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Haunted Heceta Head Lighthouse · Eerily Beloved

• 0:00
  Speaker: Okay, welcome back to the podcast and eerily beloved.
• 0:02
  Speaker: We are gathered here today with Mom.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Paul.
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Heather.
• 0:07
  Speaker: Yay! And we have some fun stuff to talk about today.
• 0:12
  Speaker: Last time Heather was on for the cat episode.
• 0:15
  Speaker: Mom was on for the what's the episode that we last did?
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: Martin family.
• 0:21
  Speaker: The Martin family episode last week.
• 0:22
  Speaker: And this is Paul's first episode.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
• 0:26
  Speaker: So we have a we have a good one for today.
• 0:29
  Speaker: So let's get into it.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Glad to be here.
• 0:38
  Speaker: So today we're talking about haunted lighthouses.
• 0:41
  unknown: Wow.
• 0:42
  Speaker: Yes.
• 0:43
  Speaker: But before we start talking about those, we're gonna kind of get into some history about Oregon's lighthouses, lighthouses in general, what their purpose was, all that fun stuff.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, another education ancestor.
• 0:55
  Speaker: Absolutely.
• 0:56
  Speaker: Because the Oregon education system kind of failed us a little bit.
• 1:00
  Speaker: So as we have learned.
• 1:03
  Speaker: So long before Oregon was a U.S.
• 1:05
  Speaker: territory, Native Americans successfully navigated the rivers, bays, and coastal waterways without guidance at all.
• 1:12
  Speaker: Once the Oregon Trail had been established and then the gold rush hit the region in the mid-1800s, maritime trade was crucial to support the growing communities in need of lumber, produce, and other goods.
• 1:22
  Speaker: The Columbia and Willamette Rivers were the two main waterways that connected most of the areas where Oregon Trail immigrants settled, and very quickly they both became very busy waterways.
• 1:32
  Speaker: The mouth of the Columbia River, which also serves as a state line between Oregon and Washington today, was one of the most treacherous stretches of water at the time.
• 1:40
  Speaker: The six-mile-wide opening from the Clatsup Spit to the south on the Oregon side to Cape Disappointment to the north on the Washington side was referred to as the graveyard of the Pacific.
• 1:50
  Speaker: Constantly shifting sandbars, strong currents, wind force, and unpredictable waves are said to have been the cause of over 2,000 shipwrecks since 1792 when it they started being recorded.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 2:03
  Speaker: 2000?
• 2:03
  Speaker: Wow.
• 2:04
  Speaker: Did they know of?
• 2:06
  Speaker: So, due to the massive demand for traded goods that were heavily reliant on maritime waterways, Congress voted to construct lighthouses all the way down the west coast.
• 2:14
  Speaker: And in 1856, the first lighthouse in the state at Cape Disappointment was completed.
• 2:19
  Speaker: Since then, 14 lighthouses were built along Oregon's rugged and unforgiving coastline, nine of which still stand today and are part of the National Register of Historic Places.
• 2:29
  Speaker: Seven of these lighthouses you can visit or stay at, including the Hasita Head Lighthouse.
• 2:36
  Speaker: Which is what we were talking about today.
• 2:39
  Speaker: That's what I know.
• 2:40
  Speaker: Paul guessed correctly, because he's taking a picture there.
• 2:43
  unknown: Yes.
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: I've not heard of it.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: That's in Florence, right?
• 2:46
  unknown: Yeah.
• 2:47
  Speaker: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:47
  Speaker: It's like halfway between Florence and Yahoot.
• 2:50
  Speaker: Oh, yeah.
• 2:50
  Speaker: Is that how you say that?
• 2:51
  Speaker: Yeah, okay.
• 2:52
  Speaker: Yahoo's.
• 2:52
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 2:53
  Speaker: Yep.
• 2:54
  Speaker: So yeah, it's 13 miles north of Florence and then 13 miles south of Yahoo.
• 2:59
  Speaker: Yahoo.
• 2:59
  Speaker: So located a few miles north of Florence, Oregon, the 56-foot tower sits 205 feet above the ocean and was first illuminated in 1893.
• 3:09
  Speaker: Its light is the strongest of the Oregon lighthouses, and you can see the light 21 miles from land.
