Oh, bed of Deirdre, Hello and welcome to the show.
This is the Cults of Conspiracy and my name is Jonathan.
I'm Jacob. Yeah, buddy, it is uh. You know.
Normally we we leave the cryptid talk up to our booty Strange Brew on Saturdays and up to the Crypted Women's Society also on Saturdays. But we decided to dip our toes into this water and see if it's still warm. And I'll tell you what, dud, it's not warm. You stick your toes in there, it'll boil it the fuck off. There's cryptid shit all over the place, most of which
you never even heard of. And I guarant damn to you ninety nine point nine to nine to nine percent of people have never heard of this story or the possible three cryptids that may be associated with it.
Three separate cryptids that might be associated with the story. Is a one cryptid that might present itself in three different ways, three separate different types of cryptids.
We're talking Canadian cryptids, sir.
Ooh, going a little north of the border.
We are sticking our toes into the Strange Brew area of expertise.
I'm down.
Oh yeah, he is from Canada. Maybe he has talked about it. I don't know. So we're actually going to be talking about the the and Angikuni u Angacunni mystery, which is a village that just so happened to vanish in the nineteen thirties. What yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's a it's a wild one. So uh buckle up, baby, it's gonna get pretty wild. Angeacuni is how it's spelled, So we'll get it started off with this. All across history,
there are moments where entire communities simply vanish. The Mayan Civilization, once millions strong, dissolved into the jungle, leaving behind temples, carvings, and unanswered questions. The Roanoke Colony, one hundred and fifteen settlers gone with nothing but the word cro atone. If that's all that's supposed to be said protoa or crow atone, I forget, but yeah, close enough. Yeah, that word was just carved into the wood. That's all that was remaining
from the Ronoke Colony. Then you have the remote Flannin Isles lighthouse that was abandoned mid meal and it's three keepers were never to be seen again. In India, the Desert village of Kuldara walked away one night in the nineteenth century, and no one knows where they went. These stories have no bodies, no battlefields, no graves, just absence. They linger in our collective mind like missing teeth, gaps
that ache without explanation. What if I told you that in the endless whites of the Canadian Arctic, there's another name on that list, a tiny Inuit settlement on the shore of Lake and Jacuni, where fires still burned in food sad waiting, but every man, woman and child was gone. Some say it was aliens, a clean sweep abduction under the cover of strange lights in the sky. Others whisper of vibrations, a sudden frequency shift that rattled the village
out of this dimension entirely. Inuit legends might point to other worldly beings, shadow of people, shape shifters, or sirens from beneath the ice. And for the ones that think outside the lines, there's the darker possibility, a predator, unknow own to science, that tooken entire community like a fisherman takes a net full of fish. This isn't just a story about people disappearing. It's about the fear that it
could happen again to any of us anywhere. So tonight we'll walk into the cold silence of the Angacuni, where the snow holds no footprints, the dogs lie frozen, and the air still feels like it's waiting for something to return. Are you ready for this one, sir?
I am.
I have so many follow up questions, but I don't want to start like already getting after it here. I want to hear the story before I start potentially finding some things to ask, because like, do we know around the rip? How many people inhabited this village? Was their signs of struggle? Was there blood or claw marks anywhere? Was there signs from neighboring villages? I might have seen something. I'm like, I said, I'm sure that all these questions are gonna be answered.
I'm excited. Let's go.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a it's a mind bending story, for sure. It was about twenty five to thirty people, though, you know, okay, so small.
Little settlement, a little outpost if you will.
Yeah, dude, there was actually a guy and we'll get into the whole story, but there was a guy that went up there to go buy like animal pelts, and I guess he used to always go up there. He was just some kind of tradesmen of sorts. This is back in the thirties. So he went up there to meet with his regular people that he always meets for, like for the animal pelts. And he went up there and he was like, wait a second, like where is everybody, Like nobody's here, And there was a whole story written
in the paper and everything about it. And as he's like looking around, he noticed that, like, dude, like fucking meals, like meals, like plates of food were still on the table in their houses. They're dogs there because they have sled riding dogs, right, Yeah, dogs were literally outside frozen to death. I mean, and the rifles were still in the house. It's not like they picked up and walked away somewhere. So it's it's a wild one, dude. So anyhow,
let's get to the actual story here. It's November nineteen. Fur trapper Joe Leabell trudges across the snow toward an Inuit village on the shores of Lake and Jikuni, a settlement he's visited before. The cold bites at his cheeks, but the thought of warm food and friendly faces keeps him moving, but something's wrong. There's no sound, no laughter, no barking dogs, no crackling fires. Beyond the hit the
faint hiss of a wind. The quiet is too perfect, too complete, as if the world itself is holding its breath. He steps into the village and finds the homes open, belonging, scattered meals, left half finished. It's as if every person simply walked away at the same moment, never to return. The snow, the snow there felt heavy, like it's absorbing sound instead of reflecting it. Every doorway yawns, open like
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So all right, Jacob, are you ready to dive all the way in, sir?
I'm excited the Angecouni village disappearance.
This is interesting.
Yes, a vanished Inuit settlement. We've learned that that the Inuit word is the correct term over trial and error.
I sure the fuck didn't know that Eskimo was a derogatory term. I honestly thought it was kind of like saying Native American.
The Eskimos would be the native to the forest north. My apologies that is, the Inuit.
Eskimo is a whole other tribe, even though all of them apparently do the igloo thing.
I yeah, you know, we be learning. We don't know everything.
Yeah, well, let's dive in. So the mystery of the Angecuni Village has baffled people for decades. In nineteen thirty, a small Inuit village in the Canadian Arctics seemingly vanished overnight, leaving behind only empty homes, untouched food, and a chilling silence. No one knows what happened to the villagers, and despite various theories, the case remains unsolved. Was it an unspeakable disaster or something even more bizarre? So we are going to dive all the way in the location of the
Angeccuni village. You can see there's some pictures right here and no igloos. They were repping the old school tents.
Yeah, I see that old animal hide tense type of situation, which makes sense being that it's a.
Fur trap or outpost.
So okay, well, I guess that's more of a teepee, you know.
I don't know if we would call this one a teepee or if it's more like a yurt, whatever you want to call it. It is a It is a shelter made out of the height of animals, you know.
Yeah. Sure.
The Angacuni Village is a mysterious settlement located in the in Northern Canada, specifically in the remote region of Kivalek District. And uh and none of it so uh, none of it, none of it. Yeah, that's what I'll be having, none of it. That's actually what the That's what the Canadians say too. They're like, no, ain't nobody going up to none of it. Nobody wants any of it.
That's crazy, you know what some of the Canadians are also saying. As of right now, three of the provinces are having what's called Wexit and they are talking about becoming US states. Currently right now, Alberta, portions of British Columbia and Saskatchewan have now Sturska, Siatchatoon.
I don't know.
They have now started the process to begin their referendum and it's very very possible that we may be indoctrinating three more states into the Union and connecting Alaska to mainland United States.
It's very interesting time to be alive, y'all.
Oh dude, there's some wild shit going on up in Canada, like it is it is North California, like to the max, like it's crazy. They actually, and I can't remember which region, but there's a region up there in Canada that their governor or whatever the parallel term that is up there that they have their governor said that literally they're not allowed to go in the woods anymore. And if you get caught in the woods, it's a twenty thousand dollars fine.
And people are like, what why? And supposedly it's because of some kind of sickness or something like that, but a lot of people up there are not buying it. But and even if you have property that includes the woods, you're not allowed to go onto your own property in the woods, which is crazy out loud.
I want everybody, And I understand that in America we have a different idea of what freedom is, okay, but can you imagine being so cooked by your government that if you have let's say, you own twenty acres, and ten of those acres are woodland, just trees, you know, the rough if you will, you're not allowed to access half of your land because Big Daddy government said the
trees are dangerous, they're gonna kill you. Can you imagine being so cooked by your government that you're like, yes, sir, okay, whatever you like. Bro, you had your goddamn mind, you trying to keep Americans out of their land.
That's ridiculous.
I'll just keep on wearing those masks outside and in your car when you're the only one in it. That's what I say to those people that believe it and
just buy into it. It's like, man, if it is not blatantly obvious that the government wants absolute control and they're trying to see what your limits are of what they can take away from you, it's almost like a little kid, you know, a little kid is going to test your limits and they're gonna see, like how many times can I say no until I am disciplined in
one way or no right right? And if you never discipline them, or you never you know, put them in their place or anything like that, they're just gonna keep on walking all over you and We know a lot of parents out there that are real soft and they just let their kids walk all over them. I'll be damned if my government's gonna do it to me.
They We'll see what happens.
We'll see what happens if these three provinces do become American states. That would be wild, but also that will like mathematically, Canada will collapse because these three provinces pretty much hold the reins as far as the economy and farming and all of that is concerned. So Ottawa is doing everything they can to be like, hey, y'all can't do that. We're the government, and these three provinces are basically throwing mill fingers like yeah, well we can vote for ourselves and fuck you.
So who knows what's gonna happen? Who knows?
So anyhow, back to this Angekuni story. Yeah, none of it, my bad, none of it.
Yes.
Situated near the Arctic Circle, the village lies along the banks of the Angikuni, a place often shrouded and intrigued due to its eerie disappearance. The area is known for its harsh climate, with long, frigid winters and short summers, making it difficult to access The village itself was part of a strategic location for the Inuit people who once inhabited the region, but its geographic isolation added to its enigmatic status. The remote location of Angecuny Village contributes to
its mystique. Its distance from major cities and the lack of modern infrastructure make it a place few people even visit. The surrounding terrain is rugged, with dense forests in a vast tundra, further isolating the area. The mystery surrounding the village deepens due to the challenges involved in reaching the site, making it a place of historical curiosity and geographical wonder. So just to give a little lay of the land first, then we get into the discovery of the abandoned village.
The Angcuni village itself, an abandoned village, was discovered deep in a remote valley. The first signs of its existence came when hikers stumbled upon it during and expedition. They noticed old, crumbling houses and an eerie silence, which led them to alert local authorities. At first, the area was thought to be a forgotten settlement, but further investigation revealed
that it had been deserted under mysterious circumstances. Local authorities were quick to respond to the report, sending in teams to assess the situation. They found that the village had been empty for several decades, with no signs of recent activity. Most of the homes were in ruin, overgrown with vegetation, and items left behind seemed to have been abandoned in haste. Initial reactions were filled with confusion and concern, as the
reasons behind the village's sudden desertion remained unclear. Further investigation revealed no evidence of violence or natural disaster. Experts began piecing together the history of the village, exploring possible reasons for its abandonment, and although some speculated about economic decline or natural events, the true cause remains one of the region's most intriguing mysteries. So then it gets into the vanishing of the Inuit community itself known as the Angicuni Village.
So the disappearance of an Inuit community remains one of the most puzzling mysteries in history. In the late nineteenth century, an entire settlement in the Canadian Arctic vanished without a trace. When rescuers arrived, they found the settlement abandoned with no signs of struggle or violence. The houses were left intact, but the inhabitants were gone, leaving only their belongings behind. Various theories have been proposed to explain this mysterious disappearance.
Some believe the community fell victim to harsh weather conditions, such as extreme cold or starvation. Others speculate that the Inuit people may have relocated to another area, possibly driven by resource shortages or a shift in their migration patterns. However, no conclusive evidence has ever been found to confirm any of these theories. Inuit oral traditions provide some clues, but
also add to the mystery itself. Elders from other communities spoke of strange events leading up to the abandonment, though their accounts are often conflicting. What remains clear is is that this case continues to fascinate researchers, offering a glimpse into time, into a time where when entire populations could vanish without a trace. So already you're like, wait a second,
like how how does this just happen? You know, if if the if the frozen winter was that strong, you'd you'd find some dead bodies somewhere, you know, maybe there's tracks, or maybe there's somebody hiking to try and get somewhere else or whatever. Maybe somebody went to go for help. No, there's none of that.
And so okay, So the guy that you said first discovered it, and he had been there multiple times. He was an experienced trapper and frontiersman. He knew this this tribe very well. And he discovered that, you know, the fires were still kind of they might have been dyed off, but the wood was still warm. Plates of food were still left on the table. Dogs have been frozen outside. The rifles are still on the wall. Like, okay, that guy himself, I wonder why he didn't think.
To report it to local authorities. Why was it that these people.
Decades after the fact, stumbled upon it and then decided to report it. Or was he you know, did he succumb to some injuries out and about on the trail. I like, you know what I mean, I'm not saying it's necessarily a hole in the story, but it's a curiosity.
There's still more details to be announced. He actually did report it to local authorities, and local authorities just dismissed it.
Of course, because it's the native tribesmen, and of course nobody cares about them as far as the government's concerned.
Okay, I'm with you, so let's move on.
So there were initial investigations and eyewitness accounts in the Angiicuni village. The first investigations in the mysterious occurrences in remote regions often involved local fur trappers and explorers. These individuals, who live close to nature, were familiar with the land and its creatures. They provided valuable insight when strange events began to surface. Their reports were oft were taken seriously due to their extensive experience in the wilderness. I would witness.
Accounts from these early explorers often mentioned eerie signs and unusual sightings. Some described encounters with strange creatures or unexplained phenomena, sparking local legends. The combination of isolation, harsh conditions, and vivid imaginations led to a mix of truth and myth. These stories contributed to the growing mystery surrounding certain areas. Local trappers and explorers were crucial in documenting these occurrences.
