Haunted St. Augustine: Ghosts, Graves, and Legends of America’s Oldest City

America's oldest city has spent centuries collecting the dead, and some say they never left.In Haunted St. Augustine: Ghosts, Graves, and Legends of America's Oldest City, James R. Wexler explores the stories behind one of the most famously haunted places in the United States.Children are heard laughing inside the lighthouse. A woman in black appears in the halls of a Gilded Age hotel. Unseen prisoners whisper inside the Old Jail. Strange figures move among cemetery stones, footsteps echo through the Castillo de San Marcos, and a mysterious woman named Lily is said to linger inside one of the city's oldest inns.But who were these ghosts supposed to be? And how much of their stories can history actually prove?Moving from colonial massacres and forgotten burial grounds to tragic accidents, prisons, hospitals, grand hotels, and modern ghost tours, Wexler traces the documented history beneath St. Augustine's supernatural reputation. Along the way, he separates archival evidence from folklore, witness accounts, paranormal investigations, and legends that have changed with every retelling.Atmospheric, skeptical without being dismissive, and filled with genuine Florida history, Haunted St. Augustine is a journey through the places where the city's past seems closest to the surface, and where the dead may still be waiting after dark.