#HECTA HEAD MILKY WAY WINDOWS#
Possibly the most frightening encounter with Rue that was ever reported appeared in the Siuslaw News in 1975-a workman was cleaning one of the windows in the attic when he noticed an odd reflection in the glass. Still other guests prefer not to know at all. Others are drawn to the Cape Cove Room, which contains a closet that houses the stairs leading up to the locked attic. When checking into the bed and breakfast, there are many guests that request the Victoria room, where the keepers of the lighthouse and their wives were said to have slept. Anderson believes that Rue had two daughters and that one of them had drowned-they are uncertain whether she drowned in the ocean or in a cistern, but that there is an unmarked grave up on the hillside that had been long left undisturbed and consequently was overgrown.Īlthough Rue left the Heceta Head Cottage after her daughter died, it is said that she came back after her own death to look for her daughter. ” The only story that they do endorse as the truth is the theory that Rue was the wife of one of the lighthouse keepers, but records can’t confirm that due to the fact that the wives and children of the keepers were never documented. Since 1995, it has been run as a bed and breakfast with room enough to fit fifteen guests comfortably.Īnderson has heard many versions of many stories over the years that she has managed the property, to the point where she wonders if they even know the truth, and says that “it’s just version. During World War II it served as military barracks and was used as a satellite campus for Lane Community College in Eugene from 1970 to 1995. Originally built in 1894, when the lamp was first lit, to the early 1960s, the men who kept the lighthouse running, and their families called this cottage home. This Queen Anne styled cottage with a red roof overlooks the rocky cliffs and violent waves of the Pacific Ocean and has done so for more than a century.
The History of the Heceta Head Lighthouse
Along with the older woman, it is said that her daughter also haunts this scenic lighthouse.
These experiences include things like disembodied screams, items moving or disappear and the reappearing on their own, as well as the shadow of an old woman’s ghost in an attic window. In a PBS special called Legendary Lighthouses, the Heceta Head Lighthouse is referred to as a haunted lighthouse-stating that nearly everyone who has stayed at the lighthouse since the 1950s has experienced paranormal activity. Heceta Head Lighthouse in Florence, Oregon
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