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0Harder Hall
Sebring, Florida
16.2 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Built in the 1920s, urban legend states that every owner of this hotel has died under "strange circumstances" - often within the limits of the property. And we wouldn't want the facts to get in the way of a good story. Other ghost stories abound of former visitors ...
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0Kenilworth Lodge
Sebring, Florida
17.1 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
There are a number of ghost stories surrounding this building, which dates back to 1916. Eerie feelings are reported on the staircase, and doors have been seen opening and closing entirely on their own. One guest heard voices outside his door throughout the night, and when he complained ...
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Central Fire Station
Sebring, Florida
17.8 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Forrest Howard, Sebring's fire chief in the 1940s and 1950s, is said to still roam the halls of his favorite fire station. Modern day firefighters swear they see him in the bunk area, and they occasionally smell faint scents of his much-beloved cigars.
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Arbuckle Creek Bridge
Lorida, Florida
19.9 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Legend has it that an old woman, one who was knowledgable with potions and healing, used to live nearby, and her spirit still haunts the bridge. So the tales say, the woman was hired to make a love potion, for which her payment was to be the client's first-born child. ...
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The Mailman of Avon Park
Avon Park, Florida
25.2 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
There have been persistent claims of seeing a ghostly mailman walking the streets near the intersection of Main Street and Lake Avenue, especially on foggy mornings. He disappears the moment you try to contact him.
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Old Blue House
Arcadia, Florida
27.8 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Numerous paranormal websites claim there's an "Old Blue House" in Arcadia, FL where an entire family haunts the place. They supposedly were murdered in the house more than a century ago (though some reports say a new house has been rebuilt over this one). We've been told this house has ...
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0Plaza Hotel
Arcadia, Florida
28 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
The restaurant on the ground floor of this 1925 building is supposedly haunted. Staff have reported the apparition of an African American woman in a white apron in the kitchen and dining room, as well as a pair of ghostly men who have been arguing after the establishment has ...
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Old Opera House
Arcadia, Florida
28 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Now a museum, with an antique shop as well, the Old Opera House in Arcadia has a number of weird goings-on. One worker tells of hearing the distinctive noise of a crowd in the old auditorium, but of course when she went to investigate, there was no one there. ...
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0Popash School
Zolfo Springs, Florida
28.7 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
This eerie abandoned school building stood on the outskirts of Wauchula for years and years before it was finally demolished in 2008. Before it was torn down it was a favorite place for ghost hunters, as the sounds of children playing were constantly heard in the area, even when ...
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The Fisherwoman of Lake Arcola
Avon Park, Florida
29.1 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Lake Arcola is no more - it dried up decades ago and is now mostly open fields with some water and a few small structures. And that's what makes it so weird that drivers on North Buckingham Road, which skirts the western edge of what used to be Lake ...
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Ghost Lights of Bereah Road
Fort Meade, Florida
31 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
You may have to wait for a while, but supposedly if you hang about at night near the four-way stop of W. Bereah Road and County Line Road in Frostproof, you'll see some eerie "Ghost Lights" approach your car.
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Bloody Bucket Bridge
Wauchula, Florida
31.4 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
This spooky story starts more than a century ago with a slave midwife who was concerned that parents were having more babies than they could support. She is said to have smothered many babies and buried their bodies near the bridge. After many babies were killed, the midwife began to ...
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Ghost Lights of Heard Bridge Road
Wauchula, Florida
33.6 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
People have been reporting ghost lights since the 1950s on Heard Bridge Road in Fort Meade, as well as on Keller road, past Disong. We've marked the Keller Road location on the map below.
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0The Old Bank
Okeechobee, Florida
35.2 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
These days the "Old Bank" is just a boarded up building (though in 2012 several murals were added to make it look a bit nicer), but back in the 1920s it was the pride of the town. Local legend has it that a member of the Ashley Gang (a ...
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0Webber International University - Camilla Hall
Babson Park, Florida
42.1 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Camilla Hall, one of the girls-only dormitories at Webber International University, supposedly has a shadowy figure haunting the second floor.
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0Hardee Correctional Institution
Bowling Green, Florida
44.3 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
There are vague reports of "voices" and a feeling like someone's walking just behind you at this correctional institution... though I'd venture to say its not uncommon to experience either in a high security prison!
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0Clewiston Inn
Clewiston, Florida
44.5 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Two rooms here are said to be especially haunted. Room 255 is said to be visited by Anita Conklin, a longtime inn resident who lived there with her husband, manager of the Miami Seaquarium. Ms. Conklin passed away in the room in 1994; her husband had passed away earlier. The ...
