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We commonly imagine lighthouses three ways: cold, scary, and definitely haunted. But where did that image come from, and why did so many lighthouse keepers "go mad" in the first place? Come learn with me!

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SOURCES:

Lightships and lighthouses, by Frederick A. Talbot.

A Short Bright Flash by Theresa Levitt

California Lighthouse Life in the 1920s and 1930s by Wayne C. Wheeler

Lighthouse Beginnings and Man’s Need For Them by Trudy Dootson, Palos Verdes Interpretive Center Docent Research Paper #43

Los Angeles Harbor (Angel's Gate) Lighthouse by Lighthouse Friends https://www.lighthousefriends.com/lig...

Keepers of the Lights by Hans Christian Adamson

Sentinels of the North Pacific by James A. Gibbs, Jr.

The Ending of ‘The Lighthouse’ Explained by Kieran Fisher https://filmschoolrejects.com/the-lig...

A Rock and a Hard Place: Storms, Death and Madness at the Smalls Lighthouse by Trinity House History https://trinityhousehistory.wordpress...

Human toxicology of Mercury by Thomas W. Clarkson

LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S MADNESS: FOLK LEGEND OR SOMETHING MORE TOXIC? By Michaela Walter, University of Calgary

The Science of Ghosts: Searching for Spirits of the Dead By Joe Nickell

Lighthouse Keepers by the National Park Service https://www.nps.gov/articles/lighthou...

Black History Month: Honoring the service of African American Guardians by William H. Thiesen https://web.archive.org/web/202006142...

Instructions to the Employees of the United States Lighthouse Service 1927 https://uslhs.org/sites/default/files...

Black Lighthouse Keepers by Thomas Tag https://uslhs.org/black-lighthouse-ke...

Historians shed light on first African American lighthouse keeper for Cape Henry: prominent abolitionist Willis Augustus Hodges https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/...

He Died On His Knees: The Amazing Story of Lighthouse Keeper William M. Parker By Timothy Harrison and Myrna J. Cherrix http://www.lighthousedigest.com/Diges...

Images and Video:

The Thirteenth Year, 1999

The Lighthouse, 2019

The Mermaid, 1904

Point Fermin Lighthouse Society

Diver Kevin

United States Lighthouse Society

Lighthouse Friends

The Banning Museum

Jersey Heritage Trust

Los Angeles Times