TOP 15 SCARY Lighthouses - Huge Waves

The first lighthouse was built more than 2 thousand years ago, and since then many thousands more have been constructed around the world to warn ships of shallow waters and treacherous rocks. Due to the nature of where they are positioned, things can get rather lonely and precarious for the people responsible for operating the beacons, and there are countless tales of injuries, accidents, and strange happenings. From ones located in some of the most remote regions on earth, to those that attract ghost hunters from far and wide, it’s time to explore the top 15 most scary lighthouses.
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[@starzkream]

Lighthouses are so beautiful. To me, they represent hope. If you have ever been on the water at night, a lighthouse fills you with a feeling that is difficult to describe. It lets you know that you are not alone. Keeper-less automation has of course dampened this 'human connection', but they are still just as beautiful (and helpful!)

[@bradclarke5219]

Man I'd love to be a light house keeper that would be an awesome job. Imaging watching some of the storm up close and personal like these people back in the old days what a rush.

[@dclark142002]

See the Scotch Cap Lighthouse...there are risks to your dream job...

[@jacobmassey3897]

I worked as a lighthouse keeper as an apprentice shortly after leaving school and let me tell you, being in a lighthouse during a storm is no laughing matter.

[@user-bp9s]

pass it down to the one that would enjoy being the next keeper .start with james town brown & go from there

[@paranormaltester2036]

What's astonishing to be is how some of these lighthouses we're built in the location where they are at

[@geoffwright9570]

It's amazing how light houses resist the force that the sea can generate and still stand.

[@MrBalaki97]

Imagine having to build one with all that going on

[@ledger35]

It’s the people that don’t survive. I love lighthouses, we have many in Florida.

[@michaelcosta2708]

@@MrBalaki97 that’s what I was thinking

[@lynnlRDR-RDR2]

Love lighthouses. Especially for the reason you stated.

[@certaindiaster59]

Some of them literally defy the laws of physics! I can’t help but wonder, how the f are they still standing? Not only are they still standing, they are still structurally sound and safe enough for people to be inside for maintenance, etc… 🤯

[@harrisonjackson6349]

I’m from Pensacola Florida, and let me tell you. That Pensacola Lighthouse is very cool on the outside. But very creepy and eerie on the inside

[@flyshortypyt9532]

Lighthouses creep me out and fascinate me at the same time. I don’t want to watch but I have to 🥺😩

[@davidmckenzie420]

I have on my wall a pic of the one with the big wave and the man in the doorway. Always loved that one. I wish they had included the beautiful Heceta Head Lighthouse in Oregon. We stayed in the old Lighthouse Keeper's house (now a fabulous B&B) last Christmas--incredible experience.

[@di4085]

I too have that same picture sitting here looking at it while I'm watching the video.

[@boosteraxledoesstuff2769]

Realized this guy is the narrator of simple history, very well done 👏

[@ChrisKane-]

Thanks mate, I enjoy narrating this channel too. Good ear! 😊

[@boosteraxledoesstuff2769]

@@ChrisKane- oh gosh it's an honor to you have noticed! Very well done once again! Can't wait to see more of your narration on simple history or here as well, cheers ! 👍

[@polarisnorth]

@@ChrisKane- I love your narration! It reminds me a lot of Martin Sheen narrating the Eyewitness series when I was a kid.

[@ChrisKane-]

@@polarisnorth Thanks mate! I loved that series too. Martin Sheen has always been one of my favorite narrators. 🙂

[@Dan-bc9nx]

BLOODY HELL IT IS AS WELL! 😱😱

[@will.a.benjamin]

I love lighthouses and could definitely have been a lighthouse keeper if I was born a few generations earlier.

[@johnengland8619]

Me too with enough books

[@boffgirl]

fail to mention with eddystone, that the third one, they brought it back to the mainland, boat load of bricks at a time and rebuilt the whole lighthouse (smeatons tower) on plymouth Hoe they didn't want to leave it behind, just it's stump where it used to be. You can go inside that one and climb to the top. It was considered of historical importance with lighthouse design

[@BrokenCurtain]

Lighthouse guardians have traditionally put lighthouses in three categories: - Paradise / Heaven: a lighthouse located on the mainland or on an island with a village or other settlement, where contact with other humans was the norm. - Purgatory: a lighthouse located on a small island off the coast of the mainland, removed from society, but still not completely isolated. A keeper stationed on such a post would still be able to receive visitors, like fishermen from a nearby village - or take a boat to return back to civilization and stock up on supplies. - Hell: a lighthouse located on a remote island far from civilization, or a rock in the middle of the sea. Basically a prison, completely isolated and fully dependent on a supply ship.