Their first hand experiences offered offered a perspective that was grounded in survival and deep knowledge of the environment. Often the reports were the first clues that something beyond the ordinary was happening, and over time these initial accounts paved the way for further investigations and a deeper understanding of the unexplained. So when explorers stumbled upon the abandoned village,
they found it early frozen in time. Personal personal belongings were left behind, scattered across homes and streets, as if its inhabitants had vanished. Suddenly, items like clothing, tools, and household objects were untouched, offering a snapshot of daily life before the abandonment, where there was no signs of forced
departure or struggle, which only deepened the mystery. Food was also left behind in various places, half eaten meals, preserved grains, and uncooked supplies indicated that the villagers had not planned for a long absence. The settlement itself appeared frozen, with buildings intact but neglected. The once thriving homes were often or were overtaken by dust and decay, and nature was slowly reclaiming the space. Despite the eerie stillness, the area
was not completely deserted. Signs of animals taking shelter were present, so the condition of the village suggested an abrupt end to its occupation. No clear cause for the sudden abandonment could be found in the immediate area. Researchers were left to piece together clues trying to understand why villagers left their homes behind with such haste. The discovery remains a
puzzle that continues to fascinate historians and archaeologists alike. So there, and we're going to get a lot more in detail. This is kind of just set in the scene, you know, were there are some theories obviously that are attached to it as well. So there are many theories about the mysterious disappearance of people or entire groups throughout history. Natural explanations often focus on environmental factors, such as sudden storms, floods,
or other extreme weather events. For instance, harsh weather can cause ships to sink, or flash floods can wash away settlements. Disease outbreaks like plagues or viruses are also cited as causes, as they can wipe out large populations without warning. On the other hand, supernatural theories suggest paranormal involvement. Some believe that unexplained disappearances are due to strange otherworldly forces or entities. These theories often involve ideas like alien abductions or time
rifts that pull people into another dimension. While these explanations cannot be scientifically proven, they have captured the imagination of many who search for answers beyond the natural world. So then this is all right, it's going to start getting a little wild now. So the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the RCMP plays.
A crucia the Mounts.
The Mounties, yes, as they are commonly known as. They play a crucial role in investigating crimes across Canadian Canadian Canada. When a case arise arises, the RCMP is often the first to respond, conducting thorough investigations. They use a combination of modern forensic techniques and traditional methods to gather evidence. Their goal is to uncover the truth and bring closure
to affected communities. The RCMP works closely with other authorities such as local police and federal agencies to solve cases. They share information and resources to ensure a coordinated approach. This approach is essential in complex investigations where multiple jurisdictions are involved and the RCMP's expertise is handling diverse cases from missing persons to organized crime is well recognized, so efforts to uncover clues involve multiple steps, including witness interviews,
crime i've seen, analysis, and reviewing digital evidence. Investigators also follow leads, which which can sometimes span across regions or countries. This methodical approach helps in piecing together events and finding the truth. The RCNPCE commitment to injustice essential to its role in Canadian law enforcement. Man, this is really leading us on.
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Huh, A little bit. I mean, I don't get me wrong. You know, I like a little foreplay, but god, you know, there's only so much making out you can do.
They're definitely painting the scene, which I'm happy.
You know.
It's fine. We're gonna get to it eventually, I promise.
So.
The Inuit perspective on celestial events is deeply rooted in their cultural traditions and spiritual beliefs. For centuries, they have observed the night sky in interpreted astronomical phenomena through a unique lens. Many celestial events, such as eclipses or meteor showers, were seen as significant omens or signs from the spirit world. These events were often linked to the balance of nature and the well being of the community. In Inuid culture, the sky is not just a physical space, but a
realm inhabited by spirits, ancestors, and deities. The Inuit believed that celestial events could signal changes in the environment, affecting everything from animal migrations to the weather. Eclipses, for instance, were often seen as a time of transformation, where the sun or moon might be sick or in danger. That's an interesting way of looking at it.
The sun is sick or in danger, all right.
In some communities, these events were met with rituals meant to restore balance, so these traditional beliefs also influence their daily life. Elders played an important role in passing down the stories and meanings attached to these events. The Inuit maintained a deep connection to nature, where understanding the sky was and this was as essential as understanding the land
and sea. Today, while modern science provides explanations, these cultural and interpretations remain an integral part of the Inuid's identity. So the a Jacuni mystery finally or we hear the disappearance of an entire Inuit village in Canada, continues to intrigue researchers and enthusiasts over the years, new expeditions have been launched to uncover the truth behind the event. Recent investigations have used modern technologies such as satellite imagery and
advance forensic techniques to explore the area. Despite these efforts, no definitive evidence has been found to explain the vanishing of the villagers, and many modern theories have emerged regarding the cause of the disappearance. Some suggest that environmental factors such as harsh weather or disease might have played a role. Others speculate that the Inuit may have left due to external threats like a sudden attack or the influence of outsiders.
Paranormal explanations, including alien abduction or supernatural forces, have also captured the imagination of some people. While there is no clear answer, the mystery remains a topic of fascination. Modern day speculations continue to spark debate, with each new theory adding to the intrigue. As technology advances, further reinvestigations may eventually shed light on what happened to the Angcuny villagers. Until then, the disappearance will remain one of Canada's most
puzzling unsolved mysteries. So the mystery of the Angecuny Village. Okay, I feel like it's just going over all right. That's that's enough of that one. So all right, So it didn't really paint the picture that I thought it was going too. Sorry about that, good cole members, But I feel like we may have laid at least somewhat of a decent foundation.
Okay, right, I mean it's fascinating.
And the fact that there was an actual investigation launched into it that came up with no answers, I mean, that's interesting in and of itself.
All right. So this next part we're going to get to historic Mysteries dot Com, one of our favorite websites on this channel, So shout out to them. They do a lot of good work over there. And so this is also on the Angcuni as well. So in the far north of Canada, Lake Angecuny can be an inhospitable place, covered with snow and ice for half the year. The lake forms part of a string of waterways which the local Inuit used to sustain their communities through fishing and trade.
Several villagers existed along the shores of the lakes, home to the Inuit and a welcome resting point for fur trappers who braved the far north to hunt beaver and caribou hunting beaver. I kind of feel bad about that. Why, I mean, I guess that's where we get the blue raspberry or something like that, right, I mean it is.
But also, you know, beavers, although yeah, they're a cool animal and shit, they also destroy habitats at their ability to build dams like they do. Oh dude, me and my people have waged wargans beavers for many a year. They see moving water and they just you know, they cannot fucking stand it. Meanwhile, we need the moving water for our purposes. We got to blow the fuck out of their dams with explosives.
And yeah, I mean, if.
You're gonna kill them, their fur is waterproof, it's legit.
Well, I guess maybe it. It's just more of a mee thing kind of situation because back in Pennsylvania, my high school beavers, my high school, we were the Western Beaver Golden Beavers, and we did have a mating call. Did I ever tell you what that mating call was?
I'm afraid of what you're about to say. Oh, oh, the maiding call is a dog barking woo.
Anyway, word up all right, So they were hunting beaver in Cariboo. But something happened to one of the villages in nineteen thirty, which remains a mystery to this day. A news reporter in the Pass, Manitoba reported about a small Inuit community off the coast of Lake and Jakuni in nineteen thirty. Joe Leabell, a well known fur trapper in the community, was passing through the area when he stopped at the village, only to discover that all the
people had left. According to the story, Joe LaBelle discovered an empty camp with six tenths but of the twenty five men, women and children who lived there, there was no sign. This story has been retold many times, and many theory had been put forward to explain the disappearances, from the plausible to the outlandish. What happened to the small Inuit community out there in the frozen in the freezing north of Canada? So Joe LaBelle, he was a
Canadian fur trapper. He was wandering near Lake or the Angecune Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada on a freezing November day in nineteen thirty. He entered the village in search of lodging after learning of an Inuit settlement nearby, only to find it utterly deserted. Whatever happened had taken the villagers completely unaware. During his search, he discovered incomplete garments with needles still in them, as well as food hung over the fire pits, but no traces of violence
or a conflict would have explained the people's absence. Moving through the village, LaBelle found seven sled dogs still tied to their posts. They had all starved to death and these dogs would have been vital to the survival of the community and to leave them behind would have been almost unthinkable. But then on the edge of the village, label found something even more chilling. A human grave had
been recently dug up. Because the stones encircling the burial were undisturbed, Labell recognized it couldn't have been an animal. A human had done this. He informed the Northwest Mounted Police, who launched an investigation into the disappearances, but no one from the village was ever located. It was as if they vanished into thin air. So this unsolved mystery has attracted many investigations over the years. Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid website. Yeah, I have his article too, and we're
not the biggest fans of old Sceptoid over there. He just he rains on everybody's parade. I don't like it.
Yeah, I mean he's a professional shitter, you know what I mean, he'd just be shitting on people just to do it. And like, okay, me being the resident skeptic or sticking the mud of the group, I understand that.
But you don't have to be a dick about it. You know.
You can bring up some logical counterpoints while still being respectful to the overarching theme, or.
You could just be an asshole. I mean, you know whatever, which you.
Kind of is. Yeah. So anyway, his website called his name is Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid website. I mean, no hate, you know, it's just not our flavor. You know. Sometimes people just want to convince themselves that they live in a normal world, and those people go to his website. Yea, So basically that's the way of looking at it. Anyhow, he investigated this instance and tracted back to the original newspaper article written by Emmett Keller on November twenty ninth,
nineteen thirty. I have that article by the way, so we're going to be looking at that here in a minute. But he pointed out various discrepancies in the original tales, such as the fact that the missing Inuit kayaks would not be battered by wave action if the lake was frozen at the time. He also highlighted that in succeeding retellings, the village's alleged population grew larger and other details were inflated. So later stories, and this happened in fucking nineteen thirty.
Of course, it's going to get mythologized, you know what I mean. And people were going to add to it and take away from it and leave out details and insert more details and all the different theories. So okay. So anyhow, later stories add even more unlikely details. Nigel Blundel and Roger Borr's book called World's Greatest World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries talks of three trappers who saw UFO in the vicinity, along with gross exaggerations such as a thousand
people missing in whole graveyards full of exoom burials. So some people like to add their own flavor to a story like that, okay. But the police team eventually determined that the Inuit had been missing for about eight weeks before LaBelle arrived, but they never found out why the entire village had evacuated the area, As if the story wasn't already bizarre enough. While examining the incident, RCMP or the Mounties officers reported seeing mysterious pulsing lights in the
sky the over Lake and Jacuni. So lights in the sky of northern Canada are not unusual. The northern lights are stunning, our stunning natural phenomena that can be seen from even the farthest reaches of the country. But the lights, the lights this search and rescue personnel discovered, were nothing like the natural beauty that they were used to viewing. So they saw strange, like weird lights going up in the sky. But they knew that it was different than
the northern lights. That's something you're used to seeing up there, right, So unlike the Northern lights, the lights they observed on the horizon were bluish and pulsing. The lights, like the rest of the enclosure, were never explained, nor was any link to the missing villagers established. However, various uifologists speculated in the late twentieth century that the residents of this village might or they may have been the unwitting victims
of one of history's largest extraterrestrial abductions. And despite the fact that the evidence supporting this idea is anecdotal at best, the assumption is both intriguing and terrifying. So could aliens have taken an entire village, It would explain their sudden disappearance and the failure of the RCMP to find any trace. Of course, there's another perspective. Skeptics will look for a more down to earth explanation for the disappearance of the villagers.
Starting with questioning the original story. LaBelle claimed to have been a season trapper who knew the region well, but the records showed that he had never taken out a hunting license before nineteen thirty. Keller, the journalist who broke the story, had been accused of exaggeration in his writings before, and one of the pictures used in his article was
proven to be decades old. Based on these questions and a lack of proof as to the village, the RCMP dismissed the story as fabricated in nineteen thirty one and closed the case, And just like that, the villagers disappeared for a second time, first from their homes and then from the history books. The evidence for it being a fabrication is only circumstantial, and no doubt welcomed by the investigating authorities as a quick solution to their mystery. The lack go ahead.
Not trying to be a dick, but a trapper's license and a hunter's life are two different licenses.
I thought so.
Like, so whenever they're saying he was an experienced trapper but never got a hunting license until years later, it's like, yeah, that's a different thing.
But okay, that's.
What I was thinking too. So anyway, the lack of a oh, the lack of a hunting license and a trapping license.
He didn't have a trapping license either, it says the lack of a trapping in nineteen twenties, dude, righteteen thirty twenties stumbled upon.
The village at nineteen thirty when the story broke Yeah, and are.
We completely convinced, And for any of our Canadian listeners out there, please chime in. I do not know the history of ye old Canada that far back in time. I know y'all are part of the British Commonwealth and pretty much completely under British rule until.
Like nineteen eighty four. Okay, so like let's keep that in mind.
Did you were they that strict on having a hunter slash trapper license in the nineteen twenties and into the early nineteen thirties or was this one of those things where the more far north you went it was more the frontiers. You know, the law of the land is he who has the gun makes the laws in this land.
I don't know.
I mean, it sounds like some extra Wild West type things up that far, but I don't know that for a fact.
Yeah, It's like, I mean, I know people that hunt and fish without a license all the time, even in twenty twenty five.
You know, they're called poachers. But yes, that happens right right right.
