I remember being in a Lighthouse many years ago off the coast of Ireland on a small filming project - and at night it was creepy, something about watching the beams of rotating light reaching out into the sea mist in the darkness. Your Smalls Lighthouse piece was excellent. Its hard to fathom how Thomas Howell endured all that he did and still managed to keep the lighthouse going, saving numerous lives while he was living through that.

Rogue wave. Let's face it, they lived on a rock in the middle of the ocean. RIP.

I've heard this story told many times, and I had never thought of a rogue wave. I think it's the only possible explanation. In 1995, ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 was hit by two consecutive rogue waves over 90 ft tall each. But in this lighthouse story I think even one wave perfectly explains it. Two men go out to inspect the landings and one rogue wave washes them off the island. The third man, watching this happen from the lighthouse, runs out in their aid and perhaps tries to recue them from the water, and falls in. To me it's the most simple, Occam's razor type of explanation for this story. Anyway, great content as usual, very nice story-telling and video composition in general.

Been to this island and seen the lighthouse, the far far prevailing theory on the island is that they simply went to do some work on the island and were swept away, considering the box of ropes that were on the rocks and the crazy weather was so insane when i went (in summer) it wouldn’t surprise me

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Tough men manning the lighthouse? What about the tough men who built it? Look at that location. I can't imagine just getting the building supplies there

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Cool detail using the same aspect ratio as the film The Lighthouse for this video.

"never found anything to indicate where they had gone." Uh...that great huge watery thing that surrounded them. It was pretty obvious. And waves hitting100ft above the water line is not that unusual, for lighthouse sites. The Fastnet Lighthouse was struck by a wave about 154 feet in 1985 In 1986 The Eagle Island lighthouse, whose lights was 220feet above sea level, was repeatedly struck by waves which broke the glass at the top. On one occasion so much water poured in through the broken panes at the top of the lighthouse that it was impossible to open the door to entre the lighthouse from the outside. The keepers had to drill through, to let the water drain out, so that they could push the door open (it opened inwards). The storm waves off the West coast of Ireland and Scotland are something else. It's the North Atlantic. Eagle Island had 2 lighthouses initially. The site was so storm wracked that a protective wall was built around one of the lighthouses, but a storm still managed to destroy it, despite being sited about 200 feet above high water mark.

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The footage is actually the 'Bull Rock' lighthouse which is about a mile off the end of Dursey Island, in Southwest Ireland.

The damage to the landing is probably the strongest evidence of what happened. Around 1950, when I was a little boy, I went with my uncles and aunts to the house of one of my great aunts. I had been there many times before. It was located on a bluff about 50 or 60 feet above the water at high tide. The house was made of stone and quite solid. My great aunt lived there for many years. My family was there to convince her to come and stay with them because of a hurricane that was coming that was reportedly very strong. At the time I was living on Parade Street in Providence Rhode Island. The street was lined with huge trees and the city decided to cut them all down to avoid damage if they were blown down. The storm was that big. By great aunt did not want to leave her house because she had weathered many storms in her house. However, my family prevailed and she agreed to go live with another one of my great aunts. After the storm passed, I went with my family to bring my great aunt back to her house. We got there and initially thought we might’ve made a wrong turn because we didn’t see the house. Finally, one of my uncles found the foundation. There was not a trace left of that stone house. Green water can do a lot of damage and a monster wave is definitely a possibility. Whether there was one or two of them is an open question, but there could’ve been some minor damage at that landing which the three of them we’re either inspecting or trying to repair when the monster wave came in.

There's a wonderful song they used in "Clockwork Orange" called "I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper" which I also dreamed of, along with the kid's book "Moominpappa at Sea"....

Rogue or freak waves are much more common than you think. Not much was known about these waves in 1900 and surely the men wouldn't have expected another wave since rogue waves were accepted as only occurring once every ten thousand years.

The ocean killed them. You don’t realize how terrifying it’s power is unless you’ve lived by the ocean.

