Castillo de San Marcos - St. Augustine, Florida
N 29° 53.868 W 081° 18.674
17R E 469951 N 3307501
Castillo de San Marcos was the first line of defense for St. Augustine, America's oldest city, when the Spanish were fighting the Redcoats. Many soldiers died here through battle or execution and their spirit lives on.
Waymark Code: WM5W66
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 02/18/2009
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It is said that at the Execution Wall near the water that you can oftentimes see spirit energy at the top of the wall near the gun towers. Red Coats and Spanish turncoats were executed here. Oftentimes friends or family of the prisoners would be in the execution squad. That is why a lot of the bullet holes in the wall are higher than the people would have been because they would fire high so they knew they would not be responsible for their friend's execution.
In addition, when many of the British Redcoats were killed in battles there was nothing to do with their bodies so trenches were dug from the fort on up for blocks and they were buried in mass graves. So there are spirits all over the Castillo. Evidence of this, aside from several first person experiences, is that TAPS or Ghost Hunters was at the site filming the night of our ghost tour.