Point Sur Lightstation: A Haunted Ghost Town on Ocean-View Big Sur Real Estate
“One of the most haunted lighthouses in the country” — Travel Channel
Story by David A. Laws
Towering three-hundred feet above the Pacific Ocean’s crashing surf, one of the West’s most faithfully restored ghost towns occupies prime ocean-view real estate just 25 miles south of my hometown of Pacific Grove, California.
Inhabited by chickens, a cow, and families with children until less than 50 years ago, the deserted barn, houses, and workshops of Point Sur Lightstation cling to the edge of a great, volcanic rock with spectacular views of the Big Sur coast and marble-topped peaks of the Ventana Wilderness. Lovers of the paranormal claim the lighthouse is one of the most haunted in the country.
Volunteers of the Central Coast Lighthouse Keepers (CCLK) non-profit organization have restored each of the structures to their appearance at a key era of their functionality and opened the site on Point Sur State Historic Park for public tours.
“A point that appears as an island”
The solitary sentinel of Point Sur, connected to the mainland by a wide sand bar known as a tombolo, lies within the Esselen coastal…
