Titles in the America’s Haunted Road Trip Series:
Ghosthunting Kentucky
Ghosthunting Illinois
Ghosthunting Maryland
Ghosthunting New Jersey
Ghosthunting New York City
Ghosthunting Ohio
Ghosthunting Pennsylvania
Ghosthunting Texas
Ghosthunting Virginia
Also of interest:
Cincinnati Haunted Handbook
Haunted Hoosier Trails
More Haunted Hoosier Trails
Ghosthunting Florida
COPYRIGHT © 2010 by Dave Lapham
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any fashion, print, facsimile, or electronic, or by any method yet to be developed, without the express permission of the copyright holder.
Published by Clerisy Press
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Printed in the United States of America
First edition, first printing
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lapham, Dave, 1939–
Ghosthunting Florida / Dave Lapham.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57860-450-0
ISBN-10: 1-57860-450-8
1. Haunted places—Florida. 2. Ghosts—Florida. I. Title.
BF1472.U6L373 2010
133.109759—dc22
2010020569
Editor: John Kachuba
Cover design: Scott McGrew
Cover and interior photos provided by Dave Lapham
unless otherwise credited.
Clerisy Press
PO Box 8874
Cincinnati, OH 45208-0874
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome to America’s Haunted Road Trip
Introduction
THE KEYS AND THE SOUTH
1 La Concha Key West
2 Hard Rock Café Key West
3 Captain Tony’s Saloon Key West
4 Audubon House & Tropical Gardens Key West
Spotlight on Chokoloskee
5 Marrero’s Guest Mansion Key West
Spotlight on the Everglades
6 Historic Biltmore Hotel of Coral Gables Miami
Spotlight on Miami River Inn
7 The Colony Hotel & Cabaña Club Delray Beach
8 Riddle House West Palm Beach
Spotlight on Coral Castle
9 Arcadia’s Old Opera House & Museum Arcadia
WEST CENTRAL
10 Redhawk Ranch Wimauma
Spotlight on Indian Spring Cemetery
11 King Corona Cigars Café & Bar Ybor City
12 Don CeSar Beach Resort Hotel St. Petersburg Beach
Spolight on Island Hotel
13 Tampa Theatre Tampa
14 May-Stringer House Brooksville
15 A Antique Mall Reddick
EAST CENTRAL
16 Orange County Regional History Center Orlando
17 Longwood Village Inn Longwood
Spotlight on Cassadaga
18 Page Jackson Cemetery Sanford
Spotlight on Lake Mary
19 Pinewood Cemetery Daytona Beach
Spotlight on Ponce Inlet Lighthouse
NORTH
20 The Spanish Military Hospital St. Augustine
21 Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum St. Augustine
Spotlight on Wellborn
22 Homestead Restaurant Jacksonville Beach
23 The Amelia Island Williams House Fernandina Beach
24 Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park Olustee
THE PANHANDLE
25 Palmer House Monticello
26 Knott House Museum Tallahassee
27 Leaf Theatre Quincy
28 Coombs House Inn Apalachicola
29 Pensacola Victorian Bed-and-Breakfast Pensacola
Spotlight on Old Christ Church
30 Seville Quarter Pensacola
31 Pensacola Lighthouse Pensacola
Ghosthunting Travel Guide
Ghostly Resources
More Florida Haunts
Acknowledgments
