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November 1930. Canadian Arctic. 25 people. Gone.

French-Canadian fur trapper Joe LaBelle arrives at a familiar Inuit settlement at Anjikuni Lake expecting warmth, food, and shelter. Instead, he finds something impossible: an entire village abandoned mid-task. Cooking pots still over dead fires. Rifles leaning against tent poles. Personal belongings carefully arranged. And seven sled dogs starved to death—still tied to their posts.

But no people. No tracks. No bodies. No explanation.

Then Joe discovers the graveyard. Every single grave has been carefully opened. The bodies—gone.

Was this a mass alien abduction witnessed by trappers who saw a "cylindrical object" hovering over the frozen lake? An ancient Qalupalik—the Inuit water demon—that lures entire communities to their doom? A sensationalized newspaper hoax that spiraled into one of Canada's most enduring mysteries?

Join Lee, Josh, and Jen as we excavate the layers of this Arctic enigma—from the original 1930 newspaper account to Betty Hill's alien abduction theories, from RCMP cover-up allegations to the terrifying Inuit legends that predate European contact by thousands of years. We fact-check the folklore, examine the evidence, and explore why some mysteries persist even when the truth suggests they never happened at all.

This episode covers:

• Joe LaBelle's chilling discovery in the Arctic darkness
• The RCMP investigation and conflicting official reports
• UFO theories and the evolution of the story through decades
• Qalupalik, Wendigo, and other Arctic cryptids tied to mass disappearances
• The Missing 411 connection and modern wilderness vanishings
• Why we believe stories that feel true—even when they're not

Content note: This episode discusses Indigenous missing persons, colonial violence, and systemic racism in historical investigations.

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• National Indigenous Women's Resource Center: NIWRC.org
• Sovereign Bodies Institute: sovereign-bodies.org
• Canadian MMIWG Resources: mmiwg-ffada.ca

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