The Arctic Ghost Ship That Reappeared

In 1845, two British ships—the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror—sailed into the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Led by Sir John Franklin, the expedition was among the best-equipped of its time. And then... silence. For more than 150 years, their fate remained one of polar exploration’s most haunting mysteries.

Rumors spread. Inuit oral histories told of starving white men dragging sleds across the ice. Scattered notes hinted at desperation, cold, and death. But the ships themselves... gone.

That is, until 2014 and 2016, when a pair of discoveries shifted history.