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It bore the reputation of being a country into which many men went, but few returned.

The Nahani National Park Reserve, more than 11,000 square miles in remote northwestern Canada.

Gold lying in a creek, which was supposed to have been a secret Indian mine, was the magnet

that took prospector after prospector into these mysterious hills in the old days,

and man after man disappeared, until men whispered around their campfires,

the country was haunted by some evil spirits which guarded the gold.

Funeral range, Hell's Gate, the valley of headless men.

Dozens of people have vanished in this spectacular wilderness since 1908.

The Royal Canadian Mountup Police are quick to say that it's just no place for the casual visitor,

and that those disappearances are down to the fact that nature is cruel and indifferent to the poorly prepared tourist,

which is a fair point, but...

Only the more superstitious believe this legend.

Nevertheless, once the skeletons of the McLeod brothers were found around the ashes of their old campfire,

few care to venture into these mysterious hills.

And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.

True, weird stuff.

Thousands of years ago, a mysterious people known as the Naha settled in the Mackenzie Mountains in the country that we now call Canada.

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