 so here's our campsite just gravel and sand got our picnic table we moved the picnic table from there over to here there's our electric there's our water so I figured she might be using the water we was gonna put the tent here but we didn't want to you know walk around the mud so we're gonna put the tent over here because I don't think we're gonna have a fire tonight this is just a one-nighter because we're going over to the lighthouse which is just a mile or two over there I'll get you some footage of that but we're taking a ghost tour right yes so if I got service I'll be live streaming it huh so Bruno's back her trying to get out he's excited there he is hi Bruno he's he's got that smile on his face he loves adventures all right so we're what's that the tent up go explore huh yeah we want to go to the beach yes okay then we need to go to the we'll have to go early to the thing so I can get dream footage of the lighthouse all right let's get set up okay guys so we made it to the beach it's not far is it no there's the ocean out there pretty windy it's supposed to rain well it rained on the way here every time we bring the tent it rains yeah so I told her we'll try to trick mother nature next time we won't bring the town will buy ten once we get here right but this is pretty cool this is pretty cool we're actually on a dune okay guys we're at the lighthouse so we're getting ready to go in well we're actually in the house part which is now a museum but we're heading in now and then we'll go to the lighthouse and we're gonna take our tour we're at the lighthouse this is like the main event I assume for most of you right this is why you're all here tonight well if I wanted to tell you every single ghost story about our lighthouse we'd be here all night no one would have time to do anything else so I'm gonna try and narrow it down to the greatest hits and I get a show of hands who here has seen ghost hunters there's always a few of you now keep your hands up if you've seen the one where they've come here for those of you who have feel free to just shout it out what is one thing you remember from that episode yeah yes thank you very much that is the answer I always get so thank you for knowing your lines now for those of you who are not aware what we're talking about in about 2005 or six somewhere around then the ghost hunters came to our lighthouse for the very first time they put a camera inside facing up the stairs and they caught on video the shadowy outline of a man leaning over the railing and looking down at them they're braver than I am and they decided to give chase they climbed up the lighthouse they chased after it and that figure that shadow they see it running up the stairs ahead of them about a flight or so ahead and they get to the very top and they're the first to set off the motion sensitive light that we keep on the top landing the lighthouse which of course means that there's nothing visible ahead of them right of course they know that they saw something and they want to make sure that there's nothing we are going on around them so the only sign of any activity they can find is a swinging padlock on one of the doors now whether you know it or not that is why you're all here this evening because if we had not had that incident we probably wouldn't have ghost tours and I would be out of the job now this figure this shadow figure as we call it it is very frequently seen around here it usually does the same things so if you want to see tonight I recommend as you are climbing the lighthouse watch the landings ahead of you occasionally peek up through the stairwell watch below you as you're going back down as you're walking around this evening watch those windows watch that top landing all of these are places where we have frequently seen this figure about month two into working here I was closing up this building for the very first time I was watching down the stairs and I know there's no one behind me I searched right I made sure there was no one up there as I'm going down and about halfway down I start to hear footsteps behind me now this building is super echoing so I thought you know what it's my own echo it's nothing to worry about but still I was freaked out because this was pitch black inside and just being in that kind of environment tends to be kind of scary so I say to myself you know what I'm gonna stop I'm gonna take a break catch my breath before I continue and I'll prove that nothing's going on so I stop and when I do the footsteps keep going and they only get closer and that's when I make the educated decision to run down the last two flights of stairs and this is my request for all of you tonight don't do that it's not a good move that it's really dark the stairs are dark too so it's just it's a it's a tripping hazard waiting to happen one of the rules I did not mention this is a personal rule on my tour there is no falling aloud don't do it if you do find that you are being chased down the lighthouse by a shadowy specter calmly and quietly aged at the building now with that I'll move us on to our next spot which will luckily be indoors so we're gonna go this way now you might have noticed that that's not what our white house looks like and that's because this was the first white house here in town I was just across the street and what it's not a yacht boat there's a little pipe down there across the