Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.

Listener discretion is advised.

I've always known I was not into the idea of provoking spirits. For one, I find it disrespectful, and secondly, if I can't see who I'm talking to, if I can barely even prove they exist,

why on earth would I try to get their attention by berating them?

This episode's location really drove that home for me. I first

investigated it years ago on the show Ghost Hunters. It was one of my first cases on

the show and on national television, to be frank.

So even though I'd been on many teams

and had investigated for years,

I was the newbie here,

which was why when my partner on the show,

who was definitely just trying to have some fun with me told the

ghosts we were looking for that I wanted to burn the whole place down I got a

wee bit defensive this was my reputation on the line here. It was also in that moment we heard

slamming noises in the room with us. Whoever was there did not like the idea of this

preciously historic building burning down, nor did I, of course. So we'd gotten a response, which I suppose is what anyone

could want on an investigation, especially one on reality television. But truthfully, even though I don't think there was any real ill intention,

I didn't feel great about the way we'd composed ourselves.

And that's why the Cuban Club in Ebor City, Florida cemented my decision to never

antagonize a spirit without reason again. I'm Amy Bruni and this is Haunted Road.

From the outside the Cuban Club in Ybor City, Florida looks like a stately old

library or museum. Nesseled in a historic Hispanic neighborhood in

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