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Bigfoot Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is an alleged apelike animal said to inhabit remote forests in North America, with many of the sightings occurring in the Pacific northwest of the United States and British Columbia, Canada. Bigfoot is sometimes described as a large, hairy bipedal hominoid, and many believe that this animal, or its close relatives, may be found around the world under different regional names, such as the Yeti of Tibet and Nepal. Bigfoot is one of the more famous examples of cryptozoology, a subject that tends to be dismissed as pseudoscience by mainstream researchers, because of unreliable eyewitness accounts and a lack of solid physical evidence. Most theorists consider the Bigfoot legend to be a combination of unsubstantiated folklore and hoaxes.

Hi, my name is Amy. I am honored to be one of your Haunted St. Augustine tour guides. I have been interested in the paranormal since the age of 4 when i had my first paranormal experience. I have since had many more experiences. The Haunted St. Augustine tour is the perfect tour for me to be a guide on because it is a real investigative tour, not theatrical. I really want to know what the other side is all about and I love investigating with people who share my interest. I also love making believers out of skeptics which tends to happen alot on this tour. So whether you’re a die hard paranormal fan, or a total skeptic, or maybe even somewhere in between, I look for to investigating with you!

Loch Ness Monster The Loch Ness Monster is an unidentified animal purported to inhabit Scotland’s Loch Ness, the most voluminous freshwater lake in Great Britain. Along with Bigfoot and the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster is one of the best-known mysteries of cryptozoology. Local Scottish highlanders, and many people around the world, have affectionately referred to the animal by the feminine name of Nessie. Most scientists and other experts find current evidence supporting the creature’s existence unpersuasive, and regard the occasional sightings as hoaxes or misidentification of known creatures or natural phenomena. However, belief in the legend persists around the world, with the most popular theory posing that the creature is actually a plesiosaur.

GhoSt Augustine is launching a brand new tour! Starting this Friday July 9th, 2010 we will be offering 3pm Historic Cemetery Tours on Fridays and Saturdays. Ride in one of our HEARSES to the well known and not so well known cemeteries of St. Augustine. See and hear the history of these beautiful historic cemeteries, burial customs, the history of funerals, funeral cars, superstitions, and learn about pleasing the spirits. This hour and a half tour is full of fun for the entire family and will take you to places most people never will see on the walking tours. You will also learn seldom known and sometimes unbelievable facts about the subject. We are very excited about launching this new tour and think you will be too once you encounter GhoSt Augustine’s Historic Cemetery Tour. Adults are $29 and rear seating…

UFOs An unidentified flying object, or UFO, is any real or apparent flying object which cannot be identified by the observer and which remains unidentified after investigation. Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of UFO sightings started becoming more common after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting in 1947. Many tens of thousands of such claimed observations have since been reported worldwide, and it is very likely many more go unreported due to fear of public ridicule because of the  social stigma created around the UFO topic. In popular culture throughout the world, UFO is commonly used to refer to any hypothetical alien spacecraft but the term flying saucer is also regularly used. Once a UFO is identified as a known object (for example an aircraft or weather balloon), it ceases to be a…

From The Parapsychology Foundation www.parapsychology.org T-Z TABLE-TILTING A form of motor automatism in which several persons place their finger-tips on a table top, causing it to move and rap out messages by means of a code. Also called “table tipping” or “table turning.” [Dale & White, 1977] TAROT A set of playing-cards first used in Italy in the fourteenth century, consisting of a series of 22 cards bearing figures (21 of them being numbered) and referred to as the “Major Arcanum,” together with a set of 56 cards (in four suits)constituting the “Minor Arcanum,” forming a pack of 78 cards. TELEKINESIS Older term for “psychokinesis,” coined by Alexander Aksakof (1895/1890), and still preferred in the former USSR; Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. [From the Greek tele, “far away,” + kinesis, “a moving, disturbance,” derived from kinein, “to set in motion”]…

From The Parapsychology Foundation www.parapsychology.org S SCRYING A technique for obtaining paranormal impressions by staring into a crystal ball, pool of water, coffee grounds, tea leaves and so on, which causes the practitioner to experience images or exteriorized hallucinations. [Variant of descry] SEANCE A meeting of one or more persons, generally, but not always, with a medium, for the purpose of eliciting physical phenomena and/or for receiving communications from the deceased; the term has also been used without Spiritualistic connotations, that is, to refer to the purpose of getting together to observe phenomena, without the intent to communicate with the dead. Also called a “sitting” or “session.” [From the French, derived from the Old French seoir, “to sit,” ultimately derived from the Latin sedere, “to sit”] SECOND SIGHT Concept used in the Celtic folklore of the supernatural, and encompassing what…

From The Parapsychology Foundation www.parapsychology.org Q-R QUALITATIVE EXPERIMENT (i) Any test for extrasensory perception which uses target material and forms of response which do not allow a definite probability-value to be attached to the response items made; examples are most free-response tests, tests of psychometry, mediumistic utterances, and so on; statistical evaluation of such data must therefore proceed in an indirect fashion, by assigning a probability-value to the matching-performance of a judge; (ii) Any attempt to demonstrate qualitative phenomena. Compare Quantitative Experiment. [Ultimately derived from the Latin qualis, “what kind of?”] QUANTITATIVE EXPERIMENT Any test for psi which uses targets each of which has a specific prescribed value for the probability of its occurrence; such a test therefore allows for direct statistical evaluation of the results obtained. See also Forced-Choice Test. Compare Qualitative Experiment. [Ultimately derived from the Latin quantus,…

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From The Parapsychology Foundation www.parapsychology.org P PARANORMAL Term applied to any phenomenon which in one or more respects exceeds the limits of what is deemed physically possible on current scientific assumptions; often used as a synonym for “psychic,” “parapsychological,” “attibutable to psi,” or even “miraculous” (although shorn of religious overtones). [From the Greek para, “beside, beyond,” + normal] PARAPHYSICS Pertaining to paraphysics; synonym for “psychokinetic.” PARAPSYCHOLOGICAL Involving or pertaining to parapsychology or paranormal processes. PARAPSYCHOLOGY Term coined in German by Max Dessoir (1889) and adopted by J. B. Rhine in English to refer to the scientific study of paranormal or ostensibly paranormal phenomena, that is, psi; except in Britain, the term has largely superseded the older expression “psychical research;” used by some to refer to the experimental approach to the field. [From the Greek para, “beside, beyond,” + psychology, derived…

From The Parapsychology Foundation www.parapsychology.org M-O MACRO-PK See under Psychokinesis. MATERIALIZATION A phenomenon of physical mediumship in which living entities or inanimate objects are caused to take form, sometimes from ectoplasm. Compare Dematerialization. MEDITATION A broad term embracing a number of techniques for achieving various altered states of awareness, with some of these altered states resulting in the ecstatic qualities of so-called “peak experience;” most meditative techniques are ways of learning to still the agitation of the mind so that more subtle and valuable aspects of self and reality may be perceived; some techniques involve concentration, in which attention is focused on a particular object and restrained from wandering, while others involve giving one’s total attention to whatever spontaneously happens, with no attempt to control or focus attention. MEDIUM A predominantly Spiritualistic term applied to a person who regularly, and…

Even when training a new guide you never know what you will find. Recently while training a new tour guide for our Haunted St. Augustine Tour an apparition was captured near the City Gates. Our manager was on a dress rehearsal snapping photo with our newest guide when she captured a full body apparition, possibly of Elizabeth, near the City Gate. The area is said to be haunted by a young girl who died of Yellow Fever along with her entire family by the Yellow Fever Epidemic that swept the city in the 1830s.