[@deliveryguy7402]

I wonder could they fish off the lighthouse.

[@vilstef6988]

Hell-Stannard Rock Light, on a reef on Lake Superior, 24 miles from land. A cold and miserable post, but an engineering marvel.

[@michaeldonnelly1657]

The amazing thing here is difficulty of enginering and labour that went into construction

[@reneguzman720]

You've got that right that's what amazes me of ALL these constructions

[@oliverwalker5954]

There isn't much that can stand up to that sort of punishment year in year out, I've always been impressed by the designers and builders of lighthouses, super strong and an important role to play, very impressive buildings.

[@kevinwaterman389]

With the location of these lighthouses it makes you wonder how many people lost their lived during the construction of these lighthouses.

[@hinglemccringleberry9389]

I live a couple minutes away from the Pensacola lighthouse. It's pretty damn high too

[@abbyh8678]

Could you do a series on New England lighthouses? This was a great program, thx

[@emilyreviews1987]

My home Nova Scotia!! I'm in Dartmouth so Peggy's Cove is about a half hour away from me. Use to go there on day trips with my grandmother. Despite the signs and the news stories about people getting to close to the water Peggy's Cove waves still takes her victims. Haven't heard as many sense the pandemic but before that at least one person a year.

[@mikedrown2721]

I visited Peggy's Cove in 1977...... beautiful ❤️😊👍

[@emilyreviews1987]

@@mikedrown2721 it is the whole south shore is just so peaceful and beautiful. Hope you make it back one day!

[@Errcyco]

The most brilliant teacher I ever had was from NS and he said the solitude and beauty was what inspired him to just read and learn. He was a chemist but came to work at our high school cause he said he wanted to give all his knowledge to us kids and not some corporate goons. Anyways, I’ve always wanted to visit.

[@emilyreviews1987]

@@Errcyco yes the solitude is amazing!! You should absolutely come to Nova Scotia! Just not in January or February.

[@lao8006]

That's awesome. Pensacola is like 20 mins from me.

[@Vekoboy]

Wow, was not expecting La Corbiere on this list :O Used to live nearby!

[@James96.]

Lol same I live in Jersey and was surprised to see it

[@joandar1]

Give a thought for the people that built these! I suggest the documentary on the building of Bell Rock Lighthouse. John, Australia.

[@davidlankester6155]

..."The Planet's most venomous species of snake"..... what absolute crap! 🤣.... fictional crap here. .... "One bite can kill in hours".... 🤣

[@hotdog9192]

I live near peggy’s cove and have heard lots of stories of people falling into the ocean and being swept away from the extremely slippery rocks around it

[@khallfour]

So cool Maryland’s Point Lookout is included!

[@givemeprimelaughter]

Heck Yeah! Peggy's Cove. Proud Nova Scotian here

[@HalifaxHercules]

While I currently live in Western Newfoundland, Nova Scotia is also my home province. Peggy's Cove Lighthouse is definitely the best. Too bad there's no mention of Sambro Island Lighthouse, another famous lighthouse located south of Halifax's Spryfield area.

[@ivandavies1388]

The 2nd lighthouse at Eddystone did not collapse! It was dismantled due to erosion of the rock beneath it and was rebuilt on the main land.

[@wrackspurts-nargles]

More dangerous than Pt Bonita was Mile Rock Light across from Pt Bonita. Lighthouse keepers have actually starved to death at Mile Rock due to the adverse weather conditions. It no longer exists, but the platform still does and is used as a navigation point by the USCG when operating without GPS (because that's still a useful skill).

[@lizslilcorneroftheinstitution]

I would love a world tour to see the different lighthouses like these!!

[@d.agirls6068]

Yup

[@HalifaxHercules]

If you ever come to Canada, take an opportunity to visit the Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, about 44 to 59 kilometre drive from Halifax depending on the route. The Halifax area is also home to another famous lighthouse, Sambro Island, which is located just outside Sambro. You need a boat to reach that lighthouse, but its mostly off limits.

[@raghavendrarao7605]

Which is the scariest one for you? For me it's Phare de la Jument - Brittany, France. The one with the large wave that nearly completely flooded the lighthouse with the man by the door.

[@chassos]

Actually, it isn't the scariest one in this part of Brittany. Check about Ar Men Lighthouse. More scary imo...

