Episodes

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  Episode 3

  The Flannan Isles

  1899–1901 · 13.33 min

  Three lighthouse keepers vanished from a rock twenty miles west of the Hebrides in December 1900. The famous logbook that records their last days was never written, and the real papers say something plainer.

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  Episode 2

  Roanoke: The Lost Colony

  1584–1590 · 20.32 min

  A hundred and fifteen English settlers vanished from an island in 1587. They left one word carved on a post, and no sign of distress above it.

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  Episode 1

  Franklin's Lost Expedition

  1845–1859 · 17.5 min

  Two Royal Navy ships sailed for the Northwest Passage in 1845 and never came back. A single sheet of paper, written on twice a year apart, is most of what we know.