Portlock

There's a 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 Chatham 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 Portlock specifically even by Kenai standards is considered extremely remote you can only get there by boat or by bush plane. By 1921 the town's fishing economy was doing so well that the u.s government believed they would be the next major commercial fishing hub everything seemed to be going great for Portlock until the 1930s when rumors began seeping out along the Kenai Peninsula that there was something wrong with Portlock men from this cannery town were going missing at an alarming rate and the few that were found again were always found dead and in a nearby lagoon initially the townspeople believed 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 Nantina 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 John Meyer.