Eynhallow, the Holy Isle, is uninhabited and is said in tradition to have been the summer home of the Finfolk before they were driven off. A site that collects such stories tells of a visit on 14 July 1990 in which 88 birdwatchers went ashore and only 86 were counted on the way back, leading to a search.
The same account adds that some Orkney elders said the missing were Finfolk reclaiming their ancestral home.
I could not find a news report, coastguard record or other source for this. It reads like a modern legend that has grown round the older Finfolk tradition, and it is included for that reason, marked dubious.
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