St Augustine Haunted History: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

For many years, the gate to the old city of St Augustine was locked every night at dusk to keep the town’s people safe. Yet, terrible misfortunes still befell them, as you’ll soon discover on this walking tour through the historic district.

Our tour begins outside the Spanish bakery where you’ll hear about the ghoulish laundry lady who is said to have haunted the bakery’s backyard in 1999.

Then, outside Tolomato Cemetery, you’ll hear the haunting tale of how Kernel Joseph Smith saved the city’s most beautiful woman from being buried alive. If you’re lucky, you’ll glimpse the apparition of Tillie, a nanny who died protecting her child from a hurricane in the late 1700s.

You’ll walk past Pena Peck house where the Spanish Royal Treasurer, Leutenant Delaney, lived before he was stabbed in an unsolved murder case from 1785.

You’ll walk past Pena Peck house where the Spanish Royal Treasurer, Leutenant Delaney, lived before he was stabbed in an unsolved murder case from 1785.

You’ll find out the gruesome details of Don Diego’s demise, after he fatally fell from the fortified walls of Castillo de San Marcos.

At the entrance to the old city, where the tour ends, you’ll get acquainted with the brave women who saved these fragments of history by chaining themselves to the pillars of St Augustine’s city gate.

You’ll also hear about two lucky visitors who received gold from a ghost who greeted them in the Huguenot Cemetery.