Flannan Isle

So the bigger question is, how did these fictional accounts become part of the narrative? As expected, such a mysterious unsolved case is going to find its way into the pop culture of the day, even as far back as the first quarter of the 20th century.

In 1912, Wilfred Wilson Gibson wrote Flannan Isle, a poem about the incident.

which chillingly described a meal of cold meat, pickles, and potatoes left abandoned on the kitchen table.

A chair at the head of the table lay overturned on its side, having clattered to the floor in someone's haste to exit the room.

And the final line, God is over all, seems to be tailor-made for the melodramatic closing of a fictional narrative, not an impartial entry in an official record.

To further add insult to injury, in 1965, writer Vincent Gaddis published a book called Invisible Horizons, True Mysteries of the Sea.

The subject was a retelling of the Flannan Isles' disappearances.

Gaddis, a credible mystery author, included the fake log entries, presenting them as fact and citing the 1929 Pulp Fiction article as his source.