Isolated in a Lighthouse: From Dream to Nightmare
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2023
- Many dream of escaping the stresses of city life to live in solitude with their loved ones, but for one couple, their romanticized dream quickly turned into a nightmare.
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That’s our lighthouse in Connecticut! I’ve been fascinated by it since I was a kid-it’s beautiful and unique.
I lived in Old Lyme
@@jennycallaghan1914 I live in Litchfield, but we went to Ocean Beach for years.
It’s a beautiful lighthouse and probably more so when seen in person.
As a kid in the early 1960s we used to go to Bluff Point on the 4th of July and we would always we this, now I live over 3,000 miles from there.
I use to fish the rocks off Eastern point. Love this light house.
My late father was a US Coast Guardsman stationed in New London.. he spent many many nights on this rock .. even on his deathbed he shared stories of the strange things that happened while on duty. Thanks for this !!
I am from CT, worked in New London and never knew the history behind the structure I viewed for years. Lighthouses have always been a charm for me being from New England. Thanks!
You should read the lore of some of our light houses here on the West Coast! But when I lived on the East Coast, I definitely loved some of the New England lighthouses.
I'm from Old Lyme.
If you are ever in California,come to see Point Fermin Lighthouse at the end of Gaffey and Paseo del Mar. It is in San Pedro,California ( county of Los Angeles.) It's not hard to find with all the new Google maps technology now.🤗🕊️☘️
@@IntriguedLioness. The NC lighthouses are interesting also, especially those on the Outer Banks. Very beautiful but significantly different from this one. I had never seen it.
Idk what's in that woman's head but isolated from friends and family sounds like a heaven for me!
Early 304 maybe, had to be in the streets, who knows
Now a days it would make a very interesting b&b! It would not be as isolated or lonely..
Quintessential New England: Traditional architecture, spooky location, a death, and a poem. Lovely story.
Back in 2002 our local Ham Radio club, RASON (Radio Amateur Society Of Norwich) received permission and set up a bunch of Ham radios, mounted and hung antennas to the rails, and spent the weekend ‘Activating’ this lighthouse. The only strange noise we heard was finally attributed, after exhaustive investigation to one of our members, WA4VWV loud snoring reverberating through all of the rooms😀. A grand time was had by all that weekend.
This is the best looking lighthouse I’ve ever seen. I would make a great Airbnb
I LOVE, LOVE light house stories! I have a couple of books on light houses and most all of them have very interesting stories. MORE please!!!❤️👍
I had the absolute pleasure to stay there for a week. It was heaven on earth except for the ghosts.
Being alone is a powerful thing,, both good and bad. Days and days have I spent seeing no one, exchanging not a word. Or seeing someone and a wave in passing. Meeting someone briefly, a glad exchange of words, and then moving on yet again. The extreme yearning for a special someone to share this with, and the palpable envy when meeting someone who is traveling with their special someone. Being alone is a powerful thing,, both good and bad. I know.
Loneliness sometimes brings writer fabric.. Like you..
I helped automate this light in the late 80's. Lots of stories from the crew at the time, odd occurrences. Sounds, doors opening and closing on their own etc.
I like the aesthetic of the short ground floor window. 👍
The short, heartfelt, poem was perfect!
Seems to me, it would be a perfect job for an introvert. All that solitude would be welcomed.
As long as I could get groceries and Amazon deliveries sent by drone I would totally take that job!
I would do it. Gladly.
@@jenpink4298 good one
Can I take my fishing pole?
Boring as heck. Except when it’s terrifying.
I would move in in a heartbeat if I had the opportunity... I would love to live in a place like that
Looking at the design of the lighthouse, there is no way that Ernie flung himself from the roof and into the waves.
Right, he would have landed on the foundation and they would have found his body. He probably left with her to get away from the place.
I thought the same, unless he could jump 20 feet horizontally.
He got a job on My Three Sons.
