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1: The most interesting thing i found while researching the flannel islands vanishing of the keepers was for the sure the amazing theories people have came up with, some of them are so different and so interesting to ready and than theory craft about them.
2: For the ideals about the flannel light house vanishing  is a tip for builders to never use mercury in any of their projects especially like an enclosed place like a lighthouse. Because it is known to make people go crazy
3. The thing i enjoyed researching about the most was all the different stories people are now telling everyone about, this has made into many movies and books.
4. The thing i will most likely remember after all of this research is to make sure what materials is used in the building of a home or anything.
5. From completing the course i tend to believe the most dangerous red flag is ancient wisdom. Ancient wisdom can do major harm it is the belief of suspicion over something proven it can cause experiential harm in certain situations especially with viruses.
6.If i were to pass anything that i have learned from this course is that to take every story told with a grain of salt and use the red flags to try to isolate and figure out what this story means and how it is being manipulated.

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This is the movie the vanishing it is a action horror thriller based off of the Flannan isles lighthouse.

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The red flag here is mystical energy in the movie ('spoilers") they find a mystical object that the men turn into a power struggle to gain control of this item, this is one of the main theories of the light house but it is a strech.

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THE VANISHING Official Trailer (2019) Gerard Butler Thriller Movie HD

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This website by thevintage goes in detail over one of the main theories that the light-keepers were out repairing the landing site while MacArthur maned the lighthouse and the two other men got swept by the waves.

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The red flag is all natural that the waves sucked up the light keepers off the docks. I personally don't believe in their theory it dosent add up, in the journal the last recorded entry was their was a big storm and they were all sat around praying for it to go away, if they went to fix a landing spot they would of logged it for sure.

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Lighthouses are usually extremely secluded places which dictate a solitary way of life, not suitable for everyone.

Naturally, this isn't always a safe work environment, as emergency services are often not able to provide a quick response in case of an accident.

So when three men working in a lighthouse on the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, suddenly disappeared, wild theories arose fueled by a lack of evidence.

This was at the very dawn of the 20th century, and it sparked one of the most unsettling mysteries at the time.

The lighthouse in which the disappearances took place was built in 1899 on one of the isles called Eilean Mòr.

The structure was 75 feet tall and the complex included a rail and a small docking yard intended for supplies.

Apart from the lighthouse which included three workers ― two regular and one occasional who rotated from the mainland ― the island of Eilean Mòr was uninhabited.

The lighthouse served as an important link for guiding trans-Atlantic ships towards the harbor in Leith, Scotland.

However, on December 15, 1900, something odd happened. As the steamer Archtor, which was on its way from Philadelphia, passed by the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, it noted that its light was not operational.

It wasn't until the ship docked in Leith three days later that this irregularity was noted. Due to horrible weather, the relief boat, stationed on a nearby island of Lewis, had to postpone its visit until December 26th, when it was finally concluded that the lighthouse had been unmanned for days.

The lighthouse crew at the time consisted of three men ― Thomas Marshall and James Ducat, who were the regulars and Donald MacArthur, an occasional who was doing his shift, while the fourth man was on leave, spending time on shore.

When Captain Jim Harvie of the relief boat Hesperus arrived, the men were nowhere to be found - and a number of other irregularities were spotted on the island.

Instead of waiting for the Hesperus on the dock as it was the procedure, none of the lightkeepers appeared. Also, none of the provision boxes needed for the supplies were present at the landing site, and the flagstaff appeared to be missing a signal flag, indicating that no effort was made by the keepers to welcome the relief boat carrying supplies.

At that point, it became clear to the crew of Hesperus that something was extremely off. The crew quickly examined the lighthouse noting several details: both the entrance gate and the gate leading to the compound were shut.

In addition to this, the Hesperus crewmen found all beds unmade, indicating that something must have interrupted them in the middle of the night, and the mechanical clocks had stopped, indicating that the incident happened some while ago.

They also found one unused set of oilskins ― a type of waterproof garment ― usually worn by the keepers whenever going outside during bad weather.

