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Where the Spirits Linger ⚰️🕸️🏰🕯️ Florida Edition
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items Forever chasing spooky energy 👻✨ This list features haunted places I’ve personally explored, perfect for fellow ghost-curious witches!
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This Venetian-inspired mansion, built in 1926 for circus magnate John Ringling and his wife Mable, was filled with lavish parties and grandeur, but tragedy followed, with Mable and John dying within a decade. Today, visitors report cold spots, shadow...
Ca' d'Zan - The Ringling Sarasota
Built in 1883 as Florida’s oldest continuously operating hotel, the Lakeside Inn has welcomed guests for nearly 150 years. Beyond its historic charm, local lore whispers of lingering spirits: guests and staff report seeing two young girls in period d...
The Lakeside Inn - Mount Dora
Since the 1870s, the St. Augustine Lighthouse has guided ships for nearly 150 years. But its history is steeped in tragedy and lingering energy. During construction, several children tragically drowned, and over the decades visitors and staff have re...
St. Augustine Lighthouse 🚢
Built in 1916 and again in 1917 after a fire, as El Círculo Cubano, this landmark served as a mutual aid society and social hub for Cuban immigrants, complete with a theater, ballroom, and pool. Tragedy followed over the years: stories of a child dr...
The Cuban Club - Ybor City
Once a colonial hospital where soldiers and settlers endured harsh conditions, this historic site is said to still carry the echoes of its past. Visitors report cold spots, shadowy figures in old hospital gowns, unexplained footsteps, and distant cri...
Spanish Military Hospital Museum - St. Augustine 🏥
This 17th‑century coquina fort has seen centuries of warfare, imprisonment, and death, and its heavy walls seem to hold every story. Visitors report cold spots, phantom footsteps, shadowy Spanish soldiers on the ramparts, and disembodied voices echoi...
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument - St. Augustine
Opened in 1903, this is a very small cemetery. I have visited it many times but the first time was my most profound. I remember walking in and talking with my friend. She mentioned that we need to be careful not to bring anyone back with us and I sai...
Rosemary Cemetery - Sarasota
Cassadaga, Florida, a town founded in 1894 as a center for Spiritualism. The original hotel burned down in the mid-1920s, and the current building was rebuilt soon after to serve visitors seeking spiritual retreats and mediumship. Today, the hotel is...
I will say that I was repelled by this place instantly. I was dizzy, nauseas and felt extremely unwelcome. I left immediatly. There is definite energy lingering there. Whatever it was didn't like me LOL
I will say that I was repelled by this place instantly. I was dizzy, nauseas and felt extremely unwelcome. I left immediatly. There is definite energy lingering there. Whatever it was didn't like me LOL
Hotel Cassadaga - Cassadaga
This beloved pirate‑themed bar and restaurant in historic Ybor City celebrates the legend of José Gaspar and Tampa’s Gasparilla lore, but it’s also become part of local haunted chatter. Patrons and staff report apparitions caught in photos hanging on...
Gaspar's Grotto - Ybor City
This Queen Anne–style Victorian home was built in 1893 by town founder and Mount Dora’s first mayor, John P. Donnelly, for his wife Annie. Now owned by the Freemasons, the house has become a staple of local ghost tours and paranormal investigations. ...
John P. Donnelly House - Mount Dora