Haunted Places in Key West, FL
Explore 9 haunted places in Key West, FL — museums, restaurants, inns and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.
- Audubon House and GardensMuseum · Key West, FLHarbor pilot and master wrecker Captain John H.
- Captain Tony's SaloonRestaurant · Key West, FLBuilt around 1851, this building served as an icehouse and the city morgue, then housed the original Sloppy Joe's Bar that Ernest Hemingway frequented before becoming Captain Tony's Saloon in 1958.
- Curry Mansion InnInn · Key West, FLThis grand Victorian mansion was begun under William Curry, a shipwreck salvager said to be Key West's first millionaire, and reworked into its present form by his son Milton around 1905.
- Ernest Hemingway Home and MuseumMuseum · Key West, FLThis French Colonial mansion was built in 1851 by marine architect and salvager Asa Tift and became Ernest Hemingway's home from 1931 to 1939, where he wrote some of his best-known work with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.
- Fort East Martello MuseumMuseum · Key West, FLThis 1862 Civil War-era brick fort houses Robert the Doll, arguably America's most famous haunted object.
- Key West CemeteryCemetery · Key West, FLFounded in 1847 on high ground after an 1846 hurricane washed bodies out of the previous seaside burial ground, this 19-acre cemetery holds an estimated 100,000 interments and is famous for its wry epitaphs, including one reading 'I told you I was sick.' Locals say souls disturbed by the hurricane never found peace, and visitors report floating lights, shadowy figures moving between tombstones, and cold gusts on still nights.
- Marrero's Guest MansionInn · Key West, FLCigar maker Francisco Marrero built this Victorian mansion to bring his beloved Enriquetta to the island, where they married and raised eight children.
- St. Paul's Episcopal ChurchChurch · Key West, FLSt.
- The Artist HouseHouse · Key West, FLBuilt in the 1890s, this ornate Queen Anne mansion was the lifelong home of painter Robert Eugene Otto and his wife Anne, a concert pianist, and is the original home of Robert the Doll.