Feel the chill of the night running up your spine as you board the Trolley of the Doomed for the city’s original Frightseeing Tour. Take your seat on St. Augustine’s Ghosts & Gravestones Tour and prepare yourself for the strange and unusual. Your Gravedigger host will entrance you with tales of misfortune and mayhem and accounts of long gone residents who can still be seen in numerous locations around the city. You’ll be challenged to do your part to help find the Book of the Dead by searching for clues in three of St. Augustine’s most haunted sites:
1. The Old Drug Store
2. The Spanish Military Hospital
3. The Old Jail.
As you enter these sites, our Ghost Hosts will enlighten you with details about the ghosts that reside in each of the haunted dwellings.
It was 1565 when Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles landed on the shoreline of St. Augustine; he’d discovered a pristine gem overflowing with natural beauty and infinite possibilities. He claimed the land for his country of Spain, beginning a period of Spanish power that would last nearly 200 years. During those years, the original settlers suffered through illnesses, plagues, famine and devastating hurricanes.
There are many who believe that their strife still weighs heavy throughout the city; that those who perished are still lingering about…now is your chance to meet them face to face.
To learn more, go to our St. Augustine Ghost Tour. |