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And for my final act, I will disappear from your life without a say or a word as that is my final act of love to you.
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And for my final act, I will disappear from your life without a say or a word as that is my final act of love to you.
15th December 1900. An investigation subsequently concluded that it was on this day, probably in the afternoon that the three Keepers of the year old Flannan Isles Lighthouse disappeared.
On December 7th, 1900, Donald MacArthur, Thomas Marshall, and James Ducat arrived at the Flannan Isles lighthouse to begin their two-week rotation as keepers of the lighthouse. The Superintendent of Lighthouses, Robert Muirhead came with them to do a routine check of the lighthouse and speak to the men. He made certain that everything was in working order. He then spoke with James Ducat about some difficulties they were having with the heavy mist that commonly surrounded the island. The men then said goodbye to the Superintendent and he left.
The lighthouse was regularly monitored from the mainland by telescope. This way, if there were an emergency, the men could signal for help. Unfortunately, there was the problem of the mist. The lighthouse was seen on December 7 and December 12th. The lighthouse was also seen on December 15, by a passing ship. The crew noted that the light was not shining, as it should have been. It was not seen from land again until the 29th, well after the men should have ended their rotation.
The ship that was to deliver the men’s relief and bring them home from the Flannan Isles lighthouse was delayed until December 21st, because of a run of bad weather. When the ship, the SS Hesperus, arrived at Eilean Mor, the men on board expected to see a flag flying to indicate that the keepers had noted their arrival and would be deploying a rowboat to retrieve their relief. However, the flag was not flying, nor did the men respond to a siren. A landing craft with two men on board was launched from the SS Hesperus with two men on board.
When the two men reached Eilean Mor, one man, Joseph Moore, went up to check the lighthouse for the three missing men. He found the entrance locked. He unlocked the door and entered to find the Flannan Isles lighthouse unmanned. The clock on the wall had stopped. No fire was in the grate, nor had one been there for a few days. Oddly, there was a meal sitting at the table. It looked like someone had set it down with the intention of eating it soon, but left it untouched.
Whatever had happened to the men, it happened to them suddenly. There was nothing anyone could do about it with so few clues. So four men, including Moore, stayed on the island to operate the lighthouse while everyone else left.
The records of the three Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers were subsequently inspected. It was discovered that Eilean Mor was hit with a strong storm on December 14. The last entry was made on the afternoon of December 15. It simply stated:
“Storm ended, sea calm. God is over all.”
Superintendent Muirhead concluded that the men must have been taken by nature when they left the lighthouse to repair storm damage to a storage container outside. One of his theories (the most likely) was that a large wave came upon the men while they were working and swept all three of them into the Atlantic Ocean, where they died. This the story my Uncle Eric believes to be true, he worked on Flannan and many other lighthouses during the work to automate them all in the 1980′. Muirhead, wrote in his official report:
“I am of the opinion that the most likely explanation of this disappearance of the men is that they had all gone down on the afternoon of Saturday, 15 December to the proximity of the West landing, to secure the box with the mooring ropes, etc and that an unexpectedly large roller had come up on the island, and a large body of water going up higher than where they were and coming down upon them had swept them away with resistless force.
I visited them as lately as 7th December and have the melancholy recollection that I was the last person to shake hands with them and bid them adieu”.
Muirhead’s theory is largely regarded as truth. The only other alternatives seem to be that the men left of their own accord, they were kidnapped, or some other ludicrous speculation. Unfortunately, the bodies were ever recovered, so there is no way to be sure.
In the years following, other keepers claimed to hear voices in the salty air screaming out the names of Thomas Marshall, James Ducat, and Donald McArthur.
In “Mysterious Celtic Mythology in American Folklore”, author Bob Curran writes: “For many local people, there was little doubt that they had been spirited into the otherworld.”
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True Crime Anniversary: The Mysterious Disappearance of Donna Lass
Near 2 a.m. on September 6, 1970, 25 year old Donna Ann Lass (pronounced "loss");
a nurse who worked at the medical station of the Sahara Casino Hotel in South Lake Tahoe, Nevada,
was getting ready to end her shift and head to the resort's parking lot. She was never seen again.. Her last entry in her log book is recorded as 1:50 a.m.
