Spooky Lighthouses: Volume 4 | Morbid | Podcast | Forensic Files

hey weirdos I'm Molina I'm Ash and this is morbid ship to Sea the name ofip the winds blew harder bow dip down
blow me bully boys blow soon the come to bring us sugar and tea and R one day when the is done take a leave
how do you guys feel about double spaced documents Ash has a lot of thoughts about it well I just double spaced my
document and then I was like that might be a little too much so then but then don't you ask people to double space
their puus it's wild that you just call me out like that on a national podcast but okay I didn't call you out you say
it no I do you know and people do it and they do and I appreciate it so that's no
okay good point though because thank you you're welcome on PDF we're like real Punchy today are on PDFs it looks good
but I was just in the Google Docs if you will and a double space is like all right jarring it's almost insulting I'm
not that blind yeah it's it it insists upon itself yeah you know I'm not old I'm not old I mean do we drink
carbonated sparkling water yeah not around here not that old I took two sips of that [ __ ] and I
said well you know know what's exciting what why'd you look up when you said that it dimmed a little bit again I
thought the the sun had sneezed and blinked again oh that did happen a few days a few days ago no mama that
happened 10 minutes ago you good S I need more coffee that happened several years ago Elena I've been in
this room for several years that's like when I say something happened the other day yes then it could be anytime between
like an hour ago and two decades ago yep no it was only a couple minutes ago the light uh the sun seemed to have
blinked real quick um sneezed which was just concerning yeah but we're all here still right now at least so that's okay
and what's exciting is we're talking about a spooky Lighthouse guys two spooky lighthouses we're doing a spooky
episode because we I mean come on we we haven't done one in a long time it's almost the bur months I am wearing
a Halloween sweatshirt right now in full preparation shut up actually who by the
time you hear this will it be Burr will it be bur will it be septeber no we're not that far no we're not that far are
we maybe who knows uh we could be so maybe it's the bur months and if so welcome to the Bur months my friends
hope and if it's not get [ __ ] excited I do like your sweatshirt where's that from thank you American Eagle actually
is it really yeah everybody I'll post it cuz it's very comfortable wow it look it's like a a good slouch very slouchy
very comfy um I actually saw Michaela on Tik Tok go to P She said and she said I
got this at American Eagle and I said holy [ __ ] that's really cute and I got it she influenced me shop shop make
it I love I love her so much Michaela be our friend we're this is day 200 of saying
Micha be our friend she's like okay she's like please leave me alone you're weird uh but but yeah she influenced me
and let me tell you it's cute she wasn't kiding I like it I'll post it on my Instagram so you guys can find it easily
got to shop my I don't yeah absolutely there you go we'll talk later but yeah it's time for some spooky we haven't
done it in a long time and these are just like they're just kind of a they they get me so ready for the spooky
season because it's like the haunted aspect but there's also a lot of True Crime in here oh yeah mine has a murder
yours M also has a murder that was confused as like a suicide but when you hear it you're going to be like um why
would they even think that mine was really senseless yeah as they usually are yeah typically but well I I'll start
with mine oh okay I'm going to start with mine oh all right okay it's me first me me I'm first oh no my fancy ice
is not available on inst what you guys know those ice things the big balls of ice yeah just really like those I'm I'll
bring you my molds thanks I appreciate that they're I have an ice maker in my fridge now it's a luxury I never knew
yeah and now I know it I just I really like those big ones cuz they take forever to melt and then if I want like
an ice cold Coca Cola then it doesn't get wded down this is unimportant but I have to know do you drink other
beverages in your Stanley other than water no me either never me either cuz I feel it would taint it I do have several
so I could like delegate one as you know I only have one Stanley and I only drink
water in it it's crazy that you only have one I got to give you another one but I feel like an ice cold beverage in
your Stanley Cup like with the ice in it would be the equivalent to like when you
got a McDonald's oh I bet it would slap uh so my lighthouse today is the Cap rom
main lighthouse in South Carolina okay cool this is a very it's in mullenville South Carolina I like you say that
mlen uh so in the spot where this s Lighthouse is today and they're like abandoned now I believe like I think
people took care of them but like they're they're on a pretty lonely part of the island and everything they're
just really by themselves oh that's sad now where the lighthouse is today there used to be a windmill okay uh a lot of
ships back in the day in the 1800s would mistake this windmill for the Charleston
Lighthouse which was another Port oh no and they would end up tragically cck crashing because the waters are crazy
treacherous off of this island where like the raccoon keys in Cape Roma are um there were a number of fatal
accidents because of this and people said that they probably cuz at first you're like they confused a windmill for
it like they have blades but when it got like windy and [ __ ] they would take the
