Race Rock Lighthouse

Race Rock Light, a granite tower on a reef off Fishers Island, is said to be haunted. Coast Guard crews who visited for maintenance reported whispers, laughter and voices calling their names, footsteps, and the feeling of being watched or touched, with some saying an unseen hand poked or pushed them. Wet footprints are said to appear near a shower that has had no running water for years, and boaters have described a man's shadow standing in the tower. Workers were killed in a boat explosion while the pier was being built, and some retellings link the lighthouse to its former keepers.

Ghost Hunters made it the subject of Season 1, Episode 4, "Race Rock Lighthouse," in October 2004, after the Coast Guard asked the Atlantic Paranormal Society to look into the crews' reports. Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson led the visit with Andy Andrews and Heather Drolet. Andy followed an electromagnetic reading up the spiral staircase, and a camera filmed Grant's folding chair sliding on its own in the attic minutes after he left the room. Afterward Hawes and Wilson told the Coast Guard the lighthouse appeared to be haunted.

The Gothic Revival lighthouse, designed by engineer Francis Hopkinson Smith, took from 1871 to 1878 to build and was first lit on January 1, 1879. A two-story granite keeper's dwelling and tower sit on a concrete-and-granite pier, and its keepers were removed in 1978 when the light was automated. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005 and is now owned by the New London Maritime Society.