Florida Roadside Attractions & Abandoned Places - Forgotten Prison & Corrections Facility Ghost Town

[@TampaJay]

Thank to for watching! Much Forgotten Florida episodes ahead! instagram.com/tampajay

[@jayweiss4378]

Hey Jay you should try vlog abandoned places at Night! Scary haha

[@TampaJay]

@@jayweiss4378 that would be fun

[@Jsteng08]

Love watching these videos on a Sunday morning with a cup a coffee 👍👍🦩🦩

[@TampaJay]

Love having you here thank you so much

[@jeltoninc.8542]

Doing the same!!!

[@heatherpennington2618]

Love watching your videos! This is the Old Boys School. It closed less than 10 yrs ago. There are a lot of news documents of how a lot of the boys were abused & killed out there several years ago. The houses were used for employees.

[@TampaJay]

Sad and tragic history, oh wow. Thank you for watching.

[@Jacobtheentertainerwaters]

I love your videos so much. So fun to watch. I can’t wait for another haunt season with you. Haunts on! They’re my favorite!!!

[@TampaJay]

Thank you! Haunts on! We’re almost there!

[@normanbarney1568]

The Buckhead Ridge Moose Lodge back in the day used to be called the Fin and Feather Bar. Okeechobee County shut down liquor sales at midnight and everyone would head out to Glades County to shut her down until 2am. Highway 78 was our route heading into Fort Myers and the old Lee Civic Center on 78 and 31. One of my most memorable concerts I saw there I was 15 and front row standing in front of Eddie Van Halen on the 5150 tour. I saw the Bon Jovi Slippery when Wet tour there as well.

[@sb61fury]

I have seen Van Halen that year but it was at the Lakeland civic center in Lakeland, FL that was the very last time I have seen them in concert I even drove a 1957 plymouth to the concert that year

[@Mark-ur4ds]

Great Series! All these hidden places have a story

[@kaymad143]

Another cool video/vlog, love seeing the old places though sad to see abandoned places

[@kimberlylyerly2207]

Thank you for taking us along on your adventure. Awesome sites. 😊 Hugs 🤗 and God bless 🙏

[@TampaJay]

@@kimberlylyerly2207 thank you Kimberly. God bless you too. I hope you had an awesome weekend, my friend.

[@kimberlylyerly2207]

@@TampaJay you're always very welcome. 😊 Hope you have a great week ahead. 👍

[@joshuasjericho3915]

You my boy Jay! Love the channel! ❤

[@TampaJay]

Thank you

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Florida

[@Steve_6251]

Love these so much! Though we do sometimes worry that someone might be lurking in these abandoned places, we know you’re being careful. So sorry you had to deal with that lady, but this one was (as always), superb!

[@TampaJay]

@@Steve_6251 Steve, always awesome to have you here but appreciate you so much. Hope you had a happy weekend. We had a great time together yesterday much ahead, my friend.

[@drshepherd1969]

Those were houses for the prison workers, correctional officers and the warden's staff. I have a friend that was a assistant warden at one of the prisons here in FL and he verified that info with me. Looks alot like old air force base housing, lol

[@TampaJay]

@@drshepherd1969 it reminded me of an Air Force Base too thank you

[@doreen3737]

I am now on this video. ❤❤ I love your videos. So I work for a major medical laboratory and I go to Okeechobee every once in awhile and I actually had to come to this prison pre-covid, totally got lost. Finally found my way to this gate I actually was buzzed in to that guard shack. It was still open and operating only a few years ago, at least that section. I was wondering what those houses were on the way in. Thank you for clarifying that 👍👍 oh and I had to wait for the nurse to come from the other side of the campus. So wow, I didn't know they closed it down. I remember there was people living in the house around the bend as you were going toward the guard house section and what upset me was the fact that he had these dogs in very small cages...😢😢 So there were people living there up until just a few years ago. I wonder where they went

[@TampaJay]

@@doreen3737 thank you for watching and chiming in. That is very fascinating. Thank you for your service too

[@eugenedimitrov]

Hey Jay! What's up? Another cool Abandoned places episode as always ❤❤❤

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

LOVE this particular video more than a lot of others on You Tube who do the same thing.. not sure why, but, your videos just seem to be more entertaining to me and as I said, this one, in particular, is really good!

[@TampaJay]

@@Nunofurdambiznez that’s a very big and huge compliment. I take to heart and really appreciate. There’s a lot of people out there making good quality content. Happy to hear that you enjoyed this one thank you so much. Hope you had a happy weekend.!

