The Villagers who Vanished into Thin Air
There are three dimensions of space; they are length, breadth,
and width, or backwards and forwards, side to side, and up and down. Einstein
proved that there is another dimension; the fourth dimension is time. The
three dimensions of space specify where an object is, and the fourth dimension
specifies when an object is. Seems complicated, but scientists now believe
that there are more than four dimensions, and that these unchartered dimensions
may be interwoven with our ones and may sometimes even become accidently
accessible to ordinary human beings. This would explain the thousands of
bizarre disappearances which are reported worldwide each year. Every year,
thousands of people go missing in the United States alone. Some of the
disappearances are mundane, like the teenage runaway, but there are so
many baffling cases of people disappearing literally into thin air, and
this is the subject of the following true story, which has been thoroughly
investigated over the years.
In November 1930, Joe Labelle, a Canadian fur trapper, snowshoed
into a thriving Eskimo fishing village situated on the shores of Lake Anjikuni
in Canada. Labelle was greeted with an eerie silence. He thought this was
very strange because the fishing village was a noisy settlement with 2,000
Eskimos milling back and forth to their kayaks. But there wasn't a soul
about. Labelle visited each of the Eskimo huts and fish storehouses but
none of the villagers was anywhere to be seen. Labelle saw a flickering
fire in the distance and approached it gingerly, sensing something evil
was afoot on this moonlit night. Upon the fire was a pot of stew that had
almost evaporated and burnt. To make matters more mysterious, Labelle saw
that not a single human track had left the settlement. Labelle knew something
bizarre had happened to the 2,000 people, and so he ran non-stop to the
nearest telegraph office and sent a message about his findings to the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police. The mounties turned up hours later, and they too
were baffled by the mass vanishing act. An enormous search party was sent
out to look for the missing villagers, but they were never found,and the
search party unearthed some strange findings. All the sleigh dogs
that had belonged to the Eskimos were found buried 12 feet under a snowdrift
at the perimeter of the camp. All of them had starved to death. The search
party also established that the Eskimos' provisions and food had all been
left in their huts, which didn't make any sense at all. Then came the most
chilling surprise of all; the search party discovered that all of the Eskimos'
ancestral graves were empty. Whoever or whatever had taken all the living
villagers had also dug up the dead as well, even though the icy ground
around the graves was as hard as iron. Later, on that unearthly silent
night the mounties watched in awe as a strange blue glow lit up the horizon.
The light was not the northern lights, but seemed artificial. As the mounties
watched, the light pulsated then faded. All the newspaper of the world
reported the baffling disappearance of the 2,000 eskimos, but many thought
that a rational explanation would come to light soon. That was over 67
years ago, and the Anjikuni dissapearance is still unsolved.
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