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WELLINGTON • ROYAL PALM BEACH • WEST PALM BEACH • LOXAHATCHEE GROVES • THE ACREAGE Volume 10, Number 9
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DOG DAY AFTERNOON Mounts Botanical Garden will host its annual Dogs’ Day in the Garden Sunday, Oct. 25. PAGE 4
FREE • October 2020
Royal Palm green market set to return Oct. 10th The Green Market and Bazaar will be held Saturdays through April around the lake at RPB Village Hall.
Kravis Center announces lineup for ‘20-’21 season
Dealing with rescheduling challenges and cancellations due to the pandemic, the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts recently announced its 20202021 season schedule.
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Tampa Bay Times via AP/Douglas R. Clifford
The May Stringer House, aka the Hernando Heritage Museum in Brooksville, Fla., has a ghostly reputation among the paranormal community. “Many things have happened” there, according to a research report by online poker company CardsChat, “including hearing a child cry when no child was around.” The 12-room, four-story home was originally built in 1856 before being remodeled in the early 1900s.
SPOOKY STATE?
According to online poker company CardsChat, its research lists Florida as the state where someone is least likely to spot a ghost. By PAUL GUZZO The Associated Press
WPB’s Arts in Public Places enhances downtown’s appeal “That’s the beauty of public art. There isn’t a right or wrong, there’s just an experience,” says Sybille Welter, West Palm Beach’s administrator of Public Art and Culture.
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Photographic Centre’s members’ show on exhibit
Four photographers from Wellington and nine from West Palm Beach are among the dozens taking part in Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s 24th Annual Members’ Show.
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TAMPA — As a former star of Ghost Hunters International, Angela Alderman has investigated paranormal sightings throughout the world. She considers her home state of Florida among the most haunted places she has been. “When I walk through parts of Florida, I have heard people walking behind me, turned around and saw no one,” Alderman, a Tampa resident, said. “Florida has some magical places.” So she was shocked to learn that online poker company CardsChat, which is delving into content marketing, had listed Florida as the state where someone is least likely to see a ghost. According to their research, the gambling odds of seeing a ghost in Florida are +1,296,000, meaning a $100 wager would win nearly $1.3 million. The state where someone is most likely to see a ghost is Illinois, with odds of +110,900. “That doesn’t sound right,” Alderman said. “Ybor City alone should place Florida higher.”
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Actually, no Ybor ghost sightings made the list compiled of hauntings from 1972 through 2020, but Tampa Theatre and the Hernando Historical Museum did. According to Anna Osborne, an England-based marketing executive who represents CardsChat, the data was collected using manual web research with keywords and combinations of keywords such as haunted, ghosts and paranormal. “If one person declared they have seen a ghost more than once, or multiple people have shared the same inexplicable event over a period of time, then we noted that as haunted,” Osborne said. She noted that there’s no scientific proof of a haunting, so the data is subjective. Orlando is the most haunted city in Florida, according to their research, with 32 sightings since 1972, followed by St. Augustine with 15. Tampa and St. Petersburg have each had 11. Brooksville made the list with seven, Tarpon Springs added three to Florida’s total and Clearwater’s tally is two. Overall, Florida totaled 1,697
LOCAL HAUNT: The South Florida Fairgrounds’ Yesteryear Village hosts monthly ghost tours led by War Party Paranormal featuring the Riddle House.
WHEN: Upcoming ghost tours will be held Friday, Oct. 2 and Friday, Nov. 6 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
WHERE: Yesteryear Village is on
the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach.
COST: Tickets are $35 per person. To reserve your spot, go online to southfloridafair.com/GhostTours.
BACKGROUND: In November
2008, hosts of the Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures” spent a night in the Riddle House, where they noted temperature changes and things falling over for no apparent reason. In October 2009, the segment aired. To watch a recap, go to travelchannel.com and search “Riddle House.”
sightings, which is the 11th most in the nation. But calculating in Florida’s high population of nearly 22 million as compared to Delaware’s 124 sightings and STATE HAUNTS / PAGE 9
When I walk through parts of Florida, I have heard people walking behind me, turned around and saw no one.
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— Angela Alderman, former star of Ghost Hunters International
As the dog days of summer slowly fade and we begin to notice a bit of fall in the air, the Village of Royal Palm Beach once again welcomes back its weekly green market. And with little to do since Palm Beach County shut down six months ago in an effort to stave off the Covid-19 pandemic, for many residents of the Western Communities it couldn’t come soon enough. The Royal Palm Beach Green Market and Bazaar returns to its lakeside location at Village Hall, at the corner of Okeechobee and Royal Palm Beach boulevards, starting Saturday, Oct. 10. This year’s green market welcomes back many of past years’ most popular vendors – plus new ones – to offer a wide selection of produce ranging from fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices. There will also be fresh fish and seafood, flowers and plants, along with favorites including baked goods, pastries, locally-produced honey and food trucks. The green market will also offer artisan and vegan foods along with a unique selection of artists and crafters selling jewelry, crafts, gemstones, clothing, soaps, pet treats and more. According to Kathy Gilbert of POTTC Events, who organizes the market, public safety and social distancing protocols will be in place, including greater spacing between vendor booths, frequent cleaning and sanitization of high-touch areas and hand sanitizing staRPB GREEN MARKET / PAGE 4