Episode 173: Darkness and Light (ad-free)

On the edge of the world, where risk and danger crash constantly against the shores of civilization, stands a type of ancient guardian that everyone recognizes, but few truly understand. And there’s at least one mystery waiting for those brave enough to explore them.

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Further Reading

1. Dianna Stampfler, “Meet The Keepers Who Remain Within Michigan’s Haunted Lighthouses,” Michigan, https://www.michigan.org/article/trip-idea/the-keepers-behind-haunted-lighthouses-michigan.
2. Helen Pattskyn, “Seul Choix Lighthouse One of the Scariest Places on Earth,” American’s Haunted Road Trip, 29 November 2016, http://americashauntedroadtrip.com/seul-choix.
3. Jennifer Beeler, Steve Millburg, and Mamie Walling, “Top 15 Haunted Lighthouses,” Coastal Living, 24 August 2011, https://www.coastalliving.com/travel/top-15-haunted-lighthouses?slide=132025#132025.
4. John Robinson, “Haunted Michigan: The Seul Choix Lighthouse,” 13 September 2017, https://99wfmk.com/seul-choix-lighthouse-2020.
5. “Seul Choix Point Lighthouse,” Lighthouse Friends, https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=565.
6. Vivian Wood, “Seul Choix Point Lighthouse on Lake Michigan, The Haunted Lighthouse,” Exploring the North, http://www.exploringthenorth.com/seulchoix/seul.html.
7. Dale Cox, “The Ghost of the St. Simons Lighthouse,” Explore Southern History, https://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/gastsimons2.html.
8. Jennifer Beeler, Steve Millburg, and Mamie Walling, “St. Simons Lighthouse, St. Simons Island, Georgia,” 24 August 2011, https://www.coastalliving.com/travel/top-15-haunted-lighthouses?slide=131983#131983.
9. Larry Hobbs, “Lighthouse’s storied past haunted by a shooting,” The Brunswick News, 25 May 2018, https://thebrunswicknews.com/special_sections/explorer/lighthouses-storied-past-haunted-by-a-shooting/article_e38339ee-5639-5ec6-aa54-e9d08373a3eb.html.
10. “Saint Simons Lighthouse,” Lighthouse Friends, https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=328.
11. “St. Simons Lighthouse,” Coastal Georgia History, https://www.coastalgeorgiahistory.org/visit/st-simons-lighthouse.
12. Alvin Nicholas, Supernatural Wales: An A-Z guide to a land of ghosts and dark legends, strange animals and unexplained phenomena (Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing, 2013).
13. Estelle, “10 Lighthouses Surrounded By Spooky Legends,” Listverse, 12 August 2014, https://listverse.com/2014/08/12/10-lighthouses-surrounded-by-spooky-legends.
14. “Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales,” Great British Ghost Tour, https://www.greatbritishghosttour.co.uk/Pages/Wales/Anglesey/holyhead.html.
15. Ian Topham, “South Stack Lighthouse,” 23 November 2018, http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/south-stack-lighthouse.
16. “South Stack Lighthouse,” Trinity House, https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses-and-lightvessels/south-stack-lighthouse.
17. Warren Kovach, “South Stack Lighthouse,” Anglesey History, https://www.anglesey-history.co.uk/places/SouthStack/index.html.
18. Addison Nugent, “Unraveling the Mystery of Eilean Mòr Lighthouse,” Ozy, 7 November 2018, https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/unraveling-the-mystery-of-eilean-mor-lighthouse/90050.
19. “Archtor (S.S.).,” In Just One Day, 1901, https://www.injustoneday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ssarchtor-wreck-report.pdf.
20. Ben Johnson, “The mysterious disappearance of the Eilean Mòr lighthouse keepers.,” Historic UK, https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Eilean-Mor-Lighthouse-Mystery.
21. Bryan Dunning, “The Keepers of Flannan Light,” Skeptoid, 13 February 2018, https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4610.
22. Caitlin Schneider, “The Mystery of the Missing Keepers at the Flannan Isles Lighthouse,” Mental Floss, 20 May 2019, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70180/115-year-old-mystery-flannan-lighthouses-missing-keepers.
23. James Bartlett, “Flannan Isle Lighthouse,” Atlas Obscura, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/flannan-isle-lighthouse.
24. Keith McCloskey, The Lighthouse: The Mystery of the Missing Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Keepers (History Press Limited, 2014), p. 224.
25. Leslie Gonzalez, “The disappearances of the lighthouse keepers on Eilean Mòr,” History 101, 4 March 2019, https://www.history101.com/eilean-more.
26. “The Lost Keepers of the Seven Hunters,” Wondercabinet, 9 November 2014, http://www.wondercabinet.net/2014/11/09/the-lost-keepers-of-the-seven-hunters.
27. Martin Martin, A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland (Circa 1695), https://web.archive.org/web/20070313003106/http://www.appins.org/martin.htm.
28. Mike Dash, The Vanishing Lighthousemen of Eilean Mòr, Fortean Studies (1998), https://www.academia.edu/251736/The_Vanishing_Lighthousemen_of_Eilean_Mor.
29. Mike Merritt, “Has mystery of Flannan Isles finally been solved?,” The Sunday Post, 10 October 2015, https://www.sundaypost.com/news/scottish-news/has-mystery-of-flannan-isles-finally-been-solved.
30. Nikola Budanovic, “The Spooky Unsolved Mystery of the Flannan Lighthouse Disappearances,” The Vintage News, 20 September 2018, https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/09/20/flannan-isles.
31. “Notes on the Pigmies Isle,” Electric Scotland, https://electricscotland.com/history/articles/pigmies_isle.htm.
32. “Transcripts from documents related to the Flannan Isles mystery,” The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, https://web.archive.org/web/20090106151351/http://www.lighthousemuseum.org.uk/history/FlannanIslesdocuments.htm.
33. Tristram Fane Saunders, “The Vanishing: what really happened at the Flannan Isles lighthouse? The mystery behind the movie revealed,” The Telegraph, 29 March 2019, https://www.injustoneday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ssarchtor-wreck-report.pdf.
34. “When Three isn’t a Crowd: The Mystery of Eilean Mòr,” Sentinel63, Wordpress, 10 June 2016, https://sentinel63.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/when-three-isnt-a-crowd-the-mystery-of-eilean-mor.