WEBVTT - Season 09 Episode 03: Get Out 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:13.760 From the day the men arrived at the remote beach 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.920 on the Cook Inlet on the southern coast of Alaska, 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:20.120 they felt a pervasive sense of unease. 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:23.480 One of the men, a normally. 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:27.920 Fit and healthy individual, felt nauseous and then vomited for 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:33.040 no apparent reason. Then, after they began exploring the area, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.040 a few of the men came across a large stone 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:40.479 column set back from the shore among the trees. They 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:45.120 called it the Obelisk. After waving for the others to 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.920 come and see it too, another member of the team 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:52.640 approached it, only to find himself feeling suddenly overcome with 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:57.560 a strange, unpleasant feeling. It felt to him, he said, 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.840 like there was an evil energy emanating directly from it. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:08.000 Then he staggered back a few paces and vomited. Two 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.119 The men were an expeditionary team who had been sent 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.560 by the Discovery Channel in twenty twenty one along with 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.640 the film crew, to see if the location of an 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.920 abandoned settlement situated on the inlet was safe to live in. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.399 Home to Indigenous people and white settlers. The settlement had 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:33.840 been abandoned decades before under mysterious and some say frightening circumstances. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:42.280 On the investigation team was Ashnaderhoff, Keithserville, Noah Craig, DJ Brewster, 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:47.960 and Kyle McDowell. They were assisted by two locals, Tommy 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:54.680 Evans and Frank Berestov, both descendants of former villagers. One 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.240 precaution the men took soon after they arrived was to 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.280 set up camp in an open air close to the beach, 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.000 a good distance from the treeline of a dense forest 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:10.000 that stretched for miles inland, because they'd been told by 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.520 historian Jeff Davis and local elders that the reason the 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.720 village had been abandoned decades earlier was due to something 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:22.680 monstrous that was said to lurk within the surrounding trees. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:27.320 Over the next few days, the team, with a camera 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.200 crew in toe, set up cameras in the forest and 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:34.639 took video footage along with the audio recordings, exploring. 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.799 The area around their camp. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.840 The settlement had once been an active fishing community with 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.240 a canning factory where the abundant fish caught from the 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:50.120 local waters had been processed, packaged, and exported. As they 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:53.639 searched an area far into the trees, the documentary team 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:57.720 found large pieces of old machinery from the factory in 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:02.799 odd places, lying unusual angles, as if they'd somehow been 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:08.040 thrown there by something with superhuman strength. But it wasn't 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:12.400 only physical evidence that began to spook the team. As 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.600 the days went by, even those who had originally been 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:20.359 skeptical of the stories about the location's dark history began 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:24.360 to feel as if they were being watched, convinced that 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:30.160 a malevolent presence was steadily closing in on them. You're 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:42.720 listening to Unexplained, and I'm Richard McLean Smith. The former 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.400 settlement of Port Locke was located on the Lower Cook Inlet, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.920 around two hundred miles south of Anchorage, at the far 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.200 tip of Alaska's Kenney Peninsula, not far along the coast 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.440 from the present day towns of Homer and Seldovia. The 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.720 area has been home to the so Piac people for centuries. 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.520 There's a nearby village inhabited mostly by Sugbiak along with 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:11.520 Russian settlers, called nan Wallach, which means place by the Lagoon, 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.040 and it has the reputation for being the creepiest place 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:21.640 in Alaska. Often referred to by locals as Port Chatham 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.520 rather than Port lock. The abandoned settlement is on private 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:30.480 property owned by the English Bay Corporation, who restrict access 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.920 to the area. There were no indications of anything strange 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:40.200 when in July seventeen eighty six British naval Captain Nathaniel 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:43.640 port Lock sailed up the Cook Inlet looking for a 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:48.840 safe place to anchor and reprovision his ship. Captain port 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:52.039 Lock had been appointed to command the merchant vessel the 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.599 King George just the year before by the King George's 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.960 Sound Company, of which he was a partner. Port Lock 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.600 kept meticulous notes about his extensive travels, which he published 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:08.799 in his elaborately titled seventeen eighty nine book, A Voyage 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:12.679 round the World, but more particularly to the Northwest Coast 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:17.719 of America. In these detailed records, he describes finding a 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.920 sheltered bay off the inlet, clearly not a modest man. