The name of the Great British Explorer, Sir John Franklin, has been somewhat tainted by

the popular belief that, as his fourth voyage to the Canadian Arctic ended in tragedy, some

of the men in his command were forced to do the unthinkable and turned to cannibalism

in a desperate attempt to survive.

It's a serious matter and it's not something we want to be wrong about.

So today we're going to lay out exactly what we know and exactly how we know it.

Franklin's cannibals are up next on Skeptoid.

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Sir Franklin's cannibals.

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