#haunted lighthouses

[halloween-sweets]

[myhauntedsalem]

Absecon Lighthouse

Absecon Lighthouse, located in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the 3rd tallest masonry lighthouse in the United States. A structure which extends 171 feet in to the sky and 228 steps to reach the top. In April 1854, the Powhatan wrecked off the coast. Three hundred and eleven passengers and crew were lost. This tragedy was only one of many earning the Absecon Inlet the nick name of “Graveyard Inlet”.

In an effort to prevent further wrecks, the U.S. Lighthouse Service commissioned funding from Congress to build a lighthouse on Absecon Island. Designed by Lt. George Meade, the construction began in 1854. Lt. Meade replaced Major Hartman Bache to oversee the building. He would later go on to command the Union Army at Gettysburg. The first lighting took place on January 15, 1857 with a kerosene flame focused through a huge 36-plate, First-Order Fresnel lens (which it still retains). The final cost was $52,436.62. The white light shone brightly towards the sea. One could spot it 19.6 nautical miles from shore. The Absecon Lighthouse served its purpose for many years until being decommissioned in 1933. Since then, the tower has been restored and the lost Keeper’s house rebuilt.

Reports of paranormal activity date back to 1905 when one such keeper claimed to have spotted the Jersey Devil at the top of the tower. Since then, visitors and employees have experienced activity such as smells of pipe and cigar smoke, sounds of footsteps in the tower and the sound of the tower door opening/closing. Dimes have been said to appear in strange locations and partial apparitions have been seen. Not to mention the reports of eerie laughter. Seven deaths have occurred on the property. Thus, is the Absecon Lighthouse haunted by former lighthouse keepers and their families?

Absecon Lighthouse, located in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is the 3rd tallest masonry lighthouse in the United States. A structure which extends 171 feet in to the sky and 228 steps to reach the top. In April 1854, the Powhatan wrecked off the coast. Three hundred and eleven passengers and crew were lost. This tragedy was only one of many earning the Absecon Inlet the nick name of “Graveyard Inlet”.

[popculturelib]

Whether they're casualties from shipwrecks or dutiful keepers, where there are lighthouses, there are often ghosts. Among our books on ghosts, hauntings, and the occult are Lighthouse Legends & Hauntings (1998) by William O. Thomson and Lighthouse Ghosts: 13 Bona Fide Apparitions Standing Watch Over America's Shores (1999) by Norma Elizabeth and Bruce Roberts. Have you ever seen a lighthouse ghost?

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[an-established-butt-dent]

Soooooo after the new details that have been revealed about Veilguard, how do we all imagine a Solavellan reunion is going down? Trapped in the fade together? Lighthouse makeout sessions? A very sad mural dedicated to his Vhenan? My brain is infested with new headcanons.

[gluesenkampart]

Lighthouse illustration for a ttrpg book I'm working on.

[words-and-pages]

We as a society need to start building lighthouses, castles, and remote stone cottages again

[fanofspooky]

Horror movies of 2019

[thematicparallel]

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[jadafitch]

Seguin Island Light Station, Georgetown. Seguin is Maine's highest and second oldest lighthouse. It's also said to be one of a number of haunted lighthouses in the state. Legend has it that a keeper, sometime in the mid 1800s bought a piano to entertain his bored wife. She practiced the same song over and over. Driven mad, the keeper axed the piano to pieces, then did the same to his wife, before ending his own life. Folks say you can still hear spooky piano music there.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[lallyloo]

[notur-dreamboy]

Honestly people need to recognize the king that dagfinn is. Bro just wanted to be alone in his lighthouse and I think that's so real of him.

[myhauntedsalem]

Bird Island Light

Sippican Harbor, Massachusetts

The Haunting: William “Billy” Moore was the light’s first keeper when lit in 1890. Some say he was a convicted pirate who served his sentence at the lighthouse, while others claim he was being punished for stealing money from the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. By all accounts, however, Billy had a vicious temper. He lived there with his wife, Sarah, a small, frail woman who many friends suspected was beaten and abused by Billy. One day in 1832, Billy raised the distress flag on the island, bringing the mainlanders to see the trouble. They found Sarah dead in the house. Billy claimed that she died of tuberculosis but others suspected she had somehow been murdered by Billy.

After Billy disappeared from the island, his replacement claimed to have seen the apparition of a frail-looking woman who came to the door with an outstretched hand. When the door was opened, she would fade away. This ghost, who might be Sarah Moore, was last seen in 1982 by two local fishermen, who say the weeping spirit still looked quite distressed.

[gerbits]

If you believe the stories, newlywed Ruth has been waiting for her husband to return from the sea for a few centuries after succumbing to her own death by freezing. A bit of an enigma even to the locals of Grimcoast Harbor, you'll be lucky if you catch a glimpse of her, let alone hear her tale. Though not an official resident of the coastal town, Ruth has her place here and the residents seem quite fond of her...even if some of them don't believe she actually exists.

[3dprintcess]

not greg introducing alex as a haunted lighthouse keeper?????

I know - right?!?! I went full

when I heard it.

Greg, what are you DOING to my fic-poisoned brain?

[wordsandstrangeways]

Drawtober 3: Haunted (Light) House

Easy to understand the lure of it. Lighthouses keep you safe. A beacon in the darkness. And when the light blinks - comforting - it calls to you even as you know the rocks are set beneath the waves because rocks there may be but also land.

Hard to think, when the world is dark and the waves are rough and the light is blinking so strong and steady, that you were so very far from land. That even in the strongest winds the ocean is still vast and land is still far.

And the light blinks so strong. So very close.