Vanishing Villages

[manxboz]

On another Thread, Children Shipped to the Moon, the subject of vanishing villages came up.

So myself and Gallifrey have decided to post a seperate thread on some cases of Villages that have mysteriously disappeared.

THE ESKIMO VILLAGE THAT DISAPPEARED

In November 1930, Joe Labelle, a Canadian fur trapper, snow shoed into a thriving Eskimo fishing village situated on the shores of Lake Anjikuni in Canada. Labelle was greeted with an eerie silence. He thought this was very strange because the fishing village was a noisy settlement with 2,000 Eskimos milling back and forth to their kayaks. But there wasn't a soul about. Labelle visited each of the Eskimo huts and fish storehouses but none of the villagers was anywhere to be seen. Labelle saw a flickering fire in the distance and approached it gingerly, sensing something evil was afoot on this moonlit night. Upon the fire was a smoldering pot of blackened stew. To make matters more mysterious, Labelle saw that not a single human track had left the settlement. Labelle knew something bizarre had happened to the 2,000 people, and so he ran non-stop to the nearest telegraph office and sent a message about his findings to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Mounties turned up hours later, and they too were baffled by the mass vanishing act. An enormous search party was sent out to look for the missing villagers, but they were never found, and the search party unearthed some strange findings. All the sleigh dogs that had belonged to the Eskimos were found buried 12 feet under a snowdrift at the perimeter of the camp. All of them had starved to death. The search party also established that all the Eskimos' provisions and food had been left in their huts, which didn't make any sense at all. Then came the most chilling surprise of all; the search party discovered that all of the Eskimos' ancestral graves were empty. Whoever or whatever had taken all the living villagers had also dug up the dead as well, even though the icy ground around the graves was as hard as iron. Later, on that unearthly silent night the Mounties watched in awe as a strange blue glow lit up the horizon. The eerie radiance was not the northern lights, but seemed steady and artificial. As the Mounties watched, the light pulsated then faded. All the newspapers of the world reported the baffling disappearance of the 2,000 Eskimos, although many believed that a rational explanation would eventually come to light, but the Anjikuni mass disappearance is still unsolved.

The Village That Vanished

If an explanation of mass disappearance isn't quite your cup of tea, the legend of Hoer Verde, the town with 600 inhabitants that vanished will certainly be confusing and troubling enough to cause you to ask questions about how anything like it could ever happen with absolutely no evidence to suggest anything unusual had happened. Like so many legends from the area, information on Hoer Verde is difficult to track down. But what information is accessible is not only disturbing, but incredibly perplexing.

As visitors to the village entered the small town they were immediately struck by how dead everything was. Unlike other villages of six hundred no one was walking through the streets. Hanging signs waved in the gentle wind creaked noisily juxtaposed with the uneasy footsteps and uneasy and subdued whispers of those passing through. As they passed by local houses and looked in the windows it was evident immediately that something wasn't right. No one was anywhere to be seen.

The police were called, and investigators descended on the town to look through the village. As they came to the town's school they found a gun, which they took to be forensically examined. And then the investigators looked to the blackboard on which the words, "There is no salvation" were written. After a cursory examination, they realized that it had been fired the day before, but by whom they were unsure.

A manhunt ensued for the 600 villagers in the small town. Despite this, no trace of any of the locals was ever unearthed. To date it is considered an unsolved mystery. As newspaper reports of the town's disappearance reached the west it was considered a curiosity, but with the shifting political climate of Brazil in 1923 it was considered possible that the town had evacuated to avoid conflict with guerrillas. Artur da Silva Bernardes had been elected the year before, and faced a political siege throughout his term. But political evacuations are by no means unheard of. And those who leave a village abandoned always turn up elsewhere. If they had simply left the town, where did they go? Others contend that it's possible the town was attacked. This too leaves a perplexing mystery.

Another mysterious element is the original language of the phrase "There is no salvation." Though the phrase has been largely translated into English, the phrase holds little significance in English or Portuguese. However, if the words had been "Illic est haud salus." in Latin or some variation of it, this could have been related to the phrase "Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus" which is a Catholic phrase meaning "Outside the Church there is no salvation." If this was the case in a largely Catholic area, the lesson could have been a religious lesson which was interrupted by some unknown force, but with no specific significance itself.

Many references to this story exist, but most seem to be derived from a simple article translated from Russian. This lack of information is one of the more perplexing elements of the Hoer Verde case.

