Speaker 1: From the day the men arrived at the remote beach
Speaker 1: on the Cook Inlet on the southern coast of Alaska,
Speaker 1: they felt a pervasive sense of unease.
Speaker 2: One of the men, a normally.
Speaker 1: Fit and healthy individual, felt nauseous and then vomited for
Speaker 1: no apparent reason. Then, after they began exploring the area,
Speaker 1: a few of the men came across a large stone
Speaker 1: column set back from the shore among the trees. They
Speaker 1: called it the Obelisk. After waving for the others to
Speaker 1: come and see it too, another member of the team
Speaker 1: approached it, only to find himself feeling suddenly overcome with
Speaker 1: a strange, unpleasant feeling. It felt to him, he said,
Speaker 1: like there was an evil energy emanating directly from it.
Speaker 1: Then he staggered back a few paces and vomited. Two
Speaker 1: The men were an expeditionary team who had been sent
Speaker 1: by the Discovery Channel in twenty twenty one along with
Speaker 1: the film crew, to see if the location of an
Speaker 1: abandoned settlement situated on the inlet was safe to live in.
Speaker 1: Home to Indigenous people and white settlers. The settlement had
Speaker 1: been abandoned decades before under mysterious and some say frightening circumstances.
Speaker 1: On the investigation team was Ashnaderhoff, Keithserville, Noah Craig, DJ Brewster,
Speaker 1: and Kyle McDowell. They were assisted by two locals, Tommy
Speaker 1: Evans and Frank Berestov, both descendants of former villagers. One
Speaker 1: precaution the men took soon after they arrived was to
Speaker 1: set up camp in an open air close to the beach,
Speaker 1: a good distance from the treeline of a dense forest
Speaker 1: that stretched for miles inland, because they'd been told by
Speaker 1: historian Jeff Davis and local elders that the reason the
Speaker 1: village had been abandoned decades earlier was due to something
Speaker 1: monstrous that was said to lurk within the surrounding trees.
Speaker 1: Over the next few days, the team, with a camera
Speaker 1: crew in toe, set up cameras in the forest and
Speaker 1: took video footage along with the audio recordings, exploring.
Speaker 2: The area around their camp.
Speaker 1: The settlement had once been an active fishing community with
Speaker 1: a canning factory where the abundant fish caught from the
Speaker 1: local waters had been processed, packaged, and exported. As they
Speaker 1: searched an area far into the trees, the documentary team
Speaker 1: found large pieces of old machinery from the factory in
Speaker 1: odd places, lying unusual angles, as if they'd somehow been
Speaker 1: thrown there by something with superhuman strength. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: only physical evidence that began to spook the team. As
Speaker 1: the days went by, even those who had originally been
Speaker 1: skeptical of the stories about the location's dark history began
Speaker 1: to feel as if they were being watched, convinced that
Speaker 1: a malevolent presence was steadily closing in on them. You're
Speaker 1: listening to Unexplained, and I'm Richard McLean Smith. The former
Speaker 1: settlement of Port Locke was located on the Lower Cook Inlet,
Speaker 1: around two hundred miles south of Anchorage, at the far
Speaker 1: tip of Alaska's Kenney Peninsula, not far along the coast
Speaker 1: from the present day towns of Homer and Seldovia. The
Speaker 1: area has been home to the so Piac people for centuries.
Speaker 1: There's a nearby village inhabited mostly by Sugbiak along with
Speaker 1: Russian settlers, called nan Wallach, which means place by the Lagoon,
Speaker 1: and it has the reputation for being the creepiest place
Speaker 1: in Alaska. Often referred to by locals as Port Chatham
Speaker 1: rather than Port lock. The abandoned settlement is on private
Speaker 1: property owned by the English Bay Corporation, who restrict access
Speaker 1: to the area. There were no indications of anything strange
Speaker 1: when in July seventeen eighty six British naval Captain Nathaniel
Speaker 1: port Lock sailed up the Cook Inlet looking for a
Speaker 1: safe place to anchor and reprovision his ship. Captain port
Speaker 1: Lock had been appointed to command the merchant vessel the
Speaker 1: King George just the year before by the King George's
Speaker 1: Sound Company, of which he was a partner. Port Lock
Speaker 1: kept meticulous notes about his extensive travels, which he published
Speaker 1: in his elaborately titled seventeen eighty nine book, A Voyage
Speaker 1: round the World, but more particularly to the Northwest Coast
Speaker 1: of America. In these detailed records, he describes finding a
Speaker 1: sheltered bay off the inlet, clearly not a modest man.
