Brief Haunted History of St. Augustine and GhoSt Augustine:
GhoSt Augustine was founded in May 2001 as the first paranormal store in St. Augustine, Florida. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously inhabited city of European origin in North America. The city was founded in 1565 under Pedro Menendez de Aviles. The purpose of the city was to be a port for the Spanish Treasure fleet prior to sailing back to Spain and to serve as a military outpost protecting the fleet. The area where the city is located was declared sacred by the natives long before the Spanish arrived. There seem to be a connection to the spirit world in St. Augustine. Our theory is that the haunted nature of St. Augustine is due to the bloody and deadly history of St. Augustine in combination with its location on top of the electromagnetic fields of the earth. Your licensed ghost tour guide will have more information about these and what ghosts really are and why they visit us. Many believe that the ghost stories that are told about St. Augustine are a recent fabrication. The fact is that it is only since recent times that people can share ghost stories without being thought of being crazy. Nowadays people feel at ease with sharing ghostly encounters. More people than ever before are interested in hearing about ghosts and visiting haunted sites. If you are a believer or not, a ghost tour of St. Augustine with GhoSt Augustine will ensure that you have a most memorable and interesting evening!
Since 2002 GhoSt Augustine offers St. Augustine ghost tours in form of the Haunted Pub Tour which takes tour guests on a 2.5 hour tour into several haunted establishments within an easy walking distance downtown. Tour guests spend about 30-40 minutes inside each pub. This give the tour goers the opportunity to really reflect on the ghost stories told of each place, search around for both the liquid spirits and actual spirits and hang out with the tour guide and fun fellow pub crawlers.
Since 2004 GhoSt Augustine offers the Hearse Ride tour. This ghost tour was chosen by the Travel Channel as the haunted tour to do in St. Augustine. The Hearse Ride tour takes you on a genuine ghost tour to off the beaten track locations in a real old hearse. We currently have two hearses and one can take up to 13 people and the other one 10 people. The tour goers use K2 EMF meters and will hear verified true tales of St. Augustine’s south end and on the 90 min tour also the St. Augustine lighthouse. We get out at several stops but we do not go inside any buildings since we want to cover as many places as possible and keep the prices down. One of many advantages with the Hearse Ride tour is that you go with a small group of people. This adds to making the tour atmospheric, spooky, very down to earth, real, and personable.
Since 2007 GhoSt Augustine offers a Pub Hearse ride which is a combination of the other two tours. This most incredible pub and ghost tour requires you to be at least 21 years old. The hearse used for the Pub Hearse Ride has a partition between the driver and the tour guests and this makes it possible for the guests to bring their choice of beverage along for the spooky ride. A stiff … drink, that is, might help to calm your nerves… Only 8 people can go on the Pub Hearse Ride.
GhoSt Augustine was founded in May 2001 as the first paranormal store in St. Augustine, Florida. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously inhabited city of European origin in North America. The city was founded in 1565 under Pedro Menendez de Aviles. The purpose of the city was to be a port for the Spanish Treasure fleet prior to sailing back to Spain and to serve as a military outpost protecting the fleet. The area where the city is located was declared sacred by the natives long before the Spanish arrived. There seem to be a connection to the spirit world in St. Augustine. Our theory is that the haunted nature of St. Augustine is due to the bloody and deadly history of St. Augustine in combination with its location on top of the electromagnetic fields of the earth. Your licensed ghost tour guide will have more information about these and what ghosts really are and why they visit us. Many believe that the ghost stories that are told about St. Augustine are a recent fabrication. The fact is that it is only since recent times that people can share ghost stories without being thought of being crazy. Nowadays people feel at ease with sharing ghostly encounters. More people than ever before are interested in hearing about ghosts and visiting haunted sites. If you are a believer or not, a ghost tour of St. Augustine with GhoSt Augustine will ensure that you have a most memorable and interesting evening!
Since 2002 GhoSt Augustine offers St. Augustine ghost tours in form of the Haunted Pub Tour which takes tour guests on a 2.5 hour tour into several haunted establishments within an easy walking distance downtown. Tour guests spend about 30-40 minutes inside each pub. This give the tour goers the opportunity to really reflect on the ghost stories told of each place, search around for both the liquid spirits and actual spirits and hang out with the tour guide and fun fellow pub crawlers.
Since 2004 GhoSt Augustine offers the Hearse Ride tour. This ghost tour was chosen by the Travel Channel as the haunted tour to do in St. Augustine. The Hearse Ride tour takes you on a genuine ghost tour to off the beaten track locations in a real old hearse. We currently have two hearses and one can take up to 13 people and the other one 10 people. The tour goers use K2 EMF meters and will hear verified true tales of St. Augustine’s south end and on the 90 min tour also the St. Augustine lighthouse. We get out at several stops but we do not go inside any buildings since we want to cover as many places as possible and keep the prices down. One of many advantages with the Hearse Ride tour is that you go with a small group of people. This adds to making the tour atmospheric, spooky, very down to earth, real, and personable.
Since 2007 GhoSt Augustine offers a Pub Hearse ride which is a combination of the other two tours. This most incredible pub and ghost tour requires you to be at least 21 years old. The hearse used for the Pub Hearse Ride has a partition between the driver and the tour guests and this makes it possible for the guests to bring their choice of beverage along for the spooky ride. A stiff … drink, that is, might help to calm your nerves… Only 8 people can go on the Pub Hearse Ride.
