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Muirhead declared that the Flannan Isle mystery was merely an accident. In his official report, Muirhead stated that two men had traveled to the west landing around dinner time on December 15.
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 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 ...
“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 ...
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.
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.
Where it takes the story is extreme, but it’s only the latest episode in a century of artists grappling with the Flannan Isle mystery. Wilfrid Wilson Gibson’s 1912 ballad Flannan Isle was perhaps the ...
Based on the Flannan Isle mystery. A small relief boat approaches a tiny, isolated island where a lighthouse is located. They're to replenish the stocks and replace the crew of 3.
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.