So yeah, it says the lack of a trapping license does not mean that LaBelle did not know the region or the village. There were plenty of trappers operating illegally at the time, as well as traders and merchants operating between the between the villages. Keller may have been discredited in the past, but this alone is also not sufficient
to dismiss the story. He had many years of experience as a journalist, and his interest in the sensational may have been the very thing that led him to Label's account. So Keller was the guy that wrote the article, right, because the original guy, what the fuck was his name? Joe Something, wasn't it?
Oh?
I lost it?
Where it was it? Joe Jojo? Where you at?
Joe old Jojo?
Whatever the fuck? Joe Leabell? Sorry about that?
There is old Joe Libel.
Yeah, Joe Leabelle.
Yeah.
So he had originally reported the story to the police. The police did nothing about it. They just completely dismissed it. So then Leabelle went up to this guy and you know, told him the story about it, and that.
Was a nineteen thirty he went to the police, right, Yeah. And also, yo, nineteen thirty, we're talking about how many miles outside of civilization. We're talking about damn near into the Arctic circle. Some boy comes down from the Great White North and is like, bro, this village has been abandoned.
You know how many mounties in nineteen thirty are like, well, let's launch an investigation.
How many of them like mmm, yeah, it sounds really cold and really far out there?
Let's just write that off. Know, that just makes sense to me.
Yeah, I mean, and the land was already basically uninhabitable. I mean, you got people that are like regularly sleeping in fucking igloos. I'm sorry, you're probably not traveling up there too often.
You know, who would want to live there except for the people that grew up there?
Kind of thing, right, right, And so, based on the questions and lack of proof as to the village, the RCM oh, wait, I jumped ahead, Sorry about that. So Keller was the journalist who broke the story. He had been accused of exaggeration in his writings before, and one of the pictures used in this article was proven to be decades old. So, based on these questions and lack of proof as to the village, the RCMP dismissed the story as fabricated in nineteen thirty one and closed the case.
And just like that, they wait, why am I getting so confused right now?
Yah?
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm like losing my place in here. Sorry about that, good cult members, I'm a human. So anyway, Keller may have been discredited, da da da, he had many years of experience as a journalist and his interest in the sensational. Okay, so if these two men were telling the truth about what they saw, then an entire village disappeared and nothing was done to investigate. What were the strange lights in the sky, where did the people go?
And why were the dogs left to starve? And most chilling, chillingly of all who had been who had been in the empty grave? Native American myths are filled with evil creatures, cannibals, and monsters who haunt the forest and bad lands of their great continent. Many, or maybe LaBelle had just missed encountering such a monster in the frozen wilderness of the North. So that's a little bit of the story. Basically, this guy, this Joseph character, goes up to try and find I
kind of said the story earlier. But he goes up there to try and you know, trade for pelt and trappings and whatnot. Goes up there, nobody's there, and he's like, these are my people, these are the usual people who I'm usually trading with, and they're not there. He reports it to the police. Police don't want anything to do with it, so he reports it to the newspaper. The newspaper wrote an article on it. However, it just so happened to be a guy that was already known for
fabricating stories. We already have that kind of guy already, as you always mentioned with the Bugisphir guy was his name.
Oh god, sorry, with the m Mandala, mangola.
Whatever it was. And so you know, sometimes you got to go to the fringe kind of people in order to get the story out. I get it, but yeah, it's basically one of those kind of characters. But here is the original article. This was written November twenty seventh of nineteen thirty. It says, and I'm reading the newspaper people, okay, but it says vanished Eskimo tribe gives North mystery stranger than fiction. So all right, so we can read a
little bit of it. It is pretty damn small, So I'm gonna try.
To the ink ain't what it used to be? Kind of thing.
Yeah, So the Northern Lights have seen queer sights back. I just love the way they used to talk back then, as much quoted Robert Burvis remarks, and the everlasting silence of the regions under the Arctic Circle cloaks some strange mysteries. But the Northern lights do not tell of the queer sights, nor does the Arctic silence get vocal about its mysteries.
There's nothing to do usually but guess. Far Up in the heart of one of the most lonely places on Earth, in Lake Angecuni Country, five hundred miles northwest of the port of Churchill on Hudson Bay, a whole tribe of Eskimos has vanished Somewhere. Somehow, the endless desolation of Canada's Northern barren Lands has swallowed up twenty five men, women and children. It is one of the most puzzling mysteries that has ever come down out of the Arctic. The news of it has just reached the pass on the
fringe of civilization. It was discovered when one Joe Label, a roving trapper of the barren Lands, came upon the tribes abandoned camp. Sorry It's tents, made of caribou skins were still standing. Inside were hides, clothing, cooking utensils, even rifles, the most prized possessions of any Eskimo. There was no sign of violence, no sign of trouble. The place was just simply empty. So then the mounted police joined the
search says. The Royal Northwest Mounted Police have taken up to the hunt and white trappers have been asked to be on the lookout, but nothing so far has been learned. Joe Lebel admits that stumbling on the abandoned village gave
him the creeps. A man doesn't get the creeps readily when he spends months at a time trudging by his loan across the barren lands where there is never a house or human being or anything to break the white rimmed I don't know, silence, Sorry, it's an old newspaper with me on that so, but joe Leabell got creepy just the same. The empty sky and the silent rocky plane held a mystery, and the trapper didn't like it, even when he spied. Even when he spied, spotted it, says spide right there.
I don't know.
That's weird. The even when he spied the tent colony LaBelle says he sensed that there was something wrong. He had beached his canoe on the edge of the lake one hundred yards or so distant, and he let out a hail of the of greeting as he walked up, But there was no answer. Then two half starved husky dogs crawled out and came towards him. They did not snarl and bark as as huskies usually do with a stranger. They crept up, whining dolefully. The bodies of seven dead
dogs were lying around also. So then it says there were six tents made out of skin. I'll admit that when I went in. When I went in the first tent, I was a little jumpy just looking around. I could see the place hadn't known any human life for months, and I expected to find corpses inside, But there was nothing there but the personal belongings of a family. A couple of deer parks parkas, which is skin coats, were in one corner. Fish and deer bones were scattered about.
There were a few pair of boots and an iron pot greasy and black. Under one of the parkas, I found a rifle. It had been there so long that it was all rusty. The whole thing looked as if it had just been left the way by people, or left that way by people who expected to come back, but they hadn't come back. I went outside and looked over the rest of the camp. I tell you, I was puzzled, I figured that there had been twenty five people in the camp, but all signs showed that the
place hadn't been lived in for nearly twelve months. As I strolled about with those two walking skeletons of dogs following me, I found the other tents in a similar state. I tried to figure out where those Eskimos had gone to. They hadn't moved to a new territory, or they would have taken their equipment, especially their guns and their dogs. When I thought of the Eskimo's evil spirit, torn Roc. That's the name of the evil spirit.
Who has an I spelled that one. By the way, t r n r a r k t r n what now r a r k torn Rarc? All right?
Gotcha here in that one? Continue anyway, This torn Rok evil spirit who has an ugly man's face with two long tusks sticking up from each side of the nose. The natives live in fear of torn Rarc, and they wear charms to ward him off. I thought about torn Roc, and I had to make an effort to put the picture out of my mind. I walked into another tent. One side had been ripped to ribbons by the wind. On the floor were three fox skins, made worthless by
rain and snow and mud. Under them was another rusty rifle. Those two rifles seem strange. The last thing in Eskimo ever parts with is his rifle. One of the dogs brushed against my legs and wind, and I thought of that torn rock again, and got out of and got outside. I went down to the lake and wondered if the whole tribe had got drowned. But that sounded silly unless they had all committed suicide, which didn't seem likely. Then I found one of the most puzzling things of all.
It was an Eskimo grave with a carirn cairn built of stones, But for some reason the grave had been opened, The stones had been pulled off off of one side, and there was nothing inside the cairn at all. I had no way of telling when when it had been opened, or what had been done with the body it once or hit it had once contained. Oh, one of the body that it had once contained. Sorry it's hard to read this, and I couldn't figure out why it had
been desecrated. I stayed with I stayed around all afternoon trying to figure it out. There were no signs of any struggle. Everything look peaceful, but the air seemed deadly. I caught a few fish out of the lake and gave them to the two dogs, and then I moved on. I didn't want to spend a night there. So during the season, LaBelle visited a dozen or more Eskimo camps, but in none of them he could find anyone who
knew anything of the deserted camp. Most of the Eskimos, when he told them about it, blamed tor Rark or torn Rark and let it go at that holy shit? Whow just to let it go. Yeah, obviously it's the evil spirit, like they that's what they suggested. So then the probe deepens, it says officers of the Northwest Mounted Police trying to trace the lost tribe are equally puzzled.
They say the tribe may have perished in a blizzard while off on a caribou hunt, although admitting that is unlikely that all of the women and children would have gone along pestilences. Pestilences occasionally strike Eskimo camps, but in that case there would have been bodies. One queer clue did come to light, but it hasn't lessened the puzzle.
A tribe living about one hundred and fifty miles north of the abandoned camp has an adopted ten year old Eskimo boy who seems to have wandered into camp one day a few months ago, and who does not belong to any of the nearby camps. But the boys and the tribe are are retiscent about things, and nobody has learned anything from them so far. Another time, an Eskimo named Salmech was brought down to a hospital on the Hudson Bay Railway for treatment for frozen legs. It was
thought that he might know something about it. So after a long search, an Eskimo was found who could speak Sam Walk's dialect, and he began to question him. But Sam, it might be saw Mech or Sam Walker. I'm not sure how to say that. But anyhow, this guy he refused to talk about it, mentioning torn rock mysteriously in refusing to answer any other questions. It occurred to the authorities that Sam Awk might talk if he got intoxicated. Listen to this. They're like, all right, he might talk.
We just get him drunk, right.
He's already about to lose his legs. Somebody give this man some whiskey.
So his Eskimo questioner was given a court of whiskey and told to ply samwalk with it. This too failed. Samwok refused to touch a drop. Like most Eskimos, he did not like the taste of it. So any knowledge that Samwok might be that, any knowledge that he might have that he might have had, remained a secret. The police are doing their best to unravel the mystery. They may succeed. On the other hand, the Arctic is full of mysteries. The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, but
the Northern Lights keep their secrets. So that's the original article posted in nineteen thirty, right.
That's interesting, dude.
So I found a couple of things as far as like the evil spirits conversation might go okay, So, and I think that you got who wrote the original article. He was probably just writing down his best interpretation of what the word is. The best I could find is this thing called a turn gate. But it's also there's other pronunciations tornate, torn that torn rat singular, and then there's some other like.
Well there's the actual torn rock or torn rack or whatever it was right there.
They see what I'm saying.
I think he was writing it down to the best of his English what they were saying out loud, So real quick before we before we jump to that here. So we talk about the evil spirits, right. It is a significant figure. The torn torn Garsook is the more quote unquote official name of It is a significant figure in the Inuit religion and mythology, often depicted as a powerful spirit or god associated with the sea, death and
the underworld. While some sources characterize them as a benevolent figure, a guardian spirit and a benefactor to the Inuit people, especially shamans, others depict a more mischievous or even malevolent spirit. So now I pulled this up here of what they might look like. Yo, look at this depiction. Tell me that is not a reverse Your boy got the right to bear arms?
Holy shit? Yeah, exactly. It's a bear with human arms.
With a fishing pole.
Because this bear apparently did not gain the knowledge of how to catch his own fish with his mouth like other bears do, so he needs human It's a bear with human arms who catches his own fish, and like it says, it's listed as a demon or spirit in the dictionary infernal aka oh God, if you want to take your crack at trying to pronounce all those tea words. I think it depends tribe to tribe or region to
region how they spell it. It's kind of like how Odin in Icelandic might be Woden, but others might be Odeane, and then this other tribe might be Odin, and it's you know, it's the same, dude.
They the same depictions, but their language kind of put their own spin on.
It, right, Yeah, yeah, it seems that way. But it says it's a mischievous demon spirit worship by offering in Greenland and the north northeastern regions of Canada. So checks out.
Let's look at this description here though.
So the torn Ger sook Actually, wait a second, I have an article on this.
I'm glad you do, because I have one more thing on as far as like what they say as far as the spirits of it. But I did think they're pulling up the description thereof might shed a little.
Light, you know, So not anyway, the bear with bear arms of a human is the master of whales and seals and most powerful supernatural being in Greenland. He appears in the form of a bear or a one armed man, or as a grand human creature like one of the
fingers of a hand. He is considered to be invisible to everyone but the anga kuit or the medicine man or the shaman among the Indo a in you at, people's so all right, So there's like seeing interdimensionally or psychically or some shit in order to be able to so, it says. These conflicting descriptions leave us unsure us to his form. But as a grand spirit or demon, it is uh. It is invoked by fishermen and by the
an anga cocks uh when when one falls ill. There are other spirits invisible to everyone but the anga cook who who teach men how to be happy. They see torger sucks it all cock and suck. It's all weird, I'm telling you, bro. But anyway, they see it as the their benefactor. And when the angua cock cock suck and cook.
You know.
Look, we're not trying to make these jokes. Everybody can get these jokes, but we are not doing that.
This is how the shit looks to us.
Anyhow, Whenever they're called upon, they ask if he does not come that that he leave them in the land of plenty.
Okay, fair enough.
Now this is more of an overarching theme of what the other types of Inuit tribes feel about it, and with the Inuit tribes, I do need to make mention of this when we talk about these tribes. We have regions here. We got the anga Cook as we just talked about. Now we have the Inuit at Ammasouk Lake. We got the net Selik Inuit, we got the Caribou Inuit, we got the Copper Inuit, we got the Greenland Inuit.
