The Casablanca Inn

This was one of our stops on our Ghost Tour of St. Augustine.  In the 1920's and early 1930's  it was once a boarding house.  It used to be run by a widow who would wine and dine guests with her then illegal alcoholic beverages.  The authorities were aware of bootleggers in St. Augustine and were out the catch them.  Unaware of the goings on at the boardinghouse, the government authorities would stay at the widow's while the conducted their investigations.  When they were there the widow, unknowingly, would go to the roof of the Inn with a lantern and wave it back and forth to warn the incoming bootleggers from the sea not to dock. 

Occasionally, it is said that a back and forth swinging ball of light will appear above the roof of the inn and that it is the widow still warning the bootleggers of trouble.

I didn't get any "swinging" balls of light on camera, but I did catch two orbs.  One, interestingly enough,  is on the roof of the Casablanca Inn.

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