Fighting For Aliza Sherman

Aliza Sherman

Aliza did everything for everyone, she never wanted anything for herself. Her faith and children were her life. She was a strong woman and her strength as well as her dedication to her kids were inherited from her parents. 

Aliza's parents, Doris and Albert Czinn, were survivors of the Holocaust. They met and fell in love in a displaced persons camp. They came to Cleveland in the early 1950's. They were committed to giving their children a better life.

Aliza was always one of the prettiest girls in the neighborhood. She was accepted into CWRU’s nursing program but couldn’t afford it. So she attended Huron Road Nursing School’s program instead. Despite this, she attended Hillel events with other Jewish students on the CWRU campus. That’s where she met a medical student named Sanford. They fell in love and were married about two years later on Sunday, November 28th, 1982.

By the early 1990's, Aliza and Sanford were living in a four-bedroom house on Penshurst Drive. Sanford was running a successful ophthalmologist practice. Aliza left nursing behind to raise Josh, Jason and Jennifer. 

One minute, Sanford would be Dr. Jekyll and the next minute he would be Mr. Hyde. He was incredibly generous, gifting money to friends and family members. Then he could be tough and mean, even with his own family, and sometimes in public. Police were called to their house numerous times.

In 1995, Aliza gave birth to Jeremy. Four years later, they moved into a 4,883-square-foot, five-bedroom home at the other end of the same street. 

In 2004, Sanford unexpectedly retired after his office assistant quit and moved to Nevada after 18 years on the job. Rather than train a replacement, he decided to close his practice. During this time, he spend a lot of time at the family's summer home in Florida.

Aliza went back to work as an invitro fertilization nurse at the Cleveland Clinic, helping women building families of their own. 

The fights began escalating with Aliza's oldest son, Josh, joining in. By 2011, Aliza's two oldest kids chose sides. Josh distanced himself from Aliza, while Jennifer pulled away from Sanford. Her youngest child, 17- year-old Jeremy, was having trouble in school due to the turbulent home life. 

Aliza filed for divorce on June 20th. She hired Joe Stafford of Stafford & Stafford. She also moved into a bedroom downstairs. Despite the fighting that continued, neither Aliza nor Sanford wanted to leave the home out of fear the courts would see it as vacating the property.

By the end of 2011, Sanford requested the court to put a restraining order on all joint bank accounts attached to Aliza’s name, including those she held with her mother, Doris, and with Jason and Jennifer. 

Aliza began to fear for her life. She sent an email to herself at 2:10 a.m. in January 2012. “I am really afraid he is going to have me killed.”

Despite offers and urging from her friends and other family members, Aliza wouldn't move out. Instead she put a deadbolt on her bedroom door and locked herself in her room at night.

Aliza wrote Sanford, “I need to teach my sons that it is not okay to threaten and terrorize women. Even if I come out broke, it will be worth it, to give them this life lesson.”

In March, Stafford’s law license was suspended for one year, after the Ohio Supreme Court found that he violated six of the state’s rules of professional conduct for judges and attorneys. 

Aliza’s case was given over to Stafford’s senior associate, Gregory Moore, of Sagamore Hills. Moore was late for meetings and unresponsive to text messages and emails. Within the first six months, Moore filed several continuances on Aliza’s case, pushing back the divorce proceedings, because he was allegedly unprepared. Aliza wanted a new lawyer, but she was short on funds and no one would take her case. 

Between January and July 2012, Moore called in bomb threats to the Geauga County Court of Common Pleas, Lake County Courthouse and Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court on days he was scheduled to appear in court for cases he wasn’t prepared for. 

By March 2013, Judge Rosemary Gold ordered no more continuances would be granted in Aliza’s case and the trial would begin March 26. 

Two days before their day in court, Moore sent Aliza a text message requesting she meet him at his office downtown to discuss final preparations for the case. 

