"I only too well knew something serious had occurred." Built in 1899, the Flannan Isles Lighthouse stands on the small island of Eilean Mòr in a remote stretch of sea northwest of Scotland. Its ...

In December 1900, a boat called Hesperus set sail for the island of Eilean Mor, one of the seven islets (also known as the “Seven Hunters”) of the Flannan Isles off the coast of northwestern ...

The Flannan Isles lighthouse was manned until 1971 and people with links to its keepers gravitate to Breasclete, as do those with a more general interest in lighthouse heritage.

“Between the Flannan Isles and the Faroes is the stormiest place in the North Atlantic and it’s a big long stretch of south westerly winds, running 2,000 to 3,000 miles over several days and ...

THREE men last night completed a gruelling 21 miles swim from an Outer Hebridean island at the centre of one of the world's greatest mysteries in an ghostly echo of the unsolved tragedy.

On Boxing Day, 1900, The Hesperus arrives at Flannan Isle to relieve the lighthouse keepers. She sounds her steam whistle to alert the keepers but there is no response.

The stopped clocks, the unmade beds and the jacket that was left behind have all loomed large in the mystery of the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from the Flannan Isles more than 120 ...

Flannan Isles Mystery Swim team mate Ed Smith was a member of the St Kilda Swim Team and again joined Mr Macleod and others, including Stuart Baird, in The Shiant Swim – from Lewis to the Shiant ...