Ananke is the UK's most isolated lighthouse, and when her keeper died in 1938 after being the lone occupant since her construction forty years prior, the Northen Lighthouse Commission had serious trouble replacing him

Partly due to the lighthouse being here - on St Sasha

To be 200 miles from civilisation with no easy route home separates the aspiring hermits from those who see the lifestyle as a true calling. But, also, when nеws of the circumstances surrounding the keepеr's death began to find their way into major newspapers, the enthusiasm of potential applicants diminished significantly

The strange and violent fate that befell David Brownley haunts the island to this day. And though there have been a number of hypotheses presented over the years, Brownley's lonely death has never been adequately explained