[@mfp4136]

Sounds like Charlie Sheen found some work

[@cornwallparanormalresearch2378]

Awesome watch really enjoyed hope you do more videos 📹.

[@PREPFORIT]

I have always loved lighthouses even the ones with creepy backstories.

[@vajeye-nar6172]

0:55 "worlds most venomous snake" Laughs in Australian

[@tamianfinson4515]

Beautiful, Thanks for sharing

[@timberwolf5631]

I grew up on the southern shores and barrier islands of new jersey. Several light houses can be found in the area. When I was little, my mom tried on several occasions to get me to climb up inside one of them to see the view. It never failed that I would take one look at those twisting stairs and say "No way." Mom was good about it though, she saw my fear and never made me do it. :)

[@myunknownland9272]

Why didn't she do it? Good choice by you.

[@timberwolf5631]

@@myunknownland9272 She did, a couple of times. I just waited at the bottom. :)

[@myunknownland9272]

@@timberwolf5631 brave lady. I lived in Melbourne Australia, when my son was young. He climbed halfway up a gum tree and I nearly had kittens. It was at leastb 40ft high. I had to give him instruction how to get down. Stay safe. We seem to be in danger on the ground now. 🙏💕

[@Kreasy]

You missed St George reef Light house near the California/Oregon boarder. The only way on to the structure was a small manual crane where they pluck you off a boat and swing you on to the rock/island. Plus at one point the largest ever non earthquake related wave was measured there. (which i think has been broken), but they regularly get hit by huge waves

[@BayouBoy2443]

What he forgot to mention about the Pensacola Lighthouse is that it’s also literally across the street from the Naval Air Station/Museum where the Blue Angels are based. So you can watch them train and do shows from the top of the lighthouse. Also someone please give me a list of the music that plays in this vid

[@neilmattson9804]

Interesting gig for Charlie Sheen..glad to see he’s found work

[@mercoid]

😂

[@Utubin]

My thoughts too.

[@davidthomson802]

That Gibraltar Point lighthouse on Toronto Island? If there was a ghost for a few years five years ago, that was me. I was a street person living in a tent all around that lighthouse. I never felt any bad vibes there. By the way, I left my kayak stashed 120 feet north of the lighthouse five years ago and I haven't been back. If you find it, it's yours.

[@deeferry6520]

Music could have been a bit quieter, I could hardly hear what the narrator was saying. It got better as the video progresses. Amazing lighthouses.

[@deona267]

These lighthouses are amazing. A great dinner time vignette.

[@jeffaller6190]

Yes vignette is good, but I prefer Italian dressing.

[@sipnog3528]

Poor man, running to a lighthouse to escape slavery, surrounded by water, thinking he could survive. I can't imagine how it must have been like to be in their shoes. Loosing your families forever. Back home , they thought their loved ones had died while the captured were tortured with memories of their loved ones back home and the hope that they might see them one day. A hope that was impossible as they had no clue where home was,having crossed the seas. Heartbreaking.

[@timryan894]

Another addition to your list- Tillamook Rock Lighthouse. It’s on a rocky crag of an island about a mile off-shore near seaside/cannon beach Oregon (I’m sure there are many more besides this one too)

[@jacksheet2395]

Don't fear the dead,,fear the living! This narrator voice is soothing for these videos,,you gotta a love water to work around it,,the one in stromboli sits high,,but waves reach it,,DAMN!!

[@oceanashby521]

I just love lighthouses I plan to own one in the future thank you for the video 👍

[@dadylfitzys8880]

If I were a lighthouse worker on one of those islands my biggest fear would be running out of beer while being stranded there for weeks on end.

[@jonbostic5013]

And dope

[@ChasingDifferentAdventures]

I have been inn the Point Bonita LightHouse & it is in the most Spectacular setting, and in 2012 the LightHouse Bridge was new. Had been Closed due to COVID-19 it is a small room with artifacts and images, with a specially engineered Glass to project Light a lot more brighter. Thanks for sharing I would be looking at going back in a few years to 360V, Before the 2 Bridges Rot Away. 👦🏻👍🏻🏞🚢⚓

[@youngnurse9994]

Wow , that was a awesome and informative video!! I love lighthouses and have collected many . I have 1 made out of cement that I bought at a flea market, that comes to my knee and I am 5ft7in. You have to put one of those long bulbs in it . I love it and only paid $8 brand new . 😁 I love to turn it on when we have storms , etc . All that I have, I have to put bulbs in , some with different color little bulbs. Thanks for sharing the video.

