#flannan isles

[holycatsandrabbits]

Want to write a mystery based on history? Check out my blog for 8 posts about the unsolved past, with writing prompts!

The Beast of Gevaudan: History’s most well-documented werewolf, France, 1764

The Female Stranger: unidentified decedent, Virginia (US), 1816

Spring-Heeled Jack: well-documented apparition or cryptid, England 1837-1904

The Flannan Isles Disappearance: three lighthouse keepers vanished, Scotland, 1900

The Star Tiger and Star Ariel, two planes lost in the Bermuda Triangle, 1948-49

Dyatlov Pass: mysterious deaths of 9 hikers, Ural Mountains, 1959

And the ghost ships Mary Celeste (1872) and Carroll A. Deering (1920, pictured above)

A ghost ship prompt:

A run of bad luck. Those on board a doomed ship might have invited a curse as the result of unwise decisions, whether that be mutiny, murder, or just generally running afoul of sea superstitions. If the crew themselves were cursed, or if they carried a cursed item with them, this could explain why a ship which picked up the crew also went down itself.

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[cinemaquiles]

Baseado em fatos reais: "O mistério do farol" (The vanishing, 2018)

#The vanishing #gerard butler #peter mullan #based on true events #Kristoffer Nyholm #psychological thriller #british movies #Connor Swindells #Joe Alwyn #Gary Lewis #Emma King #Ken Drury #lighthouse #Flannan Isles #Youtube

[themainchronicles]

thinking about the flannan isles lighthouse story…what the flip happened i need to know everything

#reblog with your theories!!! #i have always assumed it was a drunken fight #flannan isles #scottish stories #scottish islands

[gothofgotham]

Those lighthouse keepers who went missing definitely were lovers and escaped to live their lives together

#my thoughts #flannan isles

[twafordizzy]

Vuurtoren Flannan Isles: mysterieuze verdwijning

Vuurtoren Flannan Isles: mysterieuze verdwijning

De verdwenen vuurtorenwachters; bron beeld: ufoinsight.com bron beeld: panmacmillan.com De vuurtoren op Eilean Mòr is een onderdeel van de Flannan Isles. Flannan Isles is een onbewoonde archipel op dertig kilometer van de Buiten-Hebriden, Schotland, Op het eiland staat ook een kapel gewijd aan de heilige Flannan. Flannan was een abt die in de zeventiende eeuw toevallig op dit eiland…

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#Alan Stevenson #Donald McArthur #Eilean Mòr #film #Flannan #Flannan Isles #Genesis #gewoontes #Hesperus #James Ducat #Joseph Moore #Kapitein Harvey #Kristoffer Nyholm #legendes #lied #Schotland #Thomas Marshall #vuurtoren

[joandelahaye]

Bloody Murders, Mysterious Disappearances and Freebies

Hello, my Freaky Darlings! Greetings from a fucked South Africa, where newborn babies are put in cardboard boxes instead of incubators in underfunded and underequipped hospitals, and we still don’t have any answers from our Government or the American ambassador regarding the supposed arms we gave the Russians. The Rand is hitting an all-time low, and interest rates are rising, so it’s all fun and…

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#Audiobook #Free Books #Requiem in E Sharp #The Flannan Isles #The Lighthouse Disappearances

[kaggsy59]

A salute to the rock guardians around our coastline #lighthouses

My recent reading has been nothing if not an exercise in contrasts; Calvino, Camus and clothes, for example, have all made recent appearances on the Ramblings! And today I’m going off at another little tangent! I was eyeing up the stacks and wondering what to pick up next when I caught sight of the gorgeous coffee table book Mr. Kaggsy presented me with at Christmas. It’s on something I’m rather…

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#christopher p nicholson #flannan isle #lighthouses #rock lighthouses of britain #wilfred gibson

[t00muchheart]

