Hammock Park is a local hangout for fishermen and boaters along the C-24 Canal. On January 8th, 1973, long before the park was built, the deranged serial killer beat, raped, hung, then buried 2 girls beneath the "Devil Tree". Over the next few days he returned to commit lewd acts to the bodies. In January 1977, almost 4 years to the day that the murders were committed, two fishermen discovered the skeletal remains of the two bodies, and the hanging ropes were also found. Over the years people have reported hearing screaming, and seeing hooded figures walking around the woods. In 1993 an exorcism was held, and a cross was erected, after two boys claimed to have seen a Satanic ritual taking place near the tree, and being chased away by the Satanists who yelled that they wanted their blood. Before the park was built, they were going to cut down the tree, but their chainsaws kept malfunctioning in the area surrounding the tree. They tried to cut down the tree manually with a two-man saw, but the teeth of the saw broke off, so they left the tree where it was.
Port St. Lucie - Sanctuary Apartments - noises in the club house numerous reports of ghost sightings.
Quincy - Quincy Leaf Theatre - Numerous spirits haunt this building in downtown Quincy. There are several in the balcony and upstairs area, some in the backstage area, and some on the main floor in the seating area. None seem to be malevolent as there are many theatre productions that go off without a hitch.
Riviera Beach - Suncoast High School - In the schools auditorium there is said to be a phantom ghost on top of the rafters that frequently makes noise and startles the drama students. The ghost is speculated to be the ghost of a boy who was buried on the schools campus
Rockledge - Ashley's restaurant - has a ghost that will often "play" with employees and guests. The building is right on the railroad tracks it's rumored that a woman was killed by a train there. - December 2003 Update/addition: It is said that Ashley's Restaurant was built over a train stop which had caught fire and burned down. The train stop, it is also said, was built over an Indian Burial spot.
Safety Harbor - The Safety Harbor Spa Resort - Several housekeepers tell of hearing their name called from the woman's bath area of the spa-and nobody is there. During a renovation in the mid-90's, the front desk would receive phone calls from empty guestrooms in the dead of night. When security would investigate, they could hear voices in the totally empty building.
Sanford - New Tribes Mission - Former hotel is now home to missionaries from New Tribes Mission. In the East Wing there have been disturbances of many kinds including poltergeist activity and cold spots. To date there has been no formal paranormal investigation due to fear of bad press, but an informal check shows that something is going on there.
Sanford - Shiloh Cemetery - this cemetery dates back to the 1700's & is the largest in the city it covers approx. four city blocks.
Sarasota - Palms of Sarasota - There's an abandoned Mental Hospital in Sarasota near the Interstate, there at night you can hear people swimming in the pool but the pool is filled in with rocks, you also hear screaming and sometimes laughter, sometimes people even see shadows and strange things show up when you take pictures. - December 2003 update: The Palms of Sarasota was bulldozed earlier this year! Nothing but a few sewage drains remain on the property.
Sarasota - Ringling School of Art and Design - The Old Women's Dormitory - has been haunted for decades by a ghost named Mary. It used to be a hotel in the 20s and she committed suicide in the stairwell between the second and third floors. It is now an unused fire escape. She has been observed walking the corridors (out of the corner of the eye, turning a times, a resident would enter her room and her paintbrushes would be slowly swirling in the water of the rinse cups as if someone had just spun them around and let go.
Sarasota - Ritz Carlton Sarasota - formerly known as Ringling Towers - built in the early 1900 this hotel housed the richest of the rich, presidents, movie stars. After it's demise[date unknown]satanic worship and black masses were known to be held there. The stairs still had red carpet on them but no railings. The top penthouse floors have various cold spots. freezing room temp. in the summer. Feelings of being watched. in the lobby there is a very evil feeling. - - May 2005 Update: it's been demolished and a new building occupies the site.
