Lake Angikuni (Angikuni Lake) - a reservoir in the territory of Nunavut in Canada, where in the last century there were terrible and inexplicable events: the disappearance of a prosperous Eskimo village.
On a chilly November evening in 1930, Canadian fur cutter Joe Label wandered to a fishing village he knew to take refuge for the night. The night promised to be frosty and without a roof over his head and a warm stew, Joe would simply have died. He had been here before and knew that the Eskimos were a friendly people.
When shabby tents and dilapidated wooden houses appeared in the distance, the man shouted a greeting. There was no answer, which alarmed the traveler a little. After a few seconds Joe realized that the barking of dogs was also inaudible and quickened his pace.
The village met the frozen man with dead silence: no people, no animals. The traveler saw smoke billowing from a chimney at a distance from a standing house, and headed there. Inside, he found a still warm oven and a half-eaten stew.
Joe went around all the houses, but apart from food, household items and weapons, he found nothing. Even the fish store remained intact. The impression was that everything was abandoned at one moment. But where could people go without vital things in such a cold season?
Mortally tired and frozen, Joe Labelle was so shocked by the mysteriously deserted village that he did not want to replenish his strength with the Eskimo supplies and moved towards the telegraph station, which was several miles away. He miraculously managed to get to the right place and telegraph the police about the strange incident.
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It took a detachment of mounted police officers several hours to reach Lake Angikuni. On the way, they stopped for a halt, where they were joined by the hunter Armand Laurent with his two sons. Hearing that the police were heading on some business to Lake Angikuni, he considered it necessary to tell them that a couple of days ago he saw an unusual luminous object moving across the sky towards the lake and changing its shape.
Arriving at the scene, the police were shocked by the new nightmarish details. The graves of the local cemetery were excavated, and the remains simply disappeared. The earth and gravestones were carefully stacked near each pit, eliminating even a hint of wild animals at work. It was also unusual for the Inuit to defile the memory of the dead.
Another terrible find was the corpses of seven sled dogs, which, as it turned out, died of starvation. The Eskimos have always treated their animals with respect, so this was also strange.
The press also showed interest in the mysterious story, but it did not succeed in shedding light on the solution.
The version proposed by the Canadian police assumed the usual movement for nomadic tribes, but it could in no way explain the excavated bodies, abandoned animals and abandoned weapons. Perhaps the inhabitants of the fishing village were abducted by a UFO, but there is no direct evidence of this.