8 Explorers Who Vanished Without a Trace

[@EddieVanAidan]

Loved these vids for many years! Never been a big fan of the ‘list’ genre, but this always feels like a super friendly educational channel rather than click bait. Annoys me that the almighty algorithm ignores you guys 😤

[@PurpleLion35]

The green brothers tainted this channel permanently

[@nikolausdeems1922]

@@PurpleLion35 Jesus whaddaya got against Hank and John?

[@ThatNordicGuy]

2:38 You mean they LEFT the Mediterranean, right? They sailed from Genoa, through the Strait of Gibraltar and disappeared somewhere in the Atlantic!

[@Chickenhouse577]

Two good examples of spite are students who got back at their teachers When he in high school, John B. Gurdon failed biology, and got the worst grade out of 250 students. Gurdon's headmaster with the note that "he would have no chance of doing the work of a specialist, and it would be a sheer waste of time, both on his part and of those who would have to teach him." Gurdon went on to show him by continuing to take classes in biology, eventually he won a Nobel prize for his research on cloning and stem cells. Similarly, In 1982, a sophmore at the University of Texas Gregory Watson wrote a term paper on a proposed amendment from 1789 to limited congressional salaries that was never ratified. Because it did not not have a time limit on it, it could technically still be ratified. The professor gave him a C, insisting that nobody cared, and that it would never be ratified, even if they did. Watson said screw that, and started calling state legislatures. In 1992, the amendment was officially ratified as the 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 202 years after it was first presented to Congress.

[@anttibjorklund1869]

Out of spite - one of the figures portrayed in Hell in Michelangelo's The Last Judgement is generally agreed to have been given the features of Biagio da Cesena, a critic of Michelangelo in the Papal court.

[@snavehcar]

They tell this story on the Vatican Museum tour. The depiction is the man with the snake wrapped around him. The snake’s head covering his genitals. When Biagio complained about the depiction to the pope, the pope took one look at the painting and responded: Listen, I have no control of where the Holy Spirit takes the artist.

[@camillastacey4674]

I saw where Amundsen and Nobile launched their airship from in Svalbard earlier this year- there's a big statue of Amundsen there.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

Did people have guns for the polar bears, like I've heard?

[@camillastacey4674]

@@TheDanishGuyReviews yes, wherever you are outside the town you have to have a gun or be with someone who has one. Whenever we went on land a group of guides with rifles went first to clear the area and make sure there were no bears, then we had to keep within a perimeter of them to be safe.

[@Cryttanz]

You forgot about Archibald Witwicky Captain Archibald Amundsen Witwicky, [1] father of Clarence Witwicky, led the National Arctic Circle Expedition in 1897. He basically went bonkers after Megatron burned out his eyes, and spent the rest of his life in an asylum. He died August 13, 1938. Archy's great-great-grandson Sam Witwicky thinks he is lame, and wants to eBay his priceless heirlooms to buy a car.

[@livebackwards]

The Spite Fence: Charles Crocker, a railroad investor, succeeded in buying every house on Nob Hill, San Francisco except one, which belonged to his neighbor, an undertaker named Nicolas Yung. When Yung refused to sell, Crocker erected a gigantic fence on all four sides of Yung's house, essentially trapping his neighbor in a lidless box. There's a panoramic photo of it and it's truly breathtaking. For more info, I highly recommend the episode of the history podcast The Dollop called The Spite Fence.

[@johnmcnally7812]

If you set sail on an exploratory mission aboard the HMS Terror, do you really expect to return home?

[@dexterscott7017]

Newton (probably) had the portrait of Robert Hooke destroyed once he became president of the royal society, because Hooke claimed that he gave Newton the inspiration for Newton's theory of gravity.

[@benjamingoodberlet8104]

And it was basically the only picture of Hooke there was…

[@lukey7788]

Newfoundland is pronounced with emphasis on 'land' (so it rhymes with sand, planned, band, etc.). New-fin-LAND

[@AveryMilieu]

4:24 or so you go into a story about a city that never existed. Lost City of Z. In recent years LIDAR and other satellite scanning technology has shown that in the Amazonian jungle there were several cities, cultures that used sophisticate garden/farming methods to create fertile soil in organized shapes. Roads and raised platforms of earth large enough to hold a sizable community and hiding under the trackless jungle. Maybe you should look for that information...

