From the island of Bitter Rock, Alaska
12:48 PM, SEPTEMBER 9, 1973
UNKNOWN: . . . if anyone’s hearing this. This is [indistinct] of the Landontown Fellowship on Bitter Rock. Our phone is out. The winds and rain are violent. Mist everywhere. Can’t [indistinct] evacuate. Everyone on Belaya Skala has taken shelter in the church. I—
3:45 PM, September 9, 1973
UNKNOWN: Storm is continuing. Flooding is becoming a concern. We don’t know if—
<Transmission cuts out. It resumes a few seconds later.>
UNKNOWN: We thought we were alone, but—
5:34 PM, September 9, 1973
UNKNOWN: There are figures in the mist. They’re everywhere. Can anyone hear me? Is anyone there? You need to come for us.
<A long pause is interrupted by a distant rumbling.>
UNKNOWN: They have our voices.
12:03 AM, September 10, 1973
UNKNOWN: If anyone can hear me, do not come to Bitter Rock. Do not come to Belaya Skala. Do you hear? Don’t come! Don’t—
<Frantic voices shout in the background. There is a loud crack, like splitting wood.>
UNKNOWN: He’s here. God help us. God help us, he’s here!
1:13 AM, September 10, 1973
<At first there is only the sound of static crackling. And then labored breathing. A voice—perhaps the same one, but strained almost beyond recognition, speaks slowly.>
UNKNOWN: There is no salvation.
Note: Landontown was located on the island of Bitter Rock, Alaska. Thirty-one residents were present on September 7, 1973. Only Theresa Landon, wife of founder Cole Landon, was absent. Multiple attempts were made to respond to the final radio calls of the residents, but none of these attempts appear to have succeeded.
All thirty-one residents vanished without a trace. No further communication was received. No bodies were ever recovered.
They were not the first.
They would not be the last.