florida legends

There are plenty of places in Florida where fog isn’t particularly strange. Chapman Road in Oviedo supposedly isn’t one of them. For years, stories have circulated about a strange patch of mist that appears along one particular stretch of Chapman Road. According to the legend, the mist can form in a surprisingly small area, sometimes accompanied by something even harder to explain: the sound of screaming. Some people say they’ve driven straight through it. Others claim they

A convicted murderer was hanged behind Sanford’s old fire station in 1923. More than a century later, some say Percy Bayliss never left.

An unsolved 1880s murder, a missing head, and stories of a ghost that still haunts Crystal Lake. Explore one of Lake Mary’s darkest local legends.