Archibald Witwicky


 * Archibald Amundsen Witwicky is a human.

Captain Archibald Amundsen Witwicky, father of Clarence Witwicky led the National Arctic Circle Expedition in 1897.

Although he discovered the frozen form of Skyfire, he was unable to bring back proof and was declared insane. He spent the rest of his life in an asylum. He died August 13, 1938.

Archy's great-grandsons Ron and Sparkplug Witwicky have no idea he even existed, since their father refused to even discuss his "crazy grandfather."

MUX canon
"... I didn't come all this way to 'leave well 'nuff alone!'"

- Words that Witwicky would later regret

In 1897, Captain Archibald Witwicky led the National Arctic Circle Expedition when their ship became frozen in the ice. His first mate Reginald Danco noticed that their dogs were keenly interested in whatever lay beneath the frozen wastes and called Witwicky over to investigate. Despite Danco's well-founded caution in light the expedition's foul luck, Witwicky bravely dug into the ice, and what he saw underneath changed him. Discovering the frozen form of an alien robot, Witwicky called to the others, but the find was buried in an ice cave-in before any other witnesses could verify what he'd found. Declared insane, by 1898, Witwicky was in the Boston Secure Hospital.

Witwicky spent the rest of his life in the most politically incorrect asylum in Louisiana, raving about "giants" trapped in the northern ice. Decades after his death, Archibald's descendants Ronald and Sparkplug have no idea he existed, or that a century later they would unknowingly verify their great-grandfather's claim.