00:00When they found the remains, the ice still held more than just bones. There were signs of the unthinkable and the most...
00:06Terrifying. No one knows what they last saw. The Franklin expedition set out with the best men, state-of-the-art technology,
00:12And he never returned. What happened among the Arctic ice remains to this day one of the greatest mysteries.
00:17dark chapters of naval history.
00:19And what was discovered more than a century later is simply chilling, which in the year 1845, Sir John Franklin,
00:26A veteran British explorer sets sail from England with two imposing ships, HMS Airbus and HMS Terror. The mission,
00:35find the Northwest Passage, a sea route that would connect Europe with Asia through the Arctic.
00:40Self-boarding technology was the height of its time. Auxiliary steam engines, provisions for three years, libraries, music, even
00:47Fine porcelain. An expedition designed to withstand anything. Or so they thought.
00:52The last official news came from Greenland. Then total silence. The ships disappeared. For more than a decade, England sent
01:01missions to find them. Some returned without answers, others didn't return at all.
01:06Finally, the unthinkable began to be suspected. They were all dead. But how? Cold? Hunger? An attack? A curse? And then
01:14The first clues arrived. Explorers contacted Inuit groups in the Canadian Arctic. They spoke of white men walking
01:21Across the ice, ragged, dragging boats with empty stares. According to their accounts, some had devoured each other. No one in
01:28London wanted to believe it.
01:30The British navy dismissed the reports as wild myths. But the Inuit's words matched all too well.
01:36The planned route. And then came the first material test.
01:40Over the decades, personal belongings, rusty cans, buttons, and bodies were found. One of them, John Torrington,
01:46a young sailor frozen perfectly in the ice, with his eyes still open.
01:51Autopsies revealed lethal levels of lead. Lead-soldered food cans had contaminated their food. But that wasn't all.
01:57That said, the forensic analysis of the bones showed cut marks made with knives.
02:01Cannibalism! Confirmed! In 2014, almost 170 years later, the Erebus was found. Two years later, terror. Both almost
02:11intact, trapped under the ice.
02:13The doors were closed. From inside, the cabins seemed frozen in time. And yet, there were no corpses, only a
02:21A thick silence. The bodies had been dragged away, some by humans.
02:25Others, perhaps not, because here begins the most disturbing part.
02:28The Inuit told a different, less well-known story. They said the sailors were talking to themselves. That something was walking beside them among them.
02:35The snow was there, but it left no footprints.
02:37One of the last to be seen was carrying a piece of human flesh in his hand, but he was crying as he walked.
02:42Modern explorers found bent knives, wet diaries, and cryptic messages written in the margins of maps.
02:49One simply said, it's no longer in us, it's gone with the ice.
02:52Was there something more than hunger? Hallucinations caused by lead poisoning? Or something darker?
02:58Inuit cultures speak of the tumbac, a devouring spirit that feeds on the souls of those who venture where they should not.
03:04They must.
03:04Whether it was a simple myth or a warning that the expedition ignored, Franklin set out in search of a trade route, but found something he didn't
03:12It was on the maps.
03:13Today their ships lie frozen in time, and the secrets they carried with them still whisper beneath the ice.
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