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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
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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
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how do you guys feel about double spaced documents Ash has a lot of thoughts about it well I just double spaced my
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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
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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
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it no I do you know and people do it and they do and I appreciate it so that's no
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okay good point though because thank you you're welcome on PDF we're like real Punchy today are on PDFs it looks good
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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
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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
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carbonated sparkling water yeah not around here not that old I took two sips of that [ __ ] and I
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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
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thought the the sun had sneezed and blinked again oh that did happen a few days a few days ago no mama that
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happened 10 minutes ago you good S I need more coffee that happened several years ago Elena I've been in
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this room for several years that's like when I say something happened the other day yes then it could be anytime between
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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
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blinked real quick um sneezed which was just concerning yeah but we're all here still right now at least so that's okay
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and what's exciting is we're talking about a spooky Lighthouse guys two spooky lighthouses we're doing a spooky
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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
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a Halloween sweatshirt right now in full preparation shut up actually who by the
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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
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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
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hope and if it's not get [ __ ] excited I do like your sweatshirt where's that from thank you American Eagle actually
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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
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very comfy um I actually saw Michaela on Tik Tok go to P She said and she said I
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got this at American Eagle and I said holy [ __ ] that's really cute and I got it she influenced me shop shop make
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it I love I love her so much Michaela be our friend we're this is day 200 of saying
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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would they even think that mine was really senseless yeah as they usually are yeah typically but well I I'll start
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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
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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
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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
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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
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an ice cold Coca Cola then it doesn't get wded down this is unimportant but I have to know do you drink other
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beverages in your Stanley other than water no me either never me either cuz I feel it would taint it I do have several
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so I could like delegate one as you know I only have one Stanley and I only drink
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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
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your Stanley Cup like with the ice in it would be the equivalent to like when you
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got a McDonald's oh I bet it would slap uh so my lighthouse today is the Cap rom
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main lighthouse in South Carolina okay cool this is a very it's in mullenville South Carolina I like you say that
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mlen uh so in the spot where this s Lighthouse is today and they're like abandoned now I believe like I think
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people took care of them but like they're they're on a pretty lonely part of the island and everything they're
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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
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ships back in the day in the 1800s would mistake this windmill for the Charleston
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Lighthouse which was another Port oh no and they would end up tragically cck crashing because the waters are crazy
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treacherous off of this island where like the raccoon keys in Cape Roma are um there were a number of fatal
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accidents because of this and people said that they probably cuz at first you're like they confused a windmill for
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it like they have blades but when it got like windy and [ __ ] they would take the
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blades off of the windmill so it looked like a lighthouse like the tower looked just like one well I guess if they're
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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
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we don't know we're not I'm not claiming to be Maritime at all so you know who am
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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
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the diamond or the Diamante crashed there in 1816 and there was a loss of 21 lives in
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this crash and after this incident the national Advocate paper in New York City wrote quote several vessels have been
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wrecked and many accidents happened from mistaking the windmill on Cape Roma for
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the Charleston light the loss of the diamond from hav Havana is attributed to that cause the safety of vessels and
