The Seul Choix Point Lighthouse is a haunted attraction many tourists attend in the summer. COURTESY OF KAT TEDSEN
A portrait of Capt. Joseph Willie Townsend who died as the keeper of the lighthouse in 1910. COURTESY OF KAT TEDSEN
The smell of cigar smoke lingers as visitors walk through the dark living quarters of Gulliver’s Seul Choix Point Lighthouse.
They’d think someone was there because of the smell. But no. Instead, it’s the smoking spirits that inhabit the 1895 lighthouse on the Upper Peninsula shore of Lake Michigan.
Kat Tedsen, the coauthor of the book series “Haunted Travels of Michigan,” has investigated over 350 …