Old City Lighthouse
by Renee Sullivan
Title
Old City Lighthouse
Artist
Renee Sullivan
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The St. Augustine Light is an active lighthouse in St. Augustine, Florida. Built in 1871, it is the most recent of a number of towers built in the area. Many visitors and others believe that the lighthouse and surrounding buildings have a history of paranormal activity. Allegedly, visitors and workers have seen moving shadows, heard voices and unexplained sounds, and seen the figures of two little girls standing on the lighthouse catwalk (who purportedly were daughters of Hezekiah Pittee, Superintendent of Lighthouse Construction, during the 1870s; the girls drowned in an accident during the building of the tower). Other reports are of a woman seen on the lighthouse stairway or walking in the yard outside the buildings, and the figure of a man who roams the basement, or the unexplained smell of cigar smoke. The male figure is said to possibly be Civil War hero and former lighthouse keeper William A. Harn. Stories like these led The Atlantic Paranormal Society to the site, where they shot an episode of the Syfy show Ghost Hunters. During this episode, TAPS claim to have captured mysterious incidents on video. A TAPS member called the Lighthouse the "Mona Lisa of paranormal sites". Due to the ratings success of the first investigation, TAPS later returned for a follow-up investigation and experienced similar incidents. I don't believe in any of that - but I still think it's fun stuff!
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January 26th, 2014
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