Some times you Find Adventure in the most unlikely places…..take this restaurant—if you look at the first picture that’s one I took from the parking lot, you shrug.

It’s located Not far from Cape Kennedy and the like—

http://www.ashleysofrockledge.com/

Now let me tell you a little about the restaurant and a bit more.   Looking at the picture tells you so little —I mean the food is good and I have eaten there several time.

This is how the restaurant tell it:  Ashley’s Restaurant, originally called Jack’s Tavern, was opened in 1933. Over the years the restaurant has exchanged hands a few times, and has gone by such names as Cooney’s Tavern, the Mad Duchess, the Loose Caboose, Sparrow Hawk, and Gentleman Jim’s. In 1985 it became Ashley’s Restaurant. The Tudor-style wood and stucco building is furnished with old stained-glass windows and antique pictures and windows on the dark wood walls. Booth and table seating flank either side of the downstairs bar area, which is overseen by tables along the railing of the upstairs dining area    So nothing strange there—except my title quote on this episode is also from their introduction to the restaurant.

So far you’d never have taken this for part of an adventure day or even weekend now would you?  This is why I read (actual books but if you’re only capable of online links then that’ll have to do.

Rockledge is the oldest community in Brevard County, Florida. The town was once known for citrus groves, but the largest industries are aerospace and technology.

The original name of Rockledge was Peru, named after the Peruvian Mining Company. The company set up small houses for its workers in the area.

USA TODAY

https://traveltips.usatoday.com/history-rockledge-florida-22625.html

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Other Ghosts:

There have been reports of child (not sure of sex), and a man—it is estimated that since the restaurant is sandwiched in between the highway (One) and the train tracks that they died in accidents on one side or another and their lost spirits found a refuge here and have just continued to hang here ever since.

There was supposedly a man arrested here an dragged out of the restaurant by the cops—many people complain of being grabbed or push while going up and down the stairs—and a man who wasn’t there—-has been seen on pictures taken of the bar—I recently found someone who said the man who was dragged out was seen by his autistic daughter who ran out into traffic and was killed, but his is a  recent addition to the story  so…………….

And possibly a long dead employee who is said to still be in service at the restaurant.

Learn more:  https://www.spacecoastliving.com/our-haunted-coast/

Rockledge is very close to Cocoa Village——so that would be a convenient place to visit and perhaps come to Ashley’s for lunch or if you stay the night –Dinner