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Newberry, Florida
Newberry Cemetery dates to at least 1849 and holds more than 1,000 burials across its larger East Side and smaller Black Cemetery sections.…
Alachua, Florida
At Newnansville Cemetery, visitors describe ghostly figures walking through the grounds at night, though these remain unverified local…
Tallahassee, Florida
Visitors describe an uneasy, eerie feeling after leaving the Phillips Mausoleum at Oakland Cemetery, and some say the presence of Calvin C.…
Marion County, Florida
Ocala National Forest is home to the "Dark Man," a modern Florida legend describing a tall, shadowy figure in a long, hooded coat seen…
Key West, Florida
Built in 1981 on a Key West pier site with its own long history — an 1830s dock, Civil War and Spanish-American War naval use, and decades…
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine's 1821 yellow fever epidemic, which struck within weeks of the United States taking control of Florida, filled the mass…
Bartow, Florida
Completed in 1909 and now home to the Polk County Historical Museum, the old courthouse stands on the same plot where, in 1886, the bodies…
St. Augustine, Florida
Built in 1891 at Henry Flagler's expense — he wanted the county's old jail out of sight of his luxury Ponce de Leon Hotel — the Old Jail…
Fernandina Beach, Florida
The old Nassau County Jail, now home to the Amelia Island Museum of History, is tied to local legend about a pirate hanged on gallows once…
Marco Island, Florida
Captain Bill opened this inn in 1896, and it has operated as a hotel and restaurant on Marco Island ever since. Guests and staff describe…
Olustee, Florida
At Olustee Battlefield, visitors and Civil War reenactors describe orbs and the apparitions of soldiers on the battlefield, especially…
Pensacola, Florida
The Daughters of Charity, a Catholic religious order, spent over $400,000 building this late Gothic Revival hospital, designed by…
Royal Palm Beach, Florida
Consecrated in 1974 by then-Miami Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll on land the Archdiocese had purchased two years earlier, Our Lady Queen of…
West Palm Beach, Florida
The university library is said to be haunted by a former janitor who worked there for years before mysteriously disappearing without a…
Nokomis, Florida
This waterfront restaurant sits in a building dating to 1903, when the Chadwick family built a fish house here for their mullet business,…
Pensacola, Florida
Perched on Pensacola's Naval Air Station, this 160-year-old lighthouse has been called one of the most haunted in America by the Travel…
West Palm Beach, Florida
The Riddle House was built in 1905 as the gatekeeper's cottage for Woodlawn Cemetery in West Palm Beach, later served as a funeral parlor…
Tarpon Springs, Florida
Rose Cemetery, established in the early 1900s, is the oldest African American cemetery in Pinellas County, created during segregation when…
Orlando, Florida
The ghost of Benjamin Miles, a local settler said to have died in the 1840s and buried here in an unmarked grave, is reported as a shadowy…
Safety Harbor, Florida
Founded in 1925 around the natural mineral springs the Tocobaga people fished and bathed in for centuries before European contact — later…
St. Leo, Florida
Founded in 1889 as Florida's first Catholic institution of higher education and opening its doors the following year, Saint Leo University…
Palatka, Florida
Congregants describe the ghost of an elderly former member still shuffling up the church aisle just as he did in life, and, in the nursery,…
Ocala, Florida
The Seven Sisters Inn is a bed and breakfast in the Ocala Historic District, made up of two Victorian houses, one painted purple and one…
Pensacola, Florida
Seville Quarter has occupied this Government Street block since 1871, when the main building housed the Pensacola Cigar and Tobacco Co.;…