[@flomccanuck8095]

What a great thing to collect! Hope you keep it up

[@domingosantos1292]

Excellent documentary 👏

[@stephenward9995]

Never mentioned the lighthouse south of Tasmania been there since the early 1800s and is still manned rtoday

[@erikd2256]

Every study I've checked has come up with the same snake. The "Inland Taipan" is considered the most venomous snake is the world, not the Golden Lancehead Pit Viper.

[@chopperhead2012]

It's actually a toss up between the black mamba, the inland taipan, and the sea krait, depending on the source. I've seen all 3 cited with equal frequency.

[@96SN95]

You surprised to get false information from a channel that produces a video about lighthouses and claims almost every one of them to be the most haunted?

[@biff5856]

Who cares? This is about lighthouses not reptiles.

[@Outlaw_CFW]

I live in Pensacola the lighthouse is on the Navy base. If you wanna go to it get ready for a full background check due to a shooting that happened On base. I live like 20 mins away from the lighthouse I’ve been to it 2 or 3 times now. Great place to go

[@MrBalaki97]

I love lighthouses so cozy looking tbh

[@patsybolls8396]

Great story...thanks to the narrator😊

[@jimreilly6933]

The most iconic lighthouse in Britain must surely be the one at the tip of the needles on the isle of Weight !

[@peterperry5378]

The Fasnet rock not even mentioned, how many killed the vicinity

[@echospaw899]

I could live in the Strombolicchio lighthouse... well, maybe not full-time, but on and off regularly, esp with someone else.

[@ahmedalaouibenzakroum5525]

Ces phares sont de vrais monuments historiques. Je pense aux gardiens de certains phares isolés en pleine mer. Ils travaillent dans des conditions très difficiles. Ils sont comme des soldats aux frontières. Ils font face à l'isolement, la solitude, l'éloignement et les forces des éléments (en périodes de tempêtes). Merci beaucoup pour cette belle vidéo. Certaines images sont très belles et impressionnantes. 👍👍👍👍

[@oneshotme]

Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@marthaw7664]

It’s fun to walk out to the lighthouse in St. Jo MI. and really looks cool in the winter all frozen.

[@alejandroponce8120]

Absolutely enjoyable. On a different note, does anybody know the music theme at the beginning of the video?

[@Nephilimfields]

Oh yay!! Gibraltar Lighthouse here in Toronto :)

[@irisblue2332]

"Terrible Tilly" the Tillamook Head lighthouse, would have been a great choice. Isolated, incredible pictures of waves crashing and sending spray more than twice as high as the lighthouse, and the delicious fact that after it was decommissioned it became a privately owned columbarium--a repository for people's cremated remains.

[@Mark-pp7jy]

No mention of "Terrible Tillie".

[@johncee853]

The Golden Lancehead is not the most venomous snake on earth...by a long way. Not that I'd want to be bitten by one though! Just some extra info for you guys watching this.

[@juliecook6057]

I'm Australian and I can tell you that we UNFORTUNATELY have some of THE MOST venomous snakes on the planet !! LUCKY US , lol !! 😉😱😬

[@johncee853]

@@juliecook6057 I'd move there in a heartbeat if I could afford it! You actually have the top 10 most venomous snakes on earth in and around Australia!

[@shelleystclair7323]

Hi there everyone I to love lighthouses so much that I bought one on Vancouver Island BC Canada my family owns in Scotland it is very well known can't wait to see it when I get there

[@thekeeper7885]

Hi there...you say you own a lighthouse? I absolutely adore lighthouses

[@christopherliebler]

Even though you left this comment two years ago I envy you . With all the lighthouses that I have visited their beauty majesty and their ability to inspire hope can never be extinguished

[@thekeeper7885]

what a video...would love to stay in one

[@BlueAquatic]

I would love to be a lighthouse keeper just think how cosy it would be when you are inside your bedroom watching some downloaded movies in your blanket and it's cold and wet outside

[@brianjenneson]

I used to handle radio communications for Coast Guard lighthouses in numerous spots up & down the coast in British Columbia! Of course, they were all manned back then but not anymore! Romantic to a point but you were literally out there alone with possibly one other family for company for months in the absolute remotest places on the planet! So, your head better be screwed on right!

[@warriorangel6805]

Thank you great vid I must be tired cuz the pic I was like now that's a weird hotdog ... lol I'm not trying it...

