MORE THAN $14 MILLION HAS BEEN
FUNNELED BACK INTO TRUMP-OWNED
PROPERTIES, SINCE THE START OF
HIS CAMPAIGN.
JEFF: NOW ON THE COAST, IT IS
THE TILLAMOOK ROCK LIGHTHOUSE,
BUILT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN
1880, IS A KEY PART OF LOCAL
FOLKLORE, AND MANY SAY THE
SPIRITS OF THE DEAD STILL ROAM
THE GROUNDS.
JENNIFER JENNIFER DOWLING TAKES
: YOU TO THE ROCK TO INVESTIGATE
ITS STORIED HISTORY AND THE
CONDITION OF THE MYSTERIOUS
OUTPOST.
JENNIFER: AT THIS VIEWPOINT FROM
CANNON BEACH, TILLAMMOOK ROCK
AND IT'S LEGENDARY LIGHTHOUSE
ARE JUST A SPECK ON THE HORIZON.
ITS SECRETS GUARDED BY THE
TREACHEROUS SEAS SURROUNDING ITS
DARKENED DOORWAYS, BATTERED
WALLS AND RUSTY TOWER.
HISTORIAN ELAINE TRUCKE SAYS
SOME PEOPLE SWEAR THEY'VE SEEN
LIGHT SHINING FROM A GHOSTLY
LENS.
I'LL STILL HAVE PEOPLE COME
IN AND THEY'LL SAY, I SAW PEOPLE
ON THE ROCK.
JENNIFER: TO START UNLOCKING ITS
SECRETS PHOTOGRAPHER ADAM
THOMPSON AND I GEARED UP IN
SPECIAL SUITS FOR A 2-HOUR
25-MILE TRIP WITH THE COAST
GUARD.
DON'T GO THERE WITHOUT BEING
ABLE TO CALL FOR HELP.
JENNIFER TILLAMOOK ROCK SITS
: ABOUT A MILE OFF THE OREGON
COAST, THIS IS VERY ISOLATED AND
HARD TO GET TO.
MY FIRST IMPRESSIONS WHEN I
CAME CLOSE TO IT A FEW YEARS
AGO, WAS IT WAS HAUNTED.
I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE ANY
CLOSER THAN THIS.
JENNIFER HISTORIANS SAY THE ROCK
: CLAIMED ITS FIRST VICTIM IN
THE LATE 1800'S BEFORE
CONSTRUCTION BEGAN.
ONE OF THE FIRST SURVEYORS,
THAT WAS TRYING TO BUILD THE
LIGHTHOUSE WAS WASHED OFF THE
ROCK AND THEY NEVER FOUND HIS
BODY.
JENNIFER:
STILL, CONSTRUCTION
CONTINUED, AND CREWS WEATHERED
INTENSE WAVES ON THE ROCK IN PUP
TENTS UNTIL THEY FINISHED THE
JOB.
THEY TRIED AND FAILED TO PREVENT
ANOTHER TRAGEDY WHEN THE SHIP,
THE LUPATIA SAILED TOO CLOSE TO
THE ROCK ON A FOGGY NIGHT.
THEY SET A BIG BONFIRE AND
STARTED YELLING AND SCREAMING.
THE ENTIRE CREW WAS LOST, THE
ONLY SURVIVOR WAS THE DOG.
JENNIFER THE LIGHTHOUSE, FINALLY
: COMPLETE IN 1881.
BUT COAST GUARD MEMBERS WHO
IN STAFFED IT 4 AT A TIME HAD A
TOUGH COMMUTE A WOODEN CRANE
LIFTED PEOPLE ON AND OFF THE
ROCK IN WHAT LOOKED LIKE A LIFE
RING WITH PANTS SEWN ONTO THEM.
IT WAS VERY HARROWING.
I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE STATIONED
I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE
STATIONED OUT HERE PERMANENTLY,
NO.
JENNIFER: THE MEN PASSED THE
TIME READING COOKING, PLAYING
JOKES AND WEATHERING INTENSE
STORMS.
THE WAVES WOULD GO OVER THE
TOP OF THE LIGHTHOUSE.