As I do when I am hyperfixating on something, I have read a LOT of supernatural fanfiction in the last few months, and I get a lot of the titles I read from other peoples’ recommendations or collections on ao3, so I figured I’d share some of my favorites in case anyone else is looking for recs :)

AUs:

Spirit of the West by teen_dean

This is a shock to literally no one who follows me because I regularly bring it up, but it honestly is one of the best things I’ve ever read. The 90s horse girl AU of your dreams (or, if you haven’t dreamed of one, that you never knew you needed). The storytelling is immaculate, the symbolism rich, and it only improves on re-reading

And this, your living kiss by opal_bullets

Poet Dean AU featuring genuinely beautiful comments on language and writing and how we encounter stories and words and what they can do, and also some honestly incredible poetry

where there is darkness by quiettewandering

Lighthouse keepers AU! this one is a bit mysterious and I did scream into a pillow after finishing it. If you know the story of the Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers, it is loosely inspired by that.

Phantasma by thisisapaige

Messy Dean, my beloved. Messy, Stanford-Era Dean, my beloved. Dean breaks off from John and buys a haunted house, and things sort of escalate.

For All You Young Hockey Players Out There, Pay Attention by thursdaysfallenangel

I don’t even watch hockey, but this AU kind of made me want to start. Rivals to friends to lovers all while dealing with the homophobia in the NHL

time has come today series by teen_dean

Team Free Will brings in teen Dean Winchester to help with a case, parallel worlds come into play; every version of Dean Winchester falls in love with Castiel & all the good stuff like that

What Baking Can Do by cowlovely

Baker & Dad Dean fic and Doctor Cas? What more could you ask for?

Everyone’s a Critic by Englandwouldfall

Food Critic Cas and Chef Dean meet in a truly unfortunate way. This is worth it for Cas’s reviews alone, but also the Dean-Gabriel dynamic

FROTUS by kathscradle

A President Cas, Restaurant Owner Dean romance that was honestly just a good time

Fix-Its:

take the bones, begin anew by JustStandingHere

This was one of the first fics I read and it is sort of peak disaster™ Dean Winchester. I love a good “I fixed up a house for you and didn’t realize it meant I was in love” fic and this one is iconic

i want to do with you (what spring does with cherry trees) by sobsicles

I ugly cry every time I read this fic. It is a run of Cas and Dean’s relationship in seasons 13-15 and has Dean making a friend and it hurts but also it’s so good. Maybe my favorite Sam line of any fic comes from this fic ("If he thinks what you two do is friendship, then I must just be some guy he happens to speak to sometimes.”)

break the skin (to break the barriers) by sobsicles

Dean gets tattoos, and as he does, he tells the tattoo artist his life story. This is a post-15x19 fic told from an outside perspective and it is so well-done

Dumbassery, Denial, Doing by sobsicles

Listen tbh this list could be dominated by sobsicles and so I am showing restraint by only including three of their works. Their Dean characterization is everything to me and this fic really highlights Dean growing to understand himself better when given the freedom to

Revisions by bizarrestars

THEE what if Dean and Cas got together earlier and Chuck just wrote it out? fic.

a turn of the earth by microcomets

I love a work that explores pre-series Dean, and this one is great. Basically, think what-if later seasons Cas and pre-series Dean met (Strandlines by aeli_kindara is another good example of this premise, but in Strandlines, it is pre-series Cas as well as pre-series Dean).

psalm 40:2 by unicornpoe

On a similar note, psalm 40:2 is a great pre-series Dean, future-Cas fic. I am a bi Dean believer but this fic did sway me toward the gay Dean camp because it’s simply so good.

You Belong Among the Wildflowers by ImYourHoneyBee

Dean fixing his relationship with Jack? You got it. Dean trying to work through losing Cas? Yep. Dean getting Cas back by being stubborn? It’s there.

