Folklore says that the town was abandoned due to bigfoot attacks. Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, wrote stories of his childhood that include an encounter with Bauman, a seasoned trapper in Idaho. She told of cannery workers who went into the mountains to hunt Dall sheep and bear but never returned. He has written for 8 years in a variety of fields including history, health and politics. And his big feet.
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[3] It is thought to have been named after Captain Nathaniel Portlock,[1] a British ship captain who sailed there in 1786. 30. Today these two ghost towns located on the Kenai Peninsula remain uninhabited. ASL-PCA-66 | Alaska State Library - Historical Collections, UAF-1991-18-155 | Arnold Granville photographs | Alaska Digital Archives, ASL-P237-1-18 | Carl L. Hubbs Photograph Collection, 1939, ASL-PCA-237-1 | Alaska State Library - Historical Collections, UAF-1991-18-153 | Arnold Granville photographs | Alaska Digital Archives, ASL-P237-1-17 | Carl L. Hubbs Photograph Collection, 1939, ASL-PCA-237-1 | Alaska State Library - Historical Collections, Head To This Eerie Island For A Real Life Adventure In Alaska. It was enough to send the entire village running to the hills. He had sworn that if he had not had time to row out into the coastal waters they would have killed him with ease in short order!
That's the folklore. He then explained how Juneau's Hidden History focuses mostly on things that are inherently true.
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet or see on sensationalist TV shows. Thank you! Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. This does not match the behaviors of many known wild animal. Your account has been registered, and you are now logged in. In my youth, I wandered the woods of upstate New York in search of bigfoot tracks, bush huts, and bones. Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - The Alaska Air National Guard this week traveled nearly 660 miles (1,062 kilometers) to rescue a pregnant woman on a small island 2 miles (3 kilometers) from Russia, reflecting the challenges patients face in the nation's largest state where the most remote areas have no roads and hospitals can be hundreds of miles away. Regardless of his skepticism, there is something uncanny about several groups of people being fearful of this monster. document.write(year) Rushmore? WebAs part of my ongoing mission to dispel some of the myths surrounding cryptids, I need to talk to you about Portlock, Alaska. By then, locals spoke of a Yeti-like monster that walked the beaches of Portlock, destroying fish wheels and leaving giant 18-inch-long footprints. [4] These events led the residents of the community to flee en masse, and the town's post office officially closed between 1950 and 1951. The disappearances and the bodies found were too horrible for anyone to continue living in this small town. That is where our culture; thats where our people lived there and we have ties there. | Privacy Policy | Contact Us | DMCA Notice, This website uses cookies to improve your experience. Then there was a report of a mysterious death in 1931; a logger named Andrew Kamluck. They described her dress as being so long that she would have to drag it. Residents took off en masse in 1949, leaving their houses, the nearby chromium mine, the cannery, the teacher cottage, and the large school house, to return to the wilderness. In 1931, one man that was chopping wood was found murdered, seemingly by a single blow that seemed stronger than a human could manage. However the locals had a name for it: the Portlock Sasquatch. Hes out there. Im right. https://www.kinyradio.com/news/news-of-the-north/mysteries-of-portlock-alaska-and-the-abandonment-of-the-small-town-in-the-1900s/, https://www.anchoragepress.com/news/framing-nantiinaq-alaska-s-best-known-cryptid-homicide-case-debunked/article_ed6facfe-a1f9-11eb-b7fc-0bba856ee2fe.htm. Did you see it?. But the trail of the moose ended abruptly here, and of either animal there was no sign. While treating the man, the paramedic happened to mention he had hunted in the area of Port Chatham. He barely escaped with his life and he was convinced that it was a bigfoot. In the 1970s, fisherman forced to take refuge from a storm reported something strange walked through their camp on two feet. He came back to us with a collection of research on strange happenings in the town of Portlock that is south of Homer. S of Seldovia, Chugach Mts.
It was dissolved as a CDP by the 1990 census and has not reported again. Bigfoot never kill anybody. We dont want to bother it or offend it because then we might have problems.