street by the way if you want to see that later now we traced this building back to about 1586 that's when Sir Francis Drake came to our city made a map of everything he saw and on that map it was a small wooden arch tower down on the beach we only have record path because of that map and that map is conveniently just on the floor right there feel free to walk all over it by Francis Drake burnt our city's ground now what we that building was remade and over the years upgraded into a small cocaine on a tower and that's a mixture of like shells and sands that means a lot here in town which is mostly a slant and it's still like that for over a hundred years until 1820 when they ended up a few extra feet and they put up lands in the top and that became Florida's first white house now we go through a few different light keepers at this time before we get to Joseph Andrew and Joseph Andrew he had a lot to do his life here so he had to bring oil up to the light he had people look out turning ships that might be destroyed at sea he needed to save the people from those ships that came to it we also have a lot of general maintenance to do get a little on get to burn around one of the other things you have to do was paint this entire white house and what he would do twice a year every year was built scaffolding all by himself to the very top and he would paint the entire thing with a six inch brush and after he had been here four years years 1859 not too long before the Civil War started he was once again in the white house he was all the way to the top he just put down the first few strokes of paint and the scaffolding that he had made collapsed underneath him I'm sorry I didn't know that's what I appreciated so he built this scaffolding it's all the way to the top and it gives way for me to speak yes knowing to save himself and he falls from the very top up here first he lands in the oil house roof beneath the tower he bounces off of that and he cramps his neck on the wall that surrounds the building that's a lot of detail it's a lot of very grizzly detail how do we know all of that well that is exactly the way it was recorded in the newspapers obituary section yeah which says a couple things to be number one the obituary is used to having much different by now the other thing it says is that someone had to have been here to see it happen but at the time this island was pretty much abandoned the only ones who would have lived here to see it would have been his wife Maria or any fair kids and now Maria Andrew is in a very difficult spot not only has she lost her husband but she's not a sole redler in a family that still includes several very young children New Years 1859 which doesn't lead to a lot of objects now what the legend says the ninth of her husband's death she climbs to the top of a lighthouse and in desperation and anguish she calls out into the wind what shall I do she hears the voice of her husband her client hands the light so whether or not she did hear that voice that is exactly what she does because Maria was the first female lightkeeper here in our town and we hope start actually recognizes her now as the first Hispanic woman in charge of a naval station here in America so we're all very proud of Maria and she's lightkeeper up until the Civil War starts a few years later now when the war starts Maria knows that her lighthouse will be in danger see lighthouses are not light during the war they're destroyed because they left their own ships and enemy ships so no one wants them around now to make sure it wasn't a target she took the lens from the very top and with the help of the mayor of St. Augustine the very secret location and due to their efforts both the lens and the tower survived the war now that's some great thinking on her part but at the end of the day the lighthouse without a light does not need a lightkeeper and so she's basically pushed herself out of the job we don't know where she goes after this we can't give you north to Georgia but all records of her were lost so we're just not certain what happens to her what we do know is that she never returns to her lighthouse not what she's aligned with because although the shadow figure that I mentioned earlier is the most famous spirit here Maria is by far the most frequently seen now if you get reports of the same woman wandering the property and into the nearby areas always describe the exact same way long dark air and a flowing light dress we get reports of this person that crossed the street by the side of the original lighthouse pacing back and forth down by the docks we get reports of her on top of our current lighthouse in fact some members call in sometimes they say oh worry there's someone in the dark moon left on top of the tower now don't worry we've never done this we've never lost anyone I promise but every time we get this call my boss has to come out and check every time he does he climbs to the top of the tower he lives around and the only thing he ever reports is this smell of orange blossoms on the wind so unique of this figure is Maria now my favorite place we see her though is over in the nature trails people walk into the gift shop in the middle of the day and they'll be coming back from the woods and they say I was walking around in the trails and I got rocks now I've wandered for a while and one of your re-actors came and helped me out she