The Tragic Voyage of Terror: The Lost Franklin Expedition
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Intro - 00:00
Pregame - 4:20
Investigation - 16:30
A series of unfortunate events - 24:13
Modern Discovery (skip past disturbing imagery) - 37:45
Pointless Reflection - 42:32
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Ayyyy Wendi
dad you made another video this week :)
@@spimmed8666 sorry bro beat you to it
I did my science project back in October on the Franklin expedition!!
TWELVE YEARS?! He walked for twelve years?! Oh my God I can't even imagine. Even if the journey wasn't a success, the man was a badass.
He never skipped leg day
@@marissahicks3529 Lmao
@@marissahicks3529 Legend has it, that every foe that he came across died in a single leg swipe...
he walked for 12 years and never reached civilisation, while never leaving Canada. Wtf
@@ephraimboateng5239 Keep in mind just how vast Canada is, and what time period this takes place in, as well as how far north they would have been sailing to find a way through.
“As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket ship was supplied by the lowest bidder.”
― John Glenn
Great quote Slug!
The bill says otherwise
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Oh fuck that puts RFPs in a new perspective.
@@marblemarble7113
That's the thing, that absurd bill was the lowest bidder at the time. It's just that space exploration is absurdly expensive.
"They forged the last link with their lives." What a *metal* quote. They literally ended the last chapter of marine exploration with the biggest sacrifice they could have ever given. The search for their bodies literally reads like an epilogue to an epic, with how the people tracing the footsteps of the doomed expedition found the path that the members gave their lives in braving themselves.
They say dead men tell no tales, and I have to say, I agree. They don't tell tales. *_They let others tell theirs for them._*
I love metal as an adjective 🫶
“metal,” “forged”
Dead men tell no tales, they leave legends
That should be a lyric for some song
Dead men tell no tails.. They do but not always easily.
In regards to the people who made the eventual uncovering of this story possible, a big shoutout is needed to a man named Louis Kamookak.
He was a Gjoa Haven Inuit explorer, historian, and forensic archeologist who worked on the Franklin Expedition Discovery project here in Canada, and he was invaluable in his efforts speaking with Inuit elders on their passed down testimonies on the survivors, charting their locations by extrapolating the original Inuit geographical names with their Western equivalents, tracking down and collecting locations of found relics of the survivors' trek south, and his information was key in setting the search areas that eventually found the ships.
So much of this story would've remained a mystery without him. He died in 2018.
Inuit oral history has been invaluable to exploration efforts in the northernmost parts of the Americas. I read a research paper in one of my anthropology classes about how eerily accurate their mapping and understanding of surrounding geography was without ever having to create a physical map. Directions were passed down to their children through complex mnemonics and songs. Many early English and French explorers/tradesmen based their own maps what the Inuits drew in the snow and dirt in front of them. It’s super fascinating.
Thank you for sharing this ❤
This is why i read the comments, gems like this that give even more depth to the story; Thank you for your contribution :)
@@mattuwu9978 Pretty much sums up the difference between Indigenous thinking and Western thinking. It's a completely different way of processing information. Just a theory -- I think an over-reliance on writing things down may eventually cause certain areas of the brain to atrophy out of disuse.
Thank you so much for mentioning Louis. His name is usually not mentioned but he is an *INTEGRAL* part of the Franklin story. There's a great video on TH-cam that shows a tv program from the 90's if you look called "Arctic Tomb", Louis is actually interviewed in it.
What some people don’t realize is that getting stuck in ice while on a wooden ship doesn’t just mean you cannot move, the ice moves around you and freeze. This can wear down the wood like sandpapering wood. And when it does freeze, it puts immense inward pressure on the hull. So much that it could cause the hull to implode in on itself. Lastly as the hull stays under frozen water longer, the less habitable it becomes, the walls freeze and become covered with layers of ice and the air inside of the hull cannot trap heat as effectively. In older models that include steamers and steam engines, having ice touch your steam engine was extremely dangerous as it could cause the entire engine to explode, blowing the ship up outwards. Being stuck in ice back in the infant days of sailing was an extremely terrifying idea.
Wow 😮
Yike
Oh shit, yeah that makes sense.
Daaamn
one interesting fact is that the vessels they chose were bombardment vessels, which were built heavier and sturdier than most other vessels. that could be in part why they weren't crushed by the ice.
Wouldn't call the mid 18 hundreds the "infant days of sailing" sailing was on it's way out by that time
My man walked 600 miles, was forced to eat his crew, and still kept walking, you have earned my respect. Rest in Peace
man's got the whole crews resolve in him
@@iambread2914 literally.
@UCMDLw3uiCNaKOJvkOueLiSQ hindsight. We’ll do anything to stay alive, you included unless survival instinct is just absent from your brain.
Edit: guy was talking about how the effort to stay alive was an “irresponsible glorification” of life and that he should’ve just shot himself instead of resorting to cannibalism.
huh, good to know
was going to ask what happened to the missing comment
well he was Irish. Irish could survive the heat death of the universe
“Lifeboat full of useless stuff”. Some see this as a sign of the crew were impaired by illness and malnutrition, BUT others make a pretty good case that the stuff only seemed useless at first, and each had a purpose….weird, obscure books could be brought to help kindle fires, silverware and curtain rods could be hoped to be traded to the Inuit for seal meat, as metal was rare and valuable in the Arctic, etc.
Your right!😧
Good point, it's useless if used for its intended purpose but can be MacGyver'd into useful stuff in a pinch. Curtain rods could be traded but likewise could be used as part of makeshift shelters.
Also there’s the point that that’s what they clearly left behind in the lifeboat, if it was important in their eyes they wouldn’t have left it there
@@totallynotjevii574 its also possible they took some of each of the stuff because they wouldn't be able to hold every single piece of the stuff with them when they left the boat but only took as much as their pockets could hold so a lot of it would have to be left behind
i forgot the video but lindy beige did a video explaining why they would bring such useless things. basically your mind does stop working. a soldier in a foxhole may obsessively check their kit uselessly a million times "fidgeting". a sailor trying to escape a cold watery death may load the lifeboat with bullshit.
Lady Franklin was the MVP of this story, she was so proud of her husband’s accomplishment and I can’t stop thinking how horrible it must have been for him to never return, yet she never gave up on him even after he was long dead
Yk what they say about great men… “behind every great man, there’s a great woman”
Yes indeed! And I feel she has been vilified by history as some kind of harridan attacking the Admiralty for years. A great woman, undoubtedly.
