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For those looking to get a sample of what to expect on your Orlando Haunts and History tour, here’s a sneak peek of one of our most interesting stops: 

Said to have originally been built as a meeting place of a chapter of The Order of Skull and Bones, with a front as a social gathering place, this ornate green building is named after Gordon Rogers. He and his wife apparently still haunt the place. The Order of Skull and Bones is a secret society founded at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1832. Skull and Bones founder William Huntington Russell was inspired by an occult society he’d visited in Germany. His co-founder was Alphonso Taft, future Secretary of War under President Grant and father of President William Howard Taft… who would also be a member of Skull and Bones. The prominent list of Bonesman includes several presidents and modern-day power brokers. Winston Rogers and his wife, though the latter was not an active member of the society, are most frequently seen through the second-story window and in the art gallery on the first floor. His wife, Magnolia – yes, what the street is named after – is said to be seen all in white, admiring the art that hangs here. She is a shy ghost, but a friendly one, and is said to often sit in the very back of gallery showings and clap for the underdog artists that she always favored in life.