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Where are the lost souls of Eilean Mor · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: There is nothing quite as satisfying as a true story
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  Speaker 1: that's mysterious and interesting, it sucked you in, that has
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  Speaker 1: a killer plot twist, a killer reveal that, to me
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  Speaker 1: is just the most satisfying thing you can find. I
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  Speaker 1: am a complete story addict, and so I go looking
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  Speaker 1: for these stories. I go literally searching for real life
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  Speaker 1: stories with real life plot twists, and in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: the very best one is the story of the Missing
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  Speaker 1: lighthouse Keepers, and that is the story I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: tell today. So the too long, didn't read version of
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  Speaker 1: this story is a crew is sent out to this
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  Speaker 1: lighthouse off the coast of Scotland. They're being sent out
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  Speaker 1: there to relieve the workers that are there, provide new supplies,
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of make sure everything is okay. When
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  Speaker 1: they get out there, nothing is okay. The three lighthouse
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  Speaker 1: keepers are missing, the island and the lighthouse are kind
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  Speaker 1: of disarray. And then they find the lighthouse keeper's log book,
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  Speaker 1: which needless to say, is very strange. It has some
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  Speaker 1: entries in it that don't really add up. And then
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  Speaker 1: when you combine those entries with what some people had
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  Speaker 1: to say on the mainland that we're watching the island
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  Speaker 1: it really doesn't add up, so it creates this really
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  Speaker 1: epic plot twist. It's absolutely worth watching to the end,
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  Speaker 1: I promise. So let's get there. Off the coast of
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  Speaker 1: northwestern Scotland lies a stretch of seven small islands. It's
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  Speaker 1: called the flann And Isles. One of those aisles is
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  Speaker 1: called Alan Moore, and on island Moore is a lighthouse,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where our story is going to be centered.
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  Speaker 1: But before we get into the story, Aileen Moore has
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  Speaker 1: some odd history to it. It's long been regarded as
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  Speaker 1: a place that's paranormal. In fact, on the island basically
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  Speaker 1: the only people that inhabit it are the lighthouse keepers.
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  Speaker 1: Usually there's three or four of them, and sheep and
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  Speaker 1: so sheep herders often go out to that island and
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  Speaker 1: they're the ones that report hearing strange sounds and just
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  Speaker 1: feeling like they're being watched. It's a creepy place, and
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  Speaker 1: in fact, anybody that visits the island that isn't a
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  Speaker 1: sheepherder or a lighthouse keeper, even if they've never heard
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  Speaker 1: of the history of Aland Moore, oftentimes report a very
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  Speaker 1: odd sense of being watched, of just not feeling right
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  Speaker 1: on that island, and so Aileen Moore really had developed
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  Speaker 1: a reputation as being a pretty creepy place. So in
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  Speaker 1: addition to just the strange aura around the island that
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  Speaker 1: basically anyone who went there reported, anybody that went to
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  Speaker 1: the church, the Church of Saint Flannon is its name,
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  Speaker 1: they reported feeling like they were being drawn to pray,
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  Speaker 1: that there was this overwhelming sense that you should be
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  Speaker 1: praying as soon as you walk into the church, And
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  Speaker 1: in fact the draw was so strong, like getting on
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  Speaker 1: your knees and praying, that they developed the strange ritual
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  Speaker 1: that when you got to the island it was customary
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  Speaker 1: that before you went in, you immediately dropped to your
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  Speaker 1: knees and crawled around the church on your knees before
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  Speaker 1: making your way inside and continuing to pray. So just
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  Speaker 1: a strange place with strange rituals. That's the scene that
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  Speaker 1: is set for this true life, very strange mystery. In
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  Speaker 1: December of nineteen hundred, a steamboat was passing by the
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  Speaker 1: flann And Aisles and as they rounded their way past
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  Speaker 1: Eileen Moore, they noticed that the light was out. The
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  Speaker 1: lighthouse was not operational, and so when that steamboat finally
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  Speaker 1: got to port three days later. They told authorities that, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know Aleen Moore is not operational, you should go
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  Speaker 1: check on them. And so as it happened, it was
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  Speaker 1: actually time to replace the lighthouse keepers that were at
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  Speaker 1: Aileen Moore. So Captain James Harvey gets his crew together
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  Speaker 1: and he takes Joseph Moore, who's the replacement lighthouse keeper,
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  Speaker 1: and they head out to Eileen Moore to check on
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  Speaker 1: the lighthouse, check on the lighthouse keepers, but also replace them.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a changing of the guard and making
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  Speaker 1: sure that everything was okay. As you approach Eileen Moore,
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  Speaker 1: you would see a massive staircase coming up from the
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  Speaker 1: dock all the way up to where the lighthouse is.
