The letter was written by a keeper who arrived on the Flannan Islands several days after three colleagues had vanished A ...

There was only thing to greet Captain Jim Harvie when his boat docked at a barren lump of rock in 1900 – a lighthouse. Harvie blew the boat’s whistle and shot a flare as he came near the isle on that ...

For decades, keepers at the Five Finger Lighthouse in Frederick Sound, southeast Alaska, reported strange low rumbles echoing ...

It was not a fun job, and it didn’t pay well, either. But the dozens of men who worked as keepers of the historic Hillsboro Lighthouse in Hillsboro Beach devoted their lives to the security of ...

On Thursday, Nov. 6, 1913, my grandfather, Charles (Charlie) A. Linsmeier, was sailing on a tugboat enroute from Detroit to Buffalo when the deadliest freshwater storm in history hit the Great Lakes.