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Corpus Delicti

118: Cryptic: The Eilean Mor Lighthouse

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A boat arrives to the Eilean Mor island to swap shifts with the lighthouse keepers. When the relief crew arrived, the current keepers couldn't be found anywhere. The scene in the lighthouse struck them as odd, but nothing led to anything that explained what happened to the three men.

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"Daemones"
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Sources:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70180/115-year-old-mystery-flannan-lighthouses-missing-keepers
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Eilean-Mor-Lighthouse-Mystery/
https://www.sundaypost.com/news/scottish-news/has-mystery-of-flannan-isles-finally-been-solved/
https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/behind-the-scenes/blog/flannan-isle-mystery
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/vanishing-happened-flannan-isles-lighthouse-real-mystery-behind/
Book – The Lighthouse The mystery of the Eilean Mor Lighthouse Keepers by Keith McCloskey

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everyone is Jeff.

0:03.0

Everyone is Jen

0:25.0

And this is Lindsay

0:26.0

And welcome back to the cursive purpose of the wistakest.

0:29.8

Bless our hearts.

0:32.3

We are still battling this curse.

0:34.4

The most recent curse news is we are battling the type A flu in my house. Yay. Yeah, and she wasn't at work today, and I sent her a meme because I was sad that I couldn't talk to her. And then I could do not 10 minutes after I sent it. I got a phone call from the school to go get my kid.

0:56.5

So it's just nonsense all around.

1:00.8

Well, I will order tonight my curse be gone kit from Amazon.

1:05.5

Your curse be gone kit.

1:07.3

Yeah.

1:07.7

So anyway, we're still making it barely but making it over here. So we are going to bring you another episode in the cryptic series.

1:18.6

And tonight, we are going to venture into a nautical theme. It's about a lighthouse that is cursed, believe it or not. Maybe we shouldn't cover it.

1:32.7

I mean, how much worse can you? You know, we're in it now. We're done. Our story takes place

1:39.6

on a small road island just off shore of Scotland. We're going to be traveling back the night.

1:47.0

So we're going to be the keepers, and have to call the keepers that are the workers at the line.

1:53.0

They disappear into the on high-fake-poor. So this is an actual 1900 and the Flannan Islands, or the locals call it the Seventh Hunter's Islands are a small group of islands off the Scottish coast.

2:12.6

They sit towards the top of Scotland off to the west. Now Ile Moore is one of the bigger islands, which is only 43 acres in size, and the highest point of it is around 289 feet.

2:27.3

What we're thinking of is a very small island and a very tall island.

2:35.0

There was a little chapel back in the 17th century that was built there by St. Flanit, which is why the islands had gotten their name.

2:45.0

When we say this chapel is small, it was uber, uber super duper small, and that the Irish bishop built the

2:54.8

chapel and he would be later canonized as a saint. Now the lighthouse keepers refer to it as

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