Northeast Florida is a popular destination for ghost hunters.
With St. Augustine being the oldest city in America, rumors of hauntings and apparitions run rampant throughout the area.
Jacksonville, being less than an hour from historic St. Augustine, is not immune from these legends either.
Let’s take a look at five places in Jacksonville that are rumored to be haunted – and the reasoning behind their hauntings.
Ever wonder what that old building behind the arena is?
Allow us to introduce you to the old St. Luke’s Hospital building, built in the 1870s to treat patients with tuberculosis.
Given the horrific nature of that disease, many of these patients ended up dying in the hospital. Combine this fact, the building’s age, and how spooky it looks at night, and the property becomes ripe for rumors of ghost activity.
The hospital ceased operations in 1914. The building was recently used as office space for the Arthritis Foundation, and is now owned by the Jacksonville Historical Society.
There are rumors of people seeing patients – and even nurses – from the old hospital at night.
Sounds like a fun place to work – why on earth did the Arthritis Foundation end up leaving?
