If you've watched the 2018 British historical series Terror, you probably knew immediately what curse the title was talking about.
For everyone else, we will make a small digression into the topic.
In 1845, a British expedition led by Sir John Franklin attempted to cross the icy ocean in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, in search of the Northwest Passage through the ice.
From this major expedition, no one returned alive and both ships with a crew of 129 people disappeared without a trace, going down in history as the "Missing Franklin Expedition". Search teams were able to find only three graves on one of the deserted islands and the testimony of local Inuit aborigines.
According to these testimonies, both ships were hopelessly stuck in the ice off King William Island and the last members of the expedition went mad with hunger and cold, and then indulged in cannibalism. This was later confirmed. There have also been speculations about mass lead poisoning of people from canned meat.
For more than a century, the missing Franklin Expedition has found itself surrounded by many sinister myths, due to which it has come to be called the Cursed Expedition.
The Terror series, released in 2018, gracefully merges historical accuracy and a mystical aura. According to the plot, the sailors of "Erebus" and "Terror" kill an Inuit shaman, after which a mysterious monster appears - Tuunbak, similar to a hybrid of a polar bear and a man. The monster pursues the British trying to survive in the cold and ice and kills them one by one, personifying the curse imposed on them.
Monster Tuunbak from the TV series terror.
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Let's go back to reality.
In 2014, off the coast of King William, researchers finally managed to find the sunken ship Erebus, and in 2016, the crew of the research vessel Martin Bergman found the well-preserved hull of the Terror.
Erebus Corps.
And now the inhabitants of the Inuit village of Joa Haven, which is located on the same King William Island, complain that the researchers have awakened an old curse. According to them, since the "damned ships" were found and the divers began to sink to their bottom, people began to mysteriously die in their village.
Joa Haven Village.
The inhabitants of this village are the direct descendants of the Inuit who saw the last of the Franklin Expedition members dying. There are no other settlements on the island.
The population of Yoa Haven does not even reach a thousand, and when recently six people died here due to unusual reasons, gossip soon began to spread.
Now, the Inuit blame those who "disturbed the ashes of the dead sailors and awaken the curse imposed on them." In the past two years, divers have made several dives to the ships, trying to find various small items.
Shot from the TV series Terror.
They tried to explain to the Inuit that divers are only interested in various things and that no one will disturb the bones if they are found. But these words seem to have had no success.
When the Inuit learned that they had found the old sunken Erebus, their shamans came to this place and performed the curse-stopping ritual there. But in the place where "Terror" lies, no ritual was carried out immediately after it was found in 2016 for some reason.
Later, after people began to die in the village, the Inuit shamans nevertheless performed the necessary ritual in the "Terror" area. But so far no one knows whether he will stop death or it is too late.
Jacob Kinik.
Jacob Kinik himself especially trusts the words of his late mother, who believed that invisible creatures roam the island.
Kinik himself often senses the presence of something invisible when he goes with a friend to the part of the island that is closer to the sunken ships.
