Haunted Maine Lighthouses
What is it about lighthouses that make them bastions of spiritual activity? Built for strength and permanence, they are nonetheless vulnerable, protecting lives yet isolated and remote. Unforgiving of human frailty, these outposts inevitably become the settings for tragedy—and for the spirits that linger on at the site of their ruined hopes, their sufferings, their obsessions.
With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has the second highest number of lighthouses in the country. Many of these 64 beacons are shrouded in wisps of rumor and mystery. There are ongoing strange and eerie events and occurrences that recall past violence or sadness—stranded crews who resorted to cannibalism, keepers driven to madness by unending days of blinding fog, children drowned in shipwrecks.
Author Taryn Plumb explores the ghostly tales and mysteries surrounding Maine lighthouses. Some hauntings can be directly tied to a known historical event, while others seem to have no origin, yet all will enthrall you with their spookiness.
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Haunted Maine Lighthouses
What is it about lighthouses that make them bastions of spiritual activity? Built for strength and permanence, they are nonetheless vulnerable, protecting lives yet isolated and remote. Unforgiving of human frailty, these outposts inevitably become the settings for tragedy—and for the spirits that linger on at the site of their ruined hopes, their sufferings, their obsessions.
With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has the second highest number of lighthouses in the country. Many of these 64 beacons are shrouded in wisps of rumor and mystery. There are ongoing strange and eerie events and occurrences that recall past violence or sadness—stranded crews who resorted to cannibalism, keepers driven to madness by unending days of blinding fog, children drowned in shipwrecks.
Author Taryn Plumb explores the ghostly tales and mysteries surrounding Maine lighthouses. Some hauntings can be directly tied to a known historical event, while others seem to have no origin, yet all will enthrall you with their spookiness.
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Haunted Maine Lighthouses

Haunted Maine Lighthouses

by Taryn Plumb
Haunted Maine Lighthouses

Haunted Maine Lighthouses

by Taryn Plumb

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What is it about lighthouses that make them bastions of spiritual activity? Built for strength and permanence, they are nonetheless vulnerable, protecting lives yet isolated and remote. Unforgiving of human frailty, these outposts inevitably become the settings for tragedy—and for the spirits that linger on at the site of their ruined hopes, their sufferings, their obsessions.
With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has the second highest number of lighthouses in the country. Many of these 64 beacons are shrouded in wisps of rumor and mystery. There are ongoing strange and eerie events and occurrences that recall past violence or sadness—stranded crews who resorted to cannibalism, keepers driven to madness by unending days of blinding fog, children drowned in shipwrecks.
Author Taryn Plumb explores the ghostly tales and mysteries surrounding Maine lighthouses. Some hauntings can be directly tied to a known historical event, while others seem to have no origin, yet all will enthrall you with their spookiness.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781608939695
Publisher: Down East Books
Publication date: 09/01/2018
Pages: 144
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Taryn Plumb is a freelance writer based outside of Portland, Maine whose subjects have ranged from ghosts and goblins to the intricacies of finance (which subject frightens you more?). She has always had a fascination with the paranormal. She is also the author of Haunted Boston: Famous Phantoms, Sinister Sites, and Lingering Legends (Globe Pequot 2016).

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 Portland Head Light Dangerous Beauty 1

Chapter 2 The Nubble Maine's Emblem 13

Chapter 3 Boon Island: Stranded by Fate 21

Chapter 4 Wood Island: Isle of Misfortune 31

Chapter 5 Seguin Island Deadly Melody 39

Chapter 6 Pemaquid Point: Iconic Watcher 49

Chapter 7 Hendricks Head: Souls Unknown 55

Chapter 8 Burnt Island: Ghosts of the Witching Hour 65

Chapter 9 Ram Island Protective Spirit 71

Chapter 10 Guarding Muscongus Bay: Franklin Island, Marshall Point, and Monhegan 75

Chapter 11 Matinicus Rock Light Enduring Spirit 85

Chapter 12 Owls Head Light Maine's Most Haunted? 91

Chapter 13 Marking Mount Desert Bass Harbor Head and Burnt Coat Harbor 101

Chapter 14 Ghosts Way Downeast Prospect Harbor Light and Mark Island Light 107

Chapter 15 Haunted Ships and Ship Graveyards 113

Appendix: An Unrivaled Visit 119

Sources 125

About the Author 129

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