Comments on: Nantiinaq

By: MrInspector

MrInspector — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:10:51 +0000

He gone missin’ -native saying in the Great White North.

By: flightsuit

flightsuit — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:19:05 +0000

The footprints were eighteen inches long? I know that’s nothing new when it comes to bigfoot, but it just struck me how truly huge that is! Assuming a bigfoot had similar proportions to a human, what type of size and weight would we extrapolate from an eighteen inch foot?

By: korollocke

korollocke — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:58:31 +0000

Reminds me the Marvel comics Wendigo, a curse afflicted upon those who consume human flesh, they become large man like beast with an unending hunger and immortality. Marvel used to have quite s few monsters in the great white north. Wendigo even battled the Hulk and introduced the world to Wolverine in issue 181 of the Hulk, Wendigo made his comics debute I beleive in the previous issue but was actually seen in Monsters Unleashed magazine prior. The Hulk even fought the Lochness Monster once in The lurker in the loch!

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:59:50 +0000

Great story. Alaska is an underreported trove of Cryptid delights.
I also wonder with John A. Lutz wether this is in any way connected to the”Headless Valley” stories.

By: SOCALcryptid

SOCALcryptid — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:29:07 +0000

Good stuff Loren. Thanks for these reports.
John A. Luts and Dogu4, Great comments. Thanks for the information.

By: dogu4

dogu4 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:43:35 +0000

One of my favorite places and one of the most compelling mysteries. When I first read the story in the Homer AK newspaper I made a comment online saying that, considering the location and its relatively unusual degree of isolation even by AK standards, it was certainly intriguing and wondered about the possible connection between the creature there on the forested refugia at the southern end of the Kenai penninsula and what the Tlingket, whose culture continues south along the forested areas of the coastal areas of southeast Alaska as the Alutiiq (Eskimo) culture’s extension ends around Kayak Island, and their descriptions of a creature they call the “kushtaka” or giant land otter.
The author, Naomi Klouda, responded with an email. While she didn’t add anything regarding the possible connection with the Kushtaka, she did make a connection to the old stories of a creature known to the Alutiiq people of Kodiak:
“On Kodiak, I wrote of the Hoolaq, very similar to the Nintiinaq. Their stories (also Alutiiq people) deal with needing to keep Hoolaq happy enough with gifts of tobacco and such left behind that he won’t harm them. Didn’t hear the appeasement stories from the Nanwalek side though.”

By: John A. Lutz

John A. Lutz — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:47:12 +0000

Wonder if NANTIINAQ has any reference to the creatures inhabiting a valley known in the late 1800s & early 1900s to contain hot springs & lush vegetation, which was called the HEADLESS VALLEY.
We met a gold miner in the 1960s, who told us at least a dozen gold miners or prospectors where found dead with their heads missing in what has become known as the Nahanni River Headless Valley in the western end of the Northwest Territories.
For whatever reason, a “Roy Rogers Comic Book” in the early 1950s featured a story where Roy Rogers was forced to jump from a cargo plane which developed engine trouble & needed to reduce it weight, that carried him & his horse Trigger.
NOT wanting to part from Trigger, Roy put parachutes on him & Trigger, and landed in the Headless Valley. Coming upon what Roy thought was a “sleeping miner”, he kept calling out, & finally walked over to awaken the man, only to discover his head was missing.
I wish to this day, I had kept that 1 ‘comic book’, for that is where we 1st learned of of the HEADLESS VALLEY. On a 4-week vacation to Yellowstone & the Bitterroot Mountains in 1967, my friend Jake & I met a gold miner named Roger Willcock in Red Lodge, Montana, who told us stories of his involvement with the Headless Valley, which he claimed was 100% true, as did a retired RCMP Officer we met in Glacier National Park.
NWT Officials today, in order NOT to scare away tourists with the almighty dollar, refers to the valley legends as all rumors and NO facts….but we question officialdom’s new found data….
Does anyone else has legendary information on the Headless Valley from the early to mid-1950s?????