St. Augustine Treasures

Here’s some interesting historical facts about the actual origins of modern day public “ghost tours” and how they got their start right here in St. Augustine, Florida many decades ago…

Ghost Tours of St. Augustine Inc. was actually the very first organization to begin researching & cataloguing St. Augustine FL’s paranormal occurrences over 30 years ago. In doing this and then sharing that info with guests on a nightly evening tour that anyone could sign up for, they LITERALLY invented what is now known as the modern day “ghost tour” which is popular all over in many different cities!

Company founder Sandy Craig, a history enthusiast & St Augustine native who’s family origins dated all the way back to the Spanish Minorcan settlers, joined with local historians, writers, and paranormal investigators as she wanted to create some type of evening activity for visiting overnight field trip groups for her local tour operator business. It was actually a very sleepy little town back then after 5pm, as hard as that may be to believe now!

So they spent over a year just researching & gathering stories through numerous interviews with residents, and combing through archives at the local Historical Society, before putting this new concept for a “tour” together. Her team even went on to actually write the first books on the town’s haunted history- which are still used in training even today by many other ghost tour companies all over… the rest, as they say, is history!

That legacy continues with a number of different haunted tour options available nightly. From the now famous Ghostly Experience lantern-lit nightly walking tours, to special Paranormal Investigations, Private VIP Ghost Tours and even Creepy Crawl Haunted Pub Tours (pub tours operated in partnership with St. Augustine City Walks Food & Wine Tours)

Ghost Tours of St. Augustine Inc is dedicated to sharing the city’s authentic haunted history and real reports of ghostly sightings, while keeping the past alive through documented accounts of the undead spirits who are still purported to roam the town. Had it not been for Ms Craig’s novel idea and interest in the paranormal, who knows if there’d be these types of tours today that we all love so much?!

Visit the website to learn more, and to see some unexplainable actual photos captured by guests while on tour.

(904) 825-0087
GhostToursOfStAugustine.com

Our little mascot Buddy in the back office tonight in his favorite leather chair, helping Daddy order merchandise & work on pricing some of the antiques to put out front soon! He’s a hard worker- as evidenced by the last pic of him zonked out asleep at the desk! ❤️