blades off of the windmill so it looked like a lighthouse like the tower looked just like one well I guess if they're
going fast enough you might miss it's dark yeah and it's dark dark foggy easy to get confused yeah we're not Sailors
we don't know we're not I'm not claiming to be Maritime at all so you know who am
I who am I to say not not Maritime out here not Mar is not going Maritime I'm not nautical so the Spanish Schooner uh
the diamond or the Diamante crashed there in 1816 and there was a loss of 21 lives in
this crash and after this incident the national Advocate paper in New York City wrote quote several vessels have been
wrecked and many accidents happened from mistaking the windmill on Cape Roma for
the Charleston light the loss of the diamond from hav Havana is attributed to that cause the safety of vessels and
security of persons and property renders it necessary that something should be done to prevent accidents of like nature
it would be well to take down the windmill or wreck a lighthouse we think however if the windmill is removed it
would answer the purpose at present the similarity between the Charleston light and the windmill is the case of many
unfortunate casualties that was only one crash wow it just happened to be a very
big one many happened because of this now that was in 1816 that that crash happened in 187 a man named Edmund blunt
wrote in some Outlet I'm not exactly sure where he wrote we will also give a hint to the owner of the windmill on
Cape Romain which has deceived many Navigators and caused a destruction of their vessel
and remind him that that as there is a curse denounced against him who removeth his neighbor's Landmark we presume and
hope a double curse will be his who willfully holds out a false Beacon to the Mariner When approaching the coast
oh them's fighting words damn so that sounds like the guy who own the windmill was like [ __ ] you don't touch my
windmill and that guy was like [ __ ] you we're not going to touch your windmill
we're just going to reup and double your curse cuz he was like I curse the man who [ __ ]
with my landmark and they were like okay we curseth you back we double curse the
man who fucketh with the Mariners trying to navigate out there no takes he back SE so someone actually made up a poem
about it and they referred to it as a murderous Beacon the poem which is a hefty indictment that's a slander if you
will I would say so so at the end of 1821 [ __ ] was getting intense and the pressure was getting pretty thick with
all these people crashing and dying and all these tragedies happening so the South Carolina government was like wow
we should probably fix this because it does kind of look like a lighthouse in the fog in the dark which he said now
that you mention it you know what you are right fun side fact for all my bravo kids out there oh me does every
all right these are from my Southern Charm Watchers okay does everyone remember John Pringle from was he only
on like one season or something of Southern Charm the season before last there you go so John Pringle came on we
were all like who is this I found what I assume to be his ancestor in this story
yeah cuz he has deep roots in South Carolina yeah James Pringle of Charleston shut the [ __ ] up he was
appointed as one of the commission uh Commissioners on this task to like fix this problem I'm obsessed and so I
thought that was kind of funny and although their initial resolution was very Pringle of them actually uh they
they just proposed putting a mark on the windmill like a cross as if people are going to see that in the [ __ ]
distance thank you you're welcome thank you like what uh that was very I don't know that was pretty Pringle is to me it
felt like I don't know John Pringle was an interesting Vibe yeah so obviously that wasn't a brilliant plan so they
agreed to build a lighthouse to actually Aid in navigation I love that they were
like symbol no okay Lighthouse yeah at first they were just like let's just like slap across on it and it's like
that's not going to help and they like all right fair enough they were like I guess we'll build a whole Lighthouse and
it's like wow so you could have done that they were like what if we spend $20 instead of
$20,000 yeah but see we finally got there so they plan to erect it on raccoon key cuz the other place I think
like um the the other side of the place where they wanted to do it was like the tide was too crazy it would end up like
eroding where it was oh and then there's no point so in March 1827 they build one
they build a lighthouse 65 ft high it's made of brick um they also build a keeper residence on the on the area of
course but apparently the lighthouse wasn't great because it wasn't that tall when it comes to
like lious at Sea and like being at sea level and seeing it it was kind of like when you look at it now you're like Mom
that was a little puny oh that's funny mine is 66 ft tall yeah this one was like pretty puny when it comes to like
the sea level that we are at here like I think like it wasn't able to be seen very well and I think part of that was
also that Mariners were complaining a lot that the light was super dim oh and it would be super bright for a little
while and then as the night went on it would kind burn out so they were like this is a little janky they were like
hey this isn't exactly what we were looking for like this actually is like less helpful but no cigar so that was in no
that was in 1827 okay in 1852 they're like wow all right we'll fix it like 1852 no that makes sense I have similar
[ __ ] go on with me with me in my lighthouse with me in my life and my lighthouse it's always this way but they