[@NOLADEEJ]

Dude this was awesome!! That place is really cool, I must go!!

[@CharlieLevy-hk7jx]

I love ur videos keep them coming please ❤❤

[@TampaJay]

Thank you

[@exinilda]

This was so interesting! Thank you for sharing. Please be safe. 🙏 the alternate ending was great. Scooby!!!

[@TampaJay]

@@exinilda thank you so much for coming with me. Happy you enjoyed it.

[@sharonstover7337]

Love these videos!! Always so awesome and interesting!! ❤

[@TampaJay]

@@sharonstover7337 thank you so much

[@joangravel2436]

Thanks awesome places I enjoyed watching

[@ChinaDollTravels]

I never ever seen something quite like that but this is interesting! Great job jay

[@TampaJay]

@@ChinaDollTravels thank you Liz!

[@Elephant2024-wi2li]

Tampa Jay videos are always great to watch. Thank you for bringing these places to life that one would not usually seek out including correctional facility ghost👻towns.

[@TampaJay]

@@Elephant2024-wi2li thank you for being awesome to me. Happy to hear. Hope you had an awesome weekend.

[@MattTheLizard]

Jay...I love this series. It inspires me to do more content like it in PCB. Really sorry a lady was rude, you handled it perfectly. Thanks for uploading!

[@TampaJay]

@@MattTheLizard thank you Matt. Appreciate you.

[@PabloEscoBurch]

I had to do some work in Moore Haven about 20 or 22 years ago, The only thing there at that time was a prison, a canal and a truck stop. The only hotel in town was closed.

[@johndixon3906]

I just watched a new video from another KZbinr, Tim J Means Business, who did a feature on this place, and yours popped up next in my feed, so I had to check it out. He covered a lot, including a visit inside the prison. You might want to give it a look. I just subscribed and look forward to exploring more of your videos.

[@garyblackwater944]

Sloths good interesting things about Florida thank Tampa jay

[@shaynewheeler9249]

Pizza 🍔🍕

[@michaelfranklin8406]

Yo Jay you missed a bunch of history for that place. It was the Okeechobee Youth Development Center. The sister campus of the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna. This school has it's own history of abuse as well.

[@Tampafan33]

Why did it have prison fences???

[@Ronaldl2350]

My friend and i used to race MX in Clewiston many years ago. We stayed in Moore Haven. It was near the Courthouse, I think i caught a glimpse of the house when you were videoing there. Small world.

[@theamerican7080]

I'll give it a watch!

[@TampaJay]

Much appreciated

[@gloriaperez5368]

I really like your road trip so interesting.

[@TampaJay]

@@gloriaperez5368 thank you happy to hear

[@AJ-be5jv]

Always wanted to go in I would see security there often

[@andrew9142]

Sometimes those abandoned homes and prisons still have running water and electricity for some reason..if the homeless people in Orlando, St. Augustine, Daytona etc see this video, they will commute over to okeechobee and pop a squat in those homes

[@abelardorodriguez8853]

Hello there Jay! Abe here! So many years ago (appx.37 or 38 years ago) I used to travel from Miami to Immokalee to hang out with friends and would take Hwy 41 (Tamiami Trail) to Hwy 29 north to Immokalee. I would almost always travel at night or very early morning hours before sunrise and would pass what I remember to be a prison work camp probably low security, anyhow it always looked quite creepy with few lights and foggy,and surrounded by desolate swamp. After many years of not traveling in the area I later discovered the facility had been shut down and abandoned. I have a lingering curiosity of why it ended up abandoned and forgotten. Maybe you could look into it if you're ever in the area,it seems like a place and story that as they say would be right up your alley! Just so you can locate it travel along Hwy 29 between Copeland and Immokalee. Well take care! P.S. I'm an avid follower and love your channel!

[@UncaDave]

I have RVed all over FL and love going through old towns like this, history. Be sure and check out the big old hotel in Sebring, FL. It’s just sitting there. Also the old Howey Mansion in Howey in the Hills. It was once abandoned and neglected but someone bought it and made it into a great wedding or event venue. Nice to see that happen. Arcadia too, an old FL cattle town. I’ve subscribed and will check out your past ramblings. Thanks!

