The haunting story of the ghost watchers of the lighthouse of Eilean Mor

What happened on the island of Eliean Mor is not a legend , nor an invention of a writer that draws on the old legends of the rough coastlines.Good stories are woven into stormy nights , where mysteries and unsolved riddles leave their breath even in our present.

We are sure that there are also many stories of missing persons in your country, unresolved tragedies that remain in the air and that Often, they give rise to some supernatural experience: to ghosts, to cold breaths, to presences behind our backs that seem to move in this world and beyond, hugging us with the shelter of fear.

Today in Mysterious we go straight to the Hebrides, to those remote islands off the coast of Scotland where in December 1900, something happened that has not yet been resolved. If you like ghost stories and lone lighthouses, we invite you to continue reading.

The discovery of a stormy night

On the night of December 26, 1900, a small ship entered the Flannan Islands of the Hebrides towards a very small island: Eilean Mor.Today, this unique piece of land suspended in the ocean attracts attention only for one aspect, for its lighthouse.

The only people who inhabit Eilean Mor are the lighthouse keepers. While it is true that the lighthouses are now automated and the technology already replaces the human hand, until recently there were three fareros on this island, three people who used to work for several weeks in a row, and then be replaced by a new team.

The haunting story of the ghost watchers of the lighthouse of Eilean Mor

Eilean Mor Island

That is what was intended to be done that night of December 26, 1900.Replace Thomas Marshall, the second woe Undoubtedly, James Ducat, the chief guardian, and William McArthur, the third assistant.On that occasion these three men would be returned to their homes to leave only one man, Joseph Moore, on the island.

However, that was a very long night.When the ship's captain James Harvey arrived ashore along with Jospeph they blew the horn of arrival and also threw a flare .But they got no answer.It wasn't normal, so they didn't hesitate to put on raincoats and face a long walk to get to the lighthouse.

And what did they find? There was no sign of the three lighthouse keepers. The table was still set for a dinner they never finished, and the clocks, absolutely all the clocks in Eilean Mor's lighthouse had stopped. Something bad had happened...

The haunting story of the ghost watchers of the lighthouse of Eilean Mor

Island of Eilean Mor

They called radio to commander and civil security to announce the disappearance of the 3 men, staying that night to await reinforcements the next day.The person destined to carry out the investigations were Robert Muirhead, a police officer, head of the lighthouse keeper recruitment board and also a friend of those three men.

The first thing Muirhead did was read the lighthouse activity log , that is, the notes that the guardians left reflected as a personal diary, where it is recorded ba all that curious thing that happened in the sea or on the island.The last entry was from December 12, where Thomas Marshall, the second assistant, wrote: «we have severe winds, I had never seen anything like that before.terrible.William McArthur, the third assistant, does not stop crying ».

That was really strange, since everyone who knew William McArthur knew that in addition to a lighthouse keeper, he was an experienced navigator, and a whiskey lover of taverns....then, why would I be crying for a storm and strong winds?

The haunting story of the ghost watchers of the lighthouse of Eilean Mor

No one could get clues. The only thing they had it was a lone lighthouse, watches stopped at dinner time, an overturned chair and oil lamps consumed.No sign of the three guardians.So, what they expected is that the next few days the sea will bring their bodies, because one of the most feasible possibilities are that they would have perished in the storm or in those winds of which they spoke.No one could disappear just like that, and less, three men.

However, the sea never brought any body, no clue.Nothing was ever known… Now, the following guardians who occupied the lighthouse of Eilean Mor, always had one thing clear: that Thomas Marshall, James Ducat and William McArthur were dead .? Because their ghosts, their spirits were still in the lighthouse.

Three dark shadows that appeared and disappeared.Three cold currents that bristled the skin on stormy nights, three silent presences that made impossible to spend more than a day in Eilean Mor, so much so that many were relieved the day when finally, the work of the lighthouse was mechanized by a computer.

The haunting story of the ghost watchers of the lighthouse of Eilean Mor

Now, nobody was able not once to confront those three "supposed" shadows and ask them what had happened to them, what their terrible end was. A shame, there is no doubt. A curious story that, as you can see, it deserved to be part of our space.

If you liked it, we also invite you to meet Bell Rock, the curious lighthouse in the middle of the sea.

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