Strange Disappearance Of The Anjikuni Village People
05/08/2009 by: eyepriestessSTRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE ANJIKUNI VILLAGE PEOPLE
Mysterious Dissapearances – Other Dimensions – Part Two Of The Series
Many people refuse to acknowledge, we are not always in control. So what of this story? How can anyone ever explain this logically?
On a freezing winter’s night in November 1930, Canadian fur trapper, Joe Labelle was to discover, under the glare of a full moon, one of the most remarkable disappearances known to date. The bustling Eskimo village’s 2,000 inhabitants, located on the shoreline of Lake Anjikuni in Canada, had vanished without trace.
Labelle’s discovery began as he approached the village with nervous trepidation, when an unnatural silence met him. His anxiety lifted a little when he heard the crackling embers of a fire. As the flickering, amber flames came into view, he dashed towards it in the hope of finding someone attending to it. However, he was met with a pot of blackened stew still simmering and no one around.
Labelle then walked around the village peering cautiously into every hut, where he noticed food and provisions in abundant supply in each. The fish storehouse was also adequately stocked, but not a soul or a sleigh dog was to be seen. Labelle looked around the perimeter of the village and noticed there were no footprints in the snow-covered ground to give lead or clue as to the villager’s whereabouts.
Labelle, now panic-stricken, took off running non-stop to the telegraph office. A message was sent to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who turned up a few hours later.
The Mounties searched the village…what they found would have chilled any man to the bone. In the village burial ground, every single grave was unearthed and empty. This was even more unnerving as the icy ground around the graves was as hard as rock.
A massive search party was organised. During the investigation, there was another unsettling discovery; the entire pack of sleigh dogs were found buried under 12 feet of snow…all had starved to death.
If that wasn’t enough, all of a sudden a strange blue light began shimmering on the horizon. This was not the Northern Lights, it seemed artificial and pulsated until at last it faded into the darkness - leaving all who witnessed it, dumbstruck.
Every newspaper in the world reported the mass vanishing of the 2,000 Eskimos. Many thought the disappearance would lead to some sort of logical explanation, but to no avail…the Anjikuni tribe has never been seen again.
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By J Reynolds, (aka eyepriestess), copyright 2009 @ World Mysteries And True Ghost Tales. From documents supplied by Rebecca.
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Hi Eye,
This is the first of hearing of this story.. It is very strange that a whole village of people could go missing without a trace.. but I don’t know if they could of been abducted by aliens?..
It’s just seems too far stretched for me.. But then again.. who’s to really say??..
That doesn’t mean that I don’t believe it has happened.. In one case.. Whitley Strieber.. Wrote a book {The Greys}..about his experiences that has happened to him starting from a young child.. and is still happening to today.. and has carried on with his young son also being abducted…
They made it into a movie called..”Communion”.. I would recommend this movie very highly to all..
It really opened my eyes about the whole alien abduction theory.
Mama’s chick
Hi Mama’s chick,
the whole story seems far fetched to me, but it happened, whatever it was that took them made a clean job of it, there was nothing living, or dead if you include the graves.
I don’t think i’ve heard of the film, but i’ll keep a look out for it. Thanks for the recommendation
I have to say that I have always taken UFO abduction stories with a grain of salt. At the same time, I don’t rule out the possibility…and if there were ever a story that would make me stop and think about it, it would be this one. Very well written, by the way!
It is far fetched….but the disappearances especially of the graves look like it would have taken a lot for human beings to do. And the ground not being disturbed around it….there is definitely something strange about that light as well. Thanks for sharing this.
Hi Scary,
I must say, I take UFO abductions less seriously than some, but this story makes you wonder what else could have happened. If these people had been attacked, then where is the evidence of a battle taking place? there is none.
The animals starving to death, but the stew still cooking on the pot, so how could that be? It is all very weird.
There are news reports on the story all over the internet, and like i said in the article the story was covered worldwide. Wow, is all i can say. I told my cousin about it today, and she was saying, ‘no way,’, everyone else i tell is astounded by it. I only found out about this story a couple of weeks ago when Rebecca sent in another article about it.
Hi guys
this topic interests me so much. I’ve always been a believer of possibilites, including ufo’s of course. this story in particular, makes me wonder even more if it is ufo/alien related becaue of the bodies that were taken from the graves. who would do that? Indians/native Americans and people with any spiritual background would not remove bodies from their burial site. the dead are very much respected. I personally believe aliens took them (the dead) for research but who knows. Also the fact that the lights were eyewitnessed makes it even more bizarre.
This year, while in my car on my cell phone, waited for my daughter outside of her girlscout meeting, saw something gray in the sky. I was talking to my mother, with my seat slightly reclined and staring out into the sky. It was close to 7pm, cause thats when she gets out, and it was dark enough to have to use headlights but i could still see pretty clearly. I saw a round, gray object in the sky. there were no lights on it but it moved so slow that it caugt my attention. my eyes were fixed on it as i described to my mother what i was looking at. It appeared as if it froze in mid air for a second or two then it sped off so quickly and i lost sight of it.
