June 11, 2025 • 44 mins
Robin and Adam proudly present Episode 313 of Scary(ish)! In this episode, Adam investigates one of the oldest electrical lighthouses in the world and details the haunted history behind the lighthouse and it's shores. Listen, Share, Subscribe, and Review!
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hey, they're spooky friends and welcome to another episode of
the Scarish Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I considered wooing super loud this time, but I didn't
want it to echo off the wall.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's been a while. We've been doing things, Madam Grace
here intro. Yes, I rob a Grace obviously. Yeah, we've
we've been doing things. We had family things that we
had to do, and it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Was uh yeah, I was back in Northwest Indiana region
here over. I think I taught We talked about this
in the last episode at ye take a little bit
longer a break than normal, just because I had to
go bury my grandparents so inconvenient got no more grandparents left.
What But yeah, shout out to my grandparents rip. They
were awesome, extremely wonderful people and I'm honored to be
(00:58):
their grandkid. Oh it was It was nice seeing the
family and getting to sit down and talk with some
of my cousins I haven't seen a long time.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah it was a good time.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, great time. I mean, you know, like it was
like it was very cathartic to see people I haven't
seen probably close to a decade.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It was nice to see people. It was nice to
hang out with people shout out to Yolanda and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Uh Yolanda's fame, and yeah, her new cat, who was
just the cuddliest boy he was, sorry and the best
cat I have ever been around. And of course this
cat loved Robin so much that rather than sleep with
his mother, he would come out into the living room
(01:38):
and curl up on Robin's chest and sleep directly under
her chin every single night we were there, So, you know,
making Yolanda's weekend of trauma of getting rid of her
last two grandparents even more traumatic was Robin stealing away
the new love of Yolanda's life, her cat, her baby boy.
But no, it was a good time to go back,
(01:59):
So thank you all for being sympathetic to the fact
that we need some extra time. And then I got
to come back, and it was the beginning of the month,
which meant that work was going to be insane, and
it was the craziest month we've had since November. But
it went pretty well. Actually so very busy though, so
we weren't able to sneak the episode in. But I
did have a topic that was picked. I've been writing
my script very excited to get to it. But here's
(02:20):
the thing. Y'all. I thought this was going to be
a single topic episode, but I think it's really like
a one point twenty five topic episode. Yeah. Yeah, because
Robin has some stuff she wants to cover. Yeah, or
I want her to cover because she told me about
it and I was like, you got to talk about
this on Scary Ish. Well okay, so wait, wait before
we get into it.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
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(03:01):
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how much stuff Robin curated and created and got to
send out. And you folks were very patient there too.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Yeah, you know the people up there too. There's a
fifty dollars tier that's like a monthly, you know, and
I am like months behind.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Tragically behind, tragically.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Behind, and I literally have a box of stuff that
I need to send to Fey and it's just sitting
there since before we moved.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Is basically our producer for this year.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, and uh, you know, and Shannon, Shannon freaking holds
the fort down, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
He's been He's been at that tier for I think
the longest, uh, anyone has been. So shout out to Shandon.
Lots of folks who really support us, and it really
comes through in the clutch Man. We just had our
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there's your security, and then there's the hosting. And the
hosting is a pretty pretty big change.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well, so we've been so rough with the schedule because
I don't know if you folks are new, but last
year we did have to take a you know, mental
health break. We took some time off and do some
some episodes and uh, but basically a bi weekly wait yeah, yeah, yeah,
because you know, we're adults. We got real we were
(04:21):
we got adult jobs. Unfortunately that we have to do.
If I could I'd sit around and do art and
podcast all day.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You're getting Scarish episodes three times a week from now.
You just wait, you just wait and see.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Uh. Anyway, so what Adam wants me to talk about today?
First thing when we get back from our small trip
to the Midwest is my friend coworker comes into my
cube and goes, have you heard about this? And he
goes into depth about this crazy thing?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So get to some specific So yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Let me give you some specifics. So there is a
wrestler named Shiloh. He wrestles in the Wweka and he
dabbles with the dark web. Okay, he graduated. I don't
know if he graduated. He went to school at Stanford
for computer science or something like that. Right, he knows computers.
(05:21):
He dabbles in the dark web and does random stuff
with stuff on the dark web. And one of the
things that is like the most hype and most recent
crazy thing is he comes across supposedly Okay, I don't
know if there are theories, but he comes across this
website for the store that sells shoes. The place is
(05:44):
called the shoe Man. Okay, it's called the Shoeman. The
keeper of souls, s O l e s like shoe soles, right,
and on this website is just shoes, used shoes, and
there are strange prices. They're strange shoes. All these shoes
are in random sizing and levels of uncleanliness.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Okay, so condition, yeah, condition varies.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Weird conditions. There's like a pair of flip flops that
are covered in mud. There are shoes that are covered
in what looks like blood. There's like one listing that
is only one shoe.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So weird stuff that you would expect to see on
the dark web.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, weird dark web stuff. And each listing is a
name and an age.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What I thought was crazy about this story when you're
telling me, isn't just these parts, And I wanted to
steal this part from you. It's that you don't buy
the shoes.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You don't buy the shoe.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You rent the shoes for a specific amount of time,
and it basically warns you you better fucking return in them.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So let me get into it. So this guy he
goes to buy the shoe, you gotta pay in cryptocurrency.
It's the dark web, So he pays in cryptocurrency. He
puts in his rental period you can rent from one
year to ten years. He puts I think he puts
in like three years. And so he gets these shoes
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in the mail. He unpackaged. It's a pair of So
he gets a pair of shoes in his size. That's
what made him, you know, pick these pair of boots.
He picks a pair of boots, it's his size, and
he gets them in the mail. He's unpackaging them and
a VHS tape falls out of one of the boots,
which is when I saw that, I was just like,
(07:42):
shut up, we need to know what is on this
VHS tape.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
He immediately bean deposit. That was like a tape it's
gonna be an yeah, of the death of the person who.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Originally but that's just my morbid.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
We we do a true crime podcast type thing.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Don't also have like red.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
If the boots look like they are splattered in blood,
that's what it looks like to me. And this guy
he tests it with luminol and hydrogen peroxide just to
test if it is actually blood. And I'm telling my
boss this, and I'm telling him all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
She's taking up the mantle of the story and she
carries carry.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
On the toy and so our boss, uh, he just
yells from his cube like you know, luminall can have
false positives with this, this, this and this, and I'm like,
you're ruining it for me. But yeah, I'm just like
fascinated by this. Right, this guy doesn't have a VCR.
We have to wait days for him to buy a
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VCR that'll play this VHS tape. And then there are
a bunch of okay, so he gets the VHS tape,
all right, he gets the or he gets the the
VCR to play this VHS tape and it's weird. It
plays a bunch of movie clips, like old school movie
clips backwards right, and periodically it'll have messages. So it'll
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say things like, don't lose the product, you have to
add to the collection or become part of a collection.
You kill or be killed, you have to submit a
submission for the collection.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So and the slide that it keeps showing doesn't spell
submit properly. It's some bit some bit. So the wrestler,
because we watched him live stream this. Yeah, he bought
he got a webcam pointed at the TV. He watched
it ahead of times so he would know when to
cover the camera in case there's ending dodgy that might
get his stream band and he said, like a lot
(09:37):
of the grammatical and spelling errors make it funnier, make
it funny and not as scary. So we watched this
stream for.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Like for an hour and a half. Oh my gosh,
the tape was an hour and a half long. And
one of the clips that I did see because I
watched the live stream is it's a girl. You just
see her legs. She's like laying in a tub with
her her feet hanging out, wearing a pair of shoes.
And I didn't get to see the part, but he
was saying that it's just her shoes get splattered and
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what could be construed as blood, you know, in this
clip and each submission, So there's an area for submissions,
and so people submit these videos.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
All yes, okay, but there's submissions are freaking weird.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I think they have to be like morbid. And the
shoe man right will take it as proof accepted or
proof rejected, and we don't know what happens when proof gets.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Rejected or what the criteria is.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I don't know what the price is. But the clip
like like throughout the VHS. It states like, don't disappoint him,
you know, like, don't upset the shoe man. And then
so that it'll have like a name and submission, Like
it tells you you have a slot to put in
your submission, So Shiloh has a slot to put his
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submission in. It literally on the DHS tape says Shiloh
submission and it's a spot for him to put his
submission for the collection. So he has three years to
do it and it'll get according to the VHS tape,
it gets collected at the end of the time period.
When it doesn't say if he sends back the shoes
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or not, it says it will get collected. So I
don't know, product, Yeah, don't lose the product. Don't lose
the product. It's gonna get collected. Like It's just there
are weird things about it. And I was telling my coworker,
I'm like, what if in three years he gets murdered
because he doesn't do what he wants him to do,
(11:39):
you know. So now I'm like, what does he have
to do? What is the proof? Where is this gonna
go from here? Does he need to make a weird
creepy clip of him splattering a different pair of shoes,
you know what I mean. So I am absolutely riveted
and I'm fascinated and I need to know what's gonna
happen with this story, with this weird I don't know. Well,
(12:00):
it could be fake, Okay, it could all be some
weird hype.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, exactly. Someone someone does this thing on the dark
Web because they want to have something weird and the
dark web is the place for that to go.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Or he's just making it all up. He has friends
in film or whatever, and they're helping him build up
his brand, making him weird.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, imagine you had the idea to do this, and
you're like, but I'm going to charge people money to
take these used shitty shoes, but I'm gonna make it
seem like they're creepy or haunted or something like that.
