Built in 1913, this court house is alleged to be haunted by the ghost of a criminal who tried to escape from the second floor. Some say blood stains still appear where he was shot by the bailiff… but we’re not so sure.
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Geographic Information
- Address:
- 20 N Main St
Brooksville, FL
United States
Get Directions » - GPS:
- 28.5550022, -82.38678270000003
- County:
- Hernando County, Florida
- Nearest Towns:
- Brooksville, FL (0.1 mi.)
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Our Paranormal Group, West Coast Paranormal, did an investigation here. It is impossible to get inside. We investigated the outer border of the oldest section of the Courthouse. We paid a lot of attention to the large oaks out front, because they were used to hang people back in the day. This is a really difficult location to investigate due to traffic in the area. We did get some photo’s of a couple orbs on one side of the location. We were told by one of the security guards that the basement, which holds all of the records has a really eerie feeling about it.
Back around 2002 when I was working in the area, I had time before my next stop and decided to go there, I had what I call a “pull” to do so. This was during the day time, I was a Pest Control Technician at the time and our office was around the block basically. I went up the stairs to the second floor and found old pictures in frames on the walls with descriptions of the court houses past. I started looking around and felt something and looked and seen what looked like a bloody bullet hole. I thought no way that’s there, so I walked up to it and touched it and in my head had an image of someone being shot and killed there. The wall was smooth but I could clearly see a bloody 3d bullet hole like a hologram projection. I want to say it was right as you walked in on a vertical beam straight ahead, but I’m not sure if that’s accurate or not as I haven’t been up there since then. I had no fear and didn’t sense anything negative, it actually felt peaceful. I thought it was pretty neat but didn’t actually know what to think of it at the time. A few years later I was looking up haunted places near me and found out that someone did get shot and killed upstairs there. There is a lot more than meets the eye as we only perceive a small percentage of the light spectrum/energy that is out there.
I work here cleaning the inside at night. I clean the old court room. There is no blood stain anymore. The carpet can’t be more then 20-30 years old. It is haunted 100%. I’m there until 1 am by myself on a floor and I have had doors shirt behind me. Things fall of of desk. Sounds of people running around upstairs. It can get really spooky in there. But there not harmful at all. I think they just like to mess with people.