Lying Husband Haunts Fort Clinch - Fernandina Beach, FL
N 30° 42.259 W 081° 27.219
17R E 456558 N 3396921
Fort Clinch is haunted by a Union soldier who lied to his wife.
Waymark Code: WM32MC
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 01/30/2008
Views: 105
According to
shadowlands.net: "Fort Clinch is an old Union Civil War fort that was never finished due to of lack of funding from the government. During construction, the fort was ambushed quite a few times by Confederate troops. Several of the Union men died in the process. One incident included a man who was shot after promising his wife in a letter that he would not die until seeing her again. He is said to haunt the fort today. Re-enactors that volunteer at the fort often see his ghost in the courtyard along with several of his comrades. Perhaps he is searching for his wife?"
The following account of an individual who saw the ghost is posted on theshadowland.net site
(visit link):
Fort Clinch Ghost
By: spage1@mediaone.net
We live near a Civil War era masonry fort (which is in Fernandina Beach, Fl, near the Fl/Ga border) that we love to visit on a regular basis. Our favorite events are the torchlight tours held on Saturday evenings. There is no artificial light allowed, and the only light is provided by torches, fires, and lanterns-and a moon, if you're lucky. This past month, my son and I attended a torchlight tour. We were aware of the ghost stories: Yankee soldiers, a woman in white who searches for her baby, and the cries of a baby who died in the fort during the Great Depression. Then there are the ghosts who are heard but not seen-footsteps are heard in the infirmary and on the ramparts, and the latter ghost comes equipped with keys! My son and I are interested in the paranormal, but until this night neither one of us had seen a ghost. It was a particularly dark night-no moon, no clouds, and the fort's buildings were barely discernable. My son was standing in the middle of the parade ground when he heard a slight noise and saw a movement out of the corner of his eye. Looking up at the building that once housed soldiers, he saw a man in the third window from the left. Even though the building itself was barely visible, this man was very bright. My son said he seemed to be lit from the inside. The figure appeared to be a Yankee soldier. According to my son's account, this spirit made direct eye contact with him. The soldier tipped his hat and faded away, and the window was once again
pitch dark. My son said that during the entire episode, which lasted about 2 minutes, he felt tingles up and down his spine. When he told me his story, I wanted to believe him. He doesn't make things up as a rule. A good test would be to tell some of the re-enactors about it. When we began telling the first person we could find, she asked if the ghost had appeared in the third window. We confirmed that it did. My son described a ghost that has been seen by over 60 people!