Thread:ElsaRules!!!/@comment-24588058-20151005005506

So, I've been gone awhile, but during that time I found a few things out that I am really interested in. However, I have had trouble coming up with the artifacts, so here are the topics.


 * Japanese Second Lieutenant Hiro Onoda surrenders to his superior officer in the Philippines in 1974. He was fighting a war for thirty years, not believing it was over, and was waiting for orders from a superior officer. The man who initially found and befriended him, a felloe Japanese man named Norio Suzuki, said he was looking for "Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the Abominable Snowman, in that order." Onoda turned over his sword, his functioning Arisaka Type 99 rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades, as well as the dagger his mother had given him in 1944.
 * In 2014, search teams found one of the two missing ships from Sir John Franklin's expedition to map the Northwest Passage. The HMS Erebus was the lead ship. One story, handed down by the oral traditions of the Eskimos, indicate that some of the crew resorted to cannibalism, and another story indicated that the HMS Erebus had not sunk immediately. The last visual sighting of it by the Eskimos noted that black smoke had been rising from the ship, indicating that some of the crew may have returned to the ship. They also found some tracks leading south. 