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security of persons and property renders it necessary that something should be done to prevent accidents of like nature
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it would be well to take down the windmill or wreck a lighthouse we think however if the windmill is removed it
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would answer the purpose at present the similarity between the Charleston light and the windmill is the case of many
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unfortunate casualties that was only one crash wow it just happened to be a very
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big one many happened because of this now that was in 1816 that that crash happened in 187 a man named Edmund blunt
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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
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Cape Romain which has deceived many Navigators and caused a destruction of their vessel
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and remind him that that as there is a curse denounced against him who removeth his neighbor's Landmark we presume and
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hope a double curse will be his who willfully holds out a false Beacon to the Mariner When approaching the coast
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oh them's fighting words damn so that sounds like the guy who own the windmill was like [ __ ] you don't touch my
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windmill and that guy was like [ __ ] you we're not going to touch your windmill
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we're just going to reup and double your curse cuz he was like I curse the man who [ __ ]
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with my landmark and they were like okay we curseth you back we double curse the
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man who fucketh with the Mariners trying to navigate out there no takes he back SE so someone actually made up a poem
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about it and they referred to it as a murderous Beacon the poem which is a hefty indictment that's a slander if you
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will I would say so so at the end of 1821 [ __ ] was getting intense and the pressure was getting pretty thick with
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all these people crashing and dying and all these tragedies happening so the South Carolina government was like wow
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we should probably fix this because it does kind of look like a lighthouse in the fog in the dark which he said now
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that you mention it you know what you are right fun side fact for all my bravo kids out there oh me does every
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all right these are from my Southern Charm Watchers okay does everyone remember John Pringle from was he only
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on like one season or something of Southern Charm the season before last there you go so John Pringle came on we
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were all like who is this I found what I assume to be his ancestor in this story
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yeah cuz he has deep roots in South Carolina yeah James Pringle of Charleston shut the [ __ ] up he was
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appointed as one of the commission uh Commissioners on this task to like fix this problem I'm obsessed and so I
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thought that was kind of funny and although their initial resolution was very Pringle of them actually uh they
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they just proposed putting a mark on the windmill like a cross as if people are going to see that in the [ __ ]
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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
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felt like I don't know John Pringle was an interesting Vibe yeah so obviously that wasn't a brilliant plan so they
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agreed to build a lighthouse to actually Aid in navigation I love that they were
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like symbol no okay Lighthouse yeah at first they were just like let's just like slap across on it and it's like
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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
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it's like wow so you could have done that they were like what if we spend $20 instead of
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$20,000 yeah but see we finally got there so they plan to erect it on raccoon key cuz the other place I think
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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
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eroding where it was oh and then there's no point so in March 1827 they build one
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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
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course but apparently the lighthouse wasn't great because it wasn't that tall when it comes to
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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
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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
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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
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also that Mariners were complaining a lot that the light was super dim oh and it would be super bright for a little
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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
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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
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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
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[ __ ] go on with me with me in my lighthouse with me in my life and my lighthouse it's always this way but they
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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
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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
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this one up oh no they tear it down well and then they were like okay we'll build
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another one so they will like leave the other one up while we build this one then normally when this happens they
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tear the other one down they didn't in this instance both of them are still standing that's interesting and they're
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right next to each other huh so they two for one yeah there you go and this one's
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taller um they also used uh slave labor on this one so already we have some not great Vibes and not great