And all these things. The on arin on near meat.
Yeah, but all of them have this feeling about this one specific being that was mentioned so many times in this article, so I felt like it was worth it for us to kind of read in.
Yeah, it says some spirits have never been connected to physical bodies. These are called turn gate amongst torn rack as we talked about before. This is what they were trying to describe, and are often described as a shaman's helping spirits, whose nature depends on the respective shaman. Helpful spirits can be called upon in times of need and are there to help people, As explained by the Inuit elder victor Tungalik.
I think he killed that.
Some of the torn rack are evil, monstrous and responsible for bad hunts and broken tools. They can possess humans, as recounted in the story of an at tanjer Rot or something like that. Anyway, the shaman with good intentions can use them to heal sickness and find animals to hunt and feed the community. They can fight or exercise the bad ones, or they can be held at bay by rituals. However they however, and whatever the sham, No that's not the oh yeah, it is the shaman.
Sorry.
The shaman with harmful intentions can also use the turn gate for their own personal gain or to attack other people and and their turn gate.
So all right, suspensially, this evil spirit, or let's just call it like a spirit, right, it can be used to help and find good animal and fertile hunting grounds and all these things.
But also, if you got a shaman that that's a bit of a dick.
He can use this spirit to hurt people and even hurt the other people's spirit itself.
It says that it used to simply mean a killing spirit, but with Christianization taken on the meaning of a demon in the Christian belief system. Now, so now that's basically be fair.
If you had a spirit that was called a killing spirit, Yeah, that kind of to a early Christian would also kind of resonate.
As something of a demonic nature. I understand where they're coming from.
I'm not saying I agree, but I understand at least why they would put one plus one equals to here. So yeah, but yeah, So the article that we just read is essentially saying that the locals, the Inuit tribesman that he spoke to, claimed that this tribe was or this village or outposts, whatever you want to call of fifty people was taken over by an evil spirit and there was a grave that was dug up. I feel like that's important, but let's continue into the story.
So they do have an Inuit oral tradition that is filled with beings who take people away without a trace, the terry teria suck, which I feel like that was one of the words that we just said. There are shadow like figures who exist at the edge of sight. The uh Edjira are called are our shape shifters who lure travelers into other realms, and the Colu pillot call a Piluit. There we go.
Hi.
They are the sea sirens who hum children into icy depths, and the realm of the adliviate ad Living. Sorry, this is not our language.
We apologize to all the good Inuit listeners of the show that might get offended by our mispronunciation of the words. Listen, we only speak a English mall. We don't even speak the fucking Kings English. Okay, we're doing our best here.
Yeah. So the ad Live On, which is an underworld where spirits passed through before eternity. To Western ears, these are myths, but to Inuit communities, they're living warnings reel in the sense that they explained what can be explained. So what if the people of Angacuni didn't leave at all, but crossed over into another reality entirely? The myths might might not just be stories. They might be maps in the snow and stillness. Maybe something ancient finally claimed what
it had been waiting for. So that is going to bring us to my original research, which led me to three cryptid beings. And we might be kind of glossing over what we had just read a little bit, but I did want to get first to the Tiuk teriok suck.
But that's the thing.
We had like eight different words to mean the same kind of evil spirit.
But you know what, I'm not mad at it.
Maybe this article will give a little more insight into the myth, the lore, the legends, certain characteristics of these entities.
I'm here for yes.
So in the freezing lands of the Inuit tribes live a race of shadow people. In the Inuit tribes live a race of shadow people. They put that common a weird place. My name's Ron Burgundy. The teryok suck, as they're called, live a very similar life to the way normal human beings do. They have families and homes as well as use tools and build things. They use weapons to fight, and all around think with logical awareness, among
many other similarities. However, a human being can never look at the Terryo suck because it would vanish instantaneously back to its own world. So this was the first one where I was like, all right this, you know, it's kind of checking out a little bit. They live in an alternate reality that is a mirror version of our realm. Because of this, they cannot be directly looked at, but their shadow is as clear as day. The shadow can
be attacked, and the teryokxuck can be killed. Oh, you can kill them by killing their shadow, I guess only then will the being's corpse become visible to the naked eye. An Inuit legend, the shadow people can't hunt while mounted for some reason, so they will always be encountered on foot. The teryok suck can also be heard in certain conditions. If one hears footsteps in the woods at night, it's
probably a group of beings looking at you. Laughter is commonly heard coming from the shadows if they spot travelers. If they spot a travelers camp, the sound otherworldly, and or they sound otherworldly and unnerving. Though dangerous, they are not overly hostile towards human beings, and according to legend, some Inuit have even managed to travel over into their world,
but most never return. The realm of the Teryoxuck is in between the spirit world and the material world, so they partially inhabit both and are even able to perceive both at the same time. They're very shy, on almost always vanishing when any human even comes close to them. If one is invited to journey into their world through some chance, they are rumored to dress similar to eskimos. They also look extremely similar to humans, but their faces are featureless and they have white glowing eyes.
Fuck that wow, So some shadow creatures. Like, realistically, how many times have we here in the South. I don't mean south is in like the South of America. I mean we're talking about the great white North here, as opposed to somebody a little close to the equator. How many times have we heard people have reports of shadow figures with glowing eyes that they have following them as a young child or whatever.
So this is what I'm saying. These are kind of one of those things where you could look back.
To ancient Greek, you could look too far eastern, you could look to the Inuit tribes.
There are certain things that kind.
Of traverse cultural realms, and even though they might call them certain things, they might think certain things about what these things are and are not. This is like that crumb of truth that seems to transpire across the eons here. The same thing can be said for vampires, for zombies, for something of an angelic realm, for something of a
demonic realm, for a global flood. There's certain stories that yes, you might say this, I might say this, but you take away the names and the titles and the dates, the same story is kind of making its way across.
Yeah. Yeah, it does seem like that. You know, we're we live in a strange world where spiritual weirdness and paranormal weirdness happens. It has happened to basically, I think it's happened almost everybody that I know. Everybody that I know has had some kind of paranormal experience UFO, alien experience, something along those lines, mnemonic experience experience, right, Like, everybody has experienced something otherworldly. It's just that different cultures call
them different things. I think, like you were saying, yeah, so that's the triy or Tarry suck. Now we're gonna get to the Igir Rock. So this one actually looks sketchy. This is a shape shifter being. Okay, goddamn wind to
Goon looks like a wind to goon. Yeah. So in the frozen expanses of Canada and the wider North American Arctic, where the wind carves intricate patterns in the snow and the northern lights paint the sky with ethereal Strokes resides a creature as mysterious as the icy landscape itself the Iji rock. A denizen of Inuit mythology, this being blurs the line between human and animal, embodying elements of both.
In its curious constitution, picture a creature that carries the semblance of a man, yet also mirrors a the weird grace of a caribou. Its eyes hold a glint of other worldly intelligence, while it's limbs, whether human or hooved, are adapted to both the demands of bipedal stature. Do you say bipedal? Is that the proper way to say that word?
Yeah, yeah, bipedal. I know it might also look like bipedal. I guess technically you could say both ways, but usually it's bipedal.
That's what I thought. I saw somebody leave a review. They're like, oh, I can't wait until Jonathan learns how to say bipedal the correct way, And I'm like, that's the way I've always heard it said.
I'm lender to the impression that that's the right way.
I don't anyhow. Bipedal stature and the nomadic existence of the of a cariboo. You could just say that it's a shape shifter of the highest caliber, a master of disguise so adept at catching sight of it in its true form is damn near impossible. This is the Ijirak, a being that doesn't merely transform its physical appearance. It switches between essences, embodying the freedom of the cariboo one
moment and the complexity of a human the next. The origins of the Injurrack are as veiled as the creature itself. It's not so much born as it as it emerges, materializing from the collective psyche of the Inuit people in the natural world that surrounds them. The Ijirak is both guardian and the trickster of the icy plains. It's nature a paradox wrapped in the skin of a human or a cariboo. It's a mythical figure that serves as a somber reminder of the Inuit about the perils of straying
too far from home. For the Ijirak kidnaps. It kidnaps those who dare to wander, whisking them away to an alternate dimension. Is another one could take you away to another world.
Wow, dude, So that's.
What I'm saying. And there's a whole nother one after this that could possibly take you to another world. It's like, what, that's a strange coincidence that do you have tails of this up in that region and all these people just vanished without a trace, you know how I feel.
About it, To be honest, there's a lot of theories as of how and what happened to these people. And yes, I understand that there's going to be somebody saying maybe they all starved to death, Maybe they all went out on aig a big trapping excursion in an avalanche, there's something like this. Okay, fine, there may be some logical solutions, but I also feel like we wouldn't be doing our jobs if we did not look at every single possibility.
Well, and that's what it said that the guy Joe, he said that every time that he's gone up there, there were always men, women and children. You're not taking the women and children on a hunt, bro right, right, you know? And so it would lead you to believe that whatever happened happened to them where they were in their houses or right outside of their little houses or something like that. But there's no trace or anything. And even a fucking grave was dug up next to it.
Now, that might be the grave being dug up very well may have no connection whatsoever. Right, it's possible that that might be the only coincidental thing in this conversation. However, again, we would be remiss if we did not mention that and what that could possibly lead to. In this regard, we've talked about skin walkers. We've talked about how you to use the bones of a murdered person in order
to perform the medicine to become a skin walker. Now, the Inuit do not have a skin walker esque being within their religion or in their beliefs, but they do have a few other ones that might be close enough, perhaps to make that magic or medicine or whatever you want to call it, that fetish happen. You might need the bones of a recently deceased person.
Who knows. We're just saying, we're looking at it completely. Third eye all the way open here and look.
Even if you might say, well maybe the dogs got hungry and it just ate all the people.
Yeah, okay, I mean first, if that was the case, there wouldn't only be two dogs alive.
Well, there's that because what he said that there were seven dead and then there was two like still strangling barely surviving. But even with that, it's like, are dogs gonna eat a fucking jawbone with teeth in it and stuff?
I don't think, I mean maybe, but there would be remnants. There would be blood, there would be torn clothing, there would be something else like that.
And also here's the old dude. How many I don't know how.
Many first responders you personally know, right, how many cops or EMTs or or you know, initial response people that you might know within your circle.
I've talked to quite a few of them. I have a lot of buddies that.
Are if you have, like the crazy cat lady when she dies in her home and of course her family's not checking on her because she's the crazy cat lady, so it'll be weeks where nobody hears anything. You go over to the house, she's been dead for a week and the cats have eaten her face off.
Yea, here's the old.
Cats are carnivores, they need meat. Dogs are more of the omnivore side. Is it's not impossible, but it is very rare that a dog will eat it's dead and master for sustenance.
A cat will do that almost instantly.
And also to like, you know, you kind of mentioned it. It's like, what about their clothes. You know, the clothes would be torn it the dogs ain't eat in the clothes. No, are the shoes or don't. I mean, I don't know how they dressed, but I don't even know. I'm sure they were some kind of booed at least.
But that's what I'm saying.
There would be signs of, if not even signs of a struggle, there would be signs of like, oh I found these bodies and they were half gnawed off or something like that. There'd be signs of something else going on here. The fact that there was no signs the food being left on the plate, Okay, that's that's a rare one, and that needs to be noted. That doesn't inherently mean that they all vanished in the blink of an eye. The fact that their guns were not being
used and they were still put up in everything. Okay, so this was whatever it was. It wasn't an attack, It wasn't a struggle of some type.
Could it have been.
Let's say that all their traps, because this was a trapping tribe, right, all their traps hit at the same time, and it was so much at the exact same time that they needed the women to even help them get all of this meat up. And we gotta process this game, we gotta do whatever. And while they're out and about through sheer fuck you energy and avalanche came and wiped out the whole tribe. Okay, I could see a possibility of this, but that's my point. There would be other signs.
You wouldn't go out to clear like uh, for I don't want to say clean your traps. You wouldn't go out to collect your game without your weapons. You wouldn't go out and leave food on the stove, so to speak.
Like there are some clear that something else happened here.
That's a thing too, Like you never know what you're gonna like come up on when you go out there and you're I don't know how far away the traps were, but let's just say even if they were only a half a mile away, you're gonna be walking around on the frozen tundra whenever. You know what, if you spot something while you're out there, maybe you're like, hey, you know, we can rely on the traps, but that's not the
only thing we rely on. Well, I mean you're not gonna I mean, are you catching fucking caribou in traps? I don't think right.
Not necessarily, it'd be more like small game or fish. But even still, dude, if you're that far north, there are predators out there that just because you and your tribe are out there collecting your game, that doesn't mean that you are now safe. Like something else might have smelled the blood or heard the screams of a dying rabbit and is now coming out there to investigate, and now they see more.
It's that's what I'm saying.
It doesn't line up to say that this was a random, natural accident. It doesn't line up to say that this was a random COVID esque style ooh so scary plague that hit the entire village because there's no bodies, there's no signs of struggle, there's no things that were left in a certain way, like as if they were about to leave and will be right back.
It's it doesn't make sense, and that's why it's so interesting.
