Portlock Sasquatch: Alaska's Deadly Bigfoot Encounters and Cryptid Legends

In the vast wilderness of Alaska, away from the hustle and bustle of the state's most populous city, Anchorage, lies the abandoned village of Portlock. This village, established in 1787 by Royal British Navy Captain Nathaniel Portlock, was once a thriving salmon canning settlement. However, in the 1940s, the village was abandoned after the occupants were attacked and brutally killed by something that came from the woods. The stories of what attacked the small settlement mostly revolve around the large and hairy beast that haunted the dark spaces beyond the tree line at the edge of the village. The locals had a name for this creature - the Portlock Sasquatch. The term Sasquatch is more commonly referred to as Bigfoot in the United States and is perhaps the most famous Cryptid in history. Stories of the giant bipedal man-ape wandering the vast forested territories of the Americas have been around for centuries. However, these stories generally paint a very different picture to what happened at Portlock. Bigfoot is almost always reclusive and shy of human contact at all costs. Although the sheer size of this Beast draws stories of aggression and danger, it is mostly known through the traces it leaves behind, such as hair snagged on foliage and of course, its big footprints. The video titled "The Portlock Sasquatch A Man-Eating Bigfoot?" by the YouTube channel Paranormal Savage, delves into the mysterious and chilling events that took place in Portlock. The video describes how the first of the strange occurrences started in 1905 when people from the village were harassed by a large animal that bothered their camps in the night. The work continued in the next season, and the cannery workers came back, but the issue remained, and whatever was out there returned as well. In 1931, a local woodchopper alone in the forest was found murdered, and the man had been killed by a single ferocious blow, far more devastating than could have been inflicted by a single human being. This incident was scary enough to traumatize the entire village, and soon, other such footprints were reported around the village. A resident of the village happened to see a huge and hairy man destroying the fish wheels used to process salmon that he described as looking like a devil. The sightings became common, and uneasiness began to prevail in the village. As the local population started recovering bodies, speculation regarding the deadly Beast started to rise. Fear took root in the population at the loss of so many lives, and people started to leave the village. The cannery plant posted armed guards to attempt to keep the cannery open, but it was no use. The last residents fled in 1950, and the village lay abandoned. Whatever lived in the woods above Portlock and whatever had killed all the people had won. The video also mentions an interesting bit about Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, who wrote stories of his childhood that include an encounter with Bauman, a seasoned trapper in Idaho. Bauman told of an encounter with a huge hairy creature that attacked him, and he barely escaped with his life. Roosevelt also wrote an account of the finding of a trapper's body, the body was partially eaten by an unknown Beast that left human foot tracks in its wake. The events at Portlock are not so easily explained. Something was killing the inhabitants and leaving their dismembered corpses to be found by the villagers washed up on the banks of the bay or out in plain sight, left where they had been killed. This does not match the behaviors of many known wild animals. Bears are certainly large and strong enough to do the damage seen by the villagers and would be attracted by the salmon canning plant, but the footprints and eyewitness accounts dispute this. The people of Portlock knew what a bear looks like, and this was no bear. In conclusion, the video by Paranormal Savage about the Portlock Sasquatch is a fascinating account of the mysterious and chilling events that took place in the abandoned village of Portlock. While the existence of Sasquatch is still a topic of debate, the events at Portlock are not so easily explained. We encourage our readers to watch the video and share their thoughts with us.