All three were experienced lighthouse keepers and this posting, on the largest of the Flannan Isles, in the Outer Hebrides, was a job they needed to feed their families back on the mainland. Now, a new film starring Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan and Connor Swindells, uses the Flannan Isles lighthouse enigma as the basis for a psychological thriller called The Vanishing. “The truth is, nobody really knows what happened,” says Keith McCloskey, who researched the story extensively for his book The Lighthouse: The Mystery of the Eilean Mor Lighthouse Keepers. Long friendships with lighthouse keepers have given extra insight into the unusual weather on the mist-wrapped islands and the atmosphere between workers cooped up together. But that doesn’t explain why, in the years that followed their disappearance, other lighthouse keepers claimed to have heard voices in the salty air screaming out the names of lost Marshall, Ducat and MacArthur.

Source: Daily Mirror April 05, 2019 20:37 UTC