Who You Gonna Call? by saintedcastiel

Dean has a ghost following him around as he tries to start a life post-series, and for a while, he can’t figure out what’s happening. I love nothing more than Dean telling people he and Cas were married because he doesn’t know how else to explain and this fic delivers so hard

quilts by fleeceframe

A “Cas didn’t confess before getting taken to the Empty” fic. Soft things all around

Miscellaneous:

Fathers & Daughters by sinnabonka

On a different note, this is one of my favorite Claire fics. It looks at Claire’s relationship with Cas and the impossibility of it, and it’s so artfully done.

Bus Loop Madness by batz_in_blue

Literally just a “what if everyone lived, Jack was a toddler, and they all picked him up from school?” AU. I audibly laughed while reading this, and it’s an essential pick-me-up from the heavier fics.

More of my favorite sobsicles fics include: gorging myself on you, still can’t get full (insatiable), and he’s back (with a mind of his own), six hundred sundays (and many more), oh sooner or later it all comes down to faith, things happen (they do, they do, and they do), according to all known laws of life, and profoundly bonded (by law)

Also, honorable mentions to Ninety One Whiskey, which is such a good fic, and Make a Believer Outta Me, which is a Hocus Pocus AU that is honestly just a fun time.

#spn #supernatural #dean winchester #castiel #cas #destiel #deancas #casdean #claire novak #jack kline #supernatural fanfiction #fic recs

[scotianostra]

15th of December 1900 is the most likely date that the three lighthouse keepers of the year old Flannan Isles Lighthouse disappeared.

The building of Flannan Lighthouse was plagued with accidents, several workers died or vanished while working on the lighthouse, it took about 4 years to complete. Legend has it the island was said to be inhabited by mysterious “little people.” Large birds also were said to live there, too, and have contact with these little people.

Na h-Eileanan Flannach is the Scottish Gaelic name of the small group of islands known in English as the Flannan Isles. They are a bird sanctuary and at times a place of beauty. At others these remote islands bear the brunt of severe Atlantic storms, which whip the seas into frenzy and force even the hardy gulls to stay sheltered in the cliff face crags. For many years they have remained uninhabited, the last residents of any length being the lighthouse keepers, who between 1899 and its automation in 1971, kept the light burning on the highest point of the island group, Eilean Mòr.

On the island of Eilean Mòr is the ruin of an old chapel dedicated to St Flannan. However, over many centuries for many of the Gaelic Hebridean community the islands have been viewed as a place of superstition and bad luck. A view that was reinforced by the tragic and mysterious events that befell the lighthouse keepers on Eilean Mòr in mid-December 1900.

It is the fate of the lighthouse keepers, James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald McArthur, in 1900; just over one year after the island’s lighthouse came into operation that is the cause of much mystery and speculation. For all three keepers disappeared without trace. It was on 15th December 1900 that the ship Archtor which was sailing for Scotland from Philadelphia had reported that as they passed the islands the lighthouse was not in operation. In those days there was no radio communication between the keepers on Eilean Mòr and the shore station of Breasclete on Lewis.

When the lighthouse tender arrived on 26th December 1900 having been delayed due to adverse conditions.

There was no welcome from the lighthouse keepers, no flag on the flagstaff and no provision boxes left for them as was customary.

The relief keeper Joseph Moore was sent to investigate further and found the main door and gate to the compound closed, the beds unmade and the clock stopped. They also found a set of oilskins, suggesting one of the keepers to have left without them – unusual and worrying considering the poor weather conditions that had been recorded in the log.

The island was scoured for clues, or any sign of the keepers, but nothing was found. The west landing had received considerable damage, with turf ripped up and a box of supplies destroyed, with its contents strewn about. The keepers log proved that this damage had occurred before the disappearance.

The log leading up to the men’s disappearance included some strange entries, with descriptions of an awful storm, high winds, and low spirits amongst the keepers. There were however no reports of storms in the area in the days leading up to the disappearance, meaning that the poor weather conditions recorded in the log were either made up, or localised.

