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0JPV Woods
Winter Haven, Florida
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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Scotty's Distribution Center
Winter Haven, Florida
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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0Old Polk County Courthouse
Bartow, Florida
9.2 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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0The Stanford Inn
Bartow, Florida
9.3 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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0Florida Southern College
Lakeland, Florida
10.6 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Vague tales from the night staff saying "eerie presences" touched or breathed on them.
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Annie Pfeiffer Chapel
Lakeland, Florida
10.8 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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0Spook Hill
Lake Wales, Florida
13.6 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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0Webber International University - Camilla Hall
Babson Park, Florida
19 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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Ghost Lights of Bereah Road
Fort Meade, Florida
27 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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0Big Bamboo Lounge
Kissimmee, Florida
28.4 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
The Big Bamboo Lounge was a Kissimmee institution, a popular hangout for Disney and ex-Disney employees as well as British expats. Unfortunately it was damaged during a hurricane and closed down for a while, during which time some vagrants moved in and accidentally burned it down. So it's ...
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The Fisherwoman of Lake Arcola
Avon Park, Florida
29.1 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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Susan's Courtside Café
Kissimmee, Florida
29.2 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Susan's Courtside Café is housed in a 1912 home, and is said to be haunted. The restaurant's rooms are themed with items from Kissimmee's past, including a firefighter room. Witnesses have seen eerie shadows and heard strange noises in the building at night.
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Ghost Lights of Heard Bridge Road
Wauchula, Florida
29.6 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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0Disney World - Pirates of the Caribbean
Orlando, Florida
30.1 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Almost everyone's been on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World... but did you know that many believe the ride is haunted? According to employees, a welder named George died while the ride was originally under construction in the 1970s. His ghost still lingers according to ...
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James McCabe Theatre
Valrico, Florida
30.1 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Reports say that paranormal groups have offered ghost tours as fund-raisers here. The 1915 building, once the Valrico Civic Center and then a woman’s club, is rumored to have more than a few haunts. Witnesses have seen apparitions and heard strange sounds, and experienced other odd occurrences.
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Disney World - Haunted Mansion
Orlando, Florida
30.3 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
The Walt Disney World Haunted Mansion is said to be haunted by several entities including a ghostly man in a tuxedo and a limping pilot with a cane said to have crashed his plane on this spot in the 1940s. Urban legend tells of a little boy who was cremated ...
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0Center Place
Brandon, Florida
32 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
A spirit called (for some reason) "Matilda" is said to haunt this building. She was seen by at least one witness, and others claim to have either felt her presence or actually seen paintings and other objects move without explanation. Allegedly at one point local news reporters came ...
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Osprey Links at Hunter's Creek
Orlando, Florida
32.3 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
At this apartment complex off of Town Center Boulevard and John Young Parkway, reports say a resident witnessed cold spots, lights turning on by themselves, and strange sounds. A shadowy form of a man was seen as well. The strange occurrences were attributed to the fact that the apartment is ...
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0Hardee Correctional Institution
Bowling Green, Florida
32.7 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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Bloody Bucket Bridge
Wauchula, Florida
32.8 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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The Mailman of Avon Park
Avon Park, Florida
33.3 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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St. Cloud Chamber of Commerce
St. Cloud, Florida
33.8 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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
33.8 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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0Peabody Hotel
Orlando, Florida
34 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Built in 1986, the Peabody (famous for its marching ducks) was the second-tallest building in Orlando. There are claims that a number of people have committed suicide in the building over the years, and that their spirits can sometimes be seen roaming the hallways. The Peabody building still stands, but ...
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0Popash School
Zolfo Springs, Florida
34.1 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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 Edwinola Hotel
Dade City, Florida
35.2 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Although this 1912 hotel is no longer in operation, the building remains in use to this day. Staff and tenants at living quarters in the current establishment have reported elevators operating by themselves, ghostly voices coming from empty rooms, and the smell of cigar smoke. Others working the night ...
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Crowne Plaza
Orlando, Florida
35.5 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
There are vague reports of a ghostly entity inhabiting room 621. A guest swore they saw a full-bodied apparition and insisted on switching rooms.
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Super 8 International Drive
Orlando, Florida
36.4 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Room 206 has long been considered a haunted hot-spot in this Orlando hotel. Make the bed in this room and sometimes you'll find the faint imprint of a human form underneath the covers. Others swear they have felt someone in the bed with them, or that it starts ...
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0St. Leo University
St. Leo, Florida
37 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Not much information on this one - just that some stories have it that the ghost of a young woman is seen on campus, often walking through walls.
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Harden House
Clermont, Florida
37.5 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
The ghost that walks here is said to be John W. Hardin, who was shot to death in the back yard in 1975 sometime during or after his truck caught on fire. The mystery of who killed Hardin is unsolved, but his wife, Victoria Mango Hardin, claimed to see his ...
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0Myrtle Hill Cemetery
Tampa, Florida
38.5 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
The mausoleum here is supposedly haunted by a girl named Stephanie, who was killed in a car crash.
