MY CHILLING TIME WITH A GHOSTLY ENCOUNTER GHOST TOUR

I received compensation in the form of tickets  in exchange for writing this review. Although this post is sponsored, all opinions are my own.


Hello all,

Well it looks like I made it back alive. I just spent an awesome 3 days in the most haunted city in the US, St. Augustine. And let me tell you, it was so much fun! One thing we had to partake in being in a haunted city was to take a haunted ghost tour. We wound up going on a tour by A Ghostly Encounter. 

We started off by parking in back of the business, parking was $5. Then we walked around and met our tour guide Matt. He had a very friendly and professional attitude. We chatted with him as we waited to see if anyone else showed up. After waiting an appropriate amount of time, we started our tour. It looked like it was just me, my hubby and the tour guide tonight.

MY CHILLING TIME WITH A GHOSTLY ENCOUNTER GHOST TOUR

Our tour guide Matt was very, very knowledgeable and really knew his history of St. Augustine well. He shared so many stories with us. He was very entertaining. On our tour, the  first stop was 2 old cemeteries. They were locked because of vandals. In one cemetery you could see one small headstone by itself. He told the story of a woman who lived in the house right next to this cemetery a long time ago.  She had a young son who played in the cemetery often. He died from falling from a tree there. She had her sons body buried in the cemetery.The woman could no longer stand to look out her window seeing the headstone of her deceased son, so she moved away, but never came back for her sons body. The tour guide Matt told us some people have taken pictures of the boys ghost in the tree from which he fell that is located in the cemetery. He even showed us one! He told us another story how  the people buried in one of the cemeteries were the rich people, and the poorer people were buried outside in mass graves. How we were standing on a mass grave at that moment. That was chilling.

MY CHILLING TIME WITH A GHOSTLY ENCOUNTER GHOST TOUR - MATT THE TOUR GUIDE

We worked ourselves around the area and came to the Fort Castillo de San Marcos. It is the oldest masonry fort in the US, and is haunted. He told us a few stories about the fort like the grass around it was one large grave site. He told us the story about a doctor from the fort who cut off an Indian chiefs head and showed it to his children when they misbehaved. He also walked us around the fort and showed us an oven where the soldiers in the fort would reshape and reuse already fired cannon balls' He then showed us a wall of the fort where he said a firing squad performed mass executions. You could see the holes in the walls. I took a picture of this wall while on this tour, I think it looks eerily like bullet ricochets in the picture.

MY CHILLING TIME WITH A GHOSTLY ENCOUNTER GHOST TOUR

In the youtube video my husband shot below, you can see our tour guide Matt talking. The video is a little long because we didn't want to edit it, but if you watch it between the minutes 6.04-6.09 you can see an unexplained flash of light.

Finally, at the end of the tour we wrapped up by heading to the office where we started. Matt said the place was known for a lot of ghost activity. He showed us some divining rods and explained how to use them and what they meant and how they were used to find ghostly energy. He showed us a chair and set 2 flashlights on it, one on each arm. He said sometimes the ghosts like to play and turn the flashlights on and off. That didn't happen this time, but in my video I did capture a floating disc that came out of nowhere.

All in all, we had a great time and learned a lot about St. Augustine. I definitely recommend a Ghostly Encounter Ghost Walking tour the next time you visit! We definitely will be taking this tour again! For information about their tours, call 904-827-0807, or 877-606-3820.