Historic haunted places in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Firefighter Robert Leland Knight was electrocuted in 1940, only twelve days into the job, after stepping into water charged by a downed power line. Crews who later worked at this 1…
Open to the public (museum campus; admission charged).
Ghost tours focus on the second-floor bedroom where Louise King Cromartie is said to have died, describing a see-through figure in period clothes at the upstairs window. Guides and…
Open to the public (history museum campus; admission charged).
Local ghost tours say a girl named LuLu Marshall, one of Ivy Stranahan's first pupils in 1899, drowned in the nearby New River and now plays on the inn's second-floor veranda. Hist…
Frank Stranahan died in the New River in front of his house in 1929, and tour operators describe as many as six presences inside, Frank among them. The stories involve banging wind…