Totally agree. He would have went “splat” on the concrete apron surrounding the light. Unless he was an Olympic quality broad-jumper! 😂
When I was a kid (50 years ago), I went boating and fishing out by this lighthouse off the coast of New London, CT.
i served on two lightships and two lighthouses while i was in the US Coast Guard and not once did i ever see or hear loud noises, and never did i ever see any ghosts or anything strange out at those two lighthouses. it's like every lighthouse has some kind of strange something or other going on. it make's for some good stories.
This is the first lighthouse you see when leaving subbase Groton. And you know you are home when you are coming back from sea. It was always a heartwarming feeling to see this little light house known by submarinets as point Alpha on the charts.
For a long time, back 50 years or so, there was a painted target on the foundation facing the river that was used for adjusting submarine periscopes. It’s no longer there now.
I’ve lived in Groton and New London my whole life. My son used to LOVE this lighthouse and would always talk about Ernie. I’ll have to show him this. He’s almost 15 now and he hasn’t talked about Ernie in years, I hope this brings back the memories for him. He would always ask what I thought Ernie was doing on holidays and stuff, like this distant relative he never met, he just became part of his childhood. I believe you could actually take board rides to the lighthouse to see it. I’m not sure if that has changed since Covid though. Hopefully it has restarted and some people can get close this summer.
They should never have given the responsibility to one person or family. They should have traded out duties on a weekly or monthly bases with rotating families.
Such a unique & fascinating story!!! I don't know if the lighthouse is haunted or not, but it makes for an amazing story!!! 👍👍🙂
Having pain in my knees I spend almost all of my time inside my house, computer and books and a lot of cofé and sandwiches. I could easily shift to the sea view. A lighthouse is kind of a dream. Yes I do other things that including others, but I can kind of take care of myself. So much to read and learn there is. A wife can be a dream but I can see how a world of one house only can be challenging. And face it, many of us live alone in a city full of people anyway.
Thanks ... For more than sixty years, I was fortunate to have viewed The Ledge Light, from my home in New London.
That's cool. It's like Tillamook head lighthouse in Oregon here...weird history there...like this one
Go back to California...
I served aboard the USS Fulton that was stationed in New London State Pier. I have fond memories of passing the lighthouse enroute to the open seas. Thanks for sharing the backstory of this iconic lighthouse.
I could man it no problem even with ghosts its more safe & friendly then most major cities these days...
The banging sounds were Ernie’s wife and the Captain.
LOL!!!!!
Nearly any of the lighthouses that had successful stays of time had one thing in common, ground to walk upon outside. This one has none, you are confined to a concrete island, which bares no life, and as such you are disconnected from it.
I loved this one! I would like to see more lighthouses, with more inside pictures of the rooms please! I've always been fascinated by lighthouses, especially ones that are supposedly haunted. Thanks Ken!
I would want to say cheers to that sailor for such a lovely poem of that lighthouse. Interesting story. Thanks for sharing.
very pretty lighthouse, she has style and class.
thank you!
I toured the lighthouse at Presque Isle on Lake Erie, and came away with the impression that being a lighthouse keeper would be a big hassle.
I don't know how accurate the story as told was, but it's true that people sometimes have Romantic illusions and dreams that they don't really think through until it's too late. Something can _sound_ fun or relaxing or soothing, but actually be anything but. People romanticize stuff like lonely lighthouses, self-sufficient farming, living in the deep woods or whatever, often without any real experience or knowledge of the actual reality of it.
Before uprooting your whole life or committing to something, you should really try to find out something about the practical reality of what you're contemplating.
Might be fun to stay there a short time, but would get tired of it soon unless I could go to shore often. Not even a place to go for a walk. Wonder if the fishing was good?
Might be a good place to rent out for vacationers.
As a young man I would vacation at Fishers Island in the long island sound. We would take the ferry from New London and always passed that lighthouse.
I've tried to visit every lighthouse in California. Of course, they were on the coast, so not nearly as isolated as poor Ernie's post.
Ernie was my great great grand uncle. I visited the lighthouse once and saw his ghost there. It was scary, especially when the walls began to bleed, but then everything went back to normal a second later.
