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SC EP:1167 Abandoned: The History and Horror of Port Chatham, Alaska

Sasquatch Chronicles

Sasquatch Chronicles

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4.89.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Tonight I will be speaking to Tom and Larry Baxter. Tom writes "I’m not sure if this would be interesting for you, and it’s a second-hand account. My dad actually had the encounter and he passed away at age 84 a couple of years ago.

I grew up in the Albany/Corvallis Oregon area, and as a child, my dad would tell us his story of his encounter which occurred in the Silverton Oregon area circa 1955/56 timeframe. His story was a brief one, but very descriptive (mostly what others on your show have described it) and it did impact his life and thoughts about the experience over his lifetime, and it made my brother and I very curious as we grew up in the Willamette Valley area.

He saw the creature from his car in the Central Howell area at the intersection of Silverton and Howell Prairie roads. He was with his girlfriend at the time and they saw the creature emerge from the grass field alongside the intersection road at night. Anyway, if you are interested in this, I can tell the brief story of how he described it, etc."

We will also be speaking to Larry Baxter regarding his book, Abandoned: The History and Horror of Port Chatham, Alaska. Port Chatham, Alaska was once a busy fishing village. By 1950, every single resident had left the town, leaving it abandoned. Over the years, legends told that the residents fled because they were being terrorized by a Bigfoot-like creature the local natives called Nantiinaq. Stories of mutilated bodies, missing hunters and strange, otherworldly creatures have long been associated with Port Chatham. Retired police investigator, Larry Baxter, delves into the real-life mystery of Port Chatham and chronicles his research for the truth into one of Alaska's most infamous legends.

Transcript

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On a late November night in 2012, while driving in the foothills of Washington,

0:06.0

two brothers were surrounded by mysterious creatures.

0:09.0

Still haunted and forever changed, these men took to the internet, creating a forum for others.

0:15.0

If you've had an encounter, and no one else can help,

0:19.0

maybe you can contact Sasquatch Chronicles.

0:22.6

It looked like somebody was bent over and had their head in the window

0:38.3

of the deer blind and it either heard me or smelt me

0:42.3

and he pulled his head out of the tent and stood straight up

0:45.3

and that shocked me.

0:52.3

They don't make people that big.

1:00.0

The way it moved,

1:03.0

almost as if it was gliding across the beach.

1:07.7

I've never seen anything move like that in my life.

1:16.6

They were screaming at each other in gibberish. It sounded like a language and they were chuntering away back and forwards, back and forwards, back and forward.

1:23.6

I know what a bear looks like and there is no way on this planet that what I saw

1:30.3

were bears.

1:31.3

Hello.

1:32.3

Hello. Hello. Get somebody out here. What are you reporting? Jesus Christ, you better. Care?

1:44.6

See you.

1:45.9

Hello.

1:46.8

Get somebody out here.

1:48.3

What's going on now, sir?

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