Fort Barrancas and Fort Pickens: Tunnels and Mythology

Disclaimor: While I am not personally a "Paranormal Investigator", nor am I one who will be found lurking around in dark places, hoping for an other-worldly experience; I do however assert that, to believe there is a God, necessitates believing in the devil, if for no other reason than, that God says there is one. Therefore, with no further analysis of whether the "Paranormal encounters" are ghosts, or demons - I offer the following accounts, as Pensacola historical lore - for the lack of a better way to encapsulate the subject, and please be sure to rejoin us on June 15th, for the continuance of the subject of Pensacolas Underground Tunnels:

Fort Barrancas was designed by Joseph Gilbert Totten, and connected to the Spanish-built water-battery by an underground walkway tunnel. Major William Henry Chase supervised that construction,

Spanning a centuries long history, the U.S. Army deactivated Fort Barrancas on April 15, 1947. Then, after a restoration project from 1971-1980, 
Fort Barrancas was then opened to the public.

There is a great deal of historical information about Fort Barrancas readily available, for anyone who wants it, and for those who wish to study Florida history itself. You can find this information by following this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Barrancas

For those, however, who wish to have the stories of the Fort Barrancas' underground tunnel happenings  unearthed (pun intended), then follow along with me, as I share with you the accounts of local lore, myth, fable, and unexplainable fact?

Join me now as we begin:

on Facebook page: http://www.ghostaugustine.com/blog/news-events/a-ghostly-experience-at-fort-barrancas-in-pensacola-fl/ if we block out the world around us, and any of our immediate surroundings, and allow ourselves to be translated to the experiential account of self proclaimed paranormal investigator,  Jaimie Roush, whose blog post titled :A ghostly experience at for barrancas - in Pensacola, FL., describes meeting a confederate soldier in a tunnel ....

As I was making my way to St. Francisville, Louisiana I decided to stop in Pensacola and check out Fort Barrancas. I checked in through the gift shop and learned I would have the fort to myself. They had just opened for the day and no one was out there. I thought, fantastic! This way I can really feel the history of the fort. A ghostly encounter never even crossed my mind.
Fort Barrancas sits on a bluff overlooking Pensacola Bay and the location inspired engineers of three nations to build forts here through the years. The British built the Royal Navy Redoubt here in 1763, the Spanish built two forts here sometime around 1797 then, American engineers remodeled the battery in 1840.

I was touring every square inch of the fort and found a narrow stair case that descended below ground, and then went through a tunnel, up a set of stairs that open up into this long hallway that went both to the left and the right. It has a very strange feel, the barometric pressure dropped drastically. I felt kind of creeped out which is not normal for me. I went down the steps, through the tunnel, then back up the steps and out of the fort.  As I stood outside to ground myself I started thinking, if it’s haunted, it can’t hurt me. Besides, I have been a paranormal investigator for over 12 years so what the heck am I scared of?

Next, please join me as we continue to ponder the part of Pensacola's history that takes us underground:

Fort Pickens: history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Pickens

As told by the writer of "History & Haunting of:
Fort Pickens,Santa Rosa Island , Pensacola, Florida" found on Facebook page called: History Haunted
on Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/historyhaunted/posts/1009159279110152

Geronimo, a noted Apache war chief, was imprisoned in Fort Pickens, along with several of his warriors. 

"I had some friends that were not enlisted in the Navy and they did some ghost hunting on the side. They were not an organized group per se, but if they found a public spot that had strange stories about it they would break out the cameras and tape recorders and try to prove or disprove the stories.", says the writer of this FB page. Read more of their story by clicking above.

Be sure to come back and join us June 15th, as we continue our tour of Pensaolas Underground Tunnels.