On March 24th, and before she left Aliza had told Jeremy she was headed to their grandmother’s house in Cleveland Heights to get some medicine and run errands. She told him that she'd bring back pizza for dinner. 

It was about 5:30 p.m. and Aliza walked west toward Moore’s Stafford & Stafford office on the fifth floor of 55 Erieview Plaza. Aliza tried to get into the building but couldn't. She kept texting Moore asking where he was. Moore text her back and told her to come on up. Aliza text him back and told him the doors were locked. Moore told Aliza to wait a little longer, but it was cold outside and she told Moore she was going to wait in her car. Aliza turned around. She was about 30 feet from the entryway when she was stabbed, once in her right arm, twice in the right side of her neck and eight times in the back. Kenny Shepard, an employee on the fourth floor of 75 Erieview Plaza, heard her screams and rushed downstairs. By the time he arrived, there was blood everywhere and Aliza was trying to stay standing. Kenny immediately called 911. He pleaded with Aliza not to die. Aliza tried to to talk, but coughed up blood instead. He rolled her onto her stomach. A couple minutes later the ambulances arrived and rushed her off to the hospital.

Why would the Moore have Aliza come to his office on a Sunday?

At 6:14 p.m. on March 24, 2013, Aliza Sherman was pronounced dead in the emergency room of MetroHealth Medical Center. 

At 7:45 p.m., Jennifer received a text message from Jeremy. “Are you with Mom or do you know where she is?” 

Jennifer had been studying most of the day and had her phone on silent. After she checked her phone and saw the message from Jeremy, she noticed that she had received a text from her mom around 2:30 p.m. The text from Aliza told Jennifer that she was going to meet with the divorce attorney. That was the last message Jennifer would get from her mother. 

Jennifer and Aliza were very close and they were in constant contact with each other every day. When she called her mother and got no answer, she became worried. Jennifer tried a second time and with no answer again, she called and talked to a very worried Jeremy. Jennifer then called her mother one more time, before trying Moore’s office. Neither of them answered. So Jennifer put on a pair of slippers and ran to her car in her pajamas. 

As she drove north from her home in Solon, Jennifer tried to deduced were her mom would be. She also kept trying her mom's cellphone. Aliza's brother, as well as her mother, called Jennifer to say that they had been trying to get a hold of Aliza for hours and they couldn't get in contact with her either. This fueled the terror filling up inside Jennifer.

As Jennifer approached Warrensville Center and Cedar roads,  Jeremy called saying that Cleveland police officers were on their way to the house, where Jeremy lived with Aliza and Sanford, to talk with the family. Jennifer made a U-turn and frantically called her then-boyfriend, Kevin Rivchun, to tell him the news. Less than 10 minutes later, Jennifer and Kevin arrived at the house. Jennifer ran inside, grabbed Jeremy and pulled him out of the house, leaving Sanford alone inside. For 45 minutes, they sat in her car at the end of the driveway. 

When the police arrived, two detectives stepped out of the car. Jennifer rushed out to meet them. Tears streaming down her face she asked, “What happened to my mother?”

It was unclear what happened or whether Aliza even met with her attorney. The police wanted to know if Aliza had any enemies and were she was going.

Investigators knew this wasn't a mugging. Nothing was taken from Aliza. She was still wearing her Jewelry, and her money appeared to be all there. They didn't think that this was a random act of violence either.

A grainy surveillance video, from a camera mounted outside a nearby parking garage, revealed a hooded figure, possibly in jeans and perhaps a green jacket, running away from the scene moments after the attack. Some people say that the person had a limp. Investigators were unable to discern from the video if the suspect was male or female but it looks like a male to me.

Police searched for the murder weapon everywhere, even on tops of roofs and at Aliza's home. To this day the murder weapon hasn't been located. 

Investigators interviewed employees in the floors above the walkway. They questioned Moore and members of the Sherman family.

Jeremy moved in with Jennifer, until he graduated high school and left for college at the end of the summer.