To this day no one knows what took place in the lighthouse that night, but many theories have developed over the years.

The more far-fetched of these theories suggest they had been carried away by a giant seabird, had been abducted by spies or had simply escaped to start new lives. The perhaps more plausible theories suggest that the keepers had been swept away when trying to secure a box in a crevice above sea level. Other theories suggest the psychology of the lighthouse keepers played a part. MacArthur had a reputation for brawling and was known to be violent. It is suggested by some that a fight broke out on the cliff edge, causing the men to fall to their deaths.

It was only after 1912, when English poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson published his epic, Flannan Isle, that the story began to assume such an air of mystery, speculation, even intrigue. In general for lighthouse keepers themselves, there is no mystery and never has been, my uncle worked for the Lighthouse Board, and he says it was a freak wave that swept the men to their deaths, this is the assumption of many who worked the Islands around Scotland, but in truth we will never know what happened.

Flannan Lighthouse Memorial at Breasclete, Isle of Lewis , as seen in the pics, was unveiled in 2017.

#scotland #scottish #history #Mystery #disappearance #LIGHTHOUSE #Western Isles

[fishareglorious]

Marcus' character profile has been dropped and translated. I suppose the historical event she's featured/involved in would be the disappearance of the Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers?

#marcus #reverse 1999 #certified storm moments #1.7 spoilers #the blurb named 'her path' oughee don't do this to me don't remind me what happened in vienna

[archivist-crow]

On this day:

ABANDONED LIGHTHOUSE

On December 26, 1900, the supply ship Hesperus arrived at the lighthouse of the Scottish island of Eilean Mor. The lighthouse was deserted. The dock was devoid of empty crates and mooring ropes, and the lighthouse was unexplainably dark. Eleven days earlier, its 140,000 candlepower light had gone out, and a lighthouse keeper on an Outer Hebrides island, seventeen miles away, could not abandon his own storm-battered post to go and investigate.

Men from the Hesperus were ferried in and jumped ashore, eager to investigate. Closed were the gate and main door to the lighthouse. Inside, the building was cold and deserted, with no sign of the three male keepers. The mantle clock had stopped ticking. Two out of the three oilskin rain-gear suits were missing. Up the stairs in the turret, beds were made, lantern wicks were trimmed and ready to be lit, and the record slate showed a final log entry from the morning of December 15. The lighthouse log stated that the sea was finally calm after a strange storm—a storm not witnessed anywhere else in the area—and that the three men were praying "God is over all."

A cement platform, sixty-five feet above the water line, had a crane with ropes hanging from it; the ropes were usually stored in a tool chest in an even higher crevice. The chest was missing, and speculation was that an enormous wave had carried the box and all three men out to sea. But the day that the lighthouse first stayed dark was a calm day. Also, only two sets of storm gear were missing, and experienced men would never go out onto the jetty on a wild night. Natives of the Scottish islands believe that Eilean Mor was haunted and refused to remain on the island overnight. No bodies were ever discovered.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

#on this day #december #eilean mor lighthouse #mysterious disappearances

[holycatsandrabbits]

Want to write about a haunting? Learn about three haunted places on my Weird Wednesday blog, and get writing prompts!

The Flannan Isles Vanishing: The Mysterious Disappearance of Three Lighthouse Keepers

Phantom Islands: The Isle of Demons, Fata Morgana Land, and of course, Atlantis

The Deadly Dyatlov Pass: What happened to nine hikers on a snowy night in 1959?

Sample prompt:

Putting the phantom in phantom island. Perhaps a certain island is a gathering place for phantoms of all kinds: ghosts of the drowned from vessels lost in the area, sea monsters, wormholes through space/time, zombies, or demons. Perhaps someone has literally cursed the place, or maybe it’s the site of an evil relic or graveyard of the damned. It could even be the home port of the ghost ship Flying Dutchman.

