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Fresh Hell Podcast

E62: St. Augustine & The Haunted Lighthouse

Fresh Hell Podcast

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True Crime

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Annie tells Johanna some of the fascinating history of St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. From the 'discovery,' and colonization of Florida by Spain's famed explorers, Juan Ponce de Leon and Pedro Menendez de Aviles, to the first Underground Railroad, of Native people helping escaped slaves find freedom in Fort Mose...through the second Spanish period, and the construction of the very haunted Saint Augustine Lighthouse. We talk about the USA's first male and female Hispanic American lighthouse keepers, and discuss some of the tragedies that may have contributed to the haunting. This one has a little bit of everything...

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Fresh Hell Podcast. Fresh Hell contained stories of a disturbing

0:16.8

and often graphic nature and is intended for a mature audience.

0:20.5

Please don't let your kids listen to this or they might turn out like us.

0:24.0

Welcome to Fresh Hell, I'm Annie.

0:32.0

And I'm Annie.

0:33.0

And I'm Yohana, and we're so happy to have you here.

0:36.0

We really are.

0:37.0

Let's see, is there anything that we need to discuss before we get started today?

0:41.0

Uh, no, not from my end, at least not that I can think of anything.

0:45.8

Okay, so I thought that it was time for a ghost story and in this case it's a place I've been to several times and because so many of us

0:56.2

are still staying home due to the pandemic it's not a house it's not even a sloss or a bird. It's a lighthouse. It's the St Augustine Lighthouse to be exact. I love a

1:07.4

lighthouse. I love lighthouses. I always wanted to go to a lighthouse, never been

1:11.6

new one. Yes, we'll have to add that to the list when you come to visit because we have a lot of really

1:17.1

good lighthouses around New England and Cape Cod especially.

1:20.3

I think they do look pretty but often in kind of a creepy way and of course the

1:24.5

disappearance of the Lighthouse Keepers on Flennen Isle is on our cases to cover

1:28.5

list what else oh the movie at the Lighthouse amazing go watch. It's Robert Eggers, who's also directed The

1:34.8

Witch, which is another amazing movie, go watch that one too. And I think that's all I have on Lighthouses.

1:40.4

That's my whole expertise. That's the Robert Patanson movie, right? Yes, exactly. Yeah. Is it scary? The Lighthouse movie.

1:48.4

Well, I, me personally, I wouldn't call it scary. It's kind of was the witch scary to you? I didn't see it. It looked too scary.

2:00.0

Wait you went to school in St. Augustine, right? I did. Yeah, I went to school in St. Augustine, right?

2:02.8

I did. Yeah, I went to Flagler College for my undergraduate, which itself was very haunted.

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