St Augustine Haunted History: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

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Highlights

  • Listen to the stories of St Augustine, a town haunted by war, illness, attacks and storms for over 457 years

  • Hear from producers, See America Tours, a local company delighting tourists and locals alike

  • Do it all in an hour or linger at stops along the way with complete control over when you start and finish

  • Get unlimited use before your booking date and after it

  • Use the virtual tour option at home

Summary

Hunt down ghosts in America’s first colony on a creepy stroll to the City Gate with this self-guided walking tour. Experience the magic of GPS-playback on a stroll through the city's Old Town. 

Tour info

Duration
1 hour - 1 hour 30 minutes
Group Size
Pricing (From)
Adult: (6-99 years)
$6.99
Commentary
Meeting Point

42 Saint George Street, 42 St George St, St. Augustine, Florida, 32084, US

Dropoff location

Why take this tour?


For many years, the gate to the old city of St Augustine was locked every night at dusk to keep the town’s people safe. Yet, terrible misfortunes still befell them, as you’ll soon discover on this walking tour, one in a series often narrated by a character known as the ‘Night Watchman’. While you stroll down the city’s quieter brick-paved walkways and back alleys, you’ll hear from former residents including Maya, the Night Watchman’s daughter, who’ll help bring to life the sights, sounds and smells of yesteryear.

Our tour begins outside the Spanish bakery where you’ll hear about the ghoulish laundry lady who is said to have haunted the bakery’s backyard in 1999. Then, outside Tolomato Cemetery, you’ll hear the haunting tale of how Kernel Joseph Smith saved the city’s most beautiful woman from being buried alive. If you’re lucky, you’ll glimpse the apparition of Tillie, a nanny who died protecting her child from a hurricane in the late 1700s. You’ll walk past Pena Peck house where the Spanish Royal Treasurer, Leutenant Delaney, lived before he was stabbed in an unsolved murder case from 1785. And you’ll find out the gruesome details of Don Diego’s demise, after he fatally fell from the fortified walls of Castillo de San Marcos. At the entrance to the old city, where the tour ends, you’ll get acquainted with the brave women who saved these fragments of history by chaining themselves to the pillars of St Augustine’s city gate. You’ll also hear about two lucky visitors who received gold from a ghost who greeted them in the Huguenot Cemetery.

On this haunted tour of St Augustine’s Old Town, you’ll get goosebumps as you hear the often horrific answers to questions like:

• Who protects the city from hurricanes?
• Why is the oldest wooden schoolhouse anchored to the ground?
• Who killed cranky Miss Fay, who lived at number 54 Cuna Street?
• What are the building materials Coquina and Tabby made from?
• Who were the Minorcans and how have they shaped the city’s history?
• Which symbolic bird visited archeologists as they dug up Native American remains from the site of Our Lady of the Rosary?

Give yourself 75 minutes to get the most out of this tour, or linger longer and listen to See America Tours’ collection of stories from this mysterious town, haunted by war, illness, attacks and storms for over 457 years. 

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What’s included?

  • Lifetime access to this tour in English

  • VoiceMap App for Android and iOS

  • Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata

  • Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route

  • Smartphone and headphones

  • Food/Drink

  • Transportation

Things to know

Before you book

  • The audio guide uses the industry leading VoiceMap mobile app

  • You'll need to download the app and then use the voucher code provided to download the tour

  • You'll need to use your own mobile phone and headphones

  • The tour is only available in English

Before you go

  • You'll need to download the app and then use the voucher code provided to download the tour

  • The download should only take a few minutes to complete

  • If it takes longer, please cancel the download, go to Account, select Purchased and download the tour from there

  • Please remember to bring your own headphones and use your own mobile device

  • Please follow the download instructions included to download the tour

Redemption information

    To use your tour, please read the important instructions below and disregard all other codes except for this one: EXAMPLE
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    DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS:
    1. Install the VoiceMap mobile app. (Just search the Apple App Store or Google Play for VoiceMap Audio Tours.)
    2. Create an account
    3. Select Tour Codes from the menu, then select Enter Codes
    4. Enter the code below then select Download Now
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    YOUR CODE:

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    This code can be used by every member of your party. If you have booked for three people, for example, three people can download this tour using the same code. Codes are not case sensitive.
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    PLEASE ALSO NOTE:
    • You can download the tour at any time, before or after your booking date. It’s best to download the tour before you set off for the starting point.
    • When the download completes, you’ll see a screen with a photo of the starting point and directions to it. The red start button will become active when you are at the starting point.
    • This tour follows a set route and includes turn-by-turn directions. It works best if you start it in the right place and follow the directions from one location to the next.
    • The download should only take a few minutes to complete. If it takes longer, please cancel the download, go to Account, select Purchased and download the tour from there.
    • Remember to bring your own headphones, unless you have booked a driving tour.
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    SUPPORT:
    For technical support and other queries, please email [email protected]


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