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Indian Spring Cemetery
Punta Gorda, Florida
44.6 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
This is one of the oldest cemeteries in the area - there's even a former Governor of Florida buried here, named Albert Gilchrist (d. 1926). Lots of activity is reported, including ghost lights, disembodied noises that sound like screaming and moaning, and shadow figures.
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Sandlin House
Punta Gorda, Florida
45.1 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
The Sandlin House has been advertised for sale for $1.59 million, and the ghost is included. The remodeled Victorian-style house is around 120 years old and is haunted by the spirit of then-owner James Sandlin's 14-year-old daughter Mary Leah, who in 1909 was ironing on the front porch and died ...
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0Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Port Charlotte, Florida
46.8 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
There is (or was) supposedly an old worn-down shack on the premises of this cemetery where people experienced cold spots, bad smells, and ghostly visions of a woman. There is also a peculiar phenomenon in the immediately-surrounding area that locals call the "Killer Bee Phenomenon"... people continually hear the ...
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0Spook Hill
Lake Wales, Florida
47.6 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Spook Hill is a gravity hill (an optical illusion where cars appear to roll up the spooky hill) in Lake Wales, Florida. Spook Hill is located on the Lake Wales Ridge, a geologically significant range of sand and limestone hills, which were islands from two to three million years ago, when ...
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First National Bank Building
Fort Myers, Florida
50.1 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
This 1914 granite building, one of the grandest in its time, was more recently used as a setting for the film "Day of the Dead." Seen in the opening credits, the building was spattered with blood and filled with zombie actors. But the place is said to have a real ...
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0The Stanford Inn
Bartow, Florida
52.3 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
A "noisy" apparition, believed to be a former owner named Lee Meriwether, is said to inhabit this quaint modern-day bed and breakfast. Doors also allegedly close on their own, and disembodied footsteps can be heard on the staircase. The Stanford Inn was featured the 1991 film "My Girl," starring Dan ...
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0Old Polk County Courthouse
Bartow, Florida
52.6 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
The Old Polk County Courthouse in Bartow was built in 1909 on the foundations of the original courthouse, which dated back to the early 1880s. There are many claims here, including: - Screams from the basement (supposedly from a worker killed in an explosion on the site) - Apparitions appearing on ...
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JPV Woods
Winter Haven, Florida
58.1 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Locals say if you go on the old dirt trail around midnight of August 13th, every year, you'll hear children screaming and crying for help.
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Rogers Cemetery / Antioch Cemetery
Placid Lakes, Florida
59.1 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
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Scotty's Distribution Center
Winter Haven, Florida
59.5 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
No longer a Scotty's Distribution Center, but back in the day there was supposedly the ghost of a forklift driver that would continually haunt this area - particularly on the 4th of March.
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Walgreens
Cape Coral, Florida
59.7 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Strange noises, movement in the stockroom, cooler door opening by itself. Items moved, a shelf falling down for no reason. (Submitted by Doris Goering)
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Fellsmere Town Hall
Fellsmere, Florida
61.2 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
The current town hall was formerly the local schoolhouse, and is rumoured to be haunted. Visitors to the building at night have heard strange noises, had their hair pulled and seen a shadowy apparition. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Koreshan State Historic Site
Estero, Florida
61.3 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
The ghost of Cyrus Teed and his followers are said to haunt this state park and museum, waiting for their leader to resurrect. In 1869, the Chicago doctor changed his name to Koresh and developed a new religion in which he was the Messiah. In 1894 Teed brought his followers ...
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Marian Fell Library
Fellsmere, Florida
61.4 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Paranormal investigators claim to have produced evidence of a haunting at this quaint library, named after the daughter of the original founder of the township. Activity reported includes orbs appearing in photographs, temperature drops and disembodied footsteps in unoccupied rooms. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Marsh Landing Restaurant
Fellsmere, Florida
61.4 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
The building was built around 1926, and previously housed the headquarters for a sugar company. Now a delightful restaurant specialising in local cuisine, the complex is believed to be haunted, and even has its own ghost tour dinners available to diners. Staff have reported sighting the apparition of a ...
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Devil's Tree of Oak Hammock Park
Port St. Lucie, Florida
61.6 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
In 1971, sheriff's deputy Gerard John Schaefer sexually assaulted and hanged two 19-year-old girls from an oak tree, then buried their bodies under it. The deputy returned for more unspeakable acts over the next 5 days. In 1977 the bodies were found by some fishermen. Local legend has it that ...
