| Acknowledgments | vii |
| Preface | ix |
| Introduction: Legends and Beliefs | xii |
| Site Map | xix |
| South Florida | |
1 | La Concha Hotel Key West: A Ghostly Waiter, A Lamenting Lawyer, and Ernest Hemingway, Too | 1 |
2 | Flagler's East Coast Railway Islamorada: Phantom Trains and Ghostly Cars | 10 |
3 | The Biltmore Hotel Coral Gables: Fatty Walsh, the Ladies' Man ... and He Still Is! | 20 |
4 | Flight 401 Florida Everglades: Moans from a Swampy Graveyard | 32 |
5 | Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Ft. Lauderdale: The Ghosts of Sunrise Hall | 43 |
6 | Cap's Place Island Restaurant Lighthouse Point: Phantom Smoke and Dark Shapes | 52 |
7 | Hillsboro Ocean Club Hillsboro Beach: Water Spirits | 61 |
8 | Boca Raton Cemetery Boca Raton: The Screaming Man and Little Mary | 70 |
9 | Boca Raton Resort and Club Boca Raton: The Legend of Esmeralda | 76 |
10 | The Colony Hotel Delray Beach: Strange Things | 84 |
11 | Flagler's Whitehall Mansion Palm Beach: Mary Lily Is Watching You | 92 |
| Central Florida | |
12 | Ashley's Restaurant Rockledge: Cold Ethyl | 101 |
13 | The Desert Inn and Restaurant Yee Haw Junction: Ghosts in the Middle of Nowhere | 108 |
14 | Cocoa's Route 520 Cocoa Beach: The Ghost Lights of Bloody 520 | 115 |
15 | Snowhill Road 13 Oviedo: The Oviedo Lights and the Haunted Celery Fields | 120 |
16 | Sunland Hospital Central Florida Pine Hills: Strange Lights, Eerie Cries, and Echoing Footfalls | 127 |
17 | Old Princeton Hospital Orlando: Dead Eyes on the Third Floor | 136 |
18 | Walt Disney World Kissimmee: Disney's Haunted Mansion ... For Real! | 148 |
19 | Townsend's Plantation Apopka: A Light in the Attic and the Lady in White | 154 |
20 | Woodbridge Cemetery Fern Park: Forgotten Souls and a Spirited Supermarket | 165 |
21 | Interstate 4 Sanford: Tread Not on Us! | 175 |
22 | Stetson University DeLand: Ghostly Lovers and Their Little Dog, Too | 183 |
23 | The Sugar Mill and Ancient Fort New Smyrna Beach: Shadow People | 191 |
24 | The Tampa Theatre Tampa: A Tapping on My Shoulder | 199 |
25 | Myrtle Hill Cemetery Tampa: The Mausoleum | 207 |
26 | Sunshine Skyway Bridge St. Petersburg: Sadness on the Skyway | 219 |
27 | The Don Cesar Beach Resort St. Petersburg: A Timeless Romance | 225 |
| Afterthoughts | 233 |
| Appendices | |
Appendix A | Tools of the Modern Ghost Hunter | 237 |
Appendix B | Glossary and Terminology | 244 |
Appendix C | Ghost Research Organizations | 253 |
Appendix D | Ghost Tours | 255 |
| Bibliography | 259 |
| Index | 265 |