[1] It is located in Port Chatham bay, from which an adjacent community takes its name. Legend has it that it was because of a creature called the Nantiinaq, or Hairy Man, a murderous Bigfoot like creature creeping around the woods and killing people that ventured into his territory.
When they found his body, there was blood on the crane and he was a good ten feet from it. Source: GARETH / Adobe Stock. Those rotting wooden structures remind us of good times past that once brought citizens to that point in time when living there was an attractive prospect. The worst cases to me are the Daniel Boone Killed a Bigfoot in Kentucky story and the Cherokee Bigfoot. [4][1][5] Many villagers blamed the unexplained deaths and disappearances on a Bigfoot-like creature referred to locally as Nantinaq. It all began almost from its very start. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Maybe she was grieving and still in pain for the lost old way that she grew up compared to how it became. Her story has been perceived as being factual by authors, documentarians, and bigfoot buffs like me. The best hidden gems and little known destinations - straight to your inbox. They arrived at the site of a bloody battle and no moose was found. Fischer is charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old woman behind an Anchorage restaurant in 1995. On the southernmost region of Alaskas Kenai Peninsula lies the remnants of a small village called Portlock. Roosevelt writes, Grasping his rifle, he fired at the vague, threatening shadow, but must have missed, for immediately afterwards he heard the smashing of the under wood as the thing, whatever it was, rushed off into the impenetrable blackness of the forest and the night., After a couple more days of empty traps and sleepless nights, the men decided to break camp. [4] In 1921, a United States Post Office opened in the town.
Shed tell stories of the bigfoot, like in Dogfish area, her and her brother would talk about how bigfoot was around. Anchorage, Alaska (KINY) - The task force is charged with developing a plan to improve the availability and affordability of quality child care throughout Alaska. She said that many of the residents refused to venture into the surrounding forests, and over time, abandoned their homes and the village school, and moved up the coast to Port Graham. Alaska is larger than life, with overwhelming landscapes offering adventure.
What he saw threw him into a panic as a group of vicious hairy men began converging on his position. In 1950, residents of a small fish processing village in Portlock, Alaska were evacuated after a string of at least 30 brutal deaths and disappearances of their locals under mysterious circumstances. This entry was posted on July 23, 2019 at 6:44 pm and is filed under American Heritage, Bigfoot, forbidden history, Paranormal, Uncategorized.
There are also reports of prospectors and hunters going missing frequently to the point that it became commonplace. What to Know Before Visiting Fairyland Caverns, Explore North Georgias Beautiful Wine Country, 8 Amazing Scenic Drives in Central Florida, 7 Best Antique Shops in Corpus Christi for Treasure Hunting, The Big Easy: The Truth Behind This Strange City Nickname, Soul Food You Have to Eat When Visiting New Orleans, Why Wisconsin May Not Be the Cheese Capital of the World, Get Hopped Up at the 7 Best Breweries in St. Louis. KINY Radio, 2018. OnlyInYourState may earn compensation through affiliate links in this article. However, the stories have kept tourists, developers, and settlers away from an otherwise pristine coastline. They dont mix with people.. Yeah it belongs to all of us, Sally says. Hunters tracking moose would occasionally come across giant, man-like tracks over 18 inches in length.
Describing them as Devils he was lucky enough to scramble down the tree and get to his boat so that he could row out into the sea! You can chase him and chase him and suddenly he disappears behind a tree and when you get close enough to see him all you see is a shimmering little mouse shape-shifting. Were you bothered by something? In the local dialect of Alutiiq, the language of the area, the creature is called a nantiinaq, half-man, half-beast. (LogOut/ "The local Natives started talking about a creature, a hairy Big Foot type Yeti monster and it was called the Nantiinaq or big hairy creature as it was called.