Sarasota - Timberchase Apartments - In 1992 a young woman was stabbed to death in her apartment on N. Briggs (Timberchase). A neighbor who lived directly across from the victim was leaving and noticed her friend’s front door slightly opened. The neighbor thought her friend accidentally left her door open so she went over to confirm. She found her friend on the floor stabbed multiple times. To this day there is not a suspect. Reports of eerie feelings & apparitions of a young woman. - May 2005 update: The Ringling Towers where demolished in 2003 and the Ritz Carlton now stands in this spot.
Sebring - Harder Hall - Harder hall is a large hotel that was first built in the 1920's. It has changed hands MANY times, and every owner has died under extremely strange circumstances, most of the time, right in the hotel. There have been many accidents in the hotel, and all of which had at least 1 fatality. Some of the accidents include: fire, flood, floor collapse, innumerable suicides, murders, and others. Witnesses see lights inside and hear music. Most anyone can see the people peering out from the windows, and/or see the multitude of people roaming around in the courtyard, searching for something. - August 2004 update: they are remodeling it and there are rumors of them making it into a museum.
Sebring - Kenilworth Lodge - The stairs definitely have an eerie feeling to them. Many guests have reported doors opening and closing on their own accord.
Shalimar - End of Garniers Buyou - Many Indians Used to live in this area. Some nights on full moons shadows of Indians appear in the fog over the swampy land. Sometime depicting scenes of Indians being slaughtered by white men taking there land.
Silver Springs - Silver Springs "Bridal Chamber" - apparition of 2 people in an embrace seen in the water.
Silver Springs - Old Six Gunn Territory Property - Once the land, which now is filled partially by a shopping center, was the location of "Six Gunn Territory" a attraction which lasted many years. On this site 2 tourists were killed, both accidentally. It is said at certain times screams are heard and upon investigation, nothing is found. Some remains of the rail-road which visitors would ride can still be located among a heavily wooded area. The rail car was a factor in one of the deaths. The park was closed in the early 80's.
Spring Hill - Hungry Howies - formerly 7-11 - In the early 1980's in the town of Spring Hill which is outside the city of Brooksville there was a 7-11 convenience store which took in most of this towns business. And since it sat along the towns main road it was easy to access Highway 19 to the west about 3 miles away, or the longer haul 7 miles to the east. At one point during the night in the late 80's a drunk male came into the store to buy a case of beer. But the clerk decided out of his own good will to not sell the case feeling the man was drunk enough already and did not want him to drive back to the store later on. The man became angry yelling and cursing so on and so fourth. So instead of buying beer he decided he wanted a pack of cigarette’s. After the purchase the clerk turned his back toward the man to grab some cleaning stuff from under the counter. At this point the man revealed a .357 revolver and shot the clerk in the back of the head killing him instantly. Now the 7-11 has since moved and now it is a Hungry Howies pizzeria, and as the night moves further on more this will happen. The saloon doors to the kitchen will swing open, cups and utensils will fall off the tables and onto the ground. The hanging lights will start swinging back and fourth and the lights and arcade games will suddenly shut off. The strangest occurrence happened one night when one worker left the store one night after setting up for a new promotion and came back a few hours later to help the owner for the early shift and found all the pictures and posters laying on the ground or on the counters directly under where they were placed and the security camera tape was blank but yet still recording.
Sorrento - Al Capone's house - There is a still standing, beautiful Victorian style home, that residents still believe is Capone’s home. Many, many people have tried to live in this home, but no one lasts. They are frightened by pots and pans banging at night (as if someone is cooking in the kitchen), by lights going on and off, voices of what is believed to be deceased notorious gangsters, and what feels very much like a body crawling into bed with the people who reside there.
St. Augustine - Abbot Mansion - haunted by 2 spirits, Miss Lucy and The Captain.
St. Augustine - Augustin Inn - Saw the ghost of a man wearing a white suit with white hair walking through my fully restored ground floor guest room (first room off the ground floor parlor). He simply walked through the room and through the door. It was daylight.
St. Augustine - Casa Monica Hotel -There are many employees that can recall hearing strange noises, almost as though someone is trying to say words but the wind carries their voice off into the distance.