[gallifrey]

Not exactly a village, but a battalion:

The Mysterious Cloud

Three soldiers claimed to be witnesses to the bizarre disappearance of an entire battalion in 1915. They finally came forward with the strange story 50 years after the infamous Gallipoli campaign of WWI. The three members of a New Zealand field company said they watched from a clear vantage point as a battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment marched up a hillside in Suvla Bay, Turkey. The hill was shrouded in a low-lying cloud that the English soldiers marched straight into without hesitation. They never came out. After the last of the battalion had entered the cloud, it slowly lifted off the hillside to join other clouds in the sky. When the war was over, figuring the battalion had been captured and held prisoner, the British government demanded that Turkey return them. The Turks insisted, however, that it had neither captured not made contact with these English soldiers.

from here:

http://www.rense.com/general11/dis.htm

[gallifrey]

From the same page:

The Stonehenge Disappearance

The mysterious standing stones of Stonehenge in England was the site of an amazing disappearance in August, 1971. At this time Stonehenge was not yet protected from the public, and on this particular night, a group of "hippies" decided to pitch tents in the center of the circle and spend the night. They built a campfire, lit several joints of pot and sat around smoking and signing. Their campout was abruptly interrupted at about 2 a.m. by a severe thunder storm that quickly blew in over Salisbury Plain. Bright bolts of lightning crashed down on the area, striking area trees and even the standing stones themselves. Two witnesses, a farmer and a policeman, said that the stones of the ancient monument lit up with an eerie blue light that was so intense that they had to avert their eyes. They heard screams from the campers and the two witnesses rushed to the scene expecting to find injured - or even dead - campers. To their surprise, they found no one. All that remained within the circle of stones were several smoldering tent pegs and the drowned remains of a campfire. The hippies themselves were gone without a trace.

Blue light seems to be a recurring theme...

[firepoet]

The Bennington Triangle

Between 1920 and 1950, Bennington, Vermont was the site of several completely unexplained disappearances:

On December 1, 1949, Mr. Tetford vanished from a crowded bus. Tetford was on his way home to Bennington from a trip to St. Albans, Vermont. Tetford, an ex-soldier who lived in the Soldier’s Home in Bennington, was sitting on the bus with 14 other passengers. They all testified to seeing him there, sleeping in his seat. When the bus reached its destination, however, Tetford was gone, although his belongings were still on the luggage rack and a bus timetable lay open on his empty seat. Tetford has never returned or been found.

On December 1, 1946, an 18-year-old student
named Paula Welden vanished while taking a walk. Welden was walking along the Long Trail into Glastenbury Mountain. She was seen by a middle-aged couple that was strolling about 100 yards behind her. They lost sight of her when she followed the trail around a rocky outcropping, but when they rounded the outcropping themselves, she was nowhere to be seen. Welden has not been seen nor heard from since.

In mid-October, 1950, 8-year old Paul Jepson disappeared from a farm. Paul’s mother, who earned a living as an animal caretaker, left her small son happily playing near a pig sty while she tended to the animals. A short time later, she returned to find him missing. An extensive search of the area proved fruitless.

[gallifrey]

Another interesting find:

Mystery Of Mass Human Disappearance



Among the famous mysteries of the sea is the story of the sailing ship Mary Celeste, found in 1872 in perfect condition, nothing out of order, and sailing on the open Atlantic without a soul on board. The crew of 10 people, including Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife and daughter, vanished without a trace never to be seen again.



Another similar historical disappearance occurred at the American colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, in 1590. About a hundred men, women and children living in the colony went missing and no trace of them was ever found. Some theories suggest that the people were attacked by natives or they moved off the island and lived among the natives. That could never be proven.



Then there was the famous case of the 250 men and 16 officers of the Fifth Territorial Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment that disappeared in a cloud of smoke during World War I. The incident happened in the midst of fighting at Dardanelles, France, on Aug. 12, 1915. Witnesses said one minute the British soldiers were there, charging against the Turks, and then they were not. Their bodies were never found. There were no survivors. And none of the men turned up as prisoners of war. The theories include a UFO abduction, or that the Turks simply killed the entire battalion and buried it.



These are among the more spectacular of the mission people anomalies recorded in history.



A recent Internet story in Pravda quoted a Dr. Zong Li, of Harbin, China, who told of the strange disappearance of 3,000 Chinese solders near Nanking in December, 1937, while fighting the invading Japanese. He said the battle continued throughout the night, but by morning, radio communication was lost. A reconnaissance team could not find any trace of the soldiers. Desertion was ruled out because the area was heavily posted with other soldiers.



