In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers — James Ducat, Thomas Marshall and Donald McArthur — vanished from the Flannan Isles lighthouse, twenty-one miles off the coast of Scotland. Eleven days later, the relief ship Hesperus found the station deserted but orderly: the lamp cleaned, the kitchen tidied, the clocks stopped. The official answer was one unexpectedly large wave. No bodies were ever found. But the story most people know is wrong. The terrifying final logbook entries were never written — they first appeared in a magazine almost thirty years later. And the untouched meal and the overturned chair come from a poem, written in 1912. Real picture: the Flannan Isles lighthouse, photographed in 1993 (JJM, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons).
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