Grady House, located in High Springs, Florida was built in 1917 and served as the town's first bakery. Later it served as a boarding house for railroad workers. After the railroad boom, the Grady House was transformed into an apartment building which housed several of High Springs' prominent citizens.  Now on the National Historic Register and restored to its earlier charm, Grady House is a comfortably elegant bed and breakfast inn with southern hospitality. Decorated in early twentieth-century charm, it is easy to imagine a time when the pace was a little slower and people had time for the finer things in life.

Interview with the Owners:

Owners Tony and Kurt feel a male presence in their family room.  When they bought the place, they were ambivalent toward ghosts.  Kurt would go upstairs to clean the rooms after guests would leave and would notice that a chess piece  of the chess game set up at the end of the hall would be on a particular square and another piece would be on top of it.  Each time he would put it back, but it kept happening over and over again.  After the 6th time, he said "I know you're here, quit doing that,  you're freaking me out".

Another unnerving thing that happened was during their first winter as owners.  They would be in their family room downstairs and hear walking in the room above them.  They said the sound was very pronounced as if a person was walking heavily but there weren't any guests in the house.   They thought it was the house settling but by the third time, they were getting freaked.   They took their dog and looked around the room, but found no visitors or anything amiss. 

Kurt said they believe their are two ghosts, a male and a female.  He believes that at first, the female ghost was letting them know she was there to look after things.  He doesn't know if there is any interaction between the two.  What convinced Tony and Kurt that they truly had ghosts was that time after time people would have the same experiences.   The same things kept happening in the same rooms meaning that guests mention a  strong perfume odor in one particular room and footsteps can be heard in another room.  In one room, a guest reported seeing an actual manifestation.  This is how they determined that one of their spirits was a female.  The most frequent occurrence is the strong perfume odor. 

Kurt said his mother swears that during one of her visits, she was tucked in by someone.  This happens to be in the same room where the manifestation of the woman appeared.   Guests have reported that this woman is middle aged and has been seen brushing her hair.  Kurt and Tony don't know who she is and there is no known history of anyone dying in the home.  He did say that Mrs. Grady died in tragic auto accident and it's , possibly her, the perfume fits.  

Relatives of Tony came for a visit.  Skeptical about ghosts and spirits, they are now believers.  At first one of the relatives thought the whole thing was funny and to scare his wife, he moved the chess piece.  He asked Kurt to look at the chess board to see, and when they approached the board, the pieces had been moved.  Needless to say, the man has changed his opinion.

  Chess pieces aren't the only things that have been moved. Things aren't always where they left them.  During their first two years  as owners, Tony would be at the home by himself during week,  He would catch glimpses of  a shadow, never a clear view, but just enough to catch his attention. 

Kurt and Tony also own the home next door, Skeet Cottage, built in 1896 by a Mr. Easterling.  The house is Spartan, one bath, late cracker architecture, 1700 square feet.  The home was rather large for that period of time.  Mrs. Easterling, President of Women's Club would often host tea parties.  A prominent citizen in the community, she would often require that the members of the club attend a certain number of classical music functions per month and poetry readings. 

The Easterlings had a daughter  who lived in the home from birth in 1910 until her death in 1997.  Half of her ashes are in the back yard of the cottage and the other half are in a nearby cemetery.   

Guests of Skeet Cottage have reported hearing sounds like those of a tea party.  Several guests have reported that while sleeping upstairs, they have been awakened by what sounds like polite conversation and a spoon clinking against a coffee cup but when they investigate, the noise stops.  Kurt believes that there were probably enough of those events that they left an impression at the home.