The Village That Vanished

history is lited with instances in which large groups of people disappeared under mysterious circumstances in most cases some form of explanation for what happened is eventually been accepted but with a precious few the facts are so inexplicable that no convincing hypothesis has ever been agreed upon in this story We examine one such occurrence the village that vanished [Music] [Music] the sun had not long risen when Joe laal had packed the last of the equipment into his canoe and then set off Downstream whilst the the previous evening had been cold this November was actually far milder

than many others he had experienced during his years trapping in Canada's Northwest Territories instead rather than the low temperatures it was the lack of sustenance that now spurred him on the latest leg of his journey this Expedition Into the Wilderness had thus far produced little in the way of bounty for the seasoned Hunter offering few opportunities to supplement his existing supplies thankfully from previous Expeditions he was aware that there was a Friendly innuit Village lying just a little further along the shores of lake anjikuni with look they would accept the Furs he had managed to

acquire in exchange for food and [Music] Provisions after an hour of travel label finally spied a thin plume of dark gray smoke curling up into the sky from the shoreline with a rice smile He adjusted his course accordingly and began to paddle towards the small collection of sheds and Huts that came into view moments later his canoe made contact with the Frozen Shoreline and the Trapper made his way into the village the lack of activity was at first not particularly concerning to Lael it was still relatively early in the day and it was possible that

the bulk of The Village's inhabitants were off Hunting away from the settlement but it quickly became apparent that every single one of the structures was completely empty fires were still burning and freshly prepared food had been left out ready to cook but of the villagers themselves there was no Trace perplexed the Bell resolved to investigate further on the outskirts he found the remains of The Village's Huskies all of which had seemingly perished due to malnutrition more worrying still the graves of the inhabitants dead relatives had been dug up leaving icy voids where the buried remains

should have been with an uncomfortable feeling rising in his gut the Trapper began to consider what his next move should be as the day progressed he could find no clue as to the Fate which had befallen the villagers and no indication that they were due to return wor still precious hours of daylight were burning away the Bell did not relish the prospect of traveling through the night and he had no desire to spend an evening in the deserted village so he began to collect as many items of food as he could carry with the skies

beginning to darken the hunter hurried back back to his canoe and cast off navigating into the main Channel he looked over his shoulder catching one last glimpse of the abandoned settlement bizarrely it now appeared to be illuminated by a strange bluish glow which was emanating from Somewhere Beyond the Horizon with a grunt Leal began to paddle faster determined to put as much distance as possible between himself in the unsettling scene before Darkness forced him to once again stop and set up camp in the first week of January 1931 a small Detachment of Royal Canadian Mounted

Police Officers departed from their barracks in Manitoba and set off on a grueling 560 mile ride across country towards Lake anjikuni they were led by Sergeant Jay Nelson and had been patched in relation to a garbled and confusing telegram which had arrived at their Outpost several weeks before the journey was lengthy and arduous but passed largely without incident until the mounties finally neared their destination Keen to test the validity of the puzzling communication they had received from Joe La Bell Nelson ordered his men to conduct discreet inquiries with any hunters or local tribesmen they encountered

along the way their investigations first led them to a local hospital where an innuit Trapper named Sach was recovering from the effects of extreme frostbite he had been found by another group of hunters alone and unconscious lying in a snowdrift with his legs so badly Frozen that he still had yet to recover any feeling in them the constables questioned him at length but other than a few feverish comments about an evil spirit known as torn Roth they could make little sense of his replies unable to elicit anything useful from the hunter the mounties were then

directed to an innu village located roughly 150 mi from their destination it was alleged that the tribe there had adopted a 10-year-old boy who had wandered into the settlement one evening in the middle of a snowstorm which occurred 2 months before the village Elders confirm this to be the truth adding that the child had not spoken a word since his arrival and that none of the surrounding tribes had any idea where he came from but it was the testimony of a local Trapper Arman luron that most troubled Nelson the hunter explained that for the past

few months he and his two sons had witnessed strange and bizarre bluish lights in the night sky which had followed them on one occasion they also caught sight of a large cylindrical object hovering above them which had transformed into a bullet-like shape before heading off at speed in the direction of Lake anjikuni eventually the party reached their destination binding it largely as it had been described by jool Lael the settlement was small with the population there believed to have been no greater than 30 people and was completely deserted when they arrived ordering his men to

spread out and begin searching the perimeter Nelson continued alone into the center of the village taking notes as he did so as he walked between the empty Huts he took in the remains of unattended meals spoiled and welded to the sides of their cooking pots the fires below them having long since died away inside one of the structures was a child's coat which seemed to have been discarded halfway through being repaired with a needle and thread the Frozen remains of the Huskies were also lying exactly where lebel had described skeletal in appearance due to a