Speaker 1: There's a sketch of it in the book, already bearing
Speaker 1: the assumed name port Lock's Harbor, where the ship's crew
Speaker 1: spent several days gathering provisions. The observant captain recorded that
Speaker 1: some of the local people lived in temporary shelters made
Speaker 1: of sticks and bark During the summer. They ate a
Speaker 1: diet comprised mostly of fish supplemented by the dried inner
Speaker 1: rind of pine bark, as well as hemlock and angelica roots,
Speaker 1: plants considered poisonous by Europeans, but the locals seemed to
Speaker 1: have adapted to the toxins and apparently a them without
Speaker 1: any problem. One Internet blogger claims that six years before
Speaker 1: port Lock arrived, explorers from Spain had visited the exact
Speaker 1: same area but had fallen sick, some had even died,
Speaker 1: while the remainder were haunted by strange, terrifying cries they
Speaker 1: heard in the night. The cries started far off in
Speaker 1: the mountains, but over time seemed to edge down through
Speaker 1: the forest, getting closer towards them. The blogger also stated
Speaker 1: that when port Lock's crew surveyed the land around the
Speaker 1: bay that would later bear their captain's name, they found
Speaker 1: the remnants of an abandoned native village. They wandered openly
Speaker 1: why such a prime area full of game fish and
Speaker 1: shellfish was now unsettled. Just then, some members of the
Speaker 1: landing party grew sick and scared, and begged port Locke
Speaker 1: to depart immediately, believing the area must have been cursed.
Speaker 1: For what it's worth, port Lock's own accounts do not
Speaker 1: appear to contain this sinister story, nor did he seem
Speaker 1: to have been told any tales of what locals refer
Speaker 1: to as the non Tenuck. But if he hadn't, he
Speaker 1: would have been one of the few visitors to the
Speaker 1: region who hadn't heard of it. The word non Tinuk,
Speaker 1: found in the Chugach dialect of sugpiac Alutik, comes from
Speaker 1: the Alaskan Native denar Ena word nantina, meaning those who
Speaker 1: steal people. It describes a legendary monster with three toes
Speaker 1: on each foot and six fingers on each hand, who
Speaker 1: was woven into traditional tales as a way to scare
Speaker 1: children into not wandering off into the world woods, though
Speaker 1: some say it was never just a story. From the
Speaker 1: late seventeen hundreds onwards, port Lock Sheltered Bay was settled
Speaker 1: once again, first by native communities, later by fishermen, lumbermen,
Speaker 1: and miners, nearly all of either Alaskan Native or Russian descent,
Speaker 1: or those tales of the Nuntinuk remained firmly in the
Speaker 1: folklore of the indigenous peoples. Some reports say that events
Speaker 1: began to take a dark turn around eighteen sixty seven,
Speaker 1: when a new community of nomadic Sugbiak set up a
Speaker 1: camp on port Lock Bay, where they enjoyed the abundance
Speaker 1: of seafood, But within a month they were apparently attacked
Speaker 1: by what they described as cannibal giants, who raided their
Speaker 1: encampment on an almost nightly basis. Tales tell of how
Speaker 1: these giant, hairy, human like attackers fought with the wild savagery,
Speaker 1: which the Sugbiak had never encountered before, and that although
Speaker 1: the tribe fought back, the attacks would resume whenever game
Speaker 1: animals became scarce in the area. Whatever the truth of
Speaker 1: these stories, it is known that around the beginning of
Speaker 1: the nineteen hundreds, the bountiful fish stocks attracted an American
Speaker 1: company who brought in a fleet of commercial fishing boats
Speaker 1: and built the Port Lock Cannery. The settlement grew quickly,
Speaker 1: with accounts from the time describing a quaint and tidy
Speaker 1: village nestled in a beautiful setting between the sea and
Speaker 1: snow covered peaks. By nineteen twenty one, the town was
Speaker 1: established enough to merit a United States Post office. The
Speaker 1: seal of official township status records kept by the port
Speaker 1: Lock Cannery management showed that early on the site had
Speaker 1: been vacated. In nineteen o five, when the cannery ste
Speaker 1: the supervisor noted that all the Native Alaskan workers promptly
Speaker 1: left the area because of something in the forest. However,
Speaker 1: the threat must have abaited, since the records also stated
Speaker 1: that the workers returned the following year. But over the