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.040 There's a sketch of it in the book, already bearing 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:29.400 the assumed name port Lock's Harbor, where the ship's crew 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:35.560 spent several days gathering provisions. The observant captain recorded that 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.359 some of the local people lived in temporary shelters made 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.880 of sticks and bark During the summer. They ate a 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:47.200 diet comprised mostly of fish supplemented by the dried inner 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.520 rind of pine bark, as well as hemlock and angelica roots, 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:56.960 plants considered poisonous by Europeans, but the locals seemed to 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.839 have adapted to the toxins and apparently a them without 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:06.640 any problem. One Internet blogger claims that six years before 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:11.000 port Lock arrived, explorers from Spain had visited the exact 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.359 same area but had fallen sick, some had even died, 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:20.520 while the remainder were haunted by strange, terrifying cries they 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.960 heard in the night. The cries started far off in 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:29.360 the mountains, but over time seemed to edge down through 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:34.839 the forest, getting closer towards them. The blogger also stated 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.320 that when port Lock's crew surveyed the land around the 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.360 bay that would later bear their captain's name, they found 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:47.400 the remnants of an abandoned native village. They wandered openly 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.960 why such a prime area full of game fish and 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:56.400 shellfish was now unsettled. Just then, some members of the 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.799 landing party grew sick and scared, and begged port Locke 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:05.240 to depart immediately, believing the area must have been cursed. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.800 For what it's worth, port Lock's own accounts do not 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.840 appear to contain this sinister story, nor did he seem 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.080 to have been told any tales of what locals refer 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:21.320 to as the non Tenuck. But if he hadn't, he 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.720 would have been one of the few visitors to the 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:34.440 region who hadn't heard of it. The word non Tinuk, 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:39.520 found in the Chugach dialect of sugpiac Alutik, comes from 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:44.800 the Alaskan Native denar Ena word nantina, meaning those who 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:50.200 steal people. It describes a legendary monster with three toes 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.720 on each foot and six fingers on each hand, who 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.480 was woven into traditional tales as a way to scare 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.520 children into not wandering off into the world woods, though 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:06.120 some say it was never just a story. From the 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:10.760 late seventeen hundreds onwards, port Lock Sheltered Bay was settled 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:16.680 once again, first by native communities, later by fishermen, lumbermen, 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:21.640 and miners, nearly all of either Alaskan Native or Russian descent, 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.320 or those tales of the Nuntinuk remained firmly in the 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:31.280 folklore of the indigenous peoples. Some reports say that events 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:35.200 began to take a dark turn around eighteen sixty seven, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.000 when a new community of nomadic Sugbiak set up a 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.480 camp on port Lock Bay, where they enjoyed the abundance 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:47.160 of seafood, But within a month they were apparently attacked 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:51.520 by what they described as cannibal giants, who raided their 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:56.600 encampment on an almost nightly basis. Tales tell of how 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:01.640 these giant, hairy, human like attackers fought with the wild savagery, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:06.400 which the Sugbiak had never encountered before, and that although 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:10.400 the tribe fought back, the attacks would resume whenever game 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:15.320 animals became scarce in the area. Whatever the truth of 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.280 these stories, it is known that around the beginning of 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:22.719 the nineteen hundreds, the bountiful fish stocks attracted an American 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.360 company who brought in a fleet of commercial fishing boats 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:30.800 and built the Port Lock Cannery. The settlement grew quickly, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.600 with accounts from the time describing a quaint and tidy 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.640 village nestled in a beautiful setting between the sea and 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:43.160 snow covered