119 places found

Apalachicola, Florida
Built in 1907 as The Franklin Hotel and renamed the Gibson Inn when sisters Annie Gibson Hayes and Mary Ellen "Sunshine" Gibson bought it…

Pensacola, Florida
The Gray House on Alcaniz Street faces the Dorr House across Seville Square and has been part of Pensacola's ghost-tour lore for…

Orlando, Florida
Established in 1880, Greenwood Cemetery is Orlando's oldest burial ground, now covering more than 80 acres and holding the graves of many…

Sebring, Florida
Harder Hall opened in 1927 on the shore of Lake Jackson, one of the finest hotels built in South Central Florida during the 1920s land boom…

Melbourne, Florida
Built in 1919 as the Melbourne School and opened to students in 1920, this Neoclassical building was renamed in 1963 for Ruth Henegar, a…

Micanopy, Florida
At the Herlong Mansion, guests and investigators describe doors, including Inez's own, opening and closing on their own, footsteps on the…

Brooksville, Florida
Atlanta architect William Augustus Edwards designed this Beaux Arts courthouse, built in 1913. Local account holds that a prisoner once…

Brooksville, Florida
Built starting in 1855 by John May for his wife Marena and their daughters, this four-story Victorian became the home of Marena's second…

Apopka, Florida
Built by the Eldredge family in 1903 and moved to the corner of US 441 and SR 436 in 1985 after facing demolition, this mansion now…

Hollywood, Florida
Opened in 1925, this 500-room hotel was a favorite getaway for Al Capone and his associates escaping Chicago winters and the heat of the…

St. Augustine, Florida
Visitors to Huguenot Cemetery report cold spots, orbs in photographs and full apparitions. The best-known ghost is Judge John B. Stickney,…

St. Cloud, Florida
At the Hunter Arms Hotel, a spirit guests and staff call Vivian is said to welcome visitors, with reports of strange noises, sudden…

Fort Pierce, Florida
Students and staff at the college's McAlpin Theater describe a tall, lanky figure they call Lenny, often glimpsed in a bluish mist near the…

Jupiter, Florida
First illuminated on July 10, 1860, the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse went dark for most of the Civil War after assistant keeper Augustus Lang…

Sarasota, Florida
The Keating Center at Ringling College of Art and Design was originally the Spanish Mission-Revival Bay Haven Hotel, built in 1925; circus…

Key West, Florida
Key West Cemetery is a 19-acre city cemetery, established in 1847 after an 1846 hurricane washed bodies out of the island's earlier burial…

Key West, Florida
The first Key West lighthouse, built in 1825, was destroyed in the Great Havana Hurricane of 1846, which killed 14 people who had taken…

Lake Worth, Florida
Brothers Clarence and Lucien Oakley built this movie palace and vaudeville house in 1924, installing a $10,000 Wurlitzer pipe organ; the…

Quincy, Florida
Built in 1949 and named for the economic importance of shade tobacco to the community, the Leaf Theater opened with a grand premiere hosted…

Orlando, Florida
At the Leu House, visitors on guided tours describe apparitions of Harry and Mary Jane Leu, the house's later owners,, most often seen on…

Longwood, Florida
Built in 1885 and also known as the St. George Hotel and Longwood Village Inn, the Longwood Hotel has served over the decades as a gambling…

Ocklawaha, Florida
At the Ma Barker house, visitors and staff describe occasionally glimpsing Ma Barker's presence on the property. FBI agents surrounded this…

Sanford, Florida
Sanford architect Elton Moughton designed this hotel on Lake Monroe for Sanford's own mayor, Forrest Lake, who commissioned it for roughly…

Milton, Florida
Milton Benevolent Cemetery traces back to 1844, when James R. Riley bought the land that would become it, four blocks from what's now…