Talk:Flannan Isles Lighthouse

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—66.214.32.51 (talk) 04:49, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

The coordinates were not far off, but I've tweaked them a bit. Better now? Deor (talk) 06:08, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Logbook entries

It doesn't look like there is reputable support for the material regarding the existence of the logbook entries. The source this article cites is a Blogspot entry which says that: "The above log entries were published by an American magazine in 1920 and have been dismissed by some as a fabrication and not authentic. The NLB doesn’t have copies of the original logbook. According to their website, the documents regarding the incident are held by the National Archives of Scotland but do not include the logbook." The NLB website does not reference the existence of any log entries, and Googling doesn't turn up the name of this magazine. The article presently doesn't even mention that the logbook material is at best dubious.

https://www.academia.edu/251736/The_Vanishing_Lighthousemen_of_Eilean_Mor

"Such criticisms are, admittedly, mere conjecture. But firm evidence of fraud does exist – once one returns to original sources not readily accessible to a lazy hoaxer. Both the records of the Northern Lighthouse Board and contemporary press reports make it clear that Flannan station’s log book was kept only up to 13 December, with subsequent entries being noted, in chalk, on a slate for later transfer to the book; the notion of a log extending as late as 15 December is a fallacy. Even if we are charitable, and count the entries on the slate as part of the log proper, it is explicitly stated that the lighthousemen’s last notes (a simple record of the weather conditions) were written at 9am on the morning of 15 December. The contemporary record is clear that no entry was made as late as 1pm. This must imply that the supposed log whose entries are quoted so frequently in the Fortean secondary literature is a hoax."

"So far as the secondary sources go, I regret that I have not been able to track down a copy of Ernest Fallon’s piece in True Strange Stories of August 1929, the pulp magazine referred to by Vincent Gaddis, which might have helped me to pin down the obscure origin of rumours of strange entries in the station log."

I'm going to remove them as lacking a reliable source.

Mark7-2 (talk) 05:17, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

The story is called "The Strange Log of the Seven Hunters" [1]. The article True Strange Stories?(Fort. Times, 2017) states that the story is the origin of the log entries. --NoSnakesInIreland (talk) 17:22, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Is it "Donald" or "William" McArthur?

Other sources have the third lighthouse keeper as a William McArthur. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VinceAdult (talk • contribs) 13:59, 8 March 2020 (UTC)