finally were like all right we'll fix it so they go to fix it because they got like some Grant or something that said
like you can fix up this Lighthouse and make it usable but then when they tried to they were like we actually can't fix
this one up oh no they tear it down well and then they were like okay we'll build
another one so they will like leave the other one up while we build this one then normally when this happens they
tear the other one down they didn't in this instance both of them are still standing that's interesting and they're
right next to each other huh so they two for one yeah there you go and this one's
taller um they also used uh slave labor on this one so already we have some not great Vibes and not great
energy already happening on this area yeah I don't love that yeah and it's that's something that in every Source
you will read or see is very like specifically they make sure you know that because I think like the [ __ ] that
goes down here you're like oh there's some bad energy here already and this one is 150 ft High holy [ __ ] and even
crazier stop it leans slightly it's like the Leaning Tower of Pizza I was just going to say that
with photos I bet yeah just pretend you're holding it up yeah um so you know it's fine it's cool it can lean that's
okay uh they've had to fix it up a few times over the years to make sure it's not leaning to like a dangerous uh place
but it's still leaning um and that brings us so that's that you know what a beginning what a beginning to this
structure yeah and let me tell you doesn't get better something pretty crazy happened there so Tuesday April
8th 1873 at 5:00 p.m. captain Andrew Johnson which might be Johansson but maybe was
changed to Johnson cuz he was from Norway oh okay uh he was married to a woman from Sweden uh she is not named in
any source that you can find she is only Mrs Johnson or Mrs Andrew Johnson that's
[ __ ] up yeah she had a name I know she sure did but we don't know it now at 5:00 p.m Captain Andrew Johnson he was
the Lighthouse Keeper he left his home the residents on the area and went on his way to light the lighthouse lamp and
to do his normal you know Lighthouse Keeper business yeah as one does exactly he'd been the keeper for about six years
at this point and had an annual salary of $700 huh yeah and he was a he was gone
for a while because it's not an easy job being a a Lighthouse Keeper and his wife
was back at the residence again they're right next to each other but like he's not in the house yeah and the keeper
said his wife was in good spirits and seemed completely fine when he left her nothing was a Miss okay he saw her
around 6:00 p.m. outside tending to chores around the house and he spotted her from where he was standing high
above her he was out on the gallery which is like that balcony that surrounds the light yep and he she waved
at him he waved at her and she went back inside the house he looked at her and she looked at him that's literally what
happened uh then so Julius L Lee who was the assistant Lighthouse Keeper he also
lived on the property that's usually how it went like the keeper would live there
and the assistant um and he stated a bit after the events that are about to take
place that Mrs Johnson came over to his residence at one point and had just like
hung out with him and his wife for a little bit like sat down and talked yeah and they reported later that she was
also in great spirits like they didn't they didn't see anything a Miss either she wasn't upset she wasn't you know
this is important to note yeah and so Captain Johnson stayed on his shift at the Lighthouse until about 900 p.m. and
then he was relieved by Julius Eli the assistant got it uh after only about he claim so Julius Lee said it was about
five or six minutes after he saw him go into his house Captain Johnson ran out of his home screaming that his wife was
dead she had killed herself oh God so he and the assistant went back into the house and found his wife 53 years old
splayed out on the bed or on the floor depending on the source that you look at okay
absolutely soaked in blood in her night clothes oh no her throat had been cut from ear to ear and they're claiming
that's a suicide there was a revolver next to her it was his revolver Captain Johnson's
revolver yeah but there was no uh it had not been shot okay apparently they said
uh they somehow determined that the revolver was in probably intended to be used at one point but was not discharged
for some reason it got like stuck like it jammed essentially so next to her was a straight razor as well oh my God that
was used to cut her throat oh yeah now interestingly too in this once they you know called people to the scene jewelry
was missing but only her jewelry huh he had valuables and none of his valuables were taken and that's strange and also
the room looked like it had been like slightly rans sacked her clothing was everywhere which was not normal and why
would she do that before ending her life ex and the door leading into the bedroom
um open and locked from the inside and was clearly tampered with what and Witnesses say they later found a pair of
um Gold's spectacles in the garden below the bedroom window and they were hers in
the garden below the bedroom window yeah okay so Captain Johnson said he couldn't he couldn't understand what had
happened here he didn't see anyone go in there but he wasn't looking the whole time because he was keeping the
lighthouse yeah you got to do that and he said his wife did did once tell him like during their relationship that she
once had thoughts of wanting to kill herself potentially okay um but neighbors and friends all said their
