What really happened to Sir John Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition, and how much of AMC’s The Terror is grounded in the historical record? Today we're joined by Rich Napolitano, host of Shipwrecks and Sea Dogs, to compare the TV series with the real story of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, from the search for the Northwest Passage to the evidence historians have uncovered about the crew’s fate.

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0:00 Intro to The Terror

2:12 Two Truths and a Lie

4:08 Meet Rich Napolitano

7:22 The Real Franklin Expedition

20:06 Stuck in the Arctic Ice

33:42 Food, Disease, and Survival

47:41 The Terror’s Supernatural Twist

59:18 How the Expedition Ended

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