You'd go to the dark Web and you'd charge in crypto.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I'm just saying. He is a wrestler in the WWE.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Okay, he seems very genuine on his stream like that
this is all new to him.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Imagine though he puts the rental period for three years,
or maybe he put a year, I don't remember. But Okay,
we were talking about this at work. Imagine, right, he
puts a rental period for X y Z years, he
fakes getting murdered or whatever right in that at the
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end of that period, and then he fucking comes back
like the fucking Undertaker.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I don't think you would steal the Undertaker's gimmick, but
you know what I mean, like or what would happen
is at the end of three years, nothing happens, and
then like someone kidnaps him at the end of like
raw raw, and like they're like, is that the soul
Man or the soul dude and.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
The introduced a new wrestler. Oh my god, dude.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Okay, three years is a long gestation period for this
entire thing, so you figure he would have picked But
this is like hype. That would be so cool for
the w W to do though, Is that hype? No
cap no ca?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah? I legit, Like that would be very very cool
to do in the wrestling world, like build this off
site hype. I don't know he took he Okay, The
crazy sigest part is he there is a photo shoot.
He did a photo shoot in these boots, so you know,
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like and it's a work photo shoot. It's for the
WWE stuff. He's wrestling stuff, and so he takes a
he has a photo shoot in these freaking boots. Dog,
I can't I'm so invested in this. You guys have
no idea. Adam the whole time I'm talking about this,
when it first was happening, He's like, you are absolutely ridiculous.
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But I'm freaking invested.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I'm like, this is a little bit too weird, just
like you're gonna have to talk to Scarish about this.
But I also wanted to watch the stream. She was
watching it on her phone, and I put it up
on the TV because I was like, let's just see
what this is all about. And like, I am old
as fuck. I'm forty, right, So I remember the days
before like the Internet as we know it, where it
was like peer to peer sharing through irc uh, and
it reminds me of stuff that you would see in
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the early days.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh yeah, you could see some stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, but but it's definitely got that weird fucking anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
That that if you guys want to check.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Out give you regular Shiloh updates.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, if you want to check out his instagram, Shiloh
Underscore WWE not an ad that's just his account sponsored.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I don't think he listens to us. If he listened
to us, though, Hype, stop saying hype, You're almost as
old as me.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hyped. I'm so excited. I'm I am living for this.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Ye, I'm living for this vibe. You're so lame. But yeah,
that's your mini topic and we're gonna go ahead and
move into the main topic. And like I mentioned, I've
been writing this one for a little while now. Uh
So this week I wanted to do something that was
just haunted. I just wanted to cover a haunted something
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or other. The problem is, we keep running out of
haunted stuff to do. It's not like there's not a
million haunted things to do out there, but sometimes you
get a suggestion for a topic and someone's like, oh,
you should cover the haunted dot Dave, and there's like
one sentence on the Internet that you can't even confirm
whether or not the thing exists. But in this particular case,
I got kind of lucky. After doing some digging, I
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found something that just felt rat and then I had
to check and see if we've covered it before, because
that's always the thing. You find a topic and then
you're like, have we covered this before? And luckily we hadn't.
And I had to check a lot to see what
haunted lighthouses we've covered, because we've covered I think seven, yeah,
and I went through all of them just to make
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sure we have not covered this one as far as
I can tell. So without further ado, I present to you,
dear listener, the Suitor Lighthouse. And I want to go
ahead and put a warning on this before we get going,
is that I wrote this over the course of three
separate days. Each day I was in a weird, wacky mood,
So it's going to have a lot of tangents and
(16:50):
fucking just stupid jokes in it. Just stay on the
course with me because it's still fun topic. So just
understand that's what you're in for, vintage Adam tangent bullshit.
So anyways, we haven't done a lighthouse in a minute.
I feel like the last one I did that I
was disinvested into was like three hundred episodes ago.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Wasn't the one that they made the movie out of?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yes, Okay, there's like always a sense of pride too
when we cover something that winds up becoming a movie.
And I did cover one like Robin just mentioned eight
years ago that turned into a movie that Willem Dafoe
was in. What is that from William that you just
said it again? You didn't actually answer, you know what?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Honestly, honestly, I don't even remember. Maybe it's a family
guy reference. I don't know. Cool, this is from when
I was a child, too, dope, you know what?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Any not making fun of me out of the blue
all sudden, AnyWho? This time we're covering the Suitor Lighthouse
like I mentioned, and it is again across the pond.
This particular lighthouse is located to the north of Whitburn,
which is a village in South Tyneside in England, Northeast England.
To be exact. This particular lighthouse had its lamp first
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lit on January eleventh, eighteen seventy one.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I bet it was pretty lit.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You'all remember eighteen seventy one, right, The Franco Prussian War ended,
leading to the formation of the German Empire, which wouldn't
lead to any problems or anything. Ever. The Great Chicago
Fire happened October eighth through October tenth in eighteen seventy one.
While Missus O'Leary's cow is what we were all taught,
at least in the Midwest, what to be the source
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of the fire. We do know now that that was
just a wives tale on the true cause of the
Great Chicago Fire was a fire elemental known as Iffree
being summoned by an inexperienced practitioner of powerful summons. It happens.
We can all agree that the damage would have been
way worse if it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Were believable than a cow.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
You've never heard the missus O'Leary's cow thing and knocked
over a lantern. It started the barn on fire. No, wow,
that must be It must be a regional thing. But
that's what they used to say caused the Great Chicago Fire.
A free that's the culprit. And of course, in eighteen
seventy one, Captain Archibald witho Wicki's expedition into the Arctic
Circle was frozen and the ice causing the crew to explore,
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and the captain did discover a tunnel which he fell into,
locating the decepticon known as Megatron, printed the of the
power giving all spark on his glasses.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You're making fun of me, accidents, You're making fun of
me for you to say the word hype, but you're
talking about things that are.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I get it. I'm sorry she called me out in it.
That historic event took place in eighteen ninety seven, not
eighteen seventy one. It is just a joke. We all
know that Megatron was discovered in eighteen ninety seven. So AnyWho, what.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
You know what, I'm the SpongeBob meme. I'm out.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
There's a billion SpongeBob memes. You need to be a
little bit more specific.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I literally said, I I'm out.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
What did take place in eighteen seventy one was the
lighting of Suitor Lighthouse eleven days into the new year.
Like I mentioned, the man who built the lighthouse was
named Robert Allison, and his contribution to the design meant
that it would be the first lighthouse in history to
be powered by electricity. Or that was the lighthouse in Dungeness,
Kent in eighteen sixty two, or in Southforland in Dover,
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Kent in eighteen fifty eight. Yeah, December eighth, eighteen fifty eight. Basically,
what I'm saying is lighthouses in the late eighteen hundreds
basically all claimed to be the first electric lighthouse. It's
like in the US where every house or hotel claims
to be the most From what I can tell, Dover
in eighteen sixty two was the first one to test
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around its lamp using a carbon arc lamp to be
the first electric lamp to like illuminate the skies for
these sailors to see.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Describe a carbon arc lamp to us.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
It's an arc lamp that uses carbon. From what I
can tell, it was very inconsistent and in testing they
decided they weren't going to go with it. And this
the lighthouse was the first one that was going to
use a lampowered by AC current. And it was tested
and work and consistently was used, so they didn't actually
have just like a fire. But like I said, who knows, man,
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there's a million places that claim they have the first
electric lighthouse, but for all intents and purposes, this seemed
to be the first practical electric lighthouse. At this moment,
you may be wondering, who the fuck cares? I did.
I got very curious if their claim was true because
so many claims get made up nowadays and it was annoying.
You may also be thinking, how does a lighthouse become
haunted or was a lighthouse here really needed? And I
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can answer both of those questions for you. First, I'd
like to say this place may not have become haunted
after it was built, but instead was already haunted by
the time they put.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It here, like the land was haunted.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah. And the reason I posit that is because in
answer to the second question of was a lighthouse needed,
I'll just give you the statistic that came from this
area in eighteen sixty, which is eleven years prior to
when this lamp was lit. There were twenty shipwrecks in
eighteen sixty on the coast of this area alone.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So the ship's wrecked. But did the people die?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yes, okay, lots and lots and lots of people died
at sea. Twenty shipwrecks in eighteen sixty alone. That's a lot, y'all.
Remember eighteen sixty, right, Oh my god? It was the
year twenty ships wrecked the location of the super lighthouse
would eventually be built. It was also the year Abraham
Lincoln would set his plan in motion to stop the
vampire Empire in the Southern States to the states, you
know what. Working with the vampire Henry Sturgis, I can't
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depicted by dominic.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You are not allowed to make fun of me for
using the word ice.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I absolutely am, because this is just normal Adam stuff.
Whereas Robin's taking on a new, younger personality where she
says things.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Like hype, I'm sorry, I'm cooler than you.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Is that what it is? I'm glad you think. So,
let's get back to the lighthouse anyways, do you think so?
