Welcome To Winter Garden's #1 Rated Ghost Tour!

From the mischievous pair haunting a hotel elevator to the teenage boy causing chaos at a hotel-turned-bar, Winter Garden is a fascinating collection of spooky, intriguing, and sometimes downright scary phantoms bound to our realm for an eternity.

The Christmas Eve Massacre

The negative energy left behind after a murder is almost guaranteed to manifest some spirits. Sometimes, the specter is noisy and angry, forever in a rage for having their life stripped from them. Others are a lingering residual of the tragic events. At the former Zeigler’s Furniture Store, at least one apparition appears suddenly and vanishes just as quickly, as if trapped in that horrific night.

Listen to Winter Garden Ghosts and venture back to Christmas Eve 1975, the day a black stain infected the Zeigler name. What seemingly started as a normal Christmas Eve quickly dissolved into a bloody massacre. Four were dead, all killed with a gunshot wound to the head. Who killed them and why remains a mystery today, even with Tommy Zeigler waiting on death row decades later.

With Tommy proclaiming his innocence and Winter Garden’s justice system unwavering in its narrative of the events, only the four deceased could reconstruct the events of that night. Though at least one spirit remained behind, even after Zeigler’s shut down. Hear this horrifying tale and more on a heart-pounding ghost tour with Winter Garden Ghosts.

What Will I See?

Visit Winter Garden’s Most Haunted Locations, Including:

• Garden Theatre – The Garden Theatre’s ghost is a refreshing reminder that not everything in the spirit world is layered with horrors and tragedy. Still in operation, the Garden Theatre is a favorite haunt for locals and one very dedicated apparition.

• Central FL Railroad Museum – The Central Florida Railroad Museum’s known ghost has but one tie to the building: the conductor’s uniform that’s on display. 

• Edgewater Hotel – Whereas many hotels deal with shadows in the guestrooms or longing apparitions roaming the halls, Edgewater has an elderly man and a young boy connected in the afterlife by a common interest. 

A Spirit Anchored to a Timeless Relic

Filled with relics from different ages, the Central Florida Railroad Museum is a convergence of energies bound to each object on display. Every porous surface, piece of fabric, or conductive metal has the ability to be a conduit for an anchored spirit. Despite the multitude of antiquated items, it’s only one that came with an ethereal guest.

Enjoy a lesson in ghostly science as Winter Garden Ghosts hones in on the conductor’s uniform within the museum. Thought to be the anchor object for an apparition, it’s led to all manner of activity since its arrival. Other objects have come to life, like the lanterns that somehow glow with no fuel source. Even the model trains have seen some action, suggesting the spirit has found peace at the museum.

Why is Winter Garden so Haunted?

Edgewater’s Haunted Elevator

Not everyone who checks into a hotel gets to check out, their lifeforce becoming part of the building’s foundation. Winter Garden’s Edgewater isn’t unique because it lacks haunts, but rather because of who haunts it and why.

Venture into Winter Garden’s history with Winter Garden Ghosts and revisit the blossoming friendship between Frank and Jack. Frank, the hotel’s elevator operator from 1927 to his death in 1950, met all manner of people during his tenure. It probably wasn’t until he met Jack, a seven-year-old staying at the Edgewater with his family, that he found someone with a shared appreciation for the elevator. 

The unlikely friendship blossomed until fate decided a different path for the young boy. Frank enjoyed the company of Jack’s ghost until his own death years later. They’re two very different presences, with Jack often startling guests and Frank emitting an aura of comfort. However, they may not be the only two that inhabit the hotel. 

Winter Garden’s Most Haunted

The Winter Garden Branch Library may be a relatively newer building, but that doesn’t preclude it from a spectral presence. In fact, its construction may have given a spirit a reason to show itself. The mysterious young man who walks past the entrance dresses as if from another age. Who he is remains unknown, but his 70s apparel suggests he’s the victim of a 1978 car accident that left one dead. 

Sunland Mental Hospital may be 20 minutes east in Orlando, but it emanates an energy that can be felt far and wide. What’s left after the 1999 demolition is a breeding ground for something sinister, an entity that may have been responsible for the near-death experience of an urban explorer. Abandoned mental hospitals are no place for the living, and the shadows in this Orlando haunt will gladly serve as a reminder.

A haunted cemetery is a lot like a school crowded with children. It’s expected, and often chaotic and loud. Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando, the city’s first formal burying ground, hosts its own assembly of the eternally restless and recently departed. The cemetery even has direct ties to the empty halls of the Sunland Hospital as the final resting place for many of the children who died while in care.

* This is a walking tour and we do not enter privately-owned buildings or private property *