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Freeedom Adventures Giving unique adventures for those that want the UNordinary- true crime, photo adventures, history, private personalized (ghosts?).

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~True Crime~ We have almost a dozen murder cases that are covered in our true crime experiences (2 Torrid Tales tours a...
09/04/2026

~True Crime~ We have almost a dozen murder cases that are covered in our true crime experiences (2 Torrid Tales tours and the Last Stand events).
With sentencing for such crimes (murder), you would think there would be many life sentences and even some death penalties.
Florida stands as one of highest levels of capital punishment states (with Texas leading the pack).
The following are the results of our cases, with interestingly no death penalties and only 2 life sentences:
[Please note this is for informational purposes only. Freeedom Adventures does not take a stand on the matter of capital punishment]
(the dates of sentence or crime in parenthesis)

* LIFE SENTENCE [2016]

*25 years [2009]

*UNSOLVED [1974]

*30 YEARS --for 6 murders [1999]

*UNSOLVED [1785]

*Accused Acquitted- UNSOLVED [1975]

*UNSOLVED [1990]

*LIFE SENTENCE [1991]

*Charges dropped-Stand Your Ground Law [2021]

*50 YEARS (for murder and abuse of co**se) [2016]

27 states currently retain capital punishment
25 of those states require 100% unanimous vote to give a death sentence
Florida is one of the 2 that do not, with 8 votes out of 12 required
[Alabama is the second, with 10 out of 12 required]

👉Get to Know Your Guide😎Today's featured guide: Miss Wendy "I have always lived a very active lifestyle and enjoyed tra...
09/03/2026

👉Get to Know Your Guide😎
Today's featured guide: Miss Wendy
"I have always lived a very active lifestyle and enjoyed traveling. I started visiting St. Augustine 2 decades ago. Then my 2 children decided to attend University in Florida. Now as the years continue to pass, I realize St. Augustine and I were “meant to be.” The endless delights the “Ancient City” can reveal never ceases to amaze me. As you get to know St. Augustine, you can feel the magic connection between yourself and the greater world, humanity. The thing I appreciate the most about life is: It is about people, people just like you and me. It brings me the greatest pleasure to share those wonders and history with others. I look forward to meeting the next group of guests, as we adventure through the streets of St. Augustine!"
Miss Wendy is a guide for Secrets of St Augustine and Torrid Tales tours and rocks them both with consistent 5⭐ star reviews.

August 28, 1565~Technical day Admiral Don Pedro Menendez sighted Florida land here. That date is also the feast day of ...
08/28/2026

August 28, 1565~
Technical day Admiral Don Pedro Menendez sighted Florida land here. That date is also the feast day of Saint Augustine of Hippo.
Therefore when Menendez officially named it on September 8, he chose to name it after the Saint they had been celebrating when he first laid eyes on our land. 😇
👀👣Founders day celebrations for our 461st year will be observed this year on Saturday September 12, 2026 with a historic reenactment at 10am on the grounds of the Mission Nombre de Dios. Following those activities, the entourage with have a procession on foot down to the Fountain of Youth, with a reenactment of the first Thanksgiving meal there.
The Mission activities and procession are free to attend and follow. Fountain of Youth admission will be required to enter the grounds for the demonstration there.

ohhh, electricity. ⚡126 years now that St Augustine has had a general power grid for public infrastructure. But our gran...
08/25/2026

ohhh, electricity. ⚡
126 years now that St Augustine has had a general power grid for public infrastructure.
But our grand Ponce de Leon Hotel had electricity much before that. (and even before the White House!!)
In 1888 the Ponce de Leon opened, being the first of it's size to be built and open with full electricity. . . 50,000 feet of early insulated wiring -there were bulbs in every room! 💡
But do you know guests were afraid? They enjoyed the bonus of having electricity but were afraid of possibly being 'jolted'.😳 So the Ponce had a neat job position offered there: being the 'switcher' or 'flipper' in which if you held that position, you would go around the entire place turning on/off the power.

Thomas Edison himself designed the system that would power the hotel. There were 4 'dynamos': DC (direct current) generators, that used boilers burning 8 tons of coal a day to create steam to run the engine which in turn provided the power to spin the dynamos.

The generator house was a completely separate building, with walls 2 feet thick. This separation and care was to keep the heat and noise away from the guests. This building today is the Molly Wiley Art Building pictured here. You can also see one of the iconic sights of the sky with the immense smoke stack. 8 tons of coal burning daily creates quite the smoke.

Next time you stroll by this area (on Valencia St, in rear of Flagler buildings), just imagine it running in it's early days of late 1800's This thought sometimes conjures up images of the Titanic's grand boilers and smokestacks.

‼️Bonus info: as mentioned earlier about the White House. . .it was wired for electricity in 1891 (3 years after the Ponce) during Benjamin Harris' reign as president. He and his wife were also scared of touching the switches so had staff to do so. By the time Grover Cleveland got into office in 1893, the thought of electricity was finally not as scary and he flipped his own switches.

🤩Freeedom Photo Adventure Experience📸4 ways you can experience: 2 original ways (see below), a 👻Haunting Halloween spec...
08/21/2026

🤩Freeedom Photo Adventure Experience📸
4 ways you can experience: 2 original ways (see below), a 👻Haunting Halloween special in October and soon-to-be Mini's🤏- shorter and lower cost.
😍Freeedom Photo Adventure Experience and Night 🌙Adventure Experiences are the same walking photo stroll capturing your images around town at different locations. One is daytime (offered both in mornings and twilight time) and one is night (twilight and later, into dark of night) ...up to 90 minutes long, up to 25 digital images received, $150, private-only you and your group of up to 6 people.
👻Haunting Season Photo Adventure~ this is a public, not private, event in which participants get tickets for only 💲$35 each person. Costume and themed event. 🤡 Bring your best and have fun with it! These can be up to 12 people per event, is up to 90 minutes of time, receive 10 images of yourselves and any group photo shots. Offered every Sunday night in October.
🤏MINI's~ Coming soon, starting in September 2026. The same as a regular or night Photo Adventure but Half Sized! lol Half the price (it's $75), half the time (it's about 45 minutes), half the images (about 12)
So if you'd like this experience but have not had the money or time, this one is for YOU!

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🤩LET THE FUN BEGIN! ✌

On the Last Stand events, we walk in the victims last steps. On one cool evening in the fall of 1974 we would find our ...
08/20/2026

On the Last Stand events, we walk in the victims last steps.
On one cool evening in the fall of 1974 we would find our victim walking up this street like she had done countless time, but tonight it would be her last.
She would have mere minutes to live

Where do these chimneys belong? Can you guess where they live? I'll give you a hint: they're old 😉🙃😄Or maybe this will...
08/19/2026

Where do these chimneys belong? Can you guess where they live?
I'll give you a hint: they're old 😉🙃😄
Or maybe this will help: they both are in the historic district.

I find chimneys interesting. 👀I also wonder why each of these has a distinct feature that the other does not, [or at least not seen or seen by these views hmm] even though they were built around the same era. 🤔😮 Can you identify them?

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