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Flannan Isles Lighthouse

Outer Hebrides

Three lighthouse keepers vanish from a tiny island without trace.

In December 1900 a passing ship noticed the new Flannan Isles light was dark. When the relief boat arrived on 26 December, the three keepers, James Ducat, Thomas Marshall and Donald MacArthur, were gone.

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When
December 1900
Where
58.2880, -7.5890
Group
Unexplained

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Boat trips run from Lewis in summer, weather allowing.

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

He found the door shut, the kitchen empty and the clock stopped. The three men he had come to join were gone, and they were never found.

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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