Even those shipwrecks were plentiful in eighteen sixty, that area
was dangerous in good conditions, and when the weather got
rough it was quite literally deadly. You can imagine that
as a town trying to grow and having a port
there when you're trying to bring in trade. It's kind
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of a detriment when all the sailors are like, if
you go there, you'll die. So the place had a reputation.
That reputation is no more evident than the story that
happened in eighteen thirty eight. In eighteen thirty eight, because
we're just sort of going back now, there was a
woman named Grace Darling, and yes, this is a real person.
I'm just like not making it up right now, And
she set out with a group of people on her
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fishing boat or a boat that she was captaining that
may or may not have belonged to her. It's kind
of hard to tell, especially during eighteen thirty eight. What
is known is that Grace's father was actually a lighthouse keeper,
so she was very aware of the need for a
lighthouse in that area and the distinct danger her and
her crew were in when the weather came upon them
in that area and the seas started getting rough and
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the tiny ship was tossed. Despite being only twenty six
years old, she was able to navigate through the storm
and the treacherous conditions, apparently using previous wrecked ships that
were still visible above the water as landmarks to prevent
the loss of her vessel, and she saved all sixty
two people aboard that ship. For her actions, she was
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given a silver medal and became a local hero slash
legend who is still remembered to this day. And you
can tell that's actually true because it's twenty twenty five
and I just told you about her. Wow, so pretty
fucking dope. So eighteen seventy one lighthouse goes up. This
place has had a reputation for wrecking ships for so
long that just getting back safely got you a fucking
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medal and a legend status. And as soon as this
lighthouse goes up, ships start being able to gauge the
short distance and avoid the wrecks. And the light itself
was described once it was lit as quote without doubt,
one of the most powerful lights in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Really, yeah, I mean because it was before any of
the crazy ones.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
We have now. Yeah, imagine like going everywhere by candlelight
and someone shows up with one of those giant fucking flashlights.
I was like, you'd be like Witchcraft, But I fucking
love it. If you're wondering who said that, I wonder
that too. There were two references made. Both books are
in the archives on the internet, like the archives dot
org where they like digitize like every book ever made.
And I couldn't find that quote in either of them.
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So it's probably bullshit. But things were good in this
area at this point, So what can go wrong? Right, Well,
if the movie The Lighthouse has taught us anything, it's
that I didn't go see that movie. But the lighthouse
keeper starts having some issues. What was once a seemingly
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normal man starts to become odd, like small ticks here
and there, lapses in attention when other human beings are
talking to him. Mood swings started using terms that were
outside of his age group, like hype ah. People became
concerned about this man's well being. Essentially, I want to
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go ahead and toss the disclaimer that we usually toss
out right now could all be bullshit. Everything else up
to this point has been like historical fact, like Megatron
and the rest of the stuff. But from here on
out it is like the ghost story part of the show. Uh.
It said that not too long into his time as
keeper of the Suitor Lighthouse, he basically went crazy. Uh.
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He would pull tufts of his hair off of his head,
leaving bloody bald spots. He would quote not his flesh
end quote. Although the websites that I did find that
said this didn't really give any details of whether or
not he was gnawing at a specific part of his
body or if he chewed holes off of himself. He
could have just been fucking biting his nails. Yeah, he's
gnawing at himself.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I was gonna say, I do that?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Do you do that?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I bite my nail?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Step I was gonna say, do you not yourself?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
And I bite my cuticles.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I definitely bite my cuticles, and I do that thing
where I bite it a little bit and then all
of sudden it bleeds for it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
One of my fingers has definitely swollen from biting a
little bit too much.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
So you gnaw your own self too, Yeah, so you
could be crazy. Here's here's one thing though. One of
his behaviors is straight up nightmare fuel. And I'll paint
the picture for you, all right. Imagine it's eighteen seventy something.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I'm there, all right.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
You're walking by this lighthouse because cars don't exist yet
in life is meaningless without f one. You look up
at the Suitor lighthouse to catch a glimpse of the
keeper through one of the windows.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
The lighthouse keeper you're not sure of.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
His name because you can't find it anywhere on the Internet,
which takes away from the credibility of his actual existence.
There he stands, okay, and staring out of that window.
You realize he's staring in your direction, unmoving, unwavering, very creepy.
It is unnerving, so you sort of look away and
just start walking again. And then you just hear it
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so you're like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
What is?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You look up sharply, startled by the noise, and you
hear it again as soon as you look up, only
this time you can see what caused it. It's the
nameless lighthouse keeper smashing his face as hard as he
fucking can against the window, over and over and over. What. Yeah,
And that's something that he was said to do often.
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When I say often, the legend states that a fisherman
saw him doing this one night who had never heard
about it or seen it before, and it was so
violent he was convinced this man was being murdered in
that lighthouse, so he rushed into the lighthouse to save him,
or to try and stop the assailant, or to do
something to help. And when he ran in there, he
just saw this dude standing on the staircase at the
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window where he could see him from the shore, just
slamming his face into the window as hard as he
fucking could. And then after that, the fisherman reported it
to the local authorities, and the keeper was sent to
the nuthouse and the stamped crazy on his hand for
the rest of his days. And that was that it
was reported. Later on, because this legend is so often
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told that they needed to inspect the lighthouse for hazardous
materials that could have caused this man. I was gonna
say chemical, And it turns out that they used a bunch
of mercury on the actual and there was some sort
of seepage or leaking. It's very unclear from the verbiage
I can find on the Internet in multiple places, but
essentially he was exposed to this mercury which made him
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go crazy, very similar to how hatters making those fucking
stupid buckles out of mercury would eventually go insane. That's
why the mad as a hatter, So the same thing
happened to this dude. So obviously, if that was the
case and that's why this guy went insane, the haunting
of the Lighthouse is busted, right, Busted makes me feel good? Well, no,
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not really, We'll keep going the next you have a question.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Obviously, No, I just know there's a generation out there
who totally is like, what does that even do?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Busting makes me feel good is a part of the
song from The Ghostbusters and also something I say when
I climax, so hype, all right, a Mark Mark, I mean,
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if you were to sing that at climax, you're having
a pretty good time, all I'm saying. So anyways, the
next lighthouse keeper was the brother in law of Grace Darling,
local legend. I imagine he got the job by just
putting on his resume. I bang Grace Darling's sister, because
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I mean, he's fucking super cool. She was around eighteen
thirty six when this happened. She was twenty six. Now
it's like eighteen eighty one, I think. When this new
lighthouse keeper gets in there, so must have been her
younger sister. So this guy takes over his lighthouse keeper
his daughter and Grace's niece, Isabelle. Isabelle goes to the
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lighthouse often. And now I've done some research on this,
and I can find the stuff I'm about to tell you.
What I can't find is anything creepy taking place during
their lives while they're there. From what I can tell,
this was a wonderful place for both of them in
their lives, and Isabelle specifically very much enjoyed spending as
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much time there as possible. But that said, there are
rumors to this day that both of their ghosts can
be seen at the lighthouse. And on its grounds.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Maybe they enjoyed it so much they never wanted to leave.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Could be. The description of Isabelle is that of a
woman go figure wearing a long flowing dress walking the
grounds inside and out of the lighthouse, often seen on
the staircase. You can also supposedly hear her moving up
and down those stairs because her dress makes a whooshing
sound as she goes. It was supposedly one of her
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favorite spots in life, and in the decade plus her
father was the keeper, she visited often and cooked for
him and their family, friends, acquaintances whoever would join them.
And because of that, her presence is said to be
non threatening. You feel like someone's there, but you don't
feel scared or threatened or watch by. It's nice and
she's viewed as more of an admirer or a protector
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of the area. It is also said that you can
hear noise coming from the kitchen, which sounds like pots
and plans, like banging together, cooking, or just the sounds
of general preparations of meals, the smells of delicious food,
and even whistling, sometimes from someone who would you be
preparing meals for the people they love so pleasant haunting
in this case her father, I was going to.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Say, get to the non pleasant one.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Her father is believed to be seen wandering the grounds
wearing his keeper outfit, and there's a lot of descriptions
of what this guy look like. From what I can
tell from the places I found on the Internet, it
basically means a very nice blue raincoat, long coat whatever
trench coat. I don't think trench coats were around back then,
because trench coats are specified I think by their belt,
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but very long blue raincoat with very big brass buttons,
and then a blue hat that matches the lighthouse, not
a coal lighthouse attire precisely. So this is supposed to
be the traditional outfit of the lighthouse keeper in the
area at the time, according to the Internet, which is
obviously never wrong. His presence isn't as inviting, though. Most
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people who see him claim that they feel very creeped
out before they see him, and especially afterwards when they
spot him. He looks very pale, he's tired looking, he's
very upset. Apparently his face is like this very grim
expression of like anger or sadness are both, and it
might be because he's still fucking working after he's dead,
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which would suck, and he basically walks by. In some
cases it seems like he acknowledges people and is grumpy
that they're there. It doesn't like attack them or anything,
and other cases acts like they're just not even existing.
