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The Naples Cracker Barrel off I-75 where three employees were killed in a 1995 robbery, after which staff reported a self-opening freezer door and a pervasive sense of dread.
3845 Tollgate Boulevard, Naples, FL 34114
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
Free
Operating Cracker Barrel restaurant and store; open to the public during normal hours. The site is not marketed as a dark-tourism attraction.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Standard roadside restaurant and parking lot off Interstate 75.
Equipment
Photos OK
Site of the November 15, 1995 'Cracker Barrel murders,' a robbery-homicide of three employees · Case documented in Jennings v. State (1998) and the Florida Commission on Capital Cases · Restaurant remains in operation as a public business
In the early morning hours of November 15, 1995, three workers at the Cracker Barrel restaurant off Interstate 75 in Naples, Florida, were killed during a robbery of the store. The victims were Dorothy Siddle, Vicki Smith, and Jason Wiggins, all of whom worked at the restaurant.
Investigators determined that two former employees, Brandy Bain Jennings and Jason Graves, who had previously worked at the restaurant and knew the victims, entered the store and took roughly six thousand dollars before the killings. Jennings and Graves were arrested about three weeks later in Las Vegas, Nevada. The facts of the case are documented in Florida Supreme Court and capital-case records and in subsequent news coverage.
Brandy Bain Jennings was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and of robbery, and received three death sentences along with a prison term for the robbery. The case is documented in the Florida Supreme Court opinion Jennings v. State (1998) and tracked by the state's Commission on Capital Cases. Jennings later died in prison, as reported by WFLA.
The restaurant remained in operation after the crime and continues to operate today as a public Cracker Barrel. It is not marketed as a haunted site; its place in regional ghost lore derives entirely from the 1995 murders.
Sources
The haunted reputation of the Naples Cracker Barrel is anchored in the 1995 homicides rather than in any older folklore. A regional account of haunted Naples locations reports that employees in the years afterward described items moving on their own, the walk-in freezer door opening by itself, and a general feeling of despair or heaviness inside the building.
These accounts are local and single-source for the paranormal claims; they have not been independently corroborated, which is why this entry is held for review rather than treated as an established haunting. What is documented beyond dispute is the crime: three employees were killed here in the course of a robbery, a fact recorded in Florida Supreme Court proceedings and contemporary news reporting.
Visitors should be aware that this is an operating restaurant where real people died, not a staged attraction. The appropriate way to engage with the site is as a place of remembrance and documented true-crime history, with respect for the victims and for the staff who work there now.
The location is an operating Cracker Barrel open to the public for meals. There is no haunted programming or memorial on site; the building's history is the reason it appears in regional ghost lore. Visitors should treat it as the working business and crime memorial site that it is.
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