If you haven't watched the Lighthouse with Robert Pattinson & Willem DaFoe please god go watch it right now.

It saddens me to say one of the two who had gone out for some reason probably slipped and began to fall off the island at which point the third was called for help and they all ended up falling by accident. The place is wet and uneven. People get boared and curious and accidents happen.

This begs the very big question…..HOW THE HELL DID THEY BUILD THEM!!?….think about it

There is some amazing photos of some famous lighthouse, where I forget. The photos show gigantic waves hitting a lighthouse, on the other side you can see the waves are WAY over the lighthouse door. What if you were outside when these enormous waves hit? It’s a famous photo. Some of you may have seen it.

The lights on this coast have some spooky and sometimes sad, stories. There was a keeper on Egg Island, whose wife went ashore for some time. There was a telegram sent to the keeper, which he misinterpreted as his wife was leaving him to be with his brother. He shot himself and died at the kitchen table. He was buried there on the island and some years later a short picket fence was built around where they thought he was buried, but more recently, someone went to relocate the grave and apparently his body wasn’t there. Never been found since. On Quatsino Island, a young man visiting from Europe, stubbed his foot on something and died from infection. There’s said you be a ghost there, but those I’ve talked to about it say the ghost is of an older, white-haired man. No one knows who the ghost is supposed to be. Quatsino also had a wife go insane out there and she had to be tied down on her bed until a ship came by that could take her to hospital. Yeah lots of ghost stories out there, but I never saw one. Some UFO stories, too; never saw one of those either. I think having three people on a light is unwise; it always turns into two against one in some argument or situation. I suspect the rope in the story you sent might have been an attempt to rescue a keeper that may have been knocked off from the bent railing, by a rogue wave. Such things DO exist out there. But it is only speculation on my part

landing had lost structural integrity, on investigating the scene one man lost his footing falling into the sea, then one rogue wave catches the other two as they try to assist, likewise, people to crazy stuff when drowning/freezing to death, the man in the water may have dragged one or both of the other in with him... BUT THATS JUST A THEORY :) great content man thankyou

Great video! Everything, the editing, the information and all the time you put into these videos make them so enjoyable to watch. One of my favorite mysteries too!

So spooky and mysterious! Excellent video, you have a real talent for storytelling and visual arts. this is by far my favorite channel

Yes, I watched it. It was so well done.

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This is one of those cases where each video about it tells a different version of the story

Watching this and like wow they had helicopters back in 1900 😂

This story reminds me of The Perfect Storm... I read the book by Sebastian Junger. It was rather dry, science heavy and fact based, but a good read. Then, I watched the movie... I wondered if I read the book the film was based on, as the movie had little in common with it's literary source. The book talks very little about events on the Andrea Gail and the movie concentrates almost solely on these events, with little to no bases in reality. No one knows what happened on the Andrea Gail or the fate of the crew or the boat's final status. I guess the movie tries to answer what might have happened, but again, without any factual basis. Thanks for another interesting story!

The ship hit the rock, they tried saving them and got wipe out to sea, trying to help them. Ocean water can grow up to 1000 feet, storm of the century. R.I.P.

There's an excellent series done of Irish Lighthouses made by RTE. Several of the episodes are on UKposts, as of Aug 2023. Called either The Lighthouses of Ireland, or the Great Lighthouses of Ireland. If one likes that sort of thing, watch them quickly before they're removed.

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Love how the stories are from "anonymous sources"

The clock stopping and the half eaten food are the 2 weirdest clues imo.

Rogue waves can come in the form of whats known as the 3 sisters: 3 towering waves, 1 after another that, the lighthouse keepers wouldnt have known were following in succesion upon going to retrieve their mate.

You have an island that is basically a cliff or very rugged rock. In the video, you see waves crashing high up on the cliffs, and that is supposedly calm weather. My theory is that at least one of the men wearing their coats got into difficulty on the walkway, seeing as it was damaged. The guy who wasn't wearing his jacket was obviously the man left to watch the lighthouse. He must have seen or heard something that made him come out so quickly that he left his coat behind. The fact that the rope was strewn about could lead one to believe that some hurried rescue attempt was tried. From the looks of that island, it would be very easy to slip and fall. I can see any number of scenarios where all three men could die.

