Why Did So Many Lighthouse Keepers "Go Mad"?

Grab Atlas VPN for just $1.39/mo before the deal expires: https://atlasv.pn/KazRowe 🤠 NOTE: Correction!! I meant to say JOHN Brown, not James Brown. So sorry about that. We commonly imagine lighthouses three ways: cold, scary, and definitely haunted. But where did that image come from, and why did so many lighthouse keepers "go mad" in the first place? Come learn with me! Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KazRowe I'm on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: https://www.instagram.com/kaz.rowe Buy my comics: https://gumroad.com/kazrowe Send me a ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/A347K4X Read my webcomic: https://www.cunningfire.com/ Catch it on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/cunning-fire Line Webtoons: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/cunning-fire/list?title_no=59016 Edited using DaVinci Resolve Studio 17 and the Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Speed Editor: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/keyboard SOURCES: Lightships and lighthouses, by Frederick A. Talbot. A Short Bright Flash by Theresa Levitt California Lighthouse Life in the 1920s and 1930s by Wayne C. Wheeler Lighthouse Beginnings and Man’s Need For Them by Trudy Dootson, Palos Verdes Interpretive Center Docent Research Paper #43 Los Angeles Harbor (Angel's Gate) Lighthouse by Lighthouse Friends https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=99 Keepers of the Lights by Hans Christian Adamson Sentinels of the North Pacific by James A. Gibbs, Jr. The Ending of ‘The Lighthouse’ Explained by Kieran Fisher https://filmschoolrejects.com/the-lighthouse-ending-explained/ A Rock and a Hard Place: Storms, Death and Madness at the Smalls Lighthouse by Trinity House History https://trinityhousehistory.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/a-rock-and-a-hard-place-storms-death-and-madness-at-the-smalls-lighthouse/ Human toxicology of Mercury by Thomas W. Clarkson LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER’S MADNESS: FOLK LEGEND OR SOMETHING MORE TOXIC? By Michaela Walter, University of Calgary The Science of Ghosts: Searching for Spirits of the Dead By Joe Nickell Lighthouse Keepers by the National Park Service https://www.nps.gov/articles/lighthouse-keepers.htm Black History Month: Honoring the service of African American Guardians by William H. Thiesen https://web.archive.org/web/20200614200144/https://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2010/02/black-history-month-honoring-the-service-of-african-american-guardians/ Instructions to the Employees of the United States Lighthouse Service 1927 https://uslhs.org/sites/default/files/attached-files/1927%20Instructions%20to%20Employees%20of%20the%20Lighthouse%20Service.pdf Black Lighthouse Keepers by Thomas Tag https://uslhs.org/black-lighthouse-keepers Historians shed light on first African American lighthouse keeper for Cape Henry: prominent abolitionist Willis Augustus Hodges https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/virginia-beach/historians-shed-light-on-first-african-american-lighthouse-keeper-for-cape-henry-prominent-abolitionist-willis-augustus-hodges/ He Died On His Knees: The Amazing Story of Lighthouse Keeper William M. Parker By Timothy Harrison and Myrna J. Cherrix http://www.lighthousedigest.com/Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=3319 Images and Video: The Thirteenth Year, 1999 The Lighthouse, 2019 The Mermaid, 1904 Point Fermin Lighthouse Society Diver Kevin United States Lighthouse Society Lighthouse Friends The Banning Museum Jersey Heritage Trust Los Angeles Times