Sunny Key West might not seem like the most probable setting for haunted houses, but this small beach community is home to some of the oldest—and downright creepiest—of all ghost stories. The city’s rich history of buccaneers and rumrunners provides the backdrop for a lot of these ghosts, like those that are said haunt Captain Tony’s Saloon. Before it was a bar, Captain Tony’s was supposedly the location of the island’s morgue, and the tree that grows through the building’s center is said to have been a major site for lynching pirates and other criminals, and many are said to still haunt the premises today. Other local ghost stories concern the writer Ernest Hemingway, who kept a home on Key West for some thirty years. Hemingway’s house, now a museum dedicated to his life and work, is said to house the novelist’s ghost. Some visitors and workers claim to see him walking the grounds, while others have heard the clicking of his typewriter coming from inside the main house.

九、西礁島，佛羅里達(dá)州

陽(yáng)光普照的西礁島可能看上去不像是鬼屋最可能的場(chǎng)景設(shè)定，但是這個(gè)小小的海灘社區(qū)卻是一些最古老最毛骨悚然的鬼故事的發(fā)源地。這座城市海盜和酒類走私的悠久歷史為許多這類故事提供了背景，比如鬧鬼的托尼船長(zhǎng)酒吧。據(jù)傳在成為酒吧之前，它是這座島的停尸房的位置，而穿過它中心生長(zhǎng)的那棵樹則是私刑處死海盜和其他罪犯的主要場(chǎng)所，許多犯人的幽靈現(xiàn)在還不肯離開這個(gè)屋子。當(dāng)?shù)仄渌墓砉适屡c作家歐內(nèi)斯特·海明威有關(guān)，他在西礁島生活了大約三十年。海明威的房子，現(xiàn)在是一個(gè)展示他的一生和作品的博物館，而他的靈魂據(jù)說也在那里。有些游客和工作人員稱見過他在地板上行走，還有些人聽見從房子里傳來打字機(jī)的滴答聲。


Most Haunted: Robert the Doll

The island’s art and historical museum isn’t haunted, but it does contain one of the creepiest artifacts of Key West’s history in the form of Robert, a large doll that many claim is possessed. The doll was given to painter Gene Otto in the early 1900s, and the young boy soon became deathly afraid of it, as he said it would often threaten him and wake him in the night by throwing furniture around the room. The boy’s parents would often swear they saw the doll moving, and neighbors claimed they often spotted Robert pacing in front of the windows of the house when the family was away.

最恐怖之物：羅伯特娃娃

島上的藝術(shù)歷史博物館沒有鬧鬼，但是它卻擁有一件西礁島歷史上最恐怖的手工制品，那就是羅伯特娃娃，一個(gè)被鬼附身的大娃娃。這個(gè)娃娃在二十世紀(jì)初被贈(zèng)予畫家吉恩·奧特，但是這個(gè)小男孩很快就被它嚇得要死。因?yàn)樗f它會(huì)經(jīng)常威脅他，晚上在房間里扔家具把他弄醒。男孩的父母發(fā)誓他們經(jīng)?？吹酵尥抟苿?dòng)，鄰居則常在他們家人外出的時(shí)候，看到羅伯特娃娃在房子的窗戶前踱步。

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