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  Speaker 1: So from a distance, if you were looking at Eilean Moore,
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  Speaker 1: it would be fairly easy to break out anybody that
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  Speaker 1: was walking down the steps to get down to the dock.
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  Speaker 1: And since the island was really only inhabited by lighthouse
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  Speaker 1: keepers and sheep, the crew Captain Harvey and his crew
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  Speaker 1: as they're making their approach to Eileen Moore, they're watching
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  Speaker 1: those steps to see if the lighthouse keepers are going
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  Speaker 1: to notice them and come down and greet them on
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  Speaker 1: the dock, because that was customary. You always are at
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  Speaker 1: the dock ready to assist the crew as they come
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  Speaker 1: in to Eileen Moore, that was just the way it
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  Speaker 1: was done. And so as they're making their approach, they're
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  Speaker 1: watching these steps, looking for signs that the keepers are
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  Speaker 1: coming down, because on some level, the crew that's going
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  Speaker 1: out to replace them, on the back of their head,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're a little bit nervous that something's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they know that the lighthouse was not operational
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  Speaker 1: and that's part of the reason they're going out. So
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  Speaker 1: they're kind of like actively watched those steps. They're looking
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  Speaker 1: for science that they're coming down to the dock, and
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  Speaker 1: as they closer and closer, they don't see anybody coming
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  Speaker 1: down the steps. They don't see anyone on the dock.
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  Speaker 1: And even worse, no preparations were made for the next
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  Speaker 1: crew to come into the dock. That was something that
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  Speaker 1: all lighthouse keepers did. They kept that dock, you know,
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  Speaker 1: up to codes that at any time someone came in,
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  Speaker 1: they could properly dock and make their way up, so
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  Speaker 1: no preparations are made, no one is coming down to
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  Speaker 1: greet them, so the omen is pretty bad. And so
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  Speaker 1: Captain Harvey and his crew they dock on the dock
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  Speaker 1: and the captain and his crew say, hey, to Joseph Moore,
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  Speaker 1: you go up and just do a cursory examination of
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  Speaker 1: the island. Make sure these guys are okay. We'll stay
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  Speaker 1: down here for a minute. You go check. So Joseph
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  Speaker 1: Moore gets out and he starts walking up this massive
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  Speaker 1: set of stairs where he can't see the lighthouse. He
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  Speaker 1: can only see the steps. It's pretty steep, and later
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  Speaker 1: he would say that he had this deep sense of
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  Speaker 1: just foreboding, like something bad is about to happen, very
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  Speaker 1: stressed out as he's walking up these stairs. And as
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  Speaker 1: he makes his way up, he finally kind of crests
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  Speaker 1: to where he can actually start to break out the
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  Speaker 1: top of the island, where you can see the lighthouse
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  Speaker 1: and you can see, you know, where they were staying.
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  Speaker 1: And the first thing he notices is the steel railings
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  Speaker 1: that line this massive staircase up to the island near
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  Speaker 1: the lighthouse itself. The steel railings had been bent over,
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  Speaker 1: like imagine if it was made out of tinfoil. They
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  Speaker 1: had been folded onto themselves, like pretty significant damage to
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  Speaker 1: you know, steel railings, and so he makes note of that,
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  Speaker 1: and he also notices that this big boulder that just
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was decorative, It just was on
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  Speaker 1: the island, and so they built around it. There's this
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  Speaker 1: huge boulder that just was right in front of the
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  Speaker 1: lighthouse and it had been that way for you know,
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  Speaker 1: years and years. It had moved significantly and you could
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  Speaker 1: actually see a trail underneath the boulder where it had
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  Speaker 1: rolled across the grass. So Joseph, or the replacement lighthouse keeper,
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  Speaker 1: is thinking to himself, my god, this is you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is straight out of the Storm of the century.