After conducting this ad hoc investigation, the captain of the Hesperus sent a telegram to the Northern Lighthouse Board during that same day, stating:

"A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans. The three keepers, Ducat, Marshall, and the Occasional have disappeared from the Island... The clocks were stopped and other signs indicated that the accident must have happened about a week ago. Poor fellows, they must have been blown over the cliffs or drowned trying to secure a crane."

Days passed and the men were nowhere to be found. In the meantime, it was concluded that the western part of the island had been severely hit by the storms, as the landing site in the west seemed to have suffered heavy damage from wind and waves.

On December 29, 1900, the Northern Lighthouse Board sent a superintendent to conduct an official investigation. Headed by Robert Muirhead, the investigation concluded that the found oilskins set was intended for Donald MacArthur, referred to as the "Occasional." Analyzing the keeper's log in which the last entry was made on December 15th, Muirhead realized that the damage made on the western landing happened prior to the disappearance of the three men.

His reconstruction of the events suggested that Ducat and Marshall went to repair the landing site around dinner time on December 15th, while MacArthur stayed at the lighthouse, as the protocol demanded one person to always be present at the post.

Something made MacArthur leave the lighthouse unmanned, without taking his waterproof garment. This was the point at which the three men went permanently missing.

Muirhead's explanation also suggested that the three men fell victim to a high wave which most probably swept them onto the sharp rocks.

Even though the bodies were likely forever lost in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, the disappearance of the lighthouse keepers sparked nationwide speculation. Many offered various theories in newspapers, grooming ideas of paranormal activity, ghost stories, pirate kidnappings, and spying affairs, all providing no evidence whatsoever to back their claims.

The mystery became even more popular after it was immortalized in a 1912 ballad by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, a poet who emphasizes that the men were the victims of some sort of foul play.

The ballad spawned another series of wild speculations which clung onto the missing lightkeepers through decades to come. Quickly, an analogy was drawn between the missing lighthouse keepers and the disappearance of passengers and crew of the American merchant brigantine Mary Celeste, which happened some 28 years before, when the ship was discovered adrift in a seaworthy condition in the middle of the ocean, with no one aboard.

Due to the widespread rumors about the mystery it became difficult for the Northern Lighthouse Board to employ new keepers, as a dark shadow loomed over the Flannan Isles tower.

Many attempts have been made since then to cast a light on the disappearance of the three men, like the recent book by an acknowledged naturalist John Love, titled A Natural History of Lighthouses.

In the book, the author tackles all possible notion of macabre activity and confirms that the men must have fallen victim to a rogue wave.

"There is no need to invoke the sinister or the paranormal, it was purely a tragic act of nature the men got swept away by abnormally rough seas," said Love in a 2015 interview for the Sunday Post, adding that MacArthur must have been concerned about his companions who became absent for too long.

Since it was forbidden to leave the lighthouse unattended, he most probably just got out to take a look, without his oilskins, only to be swept away by a wave himself.
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Love also noted that the keepers weren't familiar with the winter storm conditions around the island, as the lighthouse was built just one year before the incident took place.

Whatever the case, the disappearance of the three lighthouse keepers left a permanent mark on Edwardian Britain by enclosing many of the popular romantic tropes, like the secluded lighthouse, a mysterious disappearance and raging natural elements.

Nikola Budanovic is a freelance journalist who has worked for various media outlets such as Vice, War History Online, The Vintage News, and Taste of Cinema. His main areas of interest are history, particularly military history, literature and film.

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The Spooky Unsolved Mystery of the Flannan Lighthouse Disappearances

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Lighthouses are usually extremely secluded places which dictate a solitary way of life, not suitable for everyone. Naturally, this isn't always a safe work environment, as emergency services are often not able to provide a quick response in case of an accident.

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This a picture of the spuriously haunted lighthouse that.

