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Here we go. Hey, how you doing?

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Good, how are you?

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I'm Jason.

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I'm Andres.

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Grant.

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Nice to meet you. I'll be your pilot. If you want, we'll go to the helicopter and we'll

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show you the site of St. Augustine.

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Right, can't wait.

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I just love flying. I love being up in the air.

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Here we go, brother.

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Isn't that weird when you take off?

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Oh my goodness.

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Jay, I don't think enjoyed it as much, but here's the truth. He did well.

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Coming up, there's the lighthouse, the St. Augustine lighthouse.

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Oh, look at that.

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Wow.

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There's the Castillo de San Marcos.

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Oh, beautiful. When was that thing built?

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In the 1500s. I'm going to turn to the right. We're going to lean to the right, okay?

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Here we go.

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Don't worry, just keep it to the left.

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Alright, I want to be a helicopter pilot, when I grow up.

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This is the old jail, right here.

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Oh, wow, yeah. Check that place out.

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There's the bridge alliance right there.

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It's a beautiful town.

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It looks so much different from up here.

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How you doing, man?

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I'm doing it for the land, guys.

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Oh, here we go, Jay. We'll be touching down soon.

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Good.

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You can land it on that little bank and you're an animal.

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Wow, that's awesome.

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That's the way to St. Augustine, huh?

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We're able to see everything from up there,

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and I just think the best part of it was coming down.

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I think it should be mandatory that we check out all locations from the end.

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How you doing?

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Great.

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John is stable.

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Great. How are you doing?

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How are you, Graham?

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Welcome to St. Augustine.

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Thank you, man.

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You ready to see the town?

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Absolutely.

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We have the claim to fame as being the oldest permanently occupied European settlement in the United States.

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So the town's history, there have been a lot of wars, a lot of pestilence, a lot of difficult living conditions.

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They encountered unfriendly Native Americans.

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They had all kinds of terrible lizards, the alligators and the snakes.

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You think they would have gotten the picture, you know?

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Yeah, you wouldn't have gotten the picture.

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Go back home.

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So 1513, Ponce de Leon came here, planted the flag.

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For Spain, it wasn't long before the French decided to come and see if they could take this land.

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So they came down from the north and they were going to catch the Spanish off guard.

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But a storm hit them.

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A mysterious storm.

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It came out of nowhere.

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It washed the ships over, banged them up, knocked them out.

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Only about 200 struggled into the harbor and so over 200 of them for three long days were slaughtered and thrown into the water.

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And they literally say the water ran red.

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There are folks that claim when the moon is right, the water begins to turn red.

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And it reminds them that long ago there was a terrible thing that happened right on our bayfront.

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If you look over here to the right, you'll see the city gates behind us.

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That was the only way in or out of St. Augustine and all along what's now a roadway was a large wall.

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The gatekeeper's daughter in 1821 was a young girl named Elizabeth.

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Now she was 17 at the time when she passed away.

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Some people believe that she's still here.

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A lot of people come into town and they'll ride up this road and see a young girl in costume waving to people as they drive by.

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Now we know this because a lot of them will come in and talk to the shopkeepers and they'll say,

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oh it's really nice how you've got that young girl waving and welcoming people to St. Augustine.

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And that's why I believe Elizabeth is still here.

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St. Augustine didn't have a bishop back in the 1800s and so they decided to get themselves one.

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And they got a fella named Bishop Vero.

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In 1876 he passed away.

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Dignitaries from far and wide wanted to come and pay their respects to the bishop.

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So they had to preserve the bishop's body.

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They found the perfect coffin.

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It was made out of metal which was very unusual in the day.

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Well they put him inside this metal coffin.

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They hermetically sealed it.

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It was airtight and it was just perfect.

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It wasn't long after the service began that one of the men in the first row heard a strange noise.

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He heard ssssssssssssss.

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And then the bishop exploded.

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He blew up.

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Little bits of bishop went all over everyone.

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It was the worst thing anybody had ever experienced in their life.

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There's the Castillo de San Marcos right up ahead of us here.

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One of the strangest and most interesting things that ever happened there involved the Seminole Indian Wars.

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Their leader, Asiola, got captured.

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Asiola was put in the care of a local doctor named Dr. Frederick Whedon.

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Seven weeks later, Asiola, the Seminole leader, died.

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Dr. Whedon asked to be alone with the body of Asiola before they buried him.

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When everybody left the room, he did something awfully strange.

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He pulled out his sharpest scalpel and began severing the head of Asiola from its body.

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He put in his office in a big jar from Aldehyde.

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He said it was for the study of phrenology, the study of the bumps and curves on the human head.

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He never told anybody whose head it was, but they said he had the best behaved children in town.

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He would take that jar and set it in their rooms at night, children, if they misbehaved, as a punishment.

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That's creepy.

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Can you imagine how creepy and bizarre that is?

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People got to thinking we need to exhume Asiola.

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And when they opened up, finally, that coffin of Asiola, they found it had no head.

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I really appreciate you guys coming out, taking a look at our town.

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This has got a lot to offer and I know you'll enjoy it.

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I appreciate you sharing it.

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I really appreciate you giving us a tour.

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Excellent, excellent. What a town.

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So what do we now?

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We're going to go upstairs to where the lighthouse keeper's bedrooms would have been because there's been activity up there.

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Oh wow, this is beautiful.

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Yep, this would have been their bedrooms that you see here.

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So now there's been people seen through the windows up here.

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There's been a lady in white reported inside the house and on the grounds.

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There's been a child in a period dress reported at the windows as well.

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As a matter of fact, one of the past employees came here one night after closing.

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She had a friend with her.

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Her friend said, I looked up to the windows and I saw a little girl in a Victorian type dress standing at the window.

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The next day

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I was following Brian and Dustin and I went up ahead one level to get a shot of them coming up towards me and checking out.

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I clearly heard O'Kendall in a man's voice.

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You guys just say you heard O'Kendall?

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No.

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No?

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You didn't say O'Kendall?

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No.

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It was very clear. It sounded like it was 10 feet away from me.

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I don't usually get scared going into these places and this was the first time that I actually felt like I might have experienced something.

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We got something. Go, go, go. Go, go, go.

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I definitely wanted to run out of there. It was pretty scary.

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Hold on, hold on. I want to scare completely.

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It's exciting to see somebody in the crew have an experience too and get excited over it.

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I happened to be filming with the mini-DV camera at the time so I saw him come running down the stairs.

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I was right there and I know nobody was saying his name at the time.

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Everybody quiet, everybody quiet.

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So it was definitely something to see somebody beside themselves that's not within our group.