But after he takes several steps past you, he just
vanishes into thin air. So yeah, I would say that
after he left, I would also be creeped out and
have weird vibes. Some say, though, that this is the
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ghost of another nameless lighthouse keeper or the original mad
Hatter who had mercury poisoning, because you can't really tell
whose ghost is Montage because they all wore the same
outfit basically, so it's a it's a mystery of which
lighthouse keeper it is. But either way, they say he
seems to be upset when you see him. He's not
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in a good mood. He you know, is one of many. Though.
The lighthouse was decommissioned in nineteen eighty eight, and I
mentioned that because it was acquired by the National Trust
in nineteen ninety and they manage it to this day.
They turned it into a tourist destination with vacation rentals
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prices for accommodations chart as low as four hundred and
thirty eight pounds per week.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Oh okay, I was gonna say per night with the.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Longest excuse me, the most expensive week being ten thousand
and fifty six pounds, which is still fairly reasonable. Ten thousand,
I'm sorry, one thousand and fifty six pounds still very
reasonable for seven days. And I really fucking think we
should go. It's really close to where we visited in
the past because it's northeast, so it's kind of close
to Edinburgh kind of, I mean relatively speaking as someone
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from the United States who you know, to get to
the Midwest for his grandparents funeral, had to fly, we
had hours, we had to layover it, and several thousand miles.
It feels close to me.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yeah. It's funny because people in you know, Europe, are like,
why don't you guys travel to different states and stuff?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
States?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
The state is the country.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah, plus we do specifically. Yeah, I want to make
mention though I'm not bringing up the rental thing because
this is the end of the topic. I'm bringing it
up because when they started doing the renovations in nineteen ninety,
it stirred some shit up and spiritual activity has been
increased since then, or they're just leaning into the haunted
aspect of it, so like drama business. Aside from the
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noises that can be heard from Isabelle. The engine room
is supposed to be a hot spot of paranormal activity.
It supposedly has machinery in there that turns itself on
and off.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
IM saying hotspot because the engine room turns out heat.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Sure, I said hot spot because it's hot spot of
like paranormal activity if you want, it's like a state
hot spot because of like actual temperature. Maybe not, because
there's suposed to be cold spots all over this fucking place.
And they say it's supposed to be like frigid cold,
like walk through it where you just know you just
walked put my bed in there. Yeah, I mean he
don't say that. Don't seaze the people. You like it warm,
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if you feel the air moving, you're like.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
It's I would rather live in a fairly cold Like
if I could get somewhere that's like fifty to sixty
degrees all year round, give it to me, you know,
fifty sixty degrees all year round.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I'd rather lad the air moves you're cold.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
I want a blanket. Give me a blanket.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Okay, I'll give you a blanket. And then you're still
gonna say it's cold, yeah, saying I've been dealing with
this shit for twelve years. I just need to sleep
with a fucking fan on, that's all. Anyhow. In the lighthouse,
it's also said that the original lighthouse keepers goes to
like to bang his head on the glass. In his life.
He can still be heard banging his head on the
windows in the engine room. So an engine room is fucked.
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I'll post a picture of this place. It's actually pretty,
including the engine room, and then I have a couple
of other pictures of an artist's depiction. And by that
I mean chat gpt what this haunted ghosts a haunted innkeeper,
ghost innkeeper? What the fuck ever ghost lighthouse keeper would
look like?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I would like to reenact that banging your head on
the window. Go there, just to reenact that.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
It sounds horrifying, But I guess if that's what you want,
I won't stand in your way. A worker of the
lighthouse reported seeing a short, dark figure standing near him
in the engine room. I don't know how recent this
account is. I found this one on Reddit. When he
noticed the figure, it ran behind the machinery. And when
I heard it, like that sounds like someone was fucking
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in there. It's a most He like called people and
like they inspected the room and they didn't find anyone. Wow,
know anyone would go enter out and storways that if
they're fucking secret doorways, how would they know about it? Oh,
you're right, nothing that I've heard of. But we could
go check. While you're banging your head on the window,
I'll be rolling perception checks around the entire place, or
yelling revelli, oh while moving a stick up and down.
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If you're a nerd, you got both of those references,
and you get five cool points. Congratulations. Another thing that
happens aside from the cold spots is that personal objects
go missing, which to me sounds like a front for
the staff will steal from you.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I okay, I've watched The Boy, all right, and stuff
like that happens when you have secret doors and creepy
people in walls.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, for sure. But I mean it also happens in Poltergeist.
When stuff keeps going missing in the house, then it
starts getting pooped out by the portal, just saying paranormal
activity steal stuff too. The personal objects include, but are
not limited to, clothes, cutlery, and tools. Most reappear in
bizarre locations shortly after going missing, but it's been said
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that some items disappear for weeks on end before reappearing.
That would suck because if we traveled there stayed something
important disappeared, and we got back home and like, hey,
we found it, they'd be like, okay, can you ship
it to me? I guess this is said to be
the work of a quote playful poulter Geist, which sounds
more like a ghost to me, because when I hear
a poulter Geist it is German. I'm pretty sure for
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noisy ghost, and I guess you could be playful and noisy,
but poulter geists tend to have a reputation of being dickheads,
so it just sounds like a regular gift.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Is it because of the movie Poultergeist?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Or I mean noisy ghost is because like you're not
just being haunted, but you're being tired bothered by it.
I found a website that has a quote from the
staff regarding the Playful poulter Geist, and the quote goes
a little something. I like this. The poultergeist has never
been described as malevolent, but rather immature and irritating in nature,
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very much like a bored child seeking attention at a
busy family party. Staff and visitors have also reported feeling
a feeling of being watched Invisible hands regularly grab arms
and clothing and pull people's hair. A lot of Poulter
activity is witnessed in the kitchen area and involves the
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levitation of spoons and the opening and closing of drawers
and cupboards. I mean, if I could see a levitating spoon,
that would be fucking dope. Taps mysteriously turn on and
off by themselves, and the coal fire has been known
to ignite itself. That's end quote. That's scary the coal
fire one. I was just like, that is a hazard.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Hey, that's a hazard.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
People die.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Ghosts don't know anything about safety.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Someone tell that playful Poulter geist that that's that's not playing,
not playful.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
It only takes one ember to fly out of that fireplace.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
You know, only you can prevent lighthouse fires. Someone needs
to sell that playful Poulter guyst I think the only
way to really know if this place is haunted, is
for us to go spend a week there. So if
this episode gets shared ten times, I will see from
into thinking we're going somewhere else and take us there,
live stream the whole fucking thing.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
If you take me to Europe.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
If I took you to London and we land, and
you'd be like yes, and then we get on the train,
you'd be like where are we going? And I look
at you and I would smile and be like, no, No,
I'm not fucking going. You get so mad at me,
and I'll stream the whole thing. Just share ten people
share this fucking episode.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
No, it's not happening. We're not going to Europe.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Yeah, she's planning a trip to Japans. We can go
see another fucking f one race in different countries. S Yeah,
probably not, but please just share the episode, y'all. But yeah,
I think this would be super fucking cool to visit
and I would love to do it. Maybe I can
convince Robin to go, regardless of whether or not you
share it, but it'd be awesome you share it. And
in my opinion, this place sounds like a prime location
for creepy stuff. Most stuff in the UK sounds like
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a prime location for creepy stuff because it's got a
ton of history, a lot of history built on top
of history that people have probably forgotten. And if I
was part of that history that was forgotten, I might
be pissed off too and want to haunt that place.
So it's old, definitely has leaned into its haunted reputation,
and at the very least, the location is beautiful, and
I think we'd be lucky to visit it, and who knows,
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maybe we'll get to meet the original lighthouse keeper if
we go. They do have tours, so maybe. Okay, And that,
my spooky friends, is the suitor a light house.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Nice. I always love a good lighthouse. I love a
good ghost so okay.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Cool. You know is that in your dating profile?
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah? Under likes lighthouses, good, good ghosts.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Lighthouses, playful, Poulter geists, hype. You know what what you
make fun of me for everything about this?
Speaker 1 (42:36):
I have moving on? I am moving on from you.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Yeah. I had a feeling that's where you're getting at.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
That's why my dating profilesis lighthouse is ghosts.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Yeah, but you won't even go there, so good luck. Yeah,
that's everything we have for this episode three hundred and
thirteen of Scarish. If you have a story, it does
not have to be about lighthouses, Poulter geists, any of
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Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah. You know, if you guys have locations too where
you are, like, there's this ghost story in my hometown
that you guys should cover, like their topic suggestions. Yeah,
there's a haunted lighthouse, or you know, there's a haunted
car that people see following them down.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
A you know, Robin's just doing pitches for movies.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Now, just send it to us, Email to us whatever
message be your.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Personal story, but topic suggestions.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
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Speaker 2 (44:15):
Everything helps. All the support is absolutely appreciated, and thank
you to everyone who listens and supports us. It means
the world and I think that's just about everything we
have for this episode of Scarish. So Robin go ahead
and sign us out.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Keep on creeping. I don't want to talk to you
guys later.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Ay bye,
Hey, they're spooky friends and welcome to another episode of
the Scarish Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I considered wooing super loud this time, but I didn't
want it to echo off the wall.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's been a while. We've been doing things, Madam Grace
here intro. Yes, I rob a Grace obviously. Yeah, we've
we've been doing things. We had family things that we
had to do, and it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Was uh yeah, I was back in Northwest Indiana region
here over. I think I taught We talked about this
in the last episode at ye take a little bit
longer a break than normal, just because I had to
go bury my grandparents so inconvenient got no more grandparents left.
