GhoSt Augustine's Special Feature!! Vooodolls!!!
BRAND NEW IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS!! VOODOLLS!!! We are the only company in the United States selling these unique little guys! They will make a fantastic Christmas gift or stocking stuffer! Each VooDoll has its own specific characteristics. These can be used to achieve both short and long term goals. And if that wasn’t enough, there is a bunch of old, shrewd rituals to be performed to juice up one’s VooDooll(s). Voodoo originates from an ancient form of wisdom combined with magic. It stems from the darkest parts of Africa and is better known as the forbidden religion. Voodoo was shipped with the slave ships to Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean and has since grown to billions of practitioners around the world. Voodoo has negative connotations today, and is often associated with black magic and various malicious rituals….
GhoSt Augustine Being Filmed for Biography Channel’s "My Ghost Story"
Everybody has a ghost story. But how many people have filmed theirs? Hear true and unbelievable stories of the paranormal as told by the people who lived through them–and actually captured their hauntings on tape. These harrowing eye-witness accounts of the unexplainable are transformed into more than tales with terrifying visual evidence. You’ll have no choice but to believe your eyes. Jonas Brihammar Executive Director of GhoSt Augustine and Tour Guide Tina Verduzco are being interviewed in Los Angeles, CA for Biography Channel’s My Ghost Story. We will keep you posted when the episode will air and they will share their pesonal experiences with you! Happy Haunting……
Tribute to Laurel Hill Cemetery
In late 1835, John Jay Smith, a Quaker and librarian, recorded in his diary: “The City of Philadelphia has been increasing so rapidly of late years that the living population has multiplied beyond the means of accommodation for the dead…on recently visiting Friends grave yard in Cherry Street I found it impossible to designate the resting place of a darling daughter, determined me to endeavor to procure for the citizens a suitable, neat and orderly location for a rural cemetery.” Smith’s very personal experience ultimately had very public implications, as less than one year later, this grieving father founded Laurel Hill Cemetery with partners Nathan Dunn, Benjamin W. Richards and Frederick Brown. When Smith conceived of Laurel Hill, he envisioned something fundamentally different from the burial places that came before it, and the site has continued to hold an important…