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The record for Florida opens with St. Augustine Lighthouse, Koreshan Unity Settlement and Coral Castle — the deepest files in the jurisdiction. The most-filed claim types here are Apparition (33 dossiers), Named Ghost Legend (29) and Reported Anomalies (8). Of its 87 sites, 58 are listed as open to the public — confirm access before visiting. The oldest dated entry is Fort Matanzas, established 1742.

Lighthouse
High confidence

St. Augustine Lighthouse

St. Augustine, Florida

The museum presents lighthouse ghost stories and investigation experiences.

4 claims · 3 legends→
Historic Settlement
Medium

Koreshan Unity Settlement

Estero, Florida

Surviving members transferred settlement land to Florida in 1961.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Sculpture Garden
Medium

Coral Castle

Homestead, Florida

Ed Leedskalnin single-handedly quarried and moved 1,100 tons of oolite—how is still argued.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Historic Mansion
Medium

Villa Paula

Miami, Florida

1926 Cuban-consulate mansion with a scent-of-roses ghost.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Cemetery
Medium

Tolomato Cemetery

St. Augustine, Florida

18th-century Minorcan cemetery—site of the 1877 death of a young boy playing in a vault.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Hotel
Medium

Don CeSar

St. Pete Beach, Florida

The pink palace of St. Pete Beach—Gatsby-era resort with a founder’s ghost.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Theater
Medium

Tampa Theatre

Tampa, Florida

An indexed operator excerpt describes alleged spirits of employees and patrons.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Hotel
Medium

Casa Monica

St. Augustine, Florida

The 1888 Moorish hotel—Flagler’s neighbor, revived.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Church
Medium

Cathedral Basilica

St. Augustine, Florida

The 1797 cathedral—America’s oldest Catholic parish.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Cemetery
Medium

Key West Cemetery

Key West, Florida

"I told you I was sick"—the 1847 cemetery at the island’s heart.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Fort
Medium

Fort Zachary Taylor

Key West, Florida

The 1866 fort that held the Union at the Confederacy’s edge.

2 claims · 2 legends→
House
Medium

Curry Mansion

Key West, Florida

The 1899 mansion of Florida’s first millionaire—still a family home.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Site
Medium

Edison and Ford Estates

Fort Myers, Florida

The neighbors’ winter estates—Edison and Ford’s Florida.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Site
Medium

Rosewood

Cedar Key, Florida

January 1923—the town erased from the map.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

The Vinoy Resort

St. Petersburg, Florida

St. Pete’s pink 1925 resort—the salesman who leapt and the spirits of the Roaring Twenties.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Lighthouse
Medium

Pensacola Lighthouse

Pensacola, Florida

The 1859 Gulf light with a keeper’s bloodstains legend.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Lighthouse
Medium

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse

Jupiter, Florida

The 1860 inlet light—Civil War darkening and a keeper’s ghost.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Fort
Medium

Castillo de San Marcos

St. Augustine, Florida

The 1672 coquina fortress—the oldest masonry fort in the U.S.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Ponce de León Hotel

St. Augustine, Florida

Flagler’s 1888 Spanish palace—now Flagler College.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Fountain of Youth

St. Augustine, Florida

The 1513 landing park—the spring that made the legend.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Old Jail

St. Augustine, Florida

The 1891 jail built to look like a hotel—Pinkerton’s disguise.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

González-Alvarez House

St. Augustine, Florida

The "Oldest House"—St. Augustine’s oldest surviving dwelling.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Palace Saloon

Fernandina Beach, Florida

Florida’s oldest bar—1903, and the ship captains still drink.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Biltmore

Coral Gables, Florida

The 1926 tower hotel—the Fatty Arbuckle floor and the dead veteran.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Ernest Hemingway House

Key West, Florida

The 1851 house where Hemingway wrote—and the six-toed cats remain.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Captain Tony’s Saloon