What But yeah, shout out to my grandparents rip. They
were awesome, extremely wonderful people and I'm honored to be
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their grandkid. Oh it was It was nice seeing the
family and getting to sit down and talk with some
of my cousins I haven't seen a long time.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah it was a good time.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, great time. I mean, you know, like it was
like it was very cathartic to see people I haven't
seen probably close to a decade.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It was nice to see people. It was nice to
hang out with people shout out to Yolanda and.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Uh Yolanda's fame, and yeah, her new cat, who was
just the cuddliest boy he was, sorry and the best
cat I have ever been around. And of course this
cat loved Robin so much that rather than sleep with
his mother, he would come out into the living room
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and curl up on Robin's chest and sleep directly under
her chin every single night we were there, So, you know,
making Yolanda's weekend of trauma of getting rid of her
last two grandparents even more traumatic was Robin stealing away
the new love of Yolanda's life, her cat, her baby boy.
But no, it was a good time to go back,
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So thank you all for being sympathetic to the fact
that we need some extra time. And then I got
to come back, and it was the beginning of the month,
which meant that work was going to be insane, and
it was the craziest month we've had since November. But
it went pretty well. Actually so very busy though, so
we weren't able to sneak the episode in. But I
did have a topic that was picked. I've been writing
my script very excited to get to it. But here's
(02:20):
the thing. Y'all. I thought this was going to be
a single topic episode, but I think it's really like
a one point twenty five topic episode. Yeah. Yeah, because
Robin has some stuff she wants to cover. Yeah, or
I want her to cover because she told me about
it and I was like, you got to talk about
this on Scary Ish. Well okay, so wait, wait before
we get into it.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
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Yeah, and uh, you know, and Shannon, Shannon freaking holds
the fort down, you know what I mean.
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Lots of folks who really support us, and it really
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Speaker 1 (03:59):
Well, so we've been so rough with the schedule because
I don't know if you folks are new, but last
year we did have to take a you know, mental
health break. We took some time off and do some
some episodes and uh, but basically a bi weekly wait yeah, yeah, yeah,
because you know, we're adults. We got real we were
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we got adult jobs. Unfortunately that we have to do.
If I could I'd sit around and do art and
podcast all day.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You're getting Scarish episodes three times a week from now.
You just wait, you just wait and see.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Uh. Anyway, so what Adam wants me to talk about today?
First thing when we get back from our small trip
to the Midwest is my friend coworker comes into my
cube and goes, have you heard about this? And he
goes into depth about this crazy thing?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So get to some specific So yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Let me give you some specifics. So there is a
wrestler named Shiloh. He wrestles in the Wweka and he
dabbles with the dark web. Okay, he graduated. I don't
know if he graduated. He went to school at Stanford
for computer science or something like that. Right, he knows computers.
(05:21):
He dabbles in the dark web and does random stuff
with stuff on the dark web. And one of the
things that is like the most hype and most recent
crazy thing is he comes across supposedly Okay, I don't
know if there are theories, but he comes across this
website for the store that sells shoes. The place is
(05:44):
called the shoe Man. Okay, it's called the Shoeman. The
keeper of souls, s O l e s like shoe soles, right,
and on this website is just shoes, used shoes, and
there are strange prices. They're strange shoes. All these shoes
are in random sizing and levels of uncleanliness.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Okay, so condition, yeah, condition varies.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Weird conditions. There's like a pair of flip flops that
are covered in mud. There are shoes that are covered
in what looks like blood. There's like one listing that
is only one shoe.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So weird stuff that you would expect to see on
the dark web.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Yeah, weird dark web stuff. And each listing is a
name and an age.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
What I thought was crazy about this story when you're
telling me, isn't just these parts, And I wanted to
steal this part from you. It's that you don't buy
the shoes.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
You don't buy the shoe.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You rent the shoes for a specific amount of time,
and it basically warns you you better fucking return in them.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So let me get into it. So this guy he
goes to buy the shoe, you gotta pay in cryptocurrency.
It's the dark web, So he pays in cryptocurrency. He
puts in his rental period you can rent from one
year to ten years. He puts I think he puts
in like three years. And so he gets these shoes
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in the mail. He unpackaged. It's a pair of So
he gets a pair of shoes in his size. That's
what made him, you know, pick these pair of boots.
He picks a pair of boots, it's his size, and
he gets them in the mail. He's unpackaging them and
a VHS tape falls out of one of the boots,
which is when I saw that, I was just like,
(07:42):
shut up, we need to know what is on this
VHS tape.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
He immediately bean deposit. That was like a tape it's
gonna be an yeah, of the death of the person who.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Originally but that's just my morbid.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
We we do a true crime podcast type thing.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Don't also have like red.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
If the boots look like they are splattered in blood,
that's what it looks like to me. And this guy
he tests it with luminol and hydrogen peroxide just to
test if it is actually blood. And I'm telling my
boss this, and I'm telling him all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
She's taking up the mantle of the story and she
carries carry.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
On the toy and so our boss, uh, he just
yells from his cube like you know, luminall can have
false positives with this, this, this and this, and I'm like,
you're ruining it for me. But yeah, I'm just like
fascinated by this. Right, this guy doesn't have a VCR.
We have to wait days for him to buy a
(08:41):
VCR that'll play this VHS tape. And then there are
a bunch of okay, so he gets the VHS tape,
all right, he gets the or he gets the the
VCR to play this VHS tape and it's weird. It
plays a bunch of movie clips, like old school movie
clips backwards right, and periodically it'll have messages. So it'll
(09:02):
say things like, don't lose the product, you have to
add to the collection or become part of a collection.
You kill or be killed, you have to submit a
submission for the collection.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So and the slide that it keeps showing doesn't spell
submit properly. It's some bit some bit. So the wrestler,
because we watched him live stream this. Yeah, he bought
he got a webcam pointed at the TV. He watched
it ahead of times so he would know when to
cover the camera in case there's ending dodgy that might
get his stream band and he said, like a lot
(09:37):
of the grammatical and spelling errors make it funnier, make
it funny and not as scary. So we watched this
stream for.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Like for an hour and a half. Oh my gosh,
the tape was an hour and a half long. And
one of the clips that I did see because I
watched the live stream is it's a girl. You just
see her legs. She's like laying in a tub with
her her feet hanging out, wearing a pair of shoes.
And I didn't get to see the part, but he
was saying that it's just her shoes get splattered and
(10:06):
what could be construed as blood, you know, in this
clip and each submission, So there's an area for submissions,
and so people submit these videos.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
All yes, okay, but there's submissions are freaking weird.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I think they have to be like morbid. And the
shoe man right will take it as proof accepted or
proof rejected, and we don't know what happens when proof gets.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Rejected or what the criteria is.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I don't know what the price is. But the clip
like like throughout the VHS. It states like, don't disappoint him,
you know, like, don't upset the shoe man. And then
so that it'll have like a name and submission, Like
it tells you you have a slot to put in
your submission, So Shiloh has a slot to put his
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submission in. It literally on the DHS tape says Shiloh
submission and it's a spot for him to put his
submission for the collection. So he has three years to
do it and it'll get according to the VHS tape,
it gets collected at the end of the time period.
When it doesn't say if he sends back the shoes
(11:18):
or not, it says it will get collected. So I
don't know, product, Yeah, don't lose the product. Don't lose
the product. It's gonna get collected. Like It's just there
are weird things about it. And I was telling my coworker,
I'm like, what if in three years he gets murdered
because he doesn't do what he wants him to do,
(11:39):
you know. So now I'm like, what does he have
to do? What is the proof? Where is this gonna
go from here? Does he need to make a weird
creepy clip of him splattering a different pair of shoes,
you know what I mean. So I am absolutely riveted
and I'm fascinated and I need to know what's gonna
happen with this story, with this weird I don't know. Well,
(12:00):
it could be fake, Okay, it could all be some
weird hype.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, exactly. Someone someone does this thing on the dark
Web because they want to have something weird and the
dark web is the place for that to go.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Or he's just making it all up. He has friends
in film or whatever, and they're helping him build up
his brand, making him weird.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Well, imagine you had the idea to do this, and
you're like, but I'm going to charge people money to
take these used shitty shoes, but I'm gonna make it
seem like they're creepy or haunted or something like that.
You'd go to the dark Web and you'd charge in crypto.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I'm just saying. He is a wrestler in the WWE.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Okay, he seems very genuine on his stream like that
this is all new to him.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Imagine though he puts the rental period for three years,
or maybe he put a year, I don't remember. But Okay,
we were talking about this at work. Imagine, right, he
puts a rental period for X y Z years, he
fakes getting murdered or whatever right in that at the
(13:03):
end of that period, and then he fucking comes back
like the fucking Undertaker.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I don't think you would steal the Undertaker's gimmick, but
you know what I mean, like or what would happen
is at the end of three years, nothing happens, and
then like someone kidnaps him at the end of like
raw raw, and like they're like, is that the soul
Man or the soul dude and.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
The introduced a new wrestler. Oh my god, dude.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Okay, three years is a long gestation period for this
entire thing, so you figure he would have picked But
this is like hype. That would be so cool for
the w W to do though, Is that hype? No
cap no ca?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah? I legit, Like that would be very very cool
to do in the wrestling world, like build this off
site hype. I don't know he took he Okay, The
crazy sigest part is he there is a photo shoot.
