The Lighthouse Compass That Spun a Century Later: Penwick Head Mystery
The Lighthouse Compass That Spun a Century Later: Penwick Head Mystery
A brass compass was found spinning on a kitchen windowsill at Penwick Head on November 3, 2011, while the air and weather vane were utterly still - the compass name traced to a lighthouse keeper who lost it almost exactly one hundred years earlier. What connects a century-old lost compass, matching pressure readings recorded in 1911 and 2011, and instruments that disagree with the visible weather outside?
In this episode, we walk through the documented record assembled by a former history teacher and the observations of…
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