Hello everyone and welcome back to the scary interesting podcast.

In this episode, we're going to go over some more strange disappearances from history that would be strange enough if they happened today.

But because they happened so long ago, and some of the details are lost to time, it just adds another layer of mystery.

As always, listener discretion is advised. Henry Hudson was an English explorer born sometime in the mid-1500s and is best known for

exploring eastern and northern parts of Canada and the United States.

Prior to exploring the North American

continent, though, youth commissioned to try to find a route across the Arctic Ocean north of Russia

to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific, otherwise known as the Northeast Passage. The only

available route at the time from Europe to Asia was either by land or south around the southern

tip of Africa. Each of these was a long and difficult journey

before the invention of railways to facilitate the transport of goods or canals to shorten

the distance by sea. So in April of 1609, he left Amsterdam and went north around Scandinavia,

but was almost immediately pushed back because of the ice. After this failed, he decided

to change plans and go west instead and take part in the early exploration of the ice. After this failed, he decided to change plans and go west instead and take

part in the early exploration of North America. First, he reached Newfoundland, then south to Nova

Scotia, then to New England, and all the way up the river now known as the Hudson River,

which was named after it. In September, Henry finally returned to Europe to report on all

the new areas he'd mapped in places he'd discovered, at least in the eyes of Europeans.

Because of the success of this impromptu trip, he was given the task of returning to North

America again the following summer in search of a Northwest Passage this time.

If the Northeast Passage was too far north and always blocked by ice, maybe you could find

some route across North America instead. On a new ship, he sailed

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