Stay in Key West’s best haunted hotels!
The Artist House
The Artist House is Key West’s most popular haunted bed & breakfast because of its great location and notoriety as the former home of Robert the Doll. Guests at this haunted hotel report all kinds of activity, including the ghost of a little girl on the stairs, a spirit who sits on freshly-made beds leaving an imprint from the weight of her butt, and a playful spirit who smells like vintage perfume and likes to keep everything in order. Paranormal activity takes place throughout the house, but ghost hunters love to book the turret suite where Robert the Doll spent a lot of time.
Curry Mansion Inn
Multiple friendly spirits haunt the mansion on the homestead of Florida’s first millionaire. A visiting psychic encountered the ghost of a woman named Sarah by the brick hearth in the kitchen. Staff believes this is Sarah “Aunt Sally” Curry who invented Key lime pie in the mansion’s cookhouse. Guests on the second floor wake up to a housekeeper folding sheets at the foot of their beds, and the sound of coins dropping. This may be the spirit of a maid swept away with the original house during a storm. Strange lights move about the widow’s walk after dark.
La Concha Hotel
The ghosts of several suicide victims haunt the building they jumped from. They include an attorney named Fred who tried to frame his secretary on his way down and a depressed man who knocks chardonnay wine out of unsuspecting guests’ hands. Elevators at the hotel stop for no reason and open on floors where nobody gets in. Guests report the presence of the ghost of a young man who fell down the elevator shaft just after midnight on New Year’s Eve. A shadow figure who moves up and down the lobby staircase leading to the pool is rumored to be former Senator John Spottswood.
The Ridley House
The Ridley House is a fantastic haunted hotel in the heart of Old Town Key West. One of the ghosts haunting the hotel is former resident Luke Hamilton Kemp. Kemp was involved with the U.S. Customs Service in Key West until his nervous breakdown. He sought treatment in Atlanta to no avail and was returned to his Key West home by ambulance. Kemp died on July 25, 1934, at 1:05 pm. Today his ghost makes rounds of the house locking doors and closing windows in an effort to keep himself safe.
Old Town Manor
The protective spirits of Dr. William Warren and his wife, Genevieve, haunt their former home-turned-haunted inn. The front porch was a waiting room for Dr. Warren’s patients, and the front rooms were used for examinations and surgeries. Guests of the haunted hotel often report dreams of a medical nature where they meet a doctor fitting Dr. Warren’s description. Genevieve Warren created one of the finest gardens in Key West. Many elements of the original garden remain today, and her ghost is usually encountered in this area by the cistern or fish pond.
Marrero’s Guest Mansion
Marrero’s Guest Mansion has long been a favorite haunted hotel in Key West. Enriquetta Marrero once lived in the home with her children, but her husband's sudden and suspicious death resulted in the house being turned over to a previous wife, and Enriquetta and her children were put out on the streets. Some of the family didn’t survive. Enriquetta swore the house was rightfully hers and she would always remain in spirit. Guests encounter her spirit and the ghosts of some of her children.