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Stanna's Restaurant
Umatilla, Florida
The ghost of a young woman is said to haunt this restaurant. Supposedly she hung herself on the third floor sometime in the early 1900s. Shadows of a woman in a long flowing dress are seen, and objects are thrown around in the women's bathroom. Cold spots ...
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Umatilla Cemetery
Umatilla, Florida
Female screams, calls for help and other strange noises are heard in this cemetery late at night. Lots of orbs/mist photos have been taken here. Most of the activity centers on the older section, near the back of the cemetery.
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Eustis Historical Museum
Eustis, Florida
5.1 miles from Umatilla, FL
This 1910 private residence is now the local historical museum, but the ghosts of the past appear to have never really left. Staff and visitors have reported hearing conversation emanating from empty rooms, disembodied footsteps, cold spots and the apparition of a man in period clothing. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Bay Street Theatre
Eustis, Florida
5.4 miles from Umatilla, FL
Lots of paranormal claims here, including screams from the upstairs rooms, orbs appearing in photographs, eerie phantom presences felt around the building... one visitor was unlucky enough to see a glimpse of a man hanging from the balcony. Lights turn on and off on their own without explanation. Of particular ...
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Greenwood Cemetery
Eustis, Florida
5.4 miles from Umatilla, FL
This cemetery dates back to the late 1800s, and is one of the largest in Lake County. There are numerous reports of the ghost of a woman seen (and heard) weeping over one of the gravestones.
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The Palms Mansion
Eustis, Florida
6.2 miles from Umatilla, FL
This Queen Anne style mansion was built in 1876 for a wealthy citrus grower, and is best known for its owner William Pendleton, the president of an arts college. Due to ailing health, he moved to the house in 1886, but died several years later prior to the turn ...
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Old Cemetery - Mount Dora Country Club
Mount Dora, Florida
7.9 miles from Umatilla, FL
This long forgotten and overgrown cemetery is now on land belonging to the Mount Dora Country Club. Locals claim they've heard the cries of a woman around here, and seen a ghostly green light floating around the area. The graves here are not taken care of and only ...
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Zellie's Pub
Mount Dora, Florida
8.2 miles from Umatilla, FL
This modern-day pub has its fair share of paranormal activity. Some workers have been physically pushed by unseen entities in the bathroom. One story has it that a beer mug was thrown across the length of the bar, all on its own. Lights go on and off ...
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Lakeside Inn
Mount Dora, Florida
9 miles from Umatilla, FL
Several ghosts are said to reside in the charming Lakeside Inn, which was built in 1883. Two of the inn's ghosts are young girls from the 1890s to 1920s. One is about 9 who wears a frilly red dress. She is believed to be Amy, a little girl who disappeared ...
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Windsor Rose Tea Room
Mount Dora, Florida
9.1 miles from Umatilla, FL
Paranormal activities include sightings of shadows of a female in period costume sitting alone at table four. A young lad walking in through the front door going into the restroom locking the door only to find the door locked without anyone in there. Food sliding across the table at table ...
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Mount Carmel Simpson Cemetery
Mount Dora, Florida
10.4 miles from Umatilla, FL
This is a long-disused "black cemetery" from the days of segregation. It dates back to the late 1880s. It was all but forgotten until recently when the Mount Dora Historical Society began cleaning up the area and identifying grave sites whose markers have long since disintegrated. They've begun ...
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Warren W. Willis United Methodist Camp
Fruitland Park, Florida
13.3 miles from Umatilla, FL
Two cabins are alleged to be haunted: North Boys Cabin 5 - items are moved inside the cabin, particularly suitcases. Girls Cabin 41A - lights turn on and off, bathroom flushes on its own. No one feels threatened by these spirits - they just seem to be playful.
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Walmart
Leesburg, Florida
15.3 miles from Umatilla, FL
Various claims of footsteps, lights turning on and off, and merchandise flying off the shelves (literally).