Speaker 1: subsequent years, rumors started to spread around the Kenai Peninsula
Speaker 1: that weird things were happening at port Lock. It was
Speaker 1: said that in the forest around port Lock, trees were
Speaker 1: being completely ripped out of the ground, turned upside down,
Speaker 1: and then thrust back into the earth, with the roots
Speaker 1: facing up into the air. Locals began to speak of
Speaker 1: a bigfoot like monster that was stalking the area their
Speaker 1: very own non teanuck alarm, which creature said to walk
Speaker 1: on two feet, had been seen around a Chromian mining
Speaker 1: camp sixteen miles north of the town. It was also
Speaker 1: said that citizens of port Lock began to experience a
Speaker 1: series of strange disappearances and deaths. Sometime in the nineteen twenties,
Speaker 1: a man named Albert Petka was said to have died
Speaker 1: after receiving a fatal blow from a peculiar animal that
Speaker 1: he was trying to scare off with his dogs. In
Speaker 1: the nineteen thirties, a logger named Andrew Kamlock is claimed
Speaker 1: to have died after being hit in the head by
Speaker 1: a piece of logging equipment that would have taken the
Speaker 1: strength of two or more large men to wield. When
Speaker 1: the man's body was found, it was said that there
Speaker 1: was blood on the equipment a good ten feet from
Speaker 1: where he lay, as though someone or some think had
Speaker 1: used the equipment in the attack and then tossed it aside.
Speaker 2: Some reports also say.
Speaker 1: That Kamluck's dogs were found near by, torn to shreds
Speaker 1: around the same time. According to Simyon Kvasnikoff, a resident
Speaker 1: of present day nan Wallick, a gold miner also disappeared
Speaker 1: after heading out for the day. No sign of him
Speaker 1: was ever found. Another time, local man Tom Larsen was
Speaker 1: said to have gone out chopping wood to make fish traps.
Speaker 1: It was a calm, tranquil morning, with a faint mist
Speaker 1: rising from the tree tops. Then Larsen sensed movement along
Speaker 1: the shore. Looking up, he saw something large and hairy
Speaker 1: on the beach. He ran back home and returned quickly
Speaker 1: with his rifle. Racing down the beach to the water's edge,
Speaker 1: he was alarmed to find the creature was still there.
Speaker 1: It just stared at him, Larsen claimed later, and he
Speaker 1: never could explain why he failed to fire at it,
Speaker 1: but instead just watched as it slowly turned around, walked
Speaker 1: up the beach, and disappeared into the trees. Over the
Speaker 1: course of the next twenty years, as many as between
Speaker 1: fifteen and thirty bodies were alleged to have turned up
Speaker 1: in and around port Lock, along trails and on river banks,
Speaker 1: some floating out.
Speaker 2: Into the bay.
Speaker 1: It was rumored they'd been dismembered, the clothing ripped of shreds,
Speaker 1: or more damage that bore no resemblance to wounds caused
Speaker 1: by bears or wolves. One story of the apparent nantinook
Speaker 1: stalking port Lock was that a group of hunters tracking
Speaker 1: a moose through the local forest came across giant human
Speaker 1: like tracks over eighteen inches long. As they closed in
Speaker 1: on their prey, they reputedly found signs of an apparent
Speaker 1: life and death struggle, where the grass had been matted
Speaker 1: down over a wide area, as if disturbed by large animals.
Speaker 1: From that point on, only one set of tracks emerged
Speaker 1: deep enormous human like footprints that led up high into
Speaker 1: the mist shrouded mountains. Twice, it was said, on the
Speaker 1: foggiest of nights, something broke into the port Lock canning factory,
Speaker 1: causing significant damage. Stories of other hauntings added to the
Speaker 1: general atmosphere of terror. They included the specter of a
Speaker 1: woman in a long black dress with a pale face,
Speaker 1: who was said to appear from near by cliffs to
Speaker 1: moan and scream before disappearing back into the rocky walls.
Speaker 1: One season, its alleged that the cannery workers left town
Speaker 1: for a second time, only agreeing to return the following year,
Speaker 1: after the factory owners agreed to hire armored guards to
Speaker 1: protect the camp around the clock. Then, in nineteen forty nine,
Speaker 1: the town was completely abandoned. Many stories insist that, sick
Speaker 1: and tired of living in fear of the ravages of
Speaker 1: the Nanteinook, the locals fled, leaving many of their possessions behind.