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energy already happening on this area yeah I don't love that yeah and it's that's something that in every Source
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you will read or see is very like specifically they make sure you know that because I think like the [ __ ] that
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goes down here you're like oh there's some bad energy here already and this one is 150 ft High holy [ __ ] and even
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crazier stop it leans slightly it's like the Leaning Tower of Pizza I was just going to say that
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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
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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
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but it's still leaning um and that brings us so that's that you know what a beginning what a beginning to this
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structure yeah and let me tell you doesn't get better something pretty crazy happened there so Tuesday April
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8th 1873 at 5:00 p.m. captain Andrew Johnson which might be Johansson but maybe was
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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
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any source that you can find she is only Mrs Johnson or Mrs Andrew Johnson that's
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[ __ ] 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
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the Lighthouse Keeper he left his home the residents on the area and went on his way to light the lighthouse lamp and
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to do his normal you know Lighthouse Keeper business yeah as one does exactly he'd been the keeper for about six years
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at this point and had an annual salary of $700 huh yeah and he was a he was gone
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for a while because it's not an easy job being a a Lighthouse Keeper and his wife
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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
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said his wife was in good spirits and seemed completely fine when he left her nothing was a Miss okay he saw her
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around 6:00 p.m. outside tending to chores around the house and he spotted her from where he was standing high
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above her he was out on the gallery which is like that balcony that surrounds the light yep and he she waved
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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
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happened uh then so Julius L Lee who was the assistant Lighthouse Keeper he also
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lived on the property that's usually how it went like the keeper would live there
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and the assistant um and he stated a bit after the events that are about to take
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place that Mrs Johnson came over to his residence at one point and had just like
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hung out with him and his wife for a little bit like sat down and talked yeah and they reported later that she was
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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
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this is important to note yeah and so Captain Johnson stayed on his shift at the Lighthouse until about 900 p.m. and
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then he was relieved by Julius Eli the assistant got it uh after only about he claim so Julius Lee said it was about
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five or six minutes after he saw him go into his house Captain Johnson ran out of his home screaming that his wife was
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dead she had killed herself oh God so he and the assistant went back into the house and found his wife 53 years old
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splayed out on the bed or on the floor depending on the source that you look at okay
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absolutely soaked in blood in her night clothes oh no her throat had been cut from ear to ear and they're claiming
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that's a suicide there was a revolver next to her it was his revolver Captain Johnson's
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revolver yeah but there was no uh it had not been shot okay apparently they said
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uh they somehow determined that the revolver was in probably intended to be used at one point but was not discharged
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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
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was used to cut her throat oh yeah now interestingly too in this once they you know called people to the scene jewelry
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was missing but only her jewelry huh he had valuables and none of his valuables were taken and that's strange and also
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the room looked like it had been like slightly rans sacked her clothing was everywhere which was not normal and why
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would she do that before ending her life ex and the door leading into the bedroom
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um open and locked from the inside and was clearly tampered with what and Witnesses say they later found a pair of
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um Gold's spectacles in the garden below the bedroom window and they were hers in
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the garden below the bedroom window yeah okay so Captain Johnson said he couldn't he couldn't understand what had
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happened here he didn't see anyone go in there but he wasn't looking the whole time because he was keeping the
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lighthouse yeah you got to do that and he said his wife did did once tell him like during their relationship that she
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once had thoughts of wanting to kill herself potentially okay um but neighbors and friends all said their
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marriage was great they were very happy together very content there was no signs
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any slight indication of trouble or violence of any kind in that home they were not violent with each other nothing
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and they all said they didn't see any indication that she would be upset there's all these stories that come out
