What you are about to hear is a special release of our members-only episode, Terror at Portlock,

legend of the Nantinoch.

Sign up at believable.com to become an expansion member for more deep dives into the strange.

Now, sit back and enjoy the episode, and we'll see you soon for our regularly scheduled release.

Are you gentlemen ready? I could not be more ready to get into the high, chilly

strangeness of Port Laugh, Alaska. What sort of strangeness, Jeremy? Well, let me tell

you, let me describe a bit here. Alaska, a place of wild beauty and dark mystery,

and one of the most infamous, mysterious places in Alaska

just might be the one that is jutting into the pristine

and frigid waters of the southern point of Kenai Peninsula,

which is now the abandoned village of Portlock.

A once quaint but successful fishing cannery community now sits desolate for over 70 years,

and many locals still not wishing to return.

Frightened, terrified actually, to go back.

Who wouldn't be? With what went on.

Now the stories they go back, at least to the 1930s,

some say even earlier, of strange and dark occurrences, including murders, disappearances,

mutilations, yes. Monsters? Monsters. Creatures in the woods. And finally culminating, in, in the hurried abandonment and shuddering of this once

successful cannery town, when the townsfolk and the natives flee to the na' fleet, fleed.

Fled? Fled. Fleed.

To the neighboring towns like Port Graham and Nunwallach but why why was it abandoned what happened there

is that the end of the intro sure I mean we're right out of music no I mean I was just kind of

...