Confusion Corner · Lyric Theater (1914) · Ashley Gang / Martin County Prohibition-era history
US Ghost Adventures runs city-branded ghost walks in dozens of U.S. cities under local names; in Stuart the program is marketed as Stuart Ghosts, sold under the title Sinister Sins & Shadows. The tour meets at The Owl House, 100 S. Colorado Ave, and covers about a mile of downtown Stuart on foot over roughly an hour.
The route draws on Stuart's railroad and Prohibition-era history, including Confusion Corner (a historic six-way intersection), the 1914 Lyric Theater, and the Old Colorado Inn, once frequented by the Ashley Gang, a well-documented Prohibition-era Florida outlaw family led by John Ashley whose long-running feud with Martin County law enforcement is regional true-crime history. Seven independent Tripadvisor reviews, naming specific tour guides, confirm the program is actively running tours in Stuart.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/stuart-ghost-tour/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g34657-d27122049-Reviews-Stuart_Ghosts-Stuart_Florida.html
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The operator's preview material highlights Confusion Corner, which it ties to railroad-worker deaths and reports of a one-armed apparition along the old tracks; the Lyric Theater, which it connects to a reported 2014 renovation-related death and unexplained whistling; and the Old Colorado Inn, tied to the Ashley Gang, the Prohibition-era outlaw family whose leader John Ashley waged a documented, years-long feud with Martin County Sheriff's deputies.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing and narrative material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