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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
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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
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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
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interestingly too apparently the couple had a savings account with South South Carolina loan and Trust Company the
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account had reached $1,400 that's big back then exactly and 10 days before her death Mrs Johnson had
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gone into town gone to the bank and told her told the the people at the bank that
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her husband had asked her to withdraw all the money for some kind of business venture he was entering into so she was
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given the money she wrote a check she did all the things given the money cuz she had permissions to do it yeah but
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after her death Captain Johnson said he never asked her to do that there was no business venture and they have no idea
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where the money went and where her jewelry and valuables went that's weird that she was the one to
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take out the money and then specifically her Jewels were missing yeah isn't that
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strange are theories that's the thing there's really no theories because people like didn't know anything about
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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
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by boat and he's Manning the lighthouse so he'd see somebody arrive by [ __ ] boat
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exactly so it's got to be somebody one Theory I did see from someone that and they're just
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speculating like wild here cuz what do we have to go on yeah is like did someone at the bank or someone like did
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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
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take it you know some seen them AR was sending her to take that money out in the first
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place yeah if she or why was she doing it or did she owe somebody a debt for some that's what I
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wonder and people think like did she take out the money because she was going to leave her husband so she took all the
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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
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where people are like did he find out and flip out interesting I I mean it doesn't sound like we'll ever [ __ ]
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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
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ruled because this is even crazier back then they didn't do that she was placed in a temporary grave at the Lighthouse
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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
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elements and everything yeah and so they placed her in a temporary quote unquote
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grave on the lighthouse grounds like buried her what to keep her from like decaying as fast but no one knows if she
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is still buried there cuz there is no records of her not being buried there shut the [ __ ] up so her body could still
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be buried there shut the [ __ ] up and there's like all these stories about light keepers after these um these
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people like tending to the grounds like there's a grave there like making sure to like
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honor that there might be a person buried under here but nobody knows where but nobody knows where that's chilling I
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know and the Spooky part about it is that blood stains inside the Keeper's residence like after this couldn't be
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cleaned and they remain no matter how much scrubbing was done and sometimes they would get lighter and then they
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darken again like they reappeared and there's no scientific not because these are just like people talking about it
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like spoy goopy and this is like wood you know like why it's like and then droplets of blood would also appear
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around the residence um people who Liv there afterwards said like just drops of blood would appear I couldn't do that I
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couldn't handle that they would still hear soft footsteps going up and down the 195 steps of the lighthouse oh you could
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never catch in the afterlife climbing stairs like that and they think that she was like she's going around just walking
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through or it's like a residual haunting yeah and a keeper named August Frederick
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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
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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
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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
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would see like weird apparitions on the on the ground oh it's so creepy if you've ever
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heard like footsteps when you know that you should not be hearing footsteps that's a weird ass feeling cuz you heard
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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
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home alone and I would hear footsteps and be like oh cool someone's coming to murder me great yep like oh cool and
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then nothing would happen it would just be [ __ ] footsteps it is so creepy what the [ __ ] it's just it's really
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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
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reason to believe that she might oh my God that was so scary why did that happen there's no reason why that should
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have just happened oh my God [ __ ] you got to keep this no genuinely why did that happened
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I you saw I didn't saw I didn't touch my [ __ ] her her headphones as soon as she