Speaker 1: Abandoned relics belonging to the previous residents can still be
Speaker 1: found on the beach and in the woods to this day,
Speaker 1: but tales of the Nanteinook do not end there. In
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight, one hunter claimed to have been chased
Speaker 1: by a strange creature while he was hunting in the area. Then,
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy three, three more hunters, beset by a
Speaker 1: three day storm, were forced to take shelter in one
Speaker 1: of Port Lock's abandoned buildings. On every night, they claimed
Speaker 1: to hear something vast prowling round the cabin and what
Speaker 1: sounded like two feet In nineteen ninety, a paramedic was
Speaker 1: called out to attend to a seventy year old man
Speaker 1: who'd suffered a heart attack while incarcerated in the Eagle
Speaker 1: River Jail just north of Anchorage. While treating the man,
Speaker 1: the paramedic happened to mention that he'd once hunted in
Speaker 1: the area around Port Locke. At the mention of the word,
Speaker 1: the elderly man instantly sat bolt upright and grabbed the
Speaker 1: paramedic by the shirt.
Speaker 2: Did it bother you? He said, with wild eyes. Did
Speaker 2: you see it?
Speaker 1: Many of the stories about alleged attacks and sightings of
Speaker 1: the nantinook come from an article written by journalist and
Speaker 1: author Naomi Clouder published in The home A Tribune in
Speaker 1: two thousand nine. From the article have been widely circulated
Speaker 1: among crypto zoology websites ever since, further feeding the legend
Speaker 1: of port Lock. But Clouder's article was based on just
Speaker 1: two sources. The first was a nineteen seventy three report
Speaker 1: in the Anchorage Daily News quoted in John Green's nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy eight book Sasquatch, the Apes among Us. The piece
Speaker 1: contains many of the buy now often retold stories of
Speaker 1: alleged non Teinook attacks, but is very light on specific
Speaker 1: details or corroborating evidence. The second source was an interview
Speaker 1: with a pair of elderly Alaska Natives who grew up
Speaker 1: in Port Lock. It's in these interviews that the name
Speaker 1: non Teinuok becomes closely associated with port Lock.
Speaker 2: In print.
Speaker 1: One of the two elders, Milania Helen Kel, was born
Speaker 1: in Port Locke in nineteen thirty four. She provided some
Speaker 1: specific details, including the names of the men who supposedly
Speaker 1: died or disappeared at the times of the alleged creature attacks.
Speaker 1: Kel also insisted that her parents left Port Lock because
Speaker 1: they could no longer put up with the constant attacks
Speaker 1: of the Nantinook. Yet, despite these anecdotes, the archival news
Speaker 1: reports from port Lock and its alter eager Port Chatham,
Speaker 1: going back to its inception, are almost exclusively only about
Speaker 1: commercial fishing, with the odd lumber and mining story peppered
Speaker 1: in for good measure. In all those years, only a
Speaker 1: single death from the settlement appears to have made it
Speaker 1: into the papers, one man who was reported to have
Speaker 1: died in an unspecified accident in nineteen twenty. Perhaps deaths
Speaker 1: in the mining, lumbering and fishing industries, three highly dangerous
Speaker 1: professions simply weren't thought to be newsworthy. Even so, only
Speaker 1: one accidental death over several decades seems on the low
Speaker 1: side for such a location. As for general crime, only
Speaker 1: one was reported in the entire town's history, in nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty four, when then port Lock postmaster one mister George
Speaker 1: Henk was arrested by the Prohibition Enforcement Bureau for possessing
Speaker 1: one gallon of moonshine. There was one case of missing
Speaker 1: persons reported, however, that of two hunters, Ben Sweezey and
Speaker 1: Bill Weaver, who left on a two week trip by
Speaker 1: boat in nineteen seventeen and were never seen again. But
Speaker 1: the men were from Steward, quite a distance down the coast,
Speaker 1: and only mentioned in relation to Port Locke because a
Speaker 1: boat that washed up there seemed to match the description
Speaker 1: of the boat belonging to the missing men. In over
Speaker 1: a quarter of a million pages from Alaskan newspaper reports
Speaker 1: dating from the late seventeen high hundreds to nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: three in the US Library of Congress, there seems to
Speaker 1: be nothing as headline worthy as the killings and dismemberments
Speaker 1: that are said to have occurred.
Speaker 2: In Port Lock.
Speaker 1: Could it be that the demise of port Lock had
Speaker 1: very little to do with the Nuntinook or any other
Speaker 1: murderous Bigfoot type creature for that matter. In analyzing port
Speaker 1: Lock's descent into becoming a ghost town, one fact stands out.