St. Augustine - Casablanca Bed and Breakfast - Some have witnessed a light of a lantern flashing in the night.
St. Augustine - Casablanca Inn at 24 Avenida Menendez- This beautifully restored Inn is known to be haunted by an elderly lady that once owned it during the 1920's. She too ran it as in Inn. The lady was a key player in helping booze smugglers during the prohibition by going up on the widow's walk of the building and waving a lantern back and forth. This was to let smugglers know the coast was clear and since the house is located right on the bay front, this was most useful. People have claimed to still see the lantern light from atop the house to this day, especially those out at sea and in the harbor. She has also been known to appear inside of the Inn. Guests have reported seeing an apparition in the hallways and stairway, feeling cold spots, and complaining about items disappearing from their rooms and reappearing later on in strange places. The lady is buried in the nearby Huguenot Cemetery.
St. Augustine - Castillo de San Marcos - Some of the most unusual occurrences include the "Battle Echoes" heard by visitors. By placing an ear to the wall, it is said you can hear the echoes of cannon fire and yelling. There is also telling of a young solder that can be seen leaning on the outside wall facing the bay after sundown.
St. Augustine - Flagler College - Ponce de Leon Hall - once Ponce de Leon Hotel, has numerous ghost stories, most of which are in Ponce de Leon hall, the girls' dormitory. One such story is how the mistress of Henry Flagler haunts the 4th floor where she hung herself. The room is boarded up, but some students venture up to peek in the keyhole still. Also believed, When Flagler died; his funeral was held in the front hall of the college (the one with the tile floor). They had all the windows open so his spirit could "fly away" instead of being trapped in the hall forever. As a janitor was passing by during the funeral, he noticed that all the windows and doors were open, so he closed them. People felt a big gust of wind, supposedly Flagler’s spirit. It had not made it in time, all the windows and doors where shut. It is said that his spirit hit a window and bounced back and landed in one of the tiles. So to this day, you in a certain tile to the left of the doors and towards the back of the hall, there is the face of Henry Flagler.
St. Augustine - Florida School for the Deaf and Blind - Gregg Hall Dormitory - There is one ghostly figures that wander around the 1st floor east wing, a boy, in his teens, he is almost solid and you notice him clearly, he has blonde hair and wears really old fashioned clothes sticks to the bathroom only he never comes out and girls using the bathroom late at night, are met by a horrific sight, he’s dangling from the shower rods and his neck is nearly severed and he gets down and walks in to the wall with his head hanging on his neck and disappears and a trail of blood follows him and he’s laughing in a really weird high pitched voice and suddenly a fierce wind starts blowing and pins u up against the wall and the doors slam shut and 2 big pairs of red eyes looms out towards you.. And you hear a really high pitched cackling afterwards then all of a sudden it stops the lights go back on again and you fall on the floor and it all looks normal as if nothing ever happened. Upon research nothing has been found on any type of murder on the premises.
St. Augustine - Fort Castillo De San Marco - The night watchman of the fort has witnessed a young woman in a white dress wandering about the fort grounds and vanishing behind trees and walls. Young Spanish soldier also spotted looking for a ring on the outer grounds of the fort. History tells of him being killed by a cannon ball while searching for this ring.
St. Augustine - Huguenat Cemetery - Photos have been taken that show orbs and what looks to be a spirit in the trees.
St. Augustine - Old City Gates - As the story goes, at the time an epidemic of Yellow Fever was going around and a little girl about 13 or 14 years old wearing a white dress was found dead by the City Gates. No one claimed her. But sometimes around 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning you may see her dancing on the Old City Gates. - October 2004 update: her name is believed to be Elizabeth.
St. Augustine - Spanish Military Hospital - now that it is a tour, people have seen ghosts and flashes. The ghost is known as a one-legged man that roams around the back room.
St. Augustine - St. Augustine Lighthouse - A ghost of a girl has been seen in the windows of the lighthouse.
