so for this being long. I'm do a story a about A evil lighthouse I'm using real lighthouse legends and put them in one place and I can not figure out whats behind all the evil. 1910 One keeper, newly married, brought his young wife out with him to tend the light. Becoming very bored, the wife complained about not having anything to do. the keeper ordered a piano . she plays the same song over and over her husband goes mad he starts to take an axe to the piano but the wife gets in the way and dies not being able to live with himself he throws himself off the tower. 1935 three lighthouse-keepers disappear without a trace 1960 the next keeper and his wife move in but after 5 mouths her husband dies but instead of going get help She left his body at the foot of the stairs, and took over lighthouse duties for five days and nights, without eating or sleeping. On the sixth day, the light was out. Fishermen came to investigated,now, and found her sitting on the stairs holding the frozen corpse of her husband. She and her husband's corpse were taken ashore, but by that time she'd completely lost her mind 1985 the light the lighthouse is now a haunted tourist attraction a little girl and her dad visit and her dad goes missing 2010 that girl now grown goes back to find out what happened to her father why make some go insane one year but the next takes them away and I need help with this (please note all the years can be changed) I have no idea how to work all this together what could be doing all of this what could be behind all of this? any thoughts
Hmm, ancient Native American curse, workers died building it and haunt the place, Cthulhu, just plain old isolation, the ghost of the first one to die...
Some of the lighthouse stories are well known. Make new legends? Otherwise, a novel raises suspicion: 'They were three little pigs, loved the sleeping beauty, her seven tiny guys worked for the witch, whose hair tumbled the length of the tower.'
Have you ever read the short story 'The Red Room' by H.G.Wells? You could used a similar idea to explain some of the people's reactions - if I explain further it's a spoiler but there is a summary on Wikipedia or of course just check it out!
I'd say the ghost of the first couple haunt it, possessing and killing the following keepers. When a new couple move in, both get possessed, but this time the woman (possessed by the female ghost) kills the husband (possessed by the male ghost) in an act of revenge. When she's taken out of the lighthouse the ghost leaves her but has done so much psychological damage that she goes insane. Maybe each person to die there adds their ghost to the haunting, so by the time the girls dad goes missing there are already 6 ghosts. If each act in a different way then it can appear as one ghost that's acting in different ways until the girl realises that it's actually multiple ghosts.
Just watch an episode of scooby doo. Usually the creepy lighthouse keeper's motive is... To bring in only her imported goods and put other businesses out of business.
It's on the edge of the water. Maybe the water level used to be higher, and a group of people drowned there?