Haunted St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.

Haunted St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.
Paul Dale Roberts, HPI's Esoteric Detective
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Back in 1997, me and my ex-wife and stepson had a layover in Puerto Rico, before we landed at our final destination St. Thomas.  We were headed to my sister's wedding.  While waiting for our flight to St. Thomas, I talked with David Perez, who worked in the airport and has lived in Puerto Rico his whole life.  David says that he lived on a farm with his father growing cacao and avocados.   David says that they also had a few chickens at the farm.  On one particular night, they heard loud clucking, the time was 2 a.m.  David and his father ran out of the farmhouse and saw a 5-foot reptilian type of creature, with large red eyes, reptilian skin, small wings on its back.  David says what they saw was the infamous Chupacabra!  The creature hissed at David and his father and then ran off.  The Chupacabra killed 4 of their chickens.  The blood was drained out from all 4 chickens and there were puncture marks on the chest of the chickens.  David says that the legend of the Chupacabra is very real, because David has encountered the monster with his father.  David also says that the Chupacabra seen in Texas is nothing like the Chupacabra seen in Puerto Rico.  David says the Chupacabra in Texas is nothing more than a coyote with mange. I have to agree with David.

After hearing this story, I wanted to cancel my flight to St. Thomas, so I could scour the landscape of Puerto Rico and search out this monster, but I was obligated to attend my sister's wedding.  My sister Sharon was getting married to a guy named Captain Crazy Jeff Voshell. Jeff was the Captain of his own boat called the Orion. He would take tourists to St. John and St. Croix from St. Thomas.  He was also a boat mechanic and one of his client's was Morgan Freeman, the movie actor. Captain Crazy Jeff Voshell was a legend on the island and it is rumored that the movie "Captain Ron" was based on him. Jeff was just like Captain Ron, very obnoxious, in-your-face type of guy, a real rugged sailor. My new brother-in-law took me to Bluebeard's Castle, that is reputed to be haunted by the spirits of pirates. Some of the locales claim that the ghosts of the pirate known as Blackbeard and the pirate known as Bluebeard haunt Bluebeard's Castle.

Anything can happen in St. Thomas.  My sister Sharon wearing a bikini, stopped inside a gift shop to purchase a few items and met up with the actor Robert De Niro.  Robert asked my sister out for a date and my sister smiled and told Robert that she was getting married.  Robert congratulated her and walked out of the gift shop.  St. Thomas is a very interesting island and it's a place that many celebrities enjoy visiting.  Besides the celebrities, you have the hauntings.  When in St. Thomas, you must do a kayak run through the haunted Mangrove Lagoon.  This lagoon has a very unsettling atmosphere.  The lagoon is a protected sanctuary and is made up of a system of islets that are populated by red mangroves.  Thousands of birds nest in the mangroves.  When I kayaked through the lagoon, I received goosebumps on my arms.  The place is just plain creepy.  Jeff Avakian says that he saw 6 African looking men and women walking through the mangroves wearing white robes and as he was kayaking past them, they all looked up at him and then disappeared.  There are many tunnels, shallow waters and jumbies (Caribbean ghost tales) that make up the lagoon.  When I went through the lagoon, I could hear the stingrays slipping and sliding underneath my kayak.  Our tour guide explained that the islet of Cas Cay is very haunted.  A tourist named Keith Rowell was exploring a trail that leads to Red Point Blow Hole and a man, that looked like a zombie walked past him.  The zombie looking man, did not look at Keith and when Keith turned around the zombie looking man was gone.  Keith reiterates: There was no way he could have vanished like that.  When the zombie looking man walked past Keith, Keith turned around after a split second and he was gone.  Keith says there was no way he could have vanished like that, but he did.  Keith feels that he saw a ghost.  

Another haunted location is Bluebeard's Castle.  Captain Crazy Jeff Voshell showed me the pirate Bluebeard's Castle, that is said to be very haunted.  Captain Crazy Jeff Voshell says that on one night, he actually saw a pirate ghost.  Jeff was not able to determine if the pirate was Bluebeard, but he knew that the ghost was a pirate from his outfit.  As Jeff watched the ghostly pirate, the pirate drove his sword into the sand and then looked up into the night sky and vanished.  Some locals  say that Bluebeard's Castle was built by Bluebeard, but history tells another story, that the Danes built the tower around 1689 as a watchtower.  In the past, Bluebeard's Castle was known as Frederik's Fort.

Another known haunted location is Creque’s Alley Number 3.  The haunting at this location started in the 1930s.  There are strange sounds that occur there.  On several occasions during the evening, disembodied voices are heard in the alley.  You are able to hear phantom footsteps.  A dark hooded figure is sometimes seen in the alley, walking and looking down.  A former local named Farrah Woodruff says that she heard disembodied voices speaking in tongues and when she looked down into the alley, she saw no one.  

What is interesting, an old Army friend of mine named Kirk Contino went to St. Thomas on vacation and said on one night he went out to the docks to relax and smoke a cigarette and then he heard footsteps walking towards him and saw a long haired blonde man cussing underneath his breath.  The man stopped in his tracks and yelled "damn!!" and turned around and started walking back the way he came and then just faded away.  Kirk realized he just saw a ghost!  Also, what is incredible, it seemed like he was describing my ex-brother-in-law Captain Crazy Jeff Voshell!  Captain Crazy Jeff Voshell passed away a few years back and it would make sense that Jeff would be haunting St. Thomas.   He loved St. Thomas and St. Thomas was his home.