Charlie Carlson is the author of a dozen Florida books, big and small, and over 200 magazine and newspaper articles related to Florida’s past and as he puts it, downright weird folklore. He is a past president of the Seminole County Historical Society and currently serves on the Advisory Board for the City of Sanford Museum.
Known as Florida’s Master of the Weird by his readers and with good reason, Charlie has appeared in numerous television documentaries, including the Curse of the Blair Witch on the SciFi Channel and in Blockbuster’s rental video, Stix and Stones. He has been featured in several cable television and rental DVD documentaries related to unexplained phenomena plus a half dozen independent movies.
Miss Scarlet was originally known as Dakota, born in Sumter County, Florida, she
is a seven year old female boxer. She spent the first year of life as a
neglected pup chained to a tree in someone's backyard until rescued by
two animal lovers. She soon joined the Carlson family and found her mentor,
a large, brindle boxer named, Bubba James, from whom she learned her boxer
etiquite. Because of her unique reddish coat she was renamed, "Scarlet."
Miss Scarlet is co-star in the Florida PBS special, "Weird Florida: Roads Less
Traveled."
During the filming, Miss Scarlet rode nearly 1500 miles in the weirdmobile, most
of it with her head stuck out the window and her chops flapping in the breeze. Miss Scarlet now resides in luxury with her own four cats and a squirrel in New
Smyrna Beach, Florida.
