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If you’re planning to visit Cassadaga,
Florida this Halloween, chances are, the townspeople already
know you’re coming. That’s because this tiny town
35 miles north of Orlando is purportedly the largest spiritualist
community in the country, and a good number of its residents
claim to be psychic. New Florida shadows an anxious
tourist who’s come to Cassadaga to find out what her future
holds.
Some folks believe that a full moon can
send both animals and people into fits of odd behavior. Others
believe that a full moon can change the luck of those who
worship it. And, in fact, full moons have, over the years,
been associated with an increase in everything from female
fertility to murder rates. Now, New
Florida gets the real
scoop on moon myths from Star
Gazer's Jack Horkheimer, the Executive Director of the Miami
Space Transit Planetarium.
A century ago in Key West, a young boy
received a doll as a gift from an unhappy Bahamian servant
girl. The boy dubbed the three-foot tall doll “Robert,” and
the two became constant companions. But after the doll’s
arrival in the home, strange incidents began occurring and,
invariably, the boy would protest his innocence – claiming
instead that “Robert did it.” Now, the boy has
long since grown old and passed away, but his mischievous
doll remains. New Florida visits
Robert at his new home, the Fort
East Martello Museum and Gardens in Key West.
Some call Dave Shealy an adventurer,
some call him a con-man, and others think he is simply a
crack-pot. After all, why else would someone spend 25 years
searching the Everglades for a hairy monster called the Skunk
Ape? New Florida investigates.
It was the final
drinking place for two of Jack the Ripper's victims and is
said to be haunted by the spirit of a young wife who was murdered
there, but that isn't the strangest part of the story of the
Blue Anchor Pub. New
Florida visits the pub at its final
resting place in Delray Beach.
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