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The haunted Battery Point Lighthouse
(formerly known as the Crescent City Light Station) is a
unique lighthouse, due to it being situated on Battery Point
Island. It's only sitting on an island during high tide,
otherwise it can be accessed from the mainland at Crescent
City, California as a peninsula!
Being built in 1856,
this norther California lighthouse decorates the Pacific Ocean
as a two story white, granite stone house with a
white brick lighthouse tower atop. Today, it can be
visited, as it is a museum and remains operational as an
aiding light for navigation, though it was decommissioned
by the US Coast Guard in 1965. Being fully automated,
the haunted Battery Point Lighthouse has had its share of
stories!
A year before it was to be deactivated, the
lighthouse keepers witnessed an unfortunate tragedy. A
tsunami occurred in 1964, creating huge tidal waves that
destroyed seven city blocks of Crescent City. The
keepers were eyewitnesses to the destruction, being threatened
themselves by the largest of waves from the ocean.
The lighthouse is haunted at Battery Point, but no one
seems to know exactly by whom and why. There is believed
to be at least one resident ghost which is playful. A
paranormal research group that investigated the Battery Point
Lighthouse believes it is haunted not by one playful ghost,
but by three: a child and two adult spectres!
Some of
the haunting activity being reported occurs when visitors are
given a tour. Some guests have experienced being touched
on their shoulders, and sensing a presence. Caretakers
report having their slippers moved at night while asleep, a
rocking chair moving back and forth on its own, and sea boots
trudging up the haunted lighthouse stairway, as if still on
duty; especially during times of storms! Even cats at
this lighthouse have acted strangely during times of ghostly
activity.
For more information on the haunted Battery
Point Lighthouse, we suggest visiting their site here
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