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Two ghost ships waited beneath Arctic ice for 170 years. 🧊
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Creepy DiscoveriesAug 18, 2026

Two ghost ships waited beneath Arctic ice for 170 years. 🧊

Two ghost ships waited beneath Arctic ice for 170 years. 🧊 . . . Sir John Franklin sailed from England in 1845 with HMS Erebus, HMS Terror and 129 men. None returned. Parks Canada found Erebus in September 2014 and Terror in September 2016 in Nunavut waters, confirming generations of Inuit testimony. The expedition vanished, but its ships never truly left.

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Parks Canada, 2017, 'The Franklin Expedition'

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