Scattered across the North American continent are many ghost towns places that used to be vibrant and alive that are now dead and abandoned in these places you can find old churches and buildings and schools that are usually in a pretty significant State of Decay the reasons a town might die varies sometimes it’s because a new Railroad or highway is put in that bypasses the town or the town has just exhausted all of their natural resources which were the original draw to the town mining towns are a good example of that other reasons are Wars natural disasters political wranglings there’s a whole bunch of reasons why towns just suddenly stop existing but there’s one ghost town in North America that has a really unique and very dark reason for why It ultimately was abandoned and that town is portlock Alaska portlock which is also called Port chadam is located on the farthest Southwestern tip of the Kenai Peninsula it’s easily one of the most beautiful areas in all of Alaska but it also happens to be very remote and Port loock specifically even by Kenai standards is considered extremely remote you can only get there by boat or by bush plane the town was technically founded in 1787 when Captain Nathaniel portlock of the royal Navy landed there but it wasn’t really turned into a real settlement until the early 1900s when commercial fishermen built a caner there by 1921 the town’s fishing economy was doing so well that the US government believed they would be the next major commercial fishing Hub and so they actually established a post office there.
Everything seemed to be going great for Port loock until the 1930s when rumors began seeping out along the Kenai Peninsula that there was something wrong with portlock men from this caner town were going missing at an alarming rate and the few that were found again were always found dead and mutilated in a nearby Lagoon initially the town’s people believe these were bear attacks but the natives of the Kenai Peninsula that found out about what was happening in portlock they stopped by and they said those are not bear attacks those are almost certainly attacks by a creature we call the ntina which means half man half beast and they are tall two-legged hairy creatures that live in the forest right near you now of course this just sounds like folklore but when you consider the fact that from 1930 to 1950 dozens of portlock residents disappeared in that forest or were violently killed and then dumped in the lagoon right outside of the forest it makes you wonder what’s in the forest but since none of the people who went missing were ever found alive again there was never any good description of what it was that was causing them to disappear in the first place well with the exception of one case.
In 1943, John Meyer who was a resident of portlock was at his campsite and he was crouched down when he felt something leap onto his back and start pummeling his head and hitting him on the side and he kind of went into the fetal position and then at some point his dog started barking and caused whatever was on his back to get scared and run off and so JN who’s been badly beaten rolls over and he looks towards the tree line and he sees this enormous tall hairy man running into the woods and so JN gets up and he stumbles his way into town to try to get help and he’s able to tell someone one what happened to him before he ultimately succumbs to his injuries and dies after the John Meyer incident.
Another group of portlock men were up in the forest doing some hunting when they discovered these enormous 18 inch long tracks and they followed them to a clearing where it looked like there was this Epic Death struggle that clearly two huge animals had gotten into a struggle here there’s blood everywhere there’s pieces of what looked like a bear or maybe a moose and then these tracks continued out of this clearing and went right up the mountain and the did not dare follow those tracks to see whatever it was that emerged victorious in this clearing even the Alaskan newspapers began speculating that something was off about portlock this was more than just some crime being committed that there’s something happening there that we can’t understand and so by 1949 when people were still going missing mysteriously in the forest and then other people were turning up dead and mutilated in the lagoon the town’s people said enough this is an unsafe place to live we don’t know what’s causing this but we have to leave and then practically overnight the town evacuated leaving behind most of their possessions the only person that stayed a little bit longer was the postmaster cuz he had to wait for the post office to be shut down and he said it was horrifying that he would see things walking in the trees and he would hear these horrible sounds and so he was eager to get out of there.And so in early 1950, he was allowed to go and then that was it, the population of portlock went down to zero after they left none of the people from portlock or any of their family members ever went back to portlock so the only people that have really ever gone back to portlock are people that unfortunately wound up there.
Like in the 1970s… when some fishermen got caught in a storm and so they sought refuge in portlock but after setting up their Camp they saw something huge walk past them in the tree line and it apparently was so terrifying that they literally packed up their Camp went back in their boat and then went back out into the storm to
avoid whatever it was they saw besides the fishermen the only people that have gone to portlock are people that want to come face to face with whatever it is that drove the people out of that town but to put in perspective how few people do that there’s almost no modern photographs or videos of portlock but there is one very eerie modern photograph of this building that’s right in the heart of portlock it’s one of the very few buildings that didn’t collapse and it’s located right next to the forest where many of the men who went missing were last seen and it’s also not far from the Lagoon where many of the dead men and dead people that were taken were found and even if you don’t believe there’s some Nona running around the forest support lock you have to understand that something was killing and taking these people and to date we still have no idea what it was!!!
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