In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers stationed on an isolated group of islands in the North Atlantic vanished without trace. Was their disappearance the result of a freak accident? Or was there something more sinister at work?
Flannan Isle - by Wildred Wilson Gibson
A reading of the poem with some footage of a lighthouse.
Flannan Isle (1912) by Wilfred Wilson Gibson - A folk song rendition
Life in a Lighthouse (A film from 1940)
This video will help us understand better the life of a lifehouse keeper - although this is 40 years AFTER the mysterious disappearance of the Flannan Isle keepers.
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