• 3:15
  Speaker: It also happens to be on the list of the top 10 haunted lighthouses in the US, which is why we are talking about it.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: The entire US, huh?
• 3:23
  Speaker: Mm-hmm.
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: Wow, and it's gotta be one of the newer ones because probably most of them are on the East Coast.
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: Oh right.
• 3:30
  Speaker 2: So the oldest ones.
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: To be haunted.
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: Let's hear it.
• 3:35
  Speaker: Well, yeah, because we were like one of the last established areas.
• 3:39
  Speaker: Due to the location of the lighthouse having many maritime disasters, which caused the need for lighthouses to begin with, it's not shocking that many of these locations are often considered haunted.
• 3:50
  Speaker: Building these was also extremely dangerous due to weather conditions and the unpredictable ocean, many of which, specifically on the east coast, were built out on the ocean or on rocks, not necessarily on the land, so that made them even more dangerous.
• 4:07
  Speaker: Additionally, the isolation, long hours, and high stress of a very often dangerous job of the lighthouse keeper can take a major toll on one's mental health.
• 4:16
  Speaker: Not only was the isolation of these locations a major psychological stressor, but potentially a physical one too.
• 4:23
  Speaker: If an accident occurred and someone needed medical help, it could be days or weeks before you could get it.
• 4:28
  Speaker: So madness, suicide, murders, drownings, and unexplained deaths are tragedies that nearly every lighthouse shares, and why we're somewhat morbidly fascinated by them.
• 4:38
  Speaker: So also lighthouse is literally light in the darkness, but many of them are built because of tragedies.
• 4:45
  Speaker: So it's kind of like light in the darkness, but they are darkness.
• 4:49
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 4:49
  Speaker: I don't know.
• 4:50
  Speaker: It's kind of interesting.
• 4:51
  Speaker 2: That's probably why I don't frequent them.
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: That's I don't know much about them, but I definitely frequent them.
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: But I saw a really cool episode on HGTV where um the guy from uh you know the musician, the singer from New Kids on the Block, who has the HD the HG T V show, and he and his partner redid a lighthouse where somebody lived on in Maine.
• 5:15
  Speaker 3: Um so cool.
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: It was really cool.
• 5:19
  Speaker: That'd be pretty cool.
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they redid it and because somebody lives there, and he was saying that that one person lives there and it's really kind of depressing, but yet at the same time, they tried to make it a little less depressing.
• 5:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, inspiring and really cool.
• 5:36
  Speaker: Modern.
• 5:37
  unknown: Yeah.
• 5:38
  Speaker: So when the lighthouse was first constructed and up until the 1930s, life at Hasid ahead was extremely isolated due to the location's lack of roads, transportation, and cars.
• 5:48
  Speaker: The first keeper at Hasid ahead was Andrew P.
• 5:51
  Speaker: C.
• 5:51
  Speaker: Hald, and at the start of his assignment, he had to walk 24 miles down to be down the beach just to get to the lighthouse.
• 5:59
  Speaker 1: Twenty-four miles.
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: That must have taken him days.
• 6:03
  Speaker: So there were no main roads.
• 6:06
  Speaker: There was no his family had to get there via boat.
• 6:09
  Speaker: Like there was no connection to the outside world at all.
• 6:14
  Speaker: For the first five years, he and his wife were the only ones there.
• 6:17
  Speaker: And unfortunately, during this time, his wife contracted a serious illness, which also claimed the life of their young daughter.
• 6:24
  Speaker: After this, other lightkeepers and assistants were brought on, and a small schoolhouse for the children was built, in addition to another lightkeeper's house.
• 6:32
  Speaker: And in 1963, the lighthouse became automated, and the lightkeeper's house was leased to Lane Community College in 1995.
• 6:40
  Speaker: The renovated house, now consisting of six bedrooms, became a small bed and breakfast that you can stay at today.
• 6:48
  Speaker 2: Would you stay there?
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: If you guys came.
• 6:50
  Speaker 3: No, certainly no.
• 6:54
  Speaker 1: I would.
• 6:55
  Speaker 3: By yourself.
• 6:55
  Speaker 3: It's a little early to be asked about that.
• 6:57
  Speaker 3: I'd say we make a field trip.
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: To stay there.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why not?
• 7:03
  Speaker 3: I think we all go field trip.
