THE HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE.
The haunted St. Augustine Lighthouse has other stories to tell. There was a time when the Keeper's House was being rented out as apartments. Tenants would report seeing a young girl dressed in old-fashioned clothing who would appear and then disappear. Several reputable witnesses have seen a girl in and around the house, most often near an upstairs window. The last lighthouse keeper (during the 1950's) refused to live in the house and traded places with a Coast Guardsman who had been assigned to barracks on-site. The Guardsman's sister related the story by letter of how she and her brother used to laugh about the lighthouse keeper's fear of hearing footsteps upstairs.

A figure has also been seen in the Keeper's House basement, and has been dubbed, "The Man in Blue." When the gift shop was located in the house, employees also believed that a ghost they had nicknamed "Andrew" was the cause of poltergeist-like activity.

The lighthouse tower itself is also haunted, as many have witnessed hearing both voices and footsteps inside. Employees have reported finding the upstairs door at the top of the tower unlocked, though it had been locked the night before.

It seems walking through the property at night may spook some, as footsteps and voices are commonly heard by neighbors of the haunted St. Augustine Lighthouse.

THE FACTS
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.