Well, and let's hear a little bit more about the ij Iraq, so not all about the id Iraq is menace and dread in its way. This creature serve as a functional role in the Inuit worldview, an embodiment of the mysterious forces that govern this their harsh existence. The Injirac's elusiveness makes it a figure of all in deep respect, a being whose unknowable motives make it as much a part of the Inuit's mental landscape as the Caribou is of their physical one. As for the special abilities, therect
shape shape shifting prowess is second to none. Its power of abduction to hide people in realms unseen is the stuff of night whispers among the Inuit, a tale to caution the young and the adventurous. So, see, this is something that's in their mind every time they go outside of like their little homeland. You know what I'm saying. And maybe not just this, but you know all of the weird, cryptid, kind of otherworldly shit that could get you, I guess. And yet the Indirac is not invincible. It's
very strength. Its enigmatic dual nature also serves as its greatest weakness. For a creature that straddles two worlds of never fully a part of either, the Injurrac's liminal existence makes it eternally solitary, bound neither to the herds of caribou nor to the warmth of human community. In the end, the idract stands as a symbol of the boundary that separates us from the untamed natural world, yet also unites
us through shared myth and cautionary tales. It's a complex figure of awe and terror, a lens through which the Inuit people can view their interconnectedness with icy, unforgiving yet deeply mesmerizing landscape that they call home. So that would be the Injurraq the uh what was a what was the other? Like the wind agoon? Yeah, so that's a possibility.
And so for when to go, I should say Windy Goon is a YouTuber I fucks with.
But yeah, when you go when to go?
Yeah, yeah, you're right. This is another one. This is the sirens that they were talking about. And the crazy thing about this is that not only are they in the seas and in the lakes and everything, but because it's so damn cold up there, it's uh, you know, they have froz and lakes and stuff like that, right, and so you never really know exactly when you're walking on a frozen leg because it's snow so damn much over there. Sometimes you'll just be walking. You don't even
know that it's a lake. You you could be walking over a frozen lake at that point. And so these creatures are said to literally live underneath the ice and they can just come up and grab you through the ice. Look at these ugly focks. Wow, dude, they are creepy that.
It looks like some water demons.
It almost looks like.
Crawl of the TV from the ring.
Kind of like that and reminding me a beetlejuice whenever they like stretch their face.
Yep.
Kind of looks like that a little bit. So this is the Calipiluit. Calapiluit there we go, in mythology, is a brim with interesting tails and mysterious creatures such as the amarock wolf and the ma mahaha, the tickling demon. Tickling demon that almost sounds like Elmo, doesn't it?
That sounds like a weird kink? Oh huh.
One noteworthy mystical or mythical creature in Inuit folklore is the calapiluit, which is often likened to the Boogeyman. But what exactly is it? So here we go. The calapiluit, sometimes known as the calipllic I think is a terrifying Inuit demon nest that dwells in the Arctic waters and is believed to steal children. In Inuit mythology, they are believed to be incredibly ugly and smell strongly of sulfur.
In appearance, the calapiluit is like a scary mermaid and has scaly and bumpy skin with a greenish blue hue. The demons also has long, straight hair as black as night, and webbed hands and feet that are elongated by pointy claws. The aquatic creatures also have fins coming out from their back of their from the back of their heads and spine. The calapiluit is often described as being similar to the Boogeyman, as it is also known to frighten and kidnap children.
In fact, the cal piluit is often depicted wearing an amuwati, which is a traditional Inuit parka that has a built in baby carrier and is made from seafur or caribou skin. The calapiluit attracts children towards it by humming powerful, powerfully alluring melodies in their direction, and when they get close, the creature snatches children with its amuati and runs away
with the child. Fuck that, Oh my god. What they do with the captured children is subject to some debate, but no propose scenario is good.
They might eat them. They might turn them into their kind. They might I don't know, but whatever it is ain't good.
At worst, they eat. They eat the children to remain immortal with their nourishing youth. At best they put them under a sleeping spell and hide them in acy icy caves for eternity. So where is it from? The calapiluit is a mythical creature prevalent and Inuit folklore, and is believed to live and the frigid waters of the Arctic region. More specifically, they live beneath the waters with thin ice
and will use the shallowness to its advantage. It does this by knocking on the ice at the shallowest parts, louring children above to the above ground to the noise, and then capturing them when they caused the ice to break. This is one way the inuid parents would warn children away from thin ice. There was always a chance that the calapiluate would be waiting for it to break. Dude, Wow, that is sketchy.
So fuck that. Fuck all of that conversation.
Fuck the cold, fuck the ice, Fuck the demons in the ice that Jesus Christ, I know it, dude, U. This sounds like my actual version of hell. Just so everyone knows, I'm the guy that gets like pissy. If it was below sixty degrees outside this over here, there's just like a perma frost. No matter what time of year you walk outside, there's going to be ice and snow and shit, you'll fuck living there.
I don't know why you would.
These people.
I understand it's their culture and they live live there for generations, and like, you know, more power to them.
You ain't gonna see me nowhere near that motherfucker.
Yeah, Jacob won't move to Tennessee because it's too cold.
Goddamn right, there's mountains and shit, oh my god, so there are.
So then we're gonna get into the environmental and psychological factors. So some theories lean towards survival driven evacuation. Perhaps thin ice collapse or illness forced the village to move fast, but that doesn't explain the dead dogs, the half cooked meals, or the lack of tracks. Could mass could mass Arctic hysteria, which is it actually has a word, Arctic hysteria. It is called pibloptoe.
There we go.
OKAYU those like space madness is a thing.
Apparently arctic madness is a thing.
I guess. Just whenever you see all that white and there's nothing around, maybe it drives you crazy a little bit.
I see, I fucking agree. You know what you'll ever hear of by you madness?
That's not a thing.
Now, there's no such thing as seeing too many cypress trees and mud and alligators to where you're going to go crazy about it. But you could see so much snow that they actually have a documented hysteria around it.
See. This just tells me I'm living in the correct location.
Yeah. The worst thing that will happen to you if you live down south is you're going to develop some verbiage that other people might find strange.
And or get carried off by the mosquitoes, which would suck. I get this, But again, that sounds like a better option than going absolute fucking crazy because you've seen too much snow in your eyeballs.
I'm okay.
Yeah. So anyhow, this could this mass arctic hysteria have driven the villagers into the wild all at once, and if so, what caused it? Isolation, environmental stress, or something unseen, a sudden sound, a ripple in the sky, and an instinct older than reason, something that told them run now, the kind of instinct that you don't argue with because in the north, hesitation is death. I don't know if I buy that one. Not buying that one, I could see it.
But also, bro, there's no way there's nothing that came out of nowhere that quick, that fast on the entire tribe to where they all said, oh shit, we got to get out of here.
And then where did they go? Where did they take off to? They didn't. They were already living in the wilderness.
So if they were going to just set up shop in a new location, maybe a few miles away, you would have heard of that. They would have set up shop, They would have left markers and said, hey, we've moved to this location for XYZ reason. Wherever the case. The other neighboring tribes would have heard of these events that took place and said, oh those people, yeah, they picked up and move they're over here now, or something like that.
None of that is the case.
Yeah, but whenever you mention the weird, cryptid fucking of the other world, they're like, you know, it's like where could they have gone? And they're like, yeah, it was probably them. It's like, how often does this happen to where you're just so comfortable with it that you can just make that that's like your first assumption.
Bro, Why are y'all so calm that you just assume the snow demons took them? And you're just like, oh, yeah, yeah, those snow demons. You got a watch out for those, bro. A whole tribe of fifty.
Yeah, it do be like that sometimes, like wait.
What they'll get you. They'll get you, all right, It's like, God, damn, get the fuck out of here.
Go somewhere warm.
Maybe, Yeah, I wonder if one of those like neighboring tribes had beef and like that's why they're just doing that, Like yeah, yeah, you know, you know what they say about those people over there, they pissed off the snow demons.
Just shit be happening.
I mean, either they're that like they're that used to that kind of activity, or they're the ones that went down there. And like, but even if they went down there and murdered them. They would have took their shit. There would have been signs of a struggle.
There would have been bodies in the street there, or a mass grave, or signs that they drugged the bodies to another location, or blood or things burned down or something like that. It does not sound to me like this was an attack from another human being or wild animals, or even like a serial killer that just like lost his mind went house to house killing people quietly or whatever.
Like none of these things make sense to me. But I also don't inherently think that it was some sort of a spiritual, demonic presence or whatever that took these people in one by one.
Or an entire village. It's it is a very good mystery here.
Well, I do have two other possible theories. If it wasn't you know, them just running out and getting lost or getting eaten by whatever animals that are on the Arctic surface, or getting lost or just moving town to town or whatever. And if it wasn't any kind of cryptid activity, if it wasn't any kind of shifting to a another dimension, possibly like the Mayans, We don't know.
If it wasn't anything like that, could there be a UFO connection here, which kind of what the what the officers were alluding to that there were strange lights in the sky prior to this. So by the mid twentieth century, UFO researchers had adopted Angeccuni as a showcase case of mass alien abduction. The lights in the sky, the suddenness, the lack of tracks all classic abduction hallmarks. Isolated communities are prime targets, no quick rescue, no media presence, and
no immediate investigation. If that's the truth, then Angeccuni may not be unique. It may just be one file in a much larger, much darker pattern. The idea of a rural wipe is chilling. Entire groups taken studied, and a race without a single shot fired, not war, not plague, just removal. Do you buy into that? Do you believe that anybody has actually ever been abducted by an ali
First off, Oh yeah, for sure, like physically taken. I believe that physical aliens are real, So like a physical abduction, Y know, I one hundred percent believe that has taken place for sure. Do you think that it would take an entire little I mean it's a little village, only twenty five thirty people. I mean, if you can take one, what's twenty five?
So, and I know I'm looking at this through a human perspective, right, So before I say what I'm about to say, I am acknowledging my own personal biases.
Okay, that being said.
If I was a zoologist and I wanted to do some tests on the local lemur popular ringtailed lemur population of Madagascar, just throwing it out, Okay, I could take a lemur and run some tests on it, for sure, absolutely, Or I could take fifty lemurs from the same tree, just cast big ass net over the whole tree, and then one by one get all these lemurs out, and then take all these tests to see which things are
an anomaly. Because if you're doing tests on one subject that might be the weirdo of the crew, that might not be a good litmus test for the entire population Thereof if you were to get fifty lemurs all from the same exact area, eating the exact same diets and things like that, you get a different type of litmus test to what the health and longevity and certain genetic traits and these types of things are. So with that being said, we have had other examples that we have
talked about on the show of whole communities up and vanishing. Now, I don't We're not going miyance, cause that that's thousands and thousands of people. That's a little bit more than just get a litmus test. That's what some might call a genocybe. We're not going there. But if I was a you know, a betting man, which I have been known to be from time to time, and if these aliens were or extraterrestrials or whatever, call it, whatever terms
you want, I'm trying to throw shade here. If they were to be coming to Earth to do some sort of an experiment or to take samples or something like that, not just the anal probing shit we always hear about, but on some very real intellectual excursion kind of things, it would also make sense to me that they would find small communities fifty to one hundred large way off the beaten path, who's gonna miss these people and abduct them as a group to try to get a litmus
test of the environment and all these things. Now, I'm not saying that I believe that that's what happened either, but I could imagine a world in which that is what took place.
Sure I could see that. I don't know. I want to believe that alien abduction, you know. I sometimes I even go outside on my front porch and I'm like, dude, just fucking take me, you know what I'm saying, Like just beat me up, send me out, like it's time, you know. Like I love my kids, I love my job. But you know, at a certain point, you're just like, what's out there? Just out of curiosity, you know what I mean.
I you know, and we still got that thing that is hurling towards us. Maybe it'll make its way here, Maybe it won't. Maybe it's nothing. Maybe it's a complete hoax that are mainstream media is spinning just.
To keep us talking about some random shit.
I don't know, but I do still believe that before we die, we will have actual extra planetary contact.
I hope, like for sure, for sure.
So there is another theory that is out there that I well, I suggested this as a possible theory because it has been done in the past. So there is the oil drilling theory in government involvement. Because remember they were very quick to dismiss this, you know, and the quickest way to you know, have people forget about it is to just not even look into it in the first place, you know, outside of the Epstein files. But that's some suggest the disappearance was staged to clear the
land for resource exploitation. In theory that would fit the Arctic petroleum exploration. Canada's Far North is rich with untapped reserves, but records show no oil or gas exploration at Lake Angecuni and Ngecuney in nineteen thirty or since activity was focused elsewhere like Norman Wells, and none of it and none of it. Land is tightly regulated, with Inuit consolation required.
Could there still have been a covert operation, maybe, but with no archival trace, no permitting activity, and no later industrial footprint, the oil theory seems less likely unless this was a black project buried deeper than most, and if it was, then the absence of industrial scars is telling because whatever happened, they're left nothing behind but silence in general, So.
Not I could see the conversation. There's been more than a few times around the world.
Obviously not in the connell us that we've never done anything bad to anyone ever, if you read the history books. But okay, so there have been more than a few cases where they need a pipeline to go from point A to point B, or they need a resource from some certain area, and there happens to be these pesky villagers, this endage population that's all talking about how it's.
Sacred land and we can't build there.
And one thing leads to another, big bamboom, bob's your uncle. Next thing, you know, the village is just abandoned. It's burned to the ground. Where did the people go, Hey, we're not talking about that, We're talking about our next quarter income statements.
Some about that.
And yeah, this has absolutely happened before. But that being said, there's no industrial footprint in this area, right. There is no sign that there was a struggle. There was nothing that happened after the fact too. So even if there was like an exploratory well that was being dug and I'm just throwing one shot out of a can, it could have been a number of resources they were out there looking for.
