Lighthouses. Beautiful. Mysterious. Haunted? Some of them are.
Gathered here is a Collection of Haunted Lighthouses Stories From All Over the United States. From the New London Ledge Lighthouse in Connecticut to Heceta Head Lighthouse in Oregon, These Haunted Lighthouses Stories and the Mysteries and Tragedies of Their Keepers May Have You Believing that Ghosts Really Do Exist.
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Haunted Lighthouses - Point Lookout Light
The Point Lookout Lighthouse sits on a peninsula that marks the entrance to the Potomac River in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. The area was known as a pleasant vacation place prior to the Civil War. It was originally part of St. Michael's Manor, which was owned by the first governor of Maryland. The point had been used as a summer [...]
Read MoreHaunted Lighthouses - New London Ledge Lighthouse
Image via Wikipedia New London Ledge Lighthouse Located at the mouth of the Thames River, entrance to New London Harbor, Connecticut at the eastern end of Long Island Sound sits the New London Ledge Lighthouse. Built in 1909 on the Southwest Ledge, the lighthouse was originally called the Southwest Ledge Light, but [...]
Read MoreHaunted Lighthouses - The St. Augustine Lighthouse
The St. Augustine Lighthouse sits on the north end of Anastasia Island in St. Augustine, Florida. The current tower, which was built in 1874, rises to 165 feet above sea level. The original lighthouse, built in 1824, was approximately 500 yards northeast of the current lighthouse. Due to the receding shoreline, it fell into [...]
Read MoreCarysfort Reef Lighthouse – Key Largo, FL
This lighthouse is located in a treacherous stretch of water that has seen more than its share of shipwrecks. In addition, the area is home to a dangerous stretch of reef that has claimed numerous ships, including the one it was named for, the HMS Carysfort in 1770. Several lightships were set here, but they [...]
Read MorePoint Vicente Lighthouse, near Los Angeles, CA
Point Vicente Lighthouse is located near the intersection of Palos Verdes Drive and Los Verdes Boulevard in the Ranchos Palos Verdes section of Los Angeles. It’s located about a mile and a half from Marineland of the Pacific. All seemed perfectly normal at this lighthouse, at least until some local homeowners started complaining about the bright beam [...]
Read MoreHaunted Lighthouses – Georgetown (North Island) Light, Georgetown, SC
Located ten miles downstream from Georgetown, SC sits the North Island Lighthouse. This seventy-two foot tall beacon was built around 1812. The haunting of this lighthouse is said to be caused by the daughter of a former keeper who drowned tragically at the age of seven or eight. The father was a widow and was raising his daughter on [...]
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