There’s a huge range of things to do for a holiday in the United States. Just about every tour operator will offer travel deals to Orlando and Florida which can let you drive around and explore to your heart’s content. But what to see?

If you mention a Florida fly drive to most people is a Disney holiday, and they assume you will staying the whole time at one of the resort’s theme parks. In actual fact, Disney Orlando holidays and Florida are almost the same thing to many people, Walt Disney being so famous it overshadows many of the other huge attractions there. However, a really novel idea for a fly drive is a tour of famous haunted spots in Florida!

For those who fancy themselves amateur ghost busters, Florida is brimming with supernatural sightings. Holidays to Orlando Florida can tour a vast selection of hauntings, from the mysterious unseen inhabitant of room 208 in the Jameson Inn, Crestview, to the Union Soldier ghost seen at Fort Clinch in Fernandina.

The mansions and stately homes of the area have several stories of objects moving of their own accord, or ghostly sounds being heard when the property is empty. If the selection of former inhabitants of mansions and hotels doesn’t interest you, you can see if you can get one over on your other ghost investigators by spotting a celebrity when you are out there. Ernest Hemmingway is still apparently hard at work on a bestseller, the typewriter keys still being heard clacking in the night when the custodians of his house in Key West have put out the lights and locked up for the evening.

It doesn’t matter if you are stationed at Disney World though, you can still do a spot of ghost detecting. The Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Orlando is supposedly haunted by George, a welder who helped build the ride and sadly fell to his death during the construction of the “burning city” section. Staff still have to wish George a good morning over the tannoy each day, or else the ride refuses to work properly and resists any attempt to fix it.