Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet....
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we’re going exploring, but unlike the people on
this list, we are going to make it back!
That is right – we’re talking the Top 10 Scary Expeditions that people Never Returned
From.
What is the furtherst you have ever journyed?!
I spent 23 hours travelling from London
to Perth!
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10 - The Devil’s Triangle Lop Nur is a dried up salt lake with a mysterious
history and the nickname The Devil’s Triangle.
The former lake is a hostile place known to have been the death spot of hundreds of people.
In 1980, Chinese Explorer Peng Jiamu vanished here on an Expedition.
The explorer was several days into his journey when he disappeared.
It seems that he left a note at his camping saying he was going out to find water.
Despite rescue missions, the explorer was never found.
It is still an unsolved mystery to this day.
9 - The HMS Terror
Who calls their ship the HMS Terror!
Blimey!
Victorian Explorer Sir John Franklin set off on an expedition to find the Northwest Passage
in the Arctic on the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus in 1845.
The ships were spotted at Baffin by a whaling ship but the 60 year old explorer and the
129 crew members he took with him were never found again.
Numerous rescue missions were sent to find the team but it wasn’t until nearly 15 years
later, after a tip off from local first nations hunters, that some of the groups remains were
discovered on King William Island.
It seems that the ships had become trapped in sea ice.
Some explorers died from the cold as they tried to march across the ice to safety, others
stayed alive for a while on the ship by sheltering from the conditions and eating the food supplies,
only to die from lead poisoning from lead used to seal the cans.
A lot of the sailors bodies had become mummified but Sir John Franklin’s body was never found.
8 - Naomi Uemura
Naomi Umera was a modern Japanese explorer.
I say was as the man is missing presumed dead but who knows, he could still be out there
somewhere.
Uemura was part of the first Japanese team to scale mount Everest - which is no mean
feat.
The man was a seasoned intense explorer.
He was the first person to reach the North Pole solo.
He met his end...or so we think, in Alaska as he attempted to be the first person to
solo winter climb Mount McKinley.
That was the last anyone ever heard from him.
Search teams went to look for him in the tundra... his diary was found hidden in a snow cave
but sadly his body has never been found and how he met his end remains a deep mystery.
7 The Flood I want you to know about Isabella Eberhardt.
This woman was an explorer and adventurer.
She was born in Geneva to a Prussian aristocrat and an rebel priest who turned to anarchy.
Isabelle’s greatest adventure and motivation was to stage revolts against French Colonialism.
She travelled to Algeria, converted to Islam and dressed as a man named Si Mahmoud Saadi
as she explored Africa.
She survived an assassination attempt by the French and was eventually killed by a flash
flood when she was exploring Algeria.
It is said that, realizing she couldn’t outrun the water, she turned to face it instead.
She is absolutely my female sasspiration of the say
Another Lady to add to our list of fearless explorers...a story often told but never solved...
at number ** we have
6 - The Circumnavigation
Amelia Earhart was an aviator of the highest order....she was an utter babe, a record setter,
a best selling author and a political influencer.
Honey survived the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 which killed between 3-5 percent of the
earths population at the time and infected 500 million people!
An avid explorer and boundary pusher, Amelia set her sights on becoming the first female
to circumnavigate the globe.
On July 2nd 1937, just three weeks before her 40th birthday, Amelia and her navigator
a Fred Noonan disappeared in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
It is thought something went amiss in the pacific ocean near Howland Island, but to
this day, nobody knows as Amelia’s body and aircraft have never been found.
Many wild theories have formed, some suggesting she made it to Howland Island and lived as
a castaway, others say she was captured by Japanese troupes who held her hostage and
the US government refused to pay her ransom.
Some even say she faked her own death and lived a life under a new identity in New Jersey.
5 - City of Z
El Dorado or the City of Z sounds pretty appealing on paper.
After the Spanish Invaded South America they came back claiming to have seen cities made
of gold and filled with treasure, the most beautiful of which was El Dorado.
The city was thought to be in the Colombia or Brazil and many expeditions were led to
try and find it.
Famously British Explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett set out to find the utopia.
The man had an esteemed military career and was excellent at creating maps of the uncharted
and unknown.
His keen sense of adventure led him to want to find the golden city.
The last letter he sent was on May 29th 1925 as his team prepared to cover another 15 miles
that day in their pursuit of riches.
That was the last anybody heard from him.
There were rumours that he had joined a native tribe and others that he set up a mystical
commune.
