October 21, 2025 • 9 mins
Is Florida the most haunted state in the United States? A new survey reveals that the entire state could be flooded with haunted establishments
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ghost stories. I want to hear them. We're live on
Tampa Bay's number one and only hit music channel ninety
three three fl Z. It's the Joe Show. Where do
you think Florida ranks in the country as far as
states with the most ghost sightings? There's a new survey
that was released and then I brought it up to
(00:21):
a friend. I brought up to friends in a group chat,
and someone in that group chat saw ghost. So I'm
just curious. One, have you seen a ghost? Tell me
the story? And then I guess. Two, Where do you
think we rank? And I'll let you know. Where do
you think we rank as top three? Top three? I
(00:44):
would say probably fifteenth, like mid tier. I would say,
like in the twenties, twenties. Okay, why are you saying?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I feel like Florida does really haunted. I know, but
why did you say awed? I wanted to be top three?
I didn't say if it was or not. You said
twenty oh. I was just repeating. Maybe I heard to
go say it, Maybe I had to go say it.
What do we think number one is? We're not number one?
What is number one? Juts?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I would say best New Orleans? You're wrong, New York
topping the list one hundred and sixty thousand over one
hundred and sixty thousand ghost sidings, roughly eighty one sightings
per ten thousand people. That's scary, all right. Number two
is Indiana, Now Ohio, Texas really? Then Louisiana Okay, yeah, California.
(01:43):
I'm shocked about that one. Utah in at number six. Florida. Yes,
I was close. That's the top three, number six. I
wish we were higher than that, though. I think we
should be higher, right, I told you top three for sure,
because a lot of things happen here.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A lot of people who do things in other cities
they come here and they bring their bad energy here
and they sometimes die here, which means their ghost is here.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah. So I have a friend that is convinced he
has seen multiple ghosts, all right, which then that makes
me go, maybe he's crazy. I don't know why. But
if you if you've seen multiple of them, something doesn't
seem right with that. If you've seen one of them,
maybe maybe that's the case. I don't know why. That's
the way I think. But like my mom, she one
(02:34):
time with girlfriends they stayed at the don Cizar. She's
convinced the one in Saint Pete. She is convinced that
she saw ghosts there. And many people say that they've
seen the ghost there. Yeah, they say that beautiful, but
I can definitely super beautiful. But I think that there
is like a ghost that they talk about. Hey, Sandra,
(02:54):
good morning, good morning. You saw a ghost very recently.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yes, it actually happened. It actually happened last week. I
recently lost my father and I was sitting in my
living room and my house is divided, and as I'm
sitting there, I see a shadow beside me, and I wonder.
I'm like, at first I thought it was a shadow
from the TV. But then when I looked, I was
scared to look over to my right, so I kind
(03:23):
of looked through the left and I noticed that my
bedroom door was still closed, so my husband was in there.
I said, well, maybe I forgot to lock the front door.
I turned around and I locked the front door. I
beat the front door was locked, so I when I
turned back to my right, it was gone. So then
the next morning, my husband gets up and he says,
(03:44):
he comes in the room and he said, it's something
in here, baby, and he's banging his stitch. He said,
I saw it. I saw it, and I'm like, what
are you talking about? And I said he left for work,
and then shortly afterwards I strove back off and then
I woke up and my dad was standing in front
of me and said, hey, I'm not gonna hurt you
really freaky, like what.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Did you do?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I froze.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I got up and I opened my eyes really quick,
and at that time, I said he was putting me
at ease because I did take the death pretty hard,
and I guess he was just I mean, after the end,
I woke up. I haven't cried. He was okay, Yes,
I haven't cried.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Thursday, Sandra, that makes me so happy that it does
put you to peace, although it doesn't make him happy
because he was trying to haunt you, and he's like,
I got to figure out something else.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It was me or my husband he was haunting.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Salt I girl, Sandra, God bless you. Thank you for
calling them, and I'm gonna be I'm gonna be praying
for you. I'm sorry for your loss. H Hey, Melissa, Hello,
I guess we're talking about you know, ghost sightings. Florida
Ranks number six in the country as far as ghost
(05:11):
sightings go. Melissa, you say that you have seen so
many of them.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yes, I actually used to be able to not necessarily
like kind of communicate, but I can kind of like
just see them. Like some I can be able to
see like their actual faces, even what their clothes are wearing,
or some there's just like actual just figures and you
can't really figure out like if there's a man or
a woman or anything like that. And even when I
(05:40):
was at school here in Tampa, my high school, I
remember I was done with Team high school off of
like fifty six and.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I didn't know why I didn't either.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, it's it's they actually just discovered that there's it
was built on top of a grave, so now they
have a memorial thing that they just I was like, Oh,
that's not cool.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You get a.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
But yeah, I actually came out of Art PC because
I was doing after school with that and when I
came out next door is actually the art class. But
what I saw from school is when I came out
my door, I looked over to the art and I
