Ep. 616 - Heceta Head Lighthouse

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Lighthouses are literally a light in the darkness. Many have been located in remote places and all of them are located in areas that have suffered shipwrecks. Families living at lighthouses faced struggles and sometimes death. The Heceta Head Lighthouse is no different. Today, it has been turned into a bed and breakfast with beautiful views and at least one ghost. A legend claims that a young girl drowned here and her mother has returned in the afterlife, looking to find her. Join us for the history and hauntings of the Heceta Head Lighthouse. The Moment in Oddity features the Book Wheel.

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(Moment in Oddity) "Vanishing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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0:00.4	Hello, you sputacular people. Welcome to the 616th episode of the History Ghostbump Podcast.
0:07.0	Ghost tours for the Theater of the Mind. I'm your host, I.N.
0:09.6	And this is Kelly. Kelly on this episode, we're heading up to the Northwest. We're not looking for
0:15.2	Bigfoot. We're looking for haunted lighthouses. Are we going to be cold? Probably.
0:20.7	We're going to be up in Oregon. We're going to be up in Oregon,
0:21.9	and we are going to be checking out the Hesida Head Lighthouse. Looking forward to it. It doesn't
0:29.8	have a lot of spirits, but it has one that seems to be pretty active. History tells the story of the world and of our lives.
0:40.8	Sometimes that history goes bump in the night.
0:45.2	Broadcasting from the center of oddity and the supernatural in central Florida.
0:51.1	It's the History goes bump podcast.
0:56.8	And now this moment in Audity.
1:09.0	The moment in Audity was suggested by Michael Rogers.
1:11.6	Many of us loved nothing more than snuggling up with a good book, especially in the fall when there's a bit of a chill in the air.
1:19.6	With the busy chaotic world that we are currently living in, having that time to delve into a novel can be difficult to come by.
1:26.6	Back in 1588, there was a unique invention created by an Italian engineer, Agostino Ramelli.
1:34.3	His invention was the book wheel.
1:37.3	The book wheel consisted of a large rotating wooden wheel with individual stands upon which books could be placed. A person sitting in front
1:45.5	of the wheel had the ability to rotate it to locate the next book they wished to read without
1:50.1	ever leaving their chair. How did they go to the bathroom? The book wheel looked very similar
1:58.9	to a water wheel. Often, the book wheel was used when a reader was studying a particular subject and wished to reference
2:05.6	multiple books on the same topic.
2:07.6	To keep the rotating books at a consistent angle, gears were installed on each shelf to counter-rotate
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