It was strong enough to kill and dismember a grown man. [4] The population largely consisted of Russian-Aleuts. ; ; ; ; ; These bodies were said to be completely mutilated and essentially torn to shreds, not resembling anything that a bear or wolf could or would do. The Sugpiaq people always knew the story, but we also know it wasnt a bloodbath like its being told, Sally said. Your email address will not be published. One man tried to do it, but he just took the bullet and pulled it out of his chest.. Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The City Borough of Juneau Parks & Recreation will offer several weeklong day camps throughout the summer for children ages 5 11. "Maybe they were seeing an extremely large bear in the area. Portlock's death sentence was signed when, along the opposite edge of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska Route 1 was completed during the 1940s, finally allowing efficient transportation between Anchorage and all of the many towns along the peninsula. As the local population started recovering bodies, speculation regarding the deadly beast started to rise. The size of the found footprints was more than 46 cm (18 inches) long. The pressure is 992.3 mb and the humidity is 93%. It was the only town in the region of Port Chatham Bay, and people sometimes use the terms interchangeably.
But the stories about Portlock, Alaska, are unlike any other, with characters from a horror movie. [8] In recent years, the community has considered the possibility of re-establishing Portlock as a village. If anything, he ran away. We dont see any, Sally affirms. I think she was also not happy when they would go down and see that it (Port Chatham) was all different. Most of the people who fled Portlock in the 1940s moved to the nearby Native Alaskan villages of I think its a he; he has been living for a long time, Sally says. Malania told the reporter that the entire town evacuated Port Chatham in 1949 due to this murderous Nantiinaq. I continue to visit them when I go home and capture dancing orb images on my phone cam. Learn more about your ad choices. What was this creature? The ghost town of Portlock, Alaska has a mysterious story.
Portlock began to become well known as one of the. The first of the strange occurrences started in 1905, when people from the village were harassed by a large animal, which bothered their camps in the night. Wouldnt they die too? Without a reason for its existence, the town just withered and died.
It was on Port Chatham Bay, 16 miles south of Seldovia, near the chromium mining settlement of Chrome. When they found his body, there was blood on the equipment and there was no way that one person could have done it. He ran back home for his rifle. She tells me, Our people were nomadic, went by the seasons, whatever was in season they would move from one place to another. Whatever had attacked the moose, it was the only set of tracks leading from the site of the attack, until they were lost in the rock-filled terrain. Folklore says that the town was abandoned due to bigfoot attacks. The stories did not stop with the abandonment of the village. In the spring of 2021, Discovery+ filmed a reality television series in Portlock. They live with him but not so close. Interesting history topics are just a click away. The explanation about the highway is ridiculous. Sometime later, Tom Larsen went out to chop wood for fish traps when he saw something large and hairy on the beach.
The he that she is talking about is their local form of Sasquatch, known as Nantiinaq. The stories of what attacked the small salmon-canning settlement mostly revolve around a large and hairy beast that haunted the dark spaces beyond the treeline at the edge of the village. The man had been killed by a single ferocious blow, far more devastating than could have been inflicted by a single human being. Could it be true? We know the signs and not to chase it around.. Thanks for sharing your investigating results . But the town wasnt abandoned, it just slowly withered over the course of several years. In an interview that ran in the October 2009 edition of the Homer Tribune, Nanwalek elder Malania Helen Kehl, who was born in Port Chatham in 1934, gave insight into the demise of her hometown. Whatever it was, it was extremely aggressive and deadly to anyone caught out on their own.
Something had partially dismembered and beaten them.
This could not be some bear or else they would have identified it as such. In 1949, it is rumored that the locals grew sick and tired of living in fear of this terrorizing Sasquatch, so overnight they fled the town completely, leaving behind all of their possessions. A Net Inceptions project. In 1905, it was reported that all the workers left their cannery jobs due to something mysterious that was "bothering" the camp. The history of human habitation around Port Chatham is relatively short even though the crook of her sheltering bay offers protection from a turbulent ocean. Then in 1973, an Anchorage newspaper ran a piece on a retired schoolteacher who had taught in Port Chatham during World War II.
She has lived in Nanwalek for most of her life and continues to speak her native language Sugtstun.