Could have been a diamond, mind, I doubt it.
But just for the sake of shits and gigs, let's say that they they thought that there was an untapped oil.
Well right around that lake.
And they didn't Explora Tory dig somewhere and they found remnants of what they believed could be the big one. Okay, a big oil, well, big money, all the things. They wouldn't just kill a tribe to build a platform out that way. They would try to at first make a deal with them. Yeah, they'd try to screw them over and the deal, don't get me wrong, but they would try to at first make a deal.
They would then try to go around the land.
Then they would, if all else fails, decide to wipe out the village. Even in the nineteen twenties and thirties, that was still the way, Like, you know, it wasn't It wasn't a good business practice to just kill everybody for the sake of killing everybody and just see what shakes out later.
That hasn't been the way in quite a few centuries.
Yeah, so it's less, I would say, the least likely. But if all of this actually did happen, because some speculate that it didn't even happen, We're going to get to the spectoid or skeptoid article here as well. But if all of it did happen, what would it mean?
So if the if the disappearance is real. It forces us to confront a weird truth that community, that entire communities can be a race without violence, without evidence, and without answers, whether it's extraterrestrials, interdimensional entities, or forces that we don't yet understand. The implications shake our assumptions about safety and stability. It's not just about what happened to
the Anticuni, it's about what could happen anywhere. And it tells us we can take you, all of you without leaving a trace, and there's nothing you can fucking do
about it. So that's just what it could be. I honestly believe that that's why the government has been hiding a lot of alien shit for decades leading up to this, because I think that the bare notion if we were ever to ever to get like any kind of real world like examples, if they were just not pulling our chain and they because we know that they know a lot more than they know, right for sure, Like they absolutely know so much much more than they lead on
to believe. Maybe the reason they don't tell us, Yes, I get it, you know, for reverse engineering techniques and whatnot else, but it could also be because they don't want to cause mass panic because if there is an otherworldly entity that has extremely advanced technology, and what if we're the ones that are making deals with them so that they don't fuck us over, Like we don't know
what's going on behind government closed doors. It could be anything, and so I think that, you know, the government would be keeping that a secret, and if they would be keeping it in a secret, maybe Lake and Jacuni could have been one of the first ones. Or I mean, it's happened in the thirties, so maybe one of the first ones.
So I agree with you.
By the way, I think that humanity as a whole, the fact that so many of us believe that we are actually at the top of the food chain tells us our arrogance more than anything.
So dumb.
Have you ever seen Spartacus? Yeah, okay, yeah, all the season?
Uh oh wait Spartacus. No, I was thinking of another Roman thing.
Well, Spartacus the TV show, not the movie from back in the day with all uh oh, what was his name, Kurt Douglas, Not that Spartacus I'm talking about.
Well, I guess it's his dad, honestly, but.
No, no, no, the TV show Spartacus at HBO put on a one point in time, right, there was an episode where long story short, you had this Roman general that was still training because he wanted to he didn't want to get soft and weak. And he had this legendary gladiator that he had hired. Now keep in mind, gladiators were slaves in the Roman times. But he had hired him to train him, and or he had bought him. He was his slave, and he was training him all
these things. And he had this son that was just a spoiled, rotten, little shit of a kid.
I say kid.
He was like early twenties, but he still spoiled little shit nepo baby by any other means. And his dad was trying to instruct him on something. He's like, so do you believe that you're better than the slaves? Just throwing it out, Well, I believe any Roman citizen is better than slaves in all manners. We must be otherwise we wouldn't be citizens. And he's like, okay, slave, big gladiator guy, I want you to fight my son.
Wait, what what you're You said, you're a Roman citizen, so you're so much superior than every slave.
This man has killed two hundred men in the arena. You're a Roman citizen, so clearly you're better than him in all ways. Go ahead and show me how much better you are than him. Long story short, this gladiator quickly backhanded this little bitch ass real quick, and he felt all offended and he was like, Dominus, I'm so sorry.
He's like, no, no, no.
No, you instructed and you taught a humbling lesson. You're all good, you son, You'll shit. I hope you learned a lesson with that backhand, right. I feel like that's a lot of humanity. We're over here, like, well, we're humans, We are masters of any domain, and we put our eyes on we look at all the civilization we've built, look at these skyscrapers, and look at these jets. First of all, please understand we are still fleas on this earth, and she will rock us off whenever she's ready.
First off.
Second off, we are so much more advanced and superior than How come all of these wild animals randomly kill us every year? How many shark attacks? Actually, a cow is the deadliest animal on Earth. They kill more people per capita than any other animal on Earth. You see all these things, Yeah, you wouldn't believe so, but it happens.
The hippo is like the most dangerous one.
In the water.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because they have no natural predators and they just get bigger and bigger and bigger. But like, that's my point. We are such masters of our domain, then how are we getting bodied by wild animals that we have Allegedly we're higher than them on the food chain every fucking year. Then we want to talk about interplanetary, inter dimensional intergalactic conversation.
Listen, listen.
I'm not saying that we are not in a very comfortable position on Earth, but we need that's a perspective issue. We have this perspective that we're top dog. You see what I'm saying here. So I feel like for humans that they learned the truth that we are, we may not be like a flea on a dog's ass. Bindy means we might have a decent position, but we're also not top tier.
Bindy means it's a false sense of entitlement for sure. Yes, yes, and yeah, I feel like we're we're all a little too comfortable. And I mean, look, I don't know, are aliens ever gonna come down and fuck with us? Have they already come down and fucked with us. I am of the belief that maybe maybe stupidly, but I'm of the belief that they wouldn't personally. But I don't know.
So anyway, let's get over to your boy skeptoid. So so, skeptics point to the lack of Inuit oral history, missing names of alleged villagers, and conflicting details as signs that it was pulp journalism. Still, they admit many hoaxes start with a kernel truth. Something may have happened at Angecouni, even if the mass disappearance was exaggerated beyond recognition. The question is what is the truth that they're trimming away?
In the Arctic, stories change like snowdrifts, reshaped by every gust, still hiding the same sharp ice beneath. If there was, only if there was a seed of reality, what grow from it may be more frightening than fiction. So now we're going to get to the skeptoid article here in a second, and he's going to point out a lot of flaws, and mainly he's not going so much on the lore. He's more so going on the on the newspaper article in general, because lore can be built up.
Myths can be built up. This was the first time that it was ever talked about, first time it was ever printed, so I think he's going off of that. He actually did an episode on this, not to promote him, because we're not his biggest fans, but hey, you know, he get a call out, then we will tell you what episode Sceptoid podcast number three seventy one, So all right, he goes. The year was nineteen thirty. The place the
frozen waste of Northern Canada. It was November, late fall on the flat landscape was blasted over with ice, crystals and wind. A lone trapper, joe LeBell made his way to an Inuit village. He knew all looked well as he approached, but when he arrived, nobody answered his greeting calls. LaBelle looked around and found everything in place, everything except
the people. The entire population of the village had vanished. Food, clothing, rifles, half cooked meals, and everything else needed for life on the tundra were all at the ready, but no Inuit to use them. LaBelle stood on the shore of the Angecuny Lake and pondered the mystery, then went straight away and reported the disappearance to the RCMP. Since then, the story of the Angeicuni Lake has been a mainstay of Canadian miss lore. You'll hardly or you'd hardly recognize Angcuni
Lake as a lake. None of it is the largest in northernmost of Canada's territories and is one of the most sparsely populated regions on Earth. There are more than fifty square kilometers of barren rock and ice per person, and none of it half the density of Greenland. And most of them speak in Nouk to it Enuk to tit enuc to tut enuc to tut. I didn't know that was a language.
Never knew that, but I mean I figured that the Inuits would have their own type of dialect. I've never actually heard what the dialect was called, but all right.
Enuc to tut. So there is only major settlement within the whole of this of this vast territory, the capital Equaluit, with less than seven thousand population, fifteen hundred kilometers east of and Angiicuni Lake. None of it encloses most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
So they say that archipelago.
Archipelago and its mainland portion is almost completely devoid of any features at all, having been scraped flat by glaciers that left only barren rock and tundra lace with shallow puddles and streams, generously called lakes and rivers. A few dozen of these puddles loosely linked together at what comprised in Jacuni Lake during most of the year. It's an unbroken flat plane of ice and snow, completely indistinct from anything within five hundred kilometers in any direction. They call
this part of Canada the barren Grounds. The most famous published account of Joe Lobel's mysterious encounter comes from Frank Edward's nineteen fifty nine books Stranger Than Science, in which Edwards devoted three short pages to the story. He tells how the Mounted police returned to the village site with LeBell and confirmed everything that he told them, and like LaBelle, they were unable to find any trace of the villagers, nor come up with any suggestion why they might have
left all of their valuables and necessities behind. Their kayaks still sat on the bench or on the beach, rather meals still hungover long dead, could looking fires. The police also found the frozen bodies of the villager's dogs. Edward's chapter concludes that months of patient and far flung investigation failed to produce a single trace of any member who had lived in the deserted village of Angekuni. The Mounted
Police filed it as unsolved, so it remains. There are a number of things about the Joe LaBelle story that raised red flags, though for one thing, it happened in November, when average temperatures are at thirteen degrees celsius below freezing Angecuni Lake is a sheet of ice. Kayaks pulled up to the beach would not be battered by wave action. Their very presence of kayaks so far inland is suspect, though not impossible. Migratory Inuit would often portage their kayaks
to hunt caribou. These eastern ing iglu Lick kayaks were made of seal skin stretched over willow branches, but the small Angikuni lank is landlocked so far inland on the barrens that neither willow nor sealskin were available, and this would be by far the farthest inland that the historical use of Iglulik kayaks would have ever been documented. Not impossible,
but highly suspect. Edwards also had label describing a permanent settlement, a friendly little Eskimo village of about thirty inhabitants that he had known for quote unquote many years. A statement made from the Mounted Police say that a village with such a large population would not have existed in such a remote area of the Northwest Territories. They had left seal skin garments behind in a region where there was caribou hide rather than sealskin, and as a trapper, label
should have been able to identify it properly. So there was either a series of quite improbable circumstances, or label was wrong, or Edwards was wrong. Today, no physical evidence exists of a village at Angacuni Lake, and nobody has ever published an account of going up there and clearing away any remnants, so we have to rely on documentary
evidence to find the true history of the vanishing village. Interestingly, following the history of the published accounts is a bit like trying to follow one of those movies that's out of sequence and jumps around from different time periods, and you'll see what I mean a lot like this episode. The earliest recorded publication about Angecouni Lake is a nineteen seventy six citation of an article from November twenty ninth, nineteen thirty written by an Emmett Keller in the Halifax
Herald newspaper. Keller, writing as a quote unquote special correspondent for the newspaper, told la Bell's story and gave the village a population of twenty five and offered a more reserved version of the artifacts LaBelle found, including a single rusty old rifle and a few dog corpses. The article
included a generic photograph of an Inuit village. Next, on January seventeenth of nineteen thirty one, Courtland Starns, the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, released an investigation of the event undertaken by Sergeant J. Nelson. Nelson, and speaking with local traders, learned that joe Leabelle was a real person,
but worked only in Northern Manitoba. He also discovered that Keller's photograph was an old one from the RCMP's own archives, and as nobody in the region had heard of this village or its disappearance, Nelson concluded that the entire episode was a sensationalized hoax made up by Keller for the next twenty eight years, it appears that the presses were quiet.
I was able to find no printed works at all of any kind that mentioned Angecunnie Lake, or any of the names involved until nineteen fifty nine, when Frank Edwards Books was released. Edwards slightly increased the number of inuit from twenty five to thirty. He also offered no sources for this chapter and did not mention the alleged nineteen thirty or nineteen thirty one releases. Over the next seventeen years,
the presses were almost as quiet. A few scattered references to Edward's version of the story appeared in books about psychics and the paranormal, but no new details were introduced. So already you're like, all right, maybe skeptoids not entirely off, then right, right, right fair. It was nineteen seven when the story really broke. Dwight Whalen wrote a cover story for the November nineteen seventy six issue of Fate magazine
called Vanished Village Revisited. Whalen was the first to note that the nineteen thirty and nineteen thirty one articles there does not seem to be any record of any earlier author finding them. Whalen also wrote that when he called the RCMP personally, he was told that they had no record of any such event, despite the many details in Sergeant Nelson's report provided by the RCMP commissioner himself. Oh
that's interesting, woh so. Whalen concluded that the whole story was largely invented by Emmitt Keller, possibly based on a tall tale he heard from Joe LaBelle, who may or may not have stumbled on some actual ruins of a village or a camp. And then things got weird, and in the April nineteen seventy seven edition of Fate, a reader wrote in to dispute Whalen's conclusion. This reader was none other than Betty whoa none other than Betty Hill of Betty and Barney.
Hill shut up holy shit.
At the time, the mos famous self described alien abductee in the world and subject of the nineteen sixty six book sixty six book called The un The Interrupted Journey Two Lost Hours a board a flying saucer, Betty claimed that while on a ferry ride with her husband Barney at the Bay of Fundy, they met a Captain Larson, who, as a mounte had spent nine years investigating the mystery of the vanishing village at Angecooney Lake. Holy shit, all right,
we're getting somewhere then, okay. In his opinion, wrote Betty, wrote, Betty, the villagers had all been abducted by the UFOs.