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The Hermitage
Englewood, Florida
63.1 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
This home, built around 1900, was a former nudist colony--but don't worry, we aren't dealing with a naked ghost here. Rumor has it that original builder, Swedish immigrant Carl Johanson, had a mother who was a healer. The mother used folk remedies and a mystical holy lead. When she passed ...
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0Florida Southern College
Lakeland, Florida
63.6 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Vague tales from the night staff saying "eerie presences" touched or breathed on them.
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Useppa Island
Captiva, Florida
63.8 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
This island is named after a girl named Useppa who was kidnapped in Havana and imprisoned on this island by the pirate, Jose Gaspar. He murdered her here (beheaded her), and people swear they still see her headless ghost along the shore.
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Annie Pfeiffer Chapel
Lakeland, Florida
63.8 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Florida Southern College's chapel, one of the campus's famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings, may be home to the ghost of Wright himself. Rumor has it that the chapel's choir screen was installed incorrectly, and Wright's apparition has been seen in the chapel, poring over the improperly placed choir screen.
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Port Boca Grande Light
Boca Grande, Florida
63.9 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
The Port Boca Grande Lighthouse was first used on December 31st, 1890. It served local shipping trafic for nearly 80 years before it was finally abandoned in 1969. It nearly fell to complete ruin due to erosion, but Lee County took control of the building in 1972 and ...
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Cabbage Key Inn
Captiva, Florida
64.5 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
According to the locals, the inn’s restaurant specialty “Cheeseburger in Paradise” inspired the Jimmy Buffett hit. Another of its claims to fame is its ghost. The apparition of a woman with long brown hair has been known to visit guest rooms, and a busboy's tub once flew across the kitchen. ...
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The Compound
Palm Bay, Florida
64.5 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
The Compound is infamous in Melbourne for drag racing, dirt biking, four wheeling, paint ball and more, it is a large area of paved streets, of about 200 miles of road. The streets were paved in the 1980s by General Development Corporation (GDC), intended for housing development, instead, the company ...
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0Ringling Towers
Nokomis, Florida
64.9 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
No longer around (it was demolished in 1998), this old-school monster of a hotel was left to rot for many, many years in downtown Sarasota. It was a popular haunt for ghost hunters, who swore there were evil presences residing there.
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0Indian River Community College
Fort Pierce, Florida
65.7 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
The theatre at Indian River Community College is apparently haunted by a tall fellow who appears mostly blue in color. He hangs about in the broom closet near the left side of the stage, or in the sound room. Some people swear he danced or waved at them, ...
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0Pelican Alley Restaurant
Nokomis, Florida
65.7 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
This restaurant is said to be haunted by an earlier owner. Footsteps are heard late at night, doors open and close on their own and objects move without anyone touching them.
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Treasure Coast Antique Mall
Fort Pierce, Florida
67.4 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
The mall is housed in a 1920s historic home is said to be rich with hauntings from its past. It has been a private home, an inn, a bar, a gambling casino, and a bordello. Among the ghosts said to reside here is a bordello client from the 1950s-1960s who ...
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The Patio
Vero Beach, Florida
67.8 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
The Patio Restaurant on 21st Street close to the downtown area of Vero Beach was built in the 1930s by Waldo Sexton and was leased as one of the original Howard Johnson’s ice cream parlors. Later it was used as a gift shop/fruit stand and as the location of Waldo’s ...
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Sunrise Theater
Fort Pierce, Florida
68 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
This 1926 theatre is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is supposed to have some hauntings dating back to its glory days. Patrons have reported a phantom usher who disappears after showing them to their seats, while staff closing up for the night have heard ghostly ...
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0The Boston House - Cresthaven
Fort Pierce, Florida
68 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
In the early 1900s, William T. Jones, who later became the third Sheriff of St. Lucie County, worked as an engineer for Henry Flagler on the Florida East Coast Railway. Jones suffered an injury in a railroad accident and received a settlement for his injury. With his settlement he built ...
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0Timber Chase Apartments
Sarasota, Florida
68.4 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Supposedly the site of a 1992 stabbing murder, the ghost of the young female victim is said to still haunt the premises.
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St. Cloud Chamber of Commerce
St. Cloud, Florida
69.9 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
Rattling, whistling, and unexplained shadows and footsteps have been detected in this 1910 building, formerly a bank. Rumor has it that the hauntings stem from incidents in the structure's past: a major bank robbery and a double homicide.
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0Hunter Arms Hotel
Saint Cloud, Florida
70 miles from Placid Lakes, FL
A ghost named Vivian is alleged to haunt the Hunter Arms Hotel. Strange noises and cold spots have been reported. Doors tend to slam when no one is around.
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