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Halloween in Jax

Ghost tours, haunted houses & more!

Experience Jacksonville's Favorite Haunted House 🏰

Enjoy a spooky libation at their onsite bar, throw some axes, and test your wits in a mini room escape, 13th Floor is your Halloween destination this spooky season! If you’re looking to get scared and have some Halloween fun, 13th Floor is the perfect spot to check out this season!

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See our Spooky Stroll in St. Aug 🦇

We had a spooky time going on A Ghostly Encounter ghost tour located in St. Augustine. The staff is incredible, the stories are like no other, and it will for sure send a shiver down your spine! They are rated by USA Weekly as one of the top ghost tours in the United States! If you are looking for a unique date night with your boo, a day trip to St. Augustine followed by A Ghostly Encounter ghost tour is the perfect spooky season date night!

Fun for all Halloween activities

Spooktacular

One of the best Halloween events in Jacksonville, the 36th annual Spooktacular, presented by VyStar Credit Union, is perfect for children of all ages! For those who love to be spooked, this year boasts new creepy characters at the startling Scare Zones (ages 13+) with 20 more scared than ever before! These Scare Zones are clearly marked for those who don’t wish to enter – and Scaredy Cat necklaces are available to purchase for those who’d like protection from monsters!

There are also seven different candy stations for trick-or-treating, plus impressive themed sections like Pumpkin Hollow, Witches of Trout River, and more! Enjoy frightfully fun entertainment, scary good music, and delicious treats at this year’s Spooktacular!

Haunted Trail and Cornmaze at Connor's

For kiddos who love a good scare, this event is for you! Happening the last weekend of October, right before Halloween, travel to Hilliard, Florida for the ultimate haunted corn maze! Connor’s A-Maize-ing Acres is hosting a bone-chilling, spine-tinging haunted trail that is NOT for the faint of heart. Did we mention you will be in complete darkness, as no flashlights are allowed? Enter if you dare, and experience horrifying sights, frightening sounds, and terrifying monsters as you venture through the cornfield! This is one of the spookiest Halloween events in Jacksonville!

*Not recommended for children under 10. Children 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

Haunt Nights

Get ready to get spooked, Jacksonville! Haunt Nights at Adventure Landing is the perfect spot to go if you’re a thrill seeker or horror fan. This year, they’re offering double the scares with 2 new haunted houses – Coven and The Slideshow! Wander through fully immersive rooms with incredible decorations while you anticipate the ultimate jump scare at Haunt Nights!

🗓️Select nights in October
📍Adventure Landing Jax Beach

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Trick or Treat Scavenger Hunt

Don’t worry! Connor’s is holding a Halloween event for little kids and scaredy cats, too! For those of you who heed the warnings and choose to steer clear of the haunted corn maze, there will also be a Trick or Treat scavenger hunt on October 28th! Enjoy finding all the sweet treats and enjoying neat tricks spread all around the farm! plus, all regular farm activities are included in your visit.

Nighttime Wagon Rides at Connor's

For a more peaceful family night out, Connor’s A-Maize-ing Acres offers a nighttime wagon ride and flashlight maze! Enjoy cool Fall Florida nights as the wagon rides through beautiful woods and pastures, and gaze up at the stars as they illuminate the night sky. If you’d like, test your skills and attempt to navigate the corn maze with only a flashlight! This event is happening only on October 20th & the 21st, so don’t miss out!

Halloween Lantern Festival

The Jacksonville Arboretum & Botanical Gardens are opening their doors for a night of spooktacular entertainment the weekend before Halloween!  The 2nd Annual Halloween Lanterns Festival will feature a magical nighttime experience with beautiful lanterns, lights, and lasers! Enjoy delicious food trucks, fun festive music, a silent disco, and more!

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Haunted Places in Jacksonville

El Modelo Block

This daunting brick building is one of only a few buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1901 in Downtown Jacksonville. El Modelo Block used to house Gabriel Hidalgo Gato’s El Modelo Cigar manufacturing company circa 1887. After Gato died, the property served as The Plaza Hotel, and then several bars as well. The area was known to be seedy and dangerous, so bar fights were to be expected.

Many think the building is still haunted by more than its old infamous reputation. In 1907, a Spanish-American war veteran was shot in the chest immediately after entering. Whether he is seeking revenge or still waiting on a drink, it is believed to be his ghost that still lingers in the building.

