Ghostly Lighthouses from Maine to Florida
Sheryl Monks

John F. Blair, Publisher
978-0-89587-310-1
$12.95 paperback
5 x 8   
145 pages
Published in 2005
Folklore/Ghosts

Lighthouses are lovely, romantic places to visit, but you might not want to live there. They inhabit spots where the weather is foul and the geography dangerous. Many lighthouse families lived as virtual prisoners, their only contact with the outside world the supply boat from the mainland. More than a few people went mad.

In short, lighthouses were ripe for the kinds of tragedies that evolve into ghost stories.

This book contains 15 such tales of lighthouses from Maine to Florida:

Sequin Island, near Popham Beach, Maine
Wood Island Light, Biddeford Pool, Maine
Boon Island Light, near York, Maine
Minot’s Ledge Light, near Scituate, Massachusetts
Bird Island Light, Marion, Massachusetts
New London Ledge Light, New London, Connecticut
Point Lookout Light, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland
Currituck Beach Light, Corolla, North Carolina
Cape Hatteras Light, Buxton, North Carolina
Georgetown Light (North Island Light), near Georgetown, South Carolina
Cape Romain Light, near McClellanville, South Carolina
Old Hilton Head Rear Range Light (Leamington Light), Hilton Head, South Carolina
St. Simons Light, near Brunswick, Georgia
St. Augustine Light, Anastasia Island, Florida
Pensacola Light, Pensacola Bay, Florida