The Pravda account also told of the odd disappearance of 100 soldiers from the Twelfth Company of the Soviet NKVD forces, who struck off for a railway station in November, 1945, and were never seen again. The story did not say where this occurred and it could not be confirmed.



Then there are stories of ships and aircraft that have gone missing without a trace.



Among the unsolved mysteries of Lake Michigan is the story of the schooner Thomas Hume that disappeared with a crew of seven in May, 1891. The wooden vessel was carrying a load of lumber from Muskegon, Michigan, to Chicago, when it disappeared in a storm. Wooden ships carrying lumber usually didnt sink, but capsized or got partly submerged, a condition called "waterlogging." But no trace of the Hume was ever found. A search of the lake failed to find the usual trappings from a ship sinking like floating timbers, life jackets, lifeboats and bodies.



The USS Cyclops, a Navy collier, was operating along the East Coast of the United States when it went missing in February, 1918. The ship disappeared without a trace with its crew of 306 sailors. The wreck is listed among the many anomalies linked to the mysterious Bermuda Triangle.



And there is the odd story of the Boeing 727 that mysteriously took off, without authorization, from an airport in Angola, Africa, in May, 2003, never to be seen again. A world-wide search for the plane, amid fears that it was seized by terrorists, failed to turn up any clues. The aircraft had been parked at the airport for more than a year before it disappeared.



There are probably logical explanations for all of the odd stories posted here. But then, perhaps the events completely defy logic. I knew an old salt who was stationed aboard the Cyclops and was called ashore only minutes before it sailed on its final voyage. He said the Navy discovered that he had another talent as a pilot on the Great Lakes, and he was put to work there.



To him, the disappearance of the Cyclops was a personal tragedy. He was as mystified as everybody else as to what happened.

http://perdurabo10.tripod.com/id767.html

[indolering]

The British "brain drain" of the 1970s was apparently connected to disappearances of scores of people, allegedly dispatched to serve as slave labor in "distant" lands. See what you think.


http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com...tive_3_pt1.htm

[haukipesukone]

Spockinating.

[cathar]

Interesting stuff...I've heard about the Eskimo village before...

but I have read elsewhere that the Roanoke coloney [1590] went native
and that there is plenty of evidence for it,,,sorry ,no link.
all the other events are 20th century time frame,,,and I think they are real..

I also believe that the people on the 911 planes were shipped to the moon...given that one of the planes disembarked at a Cleveland airport and were usshered into a NASA building,,before dissapearing....

[manxboz]

Originally Posted by cathar

Interesting stuff...I've heard about the Eskimo village before...

but I have read elsewhere that the Roanoke coloney [1590] went native
and that there is plenty of evidence for it,,,sorry ,no link.
all the other events are 20th century time frame,,,and I think they are real..

I also believe that the people on the 911 planes were shipped to the moon...given that one of the planes disembarked at a Cleveland airport and were usshered into a NASA building,,before dissapearing....

Yeah I heard the Roanoke Colony could have been helped the local Croatan or Hatteras Native Americans.

Also heard the the Missing Battalion was actually found. But there is stories of platoons and companies going missing on the Western Front.

[lauren_almighty]

Originally Posted by cathar

I also believe that the people on the 911 planes were shipped to the moon...given that one of the planes disembarked at a Cleveland airport and were usshered into a NASA building,,before dissapearing....

Are there actual eyewitness reports about that?

[gallifrey]

Interesting, though I can't find anything to back it up:

A story in one of the more sensational papers states that there was a school on Vanuatu that was for people with ESP. It goes on to state that not only are all the students missing, but so are the buildings. What I find interesting, is the fact that this just happens to be an area where the sea is rising and everyone in the area may have to leave. Even if they left, I don't think that they would be taking any buildings with them though. Back to the story, one of the students had left for personal reasons and when she returned, she found nothing. The authorities asked her if she knew of anything strange that was going on in the school. She replied that all she knew was that the professors and students were working on a time machine. Yipes! Did the entire school with all the buildings and students vanish into the past or future?

Source: http://aboutfacts.net/Mysterious54.htm

[manxboz]

This has just come to my attention, so i'm going to do some digging on it.

A Bizzare story in here from China .. Strangely this also occurred also around October 13.
As you may know alot of weird happenings and sightings have occurred in China recently, often rumoured to be part of secret advanced missile testing , there is a chance this may be related to these events as well.
Apparently, in the Qinling Mountains, at four in the morning a number of the villages began to disappear after a bright blue light appeared over the village. Now the army has blocked access to the whole area.

