The ghost that I met on Flatholm was the only psychic event I witnessed connected to Lighthouses but there was another occasion…

When I was transferred to Les Hanois Lighthouse in the Channel Islands I the Principal Keeper gave me the usual look around the place, familiarization with the equipment and was given the history of the place:

During the war lad the Germans occupied the Channel Islands and they put a squad of soldiers on the Hanois and left them out here for months. One of the Jerries hated it so much that he got depressed and shot himself in his bunk…the bunk that you will be sleeping in tonight…

There was even a hole in the woodwork of the bunk which I was reliably told by the PK was caused by the bullet after it passed through the soldier’s head.

A lovely tale which I relayed to new arrivals over my time out there. I don’t think that it was absolutely true but I was glad a little while after I arrived when I was able to move to a different bunk!