The Erie Basin Marina is home to Buffalo's Waterfront. all them pretty photos you see from the water of the city are taken from the shores of the marina. I thought what then a better idea then to investigate a marina that is as old as the city of Buffalo. The marina goes for about a half of mile out onto a peninsula. There is a giant tower you can climb up inside which over looks the lake, many docks, a restaurant, memorials such as the Gorsky one with a giant ship anchor. I remember as a child of fishing off the marina shores, going to the top of the watch tower, and even swimming in the water. During the winter months the marina looks like a ghost harbor. The Miss Buffalo II is gone so definitely no dinner cruises or charter boat tours are happening, there are no boats out on the docks, the restaurants, restrooms are locked down and the only thing that has life to it is the lit watch tower and the Erie Basin Marina Light house which is out on another peninsula near by. 

We learned a lot investigate here though. There were only certain areas which were high in ghostly energy such as the main entrance to the watch tower, an area where there was a generator, a main docking area and near some of the darker areas between some small buildings. Why would there not be ghost here though I mean drowning's occur, ship wrecks occur off lake Erie, and the marina at one time was a harbor for giant freight vessels and immigrants that flooded the Buffalo area over 50 years ago. I remember one time being at the marina and seeing about 4-6 boats tipped over and it was on the news that some had drowned in lake Erie's rough waters.

 The age of the marina shows as there is a stone wall that is in ruins for example which looks a century old. Lets not forget at one time Buffalo burned down so the marina sat and watched this terrible tragedy many years ago. Also back in 1634 there was a tribe of Indians called the Erie's and they dwelled upon the Erie Basin Marina Shores. They were conquered by the Iroquoian Confederacy which was a very powerful Indian tribe that spread its ways across the lands of WNY. So we also have the possibilities of native American ghost around the Marina.

There is many stories in the country about ghost that are seen walking along a lake, or in a ship yard, or sitting on the docks so why not here? As a child I use to feed the seagulls and so for me I had my own part of history here only to return and finish that destiny which is bring you some of the faces that haunt this old marina in Buffalo.

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Rick-AngelOfThyNight

Buffalo Lighthouse


Located on the Coast Guard base across from the Erie Basin Marina, the lighthouse is a conspicuous symbol of Buffalo's past and present. Built in 1833, it is the oldest building on Buffalo's waterfront and one of the oldest lighthouses on the Great Lakes. It is the second of four lighthouses to serve as Buffalo's light. The base, up to the cornice, dates from 1833, while everything above it dates from 1857.


The light stands near the end of a long stone pier which can be called the foundation of Buffalo, originally having been laid down by Samuel Wilkeson in 1820. (The first Buffalo light stood at the shore end of the pier.) It created a sheltered harbor along the previously untamed shore.

The lighthouse is constructed of ashlar limestone and bluestone, and is one year younger than Buffalo itself (chartered as a city in 1832). The tower is 68 feet tall and tapers from a 20-foot diameter at the base, where the walls are four feet thick, to a 12-foot diameter at the top, where the walls are two feet thick.

In 1914 the lens was taken from this tower to one built just behind the outer harbor breakwater. The breakwater light then became the principal, or third, Buffalo light. A fourth light, a 71-foot white tower on the breakwater itself, has been the main light since 1963.

Unused and deteriorating, the 1833 light was almost demolished in the late 1950's. After a proper hue and cry it was saved and restored by 1961. Further restoration in the late 1980's resulted in floodlighting of the tower's shaft and illumination of the cupola.