BURNT island.

One of the earliest lighthouses in the area, Burt Island Light built in 1821, in the then busy fishing port, Boothbay Harbor. There is very little known about the light’s first keeper, a mysterious man only known as Marr. The light faces the west entrance to the harbor and has been changed many times due to other nearby conflicting lights. Today the light and automatic fog signal remain active aids to navigation and the island is heavily visited throughout the summer.

When Lelia Hawke, Boothbay Harbor, seventeen year old resident, has planned to visit the island there have been terrible fire each time. When first setting out for the day the trip was tragically interrupted by the new that her families home was entirely engulfed in flames. The house was burned to the ground and nothing was salvageable. Her second trip to the island was the same day that large, multi-million dollar shipyard Washburn and Doughty located in East Boothbay caught on fire and was completely destroyed. It leads me to believe that the island is not coincidentally named Burnt.

For the complete history check out:

http://www.lighthouse.cc/burntisland/history.html

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A Frightening Mystery

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Do You Have Stories?

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The Ghost of the BRHS Library

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A sighting at Newagen Inn?

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The Tune from Sequin

Play It Again at Sequin Light
Just off the coast of Georgetown is Sequin Light, the highest above sea level light and home to one of the most horrifying haunting tales. Although not quite in the Boothbay Region it is not far and is too great of a story to not blog.
Lighthouse keeping was not for the ones who scared easily...
Men usually kept busy with required work but women often were extremly board lonely and isolated. A newlywed keeper brought his bride with him to Sequin Light. She complained so often of boredom and loneliness that he ordered her a piano form the mainland to help her occupy her time. She was delighted with his gift but the piano came with only one sheet of music. She played the sheet repeatedly for the duration of the long, cold, isolated winter making her husband extremely irritated and mad. Spring came and he purchased new sheet music, but she would only play the one tune.
Driven insane he took an ax to the piano and to her, decapitating her before he killed himself.
Locals still say that on a cold night they can hear the tinkle of her piano and the keeper doing his duties.