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CONTENT NOTE: This episode concerns the real 1900 disappearance of three lighthouse keepers. It separates the documented record from later folklore.

Twenty miles off the north-west coast of Scotland, past the last of the Hebrides, three black rocks stick up out of one of the wildest seas on Earth. On the largest, Eilean Mòr, stood a brand-new lighthouse — and in December 1900, three experienced keepers who tended it simply vanished.

When the relief vessel finally battled out on Boxing Day, the flare went unanswered. Relief keeper Joseph Moore climbed the steps alone to find the clocks stopped, a chair overturned, a meal abandoned — and no one there. Two sets of oilskins gone. One still hanging on its hook. And down at the west landing, storm damage a hundred and ten feet up the cliff, where the sea should never have reached.

Tonight, Mark and Grim take on one of the greatest disappearances in maritime history — and do the job the internet won't: separate what actually happened from what a writer made up. Because the chilling "final logbook entries" everyone quotes — the hardened keeper weeping, the men praying, "God is over all" — were fabricated years later. The storm they describe hadn't even arrived yet. The creepiest facts in this case are a hoax.

What's left is stranger for being true: three capable men, an indifferent ocean, and a rogue wave that possibly took them so fast they never grabbed their coats.

Three keepers of the light. One rock. And the difference between the satisfying story and the true one.

From the shadows. Stay curious, stay sceptical, and never trust a story just because it ends on a perfect line.

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