Ernie was killed by the captain who took his wife, thats why he can't rest.
So, the runaway wife or ship's captain relayed this story to others or what? Did the lighthouse keeper leave a note saying he was going to jump from the top of the lighthouse?
So glad I saw this one!! I’ve taken the New London to Long Island ferry multiple times. Now I know the true (and sad) story about this very unique lighthouse. Tks!!
I would love to live there. I don't go anywhere except emergencies, shopping and doctor visits. all I need is an internet connection and my dog
Cool place 😎
Questions! I see a hall radiator -- how was the house powered and plumbed?
Storms didn't frequently break windows and wreak havoc with this beautiful house? Oh boy, to have all that SPACE.
I would love to see more lighthouses on This House.
Me too!
Hey, I love your millionaires row videos, and I was wondering if you could do a video of millionaires row in Minneapolis/st Paul Minnesota. Thank you and keep up the fantastic work
I have been collecting information and photos of St Paul’s Millionaires Row. Those types of videos take a long time to put together, but I’m fairly certain I’ll have it ready within a few months. Stay tuned!
Awesome, I’m very glad to hear that. One of the really cool parts in summit ave where they historical society has taken care of quite of few of the older homes.
My dad lived two blocks over from Summit on Lincoln Avenue and Fairview. I loved walking down Summit to the Mississippi past St. Thomas. I think that's where my love for old houses comes from.
Omg i loved this video
im an introvert, that gets exahusted by conversation, lighthouse keeper is a job i have thought about many times. i would love to do a 6 month stint on one, though one in my own country
I have a terrible sinus infection rn, time to binge watch my favorite channel, Thank you for your awesome and interesting videos!
As a kid, my school used to take us on school field trips around the estuary that surrounds the CT coast and Long Island. We passed by this lighthouse quite a bit on our way out to the sound.
There were so many ghost stories about this lighthouse and I always felt a sense of eeriness every time our boat went passed it. I can see how it would drive anyone crazy to have to live all the way out there in complete isolation.
There was no Ernie if you look at the list of lighthouse keepers. I think this story came from psychics years ago.
If Ernie killed himself by jumping into the sea, how did the others know he did it and why he did it ?
He ran off with Burt.
I grew up on the Pequot and ocean beach in New London, my birth home and always admired the little house in the water!😍
This beauty with Old Saybrook's Breakwater and New Haven's Five Mile Point are my favorites on the Connecticut Shoreline ⚓️🌊🏝
Very haunted 👻
I saw one of these in an auction… almost bought it.
Then I thought how hard it would be to maintain.
Our fears are also our deprivations..
Great story, it reminded me of the movie “ The Shining “ 😯
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I have a high toleration for my own com and love lighthouses. Even so, I'd be reluctant to try and live there long-term!
With todays multitude of ways for communication and entertainment it would be an introverts dream.
Gorgeous, yes! But live there? No way!
I hope you went to Gilette Castle wen you were in Connecticut!
REALLY ENJOYED VIDEO LOVE LIGHTHOUSES AND THEIR HISTORY
Nice video. I loved in New London and Groton Ct.most of my life and was lucky enough to visit that light house about 30 years ago. It was a cold, hard and un-welcoming house.Scary to be in, no place to live in. Leo.
Thank you for the video!
It doesn't seem to have much of a yard.
When I was in the Coast Guard, I was asked to take Elizabeth Dole, Wife of Senator Bob Dole and then Secretary of Transportation, out to New London Ledge Light for a tour. She was most interested in the history of Ernie, the ghost.
Ledge light is not very isolated, being about 1 mile from the mouth of the Thames river and close to Ocean Beach. The crews that manned the light enjoyed checking out the ladies on the beach with binoculars.
It was one of the last lighthouses to be automated, because it protected the main ship channel into New London via which many Submarines and other naval vessels navigated.
Get some money by adding to the lisit of Airbnb. I think it would be fun to live there for about a week in genuine solitude.
