Florida's Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore South and Central Florida

by Jenkins, Greg

• ISBN13: 9781561643271
• ISBN10: 1561643270
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-01
• Publisher: Pineapple Press

Summary

The history and legends behind a number of Florida's haunted locations, including thorough background information on each locale and biographies of its ghostly residents, includes Key West's La Concha Hotel, the Everglades, Stetson University, and the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Original.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Preface	ix
Introduction-Legends and Beliefs	xii
Site Map	xix
South Florida
1. La Concha Hotel
Key West	1	(9)
A Ghostly Waiter, A Lamenting Lawyer, and Ernest Hemingway, Too
2. Flagler's East Coast Railway
Islamorada	10	(10)
Phantom Trains and Ghostly Cars
3. The Biltmore Hotel
Coral Gables	20	(12)
Fatty Walsh, the Ladies' Man...and He Still Is!
4. Flight 401
Florida Everglades	32	(11)
Moans from a Swampy Graveyard
5. Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
Ft. Lauderdale	43	(9)
The Ghosts of Sunrise Hall
6. Cap's Place Island Restaurant
Lighthouse Point	52	(9)
Phantom Smoke and Dark Shapes
7. Hillsboro Ocean Club
Hillsboro Beach	61	(9)
Water Spirits
8. Boca Raton Cemetery
Boca Raton	70	(6)
The Screaming Man and Little Mary
9. Boca Raton Resort and Club
Boca Raton	76	(8)
The Legend of Esmeralda
10. The Colony Hotel
Delray Beach	84	(8)
Strange Things
11. Flagler's Whitehall Mansion
Palm Beach	92	(9)
Mary Lily Is Watching You
Central Florida
12. Ashley's Restaurant
Rockledge	101	(7)
Cold Ethyl
13. The Desert Inn and Restaurant
Yee Haw Junction	108	(7)
Ghosts in the Middle of Nowhere
14. Cocoa's Route 520
Cocoa Beach	115	(5)
The Ghost Lights of Bloody	520
15. Snowhill Road 13
Oviedo	120	(7)
The Oviedo Lights and the Haunted Celery Fields
16. Sunland Hospital Central Florida
Pine Hills	127	(9)
Strange Lights, Eerie Cries, and Echoing Footfalls
17. Old Princeton Hospital
Orlando	136	(12)
Dead Eyes on the Third Floor
18. Walt Disney World
Kissimmee	148	(6)
Disney's Haunted Mansion...For Real!
19. Townsend's Plantation
Apopka	154	(11)
A Light in the Attic and the Lady in White
20. Woodbridge Cemetery
Fern Park	165	(10)
Forgotten Souls and a Spirited Supermarket
21. Interstate 4
Sanford	175	(6)
Tread Not on Us!
22. Stetson University
DeLand	181	(10)
Ghostly Lovers and Their Little Dog, Too
23. The Sugar Mill and Ancient Fort
New Smyrna Beach	191	(8)
Shadow People
24. The Tampa Theatre
Tampa	199	(8)
A Tapping on My Shoulder
25. Myrtle Hill Cemetery
Tampa	207	(12)
The Mausoleum
26. Sunshine Skyway Bridge
St. Petersburg	219	(6)
Sadness on the Skyway
27. The Don Cesar Beach Resort
St. Petersburg	225	(8)
A Timeless Romance
Afterthoughts	233	(4)
Appendices
Appendix A: Tools of the Modern Ghost Hunter	237	(7)
Appendix B: Glossary and Terminology	244	(9)
Appendix C: Ghost Research Organizations	253	(2)
Appendix D: Ghost Tours	255	(4)
Bibliography	259	(6)
Index	265