Isn't it interesting that both you and @steampunkkaja went to mirages.
Because there is a big deal of mystery in this phenomena.
And we really do not know how it works. (we do have all kinds of pieces...)

However, the photographs of things over the horizon is becoming a larger and larger body of repeatable evidences.

And the lighthouses.
Are you stating that the reason you can see them from the distance that The US govern-cement printed is because of constant and continual refraction?