Stories from the edge of explanation.
About 4 min readFor 28 years, a slight Latvian immigrant worked alone and at night, carving and moving some 1,100 tons of limestone into a castle in Florida — and he never told anyone how he did it.
About 4 min readFlorida’s oldest light station has guided ships since 1824, but its most famous story is a tragedy from 1873, when three girls drowned during construction of the present tower — an event visitors still link to the lighthouse’s reported hauntings.
About 4 min readDeep in the Florida Everglades lives a creature, say witnesses, five to seven feet tall, covered in reddish hair — and smelling so bad it gave the beast its name. In 2000, two photographs arrived anonymously at a sheriff’s office. They have never been explained.