• 7:04
  Speaker: Do they have TV anymore?
• 7:05
  Speaker: Oh, probably.
• 7:06
  Speaker: Okay.
• 7:08
  unknown: Yeah.
• 7:08
  Speaker: It's renovated.
• 7:09
  Speaker: It's like a fully Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 7:11
  Speaker 2: We should really look into that.
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, but we're not to the scary part yet.
• 7:14
  Speaker: Yeah, so I feel like that was a good one.
• 7:16
  Speaker: Wait, I can't stay there if Don goes.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: Walking 24 miles somewhere?
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: That's scary.
• 7:21
  Speaker: Well, yeah.
• 7:21
  Speaker: I don't think we're going to be able to do that.
• 7:22
  Speaker: Well, now there are roads, so we don't have to walk 24 miles.
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: But Don tracks goes, and I think we all go, but not Don.
• 7:29
  Speaker 3: He can stay down the roads on the road.
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you're not actually standing in the road.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: He can pick us up, though.
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: It's it's the light and breakfast, right?
• 7:36
  Speaker: Yeah, it's the assistant lightkeeper's house.
• 7:38
  Speaker: So it's like the building next to the lighthouse.
• 7:41
  Speaker: It's not at the lighthouse.
• 7:43
  Speaker: Still haunted though.
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: Let's hear more.
• 7:46
  Speaker: So since the 1950s, nearly everyone who has visited, worked at, or stayed here has had a paranormal experience.
• 7:52
  Speaker: Wow.
• 7:53
  Speaker: While there are a variety of experiences, most are attributed to a single ghost that is known as Rue.
• 7:58
  Speaker: Thanks, Paul.
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: You're welcome.
• 8:01
  Speaker: This name was revealed during a Ouija board session conducted by some of the Lane Community College students.
• 8:05
  Speaker: And since then, accounts of the resident ghost have filled the guest book that the now B keeps.
• 8:11
  Speaker: One of the theories is that Rue was the lightkeeper's wife whose daughter drowned.
• 8:16
  Speaker: Up the hill on the property, lost in the wild coastal overgrowth, is a small, unmarked grave.
• 8:21
  Speaker: After her death, Rue returned to the property in search of her daughter.
• 8:24
  Speaker: This is a theory.
• 8:26
  Speaker: Originally, only a log of keepers of the lighthouses were kept, not all who lived with them, so it's unknown if Rue is the wife, the wife of, or potentially the daughter of a former keeper searching for her mother.
• 8:38
  Speaker: So the Tamman family lived in the former lightkeeper's assistant college in the 70s, and they did their best to attribute any unexplainable events to the natural sounds of the coast and general strangest that comes with an old historic building.
• 8:55
  Speaker: However, during a card party one night, they were interrupted by a high-pitched scream that could not be confused with the wind whistling through the chimney or any other logical explanation.
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: I'm out.
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: It's hard.
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: Wendy's tapping out.
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 9:11
  Speaker: In November of 1975, Rue made the front page news in the local paper with the headline, Lady of the Lighthouse Baffles Workmen.
• 9:19
  Speaker: In the article, it goes on to state that on numerous occasions and to multiple of the men on the crew, they would find their tools missing or gone suddenly when they had just put them down, only to search for them and have them reappear in the original spot they lost them in.
• 9:34
  Speaker: Jim Anderson, one of the men on the work crew, was in the attic cleaning the window when he noticed a reflection other than his own in the glass.
• 9:44
  Speaker: According to him, when he turned around, he saw a gray-haired woman wearing an 1890 style dress approaching him slowly.
• 9:51
  Speaker: In the article, he is quoted as saying, The first thing I notice is that she's coming toward me, but she's not taking steps.
• 9:57
  Speaker: She's floating.
• 9:58
  Speaker: This scared the grown man so bad he ran out of the house, sped away, and refused to return to the property.
• 10:05
  Speaker: However, a few days later, he finally did come back to finish the job, but he did not dare step foot in the attic again.
• 10:14
  Speaker: On a separate occasion, contractors accidentally knocked out one of the window panes and it fell inwards, shattering on the floor of the attic.
• 10:22
  Speaker: Spooked by the stories of the woman in the attic they had heard of, they replaced the window, but didn't clean up the glass that had fallen in the house.
