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Explore 60 haunted places in Florida. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Pensacola Beach, Florida · Other
HauntedPlaces.org associates Fort Pickens with figures interpreted as former Apache prisoners. Its community reports also describe unseen touches, voices and unusual lights in the batteries. One visitor recalls a transparent, long-haired figure in a dark corridor; another reports a metal door repeatedly slamming when no one else seemed nearby.
Brooksville, Florida · Historic house
In a HauntedPlaces.org account submitted by Callum Swift, a spectral bride and groom are associated with the Frank Saxon House. Another reported apparition is a little girl seen in the drawing room. The account connects these sightings to the old house’s ghost-tour reputation, rather than identifying the figures through verified biographies or a documented tragedy.
Merritt Island, Florida · Cemetery
At a little Merritt Island graveyard, the story of Ethel Allen has become part of the region’s unsettling collection of lost-soul legends.
Apalachicola, Florida · Hotel
HauntTracker recounts the Gibson Inn’s story of Captain Wood, a sailor said to have died after becoming ill ashore. His ghost reportedly rearranges shoes or tucks sleeping guests into bed. A second figure, a woman in a long gray dress with her hair in a bun, is identified in local lore as former owner “Sunshine” Gibson. Calls from empty rooms and an inactive kitchen telephone round out the hotel’s reported disturbances.
Pensacola, Florida · Historic house
HauntedPlaces.org names the Gray House’s supposed resident as sea captain Thomas Moristo. Witnesses are said to see his figure through the windows, while occupants report appliances switching themselves on or off. Paint cans and other possessions allegedly move without an explanation. The haunting centers on a persistent household presence rather than a single dramatic encounter.
Lake City, Florida · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org records footsteps and voices from the old hotel, including sounds resembling children at play. Doors allegedly swing open or shut by themselves. The account particularly associates the reports with the formerly unoccupied upper floor, imagining an unseen population continuing its everyday activities after the building’s hotel business had ended.
DeFuniak Springs, Florida · Hotel
Callum Swift’s HauntedPlaces.org submission places the hotel’s best-known stories in the upstairs Aviary Room, numbered 008 in the account. Housekeepers and guests reportedly encounter two ghostly children there. A lamp is also said to shift around the suite without being carried, giving the story an unusually specific room and object.
St. Augustine, Florida · Cemetery
HauntedPlaces.org recounts several versions of Elizabeth’s legend. In one she is the daughter of a guard at the city gate, still greeting people; in another she is a young victim of the yellow-fever epidemic of 1821. Her supposed appearances link the cemetery entrance and neighboring gate, so these variants should not be counted as separate haunted places.
Cedar Key, Florida · Hotel
The Island Hotel’s own ghost page describes former owner Bessie Gibbs continuing to supervise the building: rearranging furniture and pictures, shutting doors, and occasionally locking guests outside their rooms. Another hotel story places a Confederate soldier at the balcony doors around dawn. The hotel presents these figures as part of its local ghost tradition, with Room 29 particularly associated with Gibbs, rather than as verified historical encounters.
Valrico, Florida · Theater
The former civic-center building has a haunting reputation recorded by HauntedPlaces.org: people describe figures appearing inside and sounds without an obvious source. The account also recalls paranormal groups using ghost tours as restoration or theater fundraisers. It does not identify a named ghost, but locates the reported experiences in this particular early-twentieth-century performance building.
Sebring, Florida · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org recounts a guest kept awake by voices outside his room who later learned he had been alone on that floor. The same account describes the sensation of someone joining him in bed. Other stories feature self-moving doors, unease on the stairs, and sightings attributed to former manager George Parker.
St. Augustine, Florida · Hotel
The name Raymond belongs to the Kenwood Inn’s best-known ghost in HauntedPlaces.org’s account. The inn is said to have several lingering presences, with rooms 7, 9 and 10 singled out in local storytelling. The account links its reputation with the city’s ghost walks but gives no confirmed identity or biography for Raymond.
