Three Men Vanished from a Lighthouse, Nobody Knows Why

How do you imagine a lighthouse keeper’s job? Probably like an introvert’s paradise: you’re alone on a rock in the middle of the sea, looking out at the raging waves and keeping the light on. But lack of people around has its downside too: no one will know if something happens to you. And that was exactly the case with the keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse…

It was a fine and calm day on December 15, 1900. In such weather conditions, lighthouses aren’t crucial for the safety of passing ships. But still, it was unusual for the Archtor, a steamer passing by the Flannan Isles on its way from Philadelphia, to notice that the lighthouse on Eilean Mor was not operational.

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TIMESTAMPS:
Dead silence 1:33
Signs that the keepers went out in a hurry 3:20
Weirdest things 4:26
What was the last entry about 5:42
Did the keepers go crazy? 6:27
The official version of the events 7:14
Gaps in this theory 8:35

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SUMMARY:
- The lighthouse had been manned by three people: James Ducat and Thomas Marshall, the regular keepers, and Donald MacArthur, the occasional who was then substituting for another keeper on sick leave.
- It was ominously quiet on the island. The lighthouse stood dark and lifeless, only seagulls keeping it company.
- There was no sign of the keepers, not even a trace left. Both the main gate and the entrance door to the lighthouse were closed, the beds were unmade, and most eerily, all the clocks stopped.
- Muirhead found the lighthouse logbook that the men kept until their disappearance — that is, about dinner time of December 15. On December 12, Thomas Marshall wrote that there were severe winds the likes of which he’d never seen in twenty years.
- The log implied that the three men were terrified, which was, again, very strange since they were experienced keepers and knew they were safe inside the lighthouse.
- But perhaps the most unsettling of this all was the fact that there were no storms on the 12th, 13th, or 14th of December in the area. The log said, however, that the skies finally cleared only on the morning of December 15. And that was the last entry.
- s soon as the news reached the mainland, wild theories from all corners of the UK started popping to the surface. Not the least popular of those was that the men had gone insane, which was not out of the question considering the logbook entries.
- Other theories were much less credible and speculated on anything and everything from supernatural activity to secret government operations, although why the government would be interested in eliminating three lighthouse keepers at the end of the world remained unclear.
- According to the entries in the lighthouse logbook, the damage to the western landing had been done before the men’s disappearance. So they had witnessed the mayhem but had not, in fact, gone out into it.
- Since 1900, many more theories have been born, including freak waves washing away one of the men and the others being swept away while helping him.
- But whatever hypotheses, credible or nonsensical, were given, none of them have given us any clue as to what really happened to the three bold men from Eilean Mor.

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[BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL]

Hey guys! Which theory do you think is the most plausible?

[cornfedful]

I AM a Lightkeeper. I have worked up and down the BC coast for three years now. Weather is a mystery. As an example, just this morning for my 3:30 am weather, I reported winds out of the Northwest at 3 knots and rippled seas. A weather buoy 10 miles away was recording Southeast winds at 35 and gusting 42 (80 kmh). I have never personally witnessed a "rogue" wave but they are not uncommon. I have learned that Mother Nature isn't a big fan of being told what she should be doing. She just does.

[hrishitsinghraphal]

If they have swept away then why didn't the crate box swept

[skylerthefox]

Thanks for the story a way to brighten up the mood

[bimmer]

No worries, we finna find them in Area 51... 😮😮😮😮

[ivandaleganub]

Try to watch "The Vanishing" it was based on this story. Great movie though.

[JC-dqus]

anyone realised that all the 3 man have amazing moustaches?

[GumiMoonliight]

For the government's confirmation:
1. The start said that the doors were closed when the ship vehicle thing came to the lighthouse.
Why do they confirm they've been washed away by the waves?
1. Why did one of the keepers close the door even when he was in a hurry to save them? Keep in mind, the starting said the doors were closed.
2. If they were washed away, the supply crates would have been too.

[jessikapiche]

Do you remember dissapearance in the bermuda triangle where people seem to have left their meals half way through, with coffee still in the cups, with no one aboard, no bodies, nothing?


Do you remember also that a mysterious mist that seems to form around a boat and suddenly one of the boat is pull very strongly into the mist while the other boat is perfectly ok and in bright sunlight, perfect calm sea?


This is clearly what happened here. They have been engolfe into a mist and for them, there was a time displacement that make them experience another sea at another time. That's why they describe the terrible weather and incredible wind while everyone around knows there was no bad weather at all in that area at that time... That's also why all clock stopped at the same time.


However crazy a theory might be, if that's the only solution to explain it all, that theory is probably the truth. it is not the first time something like that happened. And it seems it appears always near the sea or 'at sea'. There might be a reason for this... yet to be solved.


sorry for my bad english. i hope i gave you enough info so you know what i am talking about.

[nicholasalexiou]

If only security cameras were a thing back then

[sidhantmohanty]

I always fantasize to have the superpower to go to the past only to discover the Mysteries which has been unsolved till date

[lavanyagupta]

You stated that the time stopped when they disappeared the might have time travelled

[animeshkaushik]

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[thijs]

If the 3 guy was in a hurry to get to the other guys why was the door of the lighthouse locked?

[milnergregorye]

Freaky I think the weather had something to do with it I dont think the forecasts were not really accurate in those days not to mention the lighthouse sounded so bad from the wear from the beam

[ravinajain]

When they wrote the last page on their dairy on 15th December they wrote 3 dots.Which means they vanished/disappeared on purpose.I think so.

[thijs]

I think the 3 guy who was a bit younger went crazy killed the 2 vets and fel in the water himself

[FQuintanaMarrero]

Rogue waves are apparently quite often in the area. They turn up out of nowhere and they can be up to 30 meters high...

[LuffyD_SunGodNika]

There might be a parallel universe behind the mystery.

[theproduct]

How about they just quit, they were sick of sitting in that light house