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Guaranteed Human

From the day the men

at the remote beach on the Cook Inlet on the southern coast of Alaska, they felt a pervasive

sense of unease. One of the men, a normally fit and healthy individual, felt nauseous,

and then vomited for no apparent reason. Then, after they began exploring the area, a few of the men came across a large stone column set back from the shore among the trees.

They called it the obelisk.

After waving for the others to come and see it too, another member of the team approached it,

only to find himself feeling suddenly overcome

with a strange unpleasant feeling. It felt to him, he said, like there was an evil energy

emanating directly from it. Then he staggered back a few paces and vomited too.

The men were an expeditionary team who'd been sent by the Discovery Channel in 2021, along

with the film crew, to see if the location of an abandoned settlement situated on the inlet

was safe to live in. Home to indigenous people and white settlers,

the settlement had been abandoned decades before,

under mysterious and some say frightening circumstances.

On the investigation team was Ash Naderhoff,

Keith Seville, Noah Craig, D., DJ Brewster and Kyle McDowell.

They were assisted by two locals, Tommy Evans and Frank Berestov, both descendants of former

villagers. One precaution the men took soon after they arrived was to set up camp in an open

area close to the beach, a good distance from the tree line of a dense forest that stretched

for miles inland because they'd been told by historian Jeff Davis and local elders that the reason the village had

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