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Twenty-eight spine-chilling tales of spirited lights
Lighthouses have always existed outside the realm of normal day-to-day human experience. Is it any wonder, then, that their keepers’ spirits—not to mention those of sailors drowned in shipwrecks and mothers searching for children lost in tragic accidents—sometimes remain behind? Through twenty-eight of the scariest ghost stories you are ever likely to encounter, Haunted Lighthouses takes you to the edge of reality and beyond.
You’ll read these stories and more:
• Maryland’s Lighthouse Lady: Ann Davis kept the light at Point Lookout shining through storms for more than thirty years. So complete was her dedication that she refused to retire even in death.
• 1900 Hurricane Victims Crying for Help: When Gulf breezes blow harder than usual, Bolivar Point Lighthouse near Galveston, Texas, wails, perhaps to lament the thousands who died there more than a century ago.
• Sarah’s Missing Stomach: When fog shrouds California’s central coast, a mysterious visitor appears beside the gallery rail at the top of the Pigeon Point Lighthouse. According to legend, the ghost, that of a wealthy widow murdered more than a century ago, is not entirely whole.
Introduction vii
Part 1 East
Chapter 1 Ernie's Domain 2
Chapter 2 A Sea Captain and Two Frozen Lovers 10
Chapter 3 Hanged Patriot Walks the Hook 17
Chapter 4 Victims of the Man-Eating Hobomock 23
Chapter 5 Seguin Island Piano Plays On 30
Chapter 6 Beware All Men 35
Chapter 7 Lady of Matinicus Rock 39
Chapter 8 Ship of Fog, Faces of Stone 44
Chapter 9 Vanished Delaware Light Still Shines 48
Chapter 10 Hunting Ghosts at Race Rock 56
Part 2 South
Chapter 11 Theodosia and Virginia Visit a Circle of Stone 63
Chapter 12 Searching for Blackbeard's Head 79
Chapter 13 Maryland's Lighthouse Lady 85
Chapter 14 Phantoms of Bloody Marsh 91
Chapter 15 A Girl, a Kitten, and a Cigar 98
Chapter 16 Captain Johnson's Lantern 105
Chapter 17 Captain Appleby's Island 110
Chapter 18 Guardians of the Hurricane Coast 114
Chapter 19 1900 Hurricane Victims Still Cry for Help 120
Part 3 Great Lakes
Chapter 20 Ghost Light of Presque Isle 133
Chapter 21 Witch of November 141
Chapter 22 Lake Superior's Mighty Ghost Ship 147
Chapter 23 Greeted by the Manitou 158
Chapter 24 Light of Last Refuge 164
Part 4 West
Chapter 25 Terrible Tilly 171
Chapter 26 Sarah's Missing Stomach 180
Chapter 27 The Lady of Point Vicente 185
Chapter 28 A Sorrowful Mother 189
Appendix A Other Haunted Lighthouses 192
Appendix B Lighthouse Terms 211
Appendix C Visiting Haunted Lighthouses 230
Overview
Twenty-eight spine-chilling tales of spirited lights
Lighthouses have always existed outside the realm of normal day-to-day human experience. Is it any wonder, then, that their keepers’ spirits—not to mention those of sailors drowned in shipwrecks and mothers searching for children lost in tragic accidents—sometimes remain behind? Through twenty-eight of the scariest ghost stories you are ever likely to encounter, Haunted Lighthouses ...