• 10:30
  Speaker: That night, Harry and Anne Tamman, who were still not believers at this point, were woken up in the middle of the night shortly after 2 a.m.
• 10:38
  Speaker: to scratching sounds above their bed.
• 10:40
  Speaker: And then they heard the tinkle of glass.
• 10:43
  Speaker: This repeated a few times, sweeping noises, and then the sound of glass against each other, and it lasted for ten minutes.
• 10:50
  Speaker: The next morning in the light of the in the light of day, they went up to the attic, and sure enough, a pile of glass sat in the middle of the attic, surrounded by marks left by the broom.
• 10:59
  Speaker: They verified with the contractor that he hadn't done that when they realized that there was no broom in the attic.
• 11:07
  Speaker: Harry is quoted as saying, There was no broom up there.
• 11:11
  Speaker: The attic's locked, nobody else was in the house but us.
• 11:13
  Speaker: And it was as if she'd used a real old-fashioned broom and the glass was swept up, so broom marks were in the filth up there.
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's creepy.
• 11:22
  Speaker: I mean, at least she's cleaning up.
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: Hey, I like a clean ghost.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: Who doesn't?
• 11:29
  Speaker: A book published in 1983 titled Organs, Ghosts, and Monsters by Mike Helm has an entire chapter dedicated to Rue, Ghost Lady of a Seat Ahead, along with an interview with the Tammons from 1979 and more of their experiences while they lived on the property.
• 11:44
  Speaker: In one instance, Anne saw the full shape of somebody.
• 11:47
  Speaker: During a dinner party with friends, she was cleaning the table and told her friends to stay seated and chat while she did her hosting duties.
• 11:54
  Speaker: When she turned and saw someone carrying something into the kitchen while she was going back into the dining room, she got upset and went out to tell the woman to stay seated.
• 12:02
  Speaker: To her surprise, both of them were just as she left them a few minutes before.
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: Hey, she's doing dishes.
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: Uh sweeping.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: She must have been a mill teacher to clean a bathroom while she's tired.
• 12:16
  Speaker: Those who've encountered Rue know that she's more of a caretaker of the home, is very protective, and seems to be annoyed by changes, but is not malicious.
• 12:24
  Speaker: During a renovation where the exterior of the house is being pre-painted, a volunteer was woken up in the middle of the night to all the fire alarms going off.
• 12:32
  Speaker: After checking, there was no cause for concern.
• 12:35
  Speaker: The volunteer went back to bed, but shortly after it was woken up by the alarms again.
• 12:40
  Speaker: After checking the property, he removed the batteries from the alarms, but they continued to go off.
• 12:45
  Speaker: Ew, with the batteries gone?
• 12:49
  Speaker 4: Ew.
• 12:50
  Speaker: Today some people book their stay at the Hasid ahead lighthouse keepers cottage in hopes that they have their own experiences with Rue.
• 12:57
  Speaker: Carol Henderson, who stayed in 2012, documented her encounter in the Inns guest book, stating that she woke up at 4 30 a.m.
• 13:04
  Speaker: to a presence crawling into bed with her.
• 13:06
  Speaker: What?
• 13:07
  Speaker: In in quotes, it says, I feel strange about this experience, but in a way honored.
• 13:13
  Speaker: Concerned, but not harmed.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: I'm concerned.
• 13:19
  Speaker: So now we have some more of people's real life experiences with this serum entity.
• 13:26
  Speaker: There's not much history because, like I said, they didn't really account for the people that weren't the lighthouse keepers in those places.
• 13:34
  Speaker: So they don't really know if Rue actually ever existed, if she was a real life person, or if this name was just made up by some kids.
• 13:44
  Speaker: So unfortunately, there's no way to verify if she's legit.
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: I wonder why there is no history though.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Like you would think there would be a record.
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: That's a pr a pretty significant crew ever existed previously.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like what the history is of that.
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: There's only how many on the West Coast?
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Fourteen.
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: So why wouldn't there be a history of who lived there?
• 14:10
  Speaker: Well, especially here, they because they were so isolated, they had built their own schoolhouse for like the kids and the women who lived there.
• 14:18
  Speaker: So it's interesting that they wouldn't have an account of or diaries of or something.
• 14:22
  Speaker: Tax payments.
