St. Simons Island Lighthouse, Georgia: The 1880 Shooting and the Keeper on the Stairs
In 1880 the keeper of the St. Simons Island Lighthouse was shot by his assistant. The shooting is on record; the footsteps on the stairs are legend.
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Yaquina Bay Lighthouse, Oregon: The “Haunted Light” and the 1899 Story Behind It
Oregon’s “Haunted Light” worked for only three years. Its ghost story comes from a fictional 1899 magazine tale, and the history behind it is well documented.
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Point Sur Light Station, California: Keepers’ Families, Volunteer Ghost Stories and the Record
Point Sur’s keepers’ families are said to still walk the rock. The ghost stories come from a few volunteers; the isolation, shipwrecks and airship crash are well documented.
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Visiting a Haunted Lighthouse This Halloween: A Practical Guide
Lighthouses and ghost stories belong together. They stand alone on cliffs and ledges, they were kept by families who lived[…]
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Pensacola Lighthouse
History Pensacola Light was the lightship Aurora Borealis. A lightship is a permanently moored ship that has a light beacon[…]
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Owls Head Lighthouse
Photo: JacquesDemien / CC0 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons History The booming lime trade of the 1820’s on Maine’s mid-coast led[…]
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Point Lookout Lighthouse
Photo: Acroterion / CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons At a glance Where: Point Lookout State Park, at the southern[…]
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Seguin Island Lighthouse
Photo: Paul VanDerWerf / CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons History Way up in the northeastern corner of the U.S,[…]
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Heceta Head Lighthouse
Named for the Spanish sailor Don Bruno Heceta who discovered the location in 1755, the Heceta Head Lighthouse sits in[…]
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Old Port Boca Grande Lighthouse
Photo: Pete Markham / CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons At a glance Where: southern tip of Gasparilla Island, Gasparilla[…]
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