peaks. By nineteen twenty one, the town was 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.240 established enough to merit a United States Post office. The 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:52.439 seal of official township status records kept by the port 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:56.360 Lock Cannery management showed that early on the site had 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.000 been vacated. In nineteen o five, when the cannery ste 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.400 the supervisor noted that all the Native Alaskan workers promptly 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:09.720 left the area because of something in the forest. However, 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.600 the threat must have abaited, since the records also stated 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.920 that the workers returned the following year. But over the 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:23.080 subsequent years, rumors started to spread around the Kenai Peninsula 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:37.640 that weird things were happening at port Lock. It was 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.719 said that in the forest around port Lock, trees were 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.680 being completely ripped out of the ground, turned upside down, 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.000 and then thrust back into the earth, with the roots 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:52.640 facing up into the air. Locals began to speak of 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.760 a bigfoot like monster that was stalking the area their 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:01.640 very own non teanuck alarm, which creature said to walk 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:05.280 on two feet, had been seen around a Chromian mining 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:09.440 camp sixteen miles north of the town. It was also 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.240 said that citizens of port Lock began to experience a 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:19.360 series of strange disappearances and deaths. Sometime in the nineteen twenties, 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.760 a man named Albert Petka was said to have died 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.840 after receiving a fatal blow from a peculiar animal that 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:30.360 he was trying to scare off with his dogs. In 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:35.120 the nineteen thirties, a logger named Andrew Kamlock is claimed 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.959 to have died after being hit in the head by 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.000 a piece of logging equipment that would have taken the 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:45.280 strength of two or more large men to wield. When 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.000 the man's body was found, it was said that there 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.040 was blood on the equipment a good ten feet from 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:55.160 where he lay, as though someone or some think had 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.839 used the equipment in the attack and then tossed it aside. 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.240 Some reports also say. 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.319 That Kamluck's dogs were found near by, torn to shreds 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:12.600 around the same time. According to Simyon Kvasnikoff, a resident 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.800 of present day nan Wallick, a gold miner also disappeared 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.280 after heading out for the day. No sign of him 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:25.640 was ever found. Another time, local man Tom Larsen was 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:29.400 said to have gone out chopping wood to make fish traps. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.040 It was a calm, tranquil morning, with a faint mist 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.640 rising from the tree tops. Then Larsen sensed movement along 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:42.120 the shore. Looking up, he saw something large and hairy 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.400 on the beach. He ran back home and returned quickly 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:51.000 with his rifle. Racing down the beach to the water's edge, 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.240 he was alarmed to find the creature was still there. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.840 It just stared at him, Larsen claimed later, and he 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.560 never could explain why he failed to fire at it, 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:06.600 but instead just watched as it slowly turned around, walked 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:12.120 up the beach, and disappeared into the trees. Over the 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.440 course of the next twenty years, as many as between 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.080 fifteen and thirty bodies were alleged to have turned up 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:23.560 in and around port Lock, along trails and on river banks, 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:25.440 some floating out. 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:25.880 Into the bay. 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:32.199 It was rumored they'd been dismembered, the clothing ripped of shreds, 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:37.040 or more damage that bore no resemblance to wounds caused 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:48.360 by bears or wolves. One story of the apparent nantinook 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.199 stalking port Lock was that a group of hunters tracking 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:56.520 a moose through the local forest came across giant human 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:01.600 like tracks over eighteen inches long. As they closed in 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.360 on their prey, they reputedly found signs of an apparent 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.640 life and death struggle, where the grass had been matted 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:13.400 down over a wide area, as if disturbed by large animals. