June 04, 2025

Midnight Sun: Arctic Tales

50 minutes

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

02:43 - Greenland Bound - The Northwest Passage and the Lost Franklin Expedition, The Franklin Conspiracy

13:49 - The Mighty Quinn - A brief history of the United States and Greenland, eyes on Canada

27:57 - För Fäderneslandet - Thule, Ultima Thule, the Thule Society and the Oera Linda Book

35:38 - The Dream Is Always the Same - Hyperborea vs. Atlantis, the White Order of Thule

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

Claiming Ultima Thule

Thule culture in Britannica

Hammer Of The Gods: The Thule Society And The Birth Of Nazism by David Luhrssen

Ayrian race occultism: Thule Secret Society influence on Nazi ideology video

Nazi Archaeology and the Oera Linda Book

Saved from the Flood - Oera Linda studies website

Ancient Sources about Hyperborea

Hyperborea on RationalWiki

Former Neo-Nazi Explains ‘Esoteric Nazism’

The Alaska Triangle – Disappearing Into Thin Air on Legends in America

What is the Alaska Triangle, where 20,000+ people have disappeared and never been found

The Alaska Triangle on IMDb

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