We are Lighthouse Guardians. An investigative justice and storytelling collective committed to truth, dignity, and protection.

Our work exists at the intersection of testimony, investigation, and reform. We seek the missing, examine harm within institutional and custodial systems, and bear witness to abuse experiences long minimized, mischaracterized, or silenced - particularly within systems entrusted with care, custody, or control.

We center the voices of those harmed while under the authority or care of systems meant to protect them, including mental health institutions, medical settings, faith-based organizations, schools, and public agencies.

Through survivor-led testimony, disciplined field inquiry, and open-source intelligence analysis, we expose patterns of abuse, neglect, coercion, and ritualized harm that persist through secrecy and silence.

These stories are not spectacle.

They are shared with express consent, discernment, and care.

They are not content. They are testimony.

And testimony carries responsibility.

Our Mission

To expose hidden harm and use truth to compel accountability, reform, and protection.

Our Values

Human First

Dignity, consent, and safety guide every decision. We move at the pace protection requires - not the pace attention rewards.

Truth With Discrement

We tell the truth without distortion or dramatization. Clarity and safety matters more than comfort.

Protection Before Visibility

Exposure without safety is not justice. We publish with boundaries, context, and survivor agency at the center.

Accountability without Exploitation

This is not outrage media. This is long-form reform work rooted in evidence, pattern recognition, and lived reality.

Integrity in Storytelling

No exaggeration. No narrative inflation. No manufactured conclusions. Distortion is unwelcome here.

Our Team

Lighthouse Guardians is supported by a growing collective of advocates, crisis-response professionals, trauma-informed individuals, investigators, storytellers, and reform-minded advisors.

Our collective includes individuals with lived experience of institutional or ritualized harm as well as those with field experience responding to missing persons cases, systemic failure, and custodial abuse. We also collaborate with partners who have the influence, resources, and ethical commitment required to support meaningful reform without compromising survivor safety or narrative control.

Who We Are