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Rolling Acres Road
Lady Lake, Florida
16.5 miles from Umatilla, FL
Those traveling this road claim to often hear screams and roars from the surrounding forests throughout the length of Rolling Acres Road. A few have seen a bright white ghostly figure walking up and down the road. Locals refer to her as "Julia".
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Ma Barker's House
Umatilla, Florida
17.9 miles from Umatilla, FL
Ma Barker - once Public Enemy #1 - met her end along with her son Freddy at this lakefront house in Ocklawaha, FL. The town does a re-enactment of the shootout (which consumed more than 2,000 bullets) every January. Some say the Barkers' spirits still haunt the place. The ...
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Gobbler Road Campsites
Astor, Florida
18.2 miles from Umatilla, FL
There's an area of trailer homes called the "Astor Campsites" on Gobble(r) Road in Astor, Florida where a "glowing white male" is reported to have been seen walking down the road at night. Mapping this location is a bit tricky because sometimes it comes up as "Turkey Drive" and ...
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Highland Manor
Apopka, Florida
20.5 miles from Umatilla, FL
Townsend Plantation was built by the Eldredge family in 1903. The McBride family purchased it in the 1940s. After the owner died in 1978, it remained empty for several years. In the 1980s it was purchased by the Townsend family. They moved the house, the other plantation buildings, and even ...
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The I-4 Dead Zone
Sanford, Florida
21.8 miles from Umatilla, FL
The I-4 Dead Zone is an elevated area near where Interstate 4 crosses over Lake Monroe, and reports say that since 1963 more than 2000 accidents have occurred here. The reason? Rumor has it that four graves were paved over to make the road. Ghost hitchhikers are often seen here, ...
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Sumter County Service Center
Wildwood, Florida
21.8 miles from Umatilla, FL
It begins with loud banging which echoes throughout the main hallway a few times every night. Sometimes after the banging you'll find the men's handicapped bathroom stall locked. Second floor in the hr offices there's one hallway that smells like death for about 20 ft and then it's back ...
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Old DeLand Memorial Hospital
DeLand, Florida
22.2 miles from Umatilla, FL
Built in the 1920s this structure now houses the DeLand Memorial Hospital Museum. Some locals swear they have seen ghostly faces looking out through the windows. Another apparition of a man has been spotted sitting in the gazebo on the surrounding grounds, near the Veterans Memorial Wall.
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Deland Elk's Lodge
DeLand, Florida
22.7 miles from Umatilla, FL
This stucco-style building has been used as a masonic lodge since 1927, and is supposedly haunted by an elderly man, believed to be associated with the building in the past. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Putnam Hotel
DeLand, Florida
22.8 miles from Umatilla, FL
Reports say this hotel is no longer in operation, and was sold in 2013. Two ghosts are said to reside here. According to lore, a hotel guest once killed his wife and then committed suicide on the premises. Witnesses say sadness emanates throughout the building, and a shadowy figure has ...
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The Artisan Inn
DeLand, Florida
22.9 miles from Umatilla, FL
This 1927 historic hotel is one of the most haunted in the state, but unusually, the ghosts of this inn tend to be relatively inactive apart from during the winter months. A visiting medium stated that up to thirteen ghosts inhabit the building, proving that the hotel is immensely ...
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Deland Woman's Club
DeLand, Florida
23 miles from Umatilla, FL
This circa 1906 building has been used as the local women's club since its construction over a century ago, and is supposed to have picked up a mischievous poltergeist during this time. Visitors to the building have reported cold spots, running footsteps and loud noises during the day, while ...
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Hulley Tower
DeLand, Florida
23.1 miles from Umatilla, FL
Built in 1934 as a mausoleum for Lincoln Hulley (the second president of Stetson University) and his wife Eloise. It once housed a carillon called "The Eloise Chimes," which played daily from 1915 until 2005, when the upper part of the structure was dismantled due to weather damage. ...