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Rumors have it that the lighthouse is still haunted to this day by the 3 men who disappeared. It is said that you can see shadow figures dart across door ways, hear strange sounds, and unexplained whispers can be heard from time to time. The feeling inside the building is cold and you feel as if you are being watched. These reports have been claimed by multiple people who look after the building right now

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The Flannan Isle Lighthouse Mystery - In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers stationed on an isolated group of islands in the North Atlantic vanished without trace. Was their disappearance the result of a freak accident? Or was there something more sinister at work?

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The red flag here is all natural you will see, after watching the video another theory was mention that could be a lot simpler. Two men were washed over the cliff by a monstrous wave, the third, hearing the wave from indoors, quickly jumped from his seat, knocking it over and ran out without his oilskins. He too was washed over. They all drowned and the bods never found.

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Description: This website goes over the possible theory’s myths and legends about the disappearances that happened at the Flannan Isle lighthouse.

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This site talks of Giant sea birds, abducted by spies or simply left to start new lives. A very popular theory is that they were swept away by the ocean. Or that they fell of a nearby cliff. An interesting theory is that MacArthur had a reputation for brawling and being violent and killed the other two men during a fight and fled after throwing the bodies in the sea.
Ancient wisdom: The log leading up to the men’s disappearance included some strange entries, with descriptions of an awful storm, high winds, and low spirits amongst the keepers.

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2019 film The Vanishing is based on the true story of the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers. Set in the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, it tells the tale of Thomas Marshall, James Ducat and Donald MacArthur, who were all discovered missing in December 1900.

The mystery of Flannan Isle Lighthouse was first discovered when the steamer Anchtor made note in its log that the light was not working in bad weather conditions. This was further confirmed when the relief vessel Hesperus arrived at the island, and found the island in a mysterious state of disarray.

There was no welcome from the lighthouse keepers, no flag on the flagstaff and no provision boxes left for them as was customary.

The relief keeper Joseph Moore was sent to investigate further and found the main door and gate to the compound closed, the beds unmade and the clock stopped. They also found a set of oilskins, suggesting one of the keepers to have left without them - unusual and worrying considering the poor weather conditions that had been recorded in the log.

The island was scoured for clues, or any sign of the keepers, but nothing was found. The west landing had received considerable damage, with turf ripped up and a box of supplies destroyed, with its contents strewn about. The keepers log proved that this damage had occurred before the disappearance.

The log leading up to the men's disappearance included some strange entries, with descriptions of an awful storm, high winds, and low spirits amongst the keepers. There were however no reports of storms in the area in the days leading up to the disappearance, meaning that the poor weather conditions recorded in the log were either made up, or localised.

To this day no one knows what took place in the lighthouse that night, but many theories have developed over the years.

The more far-fetched of these theories suggest they had been carried away by a giant seabird, had been abducted by spies or had simply escaped to start new lives. The perhaps more plausible theories suggest that the keepers had been swept away when trying to secure a box in a crevice above sea level. Other theories suggest the psychology of the lighthouse keepers played a part. MacArthur had a reputation for brawling and was known to be violent. It is suggested by some that a fight broke out on the cliff edge, causing the men to fall to their deaths.

The designer of Flannan Isle Lighthouse, David Alan Stevenson also designed the Tarbat Ness Light, which is on display at the National Maritime Museum. It was designed and built because of the loss of sixteen vessels in the Moray Firth storm in 1826 on Tarbat Ness.

We will never truly know what happened to the lighthouse keepers on Flannan Island, but the enduring design of Stevenson's work lives on.

The Vanishing is in cinemas from 29 March and available on digital platforms from 1 April. Royal Museums Greenwich Members had a chance to see the film before the general release at a special preview screening at the National Maritime Museum.

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What caused the disappearance of the Flannan Isle lighthouse keepers?

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2019 film The Vanishing is based on the true story of the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers. Set in the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, it tells the tale of Thomas Marshall, James Ducat and Donald MacArthur, who were all discovered missing in December 1900.

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Description: This is a photo of the 3 light house keepers that vanished into nothingness. The names of them were James Ducat, Thomas Marshall, and Donald McArthur.

