8 Explorers Who Vanished Without a Trace

Amelia Earhart may be the most famous explorer who got lost, but she's hardly the only one. Lost explorers from history include Roald Amundsen, who led historic (successful) expeditions before disappearing, and Raleigh Rimmel, who may have been looking for a city that didn't even exist.

[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 😤

[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!

[Yvo]

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.

[anttibjorklund]

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.

[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.

[johnmcnally]

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

[camillastacey]

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

[dexterscott]

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.

[Chickenhouse]

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.

[lukey]

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

[Trekki]

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.

[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...

[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.

[benjamingoodberlet]

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).

[Observer]

the hot air baloon duel certainly seem spiteful...

[arrowghost]

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

[randyreese]

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.

[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

[music-iwch]

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