Midnight Sun: Arctic Tales

EPISODE 138 | Midnight Sun: Arctic Tales

The Far North is a region of extremes and stark beauty, and it is also trying to kill you if you’re a human. And yet we still live there, around 4 million of us call the Arctic our home, and we still weave stories about it, often quite fanciful ones. 

It’s a land of adventure, danger, murder, mishap, giants, ancient aliens, the origin of white people, secret tropical paradises, political talking points and even an overly generous fat guy in a red suit. It all depends on who you talk to.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:43 - Greenland Bound - The Northwest Passage and the Lost Franklin Expedition, The Franklin Conspiracy
2. 13:49 - The Mighty Quinn - A brief history of the United States and Greenland, eyes on Canada
3. 27:57 - För Fäderneslandet - Thule, Ultima Thule, the Thule Society and the Oera Linda Book 
4. 35:38 - The Dream Is Always the Same - Hyperborea vs. Atlantis, the White Order of Thule
5. 42:54 - The Road to Utopia - The Alaska Triangle: a conspiracy theory concocted for television

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• Hotlantis: The Lost Continent episode
• Tell Me a Story: 3 UFO Tall Tales episode that includes the Dark Pyramid
• What Lies Beneath: The Hollow Earth episode
• History of the Franklin Expedition on the Government of Canada website
• What happened to HMS Erebus and Terror? on the Royal Museums Greenwich website
• What We Learned In The Search For Sir John Franklin on Arctic Kingdom
• Franklin’s Lost Expedition: Myths, Mystery & Modern Day Relics on Quark Expeditions
• Sir John Franklin's last arctic expedition: a medical disaster in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
• The great polar mystery: closing in on the truth in New Scientist
• The Franklin Conspiracy: An Astonishing Solution to the Lost Arctic Expedition by Jeffrey Blair Latta
• War And Winter In The North Atlantic on the U.S. Naval Institute
• Cryolite, a rare mineral, is rekindling tensions between Greenland and Denmark in Le Monde
• Early US Interest in Greenland section of Governing the North American Arctic: Sovereignty, Security, and Institutions on Google Books