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Haunted Road

Even After All These Years, It Still Smells Like Blood

Haunted Road

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

One of the oldest lighthoused in Florida is also the most haunted. For over 170 years the lighthouse has acted as a beacon, seen as far as 27 miles away. But inside are stories of ghosts, scandal, and a bloodstain that just won't go away.

Special Guest: Adam Berry

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0:00.0

Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Minky.

0:07.0

Listener discretion is advised. Of all the places I investigate, believe it or not,

0:18.0

Lighthouses may be one of the saddest.

0:21.2

I think of the Lighthouse Keepers. They're very living to provide a guiding light to keep people from danger.

0:27.6

Their job was built in routine and discipline for to fail meant failing those at sea who so desperately depended on them for safety.

0:37.4

Is it any wonder lighthouses are notoriously haunted that in death those who once manned them still feel enough

0:46.1

of a sense of duty to return and diligently walk hundreds of steps forever manning a beacon

0:52.3

in the darkness? and how sad that something once so

0:55.8

noble and important has long been replaced with technology and super-powered lights and lenses. How do these spirits feel now? What are they trying to

1:06.6

tell us as time and time again they don't leave their posts even after they have long passed away. Perhaps the Pensacola Lighthouse can guide us to an understanding.

1:18.6

I'm Amy Bruni and this is Haunted Road.

1:25.0

If you were to hike along San Carlos Beach near the Pensacola Naval Air Station, and you glanced up on a dark night.

1:35.9

You might see a brilliant beam of light in the sky.

1:39.4

It would pulse on for 20 seconds, then flicker off again, only to light up once more after another 20 seconds.

1:47.2

The beam comes from the 1,000 watt bulb mounted in the Pensacola lighthouse, a beacon that's amplified by the historic over 170-year-old

1:57.6

Fresno lens.

1:59.4

It's so brilliant you can spot it from 27 miles away.

2:04.0

Unlike many haunted places, the Pensacola Lighthouse is still in operation today.

2:09.0

It's not abandoned or in a state of disrepair.

2:12.0

It also doesn't have an on-site keeper operating its machinery anymore.

2:16.2

Its processes are all automated. The roughly 150 foot tall tower looms over the two-story keeper's quarter. The residents now home to home home to historic exhibits for the public is surrounded

2:29.9

by balconies on each floor.

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