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Silver Lake Lodge / Panorama Inn
Ocala, Florida
23.8 miles from Umatilla, FL
This place no longer exists, but at one time it was a huge hotel with about 200 rooms. It was the Panorama Inn, then the Silver Lake Lodge, then it was left to ruin in the 1980s for about twenty years before finally being demolished around 2006. Before ...
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Longwood Hotel
Longwood, Florida
24.9 miles from Umatilla, FL
These days the Longwood Hotel has been converted to offices, but its the same building, still featured on the city's historical walking tours. Workers claim that lights and elevators seem to have a mind of their own. Strange noises and footsteps are heard on the third floor. ...
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The Inside-Outside House
Longwood, Florida
24.9 miles from Umatilla, FL
This house was built by Captain W. Pierce (later to become a director of Orlando's "National Bank") in 1873. It was first constructed in Boston, then shipped to Florida and reassembled. Originally it was located on Boston Ave in Altamonte Springs, but it was moved to its current ...
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Page Jackson Cemetery
Sanford, Florida
25 miles from Umatilla, FL
Witnesses describe cold spots, uneasy feelings, strange noises, and shadow figures at this historic graveyard.
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Shiloh Cemetery
Sanford, Florida
25.1 miles from Umatilla, FL
Hard to find this cemetery - you have to find Page Jackson Cemetery first, then take a dirt road all the way down to Shiloh. There's an old stone sign in front that can barely even be read anymore. Check the map below for the exact location. There are ...
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Wop's Hops Brewing Company
Sanford, Florida
25.7 miles from Umatilla, FL
Originally the Stokes Fish Market, this building was constructed in 1916. It closed in the early 70's and since been home to a few businesses and has some years of being vacant. The building is now Sanford's first micro-brewery, Wop's Hops Brewing Company. The building has reports of cold spots ...
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The Devil's Chair - Lake Helen Cassadaga Cemetery
Lake Helen, Florida
26 miles from Umatilla, FL
In a town known for its haunts, the Lake Helen-Cassadaga Cemetery is home to the local legend's Devil's Chair. Gravestones date back to the 1800s; Cassadaga founder George Colby is buried here. Some folks say shadowy figures lurk here at night, but the Devil's Chair is perhaps the most well-known ...
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New Tribes Mission
Sanford, Florida
26 miles from Umatilla, FL
This was once a hotel, but is now a missionary center. Poltergeist activity is claimed in the east wing, along with cold spots and other eerie phenomena.
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Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp
Lake Helen, Florida
26 miles from Umatilla, FL
The Cassadaga Spiritualist camp began when the Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association was founded by George P. Colby, from Pike, New York, a trance medium who traveled to many different states, giving readings and seances. He was well known, and in his travels, Colby was referred to as the ...
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Cassadaga Hotel
Lake Helen, Florida
26.1 miles from Umatilla, FL
The Cassadaga Hotel was created in the early 20th century and is located in the heart of a spiritualist community which was established in 1894. The hotel is known for its "spirits" and psychics. The hotel rents out rooms and also has psychics on-site and available daily. The hotel has been ...
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Harden House
Clermont, Florida
26.4 miles from Umatilla, 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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Indian Hill
Pine Hills, Florida
26.6 miles from Umatilla, FL
This place has two or three Earth energy fields that can be felt by walking along the perimeter. This is a cave and sink hole. This place was considered sacred by my tribe and other tribes due to the energy fields. It is said that there is an Indian burial ...
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Sunland Hospital Site - Orlando
Orlando, Florida
27 miles from Umatilla, FL
"Sunland Hospital" was demolished nearly two decades ago, but locals still know the story well. It was a treatment center for those with severe mental handicaps, and for many years it was a poorly-kept secret that the children there weren't treated with the very best of care. Finally ...
