In 1860, Cincinnati Seal and press manufacturer and shop owner Charles Francis Hall had a dream of searching for The lost Franklin expedition which disappeared in the Arctic years earlier. Hall went three times, living with the natives and eventually heard Franklin and his men died under starvation circumstances. Halls third visit ended with his death there. Ninety-seven years later, Chauncey Loomis headed an expedition to Hall's grave in northwestern Greenland. He exhumed Hall's frozen body and performed an autopsy. His findings suggest that Hall may have been poisoned by his disgruntled men. In 2014 archeologists working near King William Island, Nunavut have located the wreck of one of the two ships from Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 expedition. The vessels have long been some of the world’s most sought after shipwrecks
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