Franklin's Lost Expedition, Part 2

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

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 37 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 19th century attempts to find them, and the more recent information gleaned from what's been found, including artifacts and human remains.

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0:00.0	This episode was suggested by Tara and Matthew on Facebook and Sarah on Patreon.
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0:24.0	That's bit.l.ly slash morbid patron, and you can support us for as little as $1 an episode.
0:31.0	This episode is the second part of a two-part episode about Sir John Franklin's Lost Expedition.
0:39.3	To make sure you get the full story,
0:44.1	we recommend you start with part one, but there is a short summary at the beginning of this second part of the episode. The MCP will be taking a break at the beginning of January,
0:49.1	but we'll be back after that with more morbid curiosities. This is our last regular episode of 2019.
0:56.2	We'll be posting a holiday horror story reading on December 24th for the entire creepy community
1:01.5	to celebrate the end of the year. And an Ask Me Anything episode on Patreon during the first part of
1:07.3	January. So if you'd like to hear the AMA episode, you can join Patreon at the $1 level
1:12.1	for January. We can't wait to see you all again in 2020. And now, with all the announcements done,
1:18.5	on with the episode. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
1:38.8	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity, and it has gripped hundreds of people throughout the ages.
1:47.4	I am one of those people. My name is Hallie, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast. In part one, we talked about Britain's search for the Northwest Passage,
2:16.6	a then theoretical sea route to
2:18.5	Asia that traverses from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the Canadian Arctic archipelago.
2:24.8	Finding a route through the maze of islands and ice was dangerous, involving issues like freezing
2:30.3	temperatures, getting stuck in the floating pack ice, dealing with malnutrition and
2:34.7	vitamin deficiencies and limited food supply. Many people had tried before Sir John Franklin set
2:40.7	out in 1845 for what he hoped would be the expedition that finally mapped and successfully
2:46.6	traversed the Northwest Passage. For his expedition, Franklin took two ships, the HMS
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