05/28/2026
The Franklin Expedition vanished after leaving Britain in 1845 with two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, led by Sir John Franklin in search of the Northwest Passage. Both ships became trapped in Arctic ice, and later evidence showed the crew faced starvation, disease, freezing conditions, and desperate survival attempts.
Searchers eventually found graves, artifacts, notes, and Inuit testimony that helped piece together parts of the tragedy, but many details of the crew’s final days remain unknown. Do you think the Franklin Expedition was doomed by bad luck, bad planning, or the brutal Arctic itself? Follow for more dark history.