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[captainjonnitkessler]

So, I've watched a few episodes of shows that dealt with the Flannan Isles Lighthouse mystery, where 3 lighthouse keepers disappeared without a trace. And every time I was like "okay, I see how this is spooky and could make a good story . . . but there's like a bunch of evidence that it was a giant wave. Why are we trying to pretend this isn't the case just to make it worth doing an episode on."

Fortunately The Constant podcast answered that for me with its latest episode, The One From Nowhere. Which explained that the incident WAS initially considered a mystery because until very recently - like, 1984 - we didn't think giant waves existed outside of tsunamis! And it's a great episode and I super recommend listening to it because a) rogue waves are FASCINATING and extremely terrifying, and b) it was way, WAY more fun to listen to than a bunch of hemming and hawing about how you never know, COULD IT HAVE BEEN GHOSTS???

Just. Stop massaging the evidence to make up bullshit mysteries in order to drive engagement!! Start thinking about the very cool science behind the evidence that already exists!!

#i really cannot recommend the constant enough. i fucking love this show #skepticism umbrella

[myhauntedsalem]

The Eilean Mor Mystery 

The Flannan Isles are a small cluster of islands that are situated about 65 miles to the north-west of Scotland, and are part of a vast number of islands that make up the Western Isles of Scottish territory. The seven islands were named after St Flannan, a preacher from the 7th century. The largest of the group, named Eilean Mor is the location of a century old mystery, one in which three men, lighthouse keepers situated on the island, were to vanish without a trace.

Eilean Mor has for centuries had an eerie reputation, for people living on the nearby larger island of Lewis would tell tales of a group of little people whom resided there, said to possess strange magical powers. It was also said to be the home of giant birds, and islanders travelling to Eilean Mor were said to use a strange dialect to communicate with the beings living there, and obeyed rules and laws in their dealings with them.

It is claimed that many since the disappearances have sighted both these strange beings and the birds, but most, if not all, of them also vanish. What these beings are is not known, although many believe they are either aliens or Fey folk, fairies, pixies, elves etc. It is said that they don’t ever willingly allow themselves to be seen, and are wary of humans.

In 1896 a lighthouse was starting to be built on the island, and three years later, after costing nearly 7000 pounds, the Flannan Lighthouse began flashing out into the sea on December 7, 1899. Many ships and vessels had gone missing or sunk prior to the lighthouse being constructed, and only the ruins of a chapel and several houses stood on the island. Located on the islands highest point, it stands 75 feet high and its light has a range of about 20 miles. Many believed it was impervious to the elements and was built to withstand high seas and gale-force winds.

A year after its beacon begun flashing to help light the way for passing ships it was the scene for a mystery to unfold, as three men situated at the lighthouse near Christmas 1900 were discovered missing. The light usually flashed twice every 30 seconds, and on the night of December 15,1900 a passing American steamer heading to Edinburgh noticed the light was not flashing, and upon arriving 3 days later reported the mystery to port authorities.

The men who regularly resided and worked on the island all undertook two week shifts, and it was their jobs to not only maintain the lighthouse and polish its lenses every day, but also maintain their living quarters. It was a lonely existence on an isolated island, with no radio communication to the nearby islands. Thomas Marshall, James Ducat and Donald Macarthur were the three men on shift in late December 1900.

On 26th December a delayed relief vessel, carrying Joseph Moore, who was to replace one of the men, arrived at the isle. Due to bad weather, the relief vessel was nearly a week late, and arrived to change men on Boxing Day. It was Moore who would make the discovery of the empty lighthouse, as he found when he made it ashore that the entrance of the main compound and the main door to the lighthouse were closed and unlocked. He heard nothing but the crashing of waves on nearby rocks and the eerie shrills of birds overhead.

