Trapper Nelson's Camp (Jonathan Dickinson State Park)

At Trapper Nelson's camp, visitors describe a feeling of being watched near the restrooms, and his apparition has been reported waving from the docks and near the pavilion where he died. Vincent Nostokovich, who went by Trapper Nelson, homesteaded on the banks of the Loxahatchee River in the 1930s, trapping and selling furs and earning the nickname the Wildman of the Loxahatchee. His stepbrother's 1931 shooting of a friend, which Nelson testified against him for, sent him into a depression and a deepening paranoia about the government that lasted the rest of his life; in 1968 a friend checking on him found him dead of a shotgun wound to the stomach, ruled a suicide by the coroner, though many locals suspected foul play. The state purchased his 857-acre homestead for the park in 1970.