#the Franklin expedition

[wimbledon2008]

sorry boss i can't come in today. yeah they positively identified james fitzjames's remains and his bones have cut marks consistent with cannibalism

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

i’m sorry boss I can’t come into work tomorrow they’ve identified the body of a doomed polar explorer

[hacash]

the terror's historical accuracy game's so good, they were referencing historical events before anyone actually knew they happened

[jeyneofpoole]

jfj’s cannibalized mandible is a beautiful name for a baby girl

[crancisfrozier]

Shed some genuine tears thinking about James Fitzjames on the way home from work. Such a miserable and horrible way to die, but I wish I could go back in time and tell him that it’ll take some time, but in the future when you’re found, thousands and thousands of strangers will cry for you. Out of sadness partly, yes because no one deserves to die like this, but also out of relief! Out of a genuine happiness that we finally found you after all these years!! That you will no longer waste away in an unknown grave!! And that thousands of people not only remember your name 176 years in the future, but celebrate when you’re found again!! I am so deeply unwell about James Fitzjames right now!!!!!

[theselkiefolk]

The FitzJames photocard I keep in my wallet 🐻

And his wife obviously.

[femboypussy420]

so the JFJ news

[moorishflower]

congrats to all my Terror moots they really DID eat him for the good of the men

[cockroachesunite]

Look how they cannibalized my boy

[paisleycowboys]

happy They Ate Him Tuesday to all who celebrate

[ashton-slashton]

[children cheering stock sfx immediately followed by tiktok boom sfx]

[hoeratius]

Congration to all my followers who are obsessed with the Terror and/or cannibalism, appreciate it's a big day for you all x

[3liza]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/theyre-not-human-how-19th-century-inuit-coped-with-a-real-life-invasion-of-the-walking-dead

Indigenous groups across the Americas had all encountered Europeans differently. But where other coastal groups such as the Haida or the Mi’kmaq had met white men who were well-fed and well-dressed, the Inuit frequently encountered their future colonizers as small parties on the edge of death.

“I’m sure it terrified people,” said Eber, 91, speaking to the National Post by phone from her Toronto home.

And it’s why, as many as six generations after the events of the Franklin Expedition, Eber was meeting Inuit still raised on stories of the two giant ships that came to the Arctic and discharged columns of death onto the ice.

Inuit nomads had come across streams of men that “didn’t seem to be right.” Maddened by scurvy, botulism or desperation, they were raving in a language the Inuit couldn’t understand. In one case, hunters came across two Franklin Expedition survivors who had been sleeping for days in the hollowed-out corpses of seals.

“They were unrecognizable they were so dirty,” Lena Kingmiatook, a resident of Taloyoak, told Eber.

Mark Tootiak, a stepson of Nicholas Qayutinuaq, related a story to Eber of a group of Inuit who had an early encounter with a small and “hairy” group of Franklin Expedition men evacuating south.

“Later … these Inuit heard that people had seen more white people, a lot more white people, dying,” he said. “They were seen carrying human meat.”

Even Eber’s translator, the late Tommy Anguttitauruq, recounted a goose hunting trip in which he had stumbled upon a Franklin Expedition skeleton still carrying a clay pipe.

By 1850, coves and beaches around King William Island were littered with the disturbing remnants of their advance: Scraps of clothing and camps still littered with their dead occupants. Decades later, researchers would confirm the Inuit accounts of cannibalism when they found bleached human bones with their flesh hacked clean.

“I’ve never in all my life seen any kind of spirit — I’ve heard the sounds they make, but I’ve never seen them with my own eyes,” said the old man who had gone out to investigate the Franklin survivors who had straggled into his camp that day on King William Island.

The figures’ skin was cold but it was not “cold as a fish,” concluded the man. Therefore, he reasoned, they were probably alive.

“They were beings but not Inuit,” he said, according to the account by shaman Nicholas Qayutinuaq.

The figures were too weak to be dangerous, so Inuit women tried to comfort the strangers by inviting them into their igloo.

But close contact only increased their alienness: The men were timid, untalkative and — despite their obvious starvation — they refused to eat.

The men spit out pieces of cooked seal offered to them. They rejected offers of soup. They grabbed jealous hold of their belongings when the Inuit offered to trade.

When the Inuit men returned to the camp from their hunt, they constructed an igloo for the strangers, built them a fire and even outfitted the shelter with three whole seals.

Then, after the white men had gone to sleep, the Inuit quickly packed up their belongings and fled by moonlight.

Whether the pale-skinned visitors were qallunaat or “Indians” — the group determined that staying too long around these “strange people” with iron knives could get them all killed.

“That night they got all their belongings together and took off towards the southwest,” Qayutinuaq told Dorothy Eber.

But the true horror of the encounter wouldn’t be revealed until several months later.

The Inuit had left in such a hurry that they had abandoned several belongings. When a small party went back to the camp to retrieve them, they found an igloo filled with corpses.

The seals were untouched. Instead, the men had eaten each other.

[jeyneofpoole]

ok i’m out of class. wish that i could describe the absolutely GHOULISH face i made at my phone when i got the ‘fitzjames found!’ notif while reading one of his letters from may we be spared. i started tearing up it was ridiculous

[crancisfrozier]

Truly if they ever identify Francis Crozier in my lifetime I am going to have to be institutionalized for my own well being.

[pintsofguinnesmakeyoustrong]

number one funniest bit in amc the terror is when hickey is aggressively singing the british national anthem into the arctic abyss to try and summon the local magic polar bear while everyone around him is throwing up and dying from goodsir's poisoned ass meat