Speaker 1: The completion of Alaska Route one, which was first open
Speaker 1: to the public in nineteen forty eight. Running along the
Speaker 1: opposite edge of the Kenai Peninsula, it allowed for much
Speaker 1: more efficient travel between Anchorage and the many towns along
Speaker 1: the peninsula. Towns that no longer needed to rely on
Speaker 1: ship for their supplies, places inaccessible from the new highway,
Speaker 1: like port Lock, suddenly had a significant part of their
Speaker 1: livelihoods removed, much like towns along Route sixty six that
Speaker 1: were bypassed by that famous interstate network in the nineteen
Speaker 1: seventies and eighties. Furthermore, port Lock was much more remote
Speaker 1: from the new Highway than Route sixty six towns ever were.
Speaker 2: Even today, there is only a.
Speaker 1: Single unpaved forest road within ten kilometers of the town
Speaker 1: of Russian Alayut descent. Milania kiel As lived in the
Speaker 1: nearby settlement of nan Walloch for most of her life.
Speaker 1: Her ancestors were nomadic, moving from place to place with
Speaker 1: the seasons, through the port Lock area and as far
Speaker 1: afield as Homer and even Kodiak. To her, port Lock
Speaker 1: was always a creepy place. As a kid, she was
Speaker 1: told by adults to go out on foggy days because
Speaker 1: that's when Nanteinuk were most likely to be walking around.
Speaker 1: According to her, the creature is less a physical thing
Speaker 1: and more a part human, part supernatural being. Her uncles
Speaker 1: and grandfathers said that the Nantinuck had been alive for
Speaker 1: a long time. They described it as tall and strong,
Speaker 1: and liable to omit a noxious odor if you ever
Speaker 1: got near to it, or so the story went. As
Speaker 1: reported by the Homer Tribune back in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: Milania's story was translated for the author of the article
Speaker 1: by her younger cousin, Sally Ash. As she sat with Milania,
Speaker 1: Sally got the distinct feeling that, tired of being asked
Speaker 1: about Nantinuk and the abandonment of Portlock, her cousin simply
Speaker 1: made up the story about how the creature was killing
Speaker 1: people brought up to respect elders. Sally said that she
Speaker 1: didn't feel able to correct her in front of the reporter,
Speaker 1: but that the family had had a laugh about it later.
Speaker 1: Sally suspects that the story might have been her elder
Speaker 1: relative's way of trying to scare people away from an
Speaker 1: area where family connections are deeply rooted and many generations
Speaker 1: of ancestors lay buried. Nonetheless, if that had been the intention, sadly,
Speaker 1: it only added to the allure of Portlock for a
Speaker 1: whole new generation of crypto zoologists. Milania's explanation is also
Speaker 1: not unusual among many Indigenous people who continue to believe
Speaker 1: that creatures supposedly taking the form of the Nantinok, Sasquatch,
Speaker 1: or Bigfoot are non physical beings. Some believe these creatures
Speaker 1: live in another dimension but can appear in the physical
Speaker 1: plane at will, and that they can be visible to
Speaker 1: some people while at the same time remaining invisible to others.
Speaker 2: In the same group.
Speaker 1: They're often thought to be shapeshifters, disappearing or changing into
Speaker 1: the form of a different creature if a human gets
Speaker 1: too close, and if you try to shoot them, they'll
Speaker 1: just pull the bullet from their bodies, completely unaffected by it.
Speaker 1: Back on the cook Inlet in twenty twenty one, with
Speaker 1: the Discovery Channel's exploration team, Nan Wallach, elder and local
Speaker 1: historical expert Tommy Evans shared his own stories of strange
Speaker 1: goings on around the.
Speaker 2: Former settlement of Port Lock.
Speaker 1: One time, while he was walking along port Lock Beach
Speaker 1: on a school trip, he heard people talking in a
Speaker 1: native language he didn't understand, despite nobody else being around.
Speaker 1: He also said that when a bear was in the vicinity,
Speaker 1: the dogs didn't act too scared, but if it was
Speaker 1: another thing, as he put it, the dogs became so
Speaker 1: frightened they'd run straight to the owner's house to hide.
Speaker 2: A few nights.
