St. Augustine Historic District
The operator's own site states that "A Ghostly Experience" began when local historian Sandy Craig, working with local writers and researchers, developed an evening walking tour on ghosts and other strange occurrences for visiting overnight school field-trip groups. The company's site copyright dates the business to 1992. Today the operation trades as Ghost Tours of St. Augustine, part of Tour Saint Augustine Inc., which the company describes as employing dozens of storytellers, guides, and tour managers, and which holds Florida Seller of Travel license #ST21803.
The company states its tour material is researched through historic libraries, church documents, diaries, and personal interviews, and that it does not use staged scare effects. It runs three of its own products from an office at 4 Granada Street in downtown St. Augustine: the original lantern-lit walking tour, a paranormal investigation permitted by the National Park Service to operate on the grounds surrounding Castillo de San Marcos at night, and a haunted pub crawl. The company separately resells tickets to a fourth product, the "Ghosts & Gravestones" trolley tour, operated by its partner Old Town Trolleys rather than by Ghost Tours of St. Augustine itself; that trolley tour is not included as one of this venue's own experiences.
Sources
- https://ghosttoursofstaugustine.net/
- https://ghosttoursofstaugustine.net/tours---booking.html
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsEMF/K2 Meter Readings
The Paranormal Investigation Tour of the Old Fort Grounds is built around Castillo de San Marcos, which the operator calls the city's most haunted landmark, along with the fort's Santo Domingo Redoubt defense outpost, the Old City Gates, and Huguenot Cemetery, all visited after dark. The operator frames the fort's history around military conflict, historic medical practice, and Native American history connected to the site.
The lantern-lit "A Ghostly Experience" walking tour and the Creepy Crawl Haunted Pub Tour both describe their stops in general terms — 'famous cemeteries,' 'off the beaten path locations,' and 'notorious haunted pubs' — without naming the specific properties visited, which the operator attributes to keeping tours varied and unscripted. All of this is the tour operator's own marketing description of its route, not documented history independently verified for this listing.