[@TampaJay]

@@UncaDave thanks man those places have been on my radar! Love Arcadia I have filmed it a couple of times I was fortunate enough to video the old opera house before it burnt

[@StickEBallz]

ur vids have a chill vibe to them 👌🏼🙂💯 also I'm a natural wanderer myself and would've loved to come along on one of these ventures ✌🏼️😜 as for the houses, I've done time in FL myself and I do know that in many FL prisons the warden and other officers usually have housing onsite as well so that's what those houses could be 🤔

[@kitrina63]

I was thinking that maybe those houses were for prison employees and their families....Another great video Jay! Thanks for taking us along!😊😊

[@TampaJay]

So too, thank you so much for watching

[@kitrina63]

@TampaJay l try to never miss your videos. You are always very informative...sometimes crazy excited and sometimes very, very funny! I also watch all of Cris the girls videos as well. 😊💞

[@sarahmoller9716]

Really interesting. Maybe one day, you can have a drone to fly over places to check it out... This place reminds me of an abandoned orphanage in KY. There was a murder there to but not when it was open. I like to look in the old buildings too, and didn't see a no trespassing sign either. Thank you Tampa Jay.

[@foreclosureofadreamurbex5420]

It's a no fly zone. Software will not let it fly over as it is a federal facility

[@RobwithScoobyScooby]

Do love an abandoned explore i have done around 30 since the start of the year but that's here in the UK id swap to do some florida ones anytime , but we don't have things that could eat you in the scrub my thoughts would always be Gator , bear or cougar . great vlog Jay 👍

[@TampaJay]

@@RobwithScoobyScooby you never know what we might find in the Florida countryside, one reason why I just love to get out there and check it out. Thank you so much appreciate you.

[@markdraskovics1962]

HEY,... TAMPA JAY YAHOO ! ! Cool you're Vlogging my Favorite Kind Of videos I Wish you could vlog just back Road and Abandoned places Ok take Care and Stay Safe on all your Travels Mark. D. Barre VT

[@TampaJay]

@@markdraskovics1962 thank you Mark . Hope all is well up in Vermont my friend. It’s got to be looking beautiful up there right now. Hope you had a great weekend.

[@MichelleMartin-ld6zg]

Always love watching your videos Tampa Jay and I wonder if any of them prisons are haunted love you and Chris the girl 👧 from Michelle over here in Nottingham in England 🇬🇧 😉 😊😅😂😮❤❤❤❤

[@TampaJay]

Thank you Michelle! I appreciate you. Hope all is well with you!

[@ReyesSerna-ez7ob]

That prison had to be haunted and I wonder which one was the warriors house !

[@bamalama64]

Hey Tampa Jay, my grandfather was one of the men who helped build the dike going around the lake.

[@TampaJay]

@@bamalama64 that’s pretty fascinating and awesome. I’m guessing that was part of FDR’s new deal.? My great grandfather helped build the Wolf Creek dam in Kentucky. Thank you so much for watching. Hope you had a wonderful weekend.

[@MikeRuh01]

Does that mean they all escaped TJ? Lol. Checking it out now, I'm sure will be interesting. Thanks Buddy

[@marcthorner8338]

I am looking forward to your opinion on the Indian Mounds in Moore Haven… the abandoned prison is a trip! I don’t get why they leave these places so abandoned when eventually the elements are just gonna get to them and they’re gonna become inhabitable. Once again, Jay great job sorry I couldn’t finally meet you in Fort Myers but family stuff came up maybe next time

[@joe020308]

Hi Jay, Love your videos. Will you be doing any more F13 locations? Or re-visiting F13th locations again?

[@TampaJay]

Absolutely will be doing more in the future! Much ahead. Thanks so much for watching appreciate you !

[@joshuasjericho3915]

Saint Lucie County! Bro cool 😎!

[@TampaJay]

Thank you

[@nomeproductionsLLC]

Those houses could be on post housing and halfway houses. If you go to Union CI in Stark. There are some really old homes that were use by staff and some still are. Avon Park CI also has homes like that that are on post housing.

[@tiowilt]

Good job, I am from Muncie, and I didn't know Newcastle was the home of Burger King. RLS rls

[@TampaJay]

@@tiowilt not the original Burger King but the original Burger King to me. I’ve got a lot of stories and spent a lot of time in Muncie hello neighbor.!

[@cheeseburbers3247]

Love your videos but i wish you went inside more buildings!

[@bertvosburg558]

The windows and general architecture are a lot like my elementary school built in late 1960's.

