The Ghost of the first keeper,
John Paul Radelmüller
Local legend purports the lighthouse tower to be haunted. On January 2, 1815 the
first keeper, John Paul Radelmüller was murdered. It was thought to have been
drunken soldiers from Fort York who were looking for bootlegged beer. They
chased him up the stairs and knocked him unconscious. They chopped up the body
and buried him. Two soldiers, John Henry and John Blowman, were charged with his
murder but later acquitted. In 1893, George Durnan found a coffin buried in the
sand nearby that contained a jawbone. It wasn't clear whether this belonged to
Radelmüller. Some claim that the sound of moaning can be heard on misty nights
and that it is possible to see an apparition wandering the grounds that is
believed to be Radelmüller.
