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This is one of my favourite weird tales!
It's like a 'Mary Celeste', but happened on the remote islands west of the Hebrides at the beginning of the last century.
'Strange Islands.
The Flannan Islands have long been the focal point of many superstitions by the local people. Indeed there are reports of bizarre and complicated rituals and dialects adopted by visitors to the Seven Hunters in order to protect themselves while ashore there. They believed the islands were inhabited by spirits, 'little folk' and other mysterious and supernatural beings. Another report claims that St.Flannan drove out an inhabiting race of diminutive people when he built his chapel there, and small human bones and a skull have been found buried on the island of Eilean More. Claims have also been made by children of abductions by 'little people dressed in green' in these Hebridean Islands. '
Weird!...
Check out the story here;-
http://www.btinternet.com/~loonboy/para_eilean_more.html
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/scotland/outerhebrides/ouh4.html
http://www.nlb.org.uk/historical/flannans.htm
It's like a 'Mary Celeste', but happened on the remote islands west of the Hebrides at the beginning of the last century.
'Strange Islands.
The Flannan Islands have long been the focal point of many superstitions by the local people. Indeed there are reports of bizarre and complicated rituals and dialects adopted by visitors to the Seven Hunters in order to protect themselves while ashore there. They believed the islands were inhabited by spirits, 'little folk' and other mysterious and supernatural beings. Another report claims that St.Flannan drove out an inhabiting race of diminutive people when he built his chapel there, and small human bones and a skull have been found buried on the island of Eilean More. Claims have also been made by children of abductions by 'little people dressed in green' in these Hebridean Islands. '
Weird!...
Check out the story here;-
http://www.btinternet.com/~loonboy/para_eilean_more.html
http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/scotland/outerhebrides/ouh4.html
http://www.nlb.org.uk/historical/flannans.htm