[@tophers3756]

Yeah, but that's not what he was looking for. That movie completely misrepresented what he was searching for and believed to be in the jungle. The explorer was a follower of Mdme. Blavatsky who "channeled" that there was a technologically superior ancient WHITE race (referred to as "White Indians") that built a large city with classical Greek architecture in the Amazon jungle. That's what that guy was looking for. Not some interconnected series of modest villages that were roughly consistent with those typical of the native tribes in size and technology. The movie misrepresented or omitted a lot to make him seem like someone he really wasn't.

[@Yvo19]

Columbus got lost. It was simply blind luck that he "discovered" the Americas. He thought he was in India. That's why native americans have been referred to as "Indians". I don't understand why folk celebrate him.

[@stevevernon1978]

there are those that claim Columbus KNEW the claim that the world was smaller than had already been proved was false, and that Asia was NOT within the range that the crews would stand going, and lied to the King and Queen to get the funding for the voyage, and MAY have know about rumored lands BETWEEN Spain and Asia. and thereby was NOT lost, but was a scammer.

[@Trekki200]

Those lists used to.be much better quality, at least two of those aren't really the whole story... The thing with Eudoxus is technically correct but maybe not exactly the way the story should be told: as there were successful expeditions around the entire African continent in Ptolemaic times, however it isn't clear if those were done by Europeans or Egyptians as Egypt was ruled by the Greek (or rather Makedons) at that time. And Percy Fawcett was probably not as mental as it's made out here. While the lost city of Oz (a legendary, gold covered, place like El Dorado) he was searching most likely didn't exist, there has recently been found evidence that there was at least one bigger settlement in the area he was searching. It was just probably long abandoned and made from wood, rather than the still inhabitated stone city he was searching, but he was not just some Dude chasing a phantom...

[@kookookookookookookoo]

The whole manual teller industry was taken down out of spite because a rival's wife was sending callers to her husbands business instead of him. So he invented the automated teller machine to redirect calls without the need of a person to manually do it.

[@Observer31]

the hot air baloon duel certainly seem spiteful...

[@music-iw1ch]

I have a question: “are there fatalities from climbing mountains and what are they?”

[@graphosxp]

If Erin was lost like Amelia Earhart I would never stop looking until I found her!

[@I.____.....__...__]

I'm sure her husband would beat you to it.

[@carolinapereira7476]

Not bad Portuguese accent 👏👏

[@benjamingoodberlet8104]

The invention of the electronic telephone switchboard (that put thousands of people out of work) was developed out of spite after the inventors funeral home business’ calls were being incorrectly (but intentionally) directed to a rivals business by the owners wife (who was a switchboard operator).

[@benjamingoodberlet8104]

He killed an entire occupation out of spite…

[@randyreese6413]

OUT OF SPITE - At the time Muhamed was in Mecca and his followers owned most of the shops in the city, following the Jews of Mecca chastising him for teaching what he claimed was "true" Judism, Muhamed changed the Islamic holy day from Saturday to Friday so that the Jews would have to do their shopping for the Sabbith on Thursday.

[@imir8atu321]

Nice wig

[@arrowghost]

Sigh, the name Amelia Earhart is the figure that will instantly reminds me of MH370

[@I.____.....__...__]

Amelia Earhart wasn't an explorer. That's like saying Indiana Jones is a racecar-driver because he drove fast once.

[@JoRiver11]

What qualifies a person as an explorer?

[@bigpapadrew]

you could probably include burke and wills in this video, except their dead bodies were discovered, as youd expect when two white fellas decide they have the mettle to traverse earth's hottest, driest continent :D

[@fredbar10drjones]

please pronounce names correctly. it's not hard and it's disrespectful. keep the great stuff coming guys!!!

[@peterclark6290]

If you leave the known and head into the unknown then seriously... how can you 'get' lost? That was the intent was it not? If you don't know where you are then you have only one option, retrace your steps to through the new 'known' to return to the old 'known'. But you started out to uncover the new, not to replicate carefully coiffed hair: that's just sensible, boring and even worse - wasteful. Death is unavoidable, the sole alternative is to make a name for yourself or die trying. Imagine being one of the many millions whose life, loves, hard work, creative efforts just evaporated with their demise. They were never here, there or anywhere, the Stat-Istic family. Started out with great-grampappy Non-Entity.

[@rudyoliveira6532]

First bitches!