@@JulithaRyanShe literally destroyed the reputation of a Franklin explorer just because he brought back what she didn’t want to hear, that her husband died and his men ate each other. She’s a horrible woman.
John Rae was the only one to find the truth and he was desecrated for bringing it back to them first
Wendigoon's "As always, thank you for watching" has the same energy as PBS "This program is made possible by viewers like you, thank you" and just adds to the comfort I have listening to him talk about things he is interested in.
You did it you cracked the code of why he seems so nostalgic in that way
Hell yeah. Wendigoon has that comfy PBS/NPR feel while always being interesting.
truest comment ever
Indeed
Comment of the century
Walking for 12 years straight, alone, in the frigid cold year round, with barely a single change in scenery to denote progress sounds like the closest thing to a living Hell I have ever heard. With us keeping their names and story alive almost 200 years later, and the mysteries of their trip solved at last, may all their souls rest in peace. They deserve it.
Not alone but with time......
That better not have been a spoiler lol
The fact that this two man could have walked for 12 years sounds quite inconceivable and unbelievable to me but if that's true, personally, that sounds much more terrible and bleak than the cannibalism and the other deaths
Heros? Nay. Men sent to die. Due to hubress and arrogance of old men. Let their souls not rest but seek revenge towards those families who thrust them to their doom. As is the way of the sailor.
@@uuncoolguy6 hubris*
Fun cannibalism fact (there's something I never thought I'd type): often by the time people have to resort to cannibalism in starvation situations, even eating a whole person would not actually help them at all. The human body needs fat to properly go through digestion and break down what we eat into nutrients to keep us alive. If there's not enough fat in the food you're eating, your body takes it from preexisting subcutaneous fat (the stuff that sits under your skin and that everyone gets so bent out of shape about).
When you're starving, one of the first things to go are your subcutaneous fat cells, and once you get to the point where you're resorting to cannibalism, it's likely that the people you're eating also have lost their SubCu fat. This means that while human meat might fill your stomach, that's basically all that it does for you.
Ironically, the one place in the body that continues to have fat cells even while starving is- wait for it- bone marrow! But as Wendigoon mentioned, eating human bone marrow is usually a last resort, so you don't have very much, if any, food (even human meat) remaining to take advantage of the fact that your body can now properly process what you're eating and help you survive. ✨️The More You Know✨️
Yeah, that’s called rabbit starvation when you get malnourished from only eating lean meat.
Yeah I’m not really looking forward to having to use that knowledge tbh
Got it. If I miss a meal, kill and eat the fat one.
Prioritize bone marrow consumption for all your last resort cannibalism needs
you are 100% wrong! The plane crash in the Andes mountains in the 1970's, those people lived off the dead for over a month.
Lady Franklin having the officers get their pictures taken, and buying her husband a monkey for the voyage is just fantastic. Glad to see humans haven't changed much.
Even though she couldn't go out herself, I have to applaud Lady Franklin. She did so much to bring awareness to the situation and try to figure out what happened.
She was a real one till the end. That’s the type of love I want
I think women couldn't go to ships. And if they could.... the danger wasn't the cold.
Women in ships were seen as a tragedy to come.
@@leaguzzardi7565 yup sexist superstition stuff
Wtf? Damn no wonder everyone thinks the navy is all gay dudes fuxkin each other if they genuinely thought and possibly still think women on board bring bad luck LMAO
It still amazes me how John Torrington's body was so well-preserved from the extreme cold. Today, you can find bodies in the Italian Alps from World War One, and they look so recent that the local police often get calls about possible murder victims.
I wonder what really happened to Sir John Franklin, and where they buried him. All we have as evidence that he died before any crew revolts or cannibalism were the notes left by officers while their ships were stranded in the ice.
@@semperk1482 As morbid as it is to say, I think that Franklin died early, and was given a proper burial. We just haven't found the sight yet. Crozier could be anywhere, but I expect that Franklin was buried somewhere on Beachy Island.
@@kyleclark4449 Judging by the date when Franklin died, they were already iced in off King William Island, but probably not yet starving or dying of scurvy. He was considered to be rather old to be leading an expedition of this kind, and might have had underlying health problems, like heart trouble. He also might have been more susceptable to illnesses like pneumonia. Or he could have died accidentally - there are plenty of chances for accidental death on an old sailing ship in hazardous conditions.
There are a few theories about possible spots on King William Island where he might be buried, based on accounts from the local Inuit, who passed on lots of information about the strange white men in their giant boats. Since Inuit stories and guides finally led to the discovery of the ships themselves, I suspect that Franklin's gravesite is somewhere in those old stories as well.
@@neuralmute i wonder if they buried him with his monkey
The picture of the body terrified me when I first saw it when learning about the Expedition in 5th grade
Recently falling on hard times, I constantly find myself watching documentaries on this expedition. Because no matter how bad of a day I’m having, nothing can be as bad as being stuck in ice for years without contact. Sick, cold, hungry, miserable, dark, and extremely windy and wet.
Other's pain does not cancel out your own. You are allowed to have a bad day, even if "others have had it worse". I hope you're feeling better!
I hope you're doing alright 👍
Get it together man! Jk jk hope you're doing good, remember there's always sun after the rain
TRUE. There are very few people in history I don't envy... but dying over years in the arctic... I'm glad that's not me.
@@sam-od7fu 100% but having some perspective on the severity of ones suffering can offer some reprieve at least in my experience
Another thing about the Terror and Erebus' legacy, is that prior the the doomed expedition it took part in some of the important early Antarctic Expeditions. Two of the first named mountains in Antarctica are named after them, Mt Erebus and Mt Terror, meaning that the legacy of the ships continue to live on.
The mountains are also mentioned in HP Lovecrafts At the Mountains of Madness :)
Other fun fact, Mt Erebus is a volcano featuring one of the 7 perpetual lava lakes known on the planet.
Sadly, Mt Erebus was the site of a 1979 plane crash that took the lives of 257 people, further connecting the name to tragedy.
@@joshuawilkinson6121
Ironic
@@likoplays.?!! H p Lovecraft have never recorded a song called at the mountains of madness.
As a canadian sailor who went in the arctic, going there in wooden ships is MENTAL!!! Even our icebreakers can struggle in its ice...
What’s a foot thick ice when you’ve got some pickaxes and elbow grease?
