Case file · Haunting
'Terrible Tilly' lighthouse
Tillamook Rock Light, built on a sea rock off Oregon and lit in 1881, earned a reputation as a grim and haunted posting, and since 1980 has held urns of the dead as a columbarium.
1881 CE · 45.94, -124.02 · status: legend
The account
A surveyor drowned while the station was being built, and storms smashed its windows many times. Keepers told of strange noises; the station closed in 1957.