On the 26th December 1900 a small ship approached the remote island of Aylen moor.

It was a small eruption of land uninhabited aside from a small battery of three men whose job was to operate and maintain the Isles Lighthouse.

The relief vessel, Hirschperus, was to bring supplies and rotate a fourth member of the Lighthouse team.

As the ship closed in on the Baronle, the sight of the Lighthouse on the edge of a shear cliff sprung out from a bleak landscape.

Joseph Moore, the member of the Lighthouse crew who would be rotating in, noted that curiously

there was no flag flying on the flagpole, nor were there any provision boxes placed outside for restocking.

The crew on the boat fired off several blasts of the horn, splitting the quiet air.

As they waited for a sign or reply from the lighthouse an ominous feeling hit

Joseph, things it appeared were not quite right on Aylenmore. This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.

At barely a quarter of a mile in width and just 43 acres in total,

the Isle of Aylen More is the largest of a chain of small crags of land

that make up the Flanan Isles in the Outer Hebrides. Around 60 miles from the

coast of mainland Scotland, it is set in the remote and bitter

wilderness of the North Atlantic Sea which surrounds it on all sides. The nearest

port is in Gallenhead at the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis and Harris, which makes up the largest island in the outer

Hebrides. Forty miles to the south is the abandoned Isle of Kilda, and in the west there is 2,000 miles of open water before the coastline of North America comes into view.

Rising sharply from the water, the southern end of Aylamore is a steep series of cliffs that stand around 150 feet tall,

with a large slope extending to the northern tip of the aisle.

Here the cliffs drop 200 feet straight down to the sea below.

Completely uninhabited, there are only three buildings.

The Lighthouse, built in 1899, the Keeper's living

quarters and a small ramshackle ruined that was once a chapel named the

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