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Saturday Matinee: Our Weird World

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4.42.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Saturday Matinee, we dive into a Scottish mystery from 1900- The Eilean Mor Lighthouse and its three lightkeepers who disappeared without a trace.



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It's St. Patrick's Day weekend, so on today's Saturday matinee, we're headed to Scotland.

0:37.8

But that doesn't make any sense. And neither does the story we're exploring today, the mysterious disappearance of the Ellen Moore Lighthousekeepers. In 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished without a trace from a brand

0:43.3

new lighthouse off the Scottish coast. Speculation has been rife as to what happened to these three

0:48.7

men, but we have an episode from the podcast Our Weird World to help us sort it out. I hope you enjoy. While you're listening,

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