On October 20th, Jennifer and Keven were married. With neither parent present, as she walked down the isle with Jason on one side and Jeremy on the other. She carried a bouquet clasped with an open locket that held a portrait of Aliza from her wedding day. 

In 2014, Jennifer filed a civil suit against her father. In it, she sought to recover more than $2 million Sanford allegedly funneled out of a joint bank account he held with Aliza while she was alive. 

Two months before her death, Aliza had became aware of the money that was stolen from her. She had hired forensic accountant Jeffrey Firestone. Aliza claimed she was not aware of the account when it was opened in her name in 2000. According to emails sent to Moore, Aliza was also unaware of ever signing power of attorney giving Sanford control over the funds in the account. By the time Aliza discovered the account with Firestone’s help, the account had been closed and the money withdrawn, including transfers into an account in Sanford’s name.

A forensic account that Jennifer hired went over the documents for the account and came to the conclusion that it wasn't Aliza's signature.

Sanford claimed that that was his money and on the advice of his lawyer, had put it in account under his wife's name. 

Jennifer argued those funds belonged to Aliza’s estate since she was the sole proprietor of the account and had this issue been resolved in court, it may have belonged to Aliza upon the divorce. Sanford contended that the funds were considered marital assets used for supporting the family and didn't just belong to Aliza.

Four months after Jennifer filed the suit against Sanford, her older brother Josh filed a motion to remove her as co-executor of Aliza’s estate. He stated that she was bias against their father. Josh eventually dropped his claim in 2015.

In the civil case, Sanford testified that from roughly 2006 to 2010 he had been having an affair with a woman who lived in New York and Florida and that he made several trips to visit her. Testimony by some of Sanford’s closest friends, revealed that Sanford had been at the end of his rope and was emotionally distressed in the time leading up to Aliza filing for divorce.

One of Sanford’s closest friends, Larry Shanker, stated that in a conversation between him and Sanford, Sanford asked him how someone could get away with committing “a perfect murder.”

Larry said he replied, “Don’t use your car or don’t let your car be seen,” he testified. “Don’t use a gun because it could be heard. Don’t use your street clothes. Use something that would cover up your entire body, your face, your hands.”

Larry also alleged that Sanford had called him on the day that he was served the divorce papers. Sanford had asked Larry to come over because he was afraid of what he might do. When Larry arrived, Sanford was irate and not making much sense. He was also yelling that Aliza would never see a penny from the divorce. Larry was so disturbed by Sandord's behavior, that after 22 years of friendship, Larry never talked to or saw Sanford again.

Also in 2015, Cleveland police turned over the investigation to Cuyahoga County prosecutors to re-examine the evidence.

In January 2016, Aliza’s attorney, Gregory Moore, was indicted on one count of tampering with evidence, one count of obstructing official business, one count of falsification, one count of telecommunications fraud and two counts of forgery. Prosecutors allege Moore sent Aliza text messages stating he was in his office at the time she was attacked, but phone records, electronic keycard data and witness statements allegedly show Moore left his office one hour before Aliza was murdered and didn’t return until one hour after police found her bleeding outside.

Moore denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty, but then eventually changed his plea to guilty. Moore was sentenced to 180 days in jail. Detectives do not have the evidence that would lead them to identify him as a suspect in her killing.

In August 2016, the judge dismissed claims for civil remedy for criminal acts and claims of conspiracy. The judge stated that there was no evidence that Sanford did anything wrong.

In December of 2017, all sides agreed to settle the civil suit. Sanford agreed to pay $110,000 to Aliza’s estate with the stipulation that Jennifer would forever release and discharge him from any claims they might make in the future. Jennifer agreed to Sanford’s stipulation with one addendum: If in the future he is convicted of any criminal offense related to her mother’s death, she reserves the right to renew her fight and make further claims against him.

