7 Amazing True Stories That Deserve To Be Made Into Films

3. The Mystery Of Lake Anjikuni

Late one night in 1930, a fur trapper named Joe Labelle was out in the wilds of the Yukon. Familiar with the nearby inuit village at Lake Anjikuni, he made his way there seeking food and shelter for the night. Upon arrival he made a chilling discovery; the villagers were all gone. Not just gone, but seemingly completely vanished. A pot of stew was burning to cinders over a diminishing fire. Parkas and rifles had been left in their huts. There were no footprints in the dry snow showing any mass exodus. The villagers had seemingly evaporated. Unsurprisingly unwilling to remain in the area, Labelle fled, and informed the closest Royal Canadian Mounted Police unit of the disappearance. The Mounties rode out, and questioned another trapper by the name of Laurent as to whether he had seen anything unusual of late. Laurent and his two sons told the Mounties of a strange cylindrical object that had been seen flying across the sky in the direction of the village some days previous, bizarrely turning into a bullet-shape halfway across the sky. Upon reaching the deserted village, the Mounties made further grim discoveries; the carcasses of several sled dogs, tied to a tree and starved to death. The fact that Labelle had still found a burning fire and food cooking suggested the vanishing of the villagers had happened recently; certainly not enough time for a pack of dogs to die of starvation. Conflicting reports also suggest the disturbing of one or several graves, with a body or bodies being removed - a gross offence in inuit culture. The icing on the cake was the appearance of strange lights in the sky that the Mounties witnessed all witnessed together; pulsating lights with a blueish hue, which the men all agreed were not any Aurora Borealis they had ever seen. How To Make It The mystery of the villagers of Lake Anjikuni is ripe for several settings for a film - obviously horror, probably with a leaning toward sci-fi if you want to cite aliens as the reason for the abduction of the villagers and the UFO/lights in the sky. Labelle made very clear his assumption that the villagers were actually all taken by the demonic spirit Torngarsuk, believed by Inuit tribes to be a mischievous sky god spirit, said to either look like a bear or a one-armed man, visible only by medicine men and shamans. Sounds like a pretty creepy monster for a horror film to me. Jason Blum could probably spearhead a good horror film around the chilling concept, as long as he doesn't resort to damn present-day found footage malarkey.