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Ancient City Tours' Award-Winning, Unscripted Walking Tour Through St. Augustine's Cemeteries and Old City
12 St. George Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages for the Walking Ghost Tour; the Paranormal Encounter is a smaller-group, hands-on add-on suited to older guests
Cost
$$
Walking Ghost Tour $30.00 (Adults), $20.00 (Children 4-10); A Paranormal Encounter $75 per person. Pricing per the operator's own site.
Access
Limited Access
An outdoor walking tour of St. Augustine's historic downtown, including stops at two cemeteries and along uneven colonial-era streets and sidewalks.
Equipment
Photos OK
Castillo de San Marcos (National Monument, est. 1695) · St. Augustine City Gate · Tolomato Cemetery (colonial-era burial ground) · Huguenot Cemetery (colonial-era burial ground)
A Ghostly Encounter is Ancient City Tours' flagship walking tour of St. Augustine, Florida's oldest continuously occupied European-founded settlement. The company markets itself as an unscripted operation, meaning guides depart from banter and audience questions rather than a fixed script, and are described on the operator's site as professionally licensed storytellers passing down stories "from one generation to the next."
The 90-minute route passes the Castillo de San Marcos, a Spanish colonial masonry fortress and National Monument dating to 1695; the City Gate, the surviving entrance to the walled colonial city; and two of the city's oldest burial grounds, Tolomato Cemetery and Huguenot Cemetery, both established in the 18th and early 19th centuries and no longer used for burials. The tour departs nightly from 12 St. George Street, next to the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse in the historic district.
The tour is listed by St. Augustine's official tourism site, Visit St. Augustine, among the city's ghost tour options, and holds a substantial base of reviews on TripAdvisor and Viator.
Sources
The operator describes its tour as covering "St. Augustine's strange and difficult past" through unscripted storytelling built around the Castillo de San Marcos, the City Gate, and the city's oldest cemeteries. Guides are billed as passing down local ghost lore across generations rather than reciting a fixed script, and the tour is marketed as award-winning.
This is the tour operator's own marketing description of its route and storytelling approach, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here to describe what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific haunting claim.
A 90-minute, unscripted walking tour led by professionally licensed guides through St. Augustine's Old City, passing the Castillo de San Marcos, the City Gate, and the Tolomato and Huguenot Cemeteries. Tickets $30 for adults, $20 for children 4-10, all ages. Departs from 12 St. George Street, next to the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse.
A 90-minute, smaller-group paranormal-investigation add-on to the operator's flagship walking tour, at $75 per person. Departs from 12 St. George Street.
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Featured stop and landmark on the tour route through St. Augustine's Old City.
Named stop on the tour route into the historic district.
Named cemetery stop on the tour.
Named cemetery stop on the tour.
The tour departs from next door to this landmark on St. George Street.
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