The Strangest Mass Disappearance Ever

[zuestorz]

This has to qualify as the strangest mass disappearance ever. There are features in this story which seem common to many 'vanishings'. For example, prepared meals left un-eaten and the apparent proximity of a UFO.

But the key feature of this story which alone is highly suggestive of an 'un-earthly' cause is the total disinterrment of the village graveyard.

http://www.ufoarea.com/aas_villagecanada.html

[Jeff]

Funny, I was just reading about this story this week myself.

FWIW, the RCMP has a page denying it ever happened:

Historical notes: 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."

[Frankenkitty]

Not surprising if the story would be hoax. The resulting public hysteria from the broadcast of 'The War of the Worlds' implies it's rather easy to manipulate people with the mass media in the UFO genre; directly aided by fear of the unknown.

Strieber himself has said in that the UFO field is made up of fact, deception and hoax - so it's easy to assume that well over half of the reported events, stories etc. probably derive more from a phenomena of human psychology than anything else. In his resigning communion newsletter - he emphatically states that it's a 'human phenomena.

Given the unknowns and the appeal to a counter cultural segment of the population - it makes the UFO field a perfect one in which to insinuate propaganda.

This story reminds me of the Hopi legend of those who were dramatically lifted into the fifth dimension by virtue of their spiritual ascension. Science suggests that the settlements in question that show signs of sudden abandonment, were in fact discarded due to the land becoming fallow from agricultural use, the loss of trees and other life sustaining resources.

[zuestorz]

Thanks for the link.

A flat denial from the RCMP that the story is not true with the added weight of unnamed missionaries and trappers. Well this tends to quash the story, and if an investigator could interview Armand Laurent or his two sons to probe their accounts we would be that much closer to writing it off as a hoax. One wonders at what such a hoax might have been created to achieve however. I don't have the Frank Edwards book referred to, so I cannot say if the content of the original link provided is simply re-hashing that.

[Sepka]

I don't have the Frank Edwards book referred to, so I cannot say if the content of the original link provided is simply re-hashing that.

Speaking from memory, Edwards doesn't mention the light in the sky, and just starts out with Joe LaBelle showing up at the Eskimo village as he did every so often to trade. IIRC, Edwards related the details of rifles left behind, and meals uneaten, and also mentioned that the village dogs had starved where they were tied up. Also IIRC, I think Edwards stated that a rock cairn used to cover the winter's dead until the ground thawed enough to bury them had been torn apart and the bodies removed. To me, that makes more sense than graves dug up, in that country in that season.

[Evutch]

Bolshoi,


( god i'm so fortunate to have NOT grown up in the USA nad had the opportunity to talk to people not brainwashed by "official" crap, and media!)

anyways..

it was about 1964 or 5 when i first heard of this event.
from a canadian last name Crowfoot.
he was an engineer, and as every adult i met then, was fresh from the memories of WWII..
HE was the one who told me about this story, and was so understanding when i at the age of 15 or so was so gobsmacked in trying to wrap my mind around the whole concept.

i heard the story from more than one person.

none of it was second hand information.

i met some real travelers...

i also remember an english engineer, former hurricane pilot, and quite the personality, who took a piece of paper, and explained how to get from one place in the universe, to another...

bending, or folding space...

i wish i had listen more to all the odd "old guys".

they were quite young in reflection...

but, Crowfoot told me about the missing eskimos..
i would like to know when this supposed "story" contaminated all of us...