marriage was great they were very happy together very content there was no signs
any slight indication of trouble or violence of any kind in that home they were not violent with each other nothing
and they all said they didn't see any indication that she would be upset there's all these stories that come out
where they say like you know she wanted to go visit Sweden and go back to see her family and he wouldn't let her Okay
and like so she got so despondent that she it doesn't make sense though it's not suicide yeah this is not suicide and
I don't think many people believe it is yeah it doesn't sound like it it's just it just sounds bizarre it does and
interestingly too apparently the couple had a savings account with South South Carolina loan and Trust Company the
account had reached $1,400 that's big back then exactly and 10 days before her death Mrs Johnson had
gone into town gone to the bank and told her told the the people at the bank that
her husband had asked her to withdraw all the money for some kind of business venture he was entering into so she was
given the money she wrote a check she did all the things given the money cuz she had permissions to do it yeah but
after her death Captain Johnson said he never asked her to do that there was no business venture and they have no idea
where the money went and where her jewelry and valuables went that's weird that she was the one to
take out the money and then specifically her Jewels were missing yeah isn't that
strange are theories that's the thing there's really no theories because people like didn't know anything about
them and it's like whoever did like you they either had to be on the island or she would they would have had to arrive
by boat and he's Manning the lighthouse so he'd see somebody arrive by [ __ ] boat
exactly so it's got to be somebody one Theory I did see from someone that and they're just
speculating like wild here cuz what do we have to go on yeah is like did someone at the bank or someone like did
someone at the bank know she had that money saw that she took it out for some reason or like and fall like came to
take it you know some seen them AR was sending her to take that money out in the first
place yeah if she or why was she doing it or did she owe somebody a debt for some that's what I
wonder and people think like did she take out the money because she was going to leave her husband so she took all the
money and like sold her jewelry to like get money to leave and he found out that's the whole that's the other side
where people are like did he find out and flip out interesting I I mean it doesn't sound like we'll ever [ __ ]
know so they they did end up ruling it as suicide they I don't even think I don't even know if it was officially
ruled because this is even crazier back then they didn't do that she was placed in a temporary grave at the Lighthouse
cuz they couldn't get the corner out there or get her to to the corner in time and they had to keep her from the
elements and everything yeah and so they placed her in a temporary quote unquote
grave on the lighthouse grounds like buried her what to keep her from like decaying as fast but no one knows if she
is still buried there cuz there is no records of her not being buried there shut the [ __ ] up so her body could still
be buried there shut the [ __ ] up and there's like all these stories about light keepers after these um these
people like tending to the grounds like there's a grave there like making sure to like
honor that there might be a person buried under here but nobody knows where but nobody knows where that's chilling I
know and the Spooky part about it is that blood stains inside the Keeper's residence like after this couldn't be
cleaned and they remain no matter how much scrubbing was done and sometimes they would get lighter and then they
darken again like they reappeared and there's no scientific not because these are just like people talking about it
like spoy goopy and this is like wood you know like why it's like and then droplets of blood would also appear
around the residence um people who Liv there afterwards said like just drops of blood would appear I couldn't do that I
couldn't handle that they would still hear soft footsteps going up and down the 195 steps of the lighthouse oh you could
never catch in the afterlife climbing stairs like that and they think that she was like she's going around just walking
through or it's like a residual haunting yeah and a keeper named August Frederick
wi Wickman claim I think August is such a cool name I love that name too especially for a boy yes I think it's a
really cool boy name I do too um he claimed that he heard them all the time he he's like it used to freak me out and
then I got used to it and his son who was born on the island and like took on after him said he also heard it and
would see like weird apparitions on the on the ground oh it's so creepy if you've ever
heard like footsteps when you know that you should not be hearing footsteps that's a weird ass feeling cuz you heard
the footsteps at Mountain Papa's house right I used to hear it all the time like they wouldn't be home I would be
home alone and I would hear footsteps and be like oh cool someone's coming to murder me great yep like oh cool and
then nothing would happen it would just be [ __ ] footsteps it is so creepy what the [ __ ] it's just it's really
freaking me out that they don't know if she's buried there or not that's the thing that really got me we have every
reason to believe that she might oh my God that was so scary why did that happen there's no reason why that should
have just happened oh my God [ __ ] you got to keep this no genuinely why did that happened
