The Forgotten lighthouse

About this episode

The episode explores the mysterious and abandoned lighthouse on the Shipwreck Coast.

When he looked up the hill, he could see a windy old road that climbed up slowly into the distance, meandering its way up towards what looked like a large cluster of trees, almost a forest in a way. He wondered why there wasn't a lighthouse here. The sea was blowing rough enough, and he knew this as the Shipwreck Coast. He had heard the stories. Surely there would have been a place for one up here somewhere. And then he turned towards the right, and there it was, a lighthouse perched high on top of the hill. It wasn't like anything he had seen before. It was older somehow, abandoned as if it had been left behind by time. It seemed to have strange shapes, or was that just the wind? Was it just the mist of the ocean and the wind that he could not see it so clearly in the difference of all the atmosphere around it? Somehow as if this lighthouse had been abandoned or left behind somehow by time. https://earthlight.gumroad.com/l/lite-library

People in this episode

Host: Cullen Pope

Topics covered

• lighthouses
• abandonment
• coastal stories
• mystery
• nature

Keywords

• lighthouse
• Shipwreck Coast
• abandonment
• mystery
• coastal stories

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Shipwreck Coast, lighthouse, hill, ocean, forest

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