Seville Quarter

Seven entertainment rooms spread across a cluster of restored 19th-century buildings in Pensacola's historic Seville Square. The buildings have been warehouses, a cigar factory, and various businesses since the 1800s.

Seville Quarter entertainment complex on Government Street in Pensacola has been called the most haunted restaurant in Florida--and perhaps the United States. Featured on Ghost Hunters, Ghost Brothers: Lights Out, Haunted Collector, and other TV shows, this sprawling venue houses more spirits than any other location in the region.

The main building dates to 1871 as the Pensacola Cigar and Tobacco Company. It opened in 1967 as Rosie O'Grady's Warehouse, evolving into seven themed rooms offering everything from dancing to fine dining. But the activity stretches back to when the upstairs served as a brothel in the late 1800s.

The most famous ghost is Wesley Gibbs, a doorman and bartender who suffered a heart attack while cooling off in the beer cooler in 1990. He was only 27. Staff found him unresponsive hours later; despite resuscitation attempts, it was too late. Gibbs never left. His spirit--mischievously jovial in death as in life--flips light switches, triggers copy machines, moves objects, and operates water and hand dryers in the men's restroom.

The brothel women still haunt the upstairs area, where ghost children are also frequently seen. Blueprints reveal the current ladies' restroom was once a bedroom used to seclude children from the working ladies. Visitors see ghost children playing with a red ball and hear laughter throughout the complex.

Angela Buchanan, a secretary murdered off-site by her boyfriend in June 2000, also lingers. She used to playfully push coworkers from behind on the stairs--and her surviving colleagues still feel a soft nudge on the exact same step every time.

Spanish whispers from empty rooms, phantom footsteps, and elevator movements without riders add to the nightly activity.