Not all of the mystery tales of the sea come from ships and sailors.

A few come from their guardian angels, the lighthouse keepers.

And so it was in 1900 when all three keepers of flanon light in Scotland vanished without

a trace.

Which might have been the end of the tale were it not for the island's history of spiritualism,

paganism, and mystical beings.

Any one of whom could have brought doom to the keepers.

The truth behind flanon light is coming up right now on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The keepers of flanon light.

Today we're going to go back to the year 1900 beneath leaden skies overlooking a slate

gray ocean with a cold gusty wind spattering us with spray.

We're standing on the highest point of Elanmore, the largest of a group of tiny islands called

the Seven Hunters, far off the coast of Scotland.

It's an island with a history of strange stories from a race of pigmies to ancient rituals

performed around a stone chapel.

None stranger than that of the crew of three lighthouse keepers who disappeared without

a trace just before Christmas 1900.

The Seven Hunters are the flanon Isles among the smallest and westernmost of the Hebrides,

about 115 kilometers off the Scottish mainland.

They're really just rocks, too small to be inhabited, save for the lighthouse atop Elanmore.

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