My wife and I travelled to St Augustine with our 8 year old son and wanted to do a ghost tour. We found “A Ghostly Encounter” as recommended on Trip Advisor and booked a reservation. It was a beautiful night with great weather, and we were excited to learn about the city’s haunted history from our guide, Matt.
Matt started by giving us a story of his past in which we learned he has been legally dead before...TWICE! And as a native son of St Augustine, he knows and loves his haunted history, and he shares it in an amazingly entertaining way. From the fort to local cemeteries, you cover much of the haunted history of St Augustine.
Along the walking tour, our son managed to drop his cell phone as he was trying to film part of the tour into a gated cemetery that was off limits to the public. It kind of wrecked his night, but at the end of the tour, Matt gave us his contact info, so he could try to have someone get it in the morning. I decided to walk back over to the cemetery as it was a block from our inn, and I saw the phone was gone. I texted Matt about it, and even though the tour was over and he was heading out, he came over to the cemetery and shined a flashlight. We found my son’s phone closer to the wall as someone else has tried to retrieve it. Matt remembered he had a grabber in his car and brought it to us. We were able to retrieve my son’s phone which turned his night around. The tour was great, but the service afterwards from Matt was exemplary.
Highly recommend the tour and can’t recommend Matt enough. Hi Elizabeth...bye Elizabeth.