St. Augustine - St. Francis Inn - There has been reports of doors slamming ,lights flickering, and once a man woke up and found himself wedged under a bed, the fire department had to be called to free him. The incident is blamed on a ghost of a servant girl.
St. Augustine - the Florida school for the deaf and blind - several apparitions are seen on campus and in the dormitories. These sightings have been witnessed for years and most of the staff and children are not alarmed by the strange noises, smells and cold spots allover this beautiful school.
St. Augustine - The old Jail - This jail was built at the turn of the century by Henry Flagler because the jail across from his magnificent hotel was offensive to his "newport clientele" It is located north of the old town on San Marco. Tour guides and tourists alike have experienced the sound of shuffling feet, the smell of putrid unwashed bodies and sanitary facilities(a bucket for 4 prisoners), cold spots and even a shadow entity of an extremely large man- sheriff Perry ( the first sheriff) was over 6'5" tall. Students have even seen a man in a "funky plaid suit" in the main cell block.
St. Cloud - Hunter Arms Hotel - This hotel believed to be haunted by 'Vivian.' If you ask the owner of the hotel, she could probably tell you more about Vivian. Guests staying in it have reported strange noises, sudden coldness, and doors slamming and water turning on, if my memory recalls correctly.
St. Cloud - The Old Cannery - This old cannery was used during W.W.II. The building was burned down a number of years ago and sat empty for quite some time. Recently, a group of school kids started restoring it into a museum. Strange noises and sightings have been reported.
St. Cloud - Narcoossee - It is said that at the end of Jones Road there is a haunted creek. A little boy died in it several years ago. He was swinging on a rope attached to a tree that hung over the creek. The rope broke, and the boy feel on some rocks in the middle of the creek and died. If you go to the creek you can hear the little boy. He's very angry and doesn't like people to come back there. The creek is in the middle of woods so it's usually always dark.
St. Leo - St. Leo's College - A young lady has been witnessed walking through walls.
St. Petersburg - Ft. Desato State Park - Voices can be heard around the old fort at night. Also footsteps can be heard in the southern most powder room.
St. Petersburg - Boatyard Village - One couple report visiting the museum to old warplanes sit. “One day, we went to see the planes and there was a B52 bomber with a man sitting inside it. He smiled at me and waved and I told my fiancée to take a picture. We thought it was great they put on a show with men dressed the part like soldiers of the war. As we left, we told the keeper what a great idea that was. He didn't know what we were talking about; telling us no one sits in any of the planes. We ran back to look again but there was no one there. When the pictures were developed, there was only a bright light where the man was sitting, as if the sun reflected off the window.” - May 2004 Additional information: this area is no longer accessible to the public. The area is completely blocked off. The buildings are no longer there either.
St. Petersburg - Don Cesar Resort - Reported sightings of the now deceased owner.
St. Petersburg - Downtown - There is a ghost that haunts an old turn-of-the-century theatre named "Puckets". The theatre is now a private store of some sort that sells mannequins and garment racks. Employees have seen apparitions and have felt a presence, which they say is very positive. Also, in the theatre part, apparitions can be seen on stage. - May 2004 Correction: the Pucket's Theatre really isn't downtown St. Petersburg. It was built in the 50's/60's. It's just a plain, old looking building. Nothing at all ornate or turn of the century. In addition, the theatre no longer sells mannequins or whatever it was selling a couple of years ago. It is now closed and vacant. A sign went up, about two years ago, promising to be the future home of Hospice. Needless to say, Hospice has never moved in. Maybe it could be due to the current ghostly residents.
St. Petersburg - Haslam's Book Store 2025 Central Ave. - A book-store since 1933. Apparition seen, books moved, employees feeling someone else is there after closing.
St. Petersburg - The Don CeSar Beach Resort and Spa - The Don CeSar Resort was once the private residence of Thomas Rowe. He had studied in London during his youth and fell in love with a girl named Lucinda. Her parents sent her away however, so when Thomas returned home, he never saw her again. He built the castle to look like the one where they met. His ghost can be seen walking hand-in-hand with a beautiful dark-haired woman along the shore.