was so nice and she knew so much about the lighthouse even the original lighthouse that wasn't written down anywhere in the museum and she had this lovely white dress and of course we don't know how to tell them but we have never had re-actors so we just smiled we said that's Maria she's our bigger employee we send them on the way so I recommend you guys check out the woods later if you see this figure in a long white dress let us know it's either Maria or a crazy person on the fence but on a more serious note we do actually have a lot of reports back there just last night we had people hearing these mysterious voices back on the trails so we definitely recommend it and with that I move this on to our next spot now before we get started I just want to do a quick couple of warnings about this room first of all hands up and if you have a meter now if you have a meter there is something in the room that's going to set off this meter and it is the doorway directly in front of you now that is not the doorway to the other side it's just a very scary spooky electrical closet and so your meter will go off there's actually just like a lot of electronics around this room so in general I like to say if you're in this room and your meter is going off take it with a grain of salt anywhere else in the house and you will be fine now behind me I mentioned the stairs here so you are free to go down later like I said this is the main entrance to the basement I just ask that if you do bring a light with you you might be able to tell it's really dark down there and at the bottom we have these raised wooden platforms that are super uneven now in the daytime that's our shipwreck exhibit those floors are meant to be like the shift in sands of sandbar but the people who planned that exhibit did not plan for night tours so they're major tripping hazards like I said falling is not allowed on my tour don't do it so we've all been warned of that and this last morning it's not something I have to tell you all it's just me being a nice guy downstairs in Pete's room which is going to be on the other end of the basement there is a mannequin like I said they didn't plan for night tours so that's a level of heritage so if you see this figure waiting for you in the darkness make sure it's not meant to be there before you run screaming at the building oh another quick note there is going to be like a wooden cut out of a British soldier up against one of the walls too now with that we can actually get started so there is another spot in the basement I want to tell you all about it's really neat we've had a lot of activity down there it is this back corner just down the stairs now there's this like you did it I guess in a wall fully submerge yourself behind once again we asked you guys don't scare each other but do feel free to check out that corner if you like because like I said we've had a lot of activity there's a whole creepy atmosphere around it and we're not super creative here so we call it creepy corner now a creepy corner it's had a few major incidents go down there we used to leave tours downstairs into the basement and every now and then for some reason always a child would shush the corner I said there was something very loud going on that only that child could hear now there were also these mysterious food prints that once appeared in the concrete and I don't mean like food prints of dirt I mean they were pressed into the concrete which is a big deal of course because the concrete is original see this house was made in 1876 and that concrete has not been touched since 1876 so one day we all come in and it looks like it's someone stepped in white cement and of course that's from racing red flags right but before we could even address that and our maintenance guys could fix it they come in one day and it's just as strange as they appeared they were gone so like I said weird stuff happens down there but the strangest by far is the figure that people see it's always described the same way a tall man with a blue suit and a flat blue cap now this happens to match the description of our Hooper's uniform now I can bring them up more maybe because we've had a few more sightings in fact not too long ago on one of these tours there were a couple of young men about eight or nine years old standing to my left on the other side of this railing and they pulled me aside later when I was moving us to the next spot and they said Jackson when you were talking about the man that stands in the corner he looked downstairs and there was a man standing in the corner so under a request of all of you guys if you see something going on behind me wait till I'm gone to let me know I don't want to know about it in fact just on Friday night a son listens to my advice very faithfully and as I'm moving us to our next spot this very frantic little girl pulls me aside and says she was looking downstairs while I was talking and there was a bright red face looking back at her from the basement so like I said tell me tell me after the tour so now with that there's a few other spots in the house that I recommend you guys check out the most notable is probably across the hall the other half of this floor it's made to look like a Victorian-era house like might have looked like it was made and there's a lot of antique stuff in there and the strangest is an antique rocking chair see there was