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John Henson (9:00)

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John Henson (9:03)

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It started with second assistant Thomas Marshall noting severe winds and that the principal keeper, James Ducat, had been very quiet. He also noted that third assistant William MacArthur had been crying, which was especially strange since MacArthur was a known brawler and an experienced mariner. So, like, this is like the toughest of the tough dudes, right? Like, why would he be crying in a lighthouse unless there's something crazy going on? Maybe it's these very nondescript, anonymous spirits that have long haunted this island. We don't know. The next Day's log for December 13 noted that a storm had been raging for several days and it was still going on, and that the men had been praying throughout the night. Again, Muirhead, the superintendent who's investigating, he found that very strange because the Ellen Moore Lighthouse was only a year old. It was state of the art for whatever state of the art was in 1900 and stood 150ft above sea level. So, like, even if the waves were fierce and the. And the ocean was angry and all that, like, they were protected from all that. So maybe the gusty winds could have freaked them out a little bit. But again, these are like hardened sailors and bar fighters. Like, these are tough dudes. And so it would. It would take a lot for them to get spooked and scared. Now, to make this keepers log even stranger, there weren't actually any reported storms in the area at the time. The only storm noted in meteorological reports from other logs around Scotland occurred on December 17, two days after the final entry in the eland in the Ellen Moore lighthouse log, which claimed Quote, storm ended, sea calm, God is over all. So Muirhead, the investigator, he's really confused by this. He also wondered why all three lighthouse keepers had left their post despite clear rules prohibiting them from doing so, and why one of them had gone out in the middle of winter without a coat. Because, remember, two or a couple of those oilskin coats were missing. After investigating the other landing platform on the island. So there were at least two. So the first one is where the Hesperus landed, but there was apparently another one, I guess, maybe on the other side, on the opposite side. They investigated that landing platform, and Muirhead noted several ropes that were normally held in a crate above the platform were instead strewn all over the rocks below. He also noticed that the railings were bent. The iron railway that transported goods from ships up to the lighthouse, to make it easy for him, that had been ripped out of the concrete and a rock, a boulder really weighing more than one ton, had been misplaced or displaced. In his final report, Muirhead really didn't know what had happened, but he surmised that the crate holding these ropes had broken and that the three lighthouse keepers had gone down to retrieve the ropes, had been hit by a massive wave, and just had all been swept out to sea. And that's great. That logic tracks. You know, I'm generally on board with that. But despite that theory, and this is why people have kind of blown this up, none of the bodies ever washed ashore. Critics were also confused by the one keeper who left his coat and how all three of these men, who were allegedly very experienced mariners, could have all been caught by surprise by a wave, especially since all reports from nearby islands noted very calm seas during those days. You know, between, you know, December, I guess it would have been like, 13th when the last keeper's log at Eleanor was done. And then the storm on December 17th. Right. So it's four days of calm seas. Couldn't have possibly happened. So instead, people who probably had way too much time on their hands and not enough real problems in their life began believing a variety of obviously very plausible theories. You guys, here were some of them. They were captured by foreign invaders. They had arranged for a ship to come and take them away so they could fake their own deaths and start new lives. A sea monster had attacked them because, you know, Loch Ness monster is not just for Loch Ness. They had been abducted by aliens or a ghost ship. The phantom of the seven hunters had arrived on the island and killed them.

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John Henson (16:17)

Since this incident, subsequent lighthouse keepers have reported hearing strange voices with the wind, oftentimes calling out the names of the three keepers who vanished from the lighthouse. Conversely, it was later discovered that the logbooks allegedly seen by Muirhead were completely fictitious and added to this story several years later. So remember all that time I just now wasted going through the various details of oh, the direct quote of, you know, storm is calm, God is over all, blah blah blah. You know, the one dude crying or that they were praying throughout the night. None of that was real. None of it. Some dork added it to the story several years later and then everybody like you probably just did believed it, didn't fact check it whatsoever and let this legend grow. Whether there were actually any entries mysterious or explainable in the Ellen Moore Lighthouse Logbook is actually unknown. We don't know for sure what their logbook actually said. Today, most people believe that kind of what happened was that one guy got washed out to sea and then the others heard the emergency happen. That would kind of explain why the half eaten food was left on the table and it looked like people rushed out. So maybe the rest of Them then rushed out to try to save the one guy who got swept out, and they all drowned trying to save him. Alternatively, they believe that maybe a fight broke out among all of them along the cliff edge, and then all three just beat each other up and fell off the side to their deaths. Or it was probably a sea monster. All done. All right. There you go. The Ellen Moore lighthouse mystery. Still. I mean, still technically a mystery, if only because people in subsequent years added to the story and made what really happened almost impossible to actually figure out now. But that story in the books, that's how I like to close story time. And I say that very specifically because the Ellen Moore lighthouse mystery is literally in the books. I get these stories, obviously, from a ton of research, but then I write books. I have a series called the 100 stories series. There are 10 editions of the lesser known history of humanity and then some other several spin offs with, like, paranormal serial killer editions. I do have two versions of the North Carolina history, just because that's where I'm based. And so if you prefer to also read your history instead of just consuming it audibly, I guess that would be the way to say it. But if you are. If you do, like, I have several books that I have published. They are. You can find them on my website. John Henson writes.com and this story is in the third edition of the 100 Stories Paranormal Edition. So the spin off of that. The other thing I like to do on my show is to kind of quickly recap with a segment called what did we learn? What did we Learn? Number one, Ellen Moore. This Rocky. A little island on the Hebrides of Scotland. And I killed those pronunciations. All right? Here's the thing about me that you guys don't know, but my. My crowd does. I don't. I don't do, like a ton of work on the finer details. All right? I feel like, Lindsay, the people over here at History daily, they really. They really put in the extra work. All right? I'm just here to tell you guys stories, all right? I make sure that the details of the stories are correct, but maybe if I mispronounce a place or a name, that'll slip through every now and then. And, you know, some people can't handle that. And that's okay. I get it. I'm not everybody's cup of tea. I'm not even my own cup of tea a lot of the time, you guys. All right? But it is what it is. Number two, three lighthouse keepers on this island mysteriously just disappeared and because people added to the story over time. It just. We don't know. We have no idea what actually happened. We don't know if there was actually anything in the keeper's log for the Eleanor Lighthouse. And so this story will likely forever remain a mystery. And then number three, people had some really dumb ideas about what happened. All right? Some people thought aliens abducted them. Some people thought a ghost ship came and killed them, because apparently there's just ghost ships sailing around Scotland. I didn't know that. Or again, I mean, look, you think it's a joke, but it's sea monsters, guys. Clearly. What did we learn? So that does it. Thank you so much for checking out this episode. I really do hope you enjoyed it. Hope you learned something new. If this is something that you're interested in, new episodes drop every Monday so you can listen to history daily first and then flip on over and check out whatever nonsense I'm ranting and screaming about after that. We're on all the major podcast platforms and you can check out john hensonwrites.com for all of the other information about me, the books that I've published, and anything else you want to know about me. If you're curious, I don't know why you would be, but hey, I'm flattered. So that's it. Thank you so much for listening. I like to tell my audience to keep telling all their friends about the show. Growing it through word of mouth. It's the best way to do it and to also keep it.

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Lindsey (23:34)

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