[@charlesboyer61]

I wonder if that lady who yelled at you was embarrassed by the condition of that place. Probably not because she obviously didn't care enough about it to clean the place up.

[@leearmstrong2743]

Oh yeah!!

[@noellesimagination7813]

Dang! they are having a collectors show in Fort Myers? I keep missing you.

[@noellesimagination7813]

I literally live in the Carlton apartments right across the street.

[@MiamisburgJay]

Thanks Jay for another great adventure. The lady that "talked" at you probably was not a very happy person... I mean if that was her store.. business obviously is not good... just saying.. There are so many abandoned places... but I wonder about the real big ones, like the prison... who was in charge of that? Sorry taxpayers, we are just letting this one go.. no rehabbing or doing anything.. who knows what the story was. Keep up the great work :)

[@shypunker2]

If you hit the button 2nd down on the right side of the screen, The sound will be muted on those gas pumps. I think it works for all the machines like that.

[@BIGESCOLLECTIBLES]

Definitely be a cool place for a massive haunted house 🧟‍♂️👻🎃

[@TampaJay]

@@BIGESCOLLECTIBLES I was thinking the same

[@BigBrikkoRREnt]

Thats The Old Level 8 Juvenile Program E.Y.D.C i Was There In 08 Them house was for the staff the building across from Gate 6 was the Dorm u go do yo last 60days at the other side of building was A Level 6 juvenile program

[@normanbarney1568]

The Intensive Halfway House was on the NE side. I worked there in the late 90’s. Outer perimeter road was employee housing. Always a fan of your videos but do a little fact checking before posting. The Eckerd Youth Facility was one step below Juvenile Prison. It was a Level 8 facility. Looking forward to more videos.

[@TampaJay]

Thanks for the info camp promise I always have time to fact check. Pretty.L cool stuff

[@bertvosburg558]

Tampa Jay That type of fencing is funny, if lets say one strand of same wire was over time degraded and broke lets say about 4 feet apart and fell away, Bingo the zipper is open. and as each wire interlaces with the next when one is missing it becomes a slot. (ex prison maintenance man told me that one.)

[@TampaJay]

That’s very fascinating. I didn’t even notice that. Thank you.

[@bertvosburg558]

@@TampaJay I never did either until I was told about it. It's not really something Someone would think of. That's the design flaw in that as only one wire removed will open a giant slot in the fence! There's a high probability there's a few spots already in the fence like this, it being old and not maintained.

[@robertbiastre6037]

Thanks Tampa Jay1

[@TampaJay]

@@robertbiastre6037 thank you

[@MichelleMartin-ld6zg]

Yes thank you Tampa Jay I'm doing just fine hope you and Chris the girl 👧 are both well and having a good Sunday 👍 love you both from Michelle i

[@TonyMcDowell-qk2pr]

Usually the homes outside the fences are for the employees of the prison

[@mongobuilders]

That was okochobe boys hm for minors that got in trouble with the law my brother was there in the late 70s was jumped and almost beat to death before the gards steped in he spent. Several yrs there for stealing cars and joy riding 12:17 12:22

[@michaelchris1961]

That was Okeechobee school for boys. That and Dozier are the places that they used to put the bad boys and they were abused by the other inmates and the supervisors.

[@alexmilian7258]

I thought it was the Okeechobee state correctional where some inmates escaped by tunneling in the 90s, now Dozier is the most horrific place EVER Google map removed it from their search, very disturbing and sad

[@squadman111]

Jay, you just found my wife's stolen vehicle!!! What building number where that broom was parked?

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

LOL!!! WOW!

[@waterhorse5199]

​@@Nunofurdambiznez It's a joke. There were no cars parked around the houses. 😂

[@virginiawestcot3111]

So many homeless families why don't they fix them up and allow families to get on their feet and the children a place to play

[@katiehouse1576]

On who's dime???

[@warlock103warlock6]

Use the money they're giving to the illegals

[@virginiawestcot3111]

@katiehouse1576 the government is spending a ton of $ for border traffic at least this would supply homes. Just a thought. My heart hurts seeing families homeless or living in cheap motels. No child should have to be ashamed of where they live. It just hurt me that's all.

[@floriduhgeorgia]

@@katiehouse1576what a horrid way to respond to someone wanting children to have stable housing

[@Tampafan33]

@@katiehouse1576there’s no way you said this sentence while your beloved president who cant even form a sentence sends billions to Ukraine

[@chrisnarramore3097]

what camera are you using now j ?