📍501-513 W Bay St, Jacksonville, FL 32202

Evergreen Cemetery

As Jacksonville’s oldest fully operating cemetery, with the first burial dating back to 1881, there’s no surprise that this location made it on our list of haunted places. This cemetery is the final resting place of many important people in  Jacksonville’s history, including the city’s founder, Isaiah D. Hart. It holds over 70,000 burials on 170 acres. When it first opened, some remains were moved from other cemeteries to Evergreen, disturbing the graves of many.

There are three main spirits said to haunt Evergreen Cemetery. The Lady in Violet appears at the entrance to the older eastern section, wearing a Victorian-aged violet dress. Violet was a color of mourning in this era, and rumor has it that anyone who sees this particular apparition will have a death in the family soon. The second haunting is a man in old-fashioned attire near the now-restored Dodd Family mausoleum. The third is the ghost of a woman who can be seen by the “Ugly Angel” tombstone in the western section of the cemetery.

📍4535 N Main St, Jacksonville, FL 32206

The Florida Theatre

Void Magazine has called the Florida Theatre “One of the Top Seven Most Haunted Places in Northeast Florida,” and for a good reason! With tons of history involving early European settlers, the Timucua and Mocama indigenous peoples, and a city jail being in the exact location of the Theatre, there are so many opportunities for hauntings!

Many people have claimed to sense a presence in the projection booth. From doors closing unexpectedly to lights and equipment malfunctioning, even voices and full-body apparitions! Psychic Jill Cook-Richards claims to have spoken with the ghost, called “J” for Joy.

Let’s not forget Section 500, Row E, Seat 2! In 2010, a paranormal investigation TV Show called Local Haunts visited the Florida Theatre. They captured an incredibly clear video of a ghostly apparition of a man sitting in this specific seat. With all the renovations, the Florida Theatre made sure to preserve and restore the Ghost Seat, putting it back in its original location once complete.

📍128 E Forsyth St #300, Jacksonville, FL 32202

Riverside House

Constructed in the 1860s, this building was originally a resort hotel named Rochester House. When it was first built, the structure sat on the corner of Leila Street and Riverside Avenue, But in 1911, it was barged upriver to its present location. That’ll disrupt some spirits if you ask us!

The most famous guest of the Rochester House was Mary Todd Lincoln, who traveled to Jacksonville in 1874. She was overwhelmed with grief and depression from the death of her 3 sons and husband, Abraham Lincoln. In March 1875, she hurried to Chicago, convinced her last surviving son was deathly ill. Upon finding him completely healthy, she claimed someone had attempted to poison her on the train ride there. Her mind continued to decline, and after she nearly jumped from a window trying to escape a non-existent fire, she was institutionalized in Illinois.

Many attribute Mary’s decline to an unseeable impact Rochester House had on her. Visitors, to this day, report the apparition of a woman in a black dress, allegedly the bride of a Confederate blockade runner. They say you can hear her footsteps from the third floor.

📍715 Riverside Ave, Jacksonville, FL 32204

The San Marco Theatre

This iconic theatre is known for its brightly colored art-deco style. Something that locals might not be familiar with, however, is the chilling tales of a former manager, who died in the offices, still haunting the theatre. Former employees of the theater have seen a ghostly form standing in the manager’s office looking down at them.

After permanently closing its doors in 2022, we can only imagine how the ghost is roaming the aisles.

📍1996 San Marco Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32207

Public School Number 4

So many terrifying legends center around this dilapidated and decaying building. Tucked underneath the 95 overpass sits Public School Number 4, also known as Annie Lytle Elementary. With its once impressive white columns, boarded-up windows, and crumbling brick walls, one could easily see how this building has fostered such horrifying tales.

A cannibalistic principal who stored troublemakers in a meat locker on hooks until he was ready to devour them. A Janitor who would boil students alive in the basement. Teachers who would murder their students. A furnace explosion that killed students and faculty. Disappearing children, satanic rituals, and even ghosts of former classmates.

While the rumors are urban legends and most likely greatly exaggerated stories told by school children –  It’s no wonder this location is also called “the Devil’s School.” Visitors have claimed to see odd shadows and heard disembodied voices.

As tempting (or untempting for us!) as it might be to venture inside and go hunting for ghosts of little children who still play in the schoolyard if you couldn’t tell by the chainlink fences the building is highly unsafe to explore. Plus, you could get arrested!

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