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GraveYard Tales

232: The Lost Franklin Expedition

GraveYard Tales

Adam Zero

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science, History

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we look at the Lost Franklin Expedition! This was one of the biggest Maritime Mysteries for many decades and has only recently been “solved”. This story fascinates us and we wanted to share it with y’all! 


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https://www.history.com/news/franklin-expedition-mystery-northwest-passage

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2020/october/lost-franklin-expedition

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-happened-to-erebus-terror-crew-true-story

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/hms-terror-erebus-history-franklin-lost-expedition

https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/northwest-passage

https://www.britannica.com/event/Franklin-expedition

https://www.science.smith.edu/climatelit/the-arctic-expedition-of-sir-john-franklin-1845-1848/

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2020/october/lost-franklin-expedition

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/heres-how-amc-producers-worked-inuit-fictionalized-franklin-expedition-show-180968643/


Transcript

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0:00.0

So Matt, I don't think I told you this, but a friend of ours, she was pregnant, she's having a boy,

0:07.7

and she went into labor. So she jumps in the car with her husband, they take off to the hospital,

0:13.8

well, on the way to the hospital, she has the baby in the vehicle. No kidding. Yep. So the

0:21.6

dad looks over and goes, well, we're naming him Carson. Man, for that setup I was expecting more.

0:34.4

Yeah, well, this is life, Matt. Now you build you up thinking it's going to be great and then

0:40.7

nope, it's not. Good evening everybody and welcome to the graveyard. Thank you for joining us

0:55.6

tonight. My name is Adam and my name's Matt. Now, we'll have a tombstone or settle into your

1:02.5

casket and get comfortable because this is graveyard tails.

1:13.1

All right, everybody. Here we are again, Matt. How you doing tonight, brother? Man, I'm good.

1:19.5

Excellent. Excellent. So, preface all of this by saying, if you hear loud thundering,

1:28.1

I apologize. We got a crazy freak thunderstorm here in Texas and it is louder than I've heard

1:37.0

a thunderstorm in a couple years. So I'm probably not going to be able to cut it all out, but

1:42.0

you'll know what's happening. It'll add some ambiance to the story. That's what I was fixed to say.

1:46.4

It'll give us a little ambiance. It's too bad. It's not like a super scary story. But before we

1:55.5

get into it, say go check out the pod belly network at pod belly.com. We're proud members of the pod

2:02.5

pod belly network and you can find a list of shows that we're associated with and I promise you

2:07.2

you're going to find something on there that you enjoy. We also want to thank tonight sponsor

2:11.8

Lomi. We will talk more about them coming up. We love Lomi. Yeah. While you're on the interwebs doing

2:20.5

your clickety clackin and buying stuff, go over to patreon.com slash graveyard tales. You can

2:26.1

sign up to become a patron and we've got three different levels are $10 a month patrons. They get

2:32.4

the video versions of recording these episodes. They get ad free audio versions plus they get

2:40.3

the bonus episodes that we try to do every week, even if we're dark, we try to put out a

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