The next day, Donna did not show up for work as scheduled. Her boss phoned the former manager of the Monte Verdi apartments and asked if he had seen her claims to have received a a phone call from a male telling him that Donna would not be able to come to work, as she had to respond to a family emergency. A call was placed to Donna's relatives in Beresford, South Dakota, and they reported no such emergency had occurred.
Donna's friends and family all confirmed that Donna was a reliable person who would not suddenly go running off and that she had intended to stay at her job. Police later learned that The former apartment manager had claimed he'd walked through Donna's apartment with her the day before she disappeared on an inspection. On September 11, the new manager entered Donna's apartment and noticed nothing seemed in disarray. The room was neat, the bed was made and her nurse cap had been left on the dresser. This is consistent with her appearance when she was last seen. The only other thing that seemed out of place was that the bathroom light had been left on. Although this could be a sign that Donna left for work in a hurry.
On the 13th of the month, Police were called to investigate. They noticed that Donna's car had also been left in the parking lot of the apartment, as though she had arrived there before disappearing. However, nothing out of the ordinary could be found, and the multiple visits to the apartment destroyed any likely traces of evidence.
When the investigation had stalled one month later, Donna's sister, Mary Pilker hired a private investigator. The P.I. arrived in Tahoe and began asking around.
The former manager of Donna's apartment told him that the phone call regarding Donna's "family emergency" was actually on the 11th, and that it was during him placing a call to the South Lake Tahoe Police and talking to the dispatcher. The dispatcher was also interviewed and he believed that it was actually Undersheriff Bradovich who suggested that it was a family emergency.
One suspect that came to light in this investigation was George Jonasson; a 26 year old security guard who worked at the casino and was said to be a heavy drinker and unreliable. Other employees have said that Jonasson would regularly bother Donna and that he had tried to make advances on her a few times, but Donna repeatedly rebuffed him. The day after Donna's disappearance, Jonasson showed up to work drunk. He eventually quit his job and moved to Canada sometime thereafter. Although the private eye sent details of the case to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, no new leads came forth and the case stagnated.
Then, on March 22, 1971, someone claiming to be the infamous Zodiac Killer, who'd been wreaking havoc in northern California, sent a postcard to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, addressed to reporter Paul Avery, misspelt "Averly". On the back was an image from a newspaper advertisement for the South Lake Tahoe development property "Incline Village". It included sentences cut out from newspapers like "Sought Victim 12" "Around in the snow" "Peek through the pines" and "pass Tahoe areas".
Indicating that he may have possibly been responsible for Donna's disappearance and buried her body in the snow in the forest area. It also contained the title of the nature conservation organization The Sierra Club. Although document examiner Sherwood Morrill did authenticate the handwriting on the envelope as being consistent with the Zodiac, no official connection between Zodiac and Donna has been made. Donna did previously live in San Francisco from 1967 to 1969, where she worked at Letterman Hospital.
Then, in late December 1974, Donna's sister Mary received a chilling Christmas card postmarked from San Francisco. On the inside in cursive script, it read "Best wishes, St. Donna and Guardian of the Pines", indicating it was from her abductor. Whether it was, or a sick joke has never been determined.
Decades passed, and no new information surfaced. Former Police Officer Harvey Hines claimed that con man criminal Larry Kane was responsible since he worked at the Sahara as a security guard, but he didn't start working there until several years after Donna disappeared.
Then, after decades of continuing to campaign for information on her missing sister and offering a reward, Donna's sister, Mary passed away in late 2019. George Jonasson, one of the main suspects, died in Texas in 2009.
To this day, no trace of Donna or her remains have ever been found. Last month, the murder of Sacramento court reporter, Nancy Bennallack was solved with forensic genealogy, whose murder is often connected to Donna's disappearance as well as Sacramento nurse, Judy Hakari, whose case is somewhat similar to Donna's. Whether Nancy's killer, Richard Davis, has any connection to this case, has yet to be seen.
