So, I'm heading down to WDW next week with my family, and we're stopping off in St. Augustine to spend the night. As you may know, St. Augustine is the oldest city in America, and I have found out that it is home to numerous ghost sightings (if you believe in that sort of thing ;-) ). One of my wife's co-workers, a former FL resident, asked if we were staying in the "haunted hotel." It's a bed and breakfast near downtown that is said to be haunted by it's former owner, a widow. We're not, it turns out, but we are (I think) staying very close to it.
Supposedly, the widow used to own the house and rented out her rooms to various people, among them: bootleggers. The widow eventually came to be in league with them and thus sheltered them and their activities from the local authorities. She would warn the bootleggers of the police's presence by walking along a balcony on the roof, swinging a lantern back and forth. When the bootleggers saw the lantern, they knew to keep going and not stop. It is said that at night, you can see the light from the lantern swinging up on the roof, as if she were still up there trying to warn them. Boo scary!
Naturally, I'll have to go check this out for myself, but I wanted to see if anyone knew of any other good ghost stories from St. Augustine (or what the heck, from anywhere). So, how about it, anybody got any good stories? Scare me, go on, I dare you.
:lookaroun
Supposedly, the widow used to own the house and rented out her rooms to various people, among them: bootleggers. The widow eventually came to be in league with them and thus sheltered them and their activities from the local authorities. She would warn the bootleggers of the police's presence by walking along a balcony on the roof, swinging a lantern back and forth. When the bootleggers saw the lantern, they knew to keep going and not stop. It is said that at night, you can see the light from the lantern swinging up on the roof, as if she were still up there trying to warn them. Boo scary!
Naturally, I'll have to go check this out for myself, but I wanted to see if anyone knew of any other good ghost stories from St. Augustine (or what the heck, from anywhere). So, how about it, anybody got any good stories? Scare me, go on, I dare you.
:lookaroun