@@cryamistellimek9184 Actually rubber hammers so to ''save'' the paint job and avoid sparks ;) but yeah that's every morning
@Thungus TheBungus All summer long. But less and less due to climate change...
@@jaideuxmains I wonder what's causing that pesky climate change
As they say, "wooden ships and iron men"
I feel so bad Lady Franklin. For the person you love to just disappear and for the government who sent them to their deaths to just do nothing, those years of not knowing must have been torture. She travelled for years until her own death to find his remains. She never once gave up on finding him and only death could stop her. They really were two of the most badass people I’ve learnt about
Never thought I'd say this, but I gotta defend the British Government in that regard.
It was an extremly dangerous journey that you already wasted your *best* crew for that job on. Then you go on to loose another 2 ships and a bunch of men that were worse for the job than the crew you initially send.
At some point, as bad as it sounds, you gotta write those ships off and not throw out more lives in order to confirm what is already most likely to have happened.
I gotta give honors to Lady Franklin though, she invested a lot to know what happened to her husband.....
@@owlyboi4048 well, what about the wifes/relatives of the people who die trying to find a ship that has been missing for 5 years onward. Yea, it is tragic and sad that she didn't get closure fast, but is it worth risking the lives of even more men when its likely that you already know the outcome?
@@owlyboi4048 yeah basically. I take it you're not very worldly in your knowledge of governments and the things they have done.
@@NoFlu They also hired the cheapest canner. Yeah, they and the cannery are more to blame for the cannibalism than the crew.
@@marmyeater I wasn't talking about the cannibalism, I was talking about the fact that they didn't keep sending in more rescue crews, which are already far less experienced than the crew they have to search for, to find a boat that was by any account already a lost cause.
I mean it sounds harsh, but by sending in more and less experienced ships to find them, they would've lost many more men...
Man, hearing that the government was like “your concerns are unfounded” and that this woman had to go on a campaign and get powerful friends involved to get any word or investigation going was weirdly uplifting for me.
Because it showed me that government also doesn’t care about the rich and well connected. It’s not just poor people who have to fight to get something done.
the government only cares for itself lol
Or they were misogynistic.
Yeah, this was more about feeble women‘s sensitivities than logic. The concerns came from a woman and were thus completely unfounded. =/
women having to do shit themselves when the powers at be wont, and then not getting decent credit is a tale as old as time. Any disenfranchised group tbh.
The saying “behind every great man is a great woman” exists for a reason 🤔
there is something so horrifying about a man walking through the wilderness for 12 years having gone through all of this and still failing to find sanctuary, just imagine how life would have been for him holy jeez
12 yrs he endured unimaginable suffering. There’s something so powerful about that determination. What would you or I walk 12 years through desolate frozen wasteland for?
i have never heard of a more bittersweet ending than crozier and a crewmate finding their goal after suffering for 12 whole years and seeing too many of their men die. this has to be the epitome of "we've won, but at what cost?"
I'd imagine that finding their goal gave them some comfort. At least they knew that all of their men's deaths weren't in vain.
I mean, technically many of the crew made it there with them, if only in part
I'll see myself out
@@JeepnHeel Some of the crew they carried with them, some they must have left on the way - that's biology for ya.
Being trapped in the Arctic has to be one of the most terrifying experiences possible. You’re so boned, it’s just a matter of time before your mate across from you is tries to eat you or vice versa because you are so hungry. Truly chilling.
recently I read Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado. story about a group of people who's plane crashed in the Andes, and 16 young men came out alive after enduring 72 grueling days of subzero temperatures and effects of being 12,000 feet above sea level, with nothing but snow and terrifyingly large mountains in all directions. amazing read, and incredible story. definitely reccomend it.
@@Joe-dp1cg there's a movie about it called Alive, they ate the pilot's ass meat
@@josmith213 I feel bad for laughing
To be honest in this cases rarely they try to kill someone and eat, the first to die usually from the cold, illness or starvation is the one to be eaten.
As stated in the video they were very overt to the ideia of cannibalism, and even in those dire circumstances it would not be enough to make than go ahead and kill the other men who were with them for years trying to survive with them.
@@carlitos5984 "chilling"
It's a very tragic story, but the fact that after all this time people are still trying to find out everything they can about what happened is as you say a tragic victory. Hell ol boy walked for 12 freaking years, "I am getting the f up out of here and never going to the artic again. Peace." I also find it wonderful that Franklins wife was still alive to see her husband recognized for the discovery and receiving his medal. She obviously loved him a great deal considering the lengths she went to to find out what happened to him.
Frozen in ice since 1850's and you could not tell how old those bodies were by just looking at them, thats morbidly fascinating, wonder how many bodies of past times are just laying somewhere in the arctics not yet discovered
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Many. I have lived in Northern Norway the vast majority of my life, and while we don't have permafrost, winters are the longest part of the year. ...At least they FEEL like it. And if a winter storm knocks out the power for a little bit, water and food preservation are NOT an issue lol. It is not a stretch for me to take that and apply it to permanent frozen ground, no thawing, very shiny fresh-lookin' corpses!
If you're curious, I recommend looking up burial laws on Svalbard. It's 1am, so I apologize for not fact checking myself, but I am half asleep. But if I remember correctly, it's illegal to get buried at Svalbard. Because of the permafrost and the trouble that can cause.
When I ever think about expeditions back then, the sheer logistical nightmare of supplies and navigation is enough to make my brain just melt.
Our technology today is incredibly impressive and amazing, but the comittment these people were willing to make back then to get where we are today, is even more amazing and impressive.
yes omg i never thought of this but 100%
@@Spencer-vq7se like the first chimp shot into space.
Where would the world be today without them
@@Angie-qp5ti in my case, probably not colonized lmaooo
"The British government hired the lowest bidder to make--"
Some things never change. British and American military, both.
Also, the lack of praise of Captain Crozier despite him living a lot longer is notable. Probably because he was Irish.
“Military-grade” still means “barely passable and cheap.”
@@prestonb.f. this guy gets it
Name a single military that hires the highest bidder.
Ay but when it comes to the chairforce we go all out on quality
@@BreadSlayer The RAF are some of the most professional people I've had the pleasure of meeting
What’s wild to me is that for a time, whether it was a moment, or multiple years, there was a final survivor who had nothing but their own thoughts, and a never ending wilderness to traverse and endure.