He did a photo shoot in these boots, so you know,
(14:09):
like and it's a work photo shoot. It's for the
WWE stuff. He's wrestling stuff, and so he takes a
he has a photo shoot in these freaking boots. Dog,
I can't I'm so invested in this. You guys have
no idea. Adam the whole time I'm talking about this,
when it first was happening, He's like, you are absolutely ridiculous.
(14:31):
But I'm freaking invested.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I'm like, this is a little bit too weird, just
like you're gonna have to talk to Scarish about this.
But I also wanted to watch the stream. She was
watching it on her phone, and I put it up
on the TV because I was like, let's just see
what this is all about. And like, I am old
as fuck. I'm forty, right, So I remember the days
before like the Internet as we know it, where it
was like peer to peer sharing through irc uh, and
it reminds me of stuff that you would see in
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the early days.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh yeah, you could see some stuff.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, but but it's definitely got that weird fucking anyway.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
That that if you guys want to check.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Out give you regular Shiloh updates.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Yeah, if you want to check out his instagram, Shiloh
Underscore WWE not an ad that's just his account sponsored.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I don't think he listens to us. If he listened
to us, though, Hype, stop saying hype, You're almost as
old as me.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hyped. I'm so excited. I'm I am living for this.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Ye, I'm living for this vibe. You're so lame. But yeah,
that's your mini topic and we're gonna go ahead and
move into the main topic. And like I mentioned, I've
been writing this one for a little while now. Uh
So this week I wanted to do something that was
just haunted. I just wanted to cover a haunted something
(15:47):
or other. The problem is, we keep running out of
haunted stuff to do. It's not like there's not a
million haunted things to do out there, but sometimes you
get a suggestion for a topic and someone's like, oh,
you should cover the haunted dot Dave, and there's like
one sentence on the Internet that you can't even confirm
whether or not the thing exists. But in this particular case,
I got kind of lucky. After doing some digging, I
(16:09):
found something that just felt rat and then I had
to check and see if we've covered it before, because
that's always the thing. You find a topic and then
you're like, have we covered this before? And luckily we hadn't.
And I had to check a lot to see what
haunted lighthouses we've covered, because we've covered I think seven, yeah,
and I went through all of them just to make
(16:29):
sure we have not covered this one as far as
I can tell. So without further ado, I present to you,
dear listener, the Suitor Lighthouse. And I want to go
ahead and put a warning on this before we get going,
is that I wrote this over the course of three
separate days. Each day I was in a weird, wacky mood,
So it's going to have a lot of tangents and
(16:50):
fucking just stupid jokes in it. Just stay on the
course with me because it's still fun topic. So just
understand that's what you're in for, vintage Adam tangent bullshit.
So anyways, we haven't done a lighthouse in a minute.
I feel like the last one I did that I
was disinvested into was like three hundred episodes ago.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Wasn't the one that they made the movie out of?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Yes, Okay, there's like always a sense of pride too
when we cover something that winds up becoming a movie.
And I did cover one like Robin just mentioned eight
years ago that turned into a movie that Willem Dafoe
was in. What is that from William that you just
said it again? You didn't actually answer, you know what?
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Honestly, honestly, I don't even remember. Maybe it's a family
guy reference. I don't know. Cool, this is from when
I was a child, too, dope, you know what?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Any not making fun of me out of the blue
all sudden, AnyWho? This time we're covering the Suitor Lighthouse
like I mentioned, and it is again across the pond.
This particular lighthouse is located to the north of Whitburn,
which is a village in South Tyneside in England, Northeast England.
To be exact. This particular lighthouse had its lamp first
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lit on January eleventh, eighteen seventy one.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I bet it was pretty lit.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
You'all remember eighteen seventy one, right, The Franco Prussian War ended,
leading to the formation of the German Empire, which wouldn't
lead to any problems or anything. Ever. The Great Chicago
Fire happened October eighth through October tenth in eighteen seventy one.
While Missus O'Leary's cow is what we were all taught,
at least in the Midwest, what to be the source
(18:32):
of the fire. We do know now that that was
just a wives tale on the true cause of the
Great Chicago Fire was a fire elemental known as Iffree
being summoned by an inexperienced practitioner of powerful summons. It happens.
We can all agree that the damage would have been
way worse if it.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Were believable than a cow.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
You've never heard the missus O'Leary's cow thing and knocked
over a lantern. It started the barn on fire. No, wow,
that must be It must be a regional thing. But
that's what they used to say caused the Great Chicago Fire.
A free that's the culprit. And of course, in eighteen
seventy one, Captain Archibald witho Wicki's expedition into the Arctic
Circle was frozen and the ice causing the crew to explore,
(19:11):
and the captain did discover a tunnel which he fell into,
locating the decepticon known as Megatron, printed the of the
power giving all spark on his glasses.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You're making fun of me, accidents, You're making fun of
me for you to say the word hype, but you're
talking about things that are.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I get it. I'm sorry she called me out in it.
That historic event took place in eighteen ninety seven, not
eighteen seventy one. It is just a joke. We all
know that Megatron was discovered in eighteen ninety seven. So AnyWho, what.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
You know what, I'm the SpongeBob meme. I'm out.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
There's a billion SpongeBob memes. You need to be a
little bit more specific.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
I literally said, I I'm out.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
What did take place in eighteen seventy one was the
lighting of Suitor Lighthouse eleven days into the new year.
Like I mentioned, the man who built the lighthouse was
named Robert Allison, and his contribution to the design meant
that it would be the first lighthouse in history to
be powered by electricity. Or that was the lighthouse in Dungeness,
Kent in eighteen sixty two, or in Southforland in Dover,
(20:14):
Kent in eighteen fifty eight. Yeah, December eighth, eighteen fifty eight. Basically,
what I'm saying is lighthouses in the late eighteen hundreds
basically all claimed to be the first electric lighthouse. It's
like in the US where every house or hotel claims
to be the most From what I can tell, Dover
in eighteen sixty two was the first one to test
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around its lamp using a carbon arc lamp to be
the first electric lamp to like illuminate the skies for
these sailors to see.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Describe a carbon arc lamp to us.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
It's an arc lamp that uses carbon. From what I
can tell, it was very inconsistent and in testing they
decided they weren't going to go with it. And this
the lighthouse was the first one that was going to
use a lampowered by AC current. And it was tested
and work and consistently was used, so they didn't actually
have just like a fire. But like I said, who knows, man,
(21:09):
there's a million places that claim they have the first
electric lighthouse, but for all intents and purposes, this seemed
to be the first practical electric lighthouse. At this moment,
you may be wondering, who the fuck cares? I did.
I got very curious if their claim was true because
so many claims get made up nowadays and it was annoying.
You may also be thinking, how does a lighthouse become
haunted or was a lighthouse here really needed? And I
(21:34):
can answer both of those questions for you. First, I'd
like to say this place may not have become haunted
after it was built, but instead was already haunted by
the time they put.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
It here, like the land was haunted.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah. And the reason I posit that is because in
answer to the second question of was a lighthouse needed,
I'll just give you the statistic that came from this
area in eighteen sixty, which is eleven years prior to
when this lamp was lit. There were twenty shipwrecks in
eighteen sixty on the coast of this area alone.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So the ship's wrecked. But did the people die?
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yes, okay, lots and lots and lots of people died
at sea. Twenty shipwrecks in eighteen sixty alone. That's a lot, y'all.
Remember eighteen sixty, right, Oh my god? It was the
year twenty ships wrecked the location of the super lighthouse
would eventually be built. It was also the year Abraham
Lincoln would set his plan in motion to stop the
vampire Empire in the Southern States to the states, you
know what. Working with the vampire Henry Sturgis, I can't
(22:29):
depicted by dominic.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You are not allowed to make fun of me for
using the word ice.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I absolutely am, because this is just normal Adam stuff.
Whereas Robin's taking on a new, younger personality where she
says things.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Like hype, I'm sorry, I'm cooler than you.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Is that what it is? I'm glad you think. So,
let's get back to the lighthouse anyways, do you think so?
Even those shipwrecks were plentiful in eighteen sixty, that area
was dangerous in good conditions, and when the weather got
rough it was quite literally deadly. You can imagine that
as a town trying to grow and having a port
there when you're trying to bring in trade. It's kind
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of a detriment when all the sailors are like, if
you go there, you'll die. So the place had a reputation.
That reputation is no more evident than the story that
happened in eighteen thirty eight. In eighteen thirty eight, because
we're just sort of going back now, there was a
woman named Grace Darling, and yes, this is a real person.
