Haunted Places in St. Augustine, FL

Explore 11 haunted places in St. Augustine, FL — inns, landmarks, cemeteries and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Casablanca Inn on the BayInn · St. Augustine, FLBuilt in 1914 as the Matanzas Hotel, this Mediterranean Revival inn sits on the bayfront in St. Augustine and is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
• Castillo de San MarcosLandmark · St. Augustine, FLSpain began raising the Castillo de San Marcos in 1672, carving its walls from coquina, a soft local shellstone that absorbed cannonballs rather than shattering, and the fortress never once fell to assault.
• Flagler College (Hotel Ponce de Leon)Landmark · St. Augustine, FLHenry Flagler opened the Hotel Ponce de Leon on January 10, 1888 as a Gilded Age winter resort, a Spanish Colonial Revival landmark designed by Carrère & Hastings, poured from concrete and coquina and among the first American buildings wired for electricity under Thomas Edison; it became the heart of Flagler College in 1968.
• Huguenot CemeteryCemetery · St. Augustine, FLEstablished in 1821 just as a yellow fever epidemic swept St. Augustine, the Huguenot Cemetery served as the city's first non-Catholic burial ground, laid out just beyond the old City Gate across from the Castillo de San Marcos.
• O.C. White's Seafood & SpiritsRestaurant · St. Augustine, FLThe coquina-block building at 118 Avenida Menendez was raised in the 1790s and later housed the widow and daughters of General William J. Worth before serving as a hotel, a cigar shop, and finally a riverfront seafood restaurant.
• Spanish Military Hospital MuseumMuseum · St. Augustine, FLReconstructed in 1966 on its original foundations, the Spanish Military Hospital recreates a ward from St. Augustine's Second Spanish Period (1784-1821), when wounded and fever-stricken soldiers were treated here before the building closed around 1823.
• St. Augustine LighthouseLandmark · St. Augustine, FLCompleted in 1874 on Anastasia Island, the St. Augustine Lighthouse rose 165 feet above the inlet, its black-and-white spiral tower built under construction superintendent Hezekiah Pittee.
• St. Francis InnInn · St. Augustine, FLBuilt in 1791 by Gaspar Garcia, a sergeant in Spain's Cuban infantry regiment, the St. Francis Inn rose during St. Augustine's Second Spanish Colonial Period and was converted to a lodging house in 1845; it survives today as the city's oldest inn, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• The Old JailLandmark · St. Augustine, FLCommissioned in 1891 by industrialist Henry Flagler, who wanted the county jail moved away from his Ponce de Leon Hotel, the Old Jail was built by the Pauly Jail Building Company, the firm later tied to Alcatraz, and dressed in Romanesque Revival lines to pass for a Victorian home.
• The Oldest Drug StoreMuseum · St. Augustine, FLOn the corner of Orange and Cordova streets, the Oldest Drug Store stands on ground that old town maps mark as a Native American village — a Tolomato mission settlement later absorbed into the Spanish colonial city, its people displaced.
• Tolomato CemeteryCemetery · St. Augustine, FLTolomato Cemetery rises on the site of a former Guale Indian village and Franciscan mission, and served as St. Augustine's Catholic burial ground from the 18th century until it closed in 1884, holding roughly a thousand graves.