I you saw I didn't saw I didn't touch my [ __ ] her her headphones as soon as she
said it really freaks me out that she could be buried there they slowly and it wasn't like they slid down they
slowly they were on the other side of that stopper they they went over this little thing oh no
oh no oh no what the [ __ ] it really grindes my gears that you're haunting me what are you doing yeah it really gr
my GE I don't think it's that gu's fault I'm so scared I love you I don't think it's that gu's fault I was upset
yesterday that it was here no no he can like stay give him put him on Elena's side yeah you can put him on he can stay
here it's okay put him with his Brethren just please don't mess with me it scares
me me you know maybe they're just just saying hi my heart they weren't trying to hurt you they were just being like
wiggle wiggle the TV I mean that was I remind you that was so long ago you weeks
weeks that's [ __ ] weird that that just happened um sorry I was saying if I could finish if that's all right but
[ __ ] Jesus I'm really excited to hear that back yeah same we got to listen to that that was the most genuinely
horrified reaction God I have heard in a long time no that was really I moved away I didn't know if they were going to
fly at my face um in case you guys are have no [ __ ] clue what's going on right now cuz you are not in the room
with us fair fair we have like mic stands in front of us and both of us have our our headphones like on the mic
stands yeah but there's like a little stopper between like the rest of the the pole of the nightstand that would stop
them from like falling down onto the microphone yeah and Min are literally hung over that stopper at all times Ash
said call I think it's as Ash said uh when she said it really freaks me out to not know if she's buried there or not
they literally jumped over the little stopper it was like they were pushed and wiggled down to almost right into her
face and did you hear the when they like like hopped over the thing yeah I like heard them as they came and I was like I
heard them as they came it sounds like they gave a running I heard them as they approached I did I heard them as they
came SL it was it was weird it was weird I watched it it's right in front of me so I saw that happen I wish we were
recording we probably should record these things oh God I know we really should yeah but if you want um me to end
on like a strange note go for it I just happened to find so in the Vermont Union from 1873 like a
newspaper there's this little section that's called items okay and it's just like little short news items like back
to back to back and I'm reading through it because this this situation because this was 1873 so this crime this what I
think was murder yeah um is in here as like an item because it had just happened right but when I tell you this
is the most Bonker um a array of items back to back oh no I'm going to read them to you really
quick so it says a mysterious tragedy occurred on Saturday night at Cape Roma Lighthouse SC Mrs Johnson's wife of M
Mrs Johnson wife of the keeper was found dead with her throat cut from ear to ear
and a razor and a revolver Lying by her side A large sum of money which the deceased had lately drawn from the bank
is missing it is not known whether she was murdered or committed suicide and then there's a dash to show that we're
going to the next item and it says the female applicants for clerk ships and the treasury Department pass better
examinations than the men hell yeah then there's a dash and it says a number of human scalps were recently discovered in
a bail of Rags received from the west by a paper mill in Petersburg Virginia what the [ __ ] yep then the next
one is a Newark man gave a friend a bottle of oil of vitriol to make his beard grow it didn't work as the friend
expected so we went from a murder toam uh girls do better than boys on exams says the treasury Department then hey we
found this uh bag of scalps that seemed to have come from Virginia and then it goes right to like this guy gave this
guy an oil for his beard and he said your beard will grow and it did not as expected it was snake oil what am I to
do what what am I meant to do with all of those items back to back I don't know exactly I mean they're selling papers
that's for sure to go from girls do better than boys on exams sometimes to I found a bail of human scalps that's a
bit cray I mean that's a lot and then like this guy's beard didn't grow like you wanted it to did you look further
into the human scalps no I'm sure going to yeah if I know you definitely going to yeah if I know you you you got to I'm
going to look into the human scalps what the poop that's scary so yeah so old newspapers are hilarious and scary yeah
wow I want to know I want to know about that head specifically but that's the cape Romain Lighthouse at least a story
about it and why it's haunted today wow well I have the little Ross Lighthouse murder oh I'm still [ __ ] shook I need
I can't wait to hear that back oh my God all right so little Ross Lighthouse is located in Scotland Scotland it's in
Kirk Bright Bay and I looked up how to say that so if you yell at me don't yell at Google don't don't the island little
Ross is only accessible by boat or helicopter and it stretches about 29 Acres uh it was designed by Alan
Stevenson in 1843 and like your original Lighthouse it stands at about 66 feet tall that little guy yeah a little guy
it was constructed to close the gap between other lighthouses at the mle of gallway and southerness but author David
Colin points out before the lighthouse existed before any lighthouse existed in the area there was demand for one there
