5 Coastal Towns Shrouded in Dark Secrets You’ve Never Dared to Explore
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With beautiful blue waves framed by dramatic clay cliffs, Rhode Island’s hidden gem is certainly an island, but not an “escape” for the legendary seafaring ghosts said to haunt its waters to this day. About 12 miles off the mainland, Block Island’s cliff-top Southeast Light peeks out through the mist like a sailor’s north star. Neither the 19th-century Southeast nor North Lighthouse was built in time, however, to prevent the German ship Princess Augusta from wrecking offshore during the Block Island blizzard of 1738. The ocean has since calmed, but the maritime legend of the “Palatine Light” remains riled up.
For centuries, locals have reported sightings of the phantom, flaming ship drifting across the dark evening waters of the Atlantic. Still, Block Island has remained a summer holiday hotspot for New England families from the 19th century to the modern day. Even a haunting can’t stop a lobster-filled, Victorian inn-housed New England holiday.














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