St. Petersburg - Florida Sunshine Skyway Bridge - This bridge was the scene of a tragic accident during the early 1980's. The bridge was struck by a boat and collapsed, killing a great deal of people. The ghost that haunts the bridge seems to be unrelated to the accident. He is a hitchhiker that will climb into peoples' cars at the bottom of the bridge. By the time the unlucky individual gets to the other side, the hitchhiker is gone. Also, There is a woman dressed in a nightgown that appears usually around 12am at the top of the bridge and hitches a ride with oncoming cars. One semi truck had his story printed in the paper where he said he picked up a young woman, dripping wet and she told him to drop her off on other side of bridge but as soon as he got there, she was gone. There were many sightings of this woman on the bridge who locals believe was a suicide victim, one of many jumpers on the bridge. The Skyway Bridge is 200 feet tall and connects St. Petersburg to Sarasota. - May 2004 Correction: This is a correction to the story already listed. a long time resident of St. Petersburg and knows for a fact that the spectral hitchhiker of the Skyway is not male, but instead female. She is a young blonde woman who has been seen wearing a tight t-shirt and jeans. I have never heard of a male hitchhiker who disappears after being picked up. In addition, they have never heard of the woman in a nightgown, only of the woman in the t-shirt/jeans.
St. Petersburg - Royal Palms Apartments - Residents have reported feeling a tugging on their pillow, a very hard tugging. Felt like the pillow would come out from underneath their head. Seeing a man standing by their beds, being paralyzed, as well as strange incidents with water coming from no where.
St. Petersburg - Rutland Manor - October 2004 UPDATE: This is now private property. NO TRESPASSING - around the 1950s a servant was taking a bath when her radio fell in and killed her. also, prior to that event, a murder was committed inside the estate. footsteps can be heard inside house, along with lights and faces in the windows on several accounts during the late evening to early morning.
St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg High School - This school is said to be haunted by students that have had some tragic death while attending the school. Teachers and students have said to hear strange noises and sightings of strange movements on the third floor of the main buildings. Some of the late night workers have even said to have seen hauntings in the auditorium where the old gym use to be.
St. Petersburg - Vinoy Hotel - A Major league ball player stated that he was visited at night by a spirit that; While asleep in his room, someone pressed on his back and awakened him. At which time he looked at a man in a top hat and long coat standing beside his bed. When he refocused his vision, the man was still there. He rolled over to turn on the over head light, and when he turned around, the man was gone. He stated this actually happened and has several major league ballplayers say the same thing happened to them while staying at the Vinoy hotel.
St. Petersburg - Weeden Island - Reported 4 men in a vehicle where driving on a road, the driver almost hit a woman in the road, swerved and got killed, the 3 other passengers witnessed the event coming out of the wreck unscathed, the woman was never found.
Sunnyside - Sunnyside House - Just a flat out, freaky place. Not known if anyone lives there. But green lantern like lights has been seen inside.
Tallahassee - Florida State University - Teenage cadets of the famed West Florida Cadet Battalion. Still drill on the ROTC parade ground on the campus where they once drilled during the civil war.There have been numerous reports of electricity going off in individual rooms during showers. When the person gets out of the shower to investigage, the lights mysteriously turn back on and the mirror appears fogged up with the letters "TB" drawn out on it. Another incident involves a nude, hairy, figure appearing next to women walking on the outskirts of campus in the late evening hours, usually just before midnight.
Tallahassee - Florida State University - Cawthon Hall Dormitory- According to a story reported in the University newspaper, The Florida Flambeau during the summer of 1971, numerous students have related encounters over the years with a poltergeist in an old dormitory. According to the report, several years prior to the University's becoming coed in 1949, a female student was sunbathing on a balcony on the roof of the shadowy gothic building. As is typical in Florida, a sudden and particularly violent thunderstorm arose to the east of the building, and welled up ominously over the campus. Although the sky directly above the dormitory was blue, a freak lightning bolt snaked across the sky, curling over the building's turrets striking a sunbathing female student, killing her instantly. Since that time, subsequent occupants of the room she occupied have reported mysterious object movements, unexplained sounds in the room at night, and at times an overwhelming sense of another individual present in the room. Sometimes students would find that common items, such as stacks of books or pictures, would be moved around during the day, with no apparent rhyme or reason, other than perhaps a restless spirit seeking to maintain her link with the world of the living.
