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

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

by Greg Jenkins
Florida's Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore: South and Central Florida

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

by Greg Jenkins

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Overview

Haunting ancient cemeteries and primitive landmarks as well as modern apartment complexes and highway sides, ghosts and restless spirits abound. This volume of Florida's Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore offers a delightful—and somewhat spooky—look into the darker side of the south and central areas of the Sunshine State. Explore fortress ruins in New Smyrna Beach, and keep an eye out for mysterious shadows and dark figures in the nearby forest; visit the island of Islamorada, where the ghostly remains of Flagler's railway rumble over tracks destroyed in the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane; and, if you're especially brave, walk through the eerie corridors of the mausoleum in Myrtle Hill Cemetery near Tampa, where you are sure to hear whispers from the dead or the muffled echoes of a music box. Delve into the unknown with Greg Jenkins as he examines the history, legend, and paranormal rationale behind strange occurrences in many of south and central Florida's haunted locations. Get a fresh look at some of the state's most famous ghost stories and learn never-before-heard tales of the strange and the supernatural as you take a trip through Haunted Florida. The second volume of Florida's Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore, covering north Florida and St. Augustine, is also available.



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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781561643271
Publisher: Pineapple Press, Inc.
Publication date: 02/01/2005
Series: Florida's Ghostly Legends , #1
Pages: 290
Sales rank: 1,068,761
Product dimensions: 6.03(w) x 9.03(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Greg Jenkins is the author of the three-volume series Florida's Ghostly Legends and Haunted Folklore, as well as Chronicles of the Strange and Uncanny in Florida. Since an early age, Greg has had a profound interest in the supernatural and fringe science, and after a personal experience with the unknown in 1987, he embarked on a journey into the realms of parapsychology and all things mysterious. A mental health counselor and case manager, Greg is also a folklorist and collector of oral traditions and urban legends. He is an associate member of England's Society for Psychical Research and the founder of the Florida Psychical Research Group.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsvii
Prefaceix
Introduction: Legends and Beliefsxii
Site Mapxix
South Florida
1La Concha Hotel Key West: A Ghostly Waiter, A Lamenting Lawyer, and Ernest Hemingway, Too1
2Flagler's East Coast Railway Islamorada: Phantom Trains and Ghostly Cars10
3The Biltmore Hotel Coral Gables: Fatty Walsh, the Ladies' Man ... and He Still Is!20
4Flight 401 Florida Everglades: Moans from a Swampy Graveyard32
5Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Ft. Lauderdale: The Ghosts of Sunrise Hall43
6Cap's Place Island Restaurant Lighthouse Point: Phantom Smoke and Dark Shapes52
7Hillsboro Ocean Club Hillsboro Beach: Water Spirits61
8Boca Raton Cemetery Boca Raton: The Screaming Man and Little Mary70
9Boca Raton Resort and Club Boca Raton: The Legend of Esmeralda76
10The Colony Hotel Delray Beach: Strange Things84
11Flagler's Whitehall Mansion Palm Beach: Mary Lily Is Watching You92
Central Florida
12Ashley's Restaurant Rockledge: Cold Ethyl101
13The Desert Inn and Restaurant Yee Haw Junction: Ghosts in the Middle of Nowhere108
14Cocoa's Route 520 Cocoa Beach: The Ghost Lights of Bloody 520115
15Snowhill Road 13 Oviedo: The Oviedo Lights and the Haunted Celery Fields120
16Sunland Hospital Central Florida Pine Hills: Strange Lights, Eerie Cries, and Echoing Footfalls127
17Old Princeton Hospital Orlando: Dead Eyes on the Third Floor136
18Walt Disney World Kissimmee: Disney's Haunted Mansion ... For Real!148
19Townsend's Plantation Apopka: A Light in the Attic and the Lady in White154
20Woodbridge Cemetery Fern Park: Forgotten Souls and a Spirited Supermarket165
21Interstate 4 Sanford: Tread Not on Us!175
22Stetson University DeLand: Ghostly Lovers and Their Little Dog, Too183
23The Sugar Mill and Ancient Fort New Smyrna Beach: Shadow People191
24The Tampa Theatre Tampa: A Tapping on My Shoulder199
25Myrtle Hill Cemetery Tampa: The Mausoleum207
26Sunshine Skyway Bridge St. Petersburg: Sadness on the Skyway219
27The Don Cesar Beach Resort St. Petersburg: A Timeless Romance225
Afterthoughts233
Appendices
Appendix ATools of the Modern Ghost Hunter237
Appendix BGlossary and Terminology244
Appendix CGhost Research Organizations253
Appendix DGhost Tours255
Bibliography259
Index265
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