A Florida local following the stories home.

Jonah Bell is a Fort Lauderdale local and the author of Ghosts, Legends & Lore from Florida, a growing series that brings documented regional history into conversation with the legends people still tell.

The books are written for curious locals, Florida visitors, history readers, and anyone who has looked at an old hotel, quiet road, weathered landmark, or stretch of shoreline and wondered what happened there.

Each volume keeps documented history and folklore clearly apart. Legends are presented in context — as the stories a community tells — never dressed up as proven supernatural fact.

History tells us what happened. Folklore tells us what a place remembers.

Florida is the first collection in the series, with more of the state — and, in time, other states — still to come.