Anjikuni Lake Mystery: Village Vanishes Overnight!
On November 26, 1930, the *The Meriden Daily Journal* newspaper in Canada published a headline on its front page titled "Village of the Dead." This news sent shockwaves across Canada as an entire tribe in Northern Canada had mysteriously disappeared overnight without any trace.
A small village there was home to around one hundred to one hundred and fifty members of the Eskimo tribe. These people lived by fishing in the lake. Due to the extreme cold weather in Northern Canada, the area is sparsely populated, and hunters frequently visit for game.
On a very cold day in November 1930, a hunter named Leibel came to the area for hunting. He became so engrossed in his hunt that he did not realize it had become night. He planned to spend the night in the village as the villagers were known for their hospitality towards visitors.
It was a moonlit night, but there was absolute silence around the village. There were no sounds or signs of people. Leibel noticed something unusual because, typically, when he approached the village, he would hear the barking of dogs. But today, upon entering the village, he was met with silence and desolation.
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The village tents were still standing, and smoke was rising from them, indicating that someone had been there. However, upon closer inspection, the tents were found empty. Some homes had cooking pots on the stoves, but the food had burned, suggesting that the food had been prepared but not consumed. Similarly, the clothing and sewing items of the village women were left as they were.
Leibel thoroughly searched the village and found that the dogs, which were tied up, had died of starvation despite having food nearby. He also discovered a recently dug grave. Leibel surmised that something extraordinary had happened and that the villagers had abruptly left.
Leibel immediately went to the nearest telegraph office and reported the situation to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When the police arrived, they found Leibel's account to be accurate. They suspected that perhaps an attack had occurred.
The police launched a search operation, and one peculiar detail emerged: there were no footprints in the snow, except for Leibel's own. This suggested that the villagers had vanished without leaving any trace. The ice on the lake was undisturbed, and the boats were parked on land, indicating that the people had not gone into the lake.
The police investigated the case for months but found no leads, and eventually, the case was closed as unsolved.
Fifty years later, in 1984, writers Roger Bore and Nigel Blandell attempted to link the incident to aliens. They claimed that during their exploration near Anjikuni Lake, they had seen some unidentified objects flying over the lake that might be related to the disappearance of the villagers. However, there was no concrete evidence to support their claims, and most people dismissed this theory.
To this day, the mysterious disappearance of the Anjikuni Lake villagers remains an enigma with no clear answer.