Thinking the men may be in the kitchen area, he found a clock that had stopped, a meal that had been half consumed and an overturned chair, suggesting perhaps someone had left in a hurry. None of the beds were made, and after making contact with the relief vessel, Moore and two other men further inspected the lighthouse. Lamps were clean and had been re-filled, a set of oilskins were found and a half-starved canary was the only sign of life discovered. The oilskins indicated that one of the men had been outside without them, which was unusual given the recent weather.

Moore and three sailors were left to man the lighthouse, and they searched all over the island, finding no trace of the missing keepers or clues to their fates. The last entry into the lighthouse log was made on the morning of the 15th December and indicated nothing out of the ordinary.

A few days after the discovery the Northern Lighthouse Board launched an investigation, and found rope strewn about on crevices and rocks below, a wooden box that they were contained in was missing. Iron railings around the landing area were bent and twisted and a large block of stone had been displaced from the cliff face and had smashed all over the landing area also. It had weighed at least a ton.

It was concluded that the three men had left the lighthouse together, disregarding rules stating that the three were never to be outside in a group, possibly to secure the missing box that had been threatened by bad weather. While working, they had become victims of a freak wave and had been swept out to sea, perishing in the Atlantic waters. However, many were not convinced with this easy conclusion and many felt questions still remained.

Allegedly Moore, when he arrived at the isle, saw three strange, large black birds watching him from a rock as he came ashore. The birds were observed after taking off diving into the sea, inspiring a poet in 1912 to write a epic poem which speculates a supernatural force took the men and turned them into sea birds.

The mystery has inspired an opera, and has been the subject of books and articles, and even songs by popular artists and bands such as Genesis.

The Flannan Isles have been free of residential communities since the early 1970’s, when the lighthouse became automated. A concrete helipad was built soon after, enabling maintenance in bad weather. It is very unlikely that we will ever know for sure what happened to the three lighthouse keepers stationed at Eilean Mor in late 1900, but one thing is for sure, these men who probably had no intentions or aspirations of being famous and being known world-wide now are, but for all the wrong reasons.

#The Eilean Mor Mystery #unsolved mystery #paranormal #paranormal phenomena #ghost and hauntings #ghost and spirits #haunted salem #myhauntedsalem

[ancientorigins]

The Flannan Isles, located in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, are a set of small and uninhabited rocky islands with a curious history. One of the islands, Eilean Mor, was the setting of a great historical mystery – the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in 1900. To this day, a concrete explanation for the strange event remains elusive. - See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/curious-disappearance-eilean-mor-lighthouse-keepers-scottish-mystery-004820#sthash.phKOJz9V.dpuf

[uselesssomebody]

the lighthouse masterlist (bucky barnes x reader a.u.)

𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 :

in which the reader has been cursed with an eternity of solitude, until she found someone that would bring that eternity to an end. she would make sure of it.

𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 :

alright this one’s a very niche a.u.: lighthouse keeper!bucky barnes and siren!reader. there are mentions of several other marvel characters, and a previous established relationship between the reader and another mcu character.

this work contains dark themes. while most of it is not inherently sexual, these themes mean that this work is also 18+, so, minors - dni. there is a general level of dubcon/noncon (as reader is supernaturally coercive), where the reader is the manipulative one, obviously 

this series was inspired by the halsey song ‘the lighthouse’, and the real-world mystery of the flannan isles lighthouse keepers - buzzfeed unsolved has a great episode on them if you’re interested. 

as of 23.07.22, this series is incomplete. updates should be somewhat regular. if you wish to join a taglist, send me a p.m. or leave me a comment and i will try to add you to following posts. 

hope you guys enjoy!

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 :

↳ prologue - ♜

summary || she used to be smitten with man, and now she exists only to smite them. that was, until she met him.

#the lighthouse masterlist #siren reader #sailor bucky #sea #ocean #bucky barnes x reader #bucky barnes series #marvel imagine #marvel #bucky barnes #bucky barnes oneshot #bucky barnes imagine #james bucky barnes #james buchanan barnes #bucky barnes angst #bucky barnes smut #sebastian stan #halsey