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In 1934, Arctic Explorers Claimed They Were Hunted by the Ice Wraiths

I never believed in ghosts. Not until the Arctic took half my team and left me with memories that crack through my sleep like ice splitting under pressure. My name is Thomas Whitmore, and in the winter of 1934, I led a joint British-Norwegian expedition into the frozen hell north of Svalbard. We were supposed to be mapping uncharted territories, documenting glacial formations, collecting data that would cement our names in the journals of the Royal Geographical Society. Instead, we documented something that should have stayed buried under a thousand feet of ice and silence. The team assembled in Tromsø during the last week of October. There were eight of us initially. Erik Nordström, our Norwegian guide, had survived three previous Arctic expeditions and carried himself with the quiet confidence of a man who understood the ice. His brother Lars handled our sled dogs, twelve Greenland huskies that could pull through conditions that would kill a man in minutes. Dr. Margaret Ashford served as our expedition medic and biologist, one of the few women the Society had reluctantly approved for fieldwork. James Crawford, our photographer, had documented expeditions across four continents. Robert McKenzie and David Fletcher were surveyors, tasked with creating accurate maps of the regions we traversed. And then there was Father Patrick O'Connor, a Catholic priest with a peculiar interest in Arctic folklore, whose inclusion I had questioned but couldn't deny given his financial backing of our venture. We departed Tromsø on November second aboard a reinforced vessel that pushed through early ice formations like a knife through frozen butter. The darkness had already descended on the Arctic, that months-long night that transforms the region into something alien and hostile. Our destination was an unmapped glacier system approximately four hundred kilometers north-northeast of Svalbard, an area where Norwegian whalers had reported unusual magnetic disturbances and atmospheric phenomena that interfered with their navigation equipment.