May 13, 2026 · 34 min · 20 segments
On this week's episode, adventurer Mark Synnot sets out in the Arctic Circle to try and solve a centuries old mystery. The Franklin Expedition has puzzled historians for decades, can Mark and his team…
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The thing about the Franklin expedition is that it's a mystery, and still to this day, we don't know what happened really to Franklin and his men.
They set off from England in 1845 aboard two state-of-the-art ships, HMS Erebus and Terror.
At that point, there were huge blanks on the map, so they didn't even know if the Northwest Passage existed.
Nobody survived whatever that experience was to come out and tell the world, "This is what happened.
This is what we saw." I started thinking like, "What if I took my own scrappy boat into the Arctic, I followed in the wake of the Erebus and the Terror, and then I tried in my own way to figure out what might have happened? Could I solve the mystery?" Obviously, like, that's pretty far-fetched.
The thing about the Franklin expedition is that it's a mystery, and still to this day, we don't know what happened really to Franklin and his men.
They set off from England in 1845 aboard two state-of-the-art ships, HMS Erebus and Terror.
At that point, there were huge blanks on the map, so they didn't even know if the Northwest Passage existed.
Nobody survived whatever that experience was to come out and tell the world, "This is what happened.
This is what we saw." I started thinking like, "What if I took my own scrappy boat into the Arctic, I followed in the wake of the Erebus and the Terror, and then I tried in my own way to figure out what might have happened? Could I solve the mystery?" Obviously, like, that's pretty far-fetched.
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