was like shipwrecks going on there was Stormy Weather it was bad it was bad it was not a maritime good time I love that
it was a bad Maritime it was a Mala time yes there you go so the demand dates all
the way back to 1792 when Reverend Dr Robert mutter wrote in Stormy Weather when vessels can
neither keep the sea nor clear the land this Harbor is the best in the south coast of Scotland for shelter and on
account and on that account is much frequented in the winter but the entrance into it being narrow a strong
tide setting right across and no Lighthouse to direct them it is dangerous to run for it in the dark and
engage with a Lee Shore many fatal accidents happen by ships missing the harbor and being driven into wigtown Bay
or on the banks of sway F the island of little Ross affords an excellent situation for a lighthouse one might be
erected there at a small expense and kept up on moderate terms it would be of the utmost utility to all shipping and
particularly to strangers in the hour of danger were the government apprised the
great benefit that would result from this it is to be hoped they would think the matter worthy of their attention and
cause a lighthouse to be erected at the public expense wow so basically he said it's really [ __ ] dangerous around
here it'd be hella dope if we built a lighthouse and it wouldn't even be that expensive yeah so like why not
it would take 48 years that's a lot of years 48 years lot whole bunch of back and forth with different Lighthouse
boards and people lobbying to make this happen and a ton more shipwrecks and deaths but finally in 1840 they got
approval for the lighthous it was given by Northern Lighthouse board and Trinity
house so Robert Stevenson and his son Thomas were actually the first to start surveying the area for a good site but
Robert wanted to retire so that's why ultimately his brother all Alan Stevenson took over the design process
with his nephew Thomas starting the actual building and Engineering in 1843 so the construction would actually
be completed on schedule which um might be the only time that's happened in the history of literally ever 100% it is
yeah I think 100% And the lighting system was so Advanced that at the time William Thompson who later took the name
Lord Kelvin I don't know if you know who that is I don't know who that is as in the guy that discovered kelvin's scale
of temperature what he said it was quote undoubtedly of the three best revolving
lights in the world damn isn't that crazy that's that's a big honor that's High Praise if you will for a lighthouse
for a lighthouse yeah that light would shine bright like a diamond baby from 1843 until
1960 damn that was when it became automated most likely due to something pretty huge in the lighthouse history
you don't say according to one publication though the quality of design construction and maintenance of all the
buildings comprising the lighthous station has been so high that very few changes have been made in in their
entire history H which like wow that's crazy yeah that's awesome that's a good Flex I would say so but the island made
headlines again back in 2017 when it went up for sale for just 325,000 wait a sec a whole [ __ ] Island like
the entire Island the island went up for sale Lighthouse like there was Cottages
still on it they were like definitely in need of some work but the Cottages were
still there and the whole island for 32 Island it's sold for more than that but like they were willing to part with it
but yeah and could that be because a Grizzly murder took place there decades earlier I think so too in August of 1960
author David Colin who I mentioned above he was home visiting from college at the
time and he used to go out to little Ross Island all the time but on this specific trip his father decided to join
him and when they arrived on the island they enjoyed a little lunch together and
they were going to kind of like explore around but they decided oh you know what
we should stop in at the cottages and introduce oursel to the keepers trying to be as you know polite and respectful
as they could yeah so they headed straight to the cottages on the island which at that time were kept up because
the Keepers were living there yeah and they would usually kind of be like doing chores during the day like bop it around
you know yeah so they figured you know let's introduce ourselves let them know that were just here for the day visiting
but as they looked around the Cottages there was no one to be found but they noticed that there was a dog who David
said was quote very pleased to see us a and as they looked around some more the dog just followed alongside them like
just stuck with them the puon they kept looking and they noticed that like the closer they got they were hearing a
phone ring and the phone was ringing over and over and over like hours long nonstop nobody
answering the phone okay so it was pretty clear that something was off here yeah so David Colin's father decided
they should look around a little bit more to make sure that everybody was okay also looking around that Island
must have been chilling because they didn't know it but they were the only two living Souls at that point and
things were not great around here ooh that is chilling the more and more they looked it just got more unsettling this
is really sad and it ends okay but they found a rabbit that was trapped under a wooden box and they just had to free him
and he was like panicked but he's like thanks man yeah he was so distressed but after letting him out they kept looking
around and they didn't see any signs of anyone this dog is still following them around they're like what the [ __ ] is
