This photo was taken during GhoSt Augustine’s midnight Hearse Ride out at the world famous haunted St. Augustine Lighthouse. Martin Akerman captured this fabulous orb while roaming the grounds of the lighthouse. You never know what might appear in your photos during out ghost tours.

Jeffrey is a lifelong academic that started with a Bachelor’s in English,
several bodywork certificates and finally to the height of his life purpose:
a degree in Chinese Medicine. An Acupuncture Physician licensed in the state
of Florida, Jeffrey grew up in Florida and then spent 17 years in California
learning that when we love what we do, the rest takes care of itself.

Jeffrey has a keen sense of comic irony, spinning tales that are fun, yet
thought provoking. Valedictorian of his class and a jack ass of many trades,
Jeffrey highly values education and always wants to share the curiosities of
life whether he’s teaching English to at risk students or being an emcee at
a bikini bar. He also has the highest nationally recognized certification in
Chinese Medicine and interned at the Venice Family Clinic, the largest free
clinic in the country.

So if your tastes are eclectic and offbeat, look him up. You may find
Jeffrey’s spin on Florida history swirling around a bizarro world of
colonial ghosts and hopping Asian vampires to be the haunted pub experience
that is tailor made for you.

Ever wanted to go into a real haunted house? Well now is your chance! GhoSt Augustine’s Hearse Ride has been invited to investigate one of our local haunted bed and breakfast. Call for more information about nights and departure times that feature this unique opportunity to do a mini investigation during our hearse ride.
GhoSt Augustine has recently celebrated our 10th anniversary and what a great addition, a chance to investigate while on the tour.
We hope to see you soon, in the hearse!!
Miss Caroline’s B&B was built between 1865-185 and has a rich history in the paranormal.
Happy Hauntings.

Saturday , May 21, 2011

(actually: Sunday, 00:15, May 22, 2011)

While on tour with the evening’s GhoSt Augustine Hearse Tour guests, our second stop, the Kenwood Inn, allowed for a most exciting event.  I had just shared my only live/visual paranormal experience, which happened at the Mission of Nombre de Dios more than 15 years prior. This prompted a “tongue & cheek” discussion about how we were all about due for more a substantial experience with the paranormal; we had become “bored” with our photographs of just orbs…oh, the
plight of ghost hunters…
As I was telling the story of the Bay view Room (Captain’s Wife on the Widow’s Walk) one
of my guests discreetly got the attention of his wife to point out what he had been
watching in the windows of the room referred to in the story.  The wife, not so discreetly, focused everyone’s attention on the windows.  What we noticed was a green glowing spot of light moving about in the windows. There are 2 windows that face east behind the widow’s walk balcony.  The light moved back & forth from one side of the window to the other, then from one window to the other. It would grow in size from a tennis ball concentration of the light to an ambient glow of green that would take up most of one window. The light was obviously coming from inside the room; there was no green cast of light on the building exterior as the light moved between windows.
The five of us were absolutely mesmerized for what seemed like five minutes; we just watched & tried to make sense of what was taking place. I became certain that someone inside the room was playing a prank on us by using a cell phone to create the look of something “paranormal”. To potentially antagonize the pranksters into revealing themselves, I pointed my flashlight beam into the windows.
I could not see any figure standing close enough to the window that would explain the cell phone theory. I then shook the flashlight to rapidly move the beam back & forth over the windows. The green light mimicked my movements; we definitely thought it was a prank. 
To make matters more interesting, a second light appeared between the curtain & glass in the left window: an intense white ball of light with blue halo burned fast & hot then dissipated in a downward motion. The agitation of the green glow escalated, & the increased activity caused the curtains to billow slightly by the light’s motion. I was convinced the event was a prank & would contact the Kenwood the next day to confirm my suspicion by finding out if the room was occupied.
The owner of the Kenwood Inn shared some interesting details about the room(s) in question. The two windows of the widow’s walk are no longer part of the same room.  Also, I was assured the two occupants would not have been the type to carry off such a well choreographed prank. They were two older women in St Augustine on business for the Florida School of the Deaf & Blind.
Well…how ’bout that…what a great tour…You never know what is going to happen on GhoSt Augustine’s Original Hearse Ride!!
~Brandy