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  Speaker 1: Like clearly the worst storm ever has hit this island.
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  Speaker 1: No wonder their lighthouse was non operational because they were
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  Speaker 1: hit with like the worst storm ever. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: his initial assessment. He goes up to the door. The
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  Speaker 1: door is unlocked but shut, and he opens it up.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing he does is he yells for the
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  Speaker 1: lighthouse keepers that are supposed to be there. They don't
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  Speaker 1: call back. There's apparently no one, no one in the lighthouse.
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  Speaker 1: Before he even starts moving through the lighthouse, he looks
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  Speaker 1: on his right and he sees all the hooks where
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  Speaker 1: they would have kept their clothes, and one hook still
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  Speaker 1: is holding an oil skin jacket. And any time you
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  Speaker 1: would leave the lighthouse, especially if you were leaving the
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  Speaker 1: island for some reason, there is no reason in the
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  Speaker 1: world you would not be wearing that jacket. So it's
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  Speaker 1: another kind of bad sign. It means that if they're
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  Speaker 1: not here, if the three lighthouse keepers are not inside
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  Speaker 1: of this lighthouse, why aren't all three oilskins gone with them.
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  Speaker 1: It's another sign that something terrible has happened. Looks into
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen and on the kitchen table is plates of meat.
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  Speaker 1: There is pickles that have just been pulled out of
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  Speaker 1: a jar, and a couple of the chairs have been upturned.
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  Speaker 1: And he also noticed that the mechanical clocks had stopped.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's thinking to himself, Okay, something happened where
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  Speaker 1: they left in a hurry, because they've toppled over chairs,
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  Speaker 1: they left food on the table, someone forgot their jacket.
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  Speaker 1: He continues moving through the lighthouse and he gets to
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  Speaker 1: their bedrooms and all of their beds are unmade. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of customary that you would never leave
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  Speaker 1: the lighthouse unmade. You would make your bed because someone
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  Speaker 1: else could be coming in to relieve you. And so
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  Speaker 1: it was yet another sign to Joseph Moore that something
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  Speaker 1: had happened suddenly that caused the lighthouse keepers to abandon
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  Speaker 1: the lighthouse. Combine that with the massive damage from the storm,
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  Speaker 1: he's starting to think, you know, something happened. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this horrible storm is coming through, like maybe it got
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  Speaker 1: really bad really quickly, and they didn't have time to
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  Speaker 1: make proper preparations. They didn't have time to do the
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  Speaker 1: things that were customary. They just had to kind of
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  Speaker 1: boogie out of there. So Joseph Moore returns to Captain
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  Speaker 1: Harvey and says, this is what I saw. And so
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  Speaker 1: Captain Harvey and the crew go back up and they
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  Speaker 1: kind of see it for themselves, and Captain Harvey ends
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  Speaker 1: up sending a telegram back to the mainland explaining that
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  Speaker 1: there has been a horrible tragedy here, a dreadful accident
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  Speaker 1: has happened at the Flannins. The three keepers, Doct. Marshall,
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  Speaker 1: and the occasional have disappeared from the island. The clocks
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  Speaker 1: were stopped, and other signs indicated that the accident must
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  Speaker 1: have happened about a week ago. Poor fellows, they must
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  Speaker 1: have been blown over the cliffs or drowned trying to
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  Speaker 1: secure a crane or something like that. After Captain Harvey
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  Speaker 1: sends this telegram, he and Joseph Moore and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the crew continue to kind of search the island
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  Speaker 1: and do some investigating, and they just over the log
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  Speaker 1: book that the three lighthouse keepers had been keeping, and
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  Speaker 1: so all of the entries are pretty standard. It was
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  Speaker 1: common practice that you would marked down what happened that day,
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  Speaker 1: what ships you saw, you know, just kind of basic
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  Speaker 1: log keeping of the lighthouse. But they start getting really
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  Speaker 1: interesting on December twelfth. On December twelfth, the leader of
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  Speaker 1: the three lighthouse keepers noted that severe winds, the lights
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  Speaker 1: of which he had never seen before. He's been doing
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  Speaker 1: this for decades, are passing through the island, and he's
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  Speaker 1: acting pretty worried about whether or not the lighthouse will
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  Speaker 1: be able to withstand this storm. He also noted that
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  Speaker 1: the other two lighthouse keepers were not doing well. He
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  Speaker 1: said one of them had been basically just praying NonStop.