Tallahassee - Florida State University - The head master's building - An apparition of a young woman is said to be seen walking around the halls at night.
Tallahassee - Jefferson Correctional Institution - Inmates and guards all report late at night you can see in the dorms kids playing and, One night a girl thought that the officer was tapping her to get up and then when she looked up there was no one there this went on for a month or so. Found out it happened to others in the dorm as well. Another inmate also saw a big 8 foot angel in dorm g. officers said they heard keys hit the bars in lock up when there was no one there and a little girl haunts lock up crows sits outside. Reports of a man on a horse outside at night. The prison was built on a graveyard.
Tallahassee - Leon County Jail - The new Leon County Jail was constructed in the early 1990's. It was built on the same location that the old jail was built. (Ted Bundy was housed there for some time.) According to locals, the site it is built on is an air field. Corrections Officers and medical staff claim to have seen a woman in period clothing walking the halls crying, late at night, in the medical department. Also shadows seen and the feeling of not being alone.
Tallahassee - The Lively Building - The Lively Building, located at the SW corner of Monroe Street and College Avenue, was the location of The Leon Bar. It operated from 1892 to 1904, and was a gathering spot for the roughest sort of element. Many shootings occurred there, as well as murders. The City passed an ordinance in 1904 that outlawed the sale of alcohol within the city limits, effectively putting The Leon out of business. Today, there is rumor that some of the "Crackers" (slang for the cowboys who frequented the bar, so named for the whips they used to corral the cattle) are still hanging around the corner where The Leon was once located.
Tallahassee - Oak Lawn Cemetery - A man by the last name of Phillips built a 20ft Mausoleum for himself so that he could go there to die. He also placed a Cherry Wood coffin in it and gave a friend a key to close it up after he died. People have reported feeling eerie feelings after leaving this site.
Tallahassee - Oshman's Supersports - It is believed that a ghost haunts this building. There have been numerous unusual occurrences such as motion sensors going off when no one is around, shoe boxes being thrown to the ground, and other flying objects during non business hours.
Tallahassee - Sunnyland Hospital - It used to be a hospital for people with T.B, back when there was no immunization, and people would go crazy. Then it became a hospital for mentally insane people or mentally challenged people that families didn't want to take care of. It was closed down several years ago (at least 15) . The place has had all the windows and doors busted out, but beds still remain made with hospital paraphernalia lying around. The weirdest thing is that the third floor - (some say it is the fourth floor) - has always remained locked and no one has ever been able to get in there. If you go to the hospital late at night you can here shuffling and whispering coming from up there. And the sound of things being dropped .
Update: Has recently been condemned
Tallahassee - Tallahassee Community College - Reports of a strange light that moves around in circles.
Tallahassee - The old mental hospital - is rumored to be haunted. Apparently, many of the residents were not treated properly and some even died. Although the hospital has been closed for years, curious ones who drive by claim to see lights on inside and people looking out the windows then disappear.
Tallahassee - Velda Mound Park - Old Indian Village. Sometimes at night, you can see visions of Indian’s keeping warm by a fire, but in a split second, they're gone. There is sometimes said that there is a white wolf that glows that can be seen there, and neighbors often say that they can hear it howling throughout the night.
Tampa - Britton Cinema - Doors in the ladies room are reported to shut and lock and toilets flush when no one is in the restroom is in there (except for the frightened customer). Also, multiple ghosts have been reported by managers past in the upstairs theaters that used to be one large balcony. Voices have been heard in the hall near auditorium #5 late at night when no one was in the building. An usher once heard someone call his name in auditorium #3 late at night when no one was around. And, last, an assistant manager once told me she had been followed up the hall by a shadow figure on the wall that was not hers.
