If you've never been to St Aug, I highly recommend it, and not only for the paranormal activity. This is an amazing place.

The graveyard:
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st aug graveyard by Unleashed Image, on Flickr

Massive city gates that were slammed shut during an attack that left hundreds of Native American people on the outside of the gates to perish:
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city gates by Unleashed Image, on Flickr

Graveyard, just across from the fort (AKA the castle)
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St Aug does have an excellent cultural collection as well; The Lightner Museum (just a block away from the fort)
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lightnermuseum by Unleashed Image, on Flickr

And the lighthouse:
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Overlooking the fort at sunset (fort turrets to the right):
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This thread is fantastic. I've been interested in the paranormal as long as I can remember, yet I seem to be one of the few in my family who aren't sensitive to such things. My grandma is very intuitive to people's feelings, health (and other things she says she won't tell us about. Can't imagine), and my mom has...I don't know what you'd call it. Some sort of guardian spirit? It's gotten her out of fatal traffic accidents at the last minute by whispering "turn left" in her ear. The day her dad died, a voice whispered to her "Your dad is going to die, but it's OK." A few hours later, guess what phone call she received from her brother?

My sister also used to see ghosts when she was little, one in particular was a lady in green who used to stand near her bedroom door. 20 years later, she's still visibly freaked out when talking about it.

Me though? I don't have much, other than a freaky incident at a local steakhouse. I was the only person in the small bathroom, yet something started pounding on my stall door. I ran out screaming, and saw the bar staff starting at me. I said "Um...your bathroom is weird."

"Oh yeah, that's our ghost."

Great, thanks. I wanted to make a bad joke about scaring the piss out of me, but couldn't get the words right, so I went back to the table. My partner looked at me and asked what the heck happened. I told her, and we ended up getting our cheesecake to go. :|

Oh i remember this one. OMG it was amazing.

I believe tomorrow, starting at 7:00pm EST TAPS will be live doing their thing on the scifi channel.

It will be fun!!!!!!!

I've been sensitive to spirits for as long as I can remember. I was terrified as a child. I have had so many experiences and it has become so much a part of my life that I am in disbelief when someone does not believe. I plan to read all of your experiences, thanks for sharing. :)

okay so I'm curious to know everyone's thoughts. I would say for the past 1-2 years I have been having dreams of my step-mother.

I'd also been having strange experiences in this house ( she passed away here around 5-6 years ago). The "Activity" has since stopped, nothing has happened in about 9 months. During the period of activity, I was having dreams about her, and I had one recently again.

She and I had a rocky relationship. We weren't on best of terms when she passed due to cancer. When she is in my dreams, she never speaks. I don't know if it's because she can't, or she doesn't want to.
I almost feel like she doesn't see me or she ignores me on purpose. I'm having a hard time figuring it out.

My question is, do you think this has any paranormal relation? Some say the other side can communicate to you through dreams.

Any thoughts?

Hey TCB, it does sound like the two could be related.. What I am feeling is that she is waiting for you to say something to her in your dreams do you know what i mean? Perhaps she needs for you to tell her that it is okay to speak? OR it could be she's just trying to teach you a lesson lol

i have been having a lot of dreams of my mom and my dad lately, my dad passed in January of 2005 and my mom passed away just this past March.. and n the last week or so my daughter has told me she's heard someone calling her name but then no one is there, while i've been seeing an increase of shadows and orbs.

If you've seen "An American Haunting," it might explain the activity AKA psychokinetic haunting or psychokinetic paranormal phenomena. It's still a form of haunting, but emanates from the individual and not necessarily from the deceased. Just a theory.

I think that her silence is a way of telling you that there was nothing left to say. She is showing that she is at peace and perhaps you should be as well.

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I think she still had some issues with you being in her space. I'd try to talk to her. I stayed in an old house for a year and had mean dreams of a man yelling, telling me that he did'nt want anything to change, plus, the usual tapping, thumping, footsteps, doors opening, etc. I described what he looked like to the family and they said it was him. Then I saw the pic, and it was him! Usually though, I had loving dreams, and talked in them with the folks I had bonded deeply with.

Hey Smouldering, thanks for the input. I wish I was able to know how to control my dreams and talk to her.....wouldn't that be fun....lol

I have seen American Haunting but I don't remember it that vividly. Perhaps I'll need to watch that again. Interesting, thank you :)


That's an interesting perspective. I know exactly what I'm thinking in these dreams, and it's always the same..."Why the hell won't she talk to me?"
It's almost like she doesn't want to talk to me, I really don't know.


Any energy I may have felt hasn't been negative so to speak. It's just been there. There really isn't any negativity in the dreams either, she just won't say anything.

It's all very confusing, but quite fascinating to think about!

You would need to give more details of what happened in the dream and especially details of any recurring dreams to really answer that.

I attended a very special spiritual event in my family for my sister.
Though it is not of my belief I was very excited as to the joy she would have from it.
I decided to take pictures of the building/temple while it was in session..The last picture.
The other pictures were after the session.
I had to share because many things happened that night.
Including my mother coming through to not only myself but others as well. smiles
The singular orb is white and purple is her showing up..as promised before she transended...smiles

Much happened that night for her coming through, but had to share pics..lol



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I am facinated by paranormal everything. Last year, about this time, I went with a Massachusettes group to an old victorian mansion in my then little town of Gardner. This is the same house that was featured on Ghost Hunters in season three. We had a great time, it was colder than hell and in some rooms the pellet stoves were running making EVP work impossible. But we did have luck using flashlights in both the basement and the 3rd floor master bedroom.

I now live in the PNW and would love to find a group locally. There has to be some pretty good haunted places out here...

:)

Heading to Iron Island again this coming Friday, anyone else? If you haven't seen the Ghost Hunters episode from the place, it's compelling to say in the least. I have been to MANY places and I can say with complete confidence that you WILL come away from here with evidence, every time.

Shoot, too bad you don't live here, you could join us! It's a blast!

Do you ever
 

I've been doing this for more than 25 years and never had those feelings. I also don't hesitate to invite "people" to come home with me, as long as they don't wake me up in the middle of the night. Never had a problem.

I just might pee my pants if I went into a creepy house, let alone haunted! lol.. props to you all!!!