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As we get ready for Halloween, here is an excerpt from Coastal Living magazine, discussing the most haunted lighthouses in America:
9. Point Lookout Lighthouse, Scotland, Maryland
Aficionados of the paranormal consider this the most haunted lighthouse in America. Male and female apparitions materialize and then vanish. Doors open and close without visible reason. People hear voices, footsteps, even snoring, but no one is there. So why does it rank only ninth? Because the beam at this modest, house-style structure went dark more than 45 years ago. A lighthouse without its light appears so forlorn. Then again, a hospital and a prison camp for Confederate soldiers existed here during the Civil War, so perhaps an unlit lighthouse represents an appropriate memorial to such a mournful heritage. Today, visitors enjoy the much more pleasant surroundings of a state park; 301/872-5688 or dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/southern/pointlookout.html.
Think we should start a campaign to have the light turned back on? Maybe that’s why the lighthouse’s ghostly residents are so restless – they’re in the dark all of the time.