Spectral Keepers of the Lights

“Haunted Portsmouth” Tales for Halloween

Seacoast Online has a book review and interview with Roxie Zwicker, Kittery, Maine, and the author of several books on paranormal activity in New England. She will be doing a book signing at the times and dates listed in the story, of her latest book, Haunted Portsmouth. Zwicker’s books are an outgrowth of her haunted walking tours around Portsmouth, known as the New England Curiosity Tour Company.

Zwicker says there are more books planned, but for right now she needs to concentrate on the tours; the fall being the busy season. People like to get inner chills to match the ones the cooling season brings and she likes to oblige. “Yes it’s fun,” she says laughing. “Some people coming on the tour are really into it; they’re into having a haunted experience and always a little on edge — in that mind-set. So they can be spooked out.”

One of the chapters in her book deals with Portsmouth Lighthouse, a known haunted beacon, and she has this story to tell of the time when it was investigated by the New England Ghost Project:

“When (the Friends organization) started there the group was fairly new and no one had any idea that the house was haunted until a member actually heard a male voice speaking in the lighthouse — and they were alone,” she says. The group even hosted an overnight investigation with the New England Ghost Project, a paranormal organization, which confirmed the haunting.

It’s believed the lighthouse is haunted by several spirits. But the main character is Josh Card, an old keeper from the 1800s, she says.

The reason we could tell was when the ghost project was going on; they picked up an old gentleman with a big grey bird, dark uniform, with the letter K on it; someone very attached and proud of the lighthouse.” In addition, the EVP (electronic voice phenomena) specialist got a recording that seemed to further confirm the specter. When the spirit was asked who they were it responded “the Captain.” “Card wore a K on his uniform, as the Keeper. But he would ask people to address him as captain, (saying) K is for captain.”

Sounds like it will be an excellent read, and the book is out just in time for the season of haunted walks and tours.

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