Sohu News reports: On the 13 October, a bottom of “Qinling mountain village disappeared overnight" posts in the network fengchuan,. Journalists through multi-party confirmed, confirmed the news of the network. “I hear, 4 am yesterday, Qinling Mountains at the end of a village, all disappear overnight! … There are a large number of troops in the scene … “

RealUfos - This whole story seems a bit disjointed and we are waiting on further details coming out from the region. If you live in the are or can help us out piece this story together please reply to this post with what you know.

Here is a video of the blue light emanating from the cordoned off area near the mountain:

Chinese village disapear from UFO in Qinling Mountains at 4 am Hong Kong Time - YouTube

Chinese village disapear from UFO in Qinling Mountains at 4 am Hong Kong Time - YouTube

On the Map:



Transcript of Radio Interview with witness from the area:
October 10th at ten o’clock, Xianyang many people, and they saw in the sky several unknown luminous body in constant rotation, but can not find the light source, and everyone felt very strange.
Xianyang reporters into the sky to see the two circular rotating in constant light, white light has been given, and everyone said that this phenomenon has been going on for a very long time.
Xianyang people: PM seems to have a more than eight, has been staggered forward.
Have passed since the nearly two hours, until ten at night and more, there are still many people standing outside watching, and everyone that had never seen such a phenomenon.
Xianyang people: I thought it was a light shot back and forth.

Although we have such a speculation, but can not find the spot of the lamp posts and the light source, with all of these questions, journalists can start driving in urban areas trying to find the source of light, the last reporter in Xianyang City Bank Thai Square to find the answer.
Half past ten or so, the square of the spotlight off, everyone said before the light disappeared is unknown, it appears that only a false alarm.
Xianyang light over there has been an unknown explanation last night, this phenomenon can be not only a city of Xianyang.

Q: I am now in Xi’an Chang’an road, this will be the evening’s eleven twenty, we now refer to the direction of my left hand down to see the color of the sky above the piece to be a little brighter, a little pale, but the surrounding sky The color is black, we see that it was a big aperture, surrounded by some small aperture in it rotated around.
This phenomenon continued in Xi’an, about ten minutes over the time period of two small aperture in a rapidly rotating movement until after they disappeared to the north, while the clues in our platform Weinan, Tongchuan masses of the two cities but also to reflect the local press The same phenomenon also appeared.
Tongchuan masses: a few light fly it back and forth.
Reporter: How long is probably going on?
Tongchuan the masses:: half an hour, was very, went three for a piece of light, and one will be separated.
Weinan masses: about eight o’clock in it, white light, and flashlight on the kind of similar move, is still, I can see, running north and south turn back and forth semi-circle, the shape can not see, but light, so big are never seen, never seen three decades.
Doubt one: Why do many cities simultaneously this phenomenon?
Second doubt: Why the extra light appeared at about eight o’clock?
Other cities is unknown light appeared in the sky somewhere in the spotlight is also due, we do not know, it seems only to the relevant departments to verify.

This morning when the army several road bound for the Qinling Mountains. Passing from the streets of our county, tanks, missiles, transport vehicles as well as that, covered with canvas. About 10 o’clock last night, saw a lot of people in our county over the Qinling Mountains have a very strange direction of the flash, according to witnesses, that the flash is purple, the place was full of black clouds around three to five. Middle clouds associated with flash, thunder. A full half an hour.

Qinling event no one know? Our people are the county’s mass. Blocked in our county network. I am now other cities in the Internet. ~ Here I am in Xianyang City, people do not know. From only 200 in our county in the land. No place so close to get the message, my junior high school students terrible just give me a call, and he saw it last night. Today a lot of troops from Xianyang highway to our county. High-speed roads have been closed.

[gallifrey]

Originally Posted by manxboz

This has just come to my attention, so i'm going to do some digging on it.

A Bizzare story in here from China .. Strangely this also occurred also around October 13.
As you may know alot of weird happenings and sightings have occurred in China recently, often rumoured to be part of secret advanced missile testing , there is a chance this may be related to these events as well.
Apparently, in the Qinling Mountains, at four in the morning a number of the villages began to disappear after a bright blue light appeared over the village. Now the army has blocked access to the whole area.

Sohu News reports: On the 13 October, a bottom of “Qinling mountain village disappeared overnight" posts in the network fengchuan,. Journalists through multi-party confirmed, confirmed the news of the network. “I hear, 4 am yesterday, Qinling Mountains at the end of a village, all disappear overnight! … There are a large number of troops in the scene … “

RealUfos - This whole story seems a bit disjointed and we are waiting on further details coming out from the region. If you live in the are or can help us out piece this story together please reply to this post with what you know.

