Comments on: Preque Isle Lighthouse

By: katie

katie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:50:27 +0000

I also find this to be very interesting because my Great-Grandpa Llyod Miller was also a light house keeper there and my grandma has many memories of living in the light house. I plan to call her tomorrow and get her side of the story.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:50:54 +0000

Yes, its true the light house is haunted ive beend there several times and the first time i was there i was a littke boy, i remember walking up the stairs and getting the feeling someone was watching me it gave me a twist in my stomatch, i could here as if someone was walking up the stairs in front of me when i got to the top i was alone! then i saw the light house on tv it is truly haunted! but most people up here r to drunk to do anything

By: P. Rettman

P. Rettman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:47:50 +0000

Many years ago I was stationed at K. I. Sawyer AFB near Marquette Mi. My then husband and I lived in an apartment near Presque Isle. Even then I did not sleep to much at night, and being from north east Mississippi I was not too familure with light houses. Some nights when I couldn’t sleep I would set in the window and watch the light from the light house as it swept through the night. Beings our appartment was not 300 yards off the Northern coast of Lake Superior I could faintly hear the waves come into shore. If I went outside I could hear them better.
One morning I’m sitting at my drafting table at work on base and my NCOIC comes in and says “Girl… you look like ****. Are you not sleeping again?” I told him I had set and watched the light from the lighthouse since 3:00 that morning. He looked at me pretty strange and asked, “What lighthouse?” I told him I assumed it was Presque Isle as that was the only one I had seen in the area. This is when he said it could not be, as it had been out of commission for many years. I know what I saw…. And I saw that light!

By: krista

krista — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:01:23 +0000

hello. I have lived in this area most of my life. It saddens me to see how people joke around about others and I know from personal experience that George and Lorraine Parris were wonderful people. As a child I remember my grandparents taking me to visit with them as they were family friends with the Parris’. Lorraine would take me all over the grounds and we would talk about the Lighthouse’s history. She had taken me into the basement of the lightkeeper’s house (which was their residence at the time) and we would look for salamanders down there. I remember some years later when George had passed that she had felt his presence around her and told us of how she had seen the light (whether it was a reflection or not didn’t matter) and that she felt that it was George. A couple years ago, I took my husband and children out to visit the old lighthouse and property and we spent quite a bit of time there. We went up in the tower and to the stocks and the bell and inside the lightkeeper’s house. It was a very pleasant experience and all of us felt comfortable and at peace. It brought back a lot of wonderful memories for me and I look forward to going back again.

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:48:56 +0000

okay so me and my friends just went out there tonight and we were fooling around and just snapping random pictures. Later upon uploading the pictures onto the computer we found a picture that almost looked like a face in the window. Although this may be just a coincidence, it looked an awful lot like a face.

By: dylan

dylan — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:23:55 +0000

The place is hunted. A couple of my friends and i were there at night. we paid to get in then hid in the tower. At night we acme out and looked at the light from below. what we saw was nothing short of horrifing. there was a old man with a white beard and old style glasses. we think it was him. but can not say forsure

By: living in Presque Isle

living in Presque Isle — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:07:32 +0000

Listen I personally dont believe in the lighthouse being haunted. But the girl mentioned in another comment was my niece. She did go up the lighthouse, She did come down giggling about the man in the tower. When she toured the house after she identified the man in the tower as the man in a photo on the wall. I dont know off hand if she was asked if that was him or if she just blurted it out that it was him. She was also interviewed for a sci-fi show about myths of the supernatural. I dont remember what it was called it was a while now that the show aired. I do remember that the show did debunk it after one of the crew was locked in the tower the door simply jammed without reason or why. He just couldnt get it open. However they said that the road that was finnished around the same time as the caretakers death. They said that the passing cars headlights were being reflected in the glass of the light and reflecting as if it were comming on for a second then off again. So I dont know if it is haunted, just use your own judgement. But if ever in the area of Grand Lake it is a beautiful view from the top so it is absolutely a do not miss site for tourists. So check it out for yourself.

By: Bob (again)

Bob (again) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:58:09 +0000

This is %100 true! I’ve seen it!

By: cupcakebaker

cupcakebaker — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:08:03 +0000

I have been to the lighthouse on several occasions, and to this day I have not seen or heard anything out of the ordinary. I too know Mrs. Paris, and to my knowledge, she is NOT a nut. My sister also goes to church with her. She talks of the hauntings and her husband with great affection. The story of the lighthouse hauntings is great, and hope that it continues to keep people coming and checking the place out. It is a beautiful site, especially when the moon is full and the waves are crashing upon the shore.And just because I myself or my friends have never seen anything, well, it doesn’t mean that its not in fact true.

By: Angelina

Angelina — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:30:42 +0000

Hi everyone:) I just watched a show the other day about the light house. They did some tests to see why the light seems to be on. It was proven to be reflect from the nearby residents lights. A man sttod up in the light house till his crew said they could see the light. He then went around the light house windows and covered each one up with a black wool blanket. As the window facing the town was covered the light was gone. Not many people relize that a huge reflective metal guard surrounds one side of the light bulb. So even though there is no bulb the highly reflective metal guard picks up light. Not that I am a sceptic, I have lived in this area all my life and many times in my youth we would visit the light house. So I would suggest anyone who doubts the keeper is still there to go see for yourself.