Key West, Florida

The bar built around the hanging tree—the oldest saloon in the Keys.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Sloppy Joe’s

Key West, Florida

Hemingway’s bar—the 1933 original on Greene Street.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Ca’ d’Zan

Sarasota, Florida

The Ringlings’ Venetian palace on Sarasota Bay—1926.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Theater
Medium

Arcadia Opera House

Arcadia, Florida

The 1906 opera house—where the fire’s dead are said to watch.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Natural
Medium

Everglades

Homestead, Florida

The River of Grass—the sawgrass sea and the Skunk Ape’s country.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Ocoee

Ocoee, Florida

November 2-3, 1920—the Election Day massacre.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Historic Site
Medium

Fort Pickens

Pensacola Beach, Florida

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Ghost Town
Medium

Indian Key Historic State Park

Islamorada, Florida

Island ruins preserve an early nineteenth-century salvage settlement.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Island
Medium

Egmont Key

St. Petersburg, Florida

The US Army detained Seminole people here before forced removal in 1858.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Fort Former Prison
Medium

Fort Jefferson

Key West, Florida

Unfinished island fort used as a Civil War military prison.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Hunter Arms Hotel

St. Cloud, Florida

Historic hotel with a published Vivian ghost tradition.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Historic House Museum
Medium

Stranahan House

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1901 trading post—Fort Lauderdale’s oldest building and its most haunted.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Cultural Center
Medium

Thomas Center

Gainesville, Florida

1910 hotel-turned-cultural-center with a Red Room ghost.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Garden Tower
Medium

Bok Tower Gardens

Lake Wales, Florida

1929 carillon tower on Iron Mountain—Edward Bok’s birdsong sanctuary.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Historic Mansion
Medium

Ca’ d’Zan (Ringling)

Sarasota, Florida

John Ringling’s Venetian-Gothic palace on Sarasota Bay.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Fort
Medium

Fort Matanzas

St. Augustine, Florida

1742 coquina fort guarding the inlet where 245 Frenchmen were massacred.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Fort
Medium

Fort Clinch

Fernandina Beach, Florida

1847 Third System fort guarding the Amelia River—never finished, never tested.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Museum
Medium

Lightner Museum

St. Augustine, Florida

Flagler’s 1888 Alcazar Hotel turned museum—haunted by a woman in white.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Cemetery
Medium

Huguenot Cemetery

St. Augustine, Florida

1821 yellow-fever cemetery at the city gate.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Natural Area
Medium

Myakka River / Skunk Ape country

Sarasota, Florida

Florida’s swamp sasquatch—famous for the 2000 "Myakka photos."

1 claim · 1 legend→
Estate
Medium

Vizcaya

Miami, Florida

James Deering’s 1916 Italianate palace on Biscayne Bay.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Fort
Low

Fort East Martello

Key West, Florida

Fort associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Historic House
Low

Donnelly House

Mount Dora, Florida

Historic house associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Historic District
Low

Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp

Cassadaga, Florida

Historic district associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Hotel
Low

Cassadaga Hotel

Cassadaga, Florida

Hotel associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Theater
Legend only

Florida Theatre

Jacksonville, Florida

The theater’s indexed history page recounts a haunted reputation.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Inn
Low

Florida House Inn

Fernandina Beach, Florida

VISIT FLORIDA publishes a haunted reputation for this inn.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Inn
Low

Lakeside Inn

Mount Dora, Florida

VISIT FLORIDA describes the hotel as reputedly haunted.

1 claim · 1 legend→
City
Medium

Gulf Breeze UFO site

Gulf Breeze, Florida

The 1987–88 photo case that divided ufology.

1 claim→
Mansion
Medium

Versace Mansion (Casa Casuarina)

Miami Beach, Florida

The Ocean Drive mansion where Gianni Versace was shot on his steps.

1 claim→
Amusement Park
Medium

Disney’s River Country

Bay Lake, Florida

Disney’s first water park—abandoned for 18 years inside the resort.

