Rating:  Summary: Live Storytelling is Better than Reading Review: This is an interesting review of the ghosts around this area, although I think its better to go to Saint Augustine and go on a ghost story tour, if you like live ghost story telling. You get the benefit of the historical atmosphere of Saint Augustine that way and I like this primal, personal kind of entertainment. A lot of book merely covers just sightings of various ghosts, rather than telling gripping ghost stories. Of course, these are real ghost stories so the author cannot use the benefit of imagination to make them better. However, there are some good, simple, fact-based stories in the book. I particularly liked the one named Bert in which the story is told from the point of view of a ghost who wishes to have deeper relationship with 4 attractive young ladies in his house, but they are too scared to put up with his communications. (Hey, a lot of us living men have that problem!) The Spencers of Vilano Beach is another notable tale, but it's hard to believe. It tells of the mysterious Spencers who arrive in town one day, take up residence, throw parties all the time, then die one by one and no one ever figured out where exactly they came from. There have been reports of ghostly parties going on after their deaths.
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