In 2009, while I was buying black and pink sheet sets for my first ever college dorm and funneling

bud light in some random person's basement, I am so sorry, Mom.

Zach Bagan's was antagonizing ghosts in a national park.

Well, more specifically, he was asking spirits to punch him while standing inside the walls

of Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, crowned

a national monument in 1924.

Earlier that evening, as the sun was setting, National Park Service ranger Marlon Smith heaved the heavy metal

gates of the Castillo closed. With the large clang of a padlock and a wave goodbye, he locked

the ghost hunters team inside the impenetrable walls of the fort for the night. Washed in the green

glow synonymous with night vision cameras, Zach goes on to shout at the spirits,

calling the disembodied entities names like murderer, while he and his team wandered through the darkness of the fort,

eager to capture evidence of the paranormal within the Castillo.

For some, a guided ranger-led visit to the fort in the daylight to learn of the monument's three-century history is sufficient.

For others, like Zach, who want a different perspective of the past, a ghost hunt in the dark is more their speed.

So let's do a little of both.

Today, we will venture to America's oldest city, cross the fort's wooden bridge

spanning a long, dried up moat, and turn back the pages of time to reveal centuries' worth

of conflict, death, and imprisonment, and hopefully catch a glimpse of the entities that remain

trapped within its walls. Welcome to National Park After Dark.

I've definitely never asked a ghost to punch me, but I was doing the exact same thing in 2009 as you.

Pink and black? Cheats?

I had pink and black. And then I also had pink, yellow, orange. They were striped. It was pink, yellow, orange, and green, striped ones.

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