Lori Reber was recently a guest on our Haunted St. Augustine Paranormal Tour and took this interesting photo at the Heugunot Cemetery. It shows the image of a young woman on Nellie Porter’s grave which is believed to be here. Beuatiful photo on one of GhoSt Augustine’s many ghost tours! You never know what might show up in your photos on one of our tours, especially with Dr. Harry Stafford PhD in Parapsychology.

GhoSt Augustine recently launched it’s newest tour, The Dead Walk! Fabulous ghost tour that takes you through the dark and narrow streets on St. Augustine’s south side of the plaza. Here the ghostly tales alot of other tours don’t know about.

Hope you will join us soon on one of our haunted adventures.

The latest occurrence at our GhoSt Augustine Gift Shop at 123 St. George St. happened just this past week!!
One of the store owners was in the hallway alone early one morning preparing to open his store when he heard the alarm go off in the Sword Shop at the front of the hallway. He heard someone scurrying around in the store and moving things around and was sure someone was in there!! He looked through the door and windows and the sound stopped but the alarm continued to go off. It is a motion sensor alarm so something had been in there moving around to set it off. It wasn’t a mouse or anything like that, it was something much more. He started to go back to his store dreading the sound of the alarm when he heard something moving things and banging things against the wall. As soon as he went back to look in the window again it stopped!
Wonder who it could have been? I don’t think it was the female apparition who has been seen in the hall, but we have heard stories there is a male spirit there as well. You never know what may happen at our ghost shop or in that hallway. Join us for our Ghost Tour/ Hearse Ride one night and you may have an experience of your own while you are in the store!?

A Solnia Session:

Physical consciousness is only one stage, albeit an important one, of your birth into consciousness.  You do not denigrate the cocoon because the butterfly emerges.  In a real sense, physical embodiment and existence are a cocoon from which you will emerge as a conscious being.  The body of consciousness you need is formed in your physical lifetimes.  From the standpoint of your soul, physical reincarnations and probabilities are simultaneous.  You can and do have more than one dream simultaneously at times. Likewise, your physically focused lives and activities are simultaneous.  They constitute the cocoon or womb from which the fully conscious self emerges.  You may use various metaphors as you prefer, but in greater terms you are not fully born, nor are you truly free, until you emerge into lucid consciousness.
Your soul – your source – is awakened, and gives birth to the progeny of consciousness.  You grow into your soul and its freedom which is your own, even as your soul continues its expansion into infinity.  This expansion is not spatial as such, for space implies meaningful measurement relative to your physical position.  Infinity brackets not merely the limitations of physical space as you understand it, but all terms of physical measurement.  Infinity requires no space, and thus certainly is not limited by it.  Its “measure” is a qualitative one, signifying boundless creativity, freedom and diverse orders of being, encompassing, however, experiences that in your present understanding would seem to be non-being.
As you emerge into lucidness these conundrums will disappear, even as your species outgrew the paradoxes of a flat earth.  You now inhabit a round earth, and your growing awareness of it makes it more intimate to you.  Just so, though the emergence of lucid consciousness will expand your framework in truly infinite ways, your experience will become more intimate than anything you presently imagine.  That is because the more your consciousness expands, the more immediate and pervasive the presence of grace and prime values, and the more at home you are in your divine nature.  The field becomes more and more personal as you evolve, even as the personal becomes transpersonal in the field itself.  In a quite valid sense, your conception of separate, detached egos is not yet personal, for “personal” requires an intimate awareness of – and identity with – the living field.  To put it in simpler terms, “personal” means love – knowing the interdependent, sacred, living whole, present in every one of its expressions.  This is also grace.

