Scotland Magazine

AN EERIE DISAPPEARANCE

In December 1900, something very strange took place on a remote island off Scotland’s west coast. Three lighthouse keepers, who had been stationed on the Flannan Isles, disappeared without a trace.

Most lighthouses around Scotland’s coast were lonely places, but at 32km west of the Isle of Lewis, manning the Flannan Isles Lighthouse

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