In the News Quarantined with Tampa Bay’s ghosts? Some wonder if they are stuck in haunted houses.

The following article appeared in the Tampa Bay Times... how many people find out their houses are haunted during this COVID19 virus quarantine? This article highlights one of those people!

 Quarantined with Tampa Bay’s ghosts? Some wonder if they are stuck in haunted houses. 
Tampa Bay News May 15, 2020 

With more people home, there are new bumps in the night and day. Some already suspected ghosts and are now isolated with them.

Photo:  In 1933 Victor Licata murdered his family with an ax in the home where Schleicher now lives, located at 1707 E 5th Avenue in the Ybor City neighborhood in Tampa, Florida. [OCTAVIO JONES | Special to the Times] 

In 1933 Victor Licata murdered his family with an ax in the home where Schleicher now lives, located at 1707 E 5th Avenue in the Ybor City neighborhood in Tampa, Florida. [OCTAVIO JONES | Special to the Times] Kurt Schleicher talks about finding possible axe cuts in the window frame at his home in Ybor City.


By Paul Guzzo Published Apr. 30 Updated May 1 TAMPA —

Kurt Schleicher lives in one of the Tampa Bay area’s most infamous murder houses.

 In 1933, Victor Licata slaughtered his parents and three siblings with an ax inside his Ybor City home.

 Today, a chill passes through the bathroom that was once the bedroom where two of the children were killed, Schleicher said. He hears knocking noises throughout the house and his dog barks at the bedroom where the mother and another child were murdered. “I’ve always thought the house is haunted,” Schleicher said. “I think about it more now because I am here all the time. There is no place to go. There is no place to hide." He is not alone in wondering if something otherworldly is happening at his house.  Kurt Schleicher talks about finding possible axe cuts in the window frame at his home in Ybor City.

In 1933 Victor Licata murdered his family with an axe in the home where Schleicher now lives.

Others self-isolating wonder if they have uninvited company from the afterlife. Are they quarantined with ghosts? “I expect an uptick in people who notice they might have spirits,” said Lakeland’s Miki Strange — her real last name — a paranormal investigator with Tampa Bay Spirits.

 “Normally we’re all in such a rush to get homework done, dinner done and to bed at a decent time that we don’t have the time to be quiet and pay attention.” Now, she said, most people are home nearly all day. “They start hearing things or seeing stuff they didn’t notice before,” Strange said. “They question what it could be and because they can’t get away from it and go to work it bothers them more and more." Still, her team of investigators first look for physical explanations of odd occurrences. “Rodent problems, an issue with electricity,” she said. “We try to rule out everything with a normal explanation.”