Tag Archives: Neptune Beach

The Mystery House at Atlantic/Neptune Beach

Posted on January 17, 2021 | 1 comment

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Supposedly the hurricane tossed the house back up on the beach that way and rather than tearing it down, some smalltime Barnum charged admission. At the beginnings of a town called Neptune, the “Mysterious House” stood out beyond the dunes. Inside, gravity went askew. You felt like you were walking up the wall.

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New Story: Jacksonville Beach: New Trinity, Killing the Devil, and the Murder of Vera Gould

Posted on November 8, 2018 | 1 comment

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After the three young people stabbed K.’s grandmother to death in her Jacksonville Beach home, newspapers quoted them calling her “Satan,” themselves “the New Trinity” and Lex Hester, one of the most prominent men in Jacksonville’s political history, “the Antichrist.”

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