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.680 From that point on, only one set of tracks emerged 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:23.480 deep enormous human like footprints that led up high into 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:27.960 the mist shrouded mountains. Twice, it was said, on the 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:32.400 foggiest of nights, something broke into the port Lock canning factory, 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:38.160 causing significant damage. Stories of other hauntings added to the 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:42.520 general atmosphere of terror. They included the specter of a 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:45.800 woman in a long black dress with a pale face, 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.000 who was said to appear from near by cliffs to 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:53.800 moan and scream before disappearing back into the rocky walls. 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.600 One season, its alleged that the cannery workers left town 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:02.360 for a second time, only agreeing to return the following year, 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.360 after the factory owners agreed to hire armored guards to 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:11.200 protect the camp around the clock. Then, in nineteen forty nine, 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:16.560 the town was completely abandoned. Many stories insist that, sick 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.760 and tired of living in fear of the ravages of 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:24.600 the Nanteinook, the locals fled, leaving many of their possessions behind. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:29.840 Abandoned relics belonging to the previous residents can still be 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.600 found on the beach and in the woods to this day, 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:38.360 but tales of the Nanteinook do not end there. In 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:42.160 nineteen sixty eight, one hunter claimed to have been chased 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:46.320 by a strange creature while he was hunting in the area. Then, 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:50.320 in nineteen seventy three, three more hunters, beset by a 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.440 three day storm, were forced to take shelter in one 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:58.120 of Port Lock's abandoned buildings. On every night, they claimed 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:01.960 to hear something vast prowling round the cabin and what 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:07.800 sounded like two feet In nineteen ninety, a paramedic was 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.800 called out to attend to a seventy year old man 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.640 who'd suffered a heart attack while incarcerated in the Eagle 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:19.280 River Jail just north of Anchorage. While treating the man, 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:23.040 the paramedic happened to mention that he'd once hunted in 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:27.080 the area around Port Locke. At the mention of the word, 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:31.760 the elderly man instantly sat bolt upright and grabbed the 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:33.160 paramedic by the shirt. 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:38.280 Did it bother you? He said, with wild eyes. Did 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:38.880 you see it? 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.760 Many of the stories about alleged attacks and sightings of 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.400 the nantinook come from an article written by journalist and 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:57.480 author Naomi Clouder published in The home A Tribune in 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:02.560 two thousand nine. From the article have been widely circulated 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:07.600 among crypto zoology websites ever since, further feeding the legend 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.679 of port Lock. But Clouder's article was based on just 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:16.320 two sources. The first was a nineteen seventy three report 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.880 in the Anchorage Daily News quoted in John Green's nineteen 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.919 seventy eight book Sasquatch, the Apes among Us. The piece 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.840 contains many of the buy now often retold stories of 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.879 alleged non Teinook attacks, but is very light on specific 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:39.040 details or corroborating evidence. The second source was an interview 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.600 with a pair of elderly Alaska Natives who grew up 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.240 in Port Lock. It's in these interviews that the name 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.960 non Teinuok becomes closely associated with port Lock. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:50.600 In print. 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.680 One of the two elders, Milania Helen Kel, was born 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:59.240 in Port Locke in nineteen thirty four. She provided some 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.480 specific details, including the names of the men who supposedly 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.560 died or disappeared at the times of the alleged creature attacks. 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.840 Kel also insisted that her parents left Port Lock because 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.840 they could no longer put up with the constant attacks 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:20.800 of the Nantinook. Yet, despite these anecdotes, the archival news 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.440 reports from port Lock and its alter eager Port Chatham, 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:29.200 going back to its inception, are almost exclusively only about 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:33.440 commercial fishing, with the odd lumber and mining story peppered 0:18:33.440 --> 0:18:37.639 in for good measure. In all those years, only a 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.800 single death from the settlement appears to have made it 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.560 into the papers, one man who was reported to have 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:50.399 died in an unspecified accident in nineteen twenty. Perhaps deaths 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:54.840 in the mining, lumbering and fishing industries, three highly dangerous 0:18:54.880 --> 0:19:00.359 professions simply weren't thought to be newsworthy. Even so, only 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.680 one accidental death over several decades seems on the low 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:09.639 side for such a location. As for general