Ripley's Ghost Train Adventures Part Three

This is a short-clip of Huguenot Cemetery. You visit this, or at least the outside wall of the cemetery while at the ghost train tour.

Huguenot Cemetery was established soon after Florida became a U. S. territory. The cemetery, located just outside St. Augustine's north gate, was first used for the interment of victims of the 1821 yellow fever epidemic and then for the burial of members of city's Protestant population. The cemetery property was acquired by the Rev. Thomas Alexander and then sold to the Presbyterian Church in 1832. By the late 19th century, over-crowding of graves, and the resulting concerns for sanitation and public health, required that the small public and religious burying grounds in St. Augustine be closed. New cemeteries, such as San Lorenzo and Evergreen, were subsequently opened to parishioners and the public.

This real Florida haunted cemetery formerly was the Potters field, where ex-communicants and military criminals were buried; the dates on the tombs are not very ancient, 1821 being the oldest, but very many of the graves bear no inscription; the nature of the place in its earliest days would not lead to a perpetuation of the memory of those interred there; the spot is worth inspection.

The Huguenot Cemetery is significant because it was the first cemetery in St. Augustine dedicated for Anglo-American civilians. The burial traditions and funerary materials expressed at Huguenot, compared with the nearby Tolomato Cemetery (established by the Catholic Church in 1777), demonstrate both the differences and commonalties in funerary practices and religious attitudes of two distinct groups residing in 19th century St. Augustine. The gravemarkers at Huguenot Cemetery display a range of funerary art popular in the 19th century, including false box tombs with inscribed ledgers and finely carved headstones by highly skilled stone carvers in vogue during the 1820s-40s, and the more elaborate monuments that were favored during the Victorian period. The work of several important stone carvers in the southeastern United States has been identified at the cemetery, including Thomas Walker and members of the White family who had shops in Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia.

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[leightpress]

It is 150% haunted! Great fun.

[weaslebee]

Hey thanks for sharing your home video. It was really good . uhhh...make prt 4...lol.

[leightpress]

lol We just might do that in January. We plan to investigate the Fort as well. Stay tuned and thanks for checking out our vids. :)

[leightpress]

@icantbleve hmmm, good eyes. Then it's a mystery. All that I know is that it is really creepy there! Strange things often happen.

[yankeesdoodle101]

@realdafif I saw that!

[codywhitted]

at two miniutes something runs across the screen and runs through the gates

[hyena419]

@realdafif i think thats a light glaring or his breath sometimes it not what you actually see

[hyena419]

@realdafif i think thats a light glaring or his breath

[dangersgirl89]

@chipmunk126 It kinda looks like headlights.

[acacheerleader1]

is it really haunted? like acually.

[JVRottweil]

@chipmunk126

reflection of a car probably

[icebreakersix1nine]

dude theres like a guy with a hat