Shipwreck Museum and Key West Cemetery

In this episode, we wrap up our Key West series with two of the island’s most fascinating (and haunted) locations.

First, we head to the Key West Shipwreck Museum, a towering recreation of Asa Tift’s 19th‑century wrecking warehouse. Here, artifacts pulled from doomed ships like the Isaac Allerton are on display. Many believed to carry spirits along with them. Visitors report shadows, phantom footsteps, and the eerie presence of up to 13 ghosts, including the terrifying figure known as Daddy Long Legs, a spindly shadow creature seen crawling across walls and ceilings in the museum’s old cistern basement. And every year on July 1st, strange alarms, apparitions, and unexplained events mark the anniversary of a tragic death atop the museum’s 65‑foot observation tower. Add in a rumored cursed silver bar from a 1600s shipwreck, and you’ve got yourself one unforgettable haunted stop.

Then we make our way to the Key West Cemetery, a sprawling 19 acres of history and mystery where over 100,000 souls rest, outnumbering the living locals by four to one. It’s a place of eclectic monuments, legendary epitaphs, and ties to so many figures we’ve mentioned throughout this series: lighthouse keepers, wreckers, sea captains, and even Robert the Doll’s family. But the cemetery isn’t just history. It’s alive with ghost stories! Some visitors hear a playful little girl’s voice asking them to follow her to her grave, while others encounter the intimidating spirit of a Bahamian woman who fiercely protects the grounds.

It’s the perfect place to end our journey through haunted Key West: a museum filled with relics of tragedy and a cemetery where the island’s stories truly rest. Or… maybe not.

So, what do you think? Will you climb the tower at the Shipwreck Museum? Wander the rows of Key West Cemetery? Or maybe… see if one of these ghosts is willing to say hello.

Thanks for joining us for our Key West series! Stay tuned! More haunted adventures are just around the corner. Next up, we are heading to our home states, Texas and Pennsylvania!

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