Spooky Point Sur Lighthouse

This lighthouse, first built in 1889, was fully automated by the Coast Guard in 1972.

Point Sur Lighthouse

It sits high atop a large volcanic rock on a remote location, just north of Big Sur, California.

Today, this lighthouse is a California State Park and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Despite its strong intense beam many ships wrecked, as they tried to navigate along this rugged section of the California coastline.

But this is not the reason midnight haunted tours are offered in October at the lighthouse.

Instead, it is the spirits of family members of the lightkeepers who linger on this beautiful spot.

Many believe these spirits stay because the keeper’s house affords spectacular views of the wild coastline and the Pacific Ocean on three sides.

This house has ocean-view windows in every room, including even the closets and bathrooms.

Several volunteers who help out at the fully restored lighthouse have encountered these ghosts.

Julie Nunes, states the lighthouse has a peaceful, “Shangri-La” feel. She states the ghosts she has encountered are not malevolent in nature.

Kitchen a Point Sur.

Before entering the light keeper's house Nunes, always knocks and greets one ghost, named Ruth, that resides in the house.

Ruth was one light keeper’s wife. She likes to hang out in the house’s kitchen. Smells of cooking are reported, and it seems Ruth likes her privacy for she often swings the kitchen door shut.

Nunes has recorded another female spirit’s voice stating-- “Now she wants you to go home.” And “Pokey, go to bed.”

It is believed this is the voice of Catherine Ingersoll, a Danish immigrant who married one of the lightkeepers.

She is telling her daughter, Pokey, to go to bed. On this recording, the listener can hear the faint sound of the little girl’s voice responding.

Another volunteer, Sheila Fraser was alone in the keeper’s house cleaning. As she put a vacuum away, she heard something downstairs.

Stair landing where
Fraser saw the ghost.

She looked down from the stair landing and saw a woman who looked real.

“She wore her hair up, her sleeves were puffy, and she wore a long skirt. As Fraser watched, she just disappeared.

Fraser has also seen a male ghost watching her from the keeper house's living room window.

In the following video, Nune places an Ovilus down on the kitchen table next to a pair of skeleton arms. She asks, “Pokey, are you here?”

Watch closely, for the skeleton hand on the left—near the coffee mug—moves. I didn’t see it the first time I watched—but it makes a slight movement.

Besides the October tours, year-round tours are offered at Point Sur Lighthouse.

Compelling EVP Evidence

I have found EVP recordings are often caught when least expected. In early posts on this blog I mentioned the fact that my group often caught ghosts on tape at unlikely times.

Ghosts would join our conversations when we were busy or having light hearted conversations.

This kind of activity appears to attract them as well as the traditional formalized question-answer EVP sessions.

John P. Mimms wrote an article for Huffington Post entitled, The 7 Scariest Ghost Encounters A Paranormal Expert Ever Had.

In this article Mimms recounts similar experiences he and his group have had.

Investigating a large tuberculosis sanatorium his group were packing up their equipment in order to investigate another area when in one hallway they captured an unexpected voice. This area is known to be haunted.

Mimms had inadvertently left one recorder on in this area as they packed up. The next day as he listened to the recordings made at the sanatorium he heard a little girl’s voice amidst his investigator’s quiet voices.

She was singing. Near this hallway it was believed a little girl and her mother died in the 1940s. The volume of her voice changed as she moved closer than further away from Mimm's recorder.

Just before this recorder was turned off, Mimms heard this girl’s voice further on down the hall stating in a singsong voice, “I’m down in this room.”

During another investigation at a home where the owner had died two months before of lung Cancer Mimms’ team picked up another unexpected EVP.

A recorder was on as they were talking to the owner’s daughter who was emotional as she told them about her father. Later when this recorder was reviewed a raspy voice was heard telling them “to get out.”

When they shared this recording with the daughter she identified it as being her father’s voice.

During a third investigation in a 120-year old house museum the team picked up boisterous laughter.

The original owner, in the 1930s, was a jovial man who was well liked by the community. The team yet again during a time they were not trying to make contact—made a connection.

This man’s infectious laugh was captured on one recording.

The Loss of Mark and Debby Constantino

Death is not a period but a comma in the story of life.

In happier times.

The paranormal community received startling and sad news this week. Mark and Debby Constantino who were featured several times doing EVPs on Ghost Adventures died in an apparent murder/suicide yesterday.

Debby filed for divorce earlier this month.

The two recently had arguments over money that ended in physical violence—in March Debby was arrested for scratching and slicing Mark’s arm open with a kitchen knife.

Mark and their daughter Raquel were arrested in August and charged with kidnapping Debby breaking her nose and strangling her.

The court let Raquel and Mark out on bond with the stipulation they stay away from Debby.

Yesterday, September 22, Mark went to the home where Debby lived in north Reno and shot and killed her male roommate and then kidnapped Debby.

Another female roommate alerted the police that Debby was missing.

The police went to Mark’s apartment in Sparks where he opened fire on them. They and the FBI spent several hours trying to coax Mark to surrender. When they entered the unit they discovered both Mark and Debby dead.

May both their souls rest in peace.

This is a horrific tragedy for everyone involved but as time passes I hope the Constantino’s will be remembered for the contributions they made to paranormal investigations.

I observed first hand how they conducted EVP sessions, which changed the way I do EVPs. I wrote a post about their unique method back in 2011, here.