There's the world we all know, with its streets and houses and the bustle of everyday life.

And then there's the other world, filled with places that are set away from the center

of our lives.

Places that most of us rarely interact with.

Five yards are a good example of this, and maybe even hospitals.

We go there for specific reasons, but only rarely, if we're lucky.

But standing at the farthest edge of society, and a place that is held for thousands of

years, is a structure we rarely give a second thought to.

Not because it's unimportant, or because it's irrelevant, but because it's literally

on the edge of our world.

The lighthouse.

There are few buildings that harbor such powerful meaning and purpose in our world.

Without fail though, they have stood watch for millennia, right on the border between

safety and danger, between darkness and light, between hope and despair.

And yet by their very nature, they are isolated and nearly forgotten.

Since the earliest note accounts, right up to modern times, the purpose of these buildings

has changed very little, to cast a light into the darkness so that sailors might better

understand where they are and what's ahead.

They rarely waver, they frequently save lives, and they're universally understood, which

is why we have such a hard time believing that even there in the narrow walls and never

ending stairs, stories have taken root that chill the mind.

There doesn't seem to be a lighthouse in the world without some whisper of unusual activity,

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