There are three dimensions of space; they are length, breadth, and width, or backwards and forwards, side to side, and up and down. Einstein proved that there is another dimension; the fourth dimension is time. The three dimensions of space specify where an object is, and the fourth dimension specifies when an object is. Seem complicated, but scientists now believe that there are more than four dimensions, and that these unchartered dimensions may be interwoven with our ones and may sometimes even become accidentally accessible to ordinary human beings. This would explain the thousands of bizarre disappearances which are reported worldwide each year. Every year, over one million people go missing in the United States alone. Some of the disappearances are mundane, like the teenage runaway, but there are so many baffling cases of people disappearing literally into thin air, as in the following true story, which has been thoroughly investigated over the years.
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 smouldering 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.
For more strange stories from Liverpool writer Tom Slemen, go to these sites:
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The Liverpool Valentine Ghost
The Devil in the Cavern Club
The Song that can Kill You
The Last Dance
The Welsh Werewolf
The Wail of the Banshee
The Phantom Matchmakers
The Thing in Berkeley Square
The Zodiac Murders Mystery
Cheshire Timewarps
Merseyside Timeslips
The Penny Lane Poltergeist
The Kennedy and Lincoln Coincidences
The UFO that Crashed in Wales
The Mysterious Spring-Heeled Jack
George Washington's Vision of the Future
Mystery of the Liverpool Mass Graves
Was the Titanic torpedoed by a German U-Boat?
The Finger of Suspicion
Halloween Tales
Haunted by his Future Wife
A Marriage Made In Hell
The Enigma of the Green Children
The Dark Side of Rock
The Evil Assailant
Was Jesus an Extraterrestrial?
The Hippy Babysitter
The Sad Spectre of Smithdown Road
UFOs in the Bible?
Mr Boon - Robin Hood of the Victorian Poor
Feel free to e-mail Tom personally with any comments or queries:Tom Slemen
