St. Augustine Ghost Stories and 200 Years of Unsolved Murders
A 9:00 PM walk through old St. Augustine pairing ghost stories with murder cases, plus ghost photos from the operator's files.
This walking tour leaves at 9:00 PM from outside the Spanish Military Hospital Museum on Aviles Street, a short way south of the Plaza, and the listing says it finishes where it started. The operator, Last Ghost Tour, sums up its angle in one line: in St. Augustine's dark history, it's not the dead you really need to worry about.
The ghost stories come paired with murder cases, and the operator's page for this tour puts it plainly: "We have unsolved murders from 200 years ago to this very day." The whole tour stays outside.
This listing sells Sunday through Wednesday nights at 9:00 PM. It does not run Thursday through Saturday, so Halloween night, a Saturday in 2026, is not on its calendar.
St Augustine's Horrible Hauntings Ghost TourLast Ghost Tour · Sunday to Wednesday, 9:00 PM · Starts at 3 Aviles Streetwww.viator.comTwo Cemeteries, a Fort and the Bayfront, Seen From Outside
The listing spells out the route. It begins outside the Spanish Military Hospital Museum, which the city's 2016 historic resource survey lists as a reconstructed building dated 1966, near what the listing calls a cemetery lost for hundreds of years. The listing does not name it. The city's archaeology program has documented more than 50 burials within the footprint of the first parish church, Nuestra Señora de los Remedios, which once ran from Aviles Street almost to Avenida Menendez. From there the walk moves through the Plaza with tales of pirates and passes Flagler College, where it teases a story about Henry Flagler's wife and fake psychics.
Next is Tolomato Cemetery, which the listing describes as a former Native American burial ground turned Catholic cemetery. Its preservation association says the site began as an early 18th-century Franciscan mission for Guale people from Georgia and may hold burials from that period. It opens to the public on the third Saturday of each month, 11 AM to 2 PM, so on this walk you see it from outside. The Huguenot Cemetery follows, the former resting place of a judge and, in the listing's words, home to many victims of a terrible illness. Nothing on the route is entered. The listing marks every stop as a pass-by, including the former Castle Warden, now Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and the Castillo de San Marcos.
The last stretch follows the bayfront, where the listing ties the city's founding to the blood of 16th-century heretics. The National Park Service dates the Spanish massacre of shipwrecked French Huguenots, which gave the Matanzas River its name, to 1565 and places it near today's Fort Matanzas, about 14 miles south of the historic district. The loop then closes on Aviles Street.
Ghost Photos From the Operator's Files
Two things are listed as included: ghost photos from the operator's private collection and, in its words, possible evidence of the paranormal. The operator says its guides have gathered pictures, video and audio recordings over the years, from their own investigations, from guests and from the web.
The operator lists its guides as members of an archaeological association and a historic society, and recent travelers describe a guide who works archaeology and documented history into the lore. Both the listing and the operator's page for this tour name Charlie as the guide. The operator's site also names a second guide, Nicholas, and the travelers who have named a guide since January 2025 all write about him, so either one may lead your night.
A Late Finish, in Nearly Any Weather
Plan for a late night: the listing sells this walk as two and a half hours from the 9:00 PM start. The operator's own pages give shorter figures, about 90 minutes on its tour page and two hours in its booking system.
The operator says it goes out in nearly any weather unless the National Weather Service issues a severe warning, and the listing is not set up to cancel for weather. It asks for comfortable walking shoes and clothes for the conditions, and the listing rates the walk for at least moderate fitness. On an unseasonably cold March night in 2026, one traveler's only complaint was the chill, and a guest quoted on the operator's site recommends a warm coat along the waterfront in winter.
Ages 5 to 90, and No Selfies at the Graves
One ticket type covers ages 5 to 90, so a child under five cannot be added to the booking. Group size swings widely: travelers describe nights with only two guests and one with a group of 15, mostly teenagers. Others have come with a 13-year-old, or as a party of 11 aged 14 to 76.
The operator's note on ethical dark tourism asks guests to take photos freely but to skip selfies at sites of death and in cemeteries. It also points guests to local archaeology, history and cemetery preservation charities.
📍 Meet in front of the Spanish Military Hospital Museum at 3 Aviles Street, just south of the Plaza de la Constitución. The museum keeps daytime hours, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, so look for the group outside.
- Parking: the operator points drivers to the Trinity Church lot on South St. George Street, a short block from the start, and says it is usually free after 7:00 PM except during Nights of Lights and other major events. The listing puts the free window at after 8:00 PM.
- Cancellation: cancel at least 24 hours before departure for a full refund. Inside 24 hours, nothing is refunded.
When the last story is told, the listing says you finish back on Aviles Street, a block from that lot.