East Martello Tower - Haunted Locations in Florida
East Martello Tower - Haunted Location in Florida
East Martello Tower - Haunted Location in Florida
East Martello Tower - Haunted Location in Florida
East Martello Tower - Haunted Location in Florida
East Martello Tower Key West, FL
East Martello Tower - Haunted Location in Florida
East Martello Tower - Haunted Location in Florida
EAST MARTELLO TOWER

East Martello Tower is located at 3501 South Roosevelt Boulevard in Key West, FL 33040.  See Mapquest for directions.

Originally built to help defend Fort Zachary Taylor in 1862, the fort is now registered as a National Historic site. It was designed after the nearly impregnable coastal Martello watchtowers in Italy. Its outer bulwark and inner citadel with eight-foot thick granite walls built during the Civil War era were a monument to military engineering and could have withstood any amount of bombardment at that time. But the development of explosive shells made these defenses obsolete.

East Martello Museum and Art Gallery housed inside the fort contain many haunted artifacts that convey the history of Key West through today such as art exhibits and is home to a vast collection of Key West and Florida Key's artifacts and historical records, as well as military memorabilia, but the eeriest display of all is Robert the Doll, dubbed as “the original Chucky.”

Robert the Doll is three feet tall and stuffed with straw and was given to artist Robert “Gene” Otto, a painter born in 1904 in The Artist House when he was a small child by a Bahamian girl who was the daughter of a poorly treated servant. Speculation is that the doll either contains a crystal or was made much like a voodoo doll creating an evil entity.

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