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🗓️ 13 December 2023
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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.
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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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