St. Augustine Lighthouse
"A Ghost - Somebody tried last Thursday night to get up a ghost at the fort, but it was a failure. Lost (Lots) of people went there about 9 o'clock at night; we was one of them, but the ghost didn't amount to much... We don't think much of these sham ghosts. If they could get up a real bonifide ghost, such as we read about, there would be some fin (fun) in it and everybody would go and see it."
- The St. Augustine Star, Jan 4, 1872
Jen's on her way once again. She's heading out to "The Sunshine State". While there she plans to visit the St. Augustine Lighthouse. This is not an official investigation, in fact it's not really an investigation at all, but she will be taking tons of pictures and hopefully some video too! We'll let you know what happens to Jen and her friends as soon as she returns to Kansas City!
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Our MySpace URL is:
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New Team Members
We'd like to welcome our newest members to the C.O.R.P.S.E. family.
South Dakota Chapter
Ryan Tellberg- Investigator
Laura Tellberg- Investigator
Laura Smith- Head Researcher/Reporter
Kansas City Chapter
Deborah Tevis- Investigator
Hallie Love- Investigator
Denise Nance- Investigator/Researcher
Wes Nance - Investigator
Jessica Bergman - Investigator
Here are some facts we got from the official lighthouse website regarding the deaths that occured at this location.
Many people have lived here and some have died on-site. Below are the only deaths in our records.
- A Lightkeeper never fell from the current tower. John Carrera died in 1853 at the first lighthouse. Joseph Andreu, did fall from the first lighthouse and die in 1859. (After her husband's death the town rallied around Maria Andreu and she became the Head Keeper.)
- William Harn died of consumption (tuberculosis) on April 1, 1889 while still Head Keeper. (Kate Harn, William's wife, became the Second Assistant keeper after her husband's death.)
- Head Keeper Rantia's wife died here on Sept. 21, 1894. At this time, we do not know how she died.
- Three young girls did die during the construction of the lighthouse. There were the daughters of the superintendent of construction of the tower - Hezekiah Pittee. Since the construction was taking so long, Pittee moved his family down from Maine. They lived in a house on-site. There was also a rail car, handcart or some type of vehicle that went from the light station to the ocean. The workers used this to bring the supplies from the beach to the work site. The children, Pittee had five, used to ride on it for fun. On July 10, 1873, something happened and five children fell into the water. Workers were able to save a boy and a girl. Two of Pittee's daughters, Mary (15) and Eliza (13), and a young black girl, either a servant or the daughter of a worker, drowned.
- As far as we know, no one ever hung him/herself here. There is a story that some passing mariner hung himself in the house in the 1930s. We have no proof that this happened.
Our mission as CHRISTIAN ghost hunters is to investigate the paranormal and offer spiritual assistance to those famlies who may be effected.
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