an incident where on a private tour of one guest she thought if she sat down at the rocking chair she'd make contact with the first lightkeeper to look in the house his name is Major William Harn and she has special permission now before any of you guys ask no we're not allowed to sit in the rocking chair but she sits down she says well she says something that makes a mistake instead of Major William Harn she says Captain Harn are you here and Major Harn and worked very hard for his title and he didn't like when people forgot it so this rocking chair she's sitting in and starts moving back and forth until she's practically thrown from it and the tour guide that's with her she thinks that this is some sort of a goof she thinks that it's a prank she's being messed with but you know she wants to keep it light she doesn't want any awkwardness going on so she plays along and looks at the chair still moving back and forth and she thinks you know it's going to slow down because she just stood up from the chair playing along she says well Major Harn if you're still here stop your chair now like I said she knows when it's going to slow down as if someone just stood up from it well as soon as she says stop the chair it stops demonstrates and with that they decided to leave the house now I have had a few experiences in this house myself definitely the weirdest one it kept happening a lot for some reason I don't know why when I was closing the house on multiple occasions throughout the week I had to close this house at the end of our daytime hours a lot in all the doors although through the whole place make sure there's no one in here and when I first started for a few months about half the time I did this I would always hear whistling from the same room on the other side to the right now I don't know who that might be there have been other various musical reports throughout our history here lots of people will hear singing the humming that kind of thing so I think it might be those same spirits messing with me now with that I'm going to move us on to our next spot the very next floor earlier as you may have noticed it's not there yet it was down on the beach and it's still there for over 300 years so that means we had about 300 years of waves crashing into the shore and that shoreline got closer and closer to the lighthouse and of course people realized but before it did Congress set aside some money to build a brand new one 1871 construction started and it was led by a man by the name of Hezekiah Pity now Mr. Pity he came down here moved on to this island with his family his wife and four kids he had a son and three daughters but today we're going to talk about the three dogs their names were Mary, Eliza, and Carrie they ranged in ages from 4 to 14 well I want you all to put yourself in their place for a minute imagine that you are a child of that age and your parents moved you on to an abandoned island now the only things you have to do to fulfill your day are work and chores it's like that you left to make your own fun, right sounds kind of boring though 1871 there's not a lot going on now the girls did see something that they thought they could make themselves work that they would make their own personal playground and this was of course the active construction site now any parents in the room you might have just had sirens going off in your head thinking about kids playing on a construction site which is never a good idea so Mr. Pity sat down as kids he told them go anywhere on the island play wherever you want do not play on the construction site now of course what happens when you tell a group of children not to do something maybe they of course go to play on the White House whenever they get a little bit of news but they have a favorite sport see there is an iron rail car it was made to move bricks down from the docks where all the building materials would come in all the way up to the lighthouse and to the girls it kind of looks like their own personal roller coaster so they would hop on in at the top when they saw what was going to be used they would push off and go sailing down the track right when they got to the bottom they would hop out and push it right back up and go again now as they got to the bottom they would throw the break down first now they did this a lot until July they see that the cart is not in use on this day they bring a friend with them we don't know much about the friends we know she was an African American girl we believe she was the child of a construction worker or maybe a maid who lived on the grounds sadly there were no other records of her cast so the four girls hop on the cart they would push off and go sailing down the track right when they get towards the dock but they normally throw the break down they figure out that the break was broken and that is why the cart is not in use so they go down the track they go off the dock and that iron rail cart they're in flips over and it's some other water so there's a man here gone named Dan Sessions who was a construction worker he jumps in the water he swims as fast as he can he uses all of his strength all of his might to try and lift off that iron rail cart to save the girls but it's just not enough and he takes just a little too long he can only say a character who was the youngest so July of 1873 four girls go into the water and no one comes out now