Answer:
John's punishment.
Explanation:
John's punishment attracts reporters to the lighthouse because the reporters know that the john gave punishment to himself by whipping himself. Some workers had seen John whipping himself and these workers spread the information which received by the reporters. John was extremely angry with their intrusion and due to his anger he start kicking one of the reporters. John purifies himself by whipping himself because he feels that he has been bad and sinned.
The answer is true because they can grow over a 100 years or so and they are documented to be 450 years old that was before Columbus discovered America where America was ruled by native Americans ever since the ice age started and ended 10,000 years ago.