Here is a video of the blue light emanating from the cordoned off area near the mountain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsovO...layer_embedded

On the Map:



Transcript of Radio Interview with witness from the area:
October 10th at ten o’clock, Xianyang many people, and they saw in the sky several unknown luminous body in constant rotation, but can not find the light source, and everyone felt very strange.
Xianyang reporters into the sky to see the two circular rotating in constant light, white light has been given, and everyone said that this phenomenon has been going on for a very long time.
Xianyang people: PM seems to have a more than eight, has been staggered forward.
Have passed since the nearly two hours, until ten at night and more, there are still many people standing outside watching, and everyone that had never seen such a phenomenon.
Xianyang people: I thought it was a light shot back and forth.

Although we have such a speculation, but can not find the spot of the lamp posts and the light source, with all of these questions, journalists can start driving in urban areas trying to find the source of light, the last reporter in Xianyang City Bank Thai Square to find the answer.
Half past ten or so, the square of the spotlight off, everyone said before the light disappeared is unknown, it appears that only a false alarm.
Xianyang light over there has been an unknown explanation last night, this phenomenon can be not only a city of Xianyang.

Q: I am now in Xi’an Chang’an road, this will be the evening’s eleven twenty, we now refer to the direction of my left hand down to see the color of the sky above the piece to be a little brighter, a little pale, but the surrounding sky The color is black, we see that it was a big aperture, surrounded by some small aperture in it rotated around.
This phenomenon continued in Xi’an, about ten minutes over the time period of two small aperture in a rapidly rotating movement until after they disappeared to the north, while the clues in our platform Weinan, Tongchuan masses of the two cities but also to reflect the local press The same phenomenon also appeared.
Tongchuan masses: a few light fly it back and forth.
Reporter: How long is probably going on?
Tongchuan the masses:: half an hour, was very, went three for a piece of light, and one will be separated.
Weinan masses: about eight o’clock in it, white light, and flashlight on the kind of similar move, is still, I can see, running north and south turn back and forth semi-circle, the shape can not see, but light, so big are never seen, never seen three decades.
Doubt one: Why do many cities simultaneously this phenomenon?
Second doubt: Why the extra light appeared at about eight o’clock?
Other cities is unknown light appeared in the sky somewhere in the spotlight is also due, we do not know, it seems only to the relevant departments to verify.

This morning when the army several road bound for the Qinling Mountains. Passing from the streets of our county, tanks, missiles, transport vehicles as well as that, covered with canvas. About 10 o’clock last night, saw a lot of people in our county over the Qinling Mountains have a very strange direction of the flash, according to witnesses, that the flash is purple, the place was full of black clouds around three to five. Middle clouds associated with flash, thunder. A full half an hour.

Qinling event no one know? Our people are the county’s mass. Blocked in our county network. I am now other cities in the Internet. ~ Here I am in Xianyang City, people do not know. From only 200 in our county in the land. No place so close to get the message, my junior high school students terrible just give me a call, and he saw it last night. Today a lot of troops from Xianyang highway to our county. High-speed roads have been closed.

Bloody good find! This is hitting quite close though, being so recent. Day after we started this thread as well. Keep us updated Manxboz!
Maybe there IS a lot more to this whole thing about vanishing villages. I noticed the blue light thing coming up again.
This is just weird.

[neutrino]

Seems to me that the Chilean miners getting out is taking up the news and everyone's attention. Why is our attention being pointed towards the Chileans? maybe something else elsewhere is afoot.

[gallifrey]

Originally Posted by neutrino

Seems to me that the Chilean miners getting out is taking up the news and everyone's attention. Why is our attention being pointed towards the Chileans? maybe something else elsewhere is afoot.

Yes, but that is typical of the msm. They distract, and shit happens while we are looking the other way. I am finding it hard to believe there aren't more reports like this though, going back throughout history. The only things even remotely relevant I can find are about the Roanoke settlers, the Anasazi and some references to the Mayans, but they have some fairly plausible theories behind them, and nothing conclusive. Thus far though, the Brazilian story of 1923, the Canadian story from 1930 and now this all share common elements - mass disappearance, and the presence of a blue light.

I have seen the assertion that this latest incident in China may be some kind of nuclear accident, but I am struggling to find any nuclear facilities in the area. Of course, I am also aware that such things may not appear on maps, as it were.

[codie]

This is very strange. hmmm.