• 14:23
  Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 14:24
  Speaker: Because it was a while ago, but it wasn't that long ago.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: This person says When did Rue's name get like w at what period of time was that established?
• 14:36
  Speaker: Yes, I believe it was when so the Lane Community College kids were there.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: Did they do like a Ouija board?
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 14:42
  Speaker: It says the name was revealed during a Ouija board session.
• 14:44
  Speaker: So the Lane Community College students, I guess they used the downstairs as classrooms or I'm assuming biology students or something would go there.
• 14:54
  Speaker: And then there were bunk beds upstairs.
• 14:56
  Speaker: So probably all these kids staying together for a certain period of time.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: That's freaky out.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: They're like a Ouija boards freak me out.
• 15:03
  Speaker: No, I wouldn't I wouldn't do Ouija boarding out.
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: Never?
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: Have you ever?
• 15:07
  Speaker: No my gosh.
• 15:08
  Speaker: No.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: Have you?
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Heather.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: But nothing came of it.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: I refuse to believe.
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: So maybe I Ouija was.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: That's what I think.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: They spelled people doing it.
• 15:21
  Speaker: They spell their name.
• 15:21
  Speaker: They spelled their name.
• 15:22
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 15:22
  Speaker: That's where they got it from.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: That's creepy.
• 15:25
  Speaker: Okay, this person says, I used to live in Florence.
• 15:28
  Speaker: Both are haunted.
• 15:29
  Speaker: Referring to just two lighthouses that someone had listed.
• 15:32
  Speaker: There's an old town legend about how one stormy night a window was blown out.
• 15:36
  Speaker: The lights the lighthouse keeper heard a sweeping noise and went up to investigate.
• 15:39
  Speaker: When he got up there, one of the windows had been blown out.
• 15:42
  Speaker: There's a bloom broom and a pile of glass all swept up.
• 15:45
  Speaker: As for the house, I heard about a guy that was doing some repairs and suddenly he heard a voice that said, get out, and suddenly a hammer came flying towards his head.
• 15:53
  Speaker: He left and never went back.
• 15:55
  Speaker: It's believed to be the wife of a lighthouse keeper that died there back in the 1800s.
• 15:59
  Speaker: I heard stories about how many ships have wrecked there and smugglers on the Oregon coast in general.
• 16:04
  unknown: Yeah.
• 16:05
  unknown: Yeah.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: I wonder if they know the Cannon Beach guy.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Oh with the bandages.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: The bandage man.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: But wow.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: But I mean the consensus, it sounds like, is the window blowing in words blew out.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: Which is fine.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: It makes sense.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: And just swept up.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: But this guy had seen the broom where the others hadn't.
• 16:32
  Speaker: This other person said I used to work there.
• 16:34
  Speaker: It took about two months before I had a ghost encounter.
• 16:37
  Speaker: Everyone would tell stories at the breakfast table each morning about the lights all coming on or off.
• 16:42
  Speaker: So it seemed as if the nighttime was when the ghost was most active.
• 16:45
  Speaker: One morning after the guests had either checked out or left for the day, I was cleaning the rooms while the chef was cleaning and baking for the next day downstairs in the kitchen.
• 16:54
  Speaker: I had just come upstairs with the cleaning caddy to the bathrooms.
• 16:57
  Speaker: All the beds I had just changed and were neat and tidy with big fluffy feather beds.
• 17:01
  Speaker: As I walked to the first room, I'm looking in at the four foot poster bed.
• 17:06
  Speaker: You can't just sit down on the bed, it's too high, and you must use a step.
• 17:10
  Speaker: Well, there was a giant indentation on the foot of the bed of a s as if someone was sitting there.
• 17:16
  Speaker: Immediately my first thought is ghosts have butts.
• 17:19
  Speaker: I set the cleaning caddy down and just happily freaked out a little bit as I've always wanted to see a ghost.
• 17:24
  Speaker: After a minute or so I calmed down and decided I might as well straighten the covers and go about my day.
• 17:29
  Speaker: As I grabbed the end of the feather bed to shake it, I got a wild rush of chills.
• 17:33
  Speaker: The ghost was just sitting there and I basically put my hands into her.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Sitting there.
• 18:13
  Speaker: Yeah that'd be pretty creepy.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know that.