saw it's just white smoke like but it's the figure
(06:27):
of like a person, but like the smoke didn't touch
the floor like it was above it, but it was
like a human body and went through the door and
kept going through the hallway. So that's how I know,
Like I know it was the art class, but it
wasn't anything that they were doing in there in there,
because the smoke wasn't coming from the floor like out
of the scenes of the door. It just went through
(06:48):
the door and it wasn't even touching the floor. And then,
like I said, a couple of days, a couple of
years ago, being like three or four years ago, it
was on the news that they did a land survey
and they found that the whole time over where the
what we'll call it, you know, like the field and
the football and stuff like that. Yeah, it was a
(07:09):
graveyard the whole time.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Unbelievable, unbelievable, Yeah, that would makes sense.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I was like I knew I wasn't gravy. You were
not crazy, Yes, but it's it's a lot. It's a
lot of them around here that are built on top
of graves, like the Robles apartments that was built on
top of it.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yep, they just down.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
There's a lot of hidden graves all around Tampa. I'm
telling you it's very hard. I got to do research
on my neighborhood is built on a grave site.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
We're gonna find out this station was built on a
grave site, and everything's going to start making more sense
in my life. That's what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, that's why. That's why everything's going on. With the phones, man, I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Telling you on the phones. Actually it would more sound
like this, Stephanie.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
You saw your aunt in the room, a ghost of
your aunt, and we're talking about ghosts. Florida ranks number
six in the country far as ghost sighting goes. You
see your aunt in the room and she's touching your daughter,
What the hell is going on? That's like my uncle
if he was a ghost.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
So I was very close to my aunt. Her name
was Jay, and I sleep with an eyemask, so I
just assumed it was my mother trying to wake up
my daughter, and so I felt her lean over me
and my daughter started giggling. And then when I took
the mask off, I saw her standing there, just kind
(08:53):
of smiling, and she was wearing all white, and then
I kind of just like blinked again, and then she
just was gone.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's a good ghost story.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, she she visits me quite often though.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I love that Stepan. I just fair enough. Stephanie, I
uh yeah, I don't even know you've seen a ghost.
You haven't Eve said, have you seen a ghost?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Joe?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Absolutely not. No, I've never seen a ghost. Noone wants
to hang around me when they're alive, let alone dead.
Thank you. What does she want to say? We're gonna
call Stephanie back. Oh no, wait, hold on, We would
call her back, but loud is down.
Ghost stories. I want to hear them. We're live on
Tampa Bay's number one and only hit music channel ninety
three three fl Z. It's the Joe Show. Where do
you think Florida ranks in the country as far as
states with the most ghost sightings? There's a new survey
that was released and then I brought it up to
(00:21):
a friend. I brought up to friends in a group chat,
and someone in that group chat saw ghost. So I'm
just curious. One, have you seen a ghost? Tell me
the story? And then I guess. Two, Where do you
think we rank? And I'll let you know. Where do
you think we rank as top three? Top three? I
(00:44):
would say probably fifteenth, like mid tier. I would say,
like in the twenties, twenties. Okay, why are you saying?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I feel like Florida does really haunted. I know, but
why did you say awed? I wanted to be top three?
I didn't say if it was or not. You said
twenty oh. I was just repeating. Maybe I heard to
go say it, Maybe I had to go say it.
What do we think number one is? We're not number one?
What is number one? Juts?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
I would say best New Orleans? You're wrong, New York
topping the list one hundred and sixty thousand over one
hundred and sixty thousand ghost sidings, roughly eighty one sightings
per ten thousand people. That's scary, all right. Number two
is Indiana, Now Ohio, Texas really? Then Louisiana Okay, yeah, California.
(01:43):
I'm shocked about that one. Utah in at number six. Florida. Yes,
I was close. That's the top three, number six. I
wish we were higher than that, though. I think we
should be higher, right, I told you top three for sure,
because a lot of things happen here.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A lot of people who do things in other cities
they come here and they bring their bad energy here
and they sometimes die here, which means their ghost is here.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah. So I have a friend that is convinced he
has seen multiple ghosts, all right, which then that makes
me go, maybe he's crazy. I don't know why. But
if you if you've seen multiple of them, something doesn't
seem right with that. If you've seen one of them,
maybe maybe that's the case. I don't know why. That's
the way I think. But like my mom, she one
(02:34):
time with girlfriends they stayed at the don Cizar. She's
convinced the one in Saint Pete. She is convinced that
she saw ghosts there. And many people say that they've
seen the ghost there. Yeah, they say that beautiful, but
I can definitely super beautiful. But I think that there
is like a ghost that they talk about. Hey, Sandra,
(02:54):
good morning, good morning. You saw a ghost very recently.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yes, it actually happened. It actually happened last week. I
recently lost my father and I was sitting in my
living room and my house is divided, and as I'm
sitting there, I see a shadow beside me, and I wonder.
