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The Fairy Flag

Dunvegan Castle, Isle of Skye

A faded silk flag said to win battles for the MacLeods.

Dunvegan Castle holds the Fairy Flag, a fragile scrap of faded silk. Legend says it was a gift from a fairy and that waving it would bring victory to the MacLeod clan, but only three times.

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When
Legend
Where
57.4480, -6.5900
Group
Unexplained

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Dunvegan Castle is open in season.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

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