crime, only 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:13.720 one was reported in the entire town's history, in nineteen 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:18.359 twenty four, when then port Lock postmaster one mister George 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.879 Henk was arrested by the Prohibition Enforcement Bureau for possessing 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:27.479 one gallon of moonshine. There was one case of missing 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:32.320 persons reported, however, that of two hunters, Ben Sweezey and 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.120 Bill Weaver, who left on a two week trip by 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:39.719 boat in nineteen seventeen and were never seen again. But 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.040 the men were from Steward, quite a distance down the coast, 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.359 and only mentioned in relation to Port Locke because a 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.480 boat that washed up there seemed to match the description 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:54.040 of the boat belonging to the missing men. In over 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:58.240 a quarter of a million pages from Alaskan newspaper reports 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.640 dating from the late seventeen high hundreds to nineteen sixty 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:05.280 three in the US Library of Congress, there seems to 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:09.520 be nothing as headline worthy as the killings and dismemberments 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:11.600 that are said to have occurred. 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:11.840 In Port Lock. 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:15.280 Could it be that the demise of port Lock had 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:18.720 very little to do with the Nuntinook or any other 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:34.800 murderous Bigfoot type creature for that matter. In analyzing port 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:39.439 Lock's descent into becoming a ghost town, one fact stands out. 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:44.600 The completion of Alaska Route one, which was first open 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:48.919 to the public in nineteen forty eight. Running along the 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:52.440 opposite edge of the Kenai Peninsula, it allowed for much 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:56.200 more efficient travel between Anchorage and the many towns along 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:59.639 the peninsula. Towns that no longer needed to rely on 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:04.960 ship for their supplies, places inaccessible from the new highway, 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.480 like port Lock, suddenly had a significant part of their 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:12.960 livelihoods removed, much like towns along Route sixty six that 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:16.800 were bypassed by that famous interstate network in the nineteen 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:21.880 seventies and eighties. Furthermore, port Lock was much more remote 0:21:21.880 --> 0:21:25.119 from the new Highway than Route sixty six towns ever were. 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:27.520 Even today, there is only a. 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.680 Single unpaved forest road within ten kilometers of the town 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:37.879 of Russian Alayut descent. Milania kiel As lived in the 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:41.160 nearby settlement of nan Walloch for most of her life. 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:45.600 Her ancestors were nomadic, moving from place to place with 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.800 the seasons, through the port Lock area and as far 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:54.480 afield as Homer and even Kodiak. To her, port Lock 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:58.800 was always a creepy place. As a kid, she was 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:02.520 told by adults to go out on foggy days because 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:06.160 that's when Nanteinuk were most likely to be walking around. 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:10.800 According to her, the creature is less a physical thing 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:16.080 and more a part human, part supernatural being. Her uncles 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:19.639 and grandfathers said that the Nantinuck had been alive for 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.600 a long time. They described it as tall and strong, 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:27.120 and liable to omit a noxious odor if you ever 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.760 got near to it, or so the story went. As 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:35.280 reported by the Homer Tribune back in two thousand and nine, 0:22:35.800 --> 0:22:39.520 Milania's story was translated for the author of the article 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:45.280 by her younger cousin, Sally Ash. As she sat with Milania, 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:49.159 Sally got the distinct feeling that, tired of being asked 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:54.040 about Nantinuk and the abandonment of Portlock, her cousin simply 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:57.359 made up the story about how the creature was killing 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:02.119 people brought up to respect elders. Sally said that she 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:05.080 didn't feel able to correct her in front of the reporter, 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:08.040 but that the family had had a laugh about it later. 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:12.959 Sally suspects that the story might have been her elder 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:16.159 relative's way of trying to scare people away from an 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:20.880 area where family connections are deeply rooted and many generations 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:27.000 of ancestors lay buried. Nonetheless, if that had been the intention, sadly, 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:29.960 it only added to the allure of Portlock for a 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:36.040 whole new generation of crypto zoologists. Milania's explanation is also 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:40.560 not unusual among many Indigenous people who continue to believe 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:45.880 that creatures supposedly taking the form of the Nantinok, Sasquatch, 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:51.560 or Bigfoot are non physical beings. Some believe these creatures 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:55.119 live in another dimension but can appear in the physical 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:57.879 plane at will, and that they can be visible to 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:02.640 some people while at the same time remaining invisible to others. 