Movie idea: couple of keepers housed in a lighthouse when the zombie apocalypse occurs...
There should’ve been a crew of 8 members to stay there, and take turns where 4 would go inland and get supplies to bring back to the lighthouse.Then the next crew of 4 could even go inland bringing a selective few to train and let 4 other members go back and forth but always making sure some were minding the lighthouse.
Nice idea but that takes money to maintain crew that large and my guess is the town fathers were cheap sob's. RIP Ernie.
Or 2 couples.
Each couple 10 days on, 10 days off.
It’s beautiful! As long as I had a steady stream of Diet Coke, a Macdonald’s value meal#3 DoorDashed over once a month, and of course my THIS HOUSE updates I’d be fine to stay there! A week working retail and those light housers, they’d never wanna speak to anyone again!
Well you just ruined my fantasy! LOL
"Surrounded by rough waters"?!? Lol...sometimes. But there are plenty of calm water days, too, where the missus could have took a dinghy over to the shore and visit with friends. I grew up my entire childhood here and spent countless times at Eastern Point watching my dad's sub come and go. The waters are seldom rough.
I've seen that lighthouse countless times on my way back to Groton. Reminds me of home.
A shame it is not rented out.
Cool story, but I guess isolation was a factor for all lighthouse keepers in past days. The automation is certainly an improvement.
Now this was good because it’s a totally different type of house.
Living near Connecticut in any way seems like a nightmare.
Please do one on the (now abandoned) Tillamook Light in Oregon..a couple tried living in it-and gave up.
That one will not be coming back. It's still an extreme challenge to land a boat there. The Government has declared the rock it's on to be off-limits to everyone; apparently the light will just be allowed to crumble and wash into the seas...
I would love to stay there.
I doubt the light house keeper jumped off the roof. The base of the light house is too great for him to have cleared in the fall. Enjoyed the story. Its funny( or not) how many light houses have tragic stories attached to them.
I don't know, on the one hand, looking at it, I'd say he could have made it with a running start. On the other hand, if he just wanted to drown himself he wouldn't have needed to go to the roof, and if he wanted a sure sudden impact death he would've just stepped off the roof and fell to the concrete instead of trying to reach the water. So yeah, it doesn't quite add up in any direction. Particularly given that, according to my (admittedly limited) research the list of lighthouse keepers does not include an "Ernie."
@@chrisc6857 Hi Chris, thank you for your reply. I think most Lighthouse stories get over romanised. I think lonely light house keepers probably drink too much. I think stumbling off the edge of the docking area was probably this unlucky keepers end. I think the Fog horn wold do me in!
An Anchor Steam would be an appropriate "brew."
This was an awesome video ❤
I bet the foudation will not fail for at least the next few hundred years.... 😉
I could finally have time to write!!😅😉
Living there would suit me as long as I had a boat.
Love it. It makes me smile. Live there? Probably not.
If this were something like forestry lookouts where you sign up to work for a season, then go back to your old life, I'd probably give being a lighthouse keeper a shot. Especially if it was one of those things where I could still work from home and do the lighthouse keeper thing as like a side gig. I can't imagine it requires a ton of daily work. Not now that everything is electric anyway. As for a long-term thing, I suppose that would depend on the time off policy. If I wanted to go on vacation for a week, who would man the lighthouse, that sort of thing.
I would love to live there!!
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I would quite happily live there. Oh to be away from people.
What if the Captain killed Ernie and kidnapped the wife?
Sign me up! I'd take the keeper's job!
Not to mention Day of the Triffids and The Fog☠️
I would like to see inside!
Would love to stay there ❤❤❤❤❤
Since the lighthouse is privately owned I find it highly unlikely it is haunted! 😆
Can be an expensive airbnb 😂
The word fresnel is pronounced furh-nel. The ‘s’ is silent. Love your videos.
I wonder whether you could get cell or Internet there? When automated I guess they had to lay an electrical cable out there because no keeper to change fuel in generator.