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The main red flag here is simplicity Donald McArthur was know to be a brawler and because the mercury in the bulb was so high in concentration was so high his mental could have been affected and he attacked the men and threw their bodies in the river while it was storming and got swept up by a big wave.

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This video was made by the history network and it goes over the basics of what happens and theories of what the men did and how they vanished.

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The red flag for this video is ideology, the researchers went over the measures and did tests to see what really happend, the most common theory is that the keepers went crazy from the mercury in the bulb and walked close to sea at high tide and got swept away.

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This website hosted by mentalfloss goes in detail about what happened in the lighthouse and how others reacted to their disappearance.

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The sailors that came up to the lighthouse saw that nothing was changed in the lighthouse it looked like everything was in order but their were no lighthouse keepers their coats were there and they weren't. The scholars. The red flag was confusion of causation.

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In the winter of 1906, Mrs. George Thompson called upon Dr. George Soper, known around New York as an "epidemic fighter," to investigate the source of a typhoid outbreak that had occurred among renters in her Oyster Bay summer home several months prior.

After finding no issue with the well, the outhouse, the food supplies, or any other part of the property that might have generated germs, Soper considered the possibility that the carrier could have been a healthy person-an idea that wasn't widely accepted at the time. By process of elimination, he landed on a likely culprit: the cook, a 37-year-old woman named Mary Mallon.

Mallon, described by the other servants as "not particularly clean," had arrived at the Thompson home on August 3, 1906. Just weeks later, between August 27 and September 3, six out of the house's 11 occupants had contracted typhoid fever. Though most of her dishes were hot and prepared at temperatures that would have killed any bacteria, Mallon had served ice cream with fresh peaches one Sunday, which some of the house guests ate with gusto.

Before searching for Mallon herself, Soper followed her trail of employment all the way back to September 1900, unearthing a total of seven households in New York and Maine that had suffered typhoid outbreaks during Mallon's tenure.

"In nearly every instance, a well-to-do and socially prominent family, soon after moving from the city to the country for the summer, experienced an outbreak of typhoid fever. In no instance had its cause been satisfactorily explained," Soper recounted in the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. "The cook always left soon afterward. She had never been suspected."

Soper decided it was time to track Mallon down.

A Mean, Unclean Quarantine Queen

In early 1907, Soper paid Mallon a visit in Manhattan, in an old-fashioned house on Park Avenue and 60th Street where she was working, once again, as a cook.

"I was as diplomatic as possible, but I had to say I suspected her of making people sick and that I wanted specimens of her urine, feces, and blood," Soper wrote.

Mallon seized a carving fork and chased Soper from the premises.

After another unsuccessful attempt to reason with Mallon, Soper asked New York City's Department of Health to intervene. So Dr. Sara Josephine Baker came calling at the Park Avenue estate, and Mallon made a run for it, evading capture for three hours before police found her in a neighbor's shed and deposited her into an ambulance.

"The ride down to the hospital was quite a wild one," Dr. Baker recalled.

Mallon was taken to an isolation ward at Willard Parker Hospital, and doctors tested her feces three times a week between March 20 and November 16, 1907. Salmonella enterica enterica serovar Typhi, the bacterium that causes typhoid, was found in nearly every sample. Soper visited Mallon at the hospital to explain why she had been confined for so long (and also to determine the possibility of securing her release).

"When you go to the toilet, the germs which grow within your body get upon your fingers, and when you handle food in cooking they get on the food. People who eat this food swallow the germs and get sick," he told her. "If you would wash your hands after leaving the toilet and before cooking, there might be no trouble. You don't keep your hands clean enough."

Mallon, frustrated and lonely, wasn't very receptive to his advice, and refused to give doctors permission to remove her gallbladder, which they suspected was the source of the germs. There's a good chance that this was true, since recent scientific studies have shown that many asymptomatic typhoid carriers store typhoid bacteria in their gallbladders. When their gallbladders empty bile into their small intestines, some of the bacteria goes with it, and then gets excreted in their stool.

