The Light House

Tybee Island's light station traces back to 1736, though storms and erosion destroyed three earlier towers before the current one, Georgia's oldest and tallest lighthouse, was completed in 1773. Head keeper George Shaw died under circumstances some believe were not natural — local legend holds his own assistant may have killed him — and visitors and staff report his continued presence since. A five-year-old girl named Lachlan, said to be an early keeper's daughter, is reported on the winding staircase, and a visiting psychic once described the spirits of two children playing jump rope in the yard. Fort Screven, directly across the road and part of Georgia's coastal defenses from 1897 to 1945, adds its own reports of battle sounds carrying on full-moon nights.