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said it really freaks me out that she could be buried there they slowly and it wasn't like they slid down they
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slowly they were on the other side of that stopper they they went over this little thing oh no
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oh no oh no what the [ __ ] it really grindes my gears that you're haunting me what are you doing yeah it really gr
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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
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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
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here it's okay put him with his Brethren just please don't mess with me it scares
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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
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wiggle wiggle the TV I mean that was I remind you that was so long ago you weeks
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weeks that's [ __ ] weird that that just happened um sorry I was saying if I could finish if that's all right but
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[ __ ] Jesus I'm really excited to hear that back yeah same we got to listen to that that was the most genuinely
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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
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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
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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
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stands yeah but there's like a little stopper between like the rest of the the pole of the nightstand that would stop
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them from like falling down onto the microphone yeah and Min are literally hung over that stopper at all times Ash
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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
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they literally jumped over the little stopper it was like they were pushed and wiggled down to almost right into her
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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
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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
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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
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recording we probably should record these things oh God I know we really should yeah but if you want um me to end
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on like a strange note go for it I just happened to find so in the Vermont Union from 1873 like a
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newspaper there's this little section that's called items okay and it's just like little short news items like back
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to back to back and I'm reading through it because this this situation because this was 1873 so this crime this what I
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think was murder yeah um is in here as like an item because it had just happened right but when I tell you this
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is the most Bonker um a array of items back to back oh no I'm going to read them to you really
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quick so it says a mysterious tragedy occurred on Saturday night at Cape Roma Lighthouse SC Mrs Johnson's wife of M
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Mrs Johnson wife of the keeper was found dead with her throat cut from ear to ear
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and a razor and a revolver Lying by her side A large sum of money which the deceased had lately drawn from the bank
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is missing it is not known whether she was murdered or committed suicide and then there's a dash to show that we're
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going to the next item and it says the female applicants for clerk ships and the treasury Department pass better
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examinations than the men hell yeah then there's a dash and it says a number of human scalps were recently discovered in
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a bail of Rags received from the west by a paper mill in Petersburg Virginia what the [ __ ] yep then the next
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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
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expected so we went from a murder toam uh girls do better than boys on exams says the treasury Department then hey we
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found this uh bag of scalps that seemed to have come from Virginia and then it goes right to like this guy gave this
00:28:47
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
00:28:54
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
00:29:03
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
00:29:10
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
00:29:16
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
00:29:23
going to look into the human scalps what the poop that's scary so yeah so old newspapers are hilarious and scary yeah
00:29:32
wow I want to know I want to know about that head specifically but that's the cape Romain Lighthouse at least a story
00:29:38
about it and why it's haunted today wow well I have the little Ross Lighthouse murder oh I'm still [ __ ] shook I need
00:29:48
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
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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
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Ross is only accessible by boat or helicopter and it stretches about 29 Acres uh it was designed by Alan
00:30:10
Stevenson in 1843 and like your original Lighthouse it stands at about 66 feet tall that little guy yeah a little guy
00:30:19
it was constructed to close the gap between other lighthouses at the mle of gallway and southerness but author David
00:30:26
Colin points out before the lighthouse existed before any lighthouse existed in the area there was demand for one there
00:30:33
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
00:30:41
it was a bad Maritime it was a Mala time yes there you go so the demand dates all
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the way back to 1792 when Reverend Dr Robert mutter wrote in Stormy Weather when vessels can
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neither keep the sea nor clear the land this Harbor is the best in the south coast of Scotland for shelter and on
00:31:00
account and on that account is much frequented in the winter but the entrance into it being narrow a strong
00:31:06
tide setting right across and no Lighthouse to direct them it is dangerous to run for it in the dark and
00:31:12
engage with a Lee Shore many fatal accidents happen by ships missing the harbor and being driven into wigtown Bay
00:31:20