Since day one, Jennifer has been fighting for her mother. Please help her in the Fight For Aliza. If you have seen anything or know anything that can help, no matter how small, please contact law enforcement.

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Can You Help Find Kortne Stouffer, Who Vanished From Her Apartment In Palmyra, Pennsylvania?

⭐Kortne Stouffer⭐

Kortne was a hippy at heart and loved to wear tie dye everything. She was filled with brilliance and brightness.  She was exuberant, full of giddy energy and love. Kortne was a free spirit and had so many dreams. Her passions were beauty, and taking care of animals.  She would spend time each day walking around town with her dog; a black Labrador named Sheba that she got for her 8th birthday. Kortne also had a pet snake she adored. Kortne spent most of her free time outdoors, traveling, or with her family. Kortne had a strong love and appreciation for her family and isn’t one to miss any family events. Kortne was a lover of Chinese food and often had lunch at Panera Bread on a weekly basis. She never missed a family meal, especially “if mommy was cooking.” Kortne would go home for family meals at least once or twice a month. She loved music. She loved to sing and has sang in multiple musical shows and groups over the years. She also had a contagious laugh.

Kortne was born on April 24th, 1991 to Scott and Wendy Stouffer. She would always call her dad sunshine. She grew up on a farm. She worked as a hair stylist at Elle salon and as a dog groomer at Stouffer Equipment, in Palmyra, Pennsylvania.

In early 2012, Kortne moved into her apartment at 810 West Main Street in Palmyra with her boyfriend, Bradly Herr. Kortne usually drove her boyfriend to work every morning and picked him up every evening.

On Saturday night, July 28th, 21-year-old Kortne had the night off from work. She and her boyfriend decided to have a party at their apartment. Bradly was under house arrest after driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs while underage and was on probation. He wasn't supposed to have any alcohol in the house, so when police responded to a call to their apartment around 9 p.m., they arrested him for probation violation. 

Kortne and her friends, Cody Prewitt and Milton Rodriguez Jr., decided to go to the Hardware Bar in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. While there, she got into an argument with a guy and his girlfriend. Kortne got kicked out of the bar and went back to her home with Cody.

Kortney thought it was her downstairs neighbors who called the police on their party, and she believed her boyfriend might spend an extended time behind bars as a result of his arrest. Kortne got into an argument with the neighbors at 3:00 a.m. and the police responded to it. The police told everyone to go back into their own houses and go to sleep. Cody claimed that he took an irate Kortne back to her apartment. 

An hour later, the police were called yet again. Kortne had been  stomping on the floor and yelling at her downstairs neighbors. When police arrived, the lights were out and everything was quite. The police decided not to disturb Kortne and turned around and left.

Cody had stayed at Kortne's apartment and when he woke up around 7:15 a.m. he couldn’t find Kortne anywhere. He got up and called for her. She didn’t answer, so he left to go to work. 

Kortne had planned to go to a nearby fair with her brother and grandfather that day. And when Kortne's mother, Wendy, spoke to her son later that evening and learned Kortne hadn’t shown up, she became concerned. Wendy went to her daughter's apartment the next day. Kortne's car was in the driveway with the windows down. The door to her apartment was unlocked, and Kortne's dog met Wendy at the door. Her shoes were there. Her keys were there. Her phone was plugged in next to the bed. The AC was on and the TV was on. But Kortne wasn’t there. Wendy knew something was wrong and called Kortne’s father and brother to come over to the apartment before calling police to report her missing.

Kortne's family began their search for her. They walked the streets of her town, they looked in dumpsters and in bushes. They called people who she was with that last night. Kortne's family couldn’t find her. There was no contact from her at all after early Sunday morning.

Authorities immediately began conducting interviews with the people who last saw Kortne.  They even searched Cody's property and found nothing. Cody took a lie detector test as well and passed with flying colors. He offered up his DNA also. Nothing brought them closer to finding Kortne.