going on here and it was getting close to the time that they were planning on leaving and they obviously because you
know they're on an island and they have to use the boat to get home they have to
time it I don't know anything about Tides yeah I love that you're like you know schedules and times I'm like I
don't know if you leave high tide or low TI but the moon says you leave at one of
those times the Moon is like I tell you when you leave [ __ ] and they said the moon told them he said hey it's getting
close to closing time here so pack it up Moon's like I'm about ready but still they were like that phone keeps ringing
this dog is like following us no one's around this is weird yeah that is weird so David's father de decided to try to
make one last try to see if anybody was around and he ended up looking into one of the windows of a cottage and what he
thought he saw was somebody lying in bed so he's like I don't think they're sleeping because um I feel like we would
have looken them up the dog might have the phone might have there's just a Vibe yeah so they made their way in there and
they found an older man lying quite still in his bed David Collins recalled to to the Scotsman what happened next
saying everything looked normal but moving closer to him my father could see there was a towel wrapped on his head
and there was blood on the towel oh man our assumption was that he had fallen down the lighthouse stairs and the other
keeper had left to get help but we couldn't understand why he hadn't come back o this is really creepy yeah
imagine you're like you just go for a day trip to this island that you go to all the time yeah and this is what you
find and this is what you stumble across yeah so rather than wait around for the
other keeper to come back back they called the police and a doctor but because the island is so remote they had
to wait 3 hours for help to arrive see this is what happens that's why they had to bury Mrs Johnson yeah exactly how
[ __ ] creepy is that super creepy especially when like you don't really have any association to this place like
and you just have to stick around you just staying here with what you assume is a a dead body body yeah yeah so
police showed up and they came obviously with a doctor around 700 p.m. that night
and that was then they when they realized that this man had died from a gunshot wound to his left eye oo later
when the body was formally examined the bullet was said to have fallen out of the man's eye
socket wow the ex the medical examiner flipped him around and that's when the bullet sting right out yep damn not
great wow what a visual so the man who was killed was identified pretty quickly as The Keeper of the lighthouse Hugh
Clark and he is an adorable man and was known to be like a really kind great man
a that makes me so sad coincidentally his assistant keeper Robert Dixon was nowhere to be found you don't say it
turned out Robert Dixon had escaped from the island using Hugh Clark's dinghy to
row to the mainland oh no or the mainland the mainland the mainland and then he stole Hugh Clark's car to make
his way even further from the scene jeez he then rented a car and made it all the
way to Yorkshire before being apprehended on what David Colin described as quote unquote impressively
acute information look at that when they pulled over the car that Robert Dixon had hired after ditching Hugh Clark's
car they questioned him about what he knew relating to the murder and he replied all right I know all about it
wow yeah and they found I think it was $80 in cash on him which he shouldn't have had and um a gun with him as well
that's pretty smoking yeah so no one really knows what exactly LED Robert Dixon to murder Hugh Clark and his sleep
because it was believed that the man was sleeping when he was shot somehow that's
even worse you know like his most vulnerable state he's not doing anything wrong yeah he's just sleeping there
really wasn't sleep a like there really wasn't a lot of motive here like uh he was found with money that was believed
to have been stolen from a recent delivery of Hugh Clark's pay and pay for some Tradesmen but David Collins pointed
out that they wouldn't have really been with each other like super often like there was a lot of time where Hugh Clark
would have been up in the lighthouse and Robert Dixon could have you know stolen
what he needed to steal yeah with the man being away and he could have just left instead of killing gone about his
business yeah so money could have been a motivator here but there was still an air of mystery surrounding the case
David Colin wrote to some it was essentially a mystery story to be to The Disappearance of the three Lighthouse
keepers at the is it Fannon Fannon I think yeah at the Fannon Islands in 1900 to others it was the tale it was a tale
of violent disharmony between the two men whose calling required them to live in close proximity to each other in an
environment which Petty squabbles could have easily broken out and then been magnified Beyond endurance dang yeah and
didn't you say flan and Islands the like The Disappearance of the keepers that was something you wanted to cover yeah I
really want to look into that more because it's it seems pretty fascinating like a whole episode yeah that's why I
included the quote I was like smart little foreshadowing little SMY over there oh you know so Robert Dixon was
arrested and ultimately tried for murder and David Colin and his father were both
called as Witnesses his father Thomas um ultimately Robert Dixon was sentenced to
death by hanging whoa and this was in the 19 this was 1960 damn David Colin was among many though who wasn't quite
