I filled my ears with the language of the distant seas, the stretching of ropes, the creaking of oak, the bending of the mast against the gale and the screaming of lives lost in the nothingness of the fight against nature to win the unwinnable and to die the unthinkable. “It’s a beautiful and tragic ghost story, and having always been a lover of ghost stories I enjoyed slipping into the character of the young woman. ![]() “The story is one of the most incredible accounts of human endeavour in the days when men pitted themselves against the world and weren’t scared to give their lives for the chance to create history,” says Mostyn, who performs the poem. Kielty discovered an account of Inuk tribesperson who boarded the Terror and met one of the British sailors, who was dying of malnutrition and metal poisoning in the brain, and had resorted to cannibalism in an attempt to survive. ![]() The Ghost Of Terror Bay is inspired by the doomed Franklin Expedition to the Arctic in 1845, which resulted in the deaths of all 129 crew members of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror over the following years.
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