Tampa, Florida Ghost Tales    The Sulphur Springs Water Park is one of the creepiest places in Tampa, & perhaps, the state of Florida. It was built in the early 1900's by a rich land developer named J. Richardson. He was known to not only be rich, and had political power in Tampa, but he was known to be involved in witchcraft and numerology. He built the 214' water tower, which resembles a light house, to supply water for his park and resort at that time. Then he built a 2 story gazebo which was a public bathing area. His house was just a few blocks away. The house is really the creepiest, because it contains a basement which is built like a medeival dungeon, with large stones that are shaped on the outside of the basement wall like large skulls. The house sits right on the Hillsborough River. Why would a house on the Hillsborough River even have a basement? That in itself is very creepy. The house was abandoned for many years and neighborhood kids have played in the basement, which has been seen to contain a stone table with strange, Satanic looking symbols, and a LONG UNDERGROUND TUNNEL which leads to a boarded up entrance to his water tower which is across the street. The location of his gazebo on Nebraska Ave., the water tower on Bird St., and the house on Stanley St. form the shape of a triangle. Richardson was rumored to have an obsession with triangles. There is a walkway on the river behind the waterpark that contains large triangle shaped stones in the water, very visible in the shallow parts. This area  has been a site for Satanists in Tampa for decades. There are even rumors of a mass suicide in the water tower many decades ago. There is a sealed up walkway that leads to a closed room underneath the stairway that leads to the second floor of the gazebo. The gazebo now has an iron gate completely surrounding it, which visitors are NEVER allowed to enter. You can see the sealed up room, but cannot get within 10' feet of it because of the surrounding fence. Many ghosts have been known to haunt this creepy area for years! About 20 years ago in Tampa, a school class took a field trip to the Sulphur Springs Water Park. A girl went into the spring and drowned. There has been a rumored cover up in Tampa about the true events about the drowning incident in Tampa. Witnesses say the girl was swimming. All of a sudden, she was pulled under, thrown back up in the air, and pulled under again. After this the swimming part of the spring was closed down. Now, there is a swimming pool on the bank with a playground. A tall fence seperates the pool and playground from the old spring just a few feet away. The water tower and gazebo was closed down in the 60's, and the house has been restored and sold to a private ownwer who keeps up the house's historical value. The skull shaped stones and medeival doors around the basement are still there. I find this to be a remarkably strange area in which I have visited numerous times. I have visited the area at night. I can honestly say, the whole area, including the entire surrounding residential area, feels possessed! . - Ghost picture submitted by Ben       Categories: home, girls, tunnel, water_tower, triangles Me and 6 of my friends were playing a game and we kept seeing each other, but we were in different places when they were saying they saw us and the night before we were playing manhunt and I saw my friend dressed in a tanktop and shorts when it was freezing out. He was really pale and I said his name and when he looked up his eyes were really dark. I looked away and looked back and he was gone. A few minutes later he came back but he was back the way he was when he left 4 or 5 minutes before. He looked like he did 2 or 3 minutes erlier. Submitted by Eamonn Mccann   Submit a ghost sighting for Tampa, Florida: Your Name: Write or Paste Input here: Upload picture:       Other haunted towns near Tampa, Florida: Lutz, Florida, 6 miles away Odessa, Florida, 7 miles away Thonotosassa, Florida, 15 miles away Wesley Chapel, Florida, 17 miles away Seffner, Florida, 17 miles away Brandon, Florida, 18 miles away Gibsonton, Florida, 18 miles away Largo, Florida, 19 miles away Riverview, Florida, 20 miles away Clearwater, Florida, 20 miles away Pinellas Park, Florida, 20 miles away        The latest ghost sightings from around the world All haunted towns and cities in Florida Lies about Tampa