I find it difficult to listen to this without picturing Gul Dukat as turn of the century lighthouse worker.

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The journal entries may be fabricated but boy do they give me the chills

Very well told. I believe in a rouge wave. Thank you ❤

ever heard of calm before the storm? they got hit by a huge storm. then when the storms center went over them, it calmed down, they wrote it down, went outside, boom. storm continued and a rogue wave got them.

Me and my parents went to scotland when i was a child for holidays and we went to the north coast and since it was before the internet became big we just found people to stay over at and we found this lighthousekeeper that rented his house for us. It was soo creeeepy.

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A good tale well-researched and well-told. I think the rogue wave explanation is simpler than people tend to think. First, it doesn't have to crest that high at the moment of impact: a wave will wash up the shore, and a really big one will wash further than a small one. Though, the damage becomes easier to explain as the wave gets bigger. Second, rogue waves are turning out to be way more common than we thought even a few years ago, and at the time of the tragedy people didn't believe they were even possible. Also, while they can be caused by constructive interference, there are documented phenomena which cause a series of them, with the "three sisters" on the Great Lakes being the best-known. Third, wind could easily be a contributing factor. Those islands have foul, foul weather and even a nice day can have winds and squalls that are hard to stand up against. Finally, the first wave will have made the concrete stairs very slippery, and it isn't hard to imagine a scenario where one man has been washed to sea, the second and third ties themselves together with a rope (hence opening that box) to look for him, but slip / fall / another big wave comes and they get swept out as well.

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They went outside to settle the debate on the proper way of cooking lobster

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Thank you for a fair cover in almost every aspect about this incident. Well done!

Reminds me of that story “The Three Skeleton Key” where they were attacked by rats

Been on many lighthouses. Rogue wave. Case closed.

Oileann meaning island is pronounced ill-inn, not like a girls name "Eileen".

strange story, well told. Thank you

Looooove this type of content, “lighthouses rule, if you don’t like lighthouses you suck” ~ drinking out of cups.

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Not me going through the backlog of your videos 😂

Most likely.. There were still survivors from the ship that broke down. They all jumped in trying to save them.

I love this story it's such a mystery, really enjoying your channel, just to let you know its pronounced eelan mor

One got washed away, the other two tried to save him and also perished, it doesn't take extreme weather to knock you off your feet. A slippery dock, constantly hit with waves and any kind of high wind, is dangerous. And trying to save another persons life in any condition that is dangerous, is also a danger to the ones trying to save that person. It's the 1900's, it was a time of heroic chivalry, you know, women and children first, the men stay behind to die. The psycology was different to saving a life. If you didn't try to save a person's life back then, you could be brandished a coward for the rest of your life. If you look at Bruce Ismay, who jumped on one of the lifeboats from the sinking Titanic, brandished a coward. They disapeared trying to save someones life, it's not really a mystery, it's more than likely what happened and they did it heroically. They were never found, the current on the west side of the Hebrides travels up to Iceland and curves over to Greenland and Canada, which in the year 1900, didn't have very highly populated coastlines... in the 1900's, who would have found them washed up? It's sad, that the event which led to their demise, more than likely trying to save another sole lost at sea, is overshadowed by a mistery, which in all rational, sensible thinking, isn't really a mystery. Imagine being on an island and something happens and you have no way of calling for help... what do you think you would do? Just because no one is around to tell their story, and award them heroes for trying. "The simplest explanation that will account for a circumstance or event is most likely the correct explanation." Mystery solved.

