What Really Happened in Portlock, Alaska?

If it isn't carbon monoxide and you're experiencing things, see your doctor. I was seeing shadow people out the corners of my eyes, then I experienced an auditory hallucination when I was out hiking. Ignored it, but combined with the memory loss I was already suffering, and now painful neuropathy, I was misdiagnosed with a TBI and now have an appointment with a neurologist coming up because there is something seriously wrong with my brain. Don't assume you're experiencing the supernatural, it could cost you your health and possibly your life.

The reason the liger can grow so large while the tigon will generally not grow larger than it's parents is also fascinating. The Female tiger and male lion lack the gene to inhibit the upper size to their growth, while the male tiger and female lion carry those genes. I've honestly always wondered why the growth regulation gene was only in half of each species. I guess that nature just wasn't expecting our tomfoolery.

Being the postal worker in an abandoned town sounds like a dream job to me.

A lot of the ghost towns here in the USA were originally gold rush towns and railroad towns, or oil boom towns. When the natural resources dried up, the town was deserted. There's some really good ones in California! This is an interesting story thanks for covering it

Yup, the "Alaskan Triangle" is basically the most likely place in Alaska where, if something goes wrong, they'll probably never even find you - even in a brightly painted airplane (unless you crash with a satellite transponder broadcasting your position to Search & Rescue officials.)

Katy should research and write a script about the disappearance of an entire Inuit village at Lake Anjikuni in 1930 in northern Canada. There's all kinds of details for Simon to lose his sh@t over, would be a lovely experience for all involved.  Thanks so much for the awesome channels and content. And the witty sarcasm.

As soon as you said the Native Alaskan people avoided the area, I was like, “Classic. Native people avoid the area and here come European people/European descendants like, oh this looks like a lovely spot!”

The main reason, I think, why parents invent forest, or snow or rushing river, monsters to scare their children out of wandering into such places is to prevent them from getting lost and dying of hypothermia. There have been a lot of incidents of small children doing just that, much to their parents' grief. My mother used the "bogeyman" to scare us into not wandering off from her.

Wait, wait, wait… the town suffers grizzly murders and weird incidents, the entire town except the postmaster leaves en masse, and he was fine for two years? I just solved the mystery, as it was obviously the postmaster. He scared everyone away and got the place to himself for a couple of years. Genius!

Oh good God, I grew up in Alaska and this is going to hurt me. Anytime reality TV gets ahold of Alaska it's bad. But listening to Simon try to say kenai makes up for it.

I was born on the Kenai Peninsula. Nobody goes to or talks about Portlock, if you ask a local they will pretend not to know where you are talking about. As scared as you may be of the place, the locals are even more so. Unless you wanna shipwreck basically the only way in or out is by air

I’m L’nu from Nova Scotia and currently living on Anishinaabe land, and Sabé (or “Sasquatch) stories are super prevalent across all communities in Canada. In Western Canada he’s very peaceful but in Mi'kma'ki Jenu is a giant hairy cannibal, more inline with the Wendigo.

“It’s not Nicole Kidman.” Jen, you’re an editing legend! 🤣🤣🤣

Simon the rambling, tangents, and rants are what makes you relatable personally and I thoroughly enjoy it Great episode. On my second viewing already.

Back in grade 4, (so....late 90s), my teacher made a point of teaching us about some of the local customs and ways of life of the local First Nations band. One story we were told about was the Woman of the Woods, who was this old forest spirit of some description that lived deep in the woods and ate children who wandered off. We were also taught the meaning of this: the woods are big and easy to get lost in (especially back before European settlers showed up, chopped half of it down, and built a city that shines with a million electric lights), and also supports a population of cougars (pumas/mountain lions) and wolves, but that's hard to explain, so they tell a cool story about the spooky witch lady who will eat you. I live much further down the coast, in British Columbia, so the local First Nations are one of the Coast Salish groups. But yeah, the whole "there's a scary monster in the woods, don't go in the woods and get lost" seems like a pretty standard thing and pretty much any adult from that culture is like "yeah, that story's made up, we just don't want our kids dying or getting lost" It's like Santa or the Tooth Fairy, except the opposite. Krampus, I guess?

This has to be the fastest I’ve seen Simon get into the content on one of his channels where he fully lets his personality shine through. I prefer a 10 minute rambling intro full of tangents, but this works too

Ghost town living mentioned at the beginning, his name is Brent it’s in Cerro Gordo California. His channel is amazing.

I've spent time on the Kenai peninsula and even camped within 10miles of Portlock, though it's not really accessable on foot. Trust me when I say that the forests and mountains there are quite wild and full of many animals that can and will kill you. Getting lost or being attacked by wildlife is a very strong possibility. But I will point out that even today many areas in Alaska and the Yukon do not have any law enforcement or investigative agencies. People dying or going missing would not necessarily generate a police report, especially a hundred years ago. And if you are afraid of noises outside your tent, you shouldn't be there.

I had a traumatic brain injury last April, and have been seeing things that aren't there ever since. Most things are flashes of misunderstood information in my brain, so a black car momentarily becomes a butterfly then changes back etc. But the clearest hallucination I had was of a man walking into my sisters flat, and turning to look at me. My sister had her back to it so she only saw my reaction and I just drained of colour. It was terrifying but, being rational, I knew it was just a symptom of my brain injury and not a real ghost. 😆

Where I live in Northern California, there are TONS of trees that you can climb inside, and the entire Pacific Northwest has these trees. They typically run 4 to 7 meters in diameter, although the largest is 11.1 meters in diameter.