Your comment made me think of Otzi the iceman, as he was nicknamed. He was the incredibly well preserved man who lived around 3000 BC and was found in a glacier in the Ötztal Alps. He had been murdered. It has been determined he was traveling alone (although not completely alone obviously) in the mountains where there were no human settlements. What was he doing there? Was he attempting to elude the person or people who ultimately killed him. Had he been cast out of where ever he lived, which would have been an excellent punishment in those days. Was he on a spiritual journey, or seeking to trade? Were his people wiped out and he the only survivor? For most of human history we have been few in number and scattered in small settlements or living as hunter gatherers, I imagine this scenario of a lone human making their way across endless wilderness might once have been quite common, for better or for worse. The taming of the majority of the world by people is a very recent thing.
I live in Banbridge (home of Crozier) and I always wondered what it was he did to have a statue of him built in the town. Now I know, and I especially like the idea that the guy walked for 12 years across artic, refusing to give in to the elements
It's also mad to take into account that Crozier would have been 62 years old when he was spotted by those Inuits
Not to mention he was Irish, and the British looked down on him for that. But I think its great he's still commemorated so many years later. Crozier was a badass. And of course all the other crew. They didn't deserve to die like that.
bloody hell I didn't expect to find someone from Banbridge here. I went to the Academy so I was used to hearing about him and never really thought much about his achievements (I guess you don't think twice about stuff you grow up with, it becomes your 'normal.') It's weird to think of our normal little town centre and how drastically different that alien landscape is. How bleak and distant it must've seemed. I'm sure you know yourself, NI can feel like such an insular place; growing up I really felt like the world outside of our little island might as well have been on another planet. That's with all of our access to international media and insights into the outside world.
i just loved that "i'm awful with technology" at the end. It just solidified the "father who's talking about some weird stuff he found" energy
There used to be a documentary about this on Netflix that was like 3 hours long, followed them from camp to camp for the entirety of the journey. it was the saddest story I have ever heard.
If anyone knows the name of this documentary hook us up
DROP THE NAME DONT BE SHY
i only found The Terror (TV series) but not on netflix
The name?
@@Knight40k its not a documentary its like fiction but based on this story = The Terror ( tv series )
I vividly recall bringing a book home from the library about this as a kid, because it had cool pictures of ships on the front of it, and I liked pirates at the time. My mom read through it with me, and I remember the horror and dread it filled me with because it was probably my first time hearing about terrible tragedy happening to a group of people. There was no heroic escape or anything that could make this a happy ending. It was just a slow awful way for everyone to die.
This tragedy will always hold a special place in my memory because of that, and a surprising amount of emotion came up in me while I watched this
Your comment hit me...in a good way. ..humans still exist, good to know. TY
@@faultycracker7805 yeah, for sure. I'm glad someone saw it. I wasn't sure anyone would since the video isn't new. I really want to believe those 2 men the natives saw survived and lived out their days with the natives or something. However, the unfortunate reality is likely that they went through tremendous effort just to die in vain. It honestly makes me want to vomit. I don't feel like most people are grasping the magnitude of the tragedy
@@gunner2225 no one ever dies in vain, ever.
That's so cool!. In my case, I learnt about the expedition through a book I read back in elementary school. The book was about mummies, and despite being an educational one, every page was filled with very graphic pics of mummified bodies all the way from ancient Egypt to the dead sailors from the Franklin expedition. My younger self probably found it more fascinating than shocking, but it still amazes me that they had this kind of stuff on the school library. This was in the mid to late 00s btw. Kinda morbid.
@@faultycracker7805 99 % of people die in vain. 🙄
I first read about the Franklin Expedition in a book called "Into the Unknown", which covered human exploration from ancient times to the moon landings in the Apollo missions. I've been fascinated by it ever since, and one of the other theories for the lead poisoning of the crew is that their water supply, which was furnished by the same machine that purified ocean water for use in the ships' steam engines, also had the side effect of giving that water a very high lead content due to parts of the machine being made of lead.
That book sounds very interesting, do you happen to remember the auther?
@@heehoopeanut420 I actually still have my copy of the book, so here is the info on it. Rather than having a single author, it was actually a collaborative work by 18 different authors published in 1987 by the National Geographic Society. If you do a search for the book's full title "Into the Unknown: the Story of Exploration", it appears to be widely available for sale online from various sites and quite inexpensive (I saw several listings lower than $10). The book's cover art has a picture of a sailing ship atop an old-style globe.
@@DamonNomad82 definitely getting that book
Historians: How could these men have so tragically died?
Wendigoon: Their food was bad.
More like, “Which horrible means of likely death befell these particular sailors”
They should have ordered pizza then, can't go wrong with pizza
@@MikeMichaels1987 yeah but sadly the pizza delivery ship got trapped in the ice also and was never seen again
@@thedoctorss69 Then it looks like ice for dinner, again 😒
@@thedoctorss69 You should rename yourself Nattie Than Hallen, learn some chops on the guitar and who knows, this time next week you could be a rock star.
Lead poisoning or "saturnism," was a big problem back then. The canning process made life a lot easier for sailors, and soldiers, but they really didn't understand the effects that lead ingestion would have on the brain. Really bad way to go.
I read something once that said they had new water heaters as well, but the pipes were lead so any water drank onboard was tainted with lead. Not that it drove them crazy, but it forced them off ship to find water as well as food.
@@CosmicFreedoms I wouldn't at all be surprised. Back in days of prohibition, thousands of people went blind from acute lead poisoning. Often when distilling the alcohol, old car radiators were used for condensers. The radiators where lead lined. I've heard that's where the term "drinking yourself blind," comes from.
I’m learning a lot just from reading the comments !
@@dallaspowell6313 make sure they are right before running off
@@dennismartin5821 i thought that was a consequence of drinking the methanol that's often produced along with ethanol, by not separating them properly? Although I'm sure both could be the case. I never knew about the old radiators
I'm Canadian and I remember being morbidly fascinated by the Franklin expedition, especially the photos of the preserved corpses in our history textbooks. I've also visited Churchill, Manitoba and saw, in a church there, a stained glass window that was gifted by Lady Franklin as thanks for the efforts to try and find the expedition.
If I die while stranded with a starving friend whose near death, I think I'd rather them eat my body than die themselves. I don't want that to happen, but I'd rather that than my friend die along with me. Now, if they KILL me to eat me, I'll haunt them forever.
