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As the title of the thread indicates, I was originally going to post this in the Premises for Call of Cthulhu Adventures from Real Life thread, but it seemed like a big enough subject to justify spinning it off into it's own thread.
Located in the far north of Canada are the aptly named Northwest Territories, a massive swath of land that is virtually uninhabited. Consider that the country of Germany has a population of around 83 million people. The Northwest Territories are over four times the size of Germany but with a population at any given time of only around 50,000. In addition to being this huge and mostly unoccupied space, the northwest territories are almost completely wild, covered in dense forests, huge mountains, and massive rivers and lakes.
Even for highly experienced outdoorsmen and women, the Northwest Territories is a truly hazardous place, and within this truly hazardous place there is one part that is the most dangerous. Located right in the middle of the territories is an 11, 000 square mile stretch of pure wilderness called the Nahani Valley.
In 1976 the Nahani Valley was declared a "national park", but don't let that fool you. This isn't the kind of place anyone can simply go hiking though or camping with their families. There are no tourist accommodations and there are no roads that lead into this park; the only way you can get inside this valley is by chartering a private plane, by boat up a treacherous white rapid river, or by a long, very stressful and difficult overland hike taking weeks. But for those who are able and willing to make the effort to get inside of this valley, you have the opportunity to explore one of the most beautiful places on the planet, because this section of the world is almost completely untouched by Man. It really is nature at its purest form.
However, there is a catch...
Over the last 10 000 years the handful of native tribes that have attempted to settle inside of the Nahani Valley have all either quickly fled (claiming they were being terrorized or stalked by white wolf-like creatures lurking in the forest the Natives called Wahilas) or suddenly disappeared without a trace (like the Naha tribe that literally overnight just was gone, leaving behind their shelters, food, and supplies).
Now of course this just sounds like folklore and it may very well be, but starting in the early 1900s some very strange events occurred in the Nahani Valley that is not folklore, these were real, horrifying events and they might, depending on your viewpoint, give credit to some of the theories that the native tribes people have about this valley, which is there's something dangerous and evil lurking out in those forests...
Located in the far north of Canada are the aptly named Northwest Territories, a massive swath of land that is virtually uninhabited. Consider that the country of Germany has a population of around 83 million people. The Northwest Territories are over four times the size of Germany but with a population at any given time of only around 50,000. In addition to being this huge and mostly unoccupied space, the northwest territories are almost completely wild, covered in dense forests, huge mountains, and massive rivers and lakes.
Even for highly experienced outdoorsmen and women, the Northwest Territories is a truly hazardous place, and within this truly hazardous place there is one part that is the most dangerous. Located right in the middle of the territories is an 11, 000 square mile stretch of pure wilderness called the Nahani Valley.
In 1976 the Nahani Valley was declared a "national park", but don't let that fool you. This isn't the kind of place anyone can simply go hiking though or camping with their families. There are no tourist accommodations and there are no roads that lead into this park; the only way you can get inside this valley is by chartering a private plane, by boat up a treacherous white rapid river, or by a long, very stressful and difficult overland hike taking weeks. But for those who are able and willing to make the effort to get inside of this valley, you have the opportunity to explore one of the most beautiful places on the planet, because this section of the world is almost completely untouched by Man. It really is nature at its purest form.
However, there is a catch...
Over the last 10 000 years the handful of native tribes that have attempted to settle inside of the Nahani Valley have all either quickly fled (claiming they were being terrorized or stalked by white wolf-like creatures lurking in the forest the Natives called Wahilas) or suddenly disappeared without a trace (like the Naha tribe that literally overnight just was gone, leaving behind their shelters, food, and supplies).
Now of course this just sounds like folklore and it may very well be, but starting in the early 1900s some very strange events occurred in the Nahani Valley that is not folklore, these were real, horrifying events and they might, depending on your viewpoint, give credit to some of the theories that the native tribes people have about this valley, which is there's something dangerous and evil lurking out in those forests...
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