Learn About This Ghost Tour Comparison Site
A short, quotable rundown of who runs this site, what it lists and how it treats the numbers. Every rating, review count and duration here matches the live tour listings.
How This Site Works
staugustineghosttours.org exists to compare the after-dark side of St. Augustine, Florida. Eleven tours are bookable at any given moment, and they fall into three buckets: four walking ghost tours, three hands-on paranormal investigations, and four rides or crawls by trolley, golf cart or pub stop. Price, rating, review count, duration and operator are laid out side by side for each. The site does not operate a single tour. No money changes hands here and no booking form exists; reservations are made on the live listing, and the commercial arrangement behind this site is stated plainly at /disclosure/.
Fact And Folklore
The history underneath these tours is not invented. St. Augustine is the oldest continuously inhabited European-founded city in the United States, and guides lead you past real buildings with real pasts: the Castillo de San Marcos, the Old Jail, the St. Augustine Lighthouse. The ghost stories themselves belong to each operator's tour narrative, and this site treats them as claims rather than established fact. So are St. Augustine ghost stories real? The city and the buildings are documented; the hauntings are the storytellers' craft.
How Numbers Are Handled
Prices shown are from-prices per person and shift with season and selected option, so nothing here outranks the live booking page. Every rating and review total is reproduced exactly as published on the listing, never adjusted. Tours whose listings withhold a price get no invented number here; the listing is the reference. A walk carrying 11 reviews appears with 11 reviews, and the 2,484 behind the Ghostly Encounter tour appear in full, because inflating small counts or trimming large ones would mislead both ways.
Where Our Facts Come From
This site is run as a small comparison desk rather than a personal travel blog. There is no bylined author pretending to have walked every dark alley in the old city, and no page here claims firsthand experience of any listed tour. Practical details, meaning price, duration, operator and cancellation terms, are taken from each tour's live booking listing, since those figures shift with season and demand. Historical background on places like the Castillo de San Marcos and the historic downtown district is drawn from official and primary sources. Operators pay nothing for placement, ranking or favorable wording.
Three Ways To Get Haunted
- Walking ghost tours (4 listings): guided walks of 1 to 2.5 hours through St. Augustine's historic downtown, run by operators including A Ghostly Encounter, Last Ghost Tour and US Ghost Adventures. All four carry free cancellation.
- Ghost hunts (3 listings): 2-hour paranormal investigations with equipment in hand, including sessions at the Dixie House run by GhoSt Augustine. All three carry free cancellation, and prices sit on the live listings.
- Trolleys, carts and pub crawls (4 listings): the Ghosts and Gravestones trolley, a golf cart ghost tour, and two haunted pub crawls, one of them with drinks included. All four carry free cancellation.
Numbers Behind The Tours
The most-reviewed tour on this site is A Ghostly Encounter, rated 4.7 across 2,484 reviews. The highest-rated walking tour is Horrible Hauntings, rated 4.9 across 32 reviews. Four of the eleven tours are walking routes; the investigations and pub crawls each run 2 hours, and the trolley runs 1 hour 20 minutes. Every listing on this site carries free cancellation. Prices change with dates and options, so each tour card links to the live listing for the current figure (see Tour Prices).
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