Beyond the Fringe

On Boxing Day, December 26th 1900, the lighthouse supply ship Hesperus arrived at the tiny island of Eilean Mor -- the largest of Flannan Islands off the northwestern coast of Scotland.  She was there to drop off food and supplies as well as relief keeper, Joseph Moore,  who was to begin his 6-week stint at the station.  But when repeated blasts of the horn and even a flare fired over the lighthouse failed to bring the keepers down to the dock, Captain Harvie became concerned.  So he sent Moore up to the lighthouse to discover why the men didn't come down to the landing to greet the ship.  Upon entering the living quarters, Moore found it deserted.   A thorough search of the island turned up few clues, but the bodies of the missing keepers were never found.  It was if James Ducat, Thomas Marshall and Donald McArthur had vanished into thin air.

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In the autumn of 1880, a Tennessee famer named David Lang was walking across his field when he vanished into thin air in front of 5 witnesses.  This story is one of the most recognized and referenced in the "true mystery" genre and has been a mainstay in strange tales anthologies for decades.  But did David Lang actually disappear as the legend states, or is there more to the story?  In this episode of Beyond the Fringe we'll take an in-depth look at the mystery and the legend surrounding the Disappearance of David Lang.