The Yaquina Head Lighthouse, Newport, OR was built in 1873. Its 93-feet tower is the tallest of any on the Oregon coast, holding the light to a height of 162-feet above sea level. The light from its first order Fresnel lens is visible from 19-miles out to sea.
Many lighthouses have an intriguing ghost story connected to them and for years The
Yaquina Head lighthouse was one of those. I visited this lighthouse and would like to share its
ghost story. – The lighthouse keeper supposedly
got drunk and fell down the spiral stairway and broke his neck. After that his
coworker refused to go near the stairway at night in fear of again running into an
image of the deceased keeper.
Like any ghost story about a lighthouse, the more it’s told over
time, the more it may be believed. After this story circulated for many years,
officials for the lighthouse were convinced the story is untrue. But do all those
who have heard the story believe it to be untrue?
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