• 18:18
  Speaker: Okay, so also on their trip advisor, if you search ghost, all the reviews for the the place and every like mention of ghosts is popped up.
• 18:26
  Speaker: How many reviews?
• 18:28
  Speaker: Well, I think 38 when I typed in ghosts came up.
• 18:31
  Speaker: What?
• 18:31
  Speaker: Mm-hmm.
• 18:32
  Speaker: But some were saying I wanted to see the ghost, I didn't see it.
• 18:35
  Speaker: So they weren't all like actual stories.
• 18:38
  Speaker: Yes.
• 18:39
  Speaker: But one wrote in August of 2020, my husband woke up in the wee hours of the morning and discovered an unexpected visitor.
• 18:46
  Speaker: An elderly lady was seated in a chair that was not there with an aura around her.
• 18:52
  Speaker: Ray is by no means a ghost hunter.
• 18:54
  Speaker: In fact, he's highly pragmatic and sign scientifically minded.
• 18:57
  Speaker: Yet, try as he might, he could not explain what he had seen in any logical terms.
• 19:02
  Speaker: It was a ghost, period.
• 19:04
  unknown: Wow.
• 19:06
  Speaker: Okay.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: That sounds like it does, yeah.
• 19:08
  Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker: But seated in a cherry that wasn't in the room.
• 19:12
  Speaker: With an aura around her.
• 19:14
  Speaker: In June 2018, someone wrote, When we ate in Yahat's, our server told us that her friend was delivering supplies to the BMB.
• 19:23
  Speaker: He knocked on the front door and the back door with no answer, so he tried again and a nice lady let him in.
• 19:29
  Speaker: As he was leaving, after dropping off the supplies, the caretaker drove up and said he was glad to catch him.
• 19:35
  Speaker: Her friend said, No problem, the nice lady let me in.
• 19:38
  Speaker: When the caretaker told him there was nobody else there, he got a little bit scared.
• 19:42
  Speaker: Whoa.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, but she's helpful.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: She is, yes.
• 19:49
  Speaker: She's clean.
• 19:49
  Speaker: Right?
• 19:50
  Speaker: Clean, helpful, and a nice every account of her has said that she is not malicious.
• 19:55
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 19:55
  Speaker: Okay.
• 19:56
  Speaker: There's never been right.
• 19:58
  Speaker: There's never been any like attacks, scratches, like bad dreams.
• 20:02
  Speaker: Just broken glass.
• 20:03
  Speaker: Bad dreams.
• 20:04
  Speaker: Scratch.
• 20:04
  Speaker: Broken glass, which she didn't do, yes, which she cleaned up.
• 20:08
  Speaker: So I like her.
• 20:10
  Speaker: So that's that's the story of Rue at the Hasitahead Lighthouse, and she's the the resident ghost there.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: There's quite a history of Rue There is.
• 20:19
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 20:20
  Speaker: Document.
• 20:20
  Speaker: I say we take a field trip and go see her.
• 20:24
  Speaker: She's nice, she's non-threatening.
• 20:26
  Speaker: Why not?
• 20:27
  Speaker: Yeah, there's two rooms in the Airbnb or the Bread Bright the Bad Bright's not in.
• 20:33
  Speaker: That are specifically like if you stay there, if the rooms that are have access to the attic are known to have the most activity, people will say, had a great sleep, but did hear Room moving furniture around upstairs.
• 20:46
  Speaker: Okay, maybe not.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Maybe not.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Maybe not.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: It is maybe you're gonna be able to do it.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how about the send the boys?
• 20:53
  Speaker: Yeah, obviously the bed and breakfast doesn't.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I mean I'll do forward scouting.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Don't you know?
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Don't in.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: You would do it?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, so do we need to use these ghosts all the time?
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Believability and creepy?
• 21:04
  Speaker: Oh, absolutely.
• 21:05
  Speaker: Okay, so everybody give their believability score and their creepy, creepy score, and if you would stay there.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, so believability one to ten.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think with as many accounts as there are, it would be hard to say it's not believable, right?
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: There's accounts over 50, 60 years now that that have seen or witnessed this ghost.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: So for for me, I feel like while I don't believe um, and I but I don't want to test that um belief.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: So I'll give it a believability of nine.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, I just I have to believe that everyone, you know, people aren't just gonna make it up, right?
