Case File 002: The Logbook Lines Were Faked | Flannan Isles 1900

December 26, 1900. A relief ship reaches a remote lighthouse in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. No flag. No light. No one waiting. The gate is shut, the clock has stopped, and the three keepers are gone. In File 002, The Static Archive Vault opens the case of the Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers: the island sailors called the Seven Hunters, the three men who kept the light, the clues in the official report, the famous "logbook entries" that turned out to be fake, and the theory that fits every clue, including one coat left hanging on its hook. Unsolved. Unexplained. Unforgotten. Subscribe for a new file every Sunday. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold open 00:52 The Seven Hunters 02:39 The Three Keepers 04:35 The Light Goes Dark 05:54 The Empty Lighthouse 07:04 The Clues 09:29 The Legend Factory 11:22 What Really Happened? 14:21 The Light Still Shines CREDITS Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), "Dark Fog", "Long Note Four", "Echoes of Time v2", "Despair and Triumph". Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Images and footage via Wikimedia Commons / Geograph (some cropped, color-graded, animated): Chris Downer (CC BY-SA 2.0): 22 images JJM (CC BY-SA 2.0) United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (Public domain): 2 images Ivan Aivazovsky (Public domain): 4 images User:Lusezcki (Public domain) Peder Balke (Public domain) William Daniell (Public domain) After J. M. W. Turner (Public domain) Jean-Baptiste Pillement (Public domain) James Wilson Carmichael (Public domain) Unknown author (Public domain): 2 images United States Navy (Public domain) Frank Schulenburg (CC BY-SA 3.0) Anita Ritenour from Santa Maria, CA, USA (CC BY 2.0) Rob Farrow (CC BY-SA 2.0) Unknown photographer (Public domain) Martin Martin (Public domain) M J Richardson (CC BY-SA 2.0) Ken Heaton (CC BY-SA 4.0) Svein Magne Tunli (CC BY-SA 4.0) João Dias from Lisboa, Portugal (CC BY 2.0) Peter Moore (CC BY-SA 2.0) Hugh Venables (CC BY-SA 2.0) BLM Oregon & Washington (Public domain): 2 images Евгений (CC BY 3.0) Robert W Paul (Public domain) Sea Cow (CC BY-SA 4.0) Alexis Markwick (CC0) Maoileann (CC BY-SA 4.0) Frank Vincentz (CC BY-SA 3.0) A. Chabchoub, N. Hoffmann, M. Onorato, and N. Akhmediev (CC BY 3.0) Ginelly.Q (CC0) Blervis (CC0) License texts: CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... | CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... William I. Haynes (Public domain) Letters and report pages shown are recreations; text from Northern Lighthouse Board records. Map data: Natural Earth (public domain). Sound effects and graphics: original. Sources: Muirhead report to the Northern Lighthouse Board (1901); Northern Lighthouse Board; McCloskey (2014); Dash, Fortean Studies (1998); Gibson, "Flannan Isle" (1912); Martin (1703). #FlannanIsles #UnsolvedMysteries #Lighthouse