You're Automatically Haunted: Lighthouse Disasters
This week, Melanie does a cemetery crawl, Brianne gets inspired by pettiness beyond the grave, alligator feet present a setback for the anti-smoking lobby, green beans ruin the day, Melanie victim blames and slut shames sheep, and lightkeepers are all haunted.
Content warnings: cemeteries/graves/decomposition, drugs, Hurricane Katrina deaths, drowning, boat capsizing, structural fire, burn injuries, adult jokes, depression/psych meds.
Links:
13 Jan 1886, 4
16 Tales that Make these Historic Lighthouses Unexpectedly Interesting
31 Aug 2019, A9
A Rock and a Hard Place: Storms, Death and Madness at the Smalls Lighthouse
Copp's Hill Burying Ground
Death of a Keeper on the Eddystone
Eddystone Lighthouse
Fake news and Macfadden
Flannan Isles Lighthouse
George Worthylake
Guardians of the Lights
Henry Hall (lighthouse keeper)
Iconography of gravestones at burying grounds
Packard Humanities Institute: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
Smalls Lighthouse
The disappearances of the lighthouse keepers on Eilean Mor
The eerie disappearance of the Eilean Mor lighthouse keepers
The enduring mystery of the disappearance of Eilean Mor lighthouse keepers
The Lighthouse Tragedy
The mysterious disappearance of the Eilean Mor lighthouse keepers.
The tragedy of Smalls Lighthouse