The village of Lake Anjikuni Mystery
A rather interesting story, that will either wake your curiosity or simply leave you in complete awe.
The earliest known report of the event came from Emmett E. Kelleher, a writer for The Danville Bee and Halifax Herald, around 1930–1931.
He claimed to have received the account from Joe Labelle, a trapper and seasoned frontiersman who was very familiar with the people of the village and had previously passed a night there before embarking on his hunts and he knew some of the locals very well.
This isn’t just some legend or fairytale, there were news report of the missing people of the village.
According to Joe Labelle’s account, he was back in the region in November 1930 beside the deep lake Anjikuni. As usual he expected the warm greetings of the villagers, sharing stories, trade, food and to meet some of the friends he had made previously. On getting there, he met only silence, dead silence...the snow was undisturbed. There were no signs of movement or patch of footprint on the snowy grounds, no distant laughter or children running across the corners.
He began walking cautiously, and inside the first hut food was still cooking gently on low fire heat, furs were properly kept, cups and bowls were untouched. It was a scenery of a quick walk out only to never return.
He searched through the entire village of usually around 20 to 30 inhabitants of men, women, children and found nothing. No footprints, no trails....just a perfectly preserved village without a soul in sight.
A more disturbing fact, seven sled dogs, all tied to posts, lay frozen and dead, still chained, some half-buried in the snow. They hadn’t starved slowly. It seemed they’d been abandoned suddenly and left to die.
In Inuit culture, dogs were lifelines, major supports, sacred partners in survival. To leave them behind was unthinkable and almost impossible.
The situation got more eerie while he continued checking the surroundings. At a nearby burial ground, he discovered open graves and the bodies missing, yet the snow around them untouched as though hands didn’t excavate them, not dugged up, not robbed, just gone.
The fear sent him running through the icy wilderness to the nearest telegraph office, he got there exhausted and sent word to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
When they got there and investigated the situation, the claims were accurate. In a snowy region, a struggle, robbery or migration of a large amount of people would be evident and they usually never leave their tracker dogs.
Locals in nearby areas told investigators they had seen strange, bluish lights in the sky over Lake Anjikuni around the time, the slow-moving, vertical, and totally silent type.
No bodies were found, no one ever reappeared. The RCMP later denied the incident ever occurred, claiming it was an exaggeration or hoax so as to not leave the case opened and attract the intelligence agencies into the regions.