Only the postmaster remained in Port Chatham, but the post office closed in 1950. Brian Weed is the co-founder of a group called Juneau's Hidden History that primarily keeps track of things through their Facebook page. A mine tunnel, house pilings, and rusted cannery equipment are all that remain of Portlock. These stories point to a large hairy beast, smaller hairy devils that travel in packs, a wailing spirit that wandered the wilderness, and many deaths that were hard to explain. Hes never going to show himself like that. The footprints of the unknown beast-creature, printed deep in the soft soil, told the whole story., Roosevelt continues, Bauman, utterly unnerved, and believing that the creature with which he had to deal was something either half-human or half-devil, some great goblin-beast, abandoned everything but his rifle and struck off at speed down the pass, not halting until he reached the beaver meadows where the hobbled ponies were still grazing. If you forget it, you'll be able to recover it using your email address. Whereas Hollywood often depicts pioneer life as violent and filled with hired gunmen and frequent gun play the Old West and pioneer life were not as violent as todays condensed big city populations with the shootings that occur in places like Chicago, Baltimore, or Detroit. Hes old, hes tall, hes strong, hes hairy. He was a good ten feet from the logging equipment, so it's not like he slipped, fell, and hit his head.
Seems like the truth is as equally interesting as the fictitious stories. Could there really be a serial-killer Sasquatch just a short hop from Anchorage? [14], Alaskas Best Known Cryptid Homicide Case Debunked. However the town does still get occasional visitors. The latest, from the streaming service Discovery Plus, is called Alaskan Killer Bigfoot, and is set in and around an abandoned Kenai Peninsula ghost town. Search parties found no trace of them. Nantiinaq is more of a supernatural being.
It was an unexplored, beautiful area, filled with fish and plenty of space.
This is old news but it never hurts to reiterate it since the Portlock story does seem to have some staying power in certain quarters. The logger died, and the unusual trend continued when several hunters disappeared a few years later. This does not match the behaviors of many known wild animal. but i also believe in good and evil, god and the devil. Yes! He has traveled all over Juneau and many other Alaskan towns in search of natural history and stories. There were wild yarns of a creature, said to walk on two feet, haunting the nearby chromium mining camp. I think the 1949 date is when the post office closed. The loss of these lives took a toll on the small community and fear set in. By 1950, the town of Portlock, Alaska was mysteriously abandoned despite being still rich in resources and a huge commercial center. After the establishment of a cannery due to massive salmon runs in the area, the citizens of Portlock experienced strange disappearances and deaths.
Get more stories delivered right to your email. We dont see him anymore here. Many were washed into the bay from the rivers that fed it, suggesting the people, trappers and miners, had been surprised and killed in the hills and forests above Portlock. The last residents fled in 1950, and the village lay abandoned. Bigfoot is almost always reclusive and shy, avoiding human contact at all costs. Are there a lot of haunted areas in Alaska? Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In my research I was unable to find any of the three dozen murdered and missing person reports over that time span. My mom was born in Dogfish, but grew up in Port Chatham and went to school there, Sally said. The history of this alleged creepiest place in Alaska is indeed remarkable. "Our group has always been about telling the truth and seeing what we actually see, taking pictures of stuff. Monster or no, people abandoned Portlock en masse. One of the things that irritates me the most is how history is fabricated to contain these sorts of accounts or, much more irritatingly, already existing folklore and legends have a its Bigfoot! Label slapped on it for the flimsiest of reasons or while ignoring the aspects of the story that do no correspond to any contemporary accounts or sightings. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, in introducing the Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA), legislation to support senior economic security across the Nation, including protections from workplace age discrimination. [4], Around the 1940s, it was reported that several Dall sheep hunters had disappeared in the hills outside Portlock; it was also stated in a 1973 article from the Anchorage Daily News that dismembered bodies of some of the missing had washed ashore in the lagoon. 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Here is a list of some of the creepiest ghost towns in Alaska. The two communities of Portlock and Port Chatham managed to endure the years of World War II as if being within striking distance of the Imperial Japanese Fleet wouldnt have been daunting enough! A rash of unsolved outdoor homicides in Alaskas largest city is putting residents on edge. 2023 Juneau Alaska Communications, LLC. Jean Portlock, 84, died of natural causes on December 19, 2012, in Vancouver, Washington.Jean was born into a farming family on May 18, 1928, in Carthage, Illinois, to Clay and Helen Miller, and was f Where in the World with Delta Air Lines ONLINE SIGN UP, Juneau Radio Center - Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce - Congressional Candidate Forum 2022, The Mandy Massey Real Estate and Home Show brokered by EXP Realty, Extreme Expeditions Northwest LLC on YouTube.
Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Everybody knows that, but it was not our place to say nothing. dr christopher dress deaths. Wales is on the coast of western Alaska and has a population of 168, according to the US Census. However, these stories generally paint a very different picture to what happened at Portlock. The town began in the early 1900s as a cannery for salmon. PS - I did read the book. The village of Portlock was established when Captain Nathanial Portlock of the Royal British Navy landed there in 1787.
We're talking like three dozen people. One might recall that a number of very strange paranormal events occurred in Nome, Alaska, also a coastal town further north on the shores of the largest and most wild of the 50 states. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. This left plenty of villages that became whats known as ghost towns, and theyre located all around the state. Sally said the reason for the exodus from Port Chatham was more practical in nature. The entire population hastily exited their town and virtually overnight the two communities became ghost towns. After a day of setting traps, they returned to find their camp ramshackled and their lean-to destroyed by what was thought to be a bear, but the footprints were not left by any bear. Hunters following signs of a moose came across manlike footprints that exceeded 18 inches in length. Fishermen turned up missing after boating down the nearby coastline and camping inland never to be seen again! Its inhabitants were mainly Russian folk, specifically from the Aleutian Islands which form a curving archipelago that connects Alaska and Russia while delineating the Bering Sea from Pacific Ocean. A place for the discussion of Cryptozoology, the study of animals that science doesn't recognize. There were reports of dozens of missing and murdered cannery workers; add a ghostly white-faced woman, screaming and moaning; wearing a long black dress, levitating and appearing out of the cliffs. Evil forces driving the inhabitants away from their sacred ancestral lands. In places an almost pristine wilderness, it is filled with natural resources and untamed lands. Well its big. It's mildly frustrating when native folklore gets appropriated and hammered until it fits the bigfoot myth. He came back to us with a collection of research on strange happenings in the town of Portlock that is south of Homer. Anchorage, Alaska (AP) - Three Alaska Native tribes have sued to block what they say would be one of the largest gold mines in the world, arguing that federal agencies failed to properly analyze health and environmental concerns for the project in southwest Alaska. Your purchase was successful, and you are now logged in. There was me and my sisters and my cousins and we all just sat there. It's sad, but that's economics. Only the postmaster remained. This incident was scary enough to traumatize the entire village. i also believe people are being killed and abducted never to be seen again. Yet, a common pattern in the Pacific Northwest seems to manifest itself in people being chased, murdered, or vanished in the presence of what we now call, Bigfoot. Sorry to say the show never made it to season two. var today = new Date()
He started growing hair and he looked like a bigfoot scary My uncles, my grandfathers, they all talked about him. 
Create a password that only you will remember. It appears that this species of Sasquatch is unpredictable and can be deadly whenever encountered. In the 1920s, Albert Petka reported running off a peculiar animal with his dogs before receiving a fatal blow from the creature. Capt. Get notified of the best destinations for your next road trip. The truth is, there were NO mysterious deaths in Portlock. It looked more like someone picked it up and bonked him over the head.". People went into the woods and turned up later as mutilated bodies. This area has been home to the Sugpiaq people for centuries. That's how I know it wasn't very good. The bigfoots didn't drive anyone away. Earlier records made by Portlock cannery management showed that the site had been vacated once before. Rumours of a strange creature abound - oh no! As my intrigue on the subject was growing, I kept getting side-tracked by the idea of a murderous bigfoot; finding myself investigating dozens of additional aggressive bigfoot reports. As they closed on the moose, they realized that they and the owner of the big feet were tracking the same animal. He started smelling something really bad in the bushes, so he opened it, moving the branches. They went through Port Chatham, Dogfish Bay, Seldovia, Homer, even to Kodiak., Portlock was kind of a creepy place, she admitted. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Show Decoding The Unknown, Ep What Really Happened in Portlock, Alaska? A post office was established there in 1921; discontinued in 1950 (Ricks, 1965, p. 53).
His group plans frequent hikes in the area to places that have some sort of story to tell or just to see the natural beauty of the state.