Amanda Ballester claimed that she was a friend of Kortne's in a private Facebook message she sent Wendy. Amanda claimed she knew what happened to Kortne, so Wendy had her contact the investigators. Amanda told police that two people went to Kortne's place looking for drugs and money. They killed her, rolled her up in a carpet and drove her to Memorial lake. Once there, they weighted her body down and threw her in the lake.

Even though Amanda allegedly ended up altering her story a few times, Pennsylvania state police dispatched search teams and searched the lake with sonar equipment and scoured the shoreline for clues, but found nothing.

Kortne's parents will never stop searching for her. Family is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to Kortne’s whereabouts.

https://bringkortnehome.com/

The case remains active and will continue to be until it is solved. Anyone with information is urged to contact investigators on the tipline at 717-838-8189. You can also submit a tip anonymously online at https://tips.fbi.gov/.

At the time of her disappearance Kortne was  5'8" tall, 110 pounds with blonde hair and green eyes. She was last seen wearing a yellow tank top, black floral-print or fluorescent paint-splattered shorts, a silver class ring and a diamond wedding ring. 

Kortne had a tattoo on the left side of her abdomen of a handgun with flowers growing out of the barrel, a tattoo of three stars on top of her right foot, and a tattoo of the words "One Love" on her right bicep, with the O in "One" drawn as a peace symbol and the O in "Love" drawn as a heart. Kortne ears and tongue were pierced and she had a mole on her right cheek. Her hair was in dreadlocks at the time of her disappearance.

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Did Rodney Reed Murder Stacey Stites? Or Is An Innocent Man About To Be Put To Death?

🛒Stacey Lee Stites🛒

She was beautiful, well-liked, bubbly and very athletic. She was lots of fun and loved little kids. Stacey was born on January 19th, 1977 in Nueces County, Texas. 

In 1996, Stacey was 19-years-old and working in a grocery store in Bastrop County, Texas. 

She lived with her fiancee, police officer Jimmy Finnell. Jimmy claimed he was sleeping when Stacey hopped into his red pickup truck and headed to work. When she didn't show up for her 3 a.m. shift, her co-workers, friends and family knew there was something wrong. 

What i want to know is, if Jimmy was asleep when Stacey left for work, how did he know for sure what time she left?

12 hours after Jimmy said that she left home, Stacey's body was found along a country road, in a field, laying on her back. She was only wearing her bra and jeans. Stacey had ligature marks on her throat. A white shirt and two cans of beer were found on the ground, as well as a piece of a belt that was found 10 feet away from her body. Investigators believe that that piece of belt is a part of the murder weapon. The other part of the belt was found miles away, next to Jimmy's truck in the Bastrop High School parking lot. When police dusted the truck for prints, only Stacey and Jimmy's prints were found. Shortly after Stacey's murder, Jimmy sold his truck.

I don't know if i would sell my truck if i were in Jimmy's shoes. i'm not sure if i'd want to ride in it again, but i would probably keep it and hold out hope that when technology advanced one day, maybe they could get some new clues. i'm undecided on that one.

Obviously, Jimmy was the first suspect in Stacey's murder. He was quickly ruled out because investigators claimed that he didn't fit the timeline of murder. If the time line was correct, they said that he wouldn't have time to walk back from where the truck was left to his apartment.

During the autopsy, 2 sperm cells were found inside Stacey, and it wasn't Jimmy's. Sperm be present up to 72 hours in the body.

It belonged to Rodney Reed.  Rodney was well known to authorities. He was an alleged rapist, but never convicted.  Police picked him up and he was charged with aggravated sexual assault and capital murder. At first, Rodney denied knowing Stacey, but later he admitted that he was in a secret relationship with her. Rodney plead not guilty and stood trial based on only the DNA evidence found inside Stacey. Prosecutors theorized that while Jimmy slept, Stacey left their apartment at 2:45 a.m. to go to work. Somewhere on the way to work, it was alleged that Stacey saw Rodney on the side of the road and picked him up. Then he allegedly took Stacey to a wooded area where he raped and then strangled her to death. Prosecutors then claimed that Rodney took the truck to the local high school and abandoned it.

