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On December 1, 1948, in Adelaide, Australia, a young jockey, Neil Day, was riding his horse on Somerton beach. It was around 6:30 a.m. when he and his riding mate discovered the body of a clean-shaven man wearing a brown suit. Although the person was clearly dead, he was laying on his back against a wall and seemed to be staring at the sky. There was no identification on the body. Thus, officials never identified the man or the cause of death. Then four months later they found a clue. It was a piece of paper with the words “Tamam Shud ,” meaning the end. This is the case of the Somerton Man, also known as the Taman Shud case. On the night of November 30, 1948, at least two groups of passersby saw a man who looked like the dead man the jockeys found the following morning. He had also sat in the same place that the Somerton Man lay. The witnesses said that they did not get a very good look at him, but it was the same man from what they could tell. Passersby saw him around 7:00 p.m. By 7:30-8:00, there was no discernible movement. One witness said he had wondered if the man was alive, but assumed he was drunk. Evidence Found at the Scene The Somerton man wore a nice suit, which pointed to at least a marginal amount of prosperity. An expensive British cigarette, not from Australia, lay behind his ear. Another half-smoked cigarette of the same brand nestled between his cheek and collar. Interestingly, a pack of those cigarettes placed in the case of a cheaper brand was in his pocket. Additionally, investigators found a few more items in his pockets: a book of matches, a used bus ticket to Glenelg, and an unused train ticket to Henley Beach.

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It was on 15th December 1900 that the last entries were noted by the Keepers at Flannan Isle Lighthouse. Now over 100 years later, what happened on that day remains a mystery. A mystery that has captured the imagination of the public ever since. There have been many books written about the Flannans and in 2018, the film The Vanishing was released to a worldwide audience. Despite the intrigue and dramatised speculation of what may have happened, we have to remember three keepers lost their lives and the families of these three men, to this day, do not know their fate. The loss of the three Keepers from the Flannan Isles Lighthouse in 1900 is a significant and very sad part of our history. We pay tribute to these keepers, who served the Northern Lighthouse Board so well over the years, and can only report what was recorded at that time. The keepers were: James Ducat, Principal Thomas Marshall, 2nd Assistant Donald McArthur, Occasional Keeper – doing duty for William Ross, 1st Assistant, on sick leave. Their disappearance was only discovered as a result of the routine visit by Lighthouse Tender HESPERUS, on 26 December 1900. A vessel had passed the Flannan Islands at about midnight on 15 December and on arrival in port had reported that the light was not seen. However, this wasn’t communicated to the Northern Lighthouse Board until the keepers disappearance had been discovered by HESPERUS

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