The best theory is that he had been killed by tribesman.
Either way, despite 13 rescue expeditions, he was never found.
What were his last word in his last letter?
You need have no fear of any failure .
4 – Roanoke There were two expedition attempts to Dare
County, North Carolina.
In 1585, a small group of English settlers journeyed to Ronake Island off the coast of
North Carolina and attempted to make it their home.
Some wrote that they found the conditions unsatisfactory and some even left….the people
that ditched the settler expedition survived...those who stuck it out...well..not so much.
In 1587, 115 English Settlers came to join those who were still there but weirdly they
found no one…
not a sausage … they figured as they’d just moved on else where.
The only thing is, they were never heard from again.
The second round of Roanoakers settled up and after a while decided to send their governor,
John White, back to England to gather fresh supplies and fresh recruits to expand the
colony.
White made the three year round journey but dutifully returned to the settlement, where
he had left his wife and daughter he found no trace of the inhabitants.
Again.
Just like last time, only he knew his wife wouldnt have left without a messenger or a
letter.
The only clue he found was the word Croatoan carved into a wooden post?
How strange.
Where did the settlers of Roanoke go ? The second set of disappearees were also never
seen or heard from again.
Some theories say that they were killed by a fearsome Native American tribe, although
the fact that there was no trace of their bodies – not so much as an errant bone is
suspicious.
Croatoan?
The mystery is still one of the biggest to still remain unsolved today.
3 - Journey to the North Sentinel Island
There is a reason that people do not go here.
Amid the Indian Ocean, the North Sentinel Island has been the home to an uncontactable
indigenous tribe for 60,000 years – the Sentinelese.
They do not want any interference from the outside world and by and large that has been
respected.
Until recent years the tribe had just been spotted only through far off images.
Those unfortunate enough to get close to them have been attacked and often killed.
including two fisherman who were illegally harvesting crabs near the island in 2006.
In 2018, John Allen Chau, a 26 year old American Missionary, was sent out on an expedition
by the All Nations group to make contact and live among the Sentinelese.
Bad idea.
The purpose of the expedition was to convert the tribe to Christianity.... you can imagine
how well that went.
Chau kept a journal of expedition and his attempts to spread the word of Jesus – he
said he sang songs and offered the bible to the tribe…but the holy book was shot at
and pierced with an arrow by a young boy.
While to most that would have served as a warning, he persisted to no avail and was
met with a mixture of laughter and hostility.
It was last reported by the crew who went with him that he was dragged away and killed.
His body was spotted lifeless on the shore.
Some of the last words found in his diary were “God, I don’t want to die.”
2 - The Lost Cosmonauts
I can’t put this at number one as this is scary theory rather than provable fact but
it seems as if a lot.... a LOT of people think that a number of soviet cosmonauts went to
space before Yuri Gagarin but their missions went wrong so it was never publicized and
the data was expunged.
Evidence to this is perhaps supplied by the discovery of Valentin Bondarenko’s death
– a would be astronaut who died in training.
The death was covered up by the soviets but was discovered after the fall of the soviet
union in the 90s.
I can only imagine how brave a person would have to be to go to space now, but back then
before it had ever been done?
If the whispers of the Lost Cosmonauts are true – imagine going on an expedition to
SPACE in the 1960s?
We don’t know if they were real so we certainly don’t know how they died, but what if some
of them floated away gravity style.
1 - The Terra Nova Expedition...or The South Pole Race as its often known
I am just going outside, and may be some time.
These were the last words of explorer Lawrence Oats before he waded out into a blizzard without
his shoes on.
Lawrence was part of Captain Robert Scott’s doomed British expedition to race Roald Amundsen’s
team to be the first to the South Pole.
Dogs died one by one, followed by expeditioners.
There were just four men and a tent left when Oates realized he was too weak to continue
and that his fellow explorers wouldn’t leave him.
That left just three, including Scott.
Sadly the men died one by one, with Captain Robert Scott being the last.
His last diary entry read: Last entry.
For God's sake look after our people" He also wrote a note to the public...
I’ll read you a particularly rousing except - Had we lived, I should have had a tale to
tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred
the heart of every Englishman.
MATE.
So...what of the other expedition in the race?
The Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundesn got to the South Pole 5 weeks before Scott’s
did but their success was overshadowed by the tragedy of Scott’s losing expedition.
Years later Amundsen died looking for lost explorers in the Nirth pole.
His plane crashed and he was never seen again.
I feel like I actually want to cry.