http://hauntedlighthouses.info/HauntedLighthouseBlog A Blog About Real Haunted Lighthouses Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:46:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://hauntedlighthouses.info/HauntedLighthouseBlog/carysfort-reef-lighthouse-key-largo-fl/ 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 ... http://hauntedlighthouses.info/HauntedLighthouseBlog/point-vicente-lighthouse-near-los-angeles-ca/ 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 ... http://hauntedlighthouses.info/HauntedLighthouseBlog/haunted-lighthouses-georgetown-north-island-light-georgetown-sc/ The first Pensacola Light was the lightship Aurora Borealis. A lightship is a permanently The first Pensacola Light was the lightship Aurora Borealis. A lightship is a permanently moored ship that has a light beacon mounted on it. Due to the frequent occurance of choppy seas, the lightship had to be anchored inside the bay entrance, ... http://hauntedlighthouses.info/HauntedLighthouseBlog/haunted-lighthouses-pensacola-light-pensacola-fl/ The booming lime trade of the 1820's on Maine's midcoast led to the construction of a lighthouse on Owls Head, an area located at the entrance to Rockland Harbor, Maine. In 1825, President John Quincy Adams authorized the building of a lighthouse on a promontory south of Rockland Harbor in ... http://hauntedlighthouses.info/HauntedLighthouseBlog/haunted-lighthouses-owls-head-light-owls-head-maine/ 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 ... http://hauntedlighthouses.info/HauntedLighthouseBlog/haunted-lighthouses-point-lookout-light/ Way up in the northeastern corner of the U.S, perched high on its own little barren island made of rock, sits Sequin Island Lighthouse. This lighthouse, located at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Georgetown, Maine, is the second lighthouse that was ever built in Maine and is one ... http://hauntedlighthouses.info/HauntedLighthouseBlog/haunted-lighthouses-seguin-island-light/ Named for the Spanish sailor Don Bruno Heceta who discovered the location in 1755, the Heceta Head Lighthouse sits in a beautiful location on the coast of Oregon just north of Florence. Formerly known as Devil's Elbow State Park, the area includes the cove south of the lighthouse and the lighthouse ... http://hauntedlighthouses.info/HauntedLighthouseBlog/haunted-lighthouses-heceta-head-lighthouse/ Image via Wikipedia Located on the land protruding from the eastern shore of Lake Huron in Michigan, you'll find the Presque Isle Lighthouse. The name Presque Isle comes from the French term that means "almost an island." Congress appropriated $7,000 to fund the construction of the lighthouse in 1838 and construction ... http://hauntedlighthouses.info/HauntedLighthouseBlog/haunted-lighthouses-presque-isle-lighthouse-michigan/ Old Port Boca Grande Lighthouse Located at the southern end of Gasparilla Island you'll find the Old Port Boca Grande Lighthouse. Right next to the lighthouse sits its twin - a building that served as the lighthouse keeper's assitant's home. Originally built in 1890, these two buildings were nearly lost to ... http://hauntedlighthouses.info/HauntedLighthouseBlog/haunted-lighthouses-old-port-boca-grande-lighthouse/