Cabbage Key’s lingering ghosts ... On a small island not too far from Boca Grande there is a restaurant and inn that is home to a spirit or two, including a female ghost whose spirit still roams the spot where she died. Cabbage Key is only accessible by boat. A six-room inn dominates the tropical landscape there, and local authorities say it is built directly on top of Indian shell mounds. No one can recount when the hauntings began in the rooms and in the dining area, but there are enough people who have seen the ghost to make even the most stalwart non-believer wonder what is going on. Several decades ago a visitor from the northeast was very sick with tuberculosis and came to Cabbage Key to wait for her family to join her on her deathbed. She knew she wanted to die in a tropical paradise, after all. She did pass away, and those who have seen ‘The Spirit of Room 3’ even give the same physical description: A woman with long, dark hair wearing a long-sleeved white shirt, a blue skirt and a black belt. She doesn’t make a sound but likes her presence to be known, often walking through the room and vanishing through closed doors and walls. One time, though, she wasn’t feeling so mellow. Inn employees swear a dish tub flew 15 feet through the air and crashed into the wall. September/October 2017 GASPARILLA ISLAND 49
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