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Who was the man?
The man at your door?
He screamed and banged and hurled at your wall
Who was the man?
The man in white?
Who stood there and screamed
All that night?
Why was he there?
What did you do?
He left behind a suitcase
For me to see to.
It opened when I grabbed it
And on the inside
Was a note written in a suave-like stride
What was on the note?
My latest episode art for @the_grimerica_show_podcast Gian Quasar, sometimes called the real like Kolchak, will be bringing an air of mystery to the igloo. Listen in as he re tells his many explorations into the esoteric, including the Bermuda Triangle, Cryptids, UFOs and more! #digitalart #artistsoninstagram #artist #ww2 #plane #aviation #bermudatriangle #avenger #torpedobomber #dissapearance #vintage #retro #kolchak #kolchakthenightstalker #dieselpunk #mystery #dissaperance #esoteric #cryptids #heybabywanttokillallhumans (at Vista, California)
Last week at work I was listening to the True Crime garage two-part podcast on missing man Brandon Lawson (which you can listen to by clicking right here)In the episodes they try to dissect and analyze the call Brandon made to 911.
They isolate each sentence, clean it up, slow it down, play it normal speed, you name it, they do it.Believe it or not, despite knowing of this case, I’ve never actually looked into it, meaning I have no preconceived idea of what Brandon is actually saying, nor have I ever frequented any forum posts on the subject or websites discussing the recording. I really liked the fact that True Crime Garage didn’t attempt to lead the listener in any one direction at the startof their podcast, and I found their break down of the 911 call really helpful. All I originally knew about the case was that a few years ago a twenty something man stormed out of his home somewhere in the USA after a spat with his long term girlfriend. He drove off and was never seen again. His truck was found parked on a highway and all anyone investigating the case has to go on was the panicked phone call he made to the emergency services. It’s hard to make out what Lawson actually says in the call in some parts, but for me at least, clear enough in others. The problem is that in some ways it’s like listening to an EVP, everyone hears something different and the overall audio is garbled. Often times people just seem to shoe horn in words that feel like they’d fit into whatever situation they imagine is happening. The fact of the matter is, nobody actually knows what happened, and Brandon is still missing to this day.
So what do we know to be true? -Well we can confirm that Brandon Lawson had an argument with his wife.-He left the house and got in his truck.
-His truck was found parked awkwardly on highway 277.
-A passing truck driver made a call reporting it, but the call is not available to listen to and what was actually said has apparently never been revealed. Most people assume that he was the one reporting the awkwardly parked truck as a hazard to other drivers. We do not know for sure.
-Brandon called his brother to say he had run out of gas. As a result, Brandon’s brother went out looking for him.
-Brandon’s wife did not answer any of the multiple calls Brandon and his brother made to her that night.-Brandon called 911 and placed the following call. << clikc it
(Heads up, you might want to click to another tab or not look at the screen while listening as there’s some transcript at the start) I want to point out that at this point in the post I have still not researched the call. So I’m going to type up my version of what I hear. I’m not going to include all what the operator says as in my opinion it’s quite clear, I’m quite sure you’ll agree with me on that.After that, I’ll research and get into it.
This is what I hear:
“Hey I’m in the middle of a field, a (cypher?) just pushed some guys over”
“Right here going towards Averlene on both sides”
“My truck ran out of gas, there’s one car here – got chased (taken?) to the woods”“Please hurry”
“ 'Cause when I was talkin’to ‘em, I suddenly ran into ‘em” (The operator then says “Oh you ran into them okay”) “Got (Shot? / just?) the first guy”
The operator then asks if Brandon needs an ambulance, to which he replies “ye-no, I need the cops”
This is strange to me, because when I listen to this phone call I feel as though I’m hearing someone report an accident. But when he rejects the ambulance and confirms he needs the cops, that throws me off and makes me think there’s some sort of ongoing crime happening.At the end of the call the operator asks “is anybody hurt?” Brandon does not respond and what sounds like the engine of a vehicle can be heard, then the phone call cuts.
Now, let’s get into the happenings of the night the man went missing. (continue)
The Great Escape