Paranormal Activity at the St. Augustine Lighthouse

St. Augustine, Florida is known for its haunts - one being the St. Augustine Lighthouse, which has been around for 148 years!

News4JAX spoke with Sammy Washburn, the Specialty Programs manager and “Dark of the Moon” tour guide for six years. Sammy has witnessed many accounts of paranormal activity, including being locked in the lighthouse! She's also been a witness to guests' experiences too.

"We will have people sometimes say they are struggling to climb to the top of the lighthouse. Then all of a sudden, they would feel a hand on their backs kind of guiding them up to the top of the lighthouse."

Sammy Washburn has seen some ghosts too! Some show up as shadows, but there's one that has a full body apparition... Maria Andreu, a ghost who usually dresses in white and was the wife of a keeper of the old lighthouse, who fell to his death. There is also the ghost of Peter Rasmussen, the longest-serving lighthouse keeper, working 23 years on the job in the early 1900s. Sammy identifies him by the cherry tobacco scent he sends throughout the lighthouse.

Apparently, the lighthouse keeper's house is even more haunted! Only the bravest of visitors go there... find out about it on News4JAX!


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