You never know how you react when put into the same situation. Don't try to say stuff when living in relative comfort.
@@johnnguyen9576You're totally getting eaten first
I was 9 when they found the bodies in permafrost and I was OBSESSED with learning all about it. My mom was disturbed, her 9 year old daughter was mooning over 130 year old dead bodies LOL
How old are you now?
@@magicman3163 Sus
bodies that don't decompose are pretty fascinating. they died centuries before you were even born but you can still look them in the face as if they died yesterday.
@@magicman3163 Probably around 32.
@@shadoww767 nice
Huge shoutout to the northwest passage , gotta be one of the top 10 passages of all time
th-cam.com/video/MyFhsmJ5wzc/w-d-xo.html
Fax yes
Ima let you finish but I'd like to say the Northeast Passage is the best passage of all time.
It's great when you want to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
@@PatrickWDunne tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
BIG dumb here, was the northeast passage discovered before the northwest?
This reminds me of the Terra Nova Expedition. It was a British expedition into Antarctica that tried to be the first to reach the South Pole. They all froze to death there, although some of them did reach the South Pole (only to find out that another expedition had beaten them to it by just a month).
This was Sir Walter Scott's team, wasn't it?
@@HadridarMatramen No, Robert Falcon Scott
@@masterspark9880 Aaah, of course!!! Knew it was A Scott XD
Just finished watching The Terror and I loved it! Even without the supernatural twist, the real story is just absolutely terrifying. Being trapped in the Arctic for years without any hope of rescue while hundreds of you are slowly dying off, starving and going mad. It's truly haunting and tragic.
If you enjoy this story, I’d highly recommend reading on Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, also known as the Endurance. One of the craziest stories of survival, as Shackleton got all of his men out alive after the sinking of the Endurance, due to sailing a fortified lifeboat through some of the fiercest winds in the world.
I actually just finished Endurance the other day, I'm still in shock that they all made it out alive. The Franklin Expedition really feels like the bad ending to Shackleton's Expedition.
When all else fails, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton
I just read a post where they are going to go down to find the endurance wreck soon. They said the ice is a nightmare for them as well.
Wonderful book
I think that's the guy who 'Shackleton's Cross' is based on. One of my favourite pieces of music
I like how this crazy macabre tale starts off so wholesomely. Pet monkey, group photo, little costumes for the monkey...
I’ve been fixated on this story for weeks now. Watched The Terror, several documentaries, this video. I can’t get enough of this interesting expedition.
recommend the song "northwest passage" theres a few versions i like the dreadnoughts the most
That thought of the Terror and what remained of its crew trying to make it to land was heartbreaking.
Interesting fact: the Terror and Erebus actually a few years prior sailed to Antarctica to try and find the south pole(they didn’t) but because they lasted 4 years in the Antarctic the RNC thought they could handle anything.
And even though it 99% didn’t happen the ending shot of The Terror is genuinely beautiful and really tied together the entire series
That's another thing, they made some incredibly important ecological discoveries while the Ross' were there, too. Their efforts contributed to the decline of the "Azoic theory" in which it was believed the deep ocean was totally devoid of life. Really crazy stuff
they did not hear the warning
The Voyage of the Endurance and subsequent journey of one of it's lifeboats, the 'James Caird' is a similar chilling maritime story that I actually find more interesting than that of the Franklin expedition. Worth checking out if you have not ever heard of it and thought the story told here by Wendigoon was interesting.
Thank you so much for leaving this comment. I have just finished watching the documentary about it with tears in my eyes haha
What an extraordinary story of survival!
Shackleton was probably the best man to lead that expedition as well…and he did it all with a hole in his heart
Yeah, it was really a shame that Shackleton's story went more or less overlooked, due to the outbreak of WW1.
@@sightlessninja2456 Robert Shackelton was entirely a different breed of man. In my opinion he raised the bar for leadership ability incredibly high.
It's insane that when he got back from this death-defying voyage, now in a weak and aged body, he still volunteered to enlist in the war effort and asked specifically to go to the front lines.
I think there's a point in which logic can no longer fight off superstition, and that line was crossed when they decided to take a couple of ships named 'Erebus' and 'Terror' (i.e. darkness and fear) to one of the most dangerous and inhospitable places in the world.
Lived in Yukon as a kid, coldest town I know in Canada. Had some -80F ish (-62celcius) few decades ago.
The belief that fish is an essential part of life in these beautiful desolate lands are part of every family that lives there.
Massive respect to the Inuits.
im sorry but living in anything that cold sounds like hell to me
@@tyroneeasy9804 it really aint, I live in a cold place although it's not the coldest in my country, however other people live for centuries in those colder regions and a lot of them don't leave (some do of course), theyre totally used and adjusted to it and it's very livable. they love ice cream too. i'd rather live in freezing cold than heat
Props to you, I recently moved from Ottawa to Sudbury, and even though it’s just barely what can be considered Northern Ontario, it feels like a rocky, desolate, frozen grey wasteland compared to down East. I can’t imagine what it feels like to live up in the true North. The Inuit people are slept on, those guys are friggin badasses.
YUKON HAS CITIZENS? ALL MY CANADIAN FRIENDS SAY ITS JUST NORTHERN WYOMING
Conspiracies, analog horror, grim history, and pleasant Sunday school religion. No wonder you got a million subscribers so quick, it's like having a cool dad tell you awesome stories.
Oh my god your right. there’s something so relaxing about the way he says the stories and it’s because he’s like a dad telling you a story.
I think I get cool uncle or that kinda stoner cousin vibes
A young dad lol
Perfect analogy!
@@liyre4189 stoners aren’t smart enough
Whenever I hear stories like these, I'm always reminded of the single most underrated survival story: A. J. Barrington. Him and 2 other gold panners got lost in Fiordland New Zealand for 3 months in 1864, living off sparrows and rats, and discovered two of the most beautiful landmarks in the area that wouldn't be discovered again for 70 years. Barrington kept a journal the whole time, and all three men survived, so we know exactly what happened in their ordeal
There's also Poon Lin, who survived 133 days adrift and alone in the atlantic.
Underrated and unheard of, I'm a Kiwi and I've never heard of this wtf imma look this up
For anyone interested, Michael Palin of Monty Python and travel programs fame wrote a book about the history of the Erebus. It details the entire history of the ship leading up to the its disappearance and then its rediscovery. I would also recommend the book Ice Ghosts for a more in depth look into the context of the Franklin mystery, how it impacted the natives in the Nunavut area, the story of Lady Franklin and the recent rediscovery of the ships.
