There's a fundamental legend in the community of Bigfoot believers that a village in Alaska

called Port Chatham was terrorized by one or more rogue Bigfoot in the early 1900s,

resulting in not just big game animals but also town residents being killed and torn

limb from limb.

As proof, there's the fact that the town was completely abandoned, despite its prosperity.

We're going to put this legend to the test.

Today on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The Monster of Port Chatham.

America's Pacific Northwest has always been ground zero for stories of Bigfoot or

Sasquatch or in the language of today's story, the Nantanook.

And you can't get much farther northwest than Alaska, a vast land filled with equally

prodigious stories.

When it comes to Alaskan Bigfoot lore, the tale at the top of every list is that of

the town of Port Locke, also known as Port Chatham, said to have been terrorized by horrifying

bloody Bigfoot attacks throughout the first half of the 20th century.

By 1949, the surviving residents had had enough, and the entire population simply abandoned

their town.

Its relics survived to this day and can still be found on the beach and in the woods.

Today, we're going to point our skeptical eye at the bloodthirsty Monster of Port Chatham,

and determine whether we finally have a case that forces us to acknowledge the reality

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