Tampa - Howard W. Blake High School - Auditorium - Years ago a teacher died in the auditorium (area 1) of a heart attack during a pep rally. A cold spot can be felt while walking into the auditorium for every pep rally.
Tampa - Howard W. Blake High School - Library - the library where another teacher died. Near the tables in the back of the library you can feel a strange chill rise up your spine.
Tampa - Howard W. Blake High School - Main Theatre - To roll with the typical "all theatres have their ghosts" you can see strange lights in the wings, music, and occasional whistling. Things seem to go wrong during every show staged in that theatre.
Tampa - Falk Theatre - Believed to be haunted by Bessie Snavely. In her time, it was the Park Theatre. Bessie Snavely was an actress whose dressing room was on the third floor of this theatre. She hung herself there.
Tampa - Old Tampa Theater - It is an old theater that is very intricately detailed inside and has a particularly haunted look to it anyway. A young man in the 1940's started working there, his job running the projector. He loved his job and continued to work there until his death. Now employees have said that they occasionally hear footsteps and chains in deserted hallways behind the stage and have spotted someone in the projecting room even though there was no one up there at the time. Also reports of smell rancid smells, such as vomit and garbage, drafts of icy air, reports of something grabbing workers by the neck.
Tampa - University of Tampa - This place used to be a hotel over a hundred years ago. Theodore Roosevelt even stayed in it once. The second floor is blocked off and said to be unsafe because of age. Tour guides report seeing apparitions from the windows outside.
Tampa - University of Tampa - Frank Theater - A building owned by the University, actually off campus called the Falk theater is said to be haunted by a women who used to be an actress there. For some reason she hung herself and her apparition has been seen as well as strange voices.
Tarpon Springa - Brooker Creek Elementary - There has been ghosts looking like he is jumping off the balcony.
Tarpon Springs - Former winter home of Al Capone- The "Manors"-Known for hundreds of sightings. Screams in the dead of night. Faces appearing in windows. Also known for women in white, on roof looking over the edge. - December 2003 update/addition: this building has been torn down. about a month ago only the bottom floor of the entire building was left now it appears to be cleared ground.
Titusville - Emma Parrish Theater - As entering the attic noises have been heard while no one else is in the building
Treasure Island - The bridge at John's Pass - reported to be haunted by the spirits of two farmers who were pro-union during the Civil War. They were murdered by local rebel militiamen and buried on the south end at the mouth of the pass. On nights of the new moon, some have seen the two walking near the bridge or even silently sailing by in their boat trying to return home, some say the rotten stench of decaying flesh accompanies the apparitions.
Umatilla - Stanna's Restaurant - In the early 1900's, a young woman hanged herself on the third floor above the restaurant. Several workers and customers have had experiences with her ghost. People have claimed to see shadows of her in a long dress and wicker baskets falling off the women's bathroom wall. Several customers have complained of cold spots and strange laughing accompanied by piano playing.
Umatilla - Umatilla Cemetery - The Umatilla Cemetery in the city of Umatilla. Many people have heard strange noises and sometimes what sounds like the faint sound of a woman screaming. Other times You will hear what sounds like a woman’s voice calling for help. Many orb and ecto pictures have been taken in that cemetery. Sometimes You just plain get an eerie feeling when in the Umatilla Cemetery. There are four cemeteries that are either in or around the city of Umatilla. Well actually only two of them are really in the city limits but the one spoken of is located off Golden Gem road in Umatilla. The cemetery is on either side of the street but most of the activity seems to come from the older section in the back. The newer section of the cemetery is on a hill that goes down to a lake the older section where most of the activity is reported is surrounded by orange groves on all three side of it. This can certainly be verified by quite a few people. NOTE: it is not a good idea for inexperienced ghost hunters or kids looking for a cheap thrill to go there at night. The Spirit(s) that are hear are not benevolent, and it could be dangerous. You should have experience and have permission to be in there after hours as we did but even then it is advise them to be cautious.