I'm just like not making it up right now, And
she set out with a group of people on her
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fishing boat or a boat that she was captaining that
may or may not have belonged to her. It's kind
of hard to tell, especially during eighteen thirty eight. What
is known is that Grace's father was actually a lighthouse keeper,
so she was very aware of the need for a
lighthouse in that area and the distinct danger her and
her crew were in when the weather came upon them
in that area and the seas started getting rough and
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the tiny ship was tossed. Despite being only twenty six
years old, she was able to navigate through the storm
and the treacherous conditions, apparently using previous wrecked ships that
were still visible above the water as landmarks to prevent
the loss of her vessel, and she saved all sixty
two people aboard that ship. For her actions, she was
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given a silver medal and became a local hero slash
legend who is still remembered to this day. And you
can tell that's actually true because it's twenty twenty five
and I just told you about her. Wow, so pretty
fucking dope. So eighteen seventy one lighthouse goes up. This
place has had a reputation for wrecking ships for so
long that just getting back safely got you a fucking
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medal and a legend status. And as soon as this
lighthouse goes up, ships start being able to gauge the
short distance and avoid the wrecks. And the light itself
was described once it was lit as quote without doubt,
one of the most powerful lights in the world.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Really, yeah, I mean because it was before any of
the crazy ones.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
We have now. Yeah, imagine like going everywhere by candlelight
and someone shows up with one of those giant fucking flashlights.
I was like, you'd be like Witchcraft, But I fucking
love it. If you're wondering who said that, I wonder
that too. There were two references made. Both books are
in the archives on the internet, like the archives dot
org where they like digitize like every book ever made.
And I couldn't find that quote in either of them.
(25:15):
So it's probably bullshit. But things were good in this
area at this point, So what can go wrong? Right, Well,
if the movie The Lighthouse has taught us anything, it's
that I didn't go see that movie. But the lighthouse
keeper starts having some issues. What was once a seemingly
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normal man starts to become odd, like small ticks here
and there, lapses in attention when other human beings are
talking to him. Mood swings started using terms that were
outside of his age group, like hype ah. People became
concerned about this man's well being. Essentially, I want to
(25:56):
go ahead and toss the disclaimer that we usually toss
out right now could all be bullshit. Everything else up
to this point has been like historical fact, like Megatron
and the rest of the stuff. But from here on
out it is like the ghost story part of the show. Uh.
It said that not too long into his time as
keeper of the Suitor Lighthouse, he basically went crazy. Uh.
(26:17):
He would pull tufts of his hair off of his head,
leaving bloody bald spots. He would quote not his flesh
end quote. Although the websites that I did find that
said this didn't really give any details of whether or
not he was gnawing at a specific part of his
body or if he chewed holes off of himself. He
could have just been fucking biting his nails. Yeah, he's
gnawing at himself.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I was gonna say, I do that?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Do you do that?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I bite my nail?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Step I was gonna say, do you not yourself?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
And I bite my cuticles.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
I definitely bite my cuticles, and I do that thing
where I bite it a little bit and then all
of sudden it bleeds for it.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
One of my fingers has definitely swollen from biting a
little bit too much.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
So you gnaw your own self too, Yeah, so you
could be crazy. Here's here's one thing though. One of
his behaviors is straight up nightmare fuel. And I'll paint
the picture for you, all right. Imagine it's eighteen seventy something.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
I'm there, all right.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
You're walking by this lighthouse because cars don't exist yet
in life is meaningless without f one. You look up
at the Suitor lighthouse to catch a glimpse of the
keeper through one of the windows.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
The lighthouse keeper you're not sure of.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
His name because you can't find it anywhere on the Internet,
which takes away from the credibility of his actual existence.
There he stands, okay, and staring out of that window.
You realize he's staring in your direction, unmoving, unwavering, very creepy.
It is unnerving, so you sort of look away and
just start walking again. And then you just hear it
(27:44):
so you're like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1 (27:45):
What is?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You look up sharply, startled by the noise, and you
hear it again as soon as you look up, only
this time you can see what caused it. It's the
nameless lighthouse keeper smashing his face as hard as he
fucking can against the window, over and over and over. What. Yeah,
And that's something that he was said to do often.
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When I say often, the legend states that a fisherman
saw him doing this one night who had never heard
about it or seen it before, and it was so
violent he was convinced this man was being murdered in
that lighthouse, so he rushed into the lighthouse to save him,
or to try and stop the assailant, or to do
something to help. And when he ran in there, he
just saw this dude standing on the staircase at the
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window where he could see him from the shore, just
slamming his face into the window as hard as he
fucking could. And then after that, the fisherman reported it
to the local authorities, and the keeper was sent to
the nuthouse and the stamped crazy on his hand for
the rest of his days. And that was that it
was reported. Later on, because this legend is so often
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told that they needed to inspect the lighthouse for hazardous
materials that could have caused this man. I was gonna
say chemical, And it turns out that they used a bunch
of mercury on the actual and there was some sort
of seepage or leaking. It's very unclear from the verbiage
I can find on the Internet in multiple places, but
essentially he was exposed to this mercury which made him
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go crazy, very similar to how hatters making those fucking
stupid buckles out of mercury would eventually go insane. That's
why the mad as a hatter, So the same thing
happened to this dude. So obviously, if that was the
case and that's why this guy went insane, the haunting
of the Lighthouse is busted, right, Busted makes me feel good? Well, no,
(29:33):
not really, We'll keep going the next you have a question.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Obviously, No, I just know there's a generation out there
who totally is like, what does that even do?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Busting makes me feel good is a part of the
song from The Ghostbusters and also something I say when
I climax, so hype, all right, a Mark Mark, I mean,
(30:03):
if you were to sing that at climax, you're having
a pretty good time, all I'm saying. So anyways, the
next lighthouse keeper was the brother in law of Grace Darling,
local legend. I imagine he got the job by just
putting on his resume. I bang Grace Darling's sister, because
(30:24):
I mean, he's fucking super cool. She was around eighteen
thirty six when this happened. She was twenty six. Now
it's like eighteen eighty one, I think. When this new
lighthouse keeper gets in there, so must have been her
younger sister. So this guy takes over his lighthouse keeper
his daughter and Grace's niece, Isabelle. Isabelle goes to the
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lighthouse often. And now I've done some research on this,
and I can find the stuff I'm about to tell you.
What I can't find is anything creepy taking place during
their lives while they're there. From what I can tell,
this was a wonderful place for both of them in
their lives, and Isabelle specifically very much enjoyed spending as
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much time there as possible. But that said, there are
rumors to this day that both of their ghosts can
be seen at the lighthouse. And on its grounds.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
Maybe they enjoyed it so much they never wanted to leave.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Could be. The description of Isabelle is that of a
woman go figure wearing a long flowing dress walking the
grounds inside and out of the lighthouse, often seen on
the staircase. You can also supposedly hear her moving up
and down those stairs because her dress makes a whooshing
sound as she goes. It was supposedly one of her
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favorite spots in life, and in the decade plus her
father was the keeper, she visited often and cooked for
him and their family, friends, acquaintances whoever would join them.
And because of that, her presence is said to be
non threatening. You feel like someone's there, but you don't
feel scared or threatened or watch by. It's nice and
she's viewed as more of an admirer or a protector
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of the area. It is also said that you can
hear noise coming from the kitchen, which sounds like pots
and plans, like banging together, cooking, or just the sounds
of general preparations of meals, the smells of delicious food,
and even whistling, sometimes from someone who would you be
preparing meals for the people they love so pleasant haunting
in this case her father, I was going to.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Say, get to the non pleasant one.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Her father is believed to be seen wandering the grounds
wearing his keeper outfit, and there's a lot of descriptions
of what this guy look like. From what I can
tell from the places I found on the Internet, it
basically means a very nice blue raincoat, long coat whatever
trench coat. I don't think trench coats were around back then,
because trench coats are specified I think by their belt,
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but very long blue raincoat with very big brass buttons,
and then a blue hat that matches the lighthouse, not
a coal lighthouse attire precisely. So this is supposed to
be the traditional outfit of the lighthouse keeper in the
area at the time, according to the Internet, which is
obviously never wrong. His presence isn't as inviting, though. Most
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people who see him claim that they feel very creeped
out before they see him, and especially afterwards when they
spot him. He looks very pale, he's tired looking, he's
very upset. Apparently his face is like this very grim
expression of like anger or sadness are both, and it
might be because he's still fucking working after he's dead,
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which would suck, and he basically walks by. In some
cases it seems like he acknowledges people and is grumpy
that they're there. It doesn't like attack them or anything,
and other cases acts like they're just not even existing.
But after he takes several steps past you, he just
vanishes into thin air. So yeah, I would say that
after he left, I would also be creeped out and
have weird vibes. Some say, though, that this is the
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ghost of another nameless lighthouse keeper or the original mad
Hatter who had mercury poisoning, because you can't really tell
whose ghost is Montage because they all wore the same
outfit basically, so it's a it's a mystery of which
lighthouse keeper it is. But either way, they say he
seems to be upset when you see him. He's not
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in a good mood. He you know, is one of many. Though.
The lighthouse was decommissioned in nineteen eighty eight, and I
mentioned that because it was acquired by the National Trust
in nineteen ninety and they manage it to this day.