or on the banks of sway F the island of little Ross affords an excellent situation for a lighthouse one might be
00:31:27
erected there at a small expense and kept up on moderate terms it would be of the utmost utility to all shipping and
00:31:34
particularly to strangers in the hour of danger were the government apprised the
00:31:39
great benefit that would result from this it is to be hoped they would think the matter worthy of their attention and
00:31:45
cause a lighthouse to be erected at the public expense wow so basically he said it's really [ __ ] dangerous around
00:31:52
here it'd be hella dope if we built a lighthouse and it wouldn't even be that expensive yeah so like why not
00:31:58
it would take 48 years that's a lot of years 48 years lot whole bunch of back and forth with different Lighthouse
00:32:06
boards and people lobbying to make this happen and a ton more shipwrecks and deaths but finally in 1840 they got
00:32:12
approval for the lighthous it was given by Northern Lighthouse board and Trinity
00:32:17
house so Robert Stevenson and his son Thomas were actually the first to start surveying the area for a good site but
00:32:25
Robert wanted to retire so that's why ultimately his brother all Alan Stevenson took over the design process
00:32:32
with his nephew Thomas starting the actual building and Engineering in 1843 so the construction would actually
00:32:39
be completed on schedule which um might be the only time that's happened in the history of literally ever 100% it is
00:32:47
yeah I think 100% And the lighting system was so Advanced that at the time William Thompson who later took the name
00:32:55
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
00:33:01
of temperature what he said it was quote undoubtedly of the three best revolving
00:33:06
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
00:33:14
for a lighthouse yeah that light would shine bright like a diamond baby from 1843 until
00:33:22
1960 damn that was when it became automated most likely due to something pretty huge in the lighthouse history
00:33:29
you don't say according to one publication though the quality of design construction and maintenance of all the
00:33:34
buildings comprising the lighthous station has been so high that very few changes have been made in in their
00:33:40
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
00:33:47
headlines again back in 2017 when it went up for sale for just 325,000 wait a sec a whole [ __ ] Island like
00:33:58
the entire Island the island went up for sale Lighthouse like there was Cottages
00:34:03
still on it they were like definitely in need of some work but the Cottages were
00:34:07
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
00:34:14
but yeah and could that be because a Grizzly murder took place there decades earlier I think so too in August of 1960
00:34:24
author David Colin who I mentioned above he was home visiting from college at the
00:34:29
time and he used to go out to little Ross Island all the time but on this specific trip his father decided to join
00:34:36
him and when they arrived on the island they enjoyed a little lunch together and
00:34:40
they were going to kind of like explore around but they decided oh you know what
00:34:43
we should stop in at the cottages and introduce oursel to the keepers trying to be as you know polite and respectful
00:34:49
as they could yeah so they headed straight to the cottages on the island which at that time were kept up because
00:34:55
the Keepers were living there yeah and they would usually kind of be like doing chores during the day like bop it around
00:35:01
you know yeah so they figured you know let's introduce ourselves let them know that were just here for the day visiting
00:35:07
but as they looked around the Cottages there was no one to be found but they noticed that there was a dog who David
00:35:14
said was quote very pleased to see us a and as they looked around some more the dog just followed alongside them like
00:35:20
just stuck with them the puon they kept looking and they noticed that like the closer they got they were hearing a
00:35:27
phone ring and the phone was ringing over and over and over like hours long nonstop nobody
00:35:33
answering the phone okay so it was pretty clear that something was off here yeah so David Colin's father decided
00:35:40
they should look around a little bit more to make sure that everybody was okay also looking around that Island
00:35:46
must have been chilling because they didn't know it but they were the only two living Souls at that point and
00:35:52
things were not great around here ooh that is chilling the more and more they looked it just got more unsettling this
00:35:59
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
00:36:06
and he was like panicked but he's like thanks man yeah he was so distressed but after letting him out they kept looking
00:36:12
around and they didn't see any signs of anyone this dog is still following them around they're like what the [ __ ] is
00:36:17
going on here and it was getting close to the time that they were planning on leaving and they obviously because you
00:36:22
know they're on an island and they have to use the boat to get home they have to
00:36:26
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
00:36:33
don't know if you leave high tide or low TI but the moon says you leave at one of
00:36:38
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
00:36:44
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
00:36:51
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
00:36:58
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
00:37:04
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
00:37:13
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
00:37:21
they found an older man lying quite still in his bed David Collins recalled to to the Scotsman what happened next
00:37:29
saying everything looked normal but moving closer to him my father could see there was a towel wrapped on his head
00:37:34
and there was blood on the towel oh man our assumption was that he had fallen down the lighthouse stairs and the other
00:37:40
keeper had left to get help but we couldn't understand why he hadn't come back o this is really creepy yeah
00:37:46
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
00:37:52
find and this is what you stumble across yeah so rather than wait around for the
00:37:56
other keeper to come back back they called the police and a doctor but because the island is so remote they had
00:38:02
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
00:38:10
[ __ ] creepy is that super creepy especially when like you don't really have any association to this place like
00:38:15
and you just have to stick around you just staying here with what you assume is a a dead body body yeah yeah so
00:38:22
police showed up and they came obviously with a doctor around 700 p.m. that night
00:38:26
and that was then they when they realized that this man had died from a gunshot wound to his left eye oo later
00:38:34
when the body was formally examined the bullet was said to have fallen out of the man's eye
00:38:40
socket wow the ex the medical examiner flipped him around and that's when the bullet sting right out yep damn not
00:38:50
great wow what a visual so the man who was killed was identified pretty quickly as The Keeper of the lighthouse Hugh
00:38:57
Clark and he is an adorable man and was known to be like a really kind great man