"No knife will be put upon me," Mallon told the doctors who requested to remove it. "I've nothing the matter with my gallbladder."

Soon after that meeting, Mallon was relocated to a bungalow near Riverside Hospital on New York's North Brother Island. Her quarters, originally built for the superintendent of nurses, were more spacious and more comfortable, but Mallon was still treated like a dangerous outcast, isolated from the rest of the island's inhabitants.

Two years after her arrest on Park Avenue, Mallon sued the Department of Health, claiming that she had been imprisoned without due process of law-in fact, she hadn't even been accused of a crime. Dr. William H. Park, the bacteriologist who had tested Mallon's feces, took the stand to explain how Mallon-though seemingly healthy herself-was an asymptomatic typhoid carrier. Both sides presented compelling arguments, but the court simply didn't want the responsibility of determining whether Mallon was fit to rejoin society.

They dismissed the case altogether, and a defeated Mallon returned to North Brother Island.

Life As a Culinary Renegade

In February 1910, Riverside Hospital finally decided to release Mallon on the condition that she promise not to work as a cook and "take such hygienic precautions as will protect those with whom she comes in contact, from infection." She agreed to the terms and left the island.

What she didn't do was keep her word. For the next five years, Mallon flitted from kitchen to kitchen in the area, introducing herself as "Marie Breshof" or "Mrs. Brown." She cooked in a restaurant on Broadway, a hotel in Southampton, an inn in Huntington, and a sanatorium in New Jersey. Typhoid followed Mallon wherever she went, but she never stayed in one place long enough to rouse suspicion.

That is, until 1915, when Dr. Edward B. Cragin solicited Soper's help in detecting the cause of a typhoid outbreak at New York's Sloane Hospital for Women. More than 20 people had fallen ill, and the other servants had taken to calling the cook "Typhoid Mary"-a sobriquet that newspapers had used for Mallon during her solitary confinement.

After Soper positively identified the woman he knew to be Mary Mallon, the hospital alerted the Department of Health, and Mallon was whisked right back to North Brother Island. This time, she didn't resist.

The Lonely Legacy of America's Most Famous Asymptomatic Carrier

Mallon lived out her remaining 23 years in the lonely riverbank bungalow, processing tests in the hospital laboratory and making occasional sojourns to Queens to visit a family she was friendly with. According to Soper, "they were not particularly glad to see her." She suffered a stroke in 1932, and passed away at age 69 on November 11, 1938. Only nine people attended her funeral at St. Luke's Catholic Church in the Bronx.

In total, Mallon was officially responsible for infecting 53 people with typhoid-three of whom died-though there were likely many more that went unreported. While her commitment to good hygiene may have been lacking, the fact that she was so often treated like a pariah no doubt exacerbated her unwillingness to cooperate with doctors and other health officials. For many, including Mallon herself, it was simply difficult to believe that a perfectly healthy person who had never even been afflicted with a terrifying disease could somehow pass it on to dozens of others.

"It was to be Mary Mallon's fate to clear away much of the mystery which surrounded the transmission of typhoid fever and to call attention to the fact that it was often persons rather than things who offered the proper explanation when the disease occurred in endemic, sporadic and epidemic form," Soper wrote.

Mallon, however begrudgingly, charted a new path for scientists studying communicable diseases-and taught the rest of us just how important it is to wash our hands.

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The Mystery of the Missing Keepers at the Flannan Isles Lighthouse

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In the winter of 1906, Mrs. George Thompson called upon Dr. George Soper, known around New York as an "epidemic fighter," to investigate the source of a typhoid outbreak that had occurred among renters in her Oyster Bay summer home several months prior.

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Post# 1 The Flannan Isles Lighthouse disapperance

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Post# 1 The Flannan Isles Lighthouse disapperance

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This the the light house itself where the lighthouse keepers just suddenly vanished into thin air 4 days before Christmas.

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The connection it's self is with the island it was said that the island was cursed and only sheep herders lived on the island because everyone was afraid. It was ancient wisdom that people believed in that were scared of this island.