sure that the punishment fit the crime given the circumstances H there was a lot of evidence that Robert Dixon was
not a completely sane man oh okay including the fact that a doctor had quite literally diagnosed him as insane
I mean that's a good indication yeah usually yeah he also had fallen off a horse at one point in his life and
suffered really severe head trauma that resulted in severe headaches uh he spent
time in a psychiatric hospital voluntarily and sadly at one point had attempted suicide oh jeez so I'm
assuming after they reviewed this evidence of his Insanity the court reprieved his sentence of hanging 5 days
before his planned execution wow so they really W yeah uh he was still to remain
incarcerated and two years after he was given the reprieve Robert Dixon overdosed in prison and died oh jeez so
he really didn't serve much time for the crime but he died in prison wow so many
would believe and some would claim that because of the murder that took place on
little Ross Island that it must be haunted yeah and some even question if that's why the selling price was listed
so low in 2017 but those who knew Hugh Clark doubt that he would be a malevolent Spirit
haunting the area and David Collins wrote friends and colleagues of Hugh friends and colleagues of Hugh have
subsequently told me that if he was to have had a ghost it would have been gentle kind and friendly like him so
there would have been nothing to fear oh isn't that so sweet oh my God break my heart yes so that is the case of the
murder on little Ross Island and the lighthouse that's there jeez um that was like a pretty brief overview cuz
obviously we cover two lighthouses in this but David Colin uh wrote a book it's called life and death on little
Ross and it's definitely worth checking out I got a lot of information from there oh I love that yeah and it's
available on the Kindle oh my God that's where I bought it I love that I think it
was like not very much I'm I don't know how much but not very much I bought it a
while ago you know what the thing with Lighthouse is is it's like you don't think of it how lonely and like isolated
of a job it is so these stories happen all the time yeah with lighthouses you hear of like people just losing it
snapping murders happening accidents happening like all this stuff and it's like and so many hauntings related so
many hauntings cuz there's also like the [ __ ] sea the shipwrecks the [ __ ] sea exactly like the shipwrecks happen
they're usually happening right on these rocks that are right outside of the lighthouses and then you have all these
you know sea ghosts singing sea shanties I love the sea shanty it's a lot it is but I love a spooky Lighthouse I really
do I know and we hadn't done one in like a year I think yeah it's been a long time we're going to bring these back we
got to bring back the the spooky lighthouses The Spook Lakes the spooky roads but you guys have suggested a lot
of them so make sure you keep riding in your spooky roads spooky Castle spooky spooky lighthouses spooky schools spooky
forests I really want some spooky forests please help me on that yes um if you if you will be so kind and send them
into morbid podcast gmail.com but make sure you put spooky whatever it is in the title of the email feel free to let
us know if you've had like your own experience cuz we also love to share an experience when we're talking about
whatever the road the lake the whatever have you definitely I know there's like a million of these things or if you know
what you guys have also come up with good ideas for like other installments of spooky things like I think you guys
were the ones who brought up spooky schools to us yes and we ended up finding some really cool stuff so if you
have another idea bring it to us let us know spooky Lakes all that good stuff yeah um but yeah we love these and we
want to bring them back a little more sprinkle them in they're they they're interesting they're spooky they're fun
they're scary and we're getting into the bur months getting in spooky season that's what spooky season's all about
I'm ready for it I can't wait so we hope you keep lessening and we hope you keep
it weird but not so we the um you haunt a lighthouse or maybe do keep it so weird that you haunt a lighthouse I
would keep it that weird oh and definitely don't keep it so weird that you're so [ __ ] haunted that your
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Weirdos! Everyone Rejoice!! September is upon us! Let's welcome the 'BER' months with the FOURTH installment of Spooky Lighthouses! Today Alaina & Ash talk about the morbid history of two lighthouses: The Cape Romain Lighthouse in South Carolina & Little Ross Lighthouse in Scotland!

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Brief Summary

Two lighthouses with tragic deaths and hauntings are discussed, revealing mysteries and eerie stories.

Key points

The Tragic Confusion of the Windmill. Ships mistook a windmill for a lighthouse, leading to numerous wrecks and fatalities.
The Curse of the Windmill. A historical curse is placed on the owner of the misleading windmill, intensifying tensions.
Mysterious Death of Mrs. Johnson. Captain Johnson discovers his wife dead under suspicious circumstances, raising questions about suicide.
The Mystery of the Temporary Grave. A woman was placed in a temporary grave, but her burial status remains unknown.
Haunting Footsteps. Light keepers reported hearing footsteps in the lighthouse, suggesting a ghostly presence.
A Series of Unfortunate Events. A newspaper from 1873 reveals bizarre and tragic events, including a murder and human scalps.

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