Haunted Maine Lighthouses

Haunted Maine Lighthouses
Author: Taryn Plumb
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1608939707

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.

Haunted Lighthouses

Haunted Lighthouses
Author: Ray Jones
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0762766425

Lighthouses and ghosts are two popular passions. Melded together by master storyteller and lighthouse expert Ray Jones, these tales of spirited lights are guaranteed to grab the attention of all readers. As an added bonus, practical information is given for those who wish to visit the featured lighthouses for themselves . . . if they dare.

Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses

Michigan's Haunted Lighthouses
Author: Dianna Stampfler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2019-08-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 143966630X

Travel Michigan’s coast—and into the state’s history—with otherworldly tales of the spirits of those who sought to keep its waters safe. Michigan has more lighthouses than any other state, with more than 120 dotting its expansive Great Lakes shoreline. Many of these lighthouses lay claim to haunted happenings. Former keepers like the cigar-smoking Captain Townshend at Seul Choix Point and prankster John Herman at Waugoshance Shoal near Mackinaw City maintain their watch long after death ended their duties. At White River Light Station in Whitehall, Sarah Robinson still keeps a clean and tidy house, and a mysterious young girl at the Marquette Harbor Lighthouse seeks out other children and female companions. Countless spirits remain between Whitefish Point and Point Iroquois in an area well known for its many tragic shipwrecks. Join author and Promote Michigan founder Dianna Stampfler as she recounts the tales from Michigan’s ghostly beacons. “Haunting tales of Michigan’s lighthouses . . . Her stories come from lighthouse museums, friends and family.”—Great Lakes Echo

The Legend of the Haunted Lighthouse

The Legend of the Haunted Lighthouse
Author: Joe Udvari
Publisher: The eBook Sale
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2011-06
Genre: Lighthouses
ISBN: 184961105X

You are invited to follow Abigail Rowan, a young journalism student and amateur sleuth as she systematically dismantles the 300 year old mysterious events in a small sleepy village in Maine. This is the first in a proposed series of Abigail Rowan Mysteries.

New England Lighthouses

New England Lighthouses
Author: Allan Wood
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780764340789

"New England is known to have one of the most rugged coastlines in the world. This book was developed to provide the reader a series of stories that encompass the brave men and women of New England who risked their lives at or near New England's lighthouses. These individuals were not only part of the lighthouse, lifesaving, and revenue cutter government services of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but also encompass a town's own citizens, local mariners, or a ship's captain and crew, who would also risk their lives alongside their government counterparts in helping those in distress."--Preface.

Ghosthunting North Carolina

Ghosthunting North Carolina
Author: Kala Ambrose
Publisher: Clerisy Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1578604559

Journey with author Kala Ambrose as she explores the most terrifying paranormal spots in the state of North Carolina. She begins in the coastal wetlands of East Carolina where she explores haunted lighthouses, battleships, forts, and the shipwrecked beaches where Blackbeard and his pirates still roam. She tours the Piedmont area of NC and visits the most actively haunted capitol in the US and interacts with the ghost of a former NC State Governor. Her journey continues west into the Blue Ridge Mountains where the ghost known as the pink lady and her friends await your presence at the historic Grove Park Inn, where many presidents, celebrities and ghosts have stayed over the decades. Travel information is provided to each haunted location for those brave enough to make the journey in person and for paranormal researchers who are interested in exploring haunted North Carolina. Join Kala Ambrose as your guide to Ghosthunting North Carolina as she takes you behind the scenes with detailed information about each destination.

Dark Woods, Chill Waters

Dark Woods, Chill Waters
Author: Marcus LiBrizzi
Publisher: Down East Books
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2007-09-04
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0892728248

Forgotten somewhere between Bar Harbor, Maine, and New Brunswick, Canada, lies the most remote and mysterious section of the Eastern Seaboard. It is a region rich in stark beauty—and supernatural lore. The harsh landscape, with its rocky seaside cliffs and thundering surf and miles of dark, mysterious forest farther inland, lends itself to the ghost story. Overlaying the ghost tales gathered in this book is a sense of unspeakable horror and malice.

Haunted Maine

Haunted Maine
Author: Charles A. Stansfield
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2022-07-15
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1493045814

Things that go bump in the night, disembodied voices, footsteps in an empty stairwell, an icy hand on your shoulder…let your imagination run wild as you read about Maine's most extraordinary apparitions, sinister spooks, and bizarre beasts. You may know of Davy Jones' curse to sailors or Big Squaw Mountain's Eternal Flame, but perhaps you haven't heard about: the phantom pirate ship, which haunts the coast's waters, the destroyed vessel on the sea floor below; Robert Cartier's bewitched axe, which beheaded its owner and floats aimlessly throughout the Maine woods; and flying canoes, used in a deal with the devil by lonely loggers, who quickly regretted their agreement.

The Haunted Lighthouse

The Haunted Lighthouse
Author: Shana Gorian
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre:
ISBN:

A suspenseful, page-turning adventure by the author of the bestselling, early middle grade Rosco the Rascal series. When a mysterious beam of light appears during a thunderstorm off the coast of Maine, three friends go in search of answers and find themselves unraveling an otherworldly tale. On a visit to a coastal harbor town, the world is Noah's oyster as long as the stormy weather doesn't ruin the fun. Summer break has just begun, and with seven days of freedom, how much trouble can thirteen-year-old Noah, his best friend, and his sister really find? Plenty, as it turns out. Because when the kids go snooping around an old, decommissioned lighthouse, its haunting secrets begin to reveal themselves, and the kids are about to stumble upon a hundred-year-old mystery that still troubles the nearby fishing village. Follow the adventures of three unlikely sleuths in the Tales of the Lost & Found, a new middle grade mystery series recommended for ages 9-12.

Ghostly Lighthouses from Maine to Florida

Ghostly Lighthouses from Maine to Florida
Author: Sheryl Monks
Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Ghosts
ISBN: 9780895873101

Sheryl Monks gathers 15 tales about the ghostly inhabitants of some of America's most haunted beacons along the eastern seaboard. The stories include Sequin Island Light in Maine, where the eerie sound of piano music can be heard drifting across the harbor; Bird Island Lighthouse in Massachusetts, which was cursed by a pirate light keeper and is now haunted by the wife he murdered there; and the St. Augustine Lighthouse in Florida, where two young sisters who drowned during its construction still play pranks on visitors.