Love the Palin book, I like to think of it and Dan Simmons 'The Terror' as sort of unofficial sister novels. Both named after each ship, one fiction, one non-fiction. They make a great pairing.
Sometimes I start out a video completely uninterested in the subject matter but you do such an awesome job of telling the story with such enthusiasm and you sell it so well that I wind up loving it before we're even halfway in. You had me literally daydreaming longingly about taking a hike through Mystery Flesh Pit National Park, FFS!
"They forged the last passage with their lives"
This is both an awesome, metal, beautifull and sad quote to be known by.
Wendigoon never misses with the most well researched and intriguing stories
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The video is probably very good, but it’s only been 5 minutes 🤨
I like the new pfp
You literally copy and pasted this. Clout chaser
his way of explaining things... he should be a professor
Supposedly one of my teachers is friends with a woman who was on one of the arctic expeditions where they found one of the lost ships of the Franklin expedition (I can’t remember which one). They weren’t up there looking for it, it was for some biological research or something, and they were going about their business when in the distance they saw the mast sticking up from under the ice. She brought back a narwhal tusk for him from the expedition that he still has on his mantle
Amazing how what used to take months to years of travel can now be done in mere hours.
I remember when your channel was so small and I knew that you'd hit one million one day, I know i'm just a stranger but I'm really proud of what you've accomplished on this platform.
It's crazy how videos from a year ago he was thanking people so much for 1k subs.. now he's at a million
@@sirllamaiii9708 Ikr
I swear you have one of the best voices for thrilling/mysterious storytelling, I just get sucked in everytime
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i feel like so many people have said this before but i love how casually but carefully he explains these stories, especially when they get a bit too dark. his whole disposition in general is well suited for the topics he goes over
the cadence is everything
it's the cadence and the fact his voice seems, calm? idk he also has a very neutral accent, maybe a tiny Midwest twinge, and he looks like he actually enjoys what he is talking about. Him and nexpo both have that very chill vibe
I can highly recommend the graphic novel "The Worst Journey in the World" by Sarah Airriess that tackles this story. She's been working on this this book for over a decade now I think and it is absolutely incredible, both in the artwork and the information in it! The Scott Polar Research Institute is also very involved in it.
Lady Franklin moved heaven and earth to find her husband. Love is a powerful thing....in the end they both died (in her position if it was a spouse of mine....id do the same thing). Alot of people died this truly is a sad event, they tried and did the best they could.
I’ve hiked 15 and 20 mile days in my life.. well prepared and supplied, in favorable weather, and on pre-laid paths. I can only imagine the horrors of walking 600 miles over the course of 12 years through the brutality of the arctic with gear not meant for that purpose.
Also, love the balloon and vids Mr. Goon forge on!
No way they only walked 50 miles a year. In the worst conditions imaginable, you’re still walking more than a mile a week. A lot more. A mile a day should be easily manageable. I’d be disappointed if I didn’t make 50 miles a month, if not 50 miles a week
@@GuinessOriginal would love to see how your legs handled after literal years of walking. Especially in extreme harsh climates with the little gear they had.
@@mattshelton7423 a mile a week? I could crawl a mile a week
@@GuinessOriginal Well sure if you knew where you were going. These guys were lost, alone, and undergeared. It’s not like they were hiking trail B at your local national park. They didn’t have a nice clean cut path, they probably weren’t trying to go for distance, they had to survive. They probably camped in the same spot for weeks or months on end, it’s not like they were walking in a straight line non stop. They’d have to hunt, fish, forage, all of which take time and energy (that they’d already be low on).
Try again.
@@mattshelton7423 ok but even in the worst conditions imaginable, averaging 1 mile a week for 12 years isn’t the best. Unless that’s as the cruise flies and they actually walked around in circles a lot further
This was also part of the inspiration for the song "Northwest Passage" by Stan Rogers. I love that song, and all of Roger's music in general, but after learning about this in depth I finally realized he was making a specific reference in one of the lyrics...
"Leaving weathered, broken bones and a long forgotten lonely cairn of stones"
Man that's way more chilling knowing exactly what he's referring to.
Dude. That's haunting af. I just listened to it.
The first version of that song I heard was a metal/rock cover by Unleash the Archers. The original, slower version took some getting used to xD
@@herpderp3916 there's also another metal cover by The Real McKenzies
Apparently the Dreadnaughts too.
There's also a much played folk song called "The Ballad of Sir John Franklin", it's well worth a listen.
i love that song. the chorus is so moody and sounds like an old sea shanty to me😂
Franklin's real problem was thinking Kings Williams Island was a peninsula and connected to the mainland on the south side. If he had known it was an island at the time he would have been able to sail south of the island and avoid the icebergs coming in from the north that he eventually got stuck in. This was the real key to the northwest passage, The Rae straight.
There is some evidence via Inuit oral history that this was atrempted; however the ships were extremely deep-draft and that entire area is full of shallow reefs and shoals.
I have been obsessed with the Franklin expedition for years. I’m so glad I am around to see them find the ships it is mind blowing to see the video from inside the ship knowing some of what happened to it.
One of my ancestors, Joseph Dalton Hooker, was a good friend of Charles Darwin and was a botanist. One of his first expeditions was on board the Erebus and the Terror and it was the last major voyage of exploration made by sail. Cool stuff to hear about the Erebus and the Terror from you.
You would love the story of the voyage that inspired “Mody Dick.” The one mortician lady did a fantastic video about it and it is so fascinating.
I love her channel! It's called the whaling ship essex
There was also a BBC tv movie about it years ago called The Whale.
Ahh for just one time, I would take the northwest passage, to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort sea.
The process of sending ships to free a ship trapped in the ice, which then also get trapped in the ice, reminds me of when Charlie and Dee kept putting cats in the wall to get a cat out of the wall on It's Always Sunny.
Just finished “The Terror” by Dan Simmons (the show of the same name is based on the book but there are some pretty interesting differences) last night. Can’t recommend enough. Although, without giving too much away, it does incorporate some fantasy horror elements so it’s not a cut and dry retelling of what happened. Either way it’s a really good book.
There is a book simply called “Erebus” that was recommend to me that is nonfiction to my knowledge. If that interests you more.
