Owls Head Lighthouse

by Joan Carroll

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Owls Head Lighthouse

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Joan Carroll

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It was a peaceful quiet, albeit foggy, day when I visited Owl's Head Light near Rockland, Maine, USA. But this lighthouse is number one on Coastal Living magazine's most haunted lighthouse list! If I had known that at the time, I would have hung around till dark to see what happened! There are said to be at least two ghosts at the lighthouse. One is know as the "Little Lady" and is most frequently found in the kitchen or looking out a window of the keeper's house. The other is though to be a keeper from beyond the grave. This lighthouse was approved in 1824 by John Quincy Adams and was built for $2707.79. The lighthouse is high up on a headland entrance to Rockland Harbor so that even though the tower is only 26' tall, the light could be seen for 16 miles. On the grounds is the gravestone of Spot, the famous lighthouse lifesaving dog. I found his story on one website: "A famous lifesaving resident of the station was Spot, a springer spaniel owned by Augustus (Gus) B. Hamor (keeper 1930�1941). Gus� daughters Pauline and Millie taught Spot to pull on the rope to ring the fog bell. Whenever a vessel passed by, Spot would ring the bell and receive the sound of a bell or horn from the ship in return. As Spot�s favorite visitor was the mail boat skippered by Stuart Ames, who always brought a special treat for him, Spot came to recognize the sound of the boat�s engine. Once when a terrible snow storm blew in, the snow banks muffled the sound of the bell. Mrs. Ames worried that her husband was lost in the blizzard, but during the thick of the storm, Spot scratched to be let out and raced to the shore, where he barked loudly and incessantly. Then the sound of the mail boat whistle was heard in reply. Stuart had heard the barking and calculated his position, which saved him from crashing into the promontory." Saved by the dog!

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