The Antarctic ghost stories of Scott and Shackleton expeditions in late twentieth-century accounts

Record summary

Late twentieth-century books and heritage accounts surrounding the preserved huts of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton often mention eerie atmospheres, unexplained sounds, apparitions, or a perceived presence associated with dead expedition members. These stories belong to Antarctic expedition folklore layered onto real sites, artefacts, diaries, and fatalities. They matter for comparing isolation, environmental stress, memorial culture, and tourism. The underlying expeditions are well documented, but many supernatural anecdotes are undated, second-hand, or absent from the explorers’ contemporaneous records.