VIDEO: Five Unresolved Mysteries That Still Freak People Out

Everyone loves mysteries. Even if you are scared when you hear about them you still want to find out more and might even try to solve it in your head and feel like a hero genius.

According to cracked.com, when it comes to a mystery, there is a spectrum of possible reactions.

On one end is the type of person who is happy to let it be and wander off to do whatever it is such people do. On the other end is the type of person who immediately starts howling to the uncaring wind that they’ll solve the enigma if they have to sell their grandmother’s kidneys to do so.

Me, I’m firmly in the latter camp, and since you’re reading this I’m guessing you’re the same. We, friend, are the fools who idly click some goofy link and four hours later find ourselves 42 browser tabs into the mystery.

It’s Dec. 21, 1900. Delayed by bad weather, a supply ship for the Eilean Mor lighthouse on the Scottish Flannan Isles has just arrived to stock the place with food and other necessary things for their survival and well-being.

They expected to find three professional, yet pissed-off people who had been stuck on the remote, craggy rock island by themselves since Dec. 7. Instead, they found the place completely empty. It had been clearly lived in and carefully maintained … but the three keepers were nowhere to be found.

The mystery immediately burrowed into the public consciousness thanks to the many weird details surrounding it. In addition to the actual disappearance, there was an uneaten meal still on the kitchen table, suggesting whatever had happened to them was extremely swift and unexpected.

This was further supported by the fact that, although the weather during the men’s disappearance had been horrible, one of them had left his oilskins — weatherproof outerwear — inside the lighthouse.

Even today, many consider the Flannan Isle case one of the most enticing disappearance mysteries. It has inspired books, songs, poems, and even a Doctor Who episode.

Over the years, people have attempted to explain the events with theories ranging from murder schemes, ghost ship abductions, and sea monsters to saner but equally unlikely ones about the whole scenario being an elaborate escape from the job by the three men (because, uh, a regular “I quit” is just too conventional for some people?).

I’m not even going to visit the more far-fetched ones about wormholes and people being turned to sea birds by evil spirits, but rest assured they are out there.

It seems that there might be a plausible explanation for this, though. There was a storm and they went to secure things and because of wind or waves they were swept into the sea.
The other details in the house were what they left or knocked down in a hurry to get outside.

So there’s nothing really weird or creepy going on if you look at it this way. But it’s not confirm so you can choose whatever ending you want to.