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Locations Unknown

Ghosts of the Arctic - The Haunting Mystery of Franklin's Lost Expedition

Locations Unknown

Unknown Media Group

Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.6756 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In 1845, Sir John Franklin led 129 men on HMS Erebus and HMS Terror into the Arctic, vanishing without a trace and sparking one of history’s most haunting mysteries. This Halloween, we explore the eerie legacy of the Franklin Expedition: ghostly sightings around the shipwrecks, chilling whispers near graves on Beechey Island, and cursed artifacts that bring misfortune to those who dare disturb them. Was it lead poisoning, starvation, or something supernatural that doomed the crew? Join us as we dive into the deep end of the Arctic’s frozen secrets and uncover what happened to Sir John Franklins Northwest passage expedition.

Correction 1: During the episode we incorrectly stated actor Alfred Molina (Doctor Octopus in the Spider Man movie) played Sir John Franklin in the AMC show The Terror.  The actor who played Franklin was actually Ciaran Hinds.  Thank you to listener Lara Mangieri for pointing this out!  You're correct, they do look similar. 

Correction 2: Joe mixed up Vitamin C and D by stating you get Vitamin C by sunlight.  Vitamin C is acquired by the food you eat and Vitamin D is made by your body when exposed to sunlight.  

Correction 3: Mike mispoke a couple of times during the timeline segment and referred to the Back River as the Black River.  

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.

0:13.0

Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.

0:20.0

You are listening to locations unknown. What's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.

0:59.0

I'm your co-host, Joe E. Rodman with me as always is a guy who can touch MC Hammer,

1:03.4

Mike Van de Bogart.

1:04.9

Thank you, Joe, and thank you once again to all of our amazing listeners for tuning in on

1:09.2

this special Halloween episode before we

1:12.9

get going.

1:13.2

I didn't queue up any Halloween noises.

1:14.7

That's okay.

1:15.9

I mean, what is it?

1:17.4

Not really, but we'll let it slide.

1:19.6

All right.

1:20.6

First, before we get going, just a couple of quick Patreon shout-out.

1:24.5

So thank you to Heather Armstrong, Kristen Ellsworth, Angel Overbay, and

1:29.8

Michelle Aldaco. So thank you for supporting the show. We always say this, but it's because of

1:36.3

people like you that we kept going and we've been getting new equipment and all the cool things

1:40.9

are happening. And now the network. The network. Original contribution to the network.

1:45.2

Yeah.

1:45.4

So thank you for supporting the show.

1:49.3

And I'm super excited for this episode.

1:53.7

We haven't done, I mean, this is still a disappearance on a larger scale.

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