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The book is soooooooo good, I liked the show as well but the book is on another level
That is one of my fave books.. I’ve read it several times over the years.
Yeah, I really loved the show (at least season 1 that's about this). I felt like the fantasy-horror threw me off a little bit, because IMO there was enough horror potential with the realistic aspects of their situation. Some of the shots in the first couple of episodes were terrifying.
AMAZING book! Can’t recommend it enough
OMG when I was a kid I was fascinated with this voyage. There was a book in my local library with detailed pictures and everything. I mostly looked at the pictures of the corpses. People thought there was something really wrong with me.....
Psychologically speaking it is concerning. Mostly because it shows early antisocial behaviour.
My class got to see the IMAX movie where they uncover the bodies in the wreck. Its a real trip.
Me too, reading about early exploration voyages is very interesting
When I was a child I was super obsessed with mummies and I was gifted a book about this whole ordeal. It maybe the same one because it was highly detailed.
Ah memories 😂
I love mummies and I don't know if I can tell people that lol
Love the video. Franklin Expedition has always fascinated me; it went down "in my backyard" so to speak, and the Nova documentary (1985/86?) really sparked my interest. I've studied it extensively since then.
My only issue with popular interpretation is the "12 years in the Arctic" legend of Frances Crozier (some accounts say James FitzJames). This is completely implausible for too many reasons to even list, but here are the major ones; 1) the entire crew was already REALLY sick. You don't live 12 years when you're already dying of scurvy and lead poisoning, 2) some people say that 1) is answered by "well, he got help from the Inuit"...so the Inuit, who are VERY mobile people, kept him alive for 12 years without getting him home? Civilization was NOT "500 miles away", the British kept many unmanned (but stocked) forts and caches that were MUCH closer than that, and Crozier definitely knew this, 3) John Rae was in the area, and interacting with the Inuit concerning the missing expedition, as early as 1853/54. At this point the expedition had been in the area 8 years, but (apparently?) the Inuit weren't like "HEY, there's a dude over this way you might wanna see". Doesn't make sense.
Let's keep in mind that alot of the information, that is now considered common knowledge, was obtained by CF Hall in the mid 1860s; he was a journalist in a time where "sensationalism" was beginning to take hold, and was additionally asking the Inuit about (often second-hand) information of an event that happened 2 decades prior.
Glad to see you mention Rae. I've just posted a bit saying he met with, listened to and took heed of the natives initiatives while Franklin considered the natives as "too primitive" and so ignored their knowledge of how to traverse the terrain. Rae lived, found franlkin and found the last area of the passage. Franklin died. I'm bigging up Rae here as his fellow orcadian. He barely gets a mention in all this and only got recognition in the 2000s.
The Terror and Erebus were sailing ships that had been constructed for the war of 1812. While putting steam engines in ships was new, top of the line technology, the engines put in these ships were actually 10 year old retired train engines. There were more efficient and smaller, lighter engines available, but like the rations, it seems the people who paid for the expedition were interested in cutting costs. Hard to say what part that played, except there was a massive amount of coal on both ships where more stores could have gone, it also would have made them sit lower in the water.
By the way, both ships returned (in spirit/name) during the First and Second World War. The Navy built two Erebus-class monitors (light cruisers/heavy destroyers armed with a single massive battleship turret for shore bombardment) and named them Erebus and Terror.
If anyone hasn't seen it, I would highly recommend The Terror series. It manages to craft great characters and story around what little we know about the actual expedition alongside some of the best atmosphere I have seen on television. I'd just suggest going in with the understanding that it's a fictionalized version of the actual events. It's mostly really accurate, but if you're watching it as a pure retelling there's some stuff that would probably be really annoying.
It would have sent it from really good to brilliant if a real world animal who actively hunts humans, was the beast going after them. To the sailors it probably would be like a demon or what not but it didn't actually have to be. Is a little silly and lowers the experience not to mention actually detracts from the horror these men went through
@@joshuaockenden3650 agreed. The whole story was really terrifying enough.
@@yorkshirelass96 exactly. It dismisses the real experiences these men had to go through. Maybe studio interference or something is all I can think of
@@joshuaockenden3650 The Terror series was based on the book of the same name, which is why the creature is what it is.
The book The Terror by Dan Simmons is strikingly factual for a fantastical story of Inuit mythology. One of my all time favorites.
Something that was shown in the Terror mini-series was the dog going from the crew mess to the officer's mess and the men joked about how the dog was a higher rank than the other sailors.
While the Terror mini-series shows some supernatural creatures being responsible for the loss of the expedition, it is still worth watching.
I can't ever hear about the Franklin expedition now without thinking of Dead Space 3 as the shuttle Issac uses to go from orbit to ground in the game is named after Crozier. Fittingly the shuttle that still works after the 200 years that passed is named for the man who supposedly was the one of the only ones still going after the expedition fell apart. The space station is Roanoke, the other shuttle that crashed was named Franklin, there's the Shackleton and more lol. In hindsight, naming things after ill-fated explorers is never a good idea if you plan to live. Great video as always!
Really hoping that Maritime Horrors gets a subscriber boost from having Wendigoon mention him. All of his videos are well researched and respectfully done, can’t get enough of them.
Yes they will but also from you reminding people about it like with me just now. Intriguing category.
I've always been fascinated with a similar story to this from the age of early Antarctic exploration which I'm not sure if you've made a video on, but it's the failed expedition to Antarctica by Robert Scott and his other English companions. Scott led two expeditions to the Antarctic, one of which he didn't return from. At the time of the second expedition, he was attempting to become the first man to reach the South Pole, but he was beaten by his rival Roald Amundsen - not least of which due to Scott's stubborn decisions to use items like wool to keep warm instead of furs, which became heavy and wet very quickly & wouldn't dry easily. He also used horses who struggled with the snow and ice rather than sled dogs, and I believe even tried powered snowsled ski things that stopped working early in the trip. Morale for the failed trip only fell further on their way back from the Pole thanks to deaths, including a self-sacrifice from one of the explorers, Oates, who knew he was holding the group back. After asking that he be left to die a few days before, one evening he allegedly said "I am just going outside and may be some time" before walking out into the snow never to be seen again.
