international news_ Jonty Skrufff _ 14th February 2005

Bjork Joins The Lighthouse Family

Icelandic pop idol Bjork dreams about ditching conventional housing to move into a lighthouse, she revealed this week.

"I've always wanted to live in one," the famously quirky singer admitted. "I will play the organ in it nightly and the waves will send me to sleep." (Metro)

Her dream comes close to matching the alternative reality of one time Prodigy dancer Leeroy Thornhill who several years ago moved into an Essex windmill that locals believe to be haunted.

"I do live in a windmill though it's not haunted," Leeroy told Skrufff last year, "The miller who lived here before died here, he got caught up in the machinery. I've never seen anything though a few weird things have happened," he added.

"There's a good vibe here. The windmill stopped working in the 60s and it was the last working windmill in the area. It doesn't have the sails on it anymore. It's the same windmill that used to be on the BBC test card," said Leeroy. (Jonty Skrufff / Skrufff.com)

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http://www.thisisessex.co.uk/essex/local_interest/windmills.html (The windmills of Essex: TERLING SMOCK MILL: 'Privately Owned - by Leeroy of Essex band Prodigy. This was the scene of a tragedy that ended commercial windmilling in Essex when in 1950, Herbert Bonner was crushed to death in the machinery after operating it safely for 50 years . . .')

http://www.prairieghosts.com/ha_light.html('Haunted lighthouses: Many lighthouses have ghosts, or at least tales of ghosts, that usually revolve around lonely lighthouse keepers or shipwrecks caused by some failure to keep the tower light burning. The commonly haunted spot in an old lighthouse is invariably the stairs to the tower . . .')

http://www.lighthouse.cc(The Wacko Pin Project began five years ago as a way to raise funds for a needy lighthouse. (Nothing to do with David Koresh!)