10 Haunted Places In Jacksonville?
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If you're the type of person who believes in ghost, ghouls, and goblins, here are few sites in town you might want to avoid this weekend.
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Now this is a fun article. Should have included the Kingsley Plantation, home to some of Jacksonville's longest reported hauntings.
Yes, Old Red Eyes! How could I forget!
Okay, how in hell did we miss the Jacksonville Union Terminal, AKA: The 'Prime Osborn.' 15 million people per year, 1,000 employees not counting Railway Express, Southern Express, Adams Express, and The United States Railway Post Office. Hundreds of accidents, a dozen deaths and both tunnels and attic's (over the old 'Colored Waiting Room') and a ticket office with more twists, turns and huge cupboards then granny's kitchen.
Those tunnels and the attic's (several floors worth) are darker then pitch... Above that giant vaulted ceiling a doorway opens to an ancient one plank wide cat-walk above the ceiling plaster, just daring you to add one more body!
That place has got to be full of buggers and haints and I'm telling you there 'haint' no telling what will jump out at you.
I went to a funeral in moncrief in the 80s, plus the Slangin Em video was filmed in that grave yard. Lots of open vaults there.
Nice article. You don't think that it encourages people to go to these places on Halloween night, right?
Of course not. ;)
The abandoned parking garage on Main St. is pretty creepy too with its dark recesses and water filled elevator shafts.
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Not Jacksonville proper, but Ghost Light Road (Greenbrier Road) was a great spooky spot back in the day. The area is not nearly as scary anymore with all of the development nearby, but when it was a dirt road with an insane asylum, an abandoned airfield, and miles from anything, it was pretty freaky. Oh and then there's the whole ghost light thing, which I personally never saw, but tons of people swear on.
^I saw the Ghost Light a number of times, and with various different people, back when Greenbrier was still a dirt road. That was in the late 90's, though I've heard of people seeing it as far back as the 70's. The light doesn't appear anymore; they reconfigured the interchanges in the early 2000s, which seems to have disrupted the effect, whatever it was.
It had one of the greatest stories about it, too. A headless motorcycle rider patrolling a dirt road. Who can beat that?