Early this month a few guests joined Maria one night for our Original Haunted Pub Tour here in St. Augustine FL. One of the stops was O.C. Whites and while there a couple snapped a very interesting photo. This very strange image was captured on the staircase. Some people see a soldier others have reported a woman in old style clothing. What is your opinion?
This just goes to show you, you never know what might appear on GhoSt Augustine’s Haunted Pub Crawl!
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.
My name is Andy, and I came to Saint Augustine about three years ago. Since 2001 I have been interested in the paranormal. Here is what started it all. My father had passed and when doing the unpleasant task of going through his personal effects I found his “dog tags”. He was a veteran of WWII. When I touched them my whole arm from fingertip to shoulder went numb. I have heard stories of this happening and did not believe them. I do now. I also have seen him sitting in his favorite lawn chair in the back yard. I am an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church. I have a degree in metaphysics and am a tarot reader.
Looking forward to seeing you on one of our tours!
~Andy
GhoSt Augustine Haunted Pub Tour Guide
My first encounter with a haunted building was when I was 15. I was partying in
an extravagant four story mansion in a mountainous resort in Asia. The mansion
had been converted to a nightclub called “Spirits”. The first floor was a
gigantic dance floor. The second and third floors were restaurants and
bars with a panoramic view of the dance floor below. The fourth floor was
reserved for children, who were playing video games and being taken care of by
their nannies while their parents danced and drank on the lower floors. It was
very fun, ethereal, and eerie moment…listening and dancing to trance music in
what was once a haunted mansion.
Now, I find myself going to haunted locations almost every day as a tour guide
for Ghost Augustine. Sometimes, I’m surrounded by people, who want to have
“spirits” with the spirits, on the Haunted Pub Tour, a very jovial tour in some
of the most haunted taverns and pubs in St. Augustine. On other
occasions, I find myself giving a tour with people, who want to investigate and
have that serious ghostly encounter, on the Paranormal Investigative Tour.
To be honest, I never saw myself as a tour guide. I just enjoyed taking out
family and friends to all the fun and historical places in St. Augustine for
free. Falling into this job was very serendipitous and so easy, yet I realized
later on that it requires a certain person, who can provide entertainment and
knowledge with tenacity, fortitude, and a sense of humor.
Hello All!
As rarely as I see activity wandering around on the pub tours, last night gave me an overdose! We started off at a little pizza place where we love to go hang out with the amazing and sweet staff. I know enough stories to know there are probably multiple hauntings there, but last night we got a good taste of one of them. We sat down in the dining room and were chatting before I started in on my stories when my EMF meter spiked. I said hello and the meter spiked up twice (perhaps responding with a “Hello”?). I said “Thanks for joining us” and the meter spiked a few more times. I launched into my stories and everyone seemed really involved (and really intrigued that we got spikes so early). After I finished the meter started spiking again. We laughed because it felt as if the ghost was waiting for me to finish before he communicated again. As everyone was talking amongst themselves, a 21 year old girl on the tour turned to me and said “I thought you should know there’s a man sitting in that empty chair next to you.” He’d been there the whole time, listening, and was turning off everyone’s cameras because he didn’t want his picture taken! I figured that would be the best we got all night, but in the next place we went, one of my couples took the meter into the back lounge area and came back. They both looked pretty impressed. Apparently, in the lounge the meter was spiking by a moniter. Thinking maybe the moniter was interfering
with the meter, they said “If there’s someone here, will you follow us to the other side of the room and make the meter spike.” Sure enough, they crossed the room and the ghost followed along. We then ended up at a bar that I go to sometimes, but don’t know much about the history of that particular building. I tend to tell some stories about the city and the fort outside. After telling those, we went inside to chat and have a drink. One woman came up to me after we’d been there a few minutes, showed me her camera and asked if she got an orb. She certainly had something. So my 21 year old proceeded to take a necklace and start channeling some energy to talk to our haunting. We found out that he was an older gentleman who was a soldier (but didn’t die in battle) and had some sort of affiliation with a drugstore. And we did get a few orbs on camera. Every tour I go out and we find something new. Open up your instincts and you can find something just about anywhere in St. Augustine. Thanks for reading everyone!
~Celynda
Hi! My name is Ty. I’m the “new kid” in the GhoSt Augustine haunted pub tour crew.
I’m a self-proclaimed beer aficionado and have home-brewed for ten years. On evenings I am not conducting haunted pub tours, I’m singing and playing guitar at local restaurants.
My state of origin is Pennsylvania. I have earned degrees from Penn State and have taught elementary school for 36 years.
My wife and I fell in love with St. Augustine on our first visit, intending to stay for one day. We stretched this to six days and returned to Pennsylvania with a Florida mortgage. Now it’s four years later. I’ve retired from teaching and we live in the city of our dreams.
As a pub tour guide, my goal is to pass along our love for this beautiful, historic, exciting, haunted city.
