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DBPRG - welcome! You say most of this is urban legend, despite what the report said, do you consider this section of I4 to be haunted at all? If this story is unfounded, could you tell us a case which, in your experience, you consider to be a genuine haunting?
Also, I have been thinking about this recently - how can it be justified that a road is built over graves and bodies without them being moved first? That's immoral in my eyes. I think even moving bodies is wrong, but just going ahead and building on top of them, is just wrong.

Alien Embryo,
Thanks for the welcome!
If you look up the updated report, you will see that after several people calling in, the reporter, Mike Holfeld, changed the story.
http://www.local6.com/news/13281055/detail.html Our group did do some research in that area of I-4 and found that there is some paranormal activity, but, with the location of the power plants being so close, we can't use any of the evidence that we found as solid.
Not to mention the fact that before Europeans lived in what is not Florida, there were more Native Americans living along what is now the I-4 corridor 5000 years ago than there are people living in the state of Florida today! I'm sure some of their spirits are hanging around. Especially since some of our ancestors played major roles in their undoing.
Yes, I have worked several cases that we would consider to be "true" hauntings in the south east. The worst case was the Dunnam house. I wrote a book about this case and it was filmed for an episode on The Discovery Channels series, A Haunting.
As for cemeteries...don't get me started! You are correct! It is illegal in the state of Florida to cover over graves. It is legal to move cemeteries, but most developers don't want to incurr that cost, so they move the headstones and leave the bodies. This is something we've been fighting for years! We have several adopted cemeteries in the central Florida area that we are restoring and preserving, and three of them were on the chopping block to be developed over before we got ahold of them. It really makes me angry that developers have no respect for the dead!
After speaking with the reporter yesterday (and giving him wuite an earful), we, along with channel 6 news are going to find the graves, adopt the site and put up markers. It's the least we can do for these pioneers and lost souls!
Dusty