Franklin's Lost Expedition, Part 1

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

Cryptid, Serialkiller, Science, Disease, Medicine, Scary, Skeleton, Historyofmedicine, Social Sciences, Ghost, History, Medical, Anthropology, Monsters, Archeology, Murder, Creepy, Skeptic, Paranormal, Prison

4.8 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 1845, Sir John Franklin and 129 men sailed into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in search of the Northwest Passage. They were never seen again, and what happened on that expedition has remained a mystery. In this episode, we explore the man, the mission, and one of the early attempts at rescue.

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0:00.0	This episode was suggested by Tara and Matthew on Facebook and Sarah on Patreon.
0:05.8	If you'd like to suggest a topic, you can do so on Facebook and Instagram at Morbid Curiosity Podcast,
0:12.3	on Twitter, at Morbid Podcast, and on our website, www.morbidCuriositypodcast.com.
0:19.1	If you'd like to become a patron of the MCP,
0:21.7	go to bitly slash morbid patron.
0:24.0	That's bit.l.ly slash morbid patron,
0:27.2	and you can support us for as little as $1 an episode. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:48.3	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped hundreds of
0:55.9	people throughout the ages. I am one of those people. My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid
1:03.5	Curiosity podcast. During our ghost ships of the Northwest Passage episode back in April, I summarized the Franklin
1:14.2	expedition down to about a paragraph.
1:17.3	This was difficult as it's such an interesting topic to me.
1:20.6	It's a story fraught with tragedy and mystery, but also adventure.
1:25.2	I'm so glad other listeners were just as interested as I am,
1:28.5	so I could dedicate an entire episode to it.
1:31.5	Therefore, this will be a two-part episode
1:34.2	delving into the story of Sir John Franklin
1:36.7	and his final journey into the Arctic waters
1:39.5	of the Northwest Passage.
2:21.2	Music Northwest Passage. History is most often written by those that succeed, survive, or conquer.
2:24.1	They are the ones less standing to write it.
2:30.3	This means that the stories of those who failed, perished, or were conquered, are often lost or pushed by the wayside.
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