Paranormal-Spirits

Let us take you away from your daily grind with ghost, UFO, Bigfoot and all other manner of spooky stories. Listen to new paranormal stories every week with Mike, Alyssa, and John as they explore the wicked, way-out and sometimes wacky stories. While sharing a drink (or two ).

Portlock is an abandoned town in Port Chatham Bay on the Southern end of the Kenai Peninsula in

South central Alaska. It was named after British Royal Navy Captain Nathanial Portlock who landed there

in 1787.

The Aleut people had inhabited the area for centuries, and it’s known for its abundant salmon runs and

mineral resources including gold, chromium and copper.

A cannery was established around 1900 to take advantage of the fisheries. Also mining operations were

established in the area. As well as a US post office which was opened in 1921.

The first recorded reports of strange occurrences started in 1905. It was reported that all of the cannery

workers left their jobs due to something mysterious that was “bothering” the camp. The cannery

workers returned the next season, but unexplained events were continually reported.

In the 1920s, a man by the name of Albert Petka supposedly scared off a hairy creature with his dogs,

but not before receiving a fatal blow to the chest. According to the stories, Petka survived to explain

what happened, but died of his wounds soon after. There are also reports of prospectors and hunters

going missing frequently to the point that it became commonplace. Their bodies were allegedly found in

a creek as if their limbs had been ripped apart. 

In 1931, a logger named Andrew Kamluk was out working when someone or something hit him over the

head with a huge piece of logging equipment. Something that was too large for a man to lift. His body

was found 10 feet from the piece of equipment, so it made no sense that he could have slipped and hit

his own head on it.

One group hunting a moose reported finding giant footprints also stalking the same animal. They arrived

at the site of a bloody battle and no moose was found. Only torn branches, blood, and footprints over

18 inches long headed from that spot up into the foggy mountains.

A local man named Tom Larsen went to chop wood for fish traps and saw something large and hairy on

the beach. He ran home to get his rifle and when he returned it was still there but now he could see it

was standing on two legs and just staring at him. Tom retreated and never explained why he didn’t fire

on it.

The local native population referred to the creature as Nantinaq. Which in their Alutiiq language means

half man, half beast.

Other villagers spoke of a woman in a long black dress with a pale face who would appear from the

cliffs. She would moan and scream, then disappear back into the cliff face.

Bodies that were recovered, having washed down the rivers into the lagoon, had strange wounds no

bear could make. The loss of these lives took a toll on the small community and fear set in. People

started to leave. With unexplained disappearances and murders, no one felt they could take a chance

and continue to live here.

The residents took off en masse in 1949, abandoning their houses, the chromium mine, the cannery, and

the school house to return to nearby Port Graham and Nanwelak.

Only the postmaster remained. After a year alone, the post office closed in 1950 and the last resident of

Portlock left town. Even the postmaster couldn’t continue on in this town. After over 50 years of

hauntings, murders, and disappearances the townspeople gave in and left.

People continued to return over the years for hunting expeditions. In 1968, a goat hunter reported

being chased by a creature while hunting in the area. In 1973, three hunters took shelter in Portlock

during a three day storm and claimed that each night something on two legs was walking around there

tent. In 1990, an Anchorage paramedic was called to aid a 70 year old native man and former Portlock

resident who had suffered a heart attack. While treating the man, he mentioned he had recently been

hunting in the Port Chatham area. When the old man heard this, he suddenly sat up, grabbed the medic

by his shirt and asked “Did it bother you? Did you see it?”

In 2018, Steven Major and Extreme Expeditions Northwest were the first Bigfoot research team to spend

a number of DAYS on the ground in Portlock. I emphasize DAYS because they spent their nights on a ship

in the bay and only went ashore during daylight hours. But they made a 90 minute documentary film

called “In Search of the Port Chatham Hairy Man” and they got some very interesting activity. They

didn’t get any spectacular evidence, but they got tree knocks, FLIR hits, tree peaking etc. Very typical

Bigfoot behavior, so I definitely believe there are Bigfoots in the area, and that could be very well be

what was responsible for some of the deaths back in the 30s and 40s.

So…fast forward to 2022 and The History Channel releases a new reality series with the salacious title

“Alaskan Killer Bigfoot”. The premise is that a group of Portlock descendants from Nanwelak go on a 40

day expedition to Portlock to see if the town can be resettled. Is Nantinaq still there, if the creature is

still there, can they make peace with it in order to make use of the resources for their people. A lot of

strange thing happen, lots of typical Bigfoot noises: howls, whoops, whistles and knocks. They find 18”

footprints. They capture a very strange thermal hit from a drone that looks like either a large bipedal

creature or a large bipedal production assistant running through the forest towards their camp, then

vanishing. They capture a pretty creepy EVP of a raspy growling sound that they didn’t hear with their

ears.

One of the expedition members straps a deer stand to a tree and sits in it at night. He hears what

sounds like chains being dragged around the woods close to him and something whisper in his ear.

In one episode, the “village elders” or more likely the History Channel producers send a psychic medium

out to the camp by helicopter. She “senses” something so negative that she becomes ill and is forced to

leave.

In another episode, well known Bigfoot expert Ron Moorehead is flown out to the camp by “the elders”.

He brings a speaker system and blasts some Bigfoot vocalizations out from the camp into the woods and

they do get responses.

Sometimes the show has a bit of a “Bagansie” type feel to it. When the crew is in a cabin and hearing

footsteps outside and banging on the walls, there’s a camera in the woods filming back towards the

cabin which makes you wonder if there’s really something attacking the cabin, why isn’t it on that guy’s

camera? Why isn’t Nantinaq eating this lone camera guy off in the woods alone? It’s very over

dramatized, and the most frustrating thing about it is every time they’re in the woods and activity starts

Join us as we explore The Beast of Bray Road.

We start off with a drink of the night Don Julio Blanco.

John lets the "P" word slip! ( Pazuzu ) Ha! Swear he is going to get us haunted!

The Bray Road Beast is a legendary creature that is said to roam the back roads of southeastern Wisconsin, particularly around the town of Elkhorn. Described as a werewolf-like creature, the Bray Road Beast has been sighted by numerous people since the late 1980s.

The legend of the Bray Road Beast began in 1989 when a woman reported seeing a large, hairy creature on Bray Road. She described it as being about 6 feet tall, with a canine-like head and broad shoulders. Over the next few years, there were several other sightings of the creature, with witnesses describing it as a bipedal wolf or werewolf.

The legend of the Bray Road Beast quickly gained traction, with numerous articles and TV shows featuring the creature. Some people believed it was a supernatural creature, while others thought it might be a wild animal, such as a large wolf or a bear.

Despite numerous investigations, no concrete evidence has ever been found to prove the existence of the Bray Road Beast. Some have suggested that the sightings were simply misidentified animals or hoaxes, while others believe that the creature may have been a manifestation of the town's collective fears and anxieties.

Today, the legend of the Bray Road Beast continues to captivate people's imaginations, with numerous books, documentaries, and websites dedicated to the creature. Whether the creature is real or not, it remains an enduring legend of the American Midwest.