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Notes
1
I am indebted to Merrilyn Macaulay and Donnie G. Macleod, the son of Donald John
MacLeod, for this account. See also webonetel.net.uk/~breasclete/CEKeeper.html.
2
Ibid.
3
Ibid.
4
Dr Jay C. Buckey Jr is a former astronaut and has extensively researched psychological is-
sues in relation to space travel.
5
Scottish Islands Explorer
magazine, May/June 2013 issue.
6
I am very grateful to David R. Collin for his kind permission to use the description of his ac-
count on that day.
7
The link to David R. Collin's account of the murder is on
www.kirkcudbright.com
.
8
I am very grateful to Sheila Ryan for her kind permission to use her account of this case
based on her research. Her website is
www.sheila-ryan.co.uk
.
10
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Simons_Island_Light.
11
'Tasman is Murder',
www.lighthouse.net.au
, bulletin no. 6 2003
.
The original account of the
Tasman Island story first appeared in the
Melbourne Truth
newspaper.
12
Ibid.
13
Ibid.
14
Ibid.
15
Meteorological Office Archives Exeter - see Appendix III.
16
There are numerous examples on the Internet of how ergot has possibly been involved in
famous events such as the Salem Witch Trials or the Pied Piper of Hamelin. See for instance
17
New England Journal of Medicine
, 4 January 2007.
18
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_piper.
19
The psychopathic paedophile theory proposed by William Manchester in
A World Lit Only
By Fire
, Little, Brown & Co., 1992.
20
Searching on the Internet for the Pied Piper of Hamelin and ergot will bring up a number of
references where the theory is discussed or presented.
21
Crown Office Crown Counsel correspondence, Scottish National Archive file nos NLC2/1/
88, NLC2/1/89.
22
There were, of course, no witnesses to the disappearance. This simply refers to formal state-
ments taken by anyone connected with the station and the arrival of the
Hesperus
.