©  Harry C.Stafford

We want to thank Christopher Pitcher for sending us this photo after attending GhoSt Augustine’s Original Hearse Ride here in St. Augustine. This photo was taken at the National Cemetery with two interesting energy ribbons over the pyramids at the nations smallest National Cemetery.  You never know what may happen on a ghost tour in St. Augustine, FL, especially on our hearse ride!!

Thank you, Christopher for sending this in!!

I just had to tell you about what happened on both the 9:15 and the 11:30 GhoSt Augustine Hearse Ride the other night! Both events happened at the St Francis house.
My first tour group was at the St Francis Inn around 10:30 last night. I was telling the story of Ms. Elizabeth when a gentleman on the tour’s cell phone began to ring. I ignored the interruption and continued on with the story. He walked away from the group and kept saying “hello, hello, hello” There was no one on the other end of the call. So he excused himself. He came back to the group with a look of confusion on his face. He asked if we all heard his phone ring. Of course we did mutter a guest. The call came from his son’s number. Concerned there was something wrong he dialed it back. When he reached his son his son had no idea what his dad was talking about and told him he DID NOT call at 10:30! He wanted to know how that could have happened. I had no explanation for the phantom call! Could it have been Elizabeth that was playing with the gentleman’s phone?
The second incident happened at the same place but this time around 12:30. Again I was telling the story of Ms. Elizabeth. One of the gentlemen in the group walked away. I finished up the story and we all got back into the hearse. The man’s face was pale and asked again about Elizabeth and why she didn’t like men. I told him we think it was a man that murdered her and her anger is aimed towards men. He told us he was experiencing a panic attack just as I was beginning the story! He didn’t hear the entire story but had a feeling of apprehension and fear. He said he had to walk away because he couldn’t stay in the area. Not sure why Elizabeth’s energy was so strong last night but both times it was directed to men!
You never know what’s going to happen out there but it is always an adventure!
~Tina

Genovar Opera House was located at 121 St. George St. which is now known as 123 St. George St.  Now as you see it, it is a small hallway of quaint little shops where our GhoSt Augustine Gift Shop is located. Back in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, before the 1914 fire, it was a 3 story building featuring the ground floor full of different stores, and fabulous Shoe Gallery was located on the 3rd floor, but on the 2nd floor was the Genovar Opera House.  Tyrone Power Sr. had his acting debut here at the Genovar in November 1886 and Frederick Douglas spoke to a crowd of over 700 people in 1889.
The building that housed the Genovar Opera House burned on the April 2, 1914 fire which started in the Florida House and was allegedly caused by rats chewing on matches. It raged through the central part of town destroying many prominent buildings including the Magnolia Hotel.
I can just envision what it would have looked like since there are no known photos of the opera house. I can see the hustle and bustle of people getting ready for a show and the patrons taking their seats and waiting anxiously for the show to begin.
There have been several strange occurrences reported of people seeing or hearing things in the hallway, especially when they are in the building alone. Our GhoSt Augustine Gift Shop is located here and is usually the last store to close at night. Needless to say that is when things seem to happen, but not always. There have been a few times when I have been in the building all alone bright and early in the morning and strange things have happened.
The most recent experience was early this month (May 2011). I went over to the ghost shop to pick up a few things for our other store Beerhammer’s.  I unlocked the main door to the hallway and since it was so early in the morning and no one else was there I locked the door behind me. As I started down the hall to our store I caught a glimpse of a woman in one of the display windows to one of the other stores. Her hair was pinned up tightly atop her head and she had a light colored dress with a high collar. First thought I had was, I know I locked the door behind me so how did someone get in? I turned around and no one was behind me and when I turned back around facing the display case the woman smiled very peacefully at me, nodded her head, and vanished! Not a surprise to me at all actually, especially in this town and in this line of work. I have heard in the past a woman humming and seen a shadow walk down the hallway. Could this be the same woman? I can’t help but wonder who she is and if she is attached
to the opera house because she does appear from that period. I just wish I knew who she was!!
Jamie Roush
Manager GhoSt Augustine