00:39:03
a that makes me so sad coincidentally his assistant keeper Robert Dixon was nowhere to be found you don't say it
00:39:12
turned out Robert Dixon had escaped from the island using Hugh Clark's dinghy to
00:39:17
row to the mainland oh no or the mainland the mainland the mainland and then he stole Hugh Clark's car to make
00:39:23
his way even further from the scene jeez he then rented a car and made it all the
00:39:28
way to Yorkshire before being apprehended on what David Colin described as quote unquote impressively
00:39:34
acute information look at that when they pulled over the car that Robert Dixon had hired after ditching Hugh Clark's
00:39:40
car they questioned him about what he knew relating to the murder and he replied all right I know all about it
00:39:46
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
00:39:57
that's pretty smoking yeah so no one really knows what exactly LED Robert Dixon to murder Hugh Clark and his sleep
00:40:04
because it was believed that the man was sleeping when he was shot somehow that's
00:40:08
even worse you know like his most vulnerable state he's not doing anything wrong yeah he's just sleeping there
00:40:15
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
00:40:22
to have been stolen from a recent delivery of Hugh Clark's pay and pay for some Tradesmen but David Collins pointed
00:40:29
out that they wouldn't have really been with each other like super often like there was a lot of time where Hugh Clark
00:40:36
would have been up in the lighthouse and Robert Dixon could have you know stolen
00:40:41
what he needed to steal yeah with the man being away and he could have just left instead of killing gone about his
00:40:47
business yeah so money could have been a motivator here but there was still an air of mystery surrounding the case
00:40:53
David Colin wrote to some it was essentially a mystery story to be to The Disappearance of the three Lighthouse
00:40:59
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
00:41:06
of violent disharmony between the two men whose calling required them to live in close proximity to each other in an
00:41:12
environment which Petty squabbles could have easily broken out and then been magnified Beyond endurance dang yeah and
00:41:19
didn't you say flan and Islands the like The Disappearance of the keepers that was something you wanted to cover yeah I
00:41:24
really want to look into that more because it's it seems pretty fascinating like a whole episode yeah that's why I
00:41:30
included the quote I was like smart little foreshadowing little SMY over there oh you know so Robert Dixon was
00:41:37
arrested and ultimately tried for murder and David Colin and his father were both
00:41:41
called as Witnesses his father Thomas um ultimately Robert Dixon was sentenced to
00:41:46
death by hanging whoa and this was in the 19 this was 1960 damn David Colin was among many though who wasn't quite
00:41:53
sure that the punishment fit the crime given the circumstances H there was a lot of evidence that Robert Dixon was
00:42:00
not a completely sane man oh okay including the fact that a doctor had quite literally diagnosed him as insane
00:42:06
I mean that's a good indication yeah usually yeah he also had fallen off a horse at one point in his life and
00:42:12
suffered really severe head trauma that resulted in severe headaches uh he spent
00:42:17
time in a psychiatric hospital voluntarily and sadly at one point had attempted suicide oh jeez so I'm
00:42:24
assuming after they reviewed this evidence of his Insanity the court reprieved his sentence of hanging 5 days
00:42:31
before his planned execution wow so they really W yeah uh he was still to remain
00:42:37
incarcerated and two years after he was given the reprieve Robert Dixon overdosed in prison and died oh jeez so
00:42:44
he really didn't serve much time for the crime but he died in prison wow so many
00:42:50
would believe and some would claim that because of the murder that took place on
00:42:53
little Ross Island that it must be haunted yeah and some even question if that's why the selling price was listed
00:42:59
so low in 2017 but those who knew Hugh Clark doubt that he would be a malevolent Spirit
00:43:04
haunting the area and David Collins wrote friends and colleagues of Hugh friends and colleagues of Hugh have
00:43:10
subsequently told me that if he was to have had a ghost it would have been gentle kind and friendly like him so
00:43:16
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
00:43:25
murder on little Ross Island and the lighthouse that's there jeez um that was like a pretty brief overview cuz
00:43:33
obviously we cover two lighthouses in this but David Colin uh wrote a book it's called life and death on little
00:43:38
Ross and it's definitely worth checking out I got a lot of information from there oh I love that yeah and it's
00:43:44
available on the Kindle oh my God that's where I bought it I love that I think it
00:43:49
was like not very much I'm I don't know how much but not very much I bought it a
00:43:54
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
00:44:02
of a job it is so these stories happen all the time yeah with lighthouses you hear of like people just losing it
00:44:09
snapping murders happening accidents happening like all this stuff and it's like and so many hauntings related so
00:44:15
many hauntings cuz there's also like the [ __ ] sea the shipwrecks the [ __ ] sea exactly like the shipwrecks happen
00:44:24
they're usually happening right on these rocks that are right outside of the lighthouses and then you have all these
00:44:29
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
00:44:38
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
00:44:43
got to bring back the the spooky lighthouses The Spook Lakes the spooky roads but you guys have suggested a lot
00:44:51
of them so make sure you keep riding in your spooky roads spooky Castle spooky spooky lighthouses spooky schools spooky
00:44:59
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
00:45:06
into morbid podcast gmail.com but make sure you put spooky whatever it is in the title of the email feel free to let
00:45:14
us know if you've had like your own experience cuz we also love to share an experience when we're talking about
00:45:19
whatever the road the lake the whatever have you definitely I know there's like a million of these things or if you know
00:45:25
what you guys have also come up with good ideas for like other installments of spooky things like I think you guys
00:45:31
were the ones who brought up spooky schools to us yes and we ended up finding some really cool stuff so if you
00:45:36
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
00:45:43
want to bring them back a little more sprinkle them in they're they they're interesting they're spooky they're fun
00:45:49
they're scary and we're getting into the bur months getting in spooky season that's what spooky season's all about
00:45:55
I'm ready for it I can't wait so we hope you keep lessening and we hope you keep
00:46:00
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
00:46:07
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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goddamn earphones fall on you because I'm really stressed out about how haunted I am right now what they come
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