Feb. 7, 2025

Lost in the Light: The Eilean Mor Lighthouse Mystery | 411

Show Notes

A cold, barren rock in the North Atlantic—isolated, windswept, and lifeless. Perhaps it was

never meant for human presence. Perhaps the superstitions whispered through generations, warnings of curses and otherworldly forces, weren’t just ghost stories to ignore. Three men vanished without a trace from the Eilean Mor Lighthouse in 1900, leaving behind only eerie questions and a lighthouse that stood empty, as if even it knew something was wrong. Was it foul weather? Madness? Or something far stranger hiding in the thick fog that surrounds the

Flannan Isles?

Despite decades of investigation, every theory—no matter how grounded or bizarre—seems to end where it begins: with a mystery as haunting as the waves that crash against its lonely shores. Today on Hysteria 51, we dig into the story of Eilean Mor, the theories, the legends, and the strange clues left behind. Will we find answers, or just more shadows in the mist and bad jokes by a sadistic robot? Let’s find out...

Special thanks to this week’s research sources:

Books

McCloskey, K. (2014), The Lighthouse: The Mystery of the Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Keepers,

The History Press

Websites

Eilean Mor Summary: http://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/curious-disappearanceeilean-mor-lighthouse-keepers-scottish-mystery-004820?nopaging=1

Poem: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw230.html

RationalWiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Flannan_Isle

Original wreck report for the SS Archtor, http://www.plimsoll.org/resources/SCCLibraries/WreckReports/17924.asp?view=text

Rogue Wave - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave

The report submitted by Robert Muirhead, Superintendent, on the 8th

January 1901: https://www.nlb.org.uk/HistoricalInformation/FlannanIsles/Report-by-Superintendent