Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Erin

Manky.

Listener discretion is advised.

Florida's most haunted home has seen more than its fair share of tragedies.

Inside the walls of the May Stringer House have been sickness and suffering, untimely deaths

of spouses, the enslavement of more than 50 people, and the tragic loss of children

who died so young they barely even knew their parents.

Some say the spirit of a little girl wanders the house to this day looking for the mother

who died, bringing her into the world.

But Brooksfield, Florida, has seen more tragic events than just at the May Stringer House.

The city was founded largely by slaveholders who established plantations there on land

taken from the native Seminole tribe under the Indian Removal Act.

After the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, the county that Brooksfield is a

part of became known for its clue-clicks clan activity.

A minister was killed by white supremacists for marrying an interracial couple and the couple

was run out of town.

After a woman testified against local men for the crimes, the courthouse was burned down.

Today, the Queen Anne style May Stringer House is a museum of the city and its residents,

both the good people who lived happy lives there and those whose legacies are darkened

with contemptible actions.

In the city block the house occupies its walls hold about 11,000 artifacts representing

local history, and those artifacts have stories to tell.

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