that is easily the most tragic story I have told you all night and you might expect that that energy would follow to how you feel these spirits here lift but the opposite is true the girls here are very playful they like to play with ranks for example now I may have noticed I've been a little bit around this isn't just so I can talk to all of you but it's also because their favorite targets are people who are sitting there standing still with their feet close together so you can go untie shoelaces and then tie the two shoes together but if you're not paying attention you stand up and take a step you fall flat on your face we even had someone once who was standing in sacral iconos at the very bottom one foot on that bottom step her shoes being calm quiet listening to her tour guide and she was really excited to climb and she decides to look down at her shoes and they have been tied to the ground on the staircase and she suddenly decides that she no longer wants to climb and she leaves the property immediately now one of the other things that they like to play with are these glow sticks so yes you guys all sit around and talk for a moment if you make a mess or a distraction we just don't like it and we've had this rule for a while so when we had a private tour of Girl Scouts a few years ago we told them this rule so what I'm saying is we told the group of 20 or so small children not to do something and of course all night this is all the poor guys seeing it's just glow sticks being played with non stop and she's just trying to power through she just wants to get through the day and go home so if she's given her a tour she's not paying any mind and so they get out to this room here and then finally she sees a glow stick pop off and go to the fly as the end of the room she's just trying to size herself picks it up, picks it back keeps giving her a tour pops off, flies to the end of the room and at this point she has had enough so she picks it up, she gives it back and she's about to lay down the wall this poor girl whose arms shoot up in the air she says I have not touched my glow stick all night and of course no one believes her so she says I'll prove it she puts a bat around her neck she stands in the middle of the room her arms out to her side and everyone sits in a circle around her they all watch for about 10 minutes for a while I'm right when they're about ready to give up and go home they see as it puts up on its own pops off and flies to the end of the room with that everyone stands up and flies out of the room so keep your eye on the glow sticks they like to misbehave and see oh yeah because I mentioned it earlier you know how I mentioned the singing and humming that people hear on the ground well we got one guess of who that might be of course we believe that that is the girls so I think that might be who was listening at me when I started they like to mess with people they don't really like the tour guys so I think that might be where that whistle is coming from so that's Mary Eliza and the third we've taken to calling Ellie okay guys so monkey went up the lighthouse by herself I'm watching Bruno then I'm going to go up because they wouldn't let Bruno up the stairs in the lighthouse I don't know why he was up there before but maybe because it's dark I don't know but she's up there right now so I let her go first and then I'll take you guys up if she gets back in time because we're not allowed up there after 905 they're going to start locking up because the tour is over at 930 so hopefully I can get in there and film some for you out of the top there after dark this is not so much as a ghost a ghost thing but it is some interesting stories I wanted you to hear the tour guide was telling us so anyway I'll be back with you guys in a minute okay guys we're going up the stairs now so I'll kick you back on and we'll get up to the top we'll sit down on this way got your off night vision for now sorry about that there's the bench where we're sitting on down there okay guys we're going down to the basement just come down out of the lighthouse that's very uneven there house he didn't actually live in the lighthouse he lived here I'm going to shut my head on that ball these are the two chairs they encourage you to sit in there's a mannequin back there yeah he said there was a mannequin back here these are the chairs that that peat there okay I just went out of focus this thing has not been focusing right all night where they all want to stand here they can't really do any ghost stuff you know there's still a bunch of people outside and they were loud oh my god can you hear that kid screaming in the new lighthouse yeah he was clear outside horrible I'm supposed to be in an adult tour anyway I'm not going to try to walk over there because my footing is not that great from that where is the corner where the girls are is it in here or is it in the other room I don't know Bruno's not there's no way in this room where is that over here any ghost heading back up we're about to call this tour done he don't want to try to take him to the house he's fighting there he don't want to go he usually wants to go up the steps and go in he's like no we're going to go we're going to go he's out of here did you see something he's never wanted to go explore a room he had to fight him the whole way down there yeah weird oh my god he won't just go bye baby