They turned it into a tourist destination with vacation rentals
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prices for accommodations chart as low as four hundred and
thirty eight pounds per week.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Oh okay, I was gonna say per night with the.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Longest excuse me, the most expensive week being ten thousand
and fifty six pounds, which is still fairly reasonable. Ten thousand,
I'm sorry, one thousand and fifty six pounds still very
reasonable for seven days. And I really fucking think we
should go. It's really close to where we visited in
the past because it's northeast, so it's kind of close
to Edinburgh kind of, I mean relatively speaking as someone
(34:55):
from the United States who you know, to get to
the Midwest for his grandparents funeral, had to fly, we
had hours, we had to layover it, and several thousand miles.
It feels close to me.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yeah. It's funny because people in you know, Europe, are like,
why don't you guys travel to different states and stuff?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
States?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
The state is the country.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Yeah, plus we do specifically. Yeah, I want to make
mention though I'm not bringing up the rental thing because
this is the end of the topic. I'm bringing it
up because when they started doing the renovations in nineteen ninety,
it stirred some shit up and spiritual activity has been
increased since then, or they're just leaning into the haunted
aspect of it, so like drama business. Aside from the
(35:38):
noises that can be heard from Isabelle. The engine room
is supposed to be a hot spot of paranormal activity.
It supposedly has machinery in there that turns itself on
and off.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
IM saying hotspot because the engine room turns out heat.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Sure, I said hot spot because it's hot spot of
like paranormal activity if you want, it's like a state
hot spot because of like actual temperature. Maybe not, because
there's suposed to be cold spots all over this fucking place.
And they say it's supposed to be like frigid cold,
like walk through it where you just know you just
walked put my bed in there. Yeah, I mean he
don't say that. Don't seaze the people. You like it warm,
(36:14):
if you feel the air moving, you're like.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
It's I would rather live in a fairly cold Like
if I could get somewhere that's like fifty to sixty
degrees all year round, give it to me, you know,
fifty sixty degrees all year round.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I'd rather lad the air moves you're cold.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
I want a blanket. Give me a blanket.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
Okay, I'll give you a blanket. And then you're still
gonna say it's cold, yeah, saying I've been dealing with
this shit for twelve years. I just need to sleep
with a fucking fan on, that's all. Anyhow. In the lighthouse,
it's also said that the original lighthouse keepers goes to
like to bang his head on the glass. In his life.
He can still be heard banging his head on the
windows in the engine room. So an engine room is fucked.
(36:55):
I'll post a picture of this place. It's actually pretty,
including the engine room, and then I have a couple
of other pictures of an artist's depiction. And by that
I mean chat gpt what this haunted ghosts a haunted innkeeper,
ghost innkeeper? What the fuck ever ghost lighthouse keeper would
look like?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
I would like to reenact that banging your head on
the window. Go there, just to reenact that.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
It sounds horrifying, But I guess if that's what you want,
I won't stand in your way. A worker of the
lighthouse reported seeing a short, dark figure standing near him
in the engine room. I don't know how recent this
account is. I found this one on Reddit. When he
noticed the figure, it ran behind the machinery. And when
I heard it, like that sounds like someone was fucking
(37:38):
in there. It's a most He like called people and
like they inspected the room and they didn't find anyone. Wow,
know anyone would go enter out and storways that if
they're fucking secret doorways, how would they know about it? Oh,
you're right, nothing that I've heard of. But we could
go check. While you're banging your head on the window,
I'll be rolling perception checks around the entire place, or
yelling revelli, oh while moving a stick up and down.
(38:01):
If you're a nerd, you got both of those references,
and you get five cool points. Congratulations. Another thing that
happens aside from the cold spots is that personal objects
go missing, which to me sounds like a front for
the staff will steal from you.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
I okay, I've watched The Boy, all right, and stuff
like that happens when you have secret doors and creepy
people in walls.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, for sure. But I mean it also happens in Poltergeist.
When stuff keeps going missing in the house, then it
starts getting pooped out by the portal, just saying paranormal
activity steal stuff too. The personal objects include, but are
not limited to, clothes, cutlery, and tools. Most reappear in
bizarre locations shortly after going missing, but it's been said
(38:48):
that some items disappear for weeks on end before reappearing.
That would suck because if we traveled there stayed something
important disappeared, and we got back home and like, hey,
we found it, they'd be like, okay, can you ship
it to me? I guess this is said to be
the work of a quote playful poulter Geist, which sounds
more like a ghost to me, because when I hear
a poulter Geist it is German. I'm pretty sure for
(39:10):
noisy ghost, and I guess you could be playful and noisy,
but poulter geists tend to have a reputation of being dickheads,
so it just sounds like a regular gift.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Is it because of the movie Poultergeist?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Or I mean noisy ghost is because like you're not
just being haunted, but you're being tired bothered by it.
I found a website that has a quote from the
staff regarding the Playful poulter Geist, and the quote goes
a little something. I like this. The poultergeist has never
been described as malevolent, but rather immature and irritating in nature,
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very much like a bored child seeking attention at a
busy family party. Staff and visitors have also reported feeling
a feeling of being watched Invisible hands regularly grab arms
and clothing and pull people's hair. A lot of Poulter
activity is witnessed in the kitchen area and involves the
(40:03):
levitation of spoons and the opening and closing of drawers
and cupboards. I mean, if I could see a levitating spoon,
that would be fucking dope. Taps mysteriously turn on and
off by themselves, and the coal fire has been known
to ignite itself. That's end quote. That's scary the coal
fire one. I was just like, that is a hazard.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Hey, that's a hazard.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
People die.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Ghosts don't know anything about safety.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Someone tell that playful Poulter geist that that's that's not playing,
not playful.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
It only takes one ember to fly out of that fireplace.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
You know, only you can prevent lighthouse fires. Someone needs
to sell that playful Poulter guyst I think the only
way to really know if this place is haunted, is
for us to go spend a week there. So if
this episode gets shared ten times, I will see from
into thinking we're going somewhere else and take us there,
live stream the whole fucking thing.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
If you take me to Europe.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
If I took you to London and we land, and
you'd be like yes, and then we get on the train,
you'd be like where are we going? And I look
at you and I would smile and be like, no, No,
I'm not fucking going. You get so mad at me,
and I'll stream the whole thing. Just share ten people
share this fucking episode.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
No, it's not happening. We're not going to Europe.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Yeah, she's planning a trip to Japans. We can go
see another fucking f one race in different countries. S Yeah,
probably not, but please just share the episode, y'all. But yeah,
I think this would be super fucking cool to visit
and I would love to do it. Maybe I can
convince Robin to go, regardless of whether or not you
share it, but it'd be awesome you share it. And
in my opinion, this place sounds like a prime location
for creepy stuff. Most stuff in the UK sounds like
(41:38):
a prime location for creepy stuff because it's got a
ton of history, a lot of history built on top
of history that people have probably forgotten. And if I
was part of that history that was forgotten, I might
be pissed off too and want to haunt that place.
So it's old, definitely has leaned into its haunted reputation,
and at the very least, the location is beautiful, and
I think we'd be lucky to visit it, and who knows,
(41:58):
maybe we'll get to meet the original lighthouse keeper if
we go. They do have tours, so maybe. Okay, And that,
my spooky friends, is the suitor a light house.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Nice. I always love a good lighthouse. I love a
good ghost so okay.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Cool. You know is that in your dating profile?
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah? Under likes lighthouses, good, good ghosts.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Lighthouses, playful, Poulter geists, hype. You know what what you
make fun of me for everything about this?
Speaker 1 (42:36):
I have moving on? I am moving on from you.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Yeah. I had a feeling that's where you're getting at.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
That's why my dating profilesis lighthouse is ghosts.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Yeah, but you won't even go there, so good luck. Yeah,
that's everything we have for this episode three hundred and
thirteen of Scarish. If you have a story, it does
not have to be about lighthouses, Poulter geists, any of
that stuff, but anything paranormal, supernatural, spear ritual, coincidental or
true crime related or extraterrestrial. I love those ones. Feel
free to email them to us. You can email storytime
(43:07):
at Scarish dot com or go to our website scarish
dot com and click on contact us, or hit us
up on our social media's. Facebook is Facebook dot com,
slash Scarish podcast, Twitter is at Scarish Pod, and Instagram
it's at Scarish Podcast.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Yeah. You know, if you guys have locations too where
you are, like, there's this ghost story in my hometown
that you guys should cover, like their topic suggestions. Yeah,
there's a haunted lighthouse, or you know, there's a haunted
car that people see following them down.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
A you know, Robin's just doing pitches for movies.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
Now, just send it to us, Email to us whatever
message be your.
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Personal story, but topic suggestions.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
We always message us on Instagram or something. I'm always
on Instagram all the time. So anyway, if you folks
want to support us, donate to us. You can go
to Patreon dot com slash Scarish podcast Tears start at
a dollar. That's only four quarters. I'm sure I have
four quarters in the couch right now, so yeah, it'd
(44:13):
be really helpful.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
Everything helps. All the support is absolutely appreciated, and thank
you to everyone who listens and supports us. It means
the world and I think that's just about everything we
have for this episode of Scarish. So Robin go ahead
and sign us out.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Keep on creeping. I don't want to talk to you
guys later.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Ay bye,
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