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Woodbridge Cemetery
Fern Park, Florida
27 miles from Umatilla, FL
Woodbridge Cemetery is considered by many to be one of the most haunted places in the Orlando area, though few sources provide any sort of detail on what exactly has been seen and experienced there. There are claims that what exists there now is only part of what was ...
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Evans High School
Orlando, Florida
27.4 miles from Umatilla, FL
Evans High School (also known as Maynard Evans High School) was demolished in 2010 and a brand new school was built on its foundations, which opened in 2012. In the old, pre-2010 school, there was supposedly a ghost in the auditorium. He didn't seem to be malevolent - ...
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Maitland Art Center
Maitland, Florida
27.7 miles from Umatilla, FL
Avant-garde artist Andre Smith was a writer, etcher and sculptor built the pretty art compound in the 1930s with galleries and Mayan- and Aztec-inspired gardens, courtyards and an open-air chapel (a popular spot for weddings). Although Smith passed away March 3, 1959, folks say his ghost still watches over his ...
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Celery Avenue - Ghost Horse
Sanford, Florida
28 miles from Umatilla, FL
Celery Avenue was so named because it was lined with celery fields, back when Sanford was called the Celery Capital of the U.S. Here, witnesses say a translucent phantom horse can be seen galloping up and down the street. It has been seen galloping alongside traveling cars, and then simply ...
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Enzian Theater
Maitland, Florida
28.3 miles from Umatilla, FL
The Enzian Theater is a non-profit arthouse movie theater located in Maitland, Florida. The theater hosts the Florida Film Festival and several other local film festivals. Supposedly, in the north corner of the theatre, a disembodied head appears, screaming, and then disappears into the restaurant next door. Happens only on ...
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Princeton Hospital - Lakeside Hospital
Orlando, Florida
28.6 miles from Umatilla, FL
Princeton Hospital was turned into Lakeside Hospital in 2000. The psychiatric hospital is rumored to be haunted by spirits who move empty wheelchairs or apparate as ghostly nuns and doctors. A phantom patient with hollow eyes is said to stare sadly or angrily at staff members. The second and third ...
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Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens
Winter Park, Florida
30.2 miles from Umatilla, FL
This museum was founded in 1961, and is home to more than 200 sculptures by Czech artist Albin Polasek. Many staff members feel Polasek's spirit still infuses the place, refusing to leave his beloved sculptures. In 1997, one guest snapped a photo of a tear miraculously suspended on ...
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Annie Russell Theatre
Winter Park, Florida
30.2 miles from Umatilla, FL
This theatre was built in the 1930s and named after the actress, Annie Russell, who taught at Rollins College (where the theatre is located). She herself performed on-stage opening night in 1932. Annie died four years later in 1936. There have been claims for many years now of seeing ...
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Tuscawilla Country Club
Winter Springs, Florida
30.4 miles from Umatilla, FL
According to staff, on the last Friday of every month the ghost of a young man is seen washing down the bar. No one has any idea who he could be, but some claim he was violent and attacked them.
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Pine Ridge High School
Deltona, Florida
30.6 miles from Umatilla, FL
The school's iconic clock tower was the site of a grisly accidental death in 1994, and supposedly that gentleman's ghost still haunts the area. Students swear they hear a "ghost bell" through the speakers, and the elevator in the clock tower building emanates a definitively "eerie" feeling. A ...
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The Bridal Chamber
Silver Springs, Florida
30.6 miles from Umatilla, FL
The Bridal Chamber Spring is believed by many to be haunted by the ghosts of two star-crossed lovers. Rich boy Claire Douglas and poor girl Bernice Mayo declared their love for each other here, but when Claire's father found out, he sent his son to Europe to get him away ...
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Harry P. Leu Gardens
Orlando, Florida
31.3 miles from Umatilla, FL
The Leu Gardens were started by Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Leu, who in 1936 purchased Leu House and 40 acres of land. The Leus traveled all over the world and brought back many exotic plants and many varieties of camellias for their gardens. In 1961, the Leus deeded the ...
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