St Augustine Lighthouse, Anastasia Island

Florida · United States · Execution site

St Augustine Lighthouse, Anastasia Island — Florida · United States · Execution site

Restoration workers guarding the keeper's house at night reported a girl in old fashioned clothes watching them, and a man hanging from a rafter.

The lighthouse on Anastasia Island near St Augustine, Florida is among the most reported sites in the state, and the accounts divide neatly between three presences.

During restoration work on the keeper's house in the 1980s, workers slept in the building to keep vandals out. They describe waking in the night to find a small girl in old fashioned clothes standing and watching them, who then was not there. The same men reported looking up during the day's work to see the figure of a man hanging from a rafter. He is said to have taken his own life, though nobody has been able to date it.

The third is in the cellar of the keeper's house and has never been seen by anyone. What staff report instead is a consistent unease down there when they are alone, and particularly at closing time when the building has gone quiet. That combination, a site with a documented working history and reports that stay the same across decades of different staff, is what keeps it on every list of Florida hauntings.

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Where is St Augustine Lighthouse, Anastasia Island located?

St Augustine Lighthouse, Anastasia Island is in Florida, United States.

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Accounts are drawn from local folklore and visitor reports.

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