The Ghosts of Lilian Place, Part Two | Guest John Dillard
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Locals speak of Lucy, a woman in white who drifts silently through the halls. Children’s laughter echoes when no children are present. Doors open on their own. Lights turn on without reason. And in one bedroom, visitors have reported seeing a man resembling writer Stephen Crane, who once recovered there after a near-fatal shipwreck—perhaps he left more behind than just a story. Is Lilian Place a historic treasure, or a gathering place for the dead? Join us as we uncover the eerie past—and restless present—of Daytona’s most infamous haunted home.
Today on the Grave Talks, The Ghosts of Lilian Place, a conversation with John Dillard, president of the Heritage Preservation Trust. This is Part Two of our conversation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about the ghosts of Lillian Place, |
| 0:06.6 | a conversation with John Dillard, president of the Heritage Preservation Trust. |
| 0:13.1 | Did you notice when you first started working on the house, activity kind of ramping up a little bit? |
| 0:19.9 | When you first went in there and we're doing some |
| 0:22.5 | renovations the only spirit in the beginning for years and we've had that house since 2009 |
| 0:29.8 | was lilyne or lucille i mean lucy or lucille it wasn't until we actually started doing paranormal investigations that we |
| 0:41.3 | discovered the other spirits over time. So you could feel the presence of Lucy slash Lucille. |
| 0:51.7 | It's the same person. But that was the only thing for many years that we realized was there. |
| 0:58.5 | Do you think, too, with bring, because you brought in some items like antiques and things to |
| 1:02.8 | put into the home, correct? |
| 1:05.2 | Yes. |
| 1:05.8 | Do you think a dull house that was made for a girl named Francis and it passed down through the family. |
| 1:15.3 | The dollhouse was built in about 1850 and it went down through the family and a few years ago |
| 1:22.2 | it was donated to us and we put it in the nursery. |
| 1:27.5 | Francis, great, no, it was Lorenzo Houston. |
| 1:33.8 | Francis's father, Lorenzo Houston was the first mayor of Daytona. |
| 1:37.0 | That's correct, yes. |
| 1:38.6 | And she definitely came with a Dowell House. |
| 1:41.6 | There was no prior association with the House, and she is very protective of that doll house. |
| 1:49.0 | So we've had a few pieces of furniture that have come in that have retained some spiritual energy from the previous owner. |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah, she, the doll house, and also there's a bed in one of the bedrooms upstairs. |
| 2:02.4 | They came down from Kentucky and brought this with them. |
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