Haunted Lighthouses
29 haunted locations across America
Lonely towers on hard coastlines, kept by men who gave their lives to the light.
All Haunted Lighthouses
Absecon Lighthouse
The thing people report most often at Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City is a smell.
Barnegat Lighthouse ("Old Barney")
On clear, cold days in January and February, parents walking the beach at Barnegat Lighthouse on Long Beach Island…
Big Bay Point Lighthouse
Big Bay Point Lighthouse, on the Lake Superior shore near Marquette, Michigan, is now a bed and breakfast…
Bodie Island Lighthouse
The famous thing at Bodie Island Lighthouse near Nags Head, North Carolina is the black-and-white striped tower…
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Buxton, North Carolina has watched over the deadliest stretch of the Atlantic coast for…
Cape May Lighthouse
At the Cape May Lighthouse, at the southern tip of New Jersey, the people who climb the stairs keep seeing a woman who…
Chambers Island Lighthouse
Joel Blahnik heard the footsteps on his first night. They came down the spiral staircase…
Concord Point Lighthouse
The ghost at Concord Point Lighthouse, on the water in Havre de Grace, Maryland…
Currituck Beach Lighthouse
On the grounds of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse in Corolla, North Carolina…
Georgetown Lighthouse
Before a hurricane comes up on Winyah Bay, off the Georgetown Lighthouse in South Carolina…
Heceta Head Lighthouse
The famous photograph at Heceta Head is the lighthouse, a white tower on a fog-wrapped headland near Florence, Oregon.
Marquette Harbor Lighthouse
The Marquette Harbor Lighthouse, an easy walk up from downtown Marquette, Michigan…
Ocracoke Lighthouse
The Ocracoke Lighthouse, on Ocracoke Island off the North Carolina coast, isn't the haunted part.
Pensacola Lighthouse
During a renovation at the Pensacola Lighthouse in Florida, workers stripped the tile off the keeper's-quarters floor…
Point Lookout Lighthouse
On January 14, 1980, a paranormal investigator named Hans Holzer brought a team of psychics into the empty Point…
Point Sur Lighthouse
The Point Sur Lighthouse sits on a 361-foot volcanic rock about 25 miles south of Monterey, California…
Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse
At Portsmouth Harbor Lighthouse in New Castle, New Hampshire, people keep seeing a man on the wooden walkway in an…
Pottawatomie Lighthouse
"I am glad to get away from here for I am as tired of this business as I can be." Keeper William Betts wrote that in…
Seul Choix Point Lighthouse
At Seul Choix Point Lighthouse in Gulliver, Michigan, the keeper has been dead since 1910 and still won't leave the…
Sheffield Island Lighthouse
Sheffield Island Lighthouse stands alone in Long Island Sound, a stone dwelling off Norwalk, Connecticut…
Sherwood Point Lighthouse
A young Coast Guardsman and his wife arrived at Sherwood Point for a vacation, left dirty dishes after dinner…
Split Rock Lighthouse
At Split Rock Lighthouse, on a cliff above Lake Superior in Minnesota, people keep looking up at the tower catwalk and…
St. Augustine Lighthouse
Children's laughter drifts down the 219 steps of the St. Augustine Lighthouse in Florida at closing time…
St. Simons Lighthouse
The St. Simons Island Lighthouse on the Georgia coast keeps a set of footsteps that nobody can find the owner of.
Tillamook Rock Lighthouse
At Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, a basalt wedge a mile off the Oregon coast near Cannon Beach…
Tybee Island Lighthouse
At the Tybee Island Lighthouse in Georgia, the story goes that you don't always climb the tower alone.
Waugoshance Lighthouse
Waugoshance Lighthouse stands alone on a shoal off the Straits of Mackinac…
White Island Lighthouse
On the rocks of White Island, the southernmost of the Isles of Shoals six miles off the New Hampshire coast…
Yaquina Bay Lighthouse
Visitors to the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse in Newport, Oregon keep describing the same woman…