Selects: The Flannen Isles Mystery

Stuff You Should Know

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4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In December 1900 three lighthouse keepers vanished without a trace from a deserted island in Scotland. To this day no one knows exactly what happened to them. Find out all about this strange situation in this classic episode.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:05.0	Hey, everybody. It's me, Josh. And for this week's Select, I've chosen our episode on the Flanin Isle mystery from November 2021.
0:13.0	This is one of those rare instances of a missing person's unsolved mystery disappearance case where the people weren't murdered.
0:24.1	Well, I almost certainly weren't murdered.
0:25.7	That is one theory, but it's a lesser theory.
0:28.4	And isn't that refreshing?
0:30.2	I hope you enjoy this one.
0:31.5	Even if you've heard it before, I can attest it's still good again.
0:36.2	Enjoy.
0:36.6	Enjoy.
0:46.0	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
1:06.8	Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant over there, and Jerry's out here too. So since the gang's all here, the three of us alone on a deserted aisle, stuff you should know.
1:11.4	Can I mention a couple of things here? I think you should.
1:18.1	I want to pre-apologize to our Scottish listeners, whom we love.
1:25.7	We toured in Scotland, had a great time, one of our best live shows in the beautiful city of Edinburgh.
1:26.9	Yes.
1:27.5	Wonderful people love the Scots.
1:29.5	But we are going to butcher some of these names.
1:32.7	And I apologize.
1:34.0	It's inevitable.
1:35.0	Yeah, we're sorry.
1:37.0	And what was the other thing?
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