parent starvation joining his officers at The Village's burial site Nelson found several empty depressions in the ground each roughly the length and depth of a grave the ice around these holes was still frozen hard and smooth with no signs that they had been dug out using a hand or tool the headstones were stuck neatly in two piles nearby seemingly refuting any Act of nature or animal predation after spending several hours in the village Nelson ordered his men back to the horses and set off on the long journey back home upon his return to Manatoba he

reported that he had found nothing of note at the Village he could not explain how or why the people had left and neither could he find any indication of criminal activity one thing that Nelson did note however was that leel did not appear to be as seasoned a hunter as he had purported having only applied for his first Trapper license during the previous year he had also since sold his story to the Halifax Herald a local newspaper notorious for its tall stories and inaccurate journalism with his report filed Nelson moved on to his regular duties

with no further official investigation into the matter ever taking place while Sergeant Nelson's report and investigation are as thorough as can be expected given the resource forces he had to work with they contribute nothing in terms of an answer as to the fate of the missing villagers his findings differ little from the initial account provided by Joe laal and do not offer any real explanation for the disappearances save that it was not a criminal act the fact that fires were still smoldering in the village when leel arrived would indicate that whatever took place did so

very recently there were no obvious signs of a disturbance or that an altercation had taken place it was as if the people living there had just stopped what they were doing and walked away from the village on mass leaving their sleds and kayaks behind but this scenario does not account for why they had left their Huskies or indeed why these animals had not been fed for some time and had not eaten any of the food or supplies which were now lying unattended it also does not explain why the bodies of the Dead villagers were removed

to interfere with the remains of a departed loved one was the height of disrespect to the innuit people and the graves did not appear to have been exhumed by any method known to man Sergeant Nelson's observation that leel had only recently applied for a trapping license does not necessarily indicate deceit it is perhaps more likely that he had spent many years operating without one before finally being forced by the authorities into getting one his account is also not overly indicative of someone who tells Tall Tales it was backed up by the findings of the subsequent

police investigation with no embellishments or exaggerations detected so what could explain the sudden and unexpected disappearance of 30 people from their homes leaving very little behind in the way of evidence very few rational explanations are to be found it is possible that the villagers abandon the safety of their settlement for fear of some looming tragedy such as a disease or the threat of violence from a neighboring community and yet this seems highly unlikely it is easy to dismiss the claims of mysterious lights in the sky reported by Arman luron as simply being the Aurora bore

Alice but this does not explain the mysterious flying craft he and his sons described to the investigating officers as an experienced Hunter and Trapper he would have been perfectly aware of the northern lights and whether something different was taking place in the skies above for many years after the event rumors swirled that the mounties had seen mysterious blue lights shadowing them from above during their Journey but that the RCMP had ordered the members of the Detachment to remain silent about what they had witnessed could the explanation for The Disappearance be one of alien abduction the

villagers and their dead beamed out of the village by a passing extraterrestrial craft and what are we to make of the testimony of the injured innuit Hunter saac the being he described to the officers was a vengeful Spirit from Inuit folklore this creature was an oversized man with large tusks protruding from the sides of its mouth who is believed to have the ability to control nature and to create lethal and terrifying snow storms for many years there has been mention of various monsters living undisturbed in the vast and unexplored areas of North America these include

Sasquatches giant humanoids and terrifying dinosaur likee creatures residing within waterways such as Lake anjikuni could whatever creature the Inuit came to know as torn Rock be yet another entity to be added to this growing gallery of strange beings there are also suggestions that the region may be home to a series of Rifts or breaches between [Music] Dimensions over time a significant number of aircraft and ships have vanished with some believing that they and their occupants had disappeared through weaknesses that separate our reality from neighboring ones throughout the years the story of the missing Inuit Village

has been Revisited by various authors and the RCMP have been asked to provide more detail of their investigation into the matter they maintain that no crime took place and that the story is at best an exaggeration and at worst a deliberately staged fabrication examining the various account surrounding the event does seem to add some weight to this argument since the original newspaper article which was published in 1930 various embellishments from lebel's account appear to have been added by subsequent Publications sometimes the number of Graves that had been Disturbed varies in others the nature of the

structures encountered by leel have been altered with a suggestion that they were in fact tense rather than permanent buildings if it truly was makeshift accommodation that leel saw at the side of the lake this would offer a more realistic explanation for the incident what he stumbled across may have been the remains of a seasonal or temporary camp with the inhabitant simply moving off onto a new or permanent settlement somewhere else in search of money for his story perhaps the Trapper did exaggerate the encounter or stage some of it for the mounties to [Music] find as

with many of the events that we have examined it is unlikely that the truth will ever come to light too much time has now elapsed and there is no obvious Source from which any further Evidence may be forthcoming this mystery like so many others which have taken place in the Canadian wilderness will forever remain as such [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] B time glorious PE