The Lonely Lighthouse of Punta Gorda

𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟭, 𝟭𝟵𝟬𝟳 You’re aboard the steamship, Columbia, en route to Portland. San Francisco, wherefrom you departed the day before, now seems a distant memory. It’s dark, almost pitch black, and thick fog blankets the sea. An otherwise cold night is made bearable under the gleam of a state-of-the-art lighting apparatus, the first of its …

𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱! 𝗠𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲

It was 2:30 in the morning on Independence Day, when two of my friends, Kaleb (AKA, Squatch) and Ryan, arrived at my door. We had a planned adventure that day based on a tip I had received. With three hours until sunrise, we hit the road. Our destination: a rock quarry hiding something more than …