I'm like, at first I thought it was a shadow
from the TV. But then when I looked, I was
scared to look over to my right, so I kind
(03:23):
of looked through the left and I noticed that my
bedroom door was still closed, so my husband was in there.
I said, well, maybe I forgot to lock the front door.
I turned around and I locked the front door. I
beat the front door was locked, so I when I
turned back to my right, it was gone. So then
the next morning, my husband gets up and he says,
(03:44):
he comes in the room and he said, it's something
in here, baby, and he's banging his stitch. He said,
I saw it. I saw it, and I'm like, what
are you talking about? And I said he left for work,
and then shortly afterwards I strove back off and then
I woke up and my dad was standing in front
of me and said, hey, I'm not gonna hurt you
really freaky, like what.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Did you do?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I froze.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I got up and I opened my eyes really quick,
and at that time, I said he was putting me
at ease because I did take the death pretty hard,
and I guess he was just I mean, after the end,
I woke up. I haven't cried. He was okay, Yes,
I haven't cried.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Thursday, Sandra, that makes me so happy that it does
put you to peace, although it doesn't make him happy
because he was trying to haunt you, and he's like,
I got to figure out something else.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
It was me or my husband he was haunting.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Salt I girl, Sandra, God bless you. Thank you for
calling them, and I'm gonna be I'm gonna be praying
for you. I'm sorry for your loss. H Hey, Melissa, Hello,
I guess we're talking about you know, ghost sightings. Florida
Ranks number six in the country as far as ghost
(05:11):
sightings go. Melissa, you say that you have seen so
many of them.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yes, I actually used to be able to not necessarily
like kind of communicate, but I can kind of like
just see them. Like some I can be able to
see like their actual faces, even what their clothes are wearing,
or some there's just like actual just figures and you
can't really figure out like if there's a man or
a woman or anything like that. And even when I
(05:40):
was at school here in Tampa, my high school, I
remember I was done with Team high school off of
like fifty six and.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
I didn't know why I didn't either.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Yeah, it's it's they actually just discovered that there's it
was built on top of a grave, so now they
have a memorial thing that they just I was like, Oh,
that's not cool.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
You get a.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
But yeah, I actually came out of Art PC because
I was doing after school with that and when I
came out next door is actually the art class. But
what I saw from school is when I came out
my door, I looked over to the art and I
saw it's just white smoke like but it's the figure
(06:27):
of like a person, but like the smoke didn't touch
the floor like it was above it, but it was
like a human body and went through the door and
kept going through the hallway. So that's how I know,
Like I know it was the art class, but it
wasn't anything that they were doing in there in there,
because the smoke wasn't coming from the floor like out
of the scenes of the door. It just went through
(06:48):
the door and it wasn't even touching the floor. And then,
like I said, a couple of days, a couple of
years ago, being like three or four years ago, it
was on the news that they did a land survey
and they found that the whole time over where the
what we'll call it, you know, like the field and
the football and stuff like that. Yeah, it was a
(07:09):
graveyard the whole time.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Unbelievable, unbelievable, Yeah, that would makes sense.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
I was like I knew I wasn't gravy. You were
not crazy, Yes, but it's it's a lot. It's a
lot of them around here that are built on top
of graves, like the Robles apartments that was built on
top of it.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yep, they just down.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
There's a lot of hidden graves all around Tampa. I'm
telling you it's very hard. I got to do research
on my neighborhood is built on a grave site.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
We're gonna find out this station was built on a
grave site, and everything's going to start making more sense
in my life. That's what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yeah, that's why. That's why everything's going on. With the phones, man, I'm.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Telling you on the phones. Actually it would more sound
like this, Stephanie.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
You saw your aunt in the room, a ghost of
your aunt, and we're talking about ghosts. Florida ranks number
six in the country far as ghost sighting goes. You
see your aunt in the room and she's touching your daughter,
What the hell is going on? That's like my uncle
if he was a ghost.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
So I was very close to my aunt. Her name
was Jay, and I sleep with an eyemask, so I
just assumed it was my mother trying to wake up
my daughter, and so I felt her lean over me
and my daughter started giggling. And then when I took
the mask off, I saw her standing there, just kind
(08:53):
of smiling, and she was wearing all white, and then
I kind of just like blinked again, and then she
just was gone.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's a good ghost story.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, she she visits me quite often though.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I love that Stepan. I just fair enough. Stephanie, I
uh yeah, I don't even know you've seen a ghost.
You haven't Eve said, have you seen a ghost?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Joe?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Absolutely not. No, I've never seen a ghost. Noone wants
to hang around me when they're alive, let alone dead.
Thank you. What does she want to say? We're gonna
call Stephanie back. Oh no, wait, hold on, We would
call her back, but loud is down.
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