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  Speaker 1: The other had been doing a bit of crying. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the man he's describing that is crying over the intensity
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  Speaker 1: of the storm was no one on the mainland as
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  Speaker 1: one of the toughest saltiest men like on the planet,
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  Speaker 1: who had weathered dozens of hurricanes out on islands all
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  Speaker 1: by himself, and so for him to be crying over
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  Speaker 1: the severity of the storm just shows you how severe
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  Speaker 1: the storm really was. The entries on the thirteenth and
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  Speaker 1: fourteenth point to them believing that they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: get out of the storm alive. At this point, all
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  Speaker 1: three of them are just praying NonStop and are kind
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  Speaker 1: of anticipating at some point they're just going to get
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  Speaker 1: swept off the island. Then on December fifteenth, it just
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  Speaker 1: says storm ended. See is come, God is over all.
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  Speaker 1: So Robert Morehead, who is one of the leaders of
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  Speaker 1: the investigation, said that basically on December fifteenth, after that
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  Speaker 1: final entry was made, they must have gone down to
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  Speaker 1: the dock to secure some of the supplies and just
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  Speaker 1: kind of make sure that it wasn't totally damaged from
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  Speaker 1: all of the storm, and a rogue wave from this
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  Speaker 1: storm must have swept them away. When word got to
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  Speaker 1: the Scottish mainland about what had happened to these lighthouse keepers,
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  Speaker 1: the people that sat on the coast facing Eileen Moore,
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  Speaker 1: they were really confused because whenever there's a storm out
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  Speaker 1: at Alan Moore, they can see it because the island's
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  Speaker 1: not that far off the coast and they can see
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  Speaker 1: the storm. But over the past few days, namely December
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  Speaker 1: twelfth to the fifteenth, which was the time period those
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  Speaker 1: log entries were made about the storm passing through, the
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  Speaker 1: people on the mainland of Scotland said that not only
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  Speaker 1: was there no storm, but in fact the visibility onto
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  Speaker 1: Island Moore was better than it had been in years.
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  Speaker 1: They saw parts of the island that were only visible
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  Speaker 1: in perfect circumstances, meaning there was never any storm. So
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  Speaker 1: what the heck happened to those lighthouse keepers? What were
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  Speaker 1: those log entries about? Why were they drawn to tiers?
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  Speaker 1: How did the railings get flipped over and the boulder
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  Speaker 1: get moved aside? Where did they go? In the years
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  Speaker 1: following their disappearance, other keepers were sent out to man
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  Speaker 1: that lighthouse, and all of them reported hearing someone yelling
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  Speaker 1: the names of the three lighthouse keepers that went missing.
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  Speaker 1: So pretty creepy stuff, And unfortunately it's still very much
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  Speaker 1: an unsolved mystery, despite the official statement by Robert Morehead.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'd love to hear in the comments what
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  Speaker 1: you think might have happened to the lighthouse keepers and
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  Speaker 1: what could possibly explain that there wasn't a storm but
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  Speaker 1: in the journal they said it was the worst storm
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  Speaker 1: ever and there's physical damage done to the island. How
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  Speaker 1: do we reconcile that, like, either someone's not telling the
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  Speaker 1: truth or something just doesn't add up. And I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to hear what you have to say in the comments,
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  Speaker 1: much and I'll talk to you soon.