Im not saying that im positive it was a ufo, but i can say i am positive it was not a plane.
Now see, why can’t I ever see anything like that?
This story has been haunting me ever since I heard about it. It’s just so creepy, everything being gone like that. If an epidemic would have killed them or something, there would be evidence left behind.
I am really enjoying this series of stories though. I love stuff that I can’t figure out! It keeps me thinking….and this is going to keep me thinking for a long time.
Me too scary, it is one of the best stories i’ve ever read because it is so obvious that there is something strange about it. 2,000 people just don’t disappear under normal circumstances. If there was an epidemic or mass murder there would have been evidence.
All the dogs dying of starvation too when there was food in the cabins, it’s all too weird.
Rebecca, I know with the graves being dug up even though the ground was like rock with the ice, you wouldn’t be able to dig the ground up unless you had something like a power drill and even that would take such a long time and with so much effort.
wow, now the writer, Whitley Schrieber’s book called “Billy” I thought was more based on the abduction but then again at the end of that story the boy was found! Sometimes in life there is no explination, there doesn’t seem to be any reason for thier dissaperance, and me too I’m not too much believing in alien abduction!
Really? so there was someone found who had been abducted? Was he from the village?
This sounds like the story of Roanoke Island, in the late 1500′s / early 1600′s a group of settlers came to Roanoake Island (off the coast of Virginia/ North Carolina) and when the next group came a year later with supplies for them they found the entire village deserted with no signs of a struggle.
I saw something on tv about that Debbie, it was quite a while ago, but i vaguely remember it. I’ll see what i can find on it and maybe write an article about it.
The story about the disappearance in the 1930′s of an Inuit village near Lake Anjikuni is not true.
An American author by the name of Frank Edwards is purported to have started this story in his book Stranger than Science. It has become a popular piece of journalism, repeatedly published and referred to in books and magazines.
There is no evidence however to support such a story. A village with such a large population would not have existed in such a remote area of the Northwest Territories (62 degrees north and 100 degrees west, about 100 km west of Eskimo Point).
Furthermore, the Mounted Police who patrolled the area recorded no untoward events of any kind and neither did local trappers or missionaries.
http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=3884
I’ll have to look into that because this story has come from news reports which i have looked at.
We’ll see who is right
I’ve looked at eskimo populations and they have only declined in the last few years after the oil decline, stated in the New York Times. The villages range from 600 -900 in population now, but they were more in the years before the 70′s. So you got that wrong!
I have also shown you that news article on the forum, which i will paste in here when i get time later, which states that the mounties were involved.
That what you wrote above is based on one persons lack of knowledge of this story.
I agree with EP that this is a real account of what happend, I have also heard of this villiage and the authour you claim wrote the story was just getting his ideas from the real disapperance of this town
One of the authors of this story, which UNR is on about has been de-bunked with other stories, because of that when the author included this true story, this was also de-bunked because he had wrote it as many others had after the news reports. I’m just going to get the news article about it as i have i need to paste it in here.
Also, here is a news report: Archived Record:
The Toronto Daily Star,
November 23, 1930
Lake Territory, Nov. 23. The Inspector for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police returned today to confirm the disappearance of an Eskimo village in the Northern Lakes region. Ten days ago, fur trapper, Joe LaBelle, contacted the RCMP to report a chilling discovery. While running a trap line, LaBelle snow-shoed out to an isolated Eskimo village on the shores of Lake Anjikuni, only to discover every inhabitant—man, woman, and child—had vanished from their huts and storehouses. “It was as if every one of them poor folk up and took off with no more than the shirts on their backs.”
Inspector Pierre Menard of the RCMP returned with his team’s findings today and confirmed the trapper’s story. The village had indeed been found abandoned under most strange circumstances. “In our search, we discovered undisturbed foodstuff, gear, and provisions but no sign of the villagers. Not a single footprint or track.” Even the Eskimos’ sled dogs were found buried under the snow, starved to death. But the most disturbing discovery of all was reported at the end: the Eskimos’ ancestral graves were found excavated and emptied.
The RCMP promises to continue the search, but for now the fate of the villagers remains a mystery.
OMG that is so wierd and spooky!
Ok first let me say I am not trying to be ignorant. The original story of Anjikuni village was written by Emmett Kelleher (he is known to make up stories.) In the original story there was 25 people missing, and they were missing for over a year when discovered.
Frank Edwards rewrote the story and changed it dramatically, he changed it to 2,000 people and campfires still burning. He added in empty graves to make it a ufo story. Frank Edwards was a ufo activist and wrote many tales about them.
Kelleher’s version was labeled as a journalistic hoax, and Frank Edwards changed it to unbelievable proportions.
The royal canadian mounted police investigated and reported there was no one who could colabarate the original story.