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HMS Architecture Building - USF Tampa
Tampa, Florida
39 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
The fourth floor of this building - particularly room 469 - is considered to be haunted by a malevolent-feeling spirit by the late-night staff. Voices are heard, and on at least one occasion a wind-chime started jangling all by itself. One worker saw a spectral German Shepherd dog ...
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University of South Florida Library
Tampa, Florida
39.2 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Ghostly legend here tells of a young woman named Gottlieb, an English major who worked on the library's fourth floor, was found hanging from an oak tree. Foul play was suspected, and after that, strange things happened at the library. Book carts moved by themselves, automatic doors opened without being ...
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Crown Colony House
Tampa, Florida
39.5 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Built in 1964, the Crown Colony is a four-story building offering both a full-service restaurant and quick-serve café. If the stories are true, the building also harbors a few ghosts. In 2008, officials at Busch Gardens invited Haunted South and select members of the media to explore the park’s Crown Colony ...
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Haunted Creek down Jones Road
St. Cloud, Florida
40 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
If you take Jones Road all the way down to the end and then continue on a dirt path you'll find the "haunted creek." Locals say a little boy died there years ago, and his spirit still haunts the creek. He seems to be an angry ghost and ...
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Rogers Cemetery / Antioch Cemetery
Jan-Phyl Village, Florida
40.7 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
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Ybor City Museum
Tampa, Florida
40.8 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Kim Cool mentions this haunting briefly in her book, "Ghost Stories of Tampa Bay." The claim revolves around the Ybor City Museum gift shop, and a particular book that frequently moves to different places around the shelves, and sometimes even flies violently to the floor when no one is ...
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Carmine's
Tampa, Florida
40.9 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
At least one waitress at Carmine's Restaurant in Tampa is convinced the place is haunted, according to Kim Cool in her book "Ghost Stories of Tampa Bay." She swears she hears ghostly footsteps on the second floor, and every time someone goes up to investigate, no one is there.
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Gaspar's Grotto
Tampa, Florida
40.9 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Haunted bars are a dime a dozen, but how many of them actually provide photographic proof that they're haunted? Gaspar's Grotto does - they proudly display two photos on their wall that may show the ghost of ... someone. No one's really sure what it shows, really, or if there's ...
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L'Unione Italiana - The Italian Club
Tampa, Florida
40.9 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
In this building, over a century old, folks say a ghost named Virginia sometimes makes an appearance on the front staircase. Reports say Virginia was once a member of the cleaning staff.
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La France
Tampa, Florida
41 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Apparently there's said to be a ghostly presence in this vintage clothing shop that likes to move items around on the racks, according to Kim Cool's excellent book, "Ghost Stories of Tampa Bay."
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0El Centro Espanol - The Spanish Club
Tampa, Florida
41.1 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
The 1912 El Centro Espanol building is home to some strange occurrences. Folks say that the sound of crying babies can be heard in the building when there are no babies around. Also, when candles are blown out, they sometimes re-ignite.
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King Corona Cigars and Cafe Bar
Tampa, Florida
41.1 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Dave Lapham recounts the story of King Corona Cigars in his excellent book, "Ghosthunting Florida." The owner was renovating the store one night when he saw a huge, hulking figure in the back. He was about to run for the front door when the figure just dematerialized into thin air. ...
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Island Flowers
Tampa, Florida
41.1 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
This flower shop got a quick mention in Kim Cool's "Ghost Stories of Tampa Bay." The ghost here, if it is a ghost, likes to swing the front door back and forth, ringing the security bell each time.
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Trelles Clinic - Ybor Resort and Spa
Tampa, Florida
41.1 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
The former Trelles Clinic, now the Ybor Resort and Spa, is housed in a 1904 building. Witnesses say the many ghostly phenomena here include a child that tugs on people's clothing, unexplained slamming windows, and an apparition of Conchita, a deceased wife of a doctor. TV's Ghost Hunters featured the ...
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Sugar Palm Ballroom - 1550 E. Palm Ave
Tampa, Florida
41.1 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
For a short time in the late 1990s, this building housed the "Sugar Palm Ballroom". Guests at the Sugar Palm would occasionally see a ghostly figure wandering the hallways. During renovations in 2000 workmen complained that they were constantly harassed by unseen entities.
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Central Fire Station
Sebring, Florida
41.1 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, 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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0Don Vicente Inn
Tampa, Florida
41.2 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
Staff report a ghost in the lady's basement bathroom. The Travel Channel once ran a TV special on this hotel.
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0Cuban Club - Circulo Cubano de Tampa
Tampa, Florida
41.2 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
The Cuban Club, now a site rented out for events, was built in 1917 to serve the Cuban community. It has been the site of two deaths: One was an actor who committed suicide on the stage, the other was a murder in which one board member shot another in ...
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Ybor Factory Building - Ybor Square
Tampa, Florida
41.2 miles from Jan-Phyl Village, FL
This factory was built in 1886 by Vicente Martinez-Ybor - at the time it was the largest cigar-factory in the world. It changed hands a number of times through the 1950s, but always remained in the cigar business, until it became Ybor Square in the 1970s. Now it ...
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