He was convicted of capital murder and was sentenced to death. His execution was then placed on hold in light of new evidence. Rodney is adamant about his innocence as he sits on death row and says that everyone is being mislead. He claims that Jimmy is the one that snuffed out Stacey's life. Rodney also said that Jimmy had found out about his relationship with Stacey and threatened to kill him if he didn't stop seeing his fiancee.

Rodney is not the only one that believes in his innocence. Stacey's cousin, Heather, as well as her co-worker, Alicia Slater, believes that Jimmy could have murdered Stacey. Heather claimed that when Rodney would come into Stacey's work, she'd be happy and excited and when Jimmy would come in she'd seem scared and apprehensive. They both also  corroborate Rodney's claims that he was having an affair with Stacey.

5 months after Stacey was murdered, the officer investigating her death met an untimely end as well. Gittings Texas officer, Joe Bryant, was conducting an unauthorized investigation into Stacey's murder when he was shot to death by a migrant worker from Mexico. Joe's wife stated that before he was gun down, Joe revealed the identity of who he thought killed Stacey and that person was Jimmy.

Joe wasn't the only officer investigating Stacey's murder to die while investigating her death. Edward August Salmela died from a self-inflected gun shot wound. Even though he was right handed, he was shot with his left hand, in the left side of his temple, which took off the right half of his ear. The gun, however, was found laying next to his right foot. Ed's brother Scott doesn't believe that Ed killed himself. His left hand shook, so he never used that hand to shoot. Scott found that Ed's usually immaculate home was in disarray. His computers, hard drives and guns were missing as well.

Later, it was discovered that before Stacey's death, Jimmy had told a fellow police officer, that if Stacey ever cheated on him that he would strangle her to death with a belt. Police also never searched Jimmy and Stacey's apartment. Jimmy also was later convicted of rape while on duty. His victim was named Connie and he raped her at gun point. He told her that if she ever told anyone, that when he got out of jail he would hunt her down and kill her. Jimmy took a plea deal and was sentence to 10 years in prison.

Three different forensic pathologists looked at the evidence against Rodney and they all believe that his guilt is medically and scientifically impossible. They all claim that the medical examiner got the time of death wrong. In the crime scene video that investigators shot, Stacey's body seemed to be in an advanced stage of rigor mortis. This led the pathologists to believe that she had been dead for 24 hours instead of 15. This would suggest that Stacey was killed in her apartment well before midnight. Also, Rodney had an alibi until 4:45 a.m. This was not introduced at his trial.

In the autopsy report, all of Stacey's injuries were on the left side of her body. She had bruising to her head, as well as second and third degree burn injuries. Also in the autopsy report, it stated that she had 1,200 grams of fluid in her lungs, where the normal fluid for someone her size should be half that. In the crime scene video, the tips of Stacey's fingers were white and had contact marks. There was lividity in the top half of her body. When a person dies the blood settles in whatever position you are in. So this indicates that Stacey was face down when she was killed and stayed that way for about six hours.

The three pathologists theorized that Stacey had her clothes on and was kneeling down filling up her bathtub when she was attacked. She was restrained with a belt, but ultimately drowned when her face was shoved under the water.

The pathologists claim that if Stacey was strangled to death, that the blood vessels in the eyes should have burst. She also should have a ruptured hyoid bone, as well as some kind of damage to her larynx. Instead of having any of this, Stacey had ruptured blood vessels in the top of her head, like someone was beating her into submission.

In further claims by the pathologists Stacey was already dead and then placed in Jimmy's truck. And that the whole crime scene was staged. There was decompostional fluid found on the baseboard of the truck, as well as inside the truck on it's hump. Stacey's nails were cut down, in what it seemed like an attempt to make sure that there was no DNA evidence found under her nails.

