Tour St. Augustine, Florida

09/11/2026

In memory of all those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. Always remembered. ❤️🤍💙

09/09/2026

Happy National Teddy Bear Day! 🧸

Stuffed toy animals have been around for centuries, becoming more popularized in the 19th century during the Industrial Revolution. The Teddy Bear found its claimed to fame after an incident in Mississippi in November 1902 with President Theodore Roosevelt.

On a bear hunting trip in Mississippi, one of Roosevelt’s guides clubbed a bear after it had killed his dog, and tied it to a tree while waiting for the President to arrive to shoot it. When President Roosevelt came upon the scene, he told his guide, “Don’t shoot him while he’s tied,” believing it was unsportsmanlike.

News spread across the country of President Roosevelt’s compassion for the bear. A Russian Jewish immigrant couple, Morris and Rose Michtom, who owned a penny store in Brooklyn, NY, created a stuffed bear from plush velvet and sewed on eyes, called “Teddy’s Bear” and put it in their store window. The next day, dozens of people asked if they could buy the bear. Before agreeing, the Michtoms wrote a letter to President Roosevelt asking permission to use his name for the bear, and he agreed. Along with the letter, they sent along the bear for the President’s children. President Roosevelt used the Teddy Bear as the symbol of the Republican Party in the election of 1904. The Teddy Bear became so popular that the Michtoms open the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company and in 1963 they donated one of the first bears to the Smithsonian Museum, which is still part of their rotating displays to this day.

In our Tour St. Augustine Gift Store, we have a Teddy Bear with scenes and landmarks from across St. Augustine. This would make a great gift for any child and adult alike to remember the wonders of this old town. Tour guests also receive a 10% OFF discount on all merchandise in the Tour St. Augustine Gift Shop.

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09/08/2026

🎉 HAPPY 461ST BIRTHDAY ST. AUGUSTINE!!! 🎉

461 years ago today, Pedro Menendez de Aviles landed on the shores of Florida and established the colony of St. Augustine at the present day Mission Nombre de Dios.

Many believe Jamestown is the beginning of United States of America’s story. However, St. Augustine was thriving for nearly 42 years before the British settlers landed upon the Virginian shores. By that time, the people of St. Augustine had formed relationships with the Timucua, had their own version of thanksgiving, built a town, and had been attacked by the notorious pirate, Sir Francis Drake. St. Augustine is the Nation’s Oldest Continuously Inhabited European City in the country.

This weekend at the Mission Nombre de Dios, a reenactment of Pedro Menendez’s landing in the New World will take place followed by a meal of thanksgiving at the Fountain of Youth.

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09/04/2026

Happy 904 Day!!!

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08/26/2026

Happy National Dog Day!!! 🐶 As you can see from our assortment of furry friends, The Original Ghostly Experience Walking Tour family loves our doggos.

Did you know that our Original Ghostly Experience and Paranormal Investigation tours are dog friendly? All dogs must be leashed and all city pet ordinances followed, but this is a great way to share quality time with your furry friend while exploring the nation's oldest city.

Feel free to share pics of your fur baby in the comments below, and hopefully they can join you on a tour soon! We offer The Original Ghostly Experience Walking Tour EVERY Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm and the Paranormal Investigation of the Old Fort begins EVERY Thursday, Friday, & Saturday at 8:30pm departing from 4 Granada Street. Book NOW at GhostToursofStAugustine.com or Call (904)825-0087.

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08/24/2026

Welcome back Flagler College Saints!!! 🦁 Looking for something fun to do this weekend while getting to know your new home? A bonding experience with your new roomies, or a night out with friends rediscovering the magic behind St. Augustine?

The Original Ghostly Experience Walking Tour, the oldest ghost tour in the state of Florida, leaves EVERY Thursday, Friday, & Saturday night at 8pm.

For those who want a more up close and personal experience with our spectral friends, the Paranormal Investigation of the Old Fort begins EVERY Thursday, Friday, & Saturday at 8:30pm.

Something new for our tour guests…the Boo Bundle! Now, when purchasing your tickets, you can add on an EMF reader of your very own. It will be provided to you at check in for the tour. You will be able to use it during your tour and continue your ghost hunting investigations long after the tour is over. Just be careful, you never know who may decide to join you!

These tours leave from 4 Granada Street, right across the street from Flagler College. Flagler College students even get special discounts on tours and souvenirs. Book NOW at GhostToursofStAugustine.com or Call (904)825-0087.

Have you always had an interest in the paranormal and history? If you would like to be part of our paranormal investigation team, we are always hiring new tour guides. No experience is necessary as we will fully train you. There are also opportunities to do other historic walking tours with our partner companies such as fort tours, educational tours, and more. Stop by our office at 4 Granada Street for more information.

08/08/2026

Kinda chic, don't you think?

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08/07/2026

Happy National Lighthouse Day!

The St. Augustine Lighthouse has had many renditions over the last 460 years. There has been a lighthouse or beacon on Anastasia Island since Sir Francis Drake’s raid in 1587. Proof of this can be seen on the Giovanni Battista Boazio 1589 map of Drake’s raid.

When the British took control of Florida in 1763, they raised the wooden beacon 30 feet. Many historians believe that this was true date of the establishment of the St. Augustine Lighthouse. Shipwrecks became a growing problem especially after the Revolutionary War, when British refugees were fleeing the new United States for Florida. On New Year’s Eve 1782, 16 ships fleeing the northern colonies wrecked when trying to enter the St. Augustine harbor. After the Spanish retook control of Florida, they tore down the beacon and additional 30 foot structure and fortified the tower with coquina.

In 1859, the St. Augustine Lighthouse had the first female lighthouse keeper in the U.S. The U.S. Coast Guard recognized Maria Andreu as the first Hispanic-American woman to serve in the Coast Guard and the first to command a federal shore installation.

In 1871, it became evident that the original lighthouse was about to fall into the ocean due to erosion, the US Congress appropriated $100,000 funding for a new lighthouse during the Florida Reconstruction Period. The new 165-foot tower wasn’t finished until 1874. When Henry Flagler arrived and built his grand hotels, his guests would visit the island for day trips and tea on the large lighthouse rubble at low tide.

In 1970, a fire gutted the inside of the keeper’s house, by 1980, St. Johns County was going to buy the property and tear it down for condos. However, the ladies of the Junior Service League bought the property, created a maritime museum, and put the site on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1994, the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program was formed to help the Museum study shipwrecks and coastal resources. In 2001, Museum archaeologists recorded the foundations of the first lighthouse tower, as well as working on the remains of the first of a series of British shipwrecks off shore, under permit from the State of Florida.

The current lighthouse tower is 152 years old. It is one part of an aid-to-navigation system here supporting military defense, travel, trade, fishing, boat building and pleasure boating since the 16th century.

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08/01/2026

Happy Birthday to our little Buddy, our company mascot. 🎂🎈🎁🎉

07/30/2026

The city’s very first ghost tour…

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From the Ghost Tours of St. Augustine vault, this fascinating picture taken on The Original Ghostly Experience walking tour in 2007. Looking west on Treasury Street we see a horse and man moving through the dark. This is a corner known for activity with a history that dates to the unsolved murder of Lt. Delaney and even further back to Robert Searle's raid of 1667.
We love seeing these pictures captured on our tours. Join us Thursday through Saturday for The Original Ghostly Experience, St. Augustine's FIRST ghost tour, and see what you can find.
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