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Do Ghosts Haunt the Oldest City in the United States?

Saint Augustine will always be one of my favorite places to visit in the States. I visited often when I lived in Southern Georgia. Right on the beach with lots of shopping and tourist attractions galore for the history buffs, St. Augustine also has it's darker side. This ancient city has seen it's share of tragedy. And if it's true that ghosts haunt places where they died suddenly or tragically, then St. Augustine may be one of the most haunted places in the United States.

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The Ghosts of St. Augustine

Ghosts of St. Augustine

Ghosts of St. Augustine

by: Tom Lapham

Amazon Price: $4.99 (as of 02/14/2012)Buy Now

Author Dave Lapham has collected twenty-four stories from St Augustine's rich oral history into a light yet sometimes hair-raising peek at the spooky side of the Oldest City.

Haunted St. Augustine

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Here is a list of Tours being offered in St. Augustine. Don't forget your camera!
Welcome to Ghost Tours of St. Augustine
Ghost Tours of St. Augustine, Florida offers award-winning supernatural ghost tours every night including seasonal and private tours with over 20 professional tour guides. Call today for professionally planned and historically accurate guide services.
St.Augustine Ghosts - Haunted Walking and Trolley Tours - Ghostly Encounters
Ancient City Ghost Tours of St. Augustine, Florida features nightly haunted walking tours, ghostly trolley tours, and ghostly horse drawn carriage tours. Ask us about our school and group discounts.
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Haunted St Augustine Paranormal Field Investigations
A SMALL GROUP EXPERIENCE, this interactive walking tour as they introduce you to the investigation of haunted sites. You will learn how to assess seeming haunted phenomena, and what does compromise an actual haunting.
St. Augustine Haunted Tour | Ghosts & Gravestones
St. Augustine tours: Ghosts and Gravestones haunted tours.

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Ancient City Hauntings: More Ghosts of St. Augustine

Ancient City Hauntings: More Ghosts of St. Augustine

by: Tom Lapham

Amazon Price: $5.14 (as of 02/14/2012)Buy Now

St. Augustine is America's oldest city-and perhaps its most haunted. David Lapham's first volume, Ghosts of St. Augustine, has proven very popular. Enjoy another twenty-five hair-raising stories from the ethereal shadows of the Ancient City's murky past.
Why is St. Augustine so ghost-ridden, so filled with spirits? Since the release of Ghosts of St. Augustine, the Ancient City has been the subject of numerous television documentaries and paranormal investigations. Ghost tours have burgeoned. Few have been disappointed in their quests for supernatural experiences.

Come walk again with Dave Lapham through the dark, enduring streets of St. Augustine and shiver in the ice-cold pockets of air that smother you in the black of night, listen to the gentle lapping of the water along the bay front and the distant murmurs of French sailors being slaughtered on the river. Come visit the Oldest House, the Old Jail, Ripley's, the Oldest School House, and all the many haunted B&Bs and other establishments that harbor wandering souls and spirits from ancient times.

Chill to the ghosts you'll find in the Pumpkin Church, the Casa de La Paz and Casa de Sue%uFFFD Meet the warriors of Moultrie Creek, the ghost of the old Spanish Washer Woman, and the ghosts of the Minorcans. You'll encounter dogs and demons, herbal creations, and even ghost magnets.

Come explore these Ancient City hauntings.

St. Augustine Lighthouse

Built by the Spanish in the 1600s, this prominent attraction became and official U.S. lighthouse in 1824. Just because it's been here a long doesn't make it automatically haunted....does it? You be the judge.

Does the ghost of Mr. Andreu, the original lighthouse keeper, still keep watch since he fell to his death while painting tower? A former lighthouse keeper claims to have heard footsteps following him during his rounds, as well as noticing the smell of cigar smoke.

The apparitions of a little girls have been seen by at the lighthouse on the catwalk. Could it be one of the three girls who drowned when a handcart in which they were playing in went off the tramway that was built to carry supplies from ships to the lighthouse during the 1870s? The girls were the daughters of Hezekiah Pittee, Superintendent of Lighthouse Construction.

Reports of a "Blue Man" in the basement and a woman who walks the yard outside and is sometimes seen on the staircase have been recorded. Visitors and workers have claimed to have seen shadows and heard voices and sounds.

Ghost Hunters: St. Augustine Lighthouse

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Spend the Night with a Ghost

Haunted B&Bs, Hotels and Inns

If you stay overnight in St. Augustine, chances are you will be sharing your room with a ghost. Many Hotels, Inns and Bed and Breakfasts have thier stories about guests who have experienced unexplained things. Here are few places that claim to have Paranormal activity.
St. Francis Inn
Ask to stay in Lily's room on the 3rd floor and you might catch a glimpse of a young girl who used to be a house servant searching for her lover. Major William Hardee killed himself after he was forbidden to see his love again when his Uncle found out of his affair with Lily. She was dismissed and the depressed soldier either hung himself or jumped out of the window in what is now Lily's room.
Casablanca Inn Bed and Breakfast St Augustine Florida
This historic Inn was once owned by an elderly lady back in the 1920s. The story goes that she would aid booze smugglers during the prohibition by swinging a lantern to tell them if the coast was clear. People claim that you can still see the "ghost lantern" at night at the top of the Inn, especially from the waterfront. Guests in the Inn have claimed to feel cold spots, items disappearing and then re-appearing in odd places and an apparation in the hallways and staircases.
Casa de Solana. A Bed and Breakfast Inn located in St Augustine Florida for unique B&B lodging.
The Casa de Solana is the second oldest Inn in St. Augustine. Perhaps you will run into a mysterious blonde woman dressed in white. Ask to stay in the Montejurra room, which is one of the most haunted areas of the home. It seems that two ghosts haunt that room. You will be sharing your space with Mary and Victoria.

The ghosts at Casa de Solana are also seen on the grounds of the Inn. Supposedly there is a Spanish soldier who walks around the courtyard and entry way. The ghost is believed to be Fredrico but goes by Frederick. In the 1800's, he used to guard the entrance to the home. One day when he was protecting his home, he was chasing Indians away and was tragically killed when he was shot in the back by an arrow.

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Castillo de San Marcos

This historic Fortress is one of the first things you see when you come to St. Augustine. It's huge. And it's a major tourist attraction with historic tours and re-enactments. It's a definate must-see when visiting this historic city.

Is it haunted? Well there are a few stories associated with the Fortress, but nothing really major, given the age and history. Sightings of a soldier leaning against a wall have been reported. Some people even claim to hear the old cannons firing. One ghostly story claims that an officer at the Fort caught his wife cheating on him. He put both the wife and her lover in the dungeon, shackled and chained. Then he had the room bricked up. Though nothing was recorded historically of this, in the 1830's an engineer had the wall removed and found 2 skeleton's shacked in the room. People have reported smelling sweet perfume in the area.

According to Wikipedia: "The Castillo is a masonry star fort made of a stone called "coquina", literally "little shells", made of ancient shells that have bonded together to form a type of stone similar to limestone. Workers were brought in from Havana, Cuba, to construct the fort. The coquina was quarried from Anastasia Island across the bay from the Castillo, and ferried across to the construction site. Construction lasted twenty-three years, being completed in 1695."

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