After 9 appeals and an delayed execution, 52-year-old Rodney is sentenced to be executed on November 20th of this year. Many people, including the Innocence Project, believe that Rodney deserves a retrial before it's too late.

St. Augustine: The Haunted Lighthouse

St. Augustine was established by it's first governor, Spanish admiral Pedro Menendez De Aviles, on September 8th, 1565. It's the oldest continually inhabited settlement in the continental United States. And is located about 40 miles southeast of Jacksonville, Florida. 

On May 28th and 29th, 1586, soon after the Anglo-Spanish War began between England and Spain, the British pirate Sir Frances Drake, pillaged and burned St. Augustine. He allowed the governor and the towns people to flee for their safety first.

In 1668, the English buccaneer Robert Searle then sacked St. Augustine, killing sixty people and pillaging government buildings, churches and houses, after which his pirates ransomed off some of their hostages and sold others into slavery. In 1702, during Queen Anne's war, after a brutal British attack that lasted 58 days,, the British troops burned St. Augustine to the ground as they retreated. This was followed by yet another fiery British siege in 1740.

In 1763, after Great Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War, the Treaty of Paris was signed  and St. Augustine was finally handed over to Britain. The HMS Industry, one of the first boats sent to the new territory, sank in the waters just below the looming light house.

The St. Augustine Lighthouse had existed since 1586, until it fell into the ocean in 1880 due to erosion. It was the earliest, permanent aid-to-navigation in the continental United States of America.

The new lighthouse was completed on October 15th, 1874, 500 yards southwest from the original lighthouse. The light could be seen from 24 nautical miles away. The same original lens from 1874 is still in use today.

The light house has it's share of ghost stories and sightings. The keeper's house basement is the setting for some suspicious activity. Shortly after the lighthouse was rebuilt, it is said that a lighthouse keeper hung himself in the basement. People have claimed to see a man in blue lurking in the shadows. Some people say that the man in blue is the keeper that hung himself. Others say that it could be that it is the restless spirit of lighthouse keeper Joseph Andreu, who fell to his death while painting the original tower in 1859. Visitors and staff report the overpowering smell of cigar smoke on the landing of the tower, despite the fact that smoking is expressly prohibited on the grounds. Is the smoke smell from Andrew or is it from a man named Peter Rasmusson? He was the lighthouse keeper from 1901 to 1924, which was the longest stint of any keeper. He was a crabby guy and a smoker who hated tourists. Some people also claims that he is the man in blue.

A man named Hezekiah H. Pittee oversaw the construction work. To entertain his restless children, he allowed them to play with the supply cart that ran back and forth between the lighthouse and the ocean. On July 10th, 1873, the two eldest Pittee children, Eliza and Mary, drowned when the cart toppled over into the water. Historians believe that a third child, a young African-American girl, was also killed in the accident. Lighthouse workers say that the mischievous spirits of these children still haunt the lighthouse today. Workers will find locked doors standing wide open the next day, and the sound of children’s laughter can be heard in the stairwell. Music boxes sold in the gift shop inexplicably pop open, playing by themselves. Tour guides report multiple incidences of being touched or grabbed by ghosts while showing visitors around the lighthouse. In one particular tour, there were little children's footprints found in the sand, despite there being no children on the tour.

Visitors to the lighthouse report catching glimpses of a young girl dressed in period clothing peering out from the lighthouse door or standing near an upstairs window.

In 2009, a cell tower worker took a photo of his coworker with the lighthouse in the background and seemed to capture the figure of a young girl in a long dress with long hair, standing alone on the top observation deck.

One of the first lighthouse keepers, William Harn, was also one of the first keepers to die in the lighthouse. He had malaria and tuberculosis that he caught from the Civil War. Coughs can be heard from the parlor room and is suspected that those are the coughs from William.