From the time the Oregon Coast was first settled during the 1850s well into the early 1900s, the only coastal town links with the outside world were via coastal shipping. These towns were cut off from the rest of the world by the coastal mountain range. Few roads existed outside early maritime/frontier town limits. Jetties were built in the late 1800s to keep shifting sands from placing ocean going ships into mortal peril as they sought safe entry into each coastal harbor. With every coastal harbor came the need for a lighthouse. With every lonely lighthouse...stories of ghostly happenings have increased over the years. This view is from the second story hall window of the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse keeper's house... Muriel is the resident lighthouse ghost of a young girl supposedly left by her sea-captain father in the nearby town of Newport. Should you be in for a short ghost story, click here, if you dare,...Muahahaha... Bill "Sweeping Lines"