Field Guide to Haunted Orlando

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Halloween Costume Contest Wear a costume and compete to win prizes. Halloween Howl This annual community event offers family-friendly trick-or-treating, arts and crafts for the kids, carnival games, haunted houses and food and drinks. Halloween Show with the New Earth Project 10 p. Halloween Spooktoberfest and Costume Contest The City of Casselberry sponsors an evening of family-friendly trick-or-treating, parades, crafts, live dance performances and DJ music.

Colonial Drive; free; Howl'oween Dog Costume Party Dress up your pooch for the chance to win prizes. Orlando Brewing's Halloween Party The brewery offers haunted brewery tours, live bands, food and a costume contest. Spooktacular Halloween-themed family event with trick-or-treating at local merchants, a costume parade and pumpkin carving. Trick or Treat Night The bar offers Halloween-inspired draft beers, bobbing for bottles contests and more. Trick or Treat Safe Zone Kids enjoy three floors of trick-or-treating, with pumpkin decorating, creepy crafts, photo opportunities and more.

Orange Blossom Trail; call for details; ; parliamenthouse. Halloween The restaurant hosts a showing of the horror film in the garden, with light bites and a garden bar. Kids Halloween Party Dress in your costume for a pizza buffet, cupcake decorating, contests and a showing of The Nightmare Before Christmas. Winter Park Road; visit website for details; ; stardustie. They can go trick-or-treating around the lake, enter costume contests, bounce around in inflatable houses, and take in the live entertainment. Halloween Jazz Night 9: Orange Blossom Trail; call for price; ; parliamenthouse. Halloween Torture Show Watch as performers make their way through a maze of improv comedy games.

Halloween Trick or Treating and Costume Contest Mall retail participants will hand out candy to little ones, while kids 12 and under compete in a costume contest. A Samhain Celebration to the Goddess of Death and Destruction Join in a witches ball, with a chair-decorating contest, costume contest, harvest buffet banquet, dancing and cash bar.

Wednesday; The Social, 54 N. Poltergeist Halloween night showing of 's horror flick directed by Tobe Hooper. The Old School Originals 6: Wednesday; Bikkuri Sushi, E. Trick Or Treat Bring the kiddos in their costumes for trick-or-treating, discounted canoe rentals, Fruit Shoot pumpkin-carving activity books and more. News , Cover Story , Video. Switch to the mobile version of this page. Latest in News The hunt for oil along Florida's Atlantic coast may be a reality again, but what does that mean for marine life? The building was built in , and is infamous for being the place where serial killer Ted Bundy was tried for the murder of Kimberly Leach in The name "Ted Bundy" can be Amanda Branham writes of this location in "Orlando Ghosts," though the law-firm no longer appears to be located here.

There are reports of a "phantom dog" roaming the eastern portion of Lake Eola Park. People will clearly see the small, brown dog walking the park, like any other dog, until he disappears right in front of their eyes. Sioux Villa was the home of Mahlon and Caroline Gore. Mahlon was an early mayor of Orlando. They built the home in on the shore of Lake Lucerne, but it was later moved to its current location on Waverly Place, just off Orange Avenue. Many children from Sunland Hospital were buried at this cemetery, and there are creepy sections within called "Baby Land 1" and "Baby Land 3", etc.

Visitors to these sections hear music box tunes and sometimes children's laughter. Although it looks like any other cookie-cutter shopping plaza building, this spot has an interesting "haunted" history. This site was once the home to "Colonial Plaza," one of Orlando's earliest shopping malls. It fell into decline in the s and was eventually razed in - all except the building A story given by a former employee says the automatic doors would operate on their own, merchandise would fall off the shelves without explanation, and objects were thrown.

An apparition was seen walking in an employee-area hallway; other strange occurrences were reported as well. Although it hardly looks like it, this mostly empty-looking plot of land is actually a pauper's cemetery. In fact, the cemetery was almost completely forgotten until county officials researching the area for possible development in discovered its true use in old documents.

Roughly people were buried there between Many of the prisoners were put to work in the local citrus groves. After the war, the air base was repurposed into the Orlando Executive Airport. The Leu Gardens were started by Mr. Leu, who in 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 , the Leus deeded the Princeton Hospital was turned into Lakeside Hospital in 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 This theatre was built in the s 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 Annie died four years later in There have been claims for many years now of seeing This museum was founded in , and is home to more than sculptures by Czech artist Albin Polasek. Many staff members feel Polasek's spirit still infuses the place, refusing to leave his beloved sculptures.

In , one guest snapped a photo of a tear miraculously suspended on Evans High School also known as Maynard Evans High School was demolished in and a brand new school was built on its foundations, which opened in In the old, pre school, there was supposedly a ghost in the auditorium. He didn't seem to be malevolent 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. 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 Avant-garde artist Andre Smith was a writer, etcher and sculptor built the pretty art compound in the s 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, , folks say his ghost still watches over his 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. Room has long been considered a haunted hot-spot in this Orlando hotel. Make the bed in this room and sometimes you'll find the faint imprint of a human form underneath the covers.

Others swear they have felt someone in the bed with them, or that it starts There are vague reports of a ghostly entity inhabiting room A guest swore they saw a full-bodied apparition and insisted on switching rooms. 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 Built in , the Peabody famous for its marching ducks was the second-tallest building in Orlando.

There are claims that a number of people have committed suicide in the building over the years, and that their spirits can sometimes be seen roaming the hallways. The Peabody building still stands, but This cemetery is well-known among the locals as a high-activity haunt-spot. The story goes that the ghost of Benjamin Miles haunts the cemetery, forever unable to rest because he was buried here in an unmarked grave.

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He appears on occasion, most frequently at night of course! There are vague reports of possible apparitions seen walking the grounds at night. Voices are heard when no one is around, and strange smells are detected. On the far western end of Chapman Road, where it becomes mostly dirt and shell near Route , locals say a ghostly mist appears between two electrical poles. It's always in just this one place, strangely enough, and some say they've heard screaming there as well. There is a small, green building in the middle of this cemetery, where some feel there is an evil presence.

Visitors feel it is hard to breathe in the area, and sometimes feel a weird sensation, like a tingling, in the hands. Others return home to find scratch 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.

This house was built by Captain W. Pierce later to become a director of Orlando's "National Bank" in 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 There are stories about "ghost children" playing in the old celery fields off of Andrew and Chapman - to the casual observer they appear to be normal children, but approach and try to speak to them and they will disappear right in front of your eyes.

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