What so there of the belief that this clearly was an alien abduction that took the entire village?
Fucking Betty and Barney Hill definitely. Oh, they said that they talked to a sergeant that had been following it for nine years. That's that's wild. So from this point on, UFO writers everywhere began, including Angecooney Lake in their books. The nineteen eighty three book called the World's Greatest UFO Mysteries by Nigel Blundell and Roger Bore amplified the population of the village to twelve hundred and added the element of three trappers, armand Lorent and his two sons seeing
UFOs flying toward and Jacuni. They then encountered a group of mounties on their way to investigate the flying objects. In this version of the story, Joe LaBelle used a telegraph to report the vanished village, despite there being no telegraphs within probably one thousand kilometers of the lake. So this is where it probably got a little bit mythologized, you know.
Yeah.
So in nineteen eighty eight, John Colombo's book called Mysterious Canada repeated all of this, including Blundle and Boor's overblown details and all of Whalen's correspondences with the RCMP. People Magazine ran a nineteen eighty eight article essentially repeating all
of this sensationalized new information. The Canadian UFO Report, published in two thousand and six by Ritkowski and Ditman, added that all the villager's ancestral graves have been emptied, and a rents dot Com article in two thousand and one increased the village population to two thousand and buried the dog corpses under twelve feet of snow. Damn, this is the game of telephone.
Right, yeah, budding.
So what is a fact hunting researcher to do? Going back to the original sources is sometimes easier said than done. Whaling gave precise details of the publication of the nineteen thirty newspaper article and the nineteen thirty one RCMP report and recording to the researcher Patrick Dirkson, who worked with his staff at the Millennium Library in Winnipeg in twenty thirteen, neither appears to exist. They also searched all other Manitoba newspapers from the day and found no references to the
story whatsoever, nor any record of an Mt. E. Keller. Couldn't find a record of him. Wasn't he the one that wrote the story in.
The first place? That makes like no sense.
Certainly nothing like it appears in the microfilm copies that I have on my desk right now, he says. He goes update. The original nineteen thirty report has been found in an article in the b from Danville, Virginia, not in Manitoba. The conclusion of this episode will be updated as soon as I can get around to it. That was the article that we had read. I guess he couldn't get his hands on that. So in nineteen eighty eight, the Australian skeptics contacted the RCMP historian SW Worral, who
wrote this many years ago. The members of RCMP then retired who served in the area at the time these events were purported to have happened in nineteen thirty were asked for their comments on the story. They could not confirm it recalled nothing like it and were astounded that such a ridiculous tale could be believed. Our files were carefully searched. No strange Craft was ever reported. No one named Joe LaBelle ever came to the RCMP in panic about Lake Angecouni. The RCMP did not send out any
search parties. The only records we have on the story are copies of letters to correspondences like yourself, informing the writers that the story is entirely fictitious. It seems clear that Frank Edwards nineteen fifty nine chapter is indeed the genesis of the tale, aparently made up from the whole cloth.
It also seems clear that Dwight Whalen, writing in nineteen seventy six, some forty five years after the event, took advantage of the fact that no one who would have been involved was still living and invented both the nineteen thirty newspaper article and nineteen thirty one RCMP report. That's what he was saying earlier, So he wrote the rest of this article, But then he wrote the update saying that it was found. So see that that's what's weird about it, you know, like that's what makes it.
Same it's fake.
I well, maybe he just I don't know. Maybe you couldn't find it. I did have to go like in an article inside of another article, inside of another article to find that. So it was deeply hidden. Like you try and search for it, it's damn near impossible to find.
Uh yeah, I mean then also, and I'm not saying that I believe all this being a hoax, but if it was, this is kind of the perfect storm to make a hoax narrative. It is a outpost off of an Inuit tribe in the middle of actual bum fuck nowhere in the Great White North, a population of fifty people that vanished. Nobody's ever gonna go up that far north to check. No one's gonna ever try to verify
or find out more details. So you're going off of second, if not third, if not fourth hand information, just right off the rip. So if it was a hoax, and which your boy the skeptics is saying, I get it. I'm not saying that I inherently did, like agree right off the rib boom case closed debunked like no, no, no, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that for the debunking conversation, I see how those pieces would fit together in the mind of a skeptic for sure.
And also we're talking about nineteen thirty in fucking northern Canada, talking about Inuit people who are you know, usually left alone, probably even disregarded. Right, Yeah, So it's not that crazy that there wouldn't be a paper trail leading to all the details of this story anyway, Right, Like you could see how something like this could happen, Like how many kidnappings happen, Like how many trafficking things happen on a regular basis, how many? How often are you hearing about it?
Right?
You know what I'm saying, Like it shit's happened in every day in every city and we barely ever hear about it. Does that mean that it's not happening? Well, no, they're just not trying to either a panic the public. They don't want people to move out of their city
because they enjoy collecting those taxes. And you know, it's like there's many of different factors as to why you wouldn't report something, especially if let's just say that this whole thing was real and they actually did vanish, you gotta fucking leave a paper trail of that dude, you know what I'm saying.
That's the thing. You got it?
At what point are we believing the quote unquote narrative? Right not to detract, but I promise it's gonna make its way back to this.
We did an episode earlier this year.
Remember how all these planes are falling out of the sky and the media was running with like, what.
Is going on with these plane crashes? It's more than ever.
A literal quick Google search will show you that it was like a two to one more planes that crashed the previous year in the one month.
Than in that month. Right, Well, then why is the news saying that?
Because their job is to spend narratives and keep people worried.
Here's another one.
The job is the key compilation fear, though, I think is the main is the main goal.
One hundred percent. Here's another uncomfortable one for you.
When I say the term school shooting, would you say that we have more school shootings now than ever before?
Uh? They would definitely. Have you believe that?
What if I told you that mathematically you were three times more likely to be a victim of a school shooting in the early nineteen nineties than you are right now.
Really like legitimate three two one. But we also know why they're doing that. They've been trying to take a find any reason possible to take away the guns.
You know, that's the point. It's the narrative they've got to spin it. And for anybody who disagrees with that. There was a gentleman named Fox, not Fox News, his last name just happens to be Fox.
He did the math on this.
In the nineties, you had a point one five chance if you were a high school student of being a victim of a school shooting point one five. Right now you have a point zero five. But if you listen to the news, well, it's the gun violence in these schools that's the problems. It's not it's not that's that's As a matter of fact, it's three times safer now than it was a few decades ago.
So you had narrative is going to make it be like that.
So you had, uh, what is that fifteen out of a thousand chants in the nineties, and now you have five out of a thousand chants now.
Uh yeah, yeah, there you go.
Yeah, I mean I'm pretty good with those odds.
And that's the other thing too, Like the school shooting is what they classify. A dude drives by the school and fires a couple of shots just into the parking lot. Boom, it's a school shooting. Like it's not the Uvaldi or the Sandy Hook or the Columbine. That's conversation right, and also is going to be a shocker. The majority of those school shootings happen with handguns, but it's the ars
and the eight k's that are the evil guns. Actually, actually, statistically speaking, more school shootings happen with nine millimeter than they do with rifles in.
The nine millimeters.
But nobody's complaining about that. No one's trying to take nines off the street.
Which I believe nine millimeters are the most common gun, aren't they They are?
They are, They're the cheapest, they're the easiest.
It used to be forty fives, but most police departments and militaries and everything else have swapped over to the nine millimeter. They say ballistically it's equal to a four. I respectfully disagree. I don't care what the fucking ballistic gel dummies show you. Forty five has a lot more punched to it than a nine mil. But it's moving faster. This conversation for another day. We're detracting here. My point is the media will have you believe all kinds of
things that is simply not true. So if the media tells you that this tribe over here, this Inuit outpost got taken, oh wait, never mind, know it didn't Like why would they lie to us?
Why do they lie to us consistently.
All the time. Yeah, and so it's fun to look into for sure, and try and piece all the pieces together, you know, Maddie I style with the corkboard in the yarn. But yeah, I mean in this day and age, you know, people forget. Yeah, it's the day of information. It's also the extreme day and age of misinformation.
But we're also.
Looking back at something damn near one hundred years after the fact. As of right now, this is ninety five years after these events took place, and we're reading a newspaper article ninety five years old. And also, yes, the journalism was also crazy. Okay, we're talking about right after
the stock market crashed. We're talking about things that were being sensationalized to try to make more sales for whatever newspaper is out there, trying to get more people to buy their publication as opposed to this one or whatever the case.
And I'm not saying that means inherently this story is false.
No, but you've got to take all of it together.
You really do, you really do. So with all that being said, I got a video. I got a video that's pulled up. It's only six minutes long, and it's gonna kind of reiterate some of the things we talked about here, but it's gonna hit on some of the more key points to the over arching story of the u Anjakuni Lake the night one hundred and fifty people disappeared.
Yeah, one hundred and fifty. I've been saying fifty my bad, but again which sourcery reading.
But the original report was only twenty five to thirty, and then you.
May became fifty in another article.
Now they're saying, you see what we're saying, this is the game of telefe So I'm very curious what this story is going to have as opposed to the actual article that we just read, as opposed to the clippings from websites that we found, this is what we mean by.
The game of telephone.
So this is actually from mind Blowing Tales YouTube channel was posted about a year ago.
Shout out to them, give it another Give it another one hundred years, and Jesus will have had like like a hundred disciples or something crazy like that.
You know, he had thousands, Actually he had thousands. He had twelve apostles, but he had thousands of disciples.
Yeah. Wow, shit.
But anyway, all right, let's see what mind blowing Tales has to say about the Angecuny Lake.
The night one hundred and fifty people disappeared.
On November twenty sixth, nineteen thirty, a news story was published on the front page of Canada's The Meridan Daily Journal with the title Village of the Dead. This news spread a wave of terror throughout Canada because in the remote areas of Northern Canada, an entire tribe had vanished overnight without.
Any trace viewers.
This is Angicuni Lake, located in a remote area of northern Canada, where a small community of the Eskimo tribe lived by its shores. Approximately one hundred to one hun nundred and fifty people lived there, subsisting on fishing from the lake. This part of Northern Canada is an area where over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers. Only a few thousand people reside due to the extremely harsh climate.
Besides fishing in Anngicuni Lake, hunting of other animals in the surrounding area was common, with many hunters frequenting the area. It was a bitterly cold day in November nineteen thirty when a hunter named Joe LaBelle came to the area for hunting. He got so engrossed in hunting that he didn't notice when it got dark. He had an idea that he would spend the night at the Eskimo tribe settlement by the Laki Angicuni, as he had done before.
The people of this tribe were known for warmly welcoming outsiders. Therefore, Joe LaBelle packed his and started walking towards the Eskimo settlement. It was a moonlit night, but there was complete silence everywhere. No person was visible, nor could any voice be heard. He could only hear his own footsteps. Although Joe had done this before, something was definitely abnormal today. Normally, as he would approach the settlement, he would start hearing the
barking of dogs, which the villagers kept. But today, even as he neared the settlement, there was only desolation and silence. Feeling this, Joe quickened his pace. He thought perhaps the villagers were asleep or had gone somewhere. From a distance, he could see the tents of the settlement, from some of which smoke was rising, but even as he got closer, he heard no one's voice. Finally, when Joe entered the village, he was astonished to see that there was no person
nor any animal there. But what surprised Joe was that from some houses smoke was still rising if someone was inside. He went into a tent at random, but there was no one there, and the same was true for all the tents. Joe might have ignored all this and left, but one thing made him even more worried. In some houses, cooking pots were still on the stoves, with the food burned. It seemed someone had prepared food for the night but
hadn't eaten it. Even the women sewing with cloth and threaded needles was left, as if the villagers had suddenly vanished. But where did they go? Joe LaBelle began searching the entire village. He saw that the dogs the villagers kept were tied with ropes, but had died of starvation. Even though food was placed in front of them, but there was no human to feed them. At one place, he saw a freshly dug grave, looking as if it hadn't
been dug long ago. Now Joe Labelle's worry and fear had greatly increased.
He was, I don't want to detract, but I also do want to make mention of this. If smoke is rising from some of them, the stacks in some of these houses, that means that that fire is less than twelve hours. I will give, at best estimation twenty four hours. Old bro, a dog is not gonna starve in twenty four hours. I'm very sorry.
That's what's strange about all of this is that it's so like every part of this story is so conflicting. Yeah, you know, and which adds to the mystery, you don't get me wrong. But at the same time, it's like, man, you can't find the truth that's all scattered in the fucking winds exactly exactly.
So anyway, I just wanted to point that out, Like he's sawing about, the dogs have been frozen and starved to death, but then there was still like there was still fire in some of these as if like they had just vanished only a few hours prior bro unless those dogs were dead a few out of a day or two prior to the the abduction or whatever the case, which maybe that's what happened. Maybe the tribe was like for weeks leading up to this, they were like on
the outs or something like that. I don't know all the answers. I'm just saying that doesn't out loud make the.
But even the original newspaper article said that whenever he originally went there, Joe LaBelle that it was it looked like they'd been gone for twelve months.
Twelve months, but somehow there were still like smoke coming out of some of the tints and all this.
That's why it's like, wait a minute, what now?
Yeah, it's man, I don't know what the fuck is the truth about this one.
All right, let's keep going terrified.
