Today's podcast will feature three stories about people who ventured off into the extreme cold and horrible things befell them.

The audio from all three of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode.

The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description.

The first story you'll hear is called Over the Horizon, and it's about a morbid discovery that was made on an oceanic voyage in the 1800s.

The second story you'll hear is called rite of passage, and it's about a family that decides to do a famous ritual.

And the third and final story you'll here is called Under the Tarp, and it's about natives in the Arctic who spot a group

of outsiders acting very strangely, and what they find when they track them down is pure nightmare fuel.

But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious,

delivered in story format, then you come to the right podcast because that's all we do,

and we upload four times a week,

Monday, Wednesday, Thursdays, and Fridays.

So, if that's of interest to you, please offer to do the Follow Button's grocery shopping,

but don't tell them you've squirted an entire bottle of lime juice inside of their fresh milk.

Okay, let's get into our first story, which is called Over the Horizon.

Music let's get into our first story, which was traveling through the Drake Passage, which is located right along the northern coast of Antarctica.

He and his crew had sailed here because they were professional whalers,

and they had heard there was this massive population of whales in the Drake Passage that basically were untouched by humanity because basically nobody sailed this far.

This was a freezing cold, very austere part of the world, kind of a dangerous place to be.

But so far, Captain Brighton and his crew

had not seen a single whale. And on top of that, the Drake Passage had proven to be as dangerous as expected.

Just the previous night, the ocean around the ship had literally frozen, basically anchoring the ship in place. And so when this happened,

Captain Brighton realized, like, there was nothing they could even do about this. I mean,

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