• 21:45
  Speaker: It's it's interesting to me also that those people, the Tamons that lived there, they didn't believe in ghosts at all, and they still didn't believe in ghosts when they left.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Even after all.
• 21:54
  Speaker: Even after all that, they just considered her another part of the family, and it was almost like She was the house.
• 22:01
  Speaker: So they would talk to her as if she was the house instead of like a single entity.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: But yet they didn't believe it.
• 22:07
  Speaker: But they didn't.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: That's bizarre.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: It's like how can you have one without the other?
• 22:11
  Speaker: I don't know.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: They believe they just didn't probably admit to themselves, they believed.
• 22:15
  Speaker: Probably.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:16
  Speaker: Once you because once you acknowledge it, it probably just becomes a whole lot more than especially if they're living there at the moment.
• 22:22
  Speaker: You probably don't want to say there is a ghost.
• 22:25
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 22:26
  Speaker: You know.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes sense.
• 22:29
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 22:29
  Speaker: Paul believability.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Um, I agree with Wendy.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Um I'm gonna say nine, just because of the sheer time period that uh these stories have been told.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give a nine on the believability.
• 22:46
  unknown: Okay.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: We're giving it high scores.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: This is pretty.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: What do you think?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Uh you know, I think I'm gonna say an eight.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I'm not opposed to people piggybacking on stories, you know, like others that I've heard.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: So I'm I'm believably gonna say eight.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: But you are kind of right because the the accounts of at least the window, right, were a little bit different again.
• 23:11
  Speaker: They were a little bit different.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: So they they weren't quite the same account.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: But but I'm gonna stick with mine, only because there was plenty of other accounts, but at least for that one, you know, sometimes there are bandwagoners, right?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, eight is still very high.
• 23:23
  Speaker: Well, and also the longer the story is told, the more likely it is that people add on to it or drama like dramatic.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of idiots out there that want to just hang on to something.
• 23:33
  Speaker: Exactly.
• 23:33
  Speaker: Or yeah.
• 23:35
  Speaker: Yep.
• 23:36
  Speaker: So okay, creepy factor.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Uh I mean, so for me, I find this really creepy.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, like to the point where I wouldn't stay there.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: If I wasn't creeped out, I would say, like, let's go on a field trip.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: But I feel like it's as close.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: We could go on a field trip.
• 23:49
  Speaker: I wonder if we could just go there for breakfast or something.
• 23:51
  Speaker: Apparently they have a seven course breakfast that they sent.
• 23:53
  Speaker: What?
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: That's like very Is that just to the people who are staying there though?
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you have to stay.
• 23:57
  Speaker: If we would service, I'd like to or if they could do a brunch.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I think they have like a yeah, that I would be inclined to.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Spending the night is a whole nother level.
• 24:05
  Speaker: Being there after dark, I don't know.
• 24:06
  Speaker: No, no, no, no, no.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Well, you can't give it in a creepy of eight and then not want to spend the night.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously you believe something.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean I want to spend the night.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Right, right.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: That doesn't mean that Heather wants to be haunted.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Or experience anything.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I'd like to go in the daylight and to be like, oh, there she is, and then leave.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: So what score did you give it, Wendy?
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Um, from a creepy factor, I'm gonna give it.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think, yeah, it's creepy enough where, like I said, I don't want to go.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: So I would say nine.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: I just am not, I'm not I mean anything that you would hear, anything that you would hear in the night, you'd be like, I was actually gonna change it to eight, only because it's a nice ghost.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: So so I I'm less creeped, yeah, right?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: But I'm but uh still spooky.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but less creep, so I'll give it an eight.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: That's fair.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I would have to give it a seven on the creepy fac creepy factor just because it's more like a Casper the friendly ghost, right?
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Just because she's doing good things, she's cleaning up.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Um so yeah, it's creepy, but I think seven because it's a good creepy.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: That's a good, yeah, it's not a cleaning ghost.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: It's not scary.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: It's really the cleaning ghost.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: You're just gonna want to bring her home and be like, oh, you get to work clean her house.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, we can go to brunch center on May 28th.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: What?
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Let's do it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Are you serious?
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we'll report back.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: But I I would say I do believe like lighthouses are haunted.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Just because of all the shipwreck and nautical uh type of stuff.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot a lot of death on the seas.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Um so it's creepy, but this gives it kind of the a good air.