Key West, Florida · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org recounts a New Year’s Eve elevator accident whose victim supposedly remains around the elevator and fifth floor. A separate bar legend describes wine glasses being tugged away by an unseen presence, interpreted as a deceased patron wanting another drink. These are reported hotel stories, not independently verified accounts of the deaths.
Lake Worth Beach, Florida · Theater
HauntedPlaces.org attributes the playhouse’s resident ghost to Lucien Oakley, one of the brothers who built the theater. People report glimpsing his likeness in mirrors and hearing someone walking on an empty catwalk. Objects are also said to change position, creating a backstage haunting linked to a founder who supposedly never left.
Ocklawaha, Florida · Historic house
The lakefront house where Ma Barker and her son Fred died in a confrontation with federal agents has its own ghost tradition. HauntedPlaces.org reports that the Barkers’ spirits are believed to remain there. The story ties the haunting to the preserved domestic setting of the notorious shootout, rather than to a separately identified apparition elsewhere in town.
Brooksville, Florida · Historic house
In Spectrum Bay News 9’s report, paranormal researcher and guide Jesse Lisk associates the nursery with Jessie Mae, a child who died at three, and her mother. Lisk describes recorded anomalies including a kitchen-cabinet latch opening without assistance. Photographs showing unexpected shadows and humanlike shapes are also part of the museum’s ghost-tour storytelling.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida · Other
A HauntedPlaces.org submission by Callum Swift describes three residents of the old inn: a rancher-dressed man who patrols the porch and disappears when approached, former owner P. N. Bryan watching from upstairs, and a sociable little girl in period clothing. The girl supposedly talks or plays with visitors before vanishing, giving the building a gentler haunting alongside its watchful figures.
St. Augustine, Florida · Prison
HauntedPlaces.org describes an auditory haunting inside St. Augustine’s Old Jail: footsteps, singing, shouting and distressed cries are reportedly heard without a visible source. Other accounts mention an unexplained sweet odor and the barking of dogs, interpreted locally as the sheriff’s former guard dogs. These stories are attached to the prison’s harsh conditions and executions.
Arcadia, Florida · Theater
A worker’s story in HauntedPlaces.org describes hearing a crowd in the old auditorium, then finding it empty on inspection. Children’s laughter and footsteps are also reported. A young girl has supposedly appeared in a second-floor corner window, making the building’s haunting a mixture of phantom audiences and a childlike presence.
Fernandina Beach, Florida · Other
Uncle Charlie, a long-serving bartender who also lived at the Palace, is its most active ghost in HauntedPlaces.org’s account. The story says he remained after his death in 1960. His signature manifestation is music from an old piano whose keys are covered, suggesting to tellers that the familiar bartender still entertains the room.
Pensacola, Florida · Other
HauntedPlaces.org records cold patches and a presence associated with a former keeper. Community accounts add more specific encounters: hair being pulled, an empty rocking chair moving, and a basement blackout after a visitor addressed a supposed spirit by name. The reports focus on the keeper’s quarters as well as the tower.
Daytona Beach, Florida · Cemetery
HauntedPlaces.org records two figures at Pinewood: an unidentified woman and a headless apparition. Local rumor attaches the latter to Adler Rawlings and an alleged desecration of his grave. The account presents the damaged burial as the explanation people give for the ghost’s appearance, not as independently established cemetery history.
Tampa, Florida · Other
HauntedPlaces.org places spirits identified as former Tampa Bay Hotel servants in Plant Hall’s Science Wing. Witnesses describe feeling watched and seeing figures after normal hours. The account also recounts a pair of former fraternity members supposedly leaving Greek letters on an office door, adding a campus-era story to the older hotel tradition.
Titusville, Florida · Historic house
HauntedPlaces.org identifies Miss Lovie, or Lola Pauline Smith Pritchard, among the family members said to remain in their old home. The reported activity includes voices with no visible speaker and lights switching themselves on. A grandfather clock allegedly sounds even when its mechanism is not running, an especially distinctive detail in the house’s folklore.