Introduction

This episode is brought to you by United Airlines. In 1845, two ships carrying 134 men set sail from England in order to explore an unnavigated stretch of the Arctic waters between Canada and Greenland. Over the next 160 years, search parties uncovered tantalizing clues as to the fate of what is now known as the Lost Franklin Expedition. The 2014 and 2016 discoveries of the well-preserved wrecks of the HMS Arabas and HMS Terror tell a grisly story of futile hope, starvation, madness, and the macabre ends of 134 souls.