Haunted Lighthouses: Phantom Keepers, Ghostly Shipwrecks, and Sinister Calls from the Deep - Paperback

by Ray Jones (Author)

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.

Back Jacket

[Reading Line] Eerie Tales and Spine-Tingling Stories about America's Most Haunted Lighthouses 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 stories based on firsthand witness accounts about ghostly goings-on. You may know of Blackbeard's eternal search for his head or the phantom piano music and disembodied voices on Seguin Island, but perhaps you haven't heard about: -the Ghost Light of Presque Isle, which turns on and off, despite the lighthouse being abandoned for more than a century; -the fog monster prowling St. George Reef, crushing the hulls of ships big and small in the shadow of an uninhabited lighthouse -spectral images at the Santa Barbara darkhouse, an inactive light station without a beacon that is haunted by the historic 1925 earthquake to this day.

Author Biography

Ray Jones is the author of The Lighthouse Encyclopedia and more than thirty books about lighthouses, American history, and life in the 21st century. Having written and edited for PBS, Time Life, Southern Living Magazine, and several major publishing houses, he currently lives in Pebble Beach, California where he works as a contract writer and publishing consultant.