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:03.560 In the same group. 0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:08.960 They're often thought to be shapeshifters, disappearing or changing into 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:12.000 the form of a different creature if a human gets 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:15.359 too close, and if you try to shoot them, they'll 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:19.320 just pull the bullet from their bodies, completely unaffected by it. 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:29.720 Back on the cook Inlet in twenty twenty one, with 0:24:29.800 --> 0:24:34.439 the Discovery Channel's exploration team, Nan Wallach, elder and local 0:24:34.600 --> 0:24:39.000 historical expert Tommy Evans shared his own stories of strange 0:24:39.040 --> 0:24:40.640 goings on around the. 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:42.200 Former settlement of Port Lock. 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:46.040 One time, while he was walking along port Lock Beach 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:49.439 on a school trip, he heard people talking in a 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:54.360 native language he didn't understand, despite nobody else being around. 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:58.040 He also said that when a bear was in the vicinity, 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:01.760 the dogs didn't act too scared, but if it was 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:04.960 another thing, as he put it, the dogs became so 0:25:05.080 --> 0:25:09.320 frightened they'd run straight to the owner's house to hide. 0:25:09.880 --> 0:25:10.960 A few nights. 0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:14.760 Into their expedition, the documentary team was startled awake in 0:25:14.800 --> 0:25:18.960 their tents by what sounded like a huge creature breathing 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:23.560 heavily as it prowled around their camp The following morning, 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:27.720 Convinced that they were close to encountering the nantinook, the 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:31.040 team set about putting cameras up in the trees to 0:25:31.080 --> 0:25:34.480 try and capture the thing on film. As they set 0:25:34.480 --> 0:25:38.000 to work cutting away some branches with an axe, they 0:25:38.040 --> 0:25:41.240 claimed to hear knocking sounds coming back at them from 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:45.960 deeper within the forest. The knocking sounded like the axe 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:49.320 blodes they were making, and the pattern changed in rhythm 0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:51.320 to mimic exactly. 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:53.280 The sequence the team mate. 0:25:53.440 --> 0:25:56.639 Around fifteen minutes of it was recorded, of which a 0:25:56.680 --> 0:26:01.639 few were featured in the resulting TV show, Emboldened. The 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:05.400 team played these recordings of alleged bigfoot calls and wood 0:26:05.440 --> 0:26:09.359 knocking over loud speakers into the forest, hoping to provoke 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:14.280 a response. Moments later, they were apparently spoot when something 0:26:14.320 --> 0:26:17.399 they couldn't quite make out seemed to stir in the 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:22.720 surrounding foliage. Later that day, out in the forest, one 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:25.720 of the men was sure he'd heard a voice whisper 0:26:25.800 --> 0:26:29.040 into his ear, despite no one being near him at 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:33.560 the time. That night, the team were woken suddenly again 0:26:33.720 --> 0:26:37.920 from fitful sleep to loud crashing sounds outside their tents. 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:41.800 Scurrying outside to get a better look, the men shone 0:26:41.840 --> 0:26:45.639 their flashlights out into the darkness, from where it appeared 0:26:45.960 --> 0:26:47.720 something was hurling. 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:48.120 Rocks at them. 0:26:49.000 --> 0:26:52.040 They later claimed that the assault snapped the frame of 0:26:52.080 --> 0:26:57.240 one of their tents in two, leaving them terrified. The 0:26:57.320 --> 0:27:01.320 team's next step was to recruit bigfootspere specialist Ron Moorhead. 0:27:02.200 --> 0:27:05.040 It was his belief that the men were being targeted 0:27:05.160 --> 0:27:08.760 by the dark spirit of a nantinook, taking the form 0:27:08.800 --> 0:27:14.000 of what he called a violent interdimensional being. A self 0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:18.919 described psychic medium, Polyweerram was then brought in and invited 0:27:19.000 --> 0:27:22.239 to try and make contact with whatever the being was. 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:27.160 After a short time exploring the area, she reported sensing 0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:32.720 a dark and potentially deadly presence, then promptly left, but 0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:37.040 for the self proclaimed demonologist James Sonia from the Alaska 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:40.919 Paranormal Response Crew, who was also brought in to help. 0:27:41.359 --> 0:27:44.679 There was one thing the team needed to fear above 0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:56.760 all else, the obelisk. When James Sonia arrived to join 0:27:56.800 --> 0:27:59.640 the team, he took a moment to survey the eerily 0:27:59.680 --> 0:28:04.760 remote location, taking in the still waters, the dark Sandy 0:28:04.760 --> 0:28:06.400 Beach and the pine. 0:28:06.119 --> 0:28:07.360 Covered hills beyond. 0:28:08.200 --> 0:28:11.760 But before long he found himself being drawn to the 0:28:11.800 --> 0:28:15.280 strange stone pillar that had been discovered at the back 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:19.840 of the beach. Drawing closer, he claimed to sense a dark, 0:28:20.200 --> 0:28:24.720 malicious energy emanating from it. It was clear to him 0:28:25.040 --> 0:28:28.280 that a high class demon, as he put it, had 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:31.679 tied itself to the area and was feeding off the 0:28:31.720 --> 0:28:37.320 obelisk's negative energy. They needed to perform an exorcism without delay, 0:28:38.240 --> 0:28:42.960 and so James vied up his holy fog dispensing machine 0:28:43.120 --> 0:28:46.239 that had been filled with holy water and infused with 0:28:46.400 --> 0:28:51.400