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9. Key West, Florida
Sunny Key West might not seem like the most probable setting for haunted houses, but this small beach community is home to some of the oldest—and downright creepiest—of all ghost stories. The city’s rich history of buccaneers and rumrunners provides the backdrop for a lot of these ghosts, like those that are said haunt Captain Tony’s Saloon. Before it was a bar, Captain Tony’s was supposedly the location of the island’s morgue, and the tree that grows through the building’s center is said to have been a major site for lynching pirates and other criminals, and many are said to still haunt the premises today. Other local ghost stories concern the writer Ernest Hemingway, who kept a home on Key West for some thirty years. Hemingway’s house, now a museum dedicated to his life and work, is said to house the novelist’s ghost. Some visitors and workers claim to see him walking the grounds, while others have heard the clicking of his typewriter coming from inside the main house.
九、西礁岛，佛罗里达州
阳光普照的西礁岛可能看上去不像是鬼屋最可能的场景设定，但是这个小小的海滩社区却是一些最古老最毛骨悚然的鬼故事的发源地。这座城市海盗和酒类走私的悠久历史为许多这类故事提供了背景，比如闹鬼的托尼船长酒吧。据传在成为酒吧之前，它是这座岛的停尸房的位置，而穿过它中心生长的那棵树则是私刑处死海盗和其他罪犯的主要场所，许多犯人的幽灵现在还不肯离开这个屋子。当地其他的鬼故事与作家欧内斯特·海明威有关，他在西礁岛生活了大约三十年。海明威的房子，现在是一个展示他的一生和作品的博物馆，而他的灵魂据说也在那里。有些游客和工作人员称见过他在地板上行走，还有些人听见从房子里传来打字机的滴答声。
Most Haunted: Robert the Doll
The island’s art and historical museum isn’t haunted, but it does contain one of the creepiest artifacts of Key West’s history in the form of Robert, a large doll that many claim is possessed. The doll was given to painter Gene Otto in the early 1900s, and the young boy soon became deathly afraid of it, as he said it would often threaten him and wake him in the night by throwing furniture around the room. The boy’s parents would often swear they saw the doll moving, and neighbors claimed they often spotted Robert pacing in front of the windows of the house when the family was away.
最恐怖之物：罗伯特娃娃
岛上的艺术历史博物馆没有闹鬼，但是它却拥有一件西礁岛历史上最恐怖的手工制品，那就是罗伯特娃娃，一个被鬼附身的大娃娃。这个娃娃在二十世纪初被赠予画家吉恩·奥特，但是这个小男孩很快就被它吓得要死。因为他说它会经常威胁他，晚上在房间里扔家具把他弄醒。男孩的父母发誓他们经常看到娃娃移动，邻居则常在他们家人外出的时候，看到罗伯特娃娃在房子的窗户前踱步。