Speaker 1: Into their expedition, the documentary team was startled awake in
Speaker 1: their tents by what sounded like a huge creature breathing
Speaker 1: heavily as it prowled around their camp The following morning,
Speaker 1: Convinced that they were close to encountering the nantinook, the
Speaker 1: team set about putting cameras up in the trees to
Speaker 1: try and capture the thing on film. As they set
Speaker 1: to work cutting away some branches with an axe, they
Speaker 1: claimed to hear knocking sounds coming back at them from
Speaker 1: deeper within the forest. The knocking sounded like the axe
Speaker 1: blodes they were making, and the pattern changed in rhythm
Speaker 1: to mimic exactly.
Speaker 2: The sequence the team mate.
Speaker 1: Around fifteen minutes of it was recorded, of which a
Speaker 1: few were featured in the resulting TV show, Emboldened. The
Speaker 1: team played these recordings of alleged bigfoot calls and wood
Speaker 1: knocking over loud speakers into the forest, hoping to provoke
Speaker 1: a response. Moments later, they were apparently spoot when something
Speaker 1: they couldn't quite make out seemed to stir in the
Speaker 1: surrounding foliage. Later that day, out in the forest, one
Speaker 1: of the men was sure he'd heard a voice whisper
Speaker 1: into his ear, despite no one being near him at
Speaker 1: the time. That night, the team were woken suddenly again
Speaker 1: from fitful sleep to loud crashing sounds outside their tents.
Speaker 1: Scurrying outside to get a better look, the men shone
Speaker 1: their flashlights out into the darkness, from where it appeared
Speaker 1: something was hurling.
Speaker 2: Rocks at them.
Speaker 1: They later claimed that the assault snapped the frame of
Speaker 1: one of their tents in two, leaving them terrified. The
Speaker 1: team's next step was to recruit bigfootspere specialist Ron Moorhead.
Speaker 1: It was his belief that the men were being targeted
Speaker 1: by the dark spirit of a nantinook, taking the form
Speaker 1: of what he called a violent interdimensional being. A self
Speaker 1: described psychic medium, Polyweerram was then brought in and invited
Speaker 1: to try and make contact with whatever the being was.
Speaker 1: After a short time exploring the area, she reported sensing
Speaker 1: a dark and potentially deadly presence, then promptly left, but
Speaker 1: for the self proclaimed demonologist James Sonia from the Alaska
Speaker 1: Paranormal Response Crew, who was also brought in to help.
Speaker 1: There was one thing the team needed to fear above
Speaker 1: all else, the obelisk. When James Sonia arrived to join
Speaker 1: the team, he took a moment to survey the eerily
Speaker 1: remote location, taking in the still waters, the dark Sandy
Speaker 1: Beach and the pine.
Speaker 2: Covered hills beyond.
Speaker 1: But before long he found himself being drawn to the
Speaker 1: strange stone pillar that had been discovered at the back
Speaker 1: of the beach. Drawing closer, he claimed to sense a dark,
Speaker 1: malicious energy emanating from it. It was clear to him
Speaker 1: that a high class demon, as he put it, had
Speaker 1: tied itself to the area and was feeding off the
Speaker 1: obelisk's negative energy. They needed to perform an exorcism without delay,
Speaker 1: and so James vied up his holy fog dispensing machine
Speaker 1: that had been filled with holy water and infused with
Speaker 1: rose and sage. Then steadily moving throughout the area, from
Speaker 1: the obelisk to the team's camp and anywhere else they'd
Speaker 1: sensed the apparent demonic presence, he blasted it all with
Speaker 1: the fog machine while reciting the invocation of Solomon from
Speaker 1: the magical text, The Greater Key of Solomon, Powers of
Speaker 1: the Kingdom be beneath my left foot and my right hand.
Speaker 1: Glory and eternity touch my shoulders and guard me in
Speaker 1: the paths of victory, mercy, and justice. Be ye the
Speaker 1: equilibrium and splendor of my life. And with that the
Speaker 1: expedition came to an end. Although the team had failed
Speaker 1: to capture any definitive evidence of a nantinook or any
Speaker 1: other large creature on camera. It had certainly been an experience.
Speaker 1: As for whether they had succeeded in banishing the alleged
Speaker 1: evil presence and the area was now safe to resettle
Speaker 1: in is a question for another day. So far, the
Speaker 1: mystery of what supposedly haunts the forests and shores of
Speaker 1: the cook Inlet remains to this day unexplained. This episode
Speaker 1: was written by Diane Hope and Richard McLain smith. Diane
Speaker 1: is an audio producer and sound recordist in her own right.
Speaker 1: You can find out more about her work at Dianehope
Speaker 1: dot com and on Instagram at in the sound Field.
Speaker 2: Thank you as ever for listening.
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