This is an example of how legends are created.
To read this:
http://books.google.com/books?id=fq5iP65y3JgC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=emmet+kelleher+hoax&source=bl&ots=bw39NjDBWi&sig=ZO4-jy0LLnQUrrdradmxYuLok3c&hl=en&ei=AYuRSomfC5GCNP2huZIK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
One more bit that proves it was a hoax. I went to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police website and searched for it. It
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/hist/anjikuni-eng.htm
Anjikuni
The story about the disappearance in the 1930′s of an Inuit village near Lake Anjikuni is not true. An American author by the name of Frank Edwards is purported to have started this story in his book Stranger than Science. It has become a popular piece of journalism, repeatedly published and referred to in books and magazines. There is no evidence however to support such a story. A village with such a large population would not have existed in such a remote area of the Northwest Territories (62 degrees north and 100 degrees west, about 100 km west of Eskimo Point). Furthermore, the Mounted Police who patrolled the area recorded no untoward events of any kind and neither did local trappers or missionaries.
This is a great example of how legends grow over time and people start believing its real.
Before I let in the last comment UNR, I need to check that out for myself first.
UglyNRude, this site and it’s topics are open for debate and it’s nice to see you adding your ideas to this story whether you believe it is true or not, however it seems you must suffer from a superiority complex because you seem to insist on being right all the time, that is not the aim of this site and many others.
From what I have seen this topic does have a reliable source for back up and your argument is quite strong but you seem to be intense on debunking people, let two sides of the story prevail.
Handsome Harry
Hey Harry, good to see you again.
I have to look into what UNR put, there is also a comment pending, which i need to look into as well. I’ll get chance tomorrow as i’ve been too busy today.
Thanks for you comments Harry, i saw you in the forum, so i’ll just go and look what you wrote.
I have just written to the RCMP and asked for a definate answer about this story, hopefully they will reply, and i will post it on here. We will then find out the true facts.
I have to report that there has been no report back from the RCMP, therefore I urge readers of this story to come to their own conclusion.
Thank you UNR for bringing this to my attention, although i would also suggest further investigation as one report is of very little significance in a case such as this.
I have had a reply from the mounted Police afew days ago and they say this story is not true! Thanks for bringing our attention to this UNR although it is dissapointing, i’d rather know the truth.
I’m upset that you say i took links off here when i didn’t, i don’t know why you think i would do that!
That’s terrible!!! Well, that it’s not true, not that I wish it upon anyone! Thanks ep for clearing things up!
I read an interesting science fiction novel (can’t remember the title) that was much like this story. In this story the Germans had built an underwater labratory. These people abducted the entire village of people, and used them as guinea pigs in experiments for suspended animation.
I’m sorry I can’t recall the title, but it was a very good story.
jeff
If you remember it Jeff, let us know, the Anjikuni is one of the best true/fiction stories i’ve ever heard of so far! And i must admit, like Rebecca, it was disappointing that it could be false. Although, i do have some doubts as to the source of the link given to the Mounted police and their final reply.
I find it very striking that Eyepriestess and Handsome Harry seem to be so fixated on this false story being true, that when authorities such as the RCMP, who have investigated this and have archival evidence (ie, written records that exist) of the falseness of this story, that they still persist in saying the story “could be false” and doubts the validity of the RCMP research.
It’s far easier to have a spooky story circulating on the internet than it is to have the truth. As to not receiving a reply from the RCMP, m aybe they feel that their website account was placed there to forestall receiving ongoing enquiries about it, when they have far more serious and immediate law enforcement concerns to worry about on an every day basis.
I like to give facts too and i wasn’t sure if the email i received was genuine..that’s all it was.
If this isn’t true, then that’s fine with me, i’m not that concerned. Lot’s thought this to be a true story, especially when it was published in the papers and there were so many stated it to be true. You just have to be careful with who discredits and de-bunks.
EP,you handled UNR’s debunking of this tale well. Instead of a flamefest, you did your homework, contacted the RCMP, which must be taken as the final word on the subject. Paranormal stories attract too many dogmatic believers, which obscure legitimate accounts. It also attracts opportunists like Frank Herbert. I first read Herbert’s account in “Stranger than Science”
(published 1963, I believe) over 40 years ago, as a teenager. I was fascinated by his tales, though even in the late ’60s there were serious challenges to their veracity. He had a follow-up book, “Strangest of All”. A look at my 1936 Brittanica Atlas shows no settlement at the lakeside site. The only town with 2000 population at that latitude in North America at that time would be Anchorage. Accounts of the unexplained is a legitimate persuit. We should all be careful about the veracity of such tales, and handle them with a fair balance of scepticism and interest.
Thanks JHC, i agree with you, I like to find the truth behind stories, however disappointing and so does UNR who looks into the facts in great detail. I wish people would not exagerrate paranormal events, it’s people like that who almost destroy the ones which are real.