[@TampaJay]

Same one canon g7x

[@melissasapp2899]

Awesome vlog! Not to far from me.. but I have to correct you on something. The name Raulerson, it is pronounced Raw- lerson not Rulerson. Prominent name, Google it. Not a family member but familiar with the name and went to school with a couple of the Raulersons.

[@TampaJay]

Thank you

[@joshuasjericho3915]

Those horses 🐎 are definitely TampJay fans! 😂

[@TampaJay]

Haha

[@BrianCraigShow]

Those houses are not halfway houses. Guards and other prison workers lived in those houses. When I was a kid my dad has friends who lived in those houses and I woke go she’s visit there. I rode my bike and the kids around the prison fence.

[@TampaJay]

Thank you for sharing. That’s pretty awesome.

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[@SanDiegoAnnie]

Sorry you had to run into someone so rude. You'd think she'd want to share her story, especially someone so close to the community. Kill 'em with kindness though. Kind of wanted to see that collectible show. Hope that's for next time. Safe travels, Jay!

[@kayeward2047]

Have you ever been to the small town of Tangerine, Florida, or to Howey-in-the Hills Florida ??

[@AdventuresofmalibuandDad]

Man that place is probably haunted my man. 😮

[@alexmilian7258]

Houses outside the fence are high ranking officer temp homes, the multiple unit buildings (WITH SATELLITE DISHES) are most likely BOQ (BACHELOR OFFICERS QUARTERS) staying there so they wouldn't have to drive so much in between shifts, I know someone who knows someone who knows someone with a cousin that was incarcerated 🤥🤥🤥 that had to maintain lawns or did construction of BOQs to practice and lower their custody level, in the 90's four or five prisoners escaped from their by tunneling

[@dlghenderson2837]

Everyone knows it's bad luck to take your broom with you when you move.

[@TampaJay]

Haha

[@lisamorgan9571]

Indian River State College recently purchased the old EYDC (boys school). It will be turned into another branch of the school eventually. Right now just a grown up mess.

[@TampaJay]

Thank you for that info very good to learn

[@BrentBoyer-g8p]

Not a prison and the house are where the staff lived. This is eckerd youth. My dad worked there many many years ago

[@TampaJay]

Thanks for the input that’s cool Your dad worked there.

[@Almostdead187]

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[@brianburke3460]

Maybe some of the houses are from the guards from the prison

[@amyandtony]

Well, you can’t say that’s a one horse town 😂

[@NoleBlooded5]

Those would not be halfway houses , that's most likelystaff housing.

[@TampaJay]

That about it more when I got to the editing room. I think so too

[@AV-sw7bj]

This was a reform school not a prison it closed officially in the year 2021

[@andyokus5735]

That place looks cool. The State could make that a homeless rehab place. Detox all the junkies and teach them a job. Make productive citizens out of them. That's just a wasted resource.

[@XRXIXP]

You sound a lot like Adam the woo lol

[@robertveal7187]

Guards, and warners might lived in there houses

[@TampaJay]

I think so too now that I’ve had more time to think about it

[@kimberlylyerly2207]

Maybe those dorms were for those prisoners that had congical(sp?) visits. Just sayin...

[@mikeparkhurst8804]

Those places were horrible for the poor animals that they kept the the most degrading condition,s Un real

[@Shelly-in-Tampa]

1st one to bust into a prison?

[@carolplummer7182]

Too bad they can't fix them up and put homeless people in them

[@anamergirlanamergirl8977]

Affordable housing right there….

[@dlghenderson2837]

Seems like so many wasted tax dollars. Can't they figure out something else to do with this place?

[@TampaJay]

Someone owns it weird how they leave the place wide open and the power on

[@shaynewheeler9249]

😢😢😢😢😢

[@charlesroberts6965]

Could be repurposed to house illegals in the country prior to being deported back to their native countries.IMO🇺🇲👍

[@paultapejr1226]

The houses he is showing are actually housing for the warden and corrections officers, inmates were never allowed to live on prison property.

[@lindakloran3247]

What a shame. Could be repurposed for families etc. You have a low "ick" factor. LOL

[@carolplummer7182]

I hope you start bringing a mask with u the mildew can make u sick

[@joshuasjericho3915]

Okeechobee Correctional Facility!

[@TampaJay]

That’s the one

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