1 claim→
Amusement Park
Medium

Discovery Island

Bay Lake, Florida

Disney’s abandoned animal island—closed 1999, still standing.

1 claim→
Site
Medium

Freedom Tower

Miami, Florida

The "Ellis Island of the South"—where the Cubans were processed.

1 claim→
Historic Estate
Low

Deering Estate

Miami, Florida

Historic estate associated with published local folklore.

1 claim→
Historic Site
Medium

Fort Jefferson National Monument

Dry Tortugas, Florida

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→
Historic Site
Medium

Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park

Key Biscayne, Florida

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→
Historic Site
Medium

Fort Mose

St. Augustine, Florida

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→
Historic Site
Medium

Angola Maroon Community

Bradenton, Florida

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→
Historic Site
Medium

Negro Fort

Sumatra, Florida

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→
Historic Site
Medium

Castillo

St. Augustine, Florida

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→
Historic Site
Medium

Barrancas (Gulf Islands National Seashore, NPS)

Pensacola, Florida

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→
Historic Site
Medium

Pensacola Pass

Pensacola, Florida

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→
Historic Site
Medium

Marianna Expedition on Santa Rosa Island

Pensacola, Florida

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→
Historic Site
Medium

Timucuan Preserve's Freedom Seeking Stories

Jacksonville, Florida

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→
Ghost Town
Medium

Brewster

Brewster, Florida

Former phosphate company town with surviving industrial remnants.

2 facts→
Ghost Town
Low

Centralia

Weeki Wachee, Florida

Former Tidewater Cypress lumber settlement within Chassahowitzka.

1 fact→
Plantation Ruins
Low

Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park

Flagler Beach, Florida

Preserved ruins of an East Florida plantation.

1 fact→
Ruins
Low

White Springs Spring House

White Springs, Florida

Historic spring-house remains at Stephen Foster park.

1 fact→
Industrial Ruins
Medium

Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park

Homosassa, Florida

Preserved sugar-mill ruins documenting plantation industry and enslaved labor.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Ellaville

Ellaville, Florida

Former sawmill settlement near the Withlacoochee and Suwannee confluence.

1 fact→
House Ruins
Medium

Drew Mansion site

Ellaville, Florida

Site of Governor George F. Drew's fire-destroyed home.

1 fact→
Former Amusement Park
Medium

Six Gun Territory

Ocala, Florida

Demolished western-themed attraction now associated with a developed residential area.

1 fact→
Former Amusement Park
Medium

Paradise Park (Silver River)

Ocala, Florida

Former Black recreation destination documenting segregation and a lost community landmark.

1 fact→
Former Settlement
Medium

Villa City

Groveland, Florida

Former citrus settlement diminished after the devastating 1894–1895 freezes.

1 fact→
Submerged Archaeological Site
Medium

Fort Jefferson submerged post cemetery and quarantine hospital site

Key West, Florida

Former island cemetery and quarantine-hospital site identified through underwater archaeology.

1 fact→
Former Settlement
Medium

Rattlesnake (former settlement)

Tampa, Florida

Absorbed settlement that grew around a rattlesnake-meat business.

1 fact→
Demolished Attraction
Medium

Xanadu House (Kissimmee)

Kissimmee, Florida

Demolished experimental house once promoting domestic automation.

1 fact→
Former Settlement
Low

Ethel

Sorrento, Florida

Former community within present Rock Springs Run State Reserve.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

St. Francis (former town)

Florida

Former St. Johns River settlement reached by an official forest trail.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Leno (former mill town)

High Springs, Florida

Former Santa Fe River mill settlement now within O'Leno State Park.

1 fact→
Cemetery
Medium

St. Joseph Cemetery

Port St. Joe, Florida

Cemetery preserving memory of the 1841 yellow-fever epidemic.

1 fact→
Ruins
Unverified

Addison Blockhouse Historic State Park

Florida

Protected historic blockhouse ruins.

0 facts→