On June 25th, 1981 physical anthropologist Owen Beattie set out on a mission. Using his knowledge of forensic anthropology he wanted to uncover the time-hidden secrets of the Franklin expedition. Once and for all he hoped to substantiate or disprove the rumors of the cannibalism that allegedly the crew was forced to resort to. To do this Beattie and his company were forced to battle the "extremely low, marshy, and sandy," land and the lack of sites. Upon finally coming across a site they found some potential indications for the occurrence of cannibalism, though nothing concrete as of yet.

Their first discovery: a portion of a skull, would be one of the most telling artifacts of the expedition. The skull was, like the other bones later exposed, covered in "areas of shallow pitting and scaling on the outer surface." This giving merit to the claims by many historians that...