THE COAST GUARD SOLD THE
JENNIFERTHE COAST GUARD SOLD
THE: LIGHTHOUSE IN THANKS TO
1957 ADVANCEMENTS IN RADAR, BUT
IT DIDN'T STOP TERRIBLE TILLY
FROM CLAIMING MORE LIVES.
SOMEONE WAS WASHED OFF A BOAT
GOING AROUND THE LIGHTHOUSE IN
1964 AND THEY NEVER FOUND HIS
BODY.
JENNIFER: IN THE 70'S A G.E.
EXECUTIVE BOUGHT AND REPAIRED IT
FOR USE AS A SECOND HOME, TRUCKE
SAYS HE SPENT ONLY ONE NIGHT ON
THE ROCK.
HE SOLD IT ABOUT 2 DAYS LATER,
AFTER THAT, TERRIBLE TILLY'S
STORY TAKES AN UNUSUAL TURN.
STATE RECORDS SHOW THAT IN 1979,
A GROUP OF INVESTORS LED, BY
LOCAL REAL ESTATE BROKER MIMI
MORISSETE BOUGHT IT FOR 50,000.
THEIR PLAN TO BUILD THE CEMETERY
CALLED HR DNC.
PEOPLE PAID AROUND FOR A SPACE
$1200 TO STORE THEIR ASHES IN A
COLUMBARIUM.
ABOUT 30 WERE IN TURN --
INTERNED THERE.
JENNIFER: SHE BELIEVES HER
MOTHER'S ASHES ARE IN THIS BOX
PICTURED IN AN OLD OREGONIAN
ARTICLE.
THERE SITS HER BRASS
CONTAINER WITH HER NAME ON.
JENNIFER AT ONE POINT, TRUCKE
: SAYS VANDALS GOT INTO THE
LIGHTHOUSE AND DESTROYED SOME OF
THE URNS, AND THERE WAS A
LAWSUIT.
THE OREGON MORTUARY AND CEMETERY
BOARD ALSO INVESTIGATED,
ULTIMATELY DENYING THE OWNER'S
ATTEMPT TO RENEW AN ALREADY
EXPIRED OPERATING CERTIFICATE .
I DON'T WANT HER SITING THERE
IN THAT AWFUL PLACE TO TELL THE
TRUTH.
JENNIFER DRONE VIDEO GIVEN TO US
: BY GEIST VIEW SHOWS MISSING
DOORS, THE INTERIOR, DIRTY FROM
SEA BIRDS AND BATTERED BY
STORMS.
A NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS TO
OREGON'S DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FOLLOWED.
PEOPLE WHO ARRANGED TO BE PLACED
THEIR AFTER THEIR DEATH WERE
ASKING FOR REFUNDS.
I WISH SHE WASN'T THERE YOU
KNOW, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO
DO ABOUT IT.
JENNIFER: GETTING NOLA'S ASHES
BACK WOULD BE DIFFICULT THE
ISLAND IS PART OF THE OREGON
ISLANDS REFUGE.
VISITING IS PROHIBITED FROM
MARCH 15 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1
BECAUSE OF NESTING BIRDS.
AND TRUCKE SAYS THE SEA LIONS
CAN BE AGGRESSIVE.
I THINK
THE DECISION WAS A
GOOD IDEA AND THEY HAD SOME
FORETHOUGHT BUT THEY DID NOT
REALIZE HOW DIFFICULT IT WOULD
BE TO GET CONSTRUCTION PEOPLE
OUT THERE, TO DO RESTORATION AND
MAINTAIN THE BUILDING.
JENNIFER LOCAL RESIDENTS WOULD
: LIKE TO SEE TILLY RESTORED.
BUT THE SEA APPEARS TO BE
WINNING THE BATTLE TO RECLAIM
THE ROCK.
IT'S THIS MYSTERIOUS
BEAUTIFUL LIGHTHOUSE AND IT IS
JUST FALLING APART AND THERE'S
NOT A LOT THAT ANYBODY CAN DO.
JENNIFER DOWLING, KOIN 6 NEWS.
JEFF: I DID NOT KNOW AN
EXECUTIVE FROM JIHAD BUT THAT IN
STAY THERE ONE NIGHT.
-- FROM G.E.
HAD STAYED THERE
ONE NIGHT.