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Marooned: Tales of the Catastrophically Lost

The Örnen

Marooned: Tales of the Catastrophically Lost

Aaron Habel & Jack Luna

History, True Crime

4.9676 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In July of 1897, a team of three Swedish men, led by Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée, climbed aboard the Örnen, a hydrogen balloon set to fly over the north pole in one of the first attempts to explore the Arctic by air. Almost as soon as they set off things began to go awry, and the ill-fated expedition became one of Sweden's greatest mysteries.

Sources:

The North Star, Thu, Oct 02, 1930 ·Page 2

The Cincinnati Enquirer Wed, Sep 10, 1930

The Buffalo News, Wed, Sep 10, 1930

The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sun, Nov 16, 1930

The Long Beach Sun, Sat, Sep 20, 1930

Oceanwide expeditions 

The North Star, Thu, Oct 16, 1930 ·Page 6

Karolinska institute

Grenna Museum

Balloon.org

Neworker

The Washington Herald, Sun, Nov 16, 1930

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0:00.0

All right, man.

0:01.7

You want to give it a go?

0:03.1

What do you mean?

0:03.6

Give it a go.

0:04.1

We're going.

0:06.0

This is it.

0:07.4

We're on the toboggins and we're going down the hill, man.

0:11.0

We're live.

0:12.1

Well, we're live right now.

0:14.1

Oh, recording.

0:14.9

Okay.

0:15.6

And we had a lot of requests to go back to Arctic tales.

0:21.6

Yes.

0:22.6

And it was funny because after that slew of messages and emails, this was the next one.

0:28.6

I like this one.

0:29.6

I mean, this is pretty spooky.

0:31.6

The idea of being up in the air and a balloon in the dark above the...

0:34.6

It is spooky.

0:36.6

These guys are nuts, man. This is one of the last things I would have tried to do. Really? Because I feel like we say that every time. Like, I wouldn't do it. That's true. Are these guys eating edibles before they do these things? They better be. How do they prepare? Because I would just be like, no. No. There's no way. I'm going to go get lunch. This guy, Andrea, he had like a couple of weeks experience overall flying fucking balloons. And he takes the lead on this thing. I don't know, man. If he had your choice between this and like the Titan submersible, but you didn't know that it was going to

1:11.8

implode, right? But just going down into the depths

1:15.0

in a makeshift submarine or this balloon, I would

1:18.8

probably choose the submarine. No. No, because the

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