![]() “I think somebody got in to trouble, the others went to help and a freak wave washed them away. ![]() “As it moves north it increases speed because something called the Coriolis force increases the wind speed and turns the wind. “Between the Flannan Isles and the Faroes is the stormiest place in the North Atlantic and it’s a big long stretch of south westerly winds, running 2,000 to 3,000 miles over several days and coming all the way up from Bermuda and the Bahamas. Maybe not a hurricane but a proper, good winter storm. He says: “The final inquiry said the men disappeared on 15th, but I think it happened two days earlier. His findings challenge the date of the huge storm. “It uses old weather records that have been digitised – like old barometers used to measure sea level pressure.”ĭr Graham analysed the detailed weather conditions on the days surrounding the three men’s disappearance. He looked strictly to science for the answer.ĭr Graham says: “I used a new weather database, a model called the re-analysis data model, which goes back to 1873 and it was put together in recent years. Meteorologist Dr Eddy Graham, of the University of the Highlands and Islands, believes notions of a powerful wind and fiery tempers are “a big bunch of baloney”. That’s the theory I’m most convinced by.” Or he murdered the other two and killed himself after what he’d done. “It’s quite possible he got himself into a right rage, a fight broke out near the cliff edge and they all went over. He had a volatile temper and had been stuck out there for two-and-a-half months. “I’ve spoken to three descendants of Donald MacArthur. It was a tinderbox environment, where tempers were easily lit. “One of them has the power over the other two and if you didn’t get on with him, you’d have a hard time. He says: “The keepers told me you work with two other men and, especially if you’re on a rock lighthouse, you can’t even go for a walk. Keith says there is another, much darker, theory. ![]() “He thinks the wind took them over the wall of the lighthouse, which is very close to a 300 foot drop.” So his view was that two of the men were probably bringing supplies from the east landing, but it needed somebody just outside the lighthouse to help bring the winch. “Eileen Mor is very exposed – I’ve stood there.
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