The Twilight Zone News, The False Lights of Durham. (articles, kids, strange)

[JD59]

The mysterious lights that lured dozens of ships to destruction.

For much of the 19th century, a 16km stretch of the rocky Durham coastline between the rivers Wear and Tyne was notorious as a graveyard for shipping. From the 1860s, more than 160 vessels were wrecked after running aground on submerged rocks between Marsden and the village of Whitburn, just a mile from the shore.

False Lights | Features | Fortean Times

[pamelaBeurman]

Weird!

There are so many strange things (other than my kids) in this world. We should have more threads on the as yet unexplained mysteries that surround us all.