Archive: Jan 2011

Ed and Lorraine Warren are American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of hauntings. Ed Warren (September 7, 1926 – August 23, 2006) was a noted demonologist, author, and lecturer. Lorraine Warren (January 31, 1927 – ), his wife, is a professed clairvoyant and a light trance medium who worked closely with her husband. The Warrens founded the New England Society for Psychic Research in 1952 and later opened the Occult Museum. They are the authors of numerous books about the paranormal and their own private investigations into various hauntings. They claimed to have investigated over 10,000 hauntings during their career. The Warrens were among the very first investigators in the controversial Amityville haunting. The Warrens were responsible for training several current paranormal investigating demonologists including Dave Considine, Lou Gentile, and their nephew John Zaffis. The Warrens are…

John Zaffis (born 1955) is a paranormal researcher born and based in Connecticut, He runs the Paranormal and Demonology Research Society of New England, which he founded in 1998. Zaffis has over thirty years of experience as a paranormal investigator. Zaffis admits that he was initially very skeptical of the existence of ghosts, until one Wednesday evening when he was sixteen and saw a transparent apparition at the foot of his bed shaking its head back and forth. When he told his mother of the incident, Zaffis learned that his grandfather, when he was alive, always shook his head when he was upset about something. In the next few days, Zaffis’ grandmother, who lived with him, died. This incident peaked his interest in the paranormal and set him about talking to authorities in the subject and reading about the paranormal….

A couple of weeks ago I had a phone call from one of my hearse drivers that she couldn’t find her set of keys for the 1990 Hearse, Frankie. She knew 100% that she had them and they were nowhere to be found! Last week I had an email from the hearse driver: “FYI Frankie’s keys came home!” They were in a plastic bag with tea candles in a plastic shoe box under a shelf in my office!  I HAVE NO IDEA how they got there but I just laughed and said thanks for giving them back! Since working at Ghost Augustine I no longer try and find “logical” explications for illogical things that happen.

Spook Hill is a gravity hill (an optical illusion where cars appear to roll uphill) in Lake Wales, Florida. Spook Hill is located on the Lake Wales Ridge, a geologically significant range of sand and limestone hills, which were islands from two to three million years ago, when sea levels were much higher than at present. Many species of plants and animals evolved in isolation and are endemic to the Ridge. Most are threatened or endangered by possible extinction. The attraction is adjacent to an elementary school that adopted Casper The Friendly Ghost as their school mascot. The attraction is also in close proximity to Bok Tower. Spook Hill received national media attention when an article about it appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal on October 25, 1990, and it was featured in a segment on…

Tale of the Poe Toaster by Curt Rowlett “There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be revealed.” Edgar Allan Poe For over 50 years since 1949, on the night marking the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, a mysterious man-in-black has entered the cemetery where the master of the macabre lies buried, and, making his way through the dark shadows to Poe’s grave, he places a partial bottle of expensive French cognac and three blood-red roses there, presumably as tokens of admiration and in tribute to the great author. This ritual completed, he then slips away into the night as quietly and as mysteriously as he came. The identity of this dark stranger (dubbed the “Poe Toaster” by observers) has never been revealed. And out of respect to the memory and legacy of Poe, and with a…

Coming up on the birth of one of the greatest writers of all time, we are doing this article as a tribute to him! Edgar Allan Poe was e I could tell visitors about new additions to my site so they’ll be sure to see my most recent pictures and born January 19, 1809 in Boston, where his mother had been employed as an actress. Elizabeth Arnold Poe died in Richmond on December 8, 1811, and Edgar was taken into the family of John Allan, a member of the firm of Ellis and Allan, tobacco-merchants. After attending schools in England and Richmond, young Poe registered at the University of Virginia on February 14, 1826, the second session of the University. He lived in Room 13, West Range. He became an active member of the Jefferson Literary Society, and passed his courses with…

Thank you for sending us your photo, John! The truth is out there, we just have to find it… hope to see you soon on GhoSt Augustine’s Total Paranormal Tour. The tour that lets you investigate and teaches you the proper ways to conduct an investigation, plus tells you the history of Parapsychology and where the studies began. Approx. 4-4.5 hours long, it combines the walking Haunted St. Augustine Tour and the Hearse Ride. You get the best of both worlds. For more details just give us a call at 904-824-8840 or check this website for more details.

We at GhoSt Augustine want to wish everyone a very Happy 2011! Hope all the skeletons in your closet are happy ones!! Happy Hauntings! The GhoSt Augustine Family