I think the deaths here happened in two stages. What I suspect happened is that the youngest lightkeeper had some form of psychosis. I think he ran out in the middle of a gale, and his colleagues suited up and tried to get him back in, and were swept out to sea trying to catch him and bring him to safety. This explains the one set of weather gear that remained and why the other two were missing. It also explains why the light was working intermittently and why the living space had been used in such a baffling way. The third man might have died a number of ways, but in this scenario, it was likely self inflicted, either in the throws of madness, or out of guilt and shame when he recovered from his psychosis.

Aliens did it. There are underwater aliens off those isles and they are not nice. We have them off Catalina Island near California too.

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Great stuff man !!

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That movie next friday when his ride got the paint all scratched and he went down to see dada down at the record store. Roach was standing on his head with shopvac

I'm willing to bet, every single one has been a slip in the ocean.

One of the keepers was gay and this caused terrible panic amongst the others. One was crying and eventually death was preferred to the continuing pain. Two of them went outside to get away followed by the gay one shouting come back, come back. All three were lost to the storm.

Maybe not a rogue wave but what if the storm had made things extra wet/slippery. Maybe the railing WAS damaged during the storm and the two experienced keepers went out to inspect the damage and one of them slipped and fell and the other went to get the help of MacArthur and when they tried to reach the fallen man or tried to pull him up they were pulled down by his weight or slipped themselves and they all went into the sea? What a forever mystery.

One thing's for sure. They probably didnt experience the same fate as the keeper in Noone lives under the lighthouse

Rogue wave. Needn't have been 100' high, nor more than one. Two bored lighthouse keepers hit the shore to see what the storm dragged in. They're swept out by a rogue wave. 3rd guy hears their calls for help, runs out to try and save them. Perhaps slips down the now-wet rocks into the water, or perhaps swims out in a heroic effort to help them. That's what happened.

I heard that lighthouse workers tend to go insane from mercury poisoning that's inside them.

They come in sets ! And they pulse ….. first thing that came to mind. Waves . And not even a rouge wave! But waves , big waves 🌊😘😉🤘

the murder theory is the most interesting and dramatic, but them being washed away by a huge wave is probably the reality. It doesn't necessarily have to be 2 monster waves in a row, either. What if one of them slipped and fell, and while the other two were trying to help a huge wave tragically washed all 3 of them away. Maybe that's how the railing broke? Someone leaned on the railing, fell down the cliff a ways, then while the other 2 were trying to rescue him with the rope that was found, that's when the freakishly massive rogue wave struck.

Coming from this area (Western Isles), the thought that the Flannan Isles are revered as somehow special is total BS. But.. everybody grew up knowing about this 'spooky' story (great fun to speculate when you're a kid). And the 'natives' religion was Christianity - this was 1900 in western Scotland.

We need to find out what happen. In theory, two rogue waves can happen within minutes.

They were swept out to sea bro, never to be seen again

I hope it isnt harsh to say but i wish your videos got more eyes. I can see the effort and love your story telling skills. Makes me feel as though you see the world in some similar ways.

I would suggest that two men were out, to be swept away. The keeper, at the time-had enough-went to look for them, and fell in the pond...

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i belive 1 guy fell off while handling a rope (due to wind) held on to the rope that was either tangled in the railing or grabbed by the other keeper, they call for the third, and the railing breaks as the second and third are pulling dragging them off with the first. or just a set of rouge waves :smile:

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My stupid brain heard the name Ducat and now I wanna blame the disappearance on pah wraiths.

Aliens. Ooo. Very spooky

Let us see the logbooks!

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How is such a thing built in first place?

what were the sources used in this vid

Ah these are always such fun topics.

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My lifes dream is to live in a lighthouse

I've known some ............. all my life, and I don't want to be stuck on a rock with them. Quiet , brooding people. If you caused them to snap, I think it would be the last thing you did. But the ocean is similar. It is capable of extremely frightening power. Who knows??

I recently watched a drama about this incident. It seemed highly speculative but was very good b

2 men go outside. McCarther looks out to sea and sees a rogue wave. He tries to reach the men outside as fast as possible to warn them. They may all have been on the stairs.