After witnessing the entire scene alone at night, when people from here go anywhere, they always take their dogs with them. But seeing all this, it seemed as if something strange had happened, something unprecedented, that forced the people to leave suddenly so urgently that they left their dogs, clothes, food, and the burning fire on which the food was now burned. Unable to bear this any longer, Joe quickly reached the
nearest telegraph office. From there he contacted the camps of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and narrated everything he saw. When the police arrived at the village, everything Joe LaBelle had described was found to be true. The police suspected that perhaps someone had attacked and killed all the villagers, but if that were the case, there would be signs of blood somewhere in the village. Even if there was no blood, some signs of violence or scattered belongings would
be present. However, the police found neither signs of violence nor blood. The police immediately began a search operation to find the villagers. During this search operation, they encountered a very unusual thing that perhaps Joe hadn't noticed. The entire village was covered in snow, but there were no footprints on it. There were only the footprints of one person, and those were Joe Labelle's own. This meant if no one else came or went from this village, then where
did the villagers go. The lake was frozen over and the villager's boats were parked on land. Because fishing is not done in this season. The boats were pulled onto land and parked. If the villagers had gone in to the lake or been thrown into it after being killed, the ice layer on the lake would surely have been broken or disturbed somewhere. During the investigation, the police also found out that these people had disappeared eight days before
their arrival. Because dogs do not die from being hungry for a day or two, the smoke coming out of the houses was a sign that not much time had passed since they left, because it was the kind of smoke that continues to emit for a long time after the wood has extinguished. The police had many questions, but not a single answer. After months of the search operation, the police finally stamped this case as unsolved and closed it forever, and with time, people also forgot about it.
Fifty years after this incident, in nineteen eighty four, writers named Roger Bohr and Nigel Blundel wrote an article and tried to link this whole matter with aliens. They mentioned in their article that when they went to explore the area near Anjcuni Lake, they met a hunter and his two sons told them that they often saw flying objects.
Over the lake.
Which had different shapes and were flying towards the village where the Eskimo tribe lived. Based on this story, it was said that perhaps aliens landed that night and took all the people in the village with them. These two writers had no concrete evidence of the presence of aliens or their attack. Therefore, most people did not believe it and rejected this theory. After that, many people started making various separate stories about the disappearance of the Eskimo tribe.
But the truth is that it's been almost one hundred years to this incident and still no one has the answer to the question of where did the people of the Angikuni Lake village go? Without any traces, The matter of the disappearance of the Eskimo tribe remains a mystery to this day.
Okay, So again I'm not trying to just throw holes into the mix here, but okay, they are they determined that they brought up the point that I said, dogs do not die from starvation after one day of not being fed. Okay, So they're saying it had to have been eight days. Jonathan, how many fires would you say that you built in your life? Uh?
But I don't know, maybe a hundred.
Okay, I can, with no ego tell you that I have built well over one thousand fires, if not two thousand, in my entire life.
Real shit. Here.
Some of them paper, some of them logs, some of them bonfires, some of them with an accelerant like gasoline. Some of them I built slowly, with a one match type of situation. Big dog, there's no smoke after eight days. I'm sorry, that's not how this works. I burned an entire tree down once it fell in our yard, and I had to burn it off the stump for reasons I'm not going to get into. But I can tell you that if you don't tend to the fire, it's going to go out. It's going to just lose ox,
and it's going to go out on its own. You might get a day, you might get two. At best, you'll get three. You're not getting eight days of smoke coming off of a fire, because that's how the fires were built. No the fuck they weren't. That doesn't make sense out loud.
Yeah, that's and that's just part of the story is
that it is. It is turned into myth, and it has turned into a tall tail and you know, if stories like this, especially over the course of even one hundred years, in such a desolate area like that, with very few witnesses, very few records of any said thing, you kind of just having to rely on word of mouth, and the closest thing to the word of mouth that we would even have would be the original newspaper article, which even the original newspaper article was written by a
guy who had, you know, kind of flavored some other shit up before, you know.
So, I don't know.
I'm not going to sit here and say that it's debunked by any means, because there's a lot of weird that's still connected to it. Betty Hill reaching out, She's like, yeah, I've been talking to the guy. He's been researching it for nine years. I mean, maybe Betty Hill's offer fucking rocker. Maybe that whole Barney and Betty Hill story is just crazy in general, which it is.
Some will believe that they are hoasters and grifters. I do not necessarily believe that this is not speak Jacob speaking on behalf of Jacob. There are haters out there that absolutely believe that, and then they'll find cases like this to like even stronger verify their claims like see clearly Aliens to mean while it's like, uh, maybe there is an ultimate solution. But again, this is the first time I ever actually looked into this story.
I don't know.
I mean, even Skeptoid got it a little bit wrong, right, and he's trying to poke holes in it, and he couldn't even find everything they needed to find. So right, I don't know what to do with it. I'm going to say that if it was a real vanishing, I'm gonna say, Aliens, it's possible. But also it could be a tall tale.
At the same time, could also be maybe something spiritual, maybe one of these spiritual entities that this tribe acknowledges took them all in the night.
I don't know. I don't know. Now With that, I gut one more video pulled up.
This is from Bad Things, True Crime, and this this.
Was a twelve minute video.
We're only going to play the last like five and a half minutes of it when they get to the debunking. Because, as we do, if we're gonna keep that third eye all the way open, right, we're gonna keep it one hunter, We're gonna keep it one thou Wow here, and we have introduced some ideas.
We've introduced some.
Spiritual aspects, some alien aspects, some conflicting reports, some eyewitness accounts, some police accounts. Then we've heard that the police accounts aren't exactly accurate all.
The way through.
So now let's look at the debunking thereof, or at least somebody's attempt at debunking this story. Maybe this will reiterate some of the things that we've are talked about. Maybe they will throw a bit of a nuance to it, something that we haven't considered thus far. Let's get ready to get into it here once again, Bad Things True Crime YouTube.
Channel shout out to them. Let's see what they gotta say.
So, what most likely happened to the Angercuni Lake villages? How did a whole village of people vanish off the face of the earth. They didn't, They never existed in the first place. Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast did a deep dive into this mystery and found out it's not a mystery after all, It's a hoax. The most famous published account of Jolabell's mysterious encounter comes from Frank
Edwards nineteen fifty nine book Stranger than science. According to Dunning, there are several things about the Jola Bell story in the book that raise red flags. For one thing, it happened in November, when average temperatures are thirteen degrees celsius below freezing. Angeacunni Lake is a sheet of vice kayaks pulled up on the be each would not be battered by wave action. The very presence of kayaks so far inland is suspect, though not impossible. Migratory Inuits would often
portage that kayaks to hunt caribou. These eastern Iglullic kayaks were made of seal skin stretched over willow branches. But a small Angacunie Lake is land locked so far inland on the barrens that neither willow nor seal skin were available, and this would be by far the farthest in land that the historical use of iglullic kayaks would have ever been documented. Not impossible, but highly suspect, Dunning would say.
Edwards also had label recounting a permanent woods also had label recounting a permanent community, a friendly little Eskimo village of about thirty inhabitants that he'd known for many years. A mounted police statement debunked this by saying a village with such a large population would not have existed in
such a remote area of the Northwest Territories. Another shady account in the story was that they had left seal skin garments behind in a region where there was caribou hide rather than sealskin, and as a trapper, LaBelle should have been able to identify these skins properly. Unfortunately, fake news isn't a new phenomenon, and an early incarnation of fake news probably set the ball rolling for this hoax.
The first known publication regarding the Anchacuni Lake mystery is a nineteen seventy six citation of an article dated November twenty ninth, nineteen thirty, authored by Emmett E. Kellaher for the Halifax Herald newspaper. Kellaher, writing as a special correspondent for the publication, repeated Labelle's account, giving the settlement a population of twenty five and offering a restrained version of the remnants LaBelle discovered, which included a single rusty old
gun and a few dog carcasses. The article also included a generic picture of an Inuit community. On January seventeen, nineteen thirty, one. Courtland Stans, the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, published the results of Sergeant Jane Nelson's investigation into the event. Speaking with traders in the area, Nelson discovered that Joe LaBelle was a real person who
exclusively operated in Northern Manitoba. He also learned that keller Ha's picture was an old one from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police archives. And since no one in the area.
All right, so that video is basically just kind of going over what we had already read from the skeptoid article. But it's it's strange, dude. I don't know, I don't know what to make of it. It seems like everybody's kind of baffled on this, and the easiest thing, the easiest thing to say, is just to say that it never existed and the people never existed and all that other stuff, right, I mean, that would be the easiest.
Like Okham's razor. Like if you're looking at all this and like, you know, one fishy thing is another is one thing, two of them is a whole another. But then look at how many fishy things there are to this. It could be just a fabricated story, a tall tale.
If you will.
Some of the things that they did bring up we're interesting though. For instance, to say that it's all seal skin this far in land seals don't exist, that's interesting. To say that it's this specific type of kayak which was made from seal skin. That's like they said, that'd be the furthest inland that one of these have ever been documented.
Okay, interesting. Fair enough.
Then to say that the tribe had thirty people living there, then it was twenty five. Okay, We're like really gonna start splitting hairs over numbers here. But then the report saying such a large settlement wouldn't live that far off the beaten path. Thirty people is a large settlement. That's a fucking classroom size. Yeah, that you see what I'm saying. It's like even the official statement from the Mounties don't make sense on this.
I don't know, No, I agree, I agree. I mean, I feel like if you're gonna pull at the limbs of this story, you would pull at other things rather than just the the things that aren't really that crazy.
The seal skin thing that makes sense.
It would be it would have been way more likely that these were like caribou skin clothing, you know, or the kayaks would have been made from hollowed out trees rather than stretched seal skin over birch and all these like. Yeah, I see the points that they're making on this, and I'm not saying that it's one hundred percent of hoax.
I'm saying that certain.
Things don't exactly line up oh so neatly into the story that we were originally told.
Well, which is interesting.
Yeah, I mean, hey, we pulled up everything we possibly could, all the possibilities, the skeptics, the believers, the the different cryptids. Could it have been alien, could it have been big oil industries or anything like that? And I think we do. We both agree that it's probably likely that it was a fictional story.
Yeah, I'm of that belief at this time.
Even I believe that was just saying a lot.
Now, does that mean that there's not a kernel of truth somewhere to this? There may be there may be a kernel of truth deep within the lines of the stories that we have read this evening. Does that mean that the entire story start to finish is exactly as they wrote down. Yeah, I would say probably not, probably not. But like you said, is it possible that this was uh or or what if this was even a story that was passed down from those other tribes that they
that Joe Lobell made it too. Later on, the ten year old boy that had made it to that tribe out of nowhere. Dude, you are off in the middle of Bfe. You're not gonna have some random ten year old just like wander up to your village one day and just like make himself a part of the tribe. You know, where the fuck are your parents? Like where did did your tribe come from? Where are you supposed
to be from? Like whatever. There were a few other conflicting stories to where this might have some remnants of something that actually took place.
It could be all of those stories that you just used to tell your kids to scare like they do with a lot of those cryptid stories too. You know, it could be something like that to where it's like, stay away from this land. It's it's got you know, demonic spirits. I don't know.
Maybe if that was the case that would have been associated with the story from the other tribes, they would have said, oh, yes, this happened to those people, we stay away from that area now or it was this creature, it was this spirit, it was whatever. Nobody has any one set story as to what took place. And even when you look at it from the uh oh, it was all a hoax conversation. Even the hoax stories don't
line up. Even the people that are trying to poke holes into the story don't all have the same chain of events.
It's wild, dude.
I hate being on the same side of the fence with you. I don't like it here. It's not fun like to not have an imagination. I feel so horrible about this right now. I mean no, like I said, this might have something to it.
There may be a kernel of truth or an original story that through a game of telephone from one hundred years ago, ninety five whatever, maybe just kind of got lost to the sands of time or to the snow of the north, if you want to call it by the correct terminology here. But my point is that maybe something really did happen, But we're going off of a fraction of a story from an article written from the perspective of a guy that happened upon these things. He
wasn't there for the actual events that took place. This is like that game of telephone. This is that hundred monkey story.
Yeah, like the guy that has, you know, been exposing a lot of the alien stuff that you don't like. What is a fucking grush, Yeah, David Grush. It's like he heard it from a story, from a story. It wasn't even his and I get it. Yeah, So maybe he's that kind of character.
Is now am I thinking that everything that he is saying on the microphone is false?
No?
Not inherently. He might be saying that kernel of truth, but it's been heavily doctored, heavily altered, and heavily approved for public consumption. So it's not the raw story, right, It's very possible we might be dealing with something along those lines ninety five years post case.
You know, it's very well possible. Good cult members, let us know what you think about this one. I mean, maybe there's maybe there's a couple extra nuggets out there that are scattered in the winds. It was I'm not gonna lie, it was kind of hell trying to gather information on this episode because, like, like we literally just saw in the videos, there's different numbers, there's different names, there's different stories, and it's it's hard trying to piece
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Indeed, as we're looking at this story, right one reports saying the try at twenty five people, one saying thirty, one saying fifty, one is saying one hundred and fifty. These numbers are going all over the place, just like the value of the US dollar. Okay, it's going all over the place, up, down, left, right, center. One day, it's worth this much compared to the Euro. This day,
it's compared this much to the end. Whatever the case, you know one way that you can go ahead and just lock in your own financial support for the future, no matter what the US dollar is doing. Will be to buy silver and gold coins and bullian and minted currency. Place to get your start in the buying, selling and trading of gold and silver bullion would be to go
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