• 25:52
  Speaker: Okay.
• 25:52
  Speaker: You think this makes it this makes it better?
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I do.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I think it makes it better because of the cleaning factor.
• 25:58
  Speaker: Because it's because it's not like a sad scar.
• 26:00
  Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: It's not like Davy Jones Locker.
• 26:03
  Speaker: Yeah, that's fair.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, Heather, creepy.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Creepy, I'm gonna say at least a nine.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I just, you know, don't love ghosts.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: You don't like cleaning either.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's not funny.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, but yeah.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I don't ever want to win to something like that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: So it's creepy.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: It's creepy.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: No, I don't want to see that.
• 26:24
  Speaker: I agree.
• 26:25
  Speaker: And the fact that a grand man once again was scared.
• 26:28
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 26:28
  Speaker: So scared that he refused to come back to the house.
• 26:31
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Well, you think you're delivering something to somebody and it's not the somebody that you think it is.
• 26:36
  Speaker: That, oh, that person let me in the house.
• 26:38
  Speaker: Right.
• 26:38
  Speaker: There's no one at the house.
• 26:39
  Speaker: Right.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Or just seeing something in the in the window, reflection like coming at you.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: That's that's pretty creepy.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Even though she's safe and and kind and does things, it doesn't make it any creepier.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: No, it's still alarming, for sure.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 26:54
  Speaker: Agreed.
• 26:54
  Speaker: And we'll add that to our list of places that we need to go to.
• 26:58
  Speaker: So we'll go over Cannon Beach on the highway.
• 27:03
  Speaker: Highway 18.
• 27:04
  Speaker: Is that what that is?
• 27:04
  Speaker: To see the bandage man.
• 27:05
  Speaker: To see the bandaged man.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: And the runner.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Cannon Beach, we're gonna do over 4th of July.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, so we're gonna go highway 22.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Because that's way north, opposite direction.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: So I was just thinking we could hit them all on this.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: No, here's what that was.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Hit them all on the way.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Pick some up and take them as well.
• 27:21
  Speaker: Well, we could do the 22.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: We'll do highway 22 or the for the crazy person.
• 27:26
  Speaker: The hitchhiker, the hitchhiker jogger.
• 27:28
  Speaker: Yes.
• 27:28
  Speaker: We'll take them with us.
• 27:29
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: And then we'll drop them off at his head ahead.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: The jogger's Rue's boyfriend.
• 27:36
  Speaker: Oh.
• 27:37
  Speaker: Maybe the jogger is Ruth's husband trying to get back to town.
• 27:42
  Speaker: Oh.
• 27:42
  Speaker: So they can get medical attention for the kid.
• 27:45
  Speaker: I don't know.
• 27:47
  Speaker: It could be something.
• 27:48
  Speaker: It could be something.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: It seems that a lot of these lighthouses have a ghost.
• 27:53
  Speaker: Because originally I was just going to do the episode on lighthouses in general.
• 27:56
  Speaker: But then I was like, oh, this one has a lot of stories related to this one specific ghost.
• 28:03
  Speaker: Yeah, more than the others.
• 28:04
  Speaker: So I was like, well, it kind of deserves its own, its own episode.
• 28:08
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Great.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Great topic.
• 28:10
  Speaker: And super interesting.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: And Paul has a picture of the lighthouse that he took years ago.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: And so you'll post it with your podcasters.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: And take nude pictures at night would be super cool when we go there.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: When we go.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: I say we go.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Go team.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: That would be super fun.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I I believe.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I believe in the nautical, shipwreck-y, you know, there's a lot of people that have died on the seas, so it's this is a good topic.
• 28:42
  Speaker: Yeah.
• 28:42
  Speaker: Yep.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 28:43
  Speaker: Keep a lookout for more lighthouse themed episodes.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Would you go on a boat in the nighttime?
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, hell no.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't I I don't want to go on the boat during the day.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: During the day, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:57
  Speaker: Whatever that's I don't I don't want to become the ghost.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to become a ghost.
• 29:03
  Speaker: Yeah exactly.
• 29:03
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• 29:08
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• 29:12
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• 29:14
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• 29:16
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• 29:21
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• 29:23
  Speaker: Bye.
• 29:24
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