Venice - Pelican Alley Restaurant - Believed to be haunted by the previous owner, staff members hear foot steps, feel odd presences, watch the door open and close by itself and thing move around by themselves.
Wauchula - Popash School - Located on SR 64, this condemned school building has been known to have sounds of children playing in it when no one is in it. People have also been spotted in the windows.
West Palm Beach - Burger King - a young man haunts this store. He has been seen by numerous employees.
West Palm Beach - Our Lady Queen of Peace Cemetery - Strange fogs have been reported, described as looking like individual strands of something moving within the fog. Appearing and disappearing. The mist seems to form in to something, very dense. You could see it moving all different directions. Noticeable temperature change, uneasy feelings, and feelings of felt like someone was right behind you. Then it feels like whatever it this is trying to grab your arm. upon developing the film one of the pictures one witness took had an orb in it. only taken 4 pictures that night and the one picture that had an orb in it was the picture taken right by this grave. The orb is located right next to the flower arrangement.
West Palm Beach - Palm Beach Atlantic University - The library, built many years ago is claimed to be haunted by an old janitor. He worked there for many years and then mysteriously disappeared. He is claimed to be heard rummaging through the old janitors closet that has been locked up ever since the day of his odd disappearance.
West Palm Beach - St. Juliana Catholic School - The walls rattle during school and especially at night.
Williston - A small old cemetery - A historian going there to do research felt "a very alarming wave of panic while in the cemetery." She fled and never returned.
Winter Garden - Dead Man's Tree - A figure of a man can be seen hanging from the tree occupancies by a chill in the air.
Winter Haven - JPV Woods - Every 13th of August it is said that when you go into the woods and walk along the old dirt trail, about 11:30 to 12:30 you can hear children screaming and crying for help and the little hairs on the back of your neck will rise without intention.
Winter Haven - Scotty's Distribution Center - There was said to be a man of Brian Foreman who once worked there as a forklift driver. Workers say that his head was completely amputated by a forklift because of the mistake done by a trainee. The trainee continued to work there but mysteriously disappeared. It is said that you can see a headless man driving a forklift every 4th of March.
Winter Park - Alabama Hotel - Built when Winter Park was founded, several guests were murdered on opening night. They have been seen walking the halls and blamed for murders that occurred in the fifties. It has been abandoned until 1998, when it was converted into a personal mansion.
Winter Park - Annie Russell Theatre - Annie Russell is widely believed to haunt this theatre named for her in the early 1930's. She was a teacher and director at Rollins College. She has been seen and even spoken to by numerous people. There are stories of former students who had encounters with Annie while working in the theatre on audition pieces, sets, or lights. One story in particular that sticks in my mind is there was a guy who was working alone in the theatre on the light grid. Suddenly he fell off the ladder. He was all alone in the theatre and lay there for a few minutes. Someone came in a few minutes later and saw him laying there. The person immediately went to call an ambulance and was told that they had already been called and one was on it way. A minute later, an ambulance appeared and took the injured boy to the hospital. There was no one in the theatre when that boy was initially injured. There have been other stories of people seeing Annie's statue (a bust of her head) moving across the theatre. Also, Annie had a seat that she always sat in when she watched rehearsals- that seat has often been heard banging up and down, pulled down when no one was sitting in it, and clapping has been heard coming from that area of the theatre.
Winter Park - Rollins College - Ann Russell Theater - Ghost of Anne Russell comes out sometimes during rehearsals. She has been seen sitting in prop rocking chair or seeing her walking around at night wearing a purple dress. There have also been reports of ghosts appearing in the theater balcony.
Winter Springs - Tuskawilla Country Club - Every Last Friday of the month, there is a young male, about 22 years old who can be seen cleaning the bar table. No one knows who he could have been, or why he was there. But there have been witnesses that say he tries to attack the people that see him.