Scott and his two remaining men were found dead about 20km (~12.5 miles) from his next supply depot, stopped by a blizzard & exhaustion. It's believed part of the reason they were so sluggish is because Scott insisted on carrying with him extremely high-quality fossils that he found during the return trip, and Scott apparently wasted days examining and unearthing these fossils during the run back. The fossils that were found with him actually proved that Antarctica used to be connected to the other continents, and I actually got a chance to see a few of them while I was in university.
Awesome video! Love your content
These story’s are so great but also so frustrating. The idea that these men were forced to eat tainted canned food, then seen as evil for being forced to do whatever it took to survive is truly tragic!
I understand that the cannibalism was a mindset set in the time period, but it does make you wonder how much longer they could of held out if they had proper food.
Not to mention canning was a new technology at the time, and of course the government had to cheap out. If they'd had better food, maybe they would have held out longer. Nowadays it's lucky canning doesn't cause much problems now.
Franklin: "looks like we're going to winter here"
Me 2 minutes later: "so I'm getting a lil' bit hungy. Which crew members would be the least missed"
I too love Maritime Horrors, and I'm glad to see someone appreciates both history and horror at the same time.
Same!!
Check out casting lots, a survival cannibalism podcast (not affiliated, just obsessed with survival cannibalism) Most of the horrors are maritime, tundra, or some combination.
@@wickjezek1101 thanks I'll check it out.
me too!! i mentioned Maritime Horrors in a tweet about the video before i even saw he was mentioned! so cool
What an amazing but horrifying story. At one point it is mentioned that someone may have gone back to the Terror to try and pilot it but failed. I just want to point out how scary that must've been. You know that feeling you get walking through a completely empty and quiet house? I imagine that was the same feeling for whoever came back to the ship. The only sound is the wind and maybe waves, meanwhile he's walking completely alone through a dark and abandoned ship that was filled with life not long before. RIP to all of those brave men.
For a ship that size it would have required way more than one person to even attempt to sail her. I'm guessing a minimum of six. But you're right - going back to their abandoned ship must have been spooky af.
Your passion for these kinds of stories and the way you tell them is very contagious and makes me more interested in similar tales. Many thx for all the amazing content you make for us.
I LOVED this story. Your passion shines through and something about the simplicity of the storytelling is captivating. Thanks for sharing this.
I think Lady Franklin should get a statue, because she's the one who DID NOT GIVE UP in trying to find out what happened to her husband and his crew, and lead to the discovery of the proper path through the search parties, right?
I say "amen" to this.
She should have had a statue with her husband
I agree
definitely.
A statue would have been a complete waste of money, time and effort. However, some crazy drunk chef did name a baked potato filling in honour of her, it's called the tuna and sweetcorn filling.
@@MikeMichaels1987 Not really, it was just honoring her perseverance and decision-making, overall in a time where women decisions were so limited and constantly left aside.
"Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage,
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea/
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage,
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea"
This part of maritime history is one of my favorites!
Legendary song was wondering if anyone was going to reference it
Have you heard the metal version by Unleash the Archers?
That takes me back to my first piano recital
Was hoping id see this comment.
@@bushmann6359 yeah not only is it a great metal song it also is in keeping with the spirit and cadence of the original. So good.
I honestly loved your excitement at the end of the video. As someone who loves history, too, it's fantastic to find creators such as yourself get excited for things like this. Keep up the great work!
I learned of the Franklin Expedition by reading Dan Simmons' book 'The Terror', which the show was based on. To call it "taking creative ilberties" is an understatement lol. But that's one of Dan Simmons' strengths. Taking real life events and locations and putting his own twist on them, usually mixing some kind of mythology into it.
Go watch the miniseries. Its absolutery spectacular. The acting of Jared Harris and Tobias Menzies was top notch.
It's an incredible story to be sure, I'm surprised you didn't mention the cursed painting by the way. It's called "Man proposes, god disposes" and depicts two polar bears eating human remains among the wreckage of a ship in the ice, draped in a union jack. It was an edgy af thing to paint and was hugely controversial at the time. After the fuss died down it ended up hanging in an exam hall, the students objected and believed the painting would bring bad luck, so before every exam it's concealed behind a union jack.
Also, just a point on the steam engines. It's true they were small, but I'd argue that was a huge advantage: A larger engine would mean that every time they fired it up and got their boiler up to pressure it would mean a huge expenditure of resources. A smaller one could be quickly fired up in emergencies and it wouldn't be a huge waste to just run it for an hour or two. I don't think anyone thought it was going to turn the ship into an ice-breaker, the main utility for a square sailer would be the ability to sail upwind in emergencies. So if they were pinned into a bay for a couple of weeks by bad winds, they could power their way out. Or if they were being driven onto a lee shore by a storm they could potentially save themselves.
This is such a tragic story. And not one I would have heard of without your channel. The dedication to research and thorough delivery of information while still remaining respectful of such tragic events is absolutely stunning. Keep it up man, you're doing great.
The photos of the crew, they haunted my imagination as a kid. Theres something about this story thats more visceral than others. Its almost like they’re all still out there, waiting to be rescued.
Thanks for the video, it scratched the content itch
I know I was warned, but I still wasn't close to ready for how preserved those bodies were. Great video! No sleep for me tonight.
same
Literally thought i was gonna see some bones lol not actually skin
@@Tis1kay I'm definitely gonna see them in the dark corners of my room tonight
@@Tis1kay It was the eyes that got me. *shiver*
The first time I saw them they really creeped me out! Those guys have been frozen for around 175 years, and you can still see the stitching in their clothes, not to mention their eyelashes and fingernails.
Despite doing a degree in History in the UK, I've never heard this specific tale - you told it fabulously and it would be great to have more episodes like this
“For just one time, I will take the northwest passage to find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea”
The AMC series is based on the book The Terror by Dan Simmons - that’s were the creative liberties come from. It’s a book adaptation of a fictionalised retelling of the story. The book is amazing btw, highly recommend it
Toplighting with your level of light exposure can make this really harsh shadow over areas of your face, you can mitigate that by having the source of light more in front of you and adjusting the exposure to accomodate. All in all though, looks and sounds fantastic! Love your vids!
What if he can't move the source of the light? Since it's just a ceiling light
I love how Wendigoon puts his "thank you for watching" at the start of the video instead of the end. He wants you to know ASAP that he's grateful and I respect that.
You don't give yourself enough credit dude, your videos are brilliant & you do a great job of sharing your knowledge with us, your video and audio are totally fine, you are doing awesome. You deserve all of your success, you have quickly became one of my fave youtubers. Thanks!