Historic haunted places in Tampa, 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.
Open to the public (ground-floor restaurant and event spaces).
The most repeated report at this Ybor City clubhouse is babies crying on the lower floors when no infants are there. Staff over the years have also seen blown-out candles relight, …
The club's best-known figure is 'Virginia,' said to have been part of the cleaning staff, who appears on the grand front staircase and in the foyer. Investigators complain that bat…
Open to the public (hotel; lobby, bar and restaurant open to non-guests).
Gambling boss Charlie Wall testified before the Kefauver Committee in this courthouse's main courtroom in 1950 and was murdered five years later in a case never solved. Since the 2…
One grave reads simply 'Charles Owen Hanged 1882,' for a man lynched by a Tampa mob, and visitors claim to see the shadow of a hanging figure among the oaks near it at sunset. Tour…
Open to the public (films and events; ghost tours offered).
Projectionist Foster 'Fink' Finley worked in this 1926 movie palace's booth for most of his life and died there in 1965. Staff soon began to feel he had never left, and the booth r…
Open for tours and events (ghost tours via third-party operators).
Ybor City tour guides tell of 'Rosalita,' a young woman said to have been thrown from the third-floor ballroom after turning down a dance, and of a piano in that ballroom that play…