The island’s warm climate won’t save you from the bone-chilling tales of its history and hauntings. Find out why Key West is the place where dreams come true, until they become nightmares…
Southernmost Ghosts presents an unflinching look at the Conch Republic’s storied past and dives into the lesser-known, shocking stories of life and death in this island paradise. From the quirky to the macabre, find out what makes Key West the Southernmost Haunted Destination.
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Tour guide Eddie was knowledgeable and funny. We enjoyed the ghost tour. No one else signed up so we had our own private tour.
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This is an amazing, fun and informative tour where you get to learn about the history of Key West and it’s ghosts. It’s entertaining and we learne...
Discover the dark truth about the Florida Keys! Where anyone from the spirit of Ernest Hemingway to the world’s most cursed doll, Robert the Doll, meet in a macabre melange at Florida's Southernmost point.
Tour Meeting Location: 512 Caroline St, Key West, FL 33040
There is nowhere to go after you get to Key West. The southernmost city in North America is the end of the line for many travelers. No matter how you get here, some never leave. This tiny island city has a historic old town ripe with stories of things that could only happen here.
We have worked hard to bring you a carefully selected tour with the best stories on the island that will also illuminate some of the fascinating histories of this southernmost place.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Graveyard
When you stand on the romantic, overgrown grounds of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Graveyard, you may ask yourself: where is St. Paul’s? The church once loomed over the frighteningly haunted graveyard and burned down a century ago when a distressed pastor set it aflame. It burned down a second time in a city-wide fire in 1886. The structure you see today has been home to a sordid history that creeps out through the walls and haunts the graveyard.
The Crowne Plaza/La Conca Hotel
La Concha Hotel was supposed to be the first luxury hotel in old downtown Key West. But after over a dozen suicides, freak accidents, and murders within its walls, its ill-famed reputation is for something other than luxury. Brave visitors have reported an elevator that hovers around the fifth floor, refusing to rise any higher; drinks nabbed out of the hands of unsuspecting guests, and even the ghost of Ernest Hemingway scratching his beard in the Hemingway suite, when he often stayed.
Marrero’s Guest Mansion
This beautifully restored Victorian mansion was built in 1890 by Francisco Marrero for his beloved wife. Nestled in the heart of the historic district, the mansion exudes old-world charm. From the smell of Henrietta Marrero’s lavender perfume to the children crying in rooms 17 and 23, it brings a piece of Victorian life to the living, whether we like it or not.
What to Expect on Your Gettysburg Ghost Tour
Southernmost Ghosts walking ghost tour focuses on the terrifying truth. Each tour stop has been intensively researched, and we provide real accounts of the historical events surrounding the verified accounts of hauntings associated with each location. Each of your guides is a trained storyteller and local resident. They tell well-researched historical tales that will have a ghostly grip on your memory.
Every stop tells a part of the tale of the special atmosphere that exists here in Key West. Layers of twisted history lurk under the veneer of normalcy on Duval Street, and every house seemingly has a story to tell.
Our tour is up to date and guarantees an accurate historical experience with the added bonus of unforgettable stories of human misery and ghastly hauntings that will make the tour unforgettable!
Discover the Horrors That Haunt Key West
Learn about the mansion-turned-hotel that is said to be haunted by an angry former owner.
Visit the former hotel that housed a famed troubled author, where it’s said he can still be seen.
Discover the popular saloon that once served as a morgue and sits on top of a slew of buried bodies.
Check out the manor that is said to be so haunted that paranormal investigators flock to it regularly.
Take a walk with us on a chilling Key West ghost tour of the haunted hotspots of Key West!
With so many tours and activities to choose from Southernmost, how do you choose which ones to book?
The Curry Mansion
Now known as Amsterdam’s Curry Mansion Inn, the Curry Mansion is one of the most chilling stays in all of Key West. This picturesque historic mansion is filled with shadows and mystery, and a ghostly, weeping woman still walks the old rooms as a permanent guest…
Hard Rock Café
Hard Rock Cafe is known worldwide, but this infamous haunt has earned a reputation all its own. Behind the long history of paranormal activity within Key West’s Hard Rock lies a mysterious connection with The Curry Mansion. Two worlds, modern and bygone, are linked by a haunting presence. Learn the true story only as guests of Southernmost Ghosts!
Captain Tony’s Saloon
Key West is full of watering holes, but this saloon is one of the few where you can drink among the dead. Built over a former morgue and execution site, Captain Tony’s Saloon has had a long and tortured history through the many names the bar has held, the lives that met their end at its bar, and the dead still trapped within its walls. Drink up!
Ocean Key Resort
One of the most modern haunted places on the island, the Ocean Key Resort offers luxurious hospitality for guests both living and dead. Book your room carefully, though—or else you may end up with a rather rude ghostly neighbor who refuses to check out.
The Porter Mansion – and a mysterious stack of dimes
Dr. Joseph Yates Porter was the first Public Health officer of Florida, a Conch, born and bred, he spent his career studying Yellow Fever that terrorized the island every summer. Especially dangerous for children, Dr. Porter treated dozens of children many of whom never recovered. The tragic loss of those children’s young lives deeply affected Dr. Porter. He would leave dimes on the eyes of the deceased children he had failed to save.
He passed away peacefully, but disappointed, in the bedroom where he was born. He did however help discover that mosquitos spread the disease, but he did not find a cure.
To this day, mysterious stacks of dimes appear throughout the house, and chamber music fades in and out of the thick summer nights, with no obvious source. Join us on a tour to hear more about Dr. Porters’ haunting of this Key West landmark.
The Key West connection with Hemingway and Sloppy Joe’s.
Hemingway often drank in Sloppy Joe’s bar, once a morgue, a telegraph house and then a speakeasy. The bar has a reputation as big as Papa Hemingway’s. It is also riddled with ghosts, right outside the bar is a tall and old tree. Over 75 criminals and pirates took their last breath on this hangman’s killing ground.
Take the Southernmost Ghosts tour and hear the tales of some of the people who lost their lives here but still hang around, including the deranged ‘lady in blue’.
Tour Meeting Location: 512 Caroline St, Key West, FL 33040
Tour Times: 8:00 PM
Tour Length: 1 Hour
Ghost tours are held nightly, rain or shine!
