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Post by auntym on Apr 11, 2011 10:32:24 GMT -6
www.unexplainable.net/Simply-Unexplainable/The-Mystery-of.shtml The Mystery of Flannan Island
By Chris Capps 4/8/11 Lighthouse_1.jpg Every year thousands of people simply disappear with no trace worldwide. And yet even with the staggeringly high number of disappearances, there are still few mysteries quite so profound as the Flannan Island incident of 1900. When a passing steam boat stopped in at the island to check on the men there, what they found was staggering. And what they didn't find would become a matter of worldwide attention for decades afterward. On December 26, 1900 the relief vessel Hesperus was late to arrive on the island to drop off supplies and check to make sure the lighthouse keepers left on Flannan Island were alright. It was Boxing Day, just after Christmas. But what the crew found made it clear this would not be an ordinary holiday visit. In the eerie fog with an unusual wind at high noon howling all around them, the crew slowly made their way up to the lighthouse and noticed the flagstaff devoid of its flag. Boxes out front had been scattered and broken. And with the lighthouse creaking eerily as they approached, the workers opened the door and entered. TO CONTINUE CLICK ON ABOVE LINK
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2011 9:59:46 GMT -6
The official report was that a 'roller' (huge Atlantic wave) pulled the 3 men out to sea as they tried to secure something against the storm. The poem is what made the inhospitable island into a mystery. Ay, though we hunted high and low And hunted everywhere Of the three men's fate we found no trace Of any kind in any place But a door ajar and an untouched meal And an overtoppled chair... - from Flannan Isle by Wilfrid Gibson(rest of the article) www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1061335
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