[@bigrudd9346]

Very confusing title, thought this would've been these lighthouses getting hit with huge waves.

[@timt4615]

Its called click bate

[@thailandchannel1]

Nice vdo..

[@pkoppart]

13:45 what a shot!

[@carlhoppe]

The most venomous snake in the world is the inland taipan from Australia

[@Emotionally_unstable_]

Woah I didn’t know Maryland had one lol!

[@rikkipowers3921]

I have been to point lookout in Maryland. It feels like your constantly being breathe on.

[@INDIANARMY-le4vg]

Very interesting

[@jasonking1284]

"Blah...blah...blah...", where are the video of huge waves hitting the lighthouse?....

[@matthewpoplawski8740]

YOU ACTUALLY GOT VIDEO LA JUET, BISHOPS ROCK, AND EDDYSTONE ON CALM DAYS?!?!?! WOW!!! I'M VERY IMPRESSED. I know it's impossible to all of them,but, here's two that could've been included:#1-Seguin Island Light(Maine); #2- Heceda Head Light(Oregon). Another is one where, in the early 20th Century, a curious young woman went inside of what was an abandoned lighthouse (can't remember the name; it was either in Oregon or Washington), and, was never seen again. As far as I know, her disappearance STILL hasn't been solved.👏👏👏🌞🌞🌞✌✌✌✌

[@Lonewanderer30]

How did Flannan's lighthouse not make this cut?

[@carlprutzman377]

This was interesting,..pl.ease do one for new Inland states.

[@RoadieShow]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Cateutopia]

I collect lighthouses so this was an awesome history video. Enjoyed it very much. Thanks.

[@castleanthrax1833]

Wow. You must have a really big cabinet to keep them i.

[@Cateutopia]

@@castleanthrax1833 I sure do🤣🤣🤣

[@mikedrown2721]

👍👌😊

[@sumatralex250]

Another good opportunity to realize my age while assuming all these land features are just what they are, referring to the purpose of a lighthouse. Curiosity gets out of control when people are well aware of the risks of what they face.

[@Torontotootwo]

Snake Island sounds like a great place for new RNC offices.

[@amaraamara2712]

If only homes were built as structurally as these

[@peris_arts_film9699]

What the heck was that music in the beginning. It sounded awesome

[@oddities-whatnot]

Who in their right mind would volunteer to help build the lighthouse on snake island ?!?! Checkup from the neck up required.

[@myunknownland9272]

😂😂😂 so, so true. Not me.

[@jupiterboltron9538]

all of these light are incredible,but have ever heard the tallest lighthouse in the phils.it is not known yet but it is unbelievable if you can see it . .it is along bantayan island philippines... .

[@mohammadpathan659]

I found out that lighthouses exist when i saw Jstu spending overnight in the world's most scariest lighthouse.

[@amandarose4469]

Point Lookout, my Fallout sense is tingling.

[@carlinemullins8303]

Injoy this of lighthouse's

[@cascadianrangers728]

Thanks be to the radio isotope thermal electric generators, which now power these light houses not only without the need for people, but without need for any moving parts!

[@sambeckham114]

I’ve been in the pensacola lighthouse and it is creepy in places

[@SPotter1973]

8:51 is this where Silly Putty comes from.

[@eazyrider6122]

That dedicated lone surfer at 2:10mims on the time line just appeared out of the white wash or cap.

[@reallifelebowski4732]

I noticed that also ~ totally crazy

[@kevg3320]

Wolf Rock. The only lighthouse to sink a submarine!

[@richardwallace853]

How come Tillamook on the Oregon coast isn't on this list?

[@jamiebraswell5520]

Because a short list cannot include every damned lighthouse out there!🙄

[@richardwallace853]

@@jamiebraswell5520 look up Tillamook and you will see why it merits being on this list. Hint: it was nicknamed "Terrible Tilly" and was so bad it was officially abandoned and sold by the US Coast Guard. Fittingly, it serves as a columbarium today.

[@dixiebeavers4446]

Can’t believe Bell Rock wasn’t mentioned

[@tksbelcher3084]

How could you do a "dangerous lighthouses" episode and not mention the forth point light house, destroyed by a tsunami carrying a 600 ton coral as a result of krakatau, which days later would tear itself apart becoming loudest sound ever recorded?

[@BlastastiC]

Look at yeeee, postin' lighthouses

[@sharonphee]

I wonder 😶‍🌫️ if the Ghosts.. will ever be released. 😪 🙏..hope so.