"All right, Captain, this is a question of supposition. From your long experience in the Northwest Territories, would you hazard a guess as to what kind of arctic animal attacked these children?"
"That weren't no animal, sir. Animals don't cook 'em first."
REFERENCE: INCIDENT 2
My name is Doctor George R. Hastings. I am a clinical psychologist assigned to the Second Weather Wing, Northeastern Air Command, Fifth Weather Group. As a reserve officer in the United States Air Force, I was reactivated for arctic duty during the worldwide geophysical year.
I was the senior investigating officer at the Frobisher Bay incident.
The following is the chronology of events as I recorded them.
The Frobisher Bay weather detachment is a permanent weather observation outpost. It has been staffed, at various times since it was established, by representatives of the Danish, Canadian and American world meteorological agencies.
On June 3, 1954, a full strength phase three occurred at Frobisher Bay and all radio transmissions with this observation site were cut off. Subsequent readings of rain and max instrumentation indicated that the detachment personnel experienced an arctic storm of the first magnitude. Despite the date and upper air charts which showed that a warm air mass and very deep low pressure area existed at the time of the phase three, the following conditions were recorded — seven inches of precipitation, mostly in the form of frozen rain, winds in excess of seventy knots, and temperature variations of almost 45 degrees. Frobisher Bay was completely obscured for almost 72 hours.
I arrived at Frobisher at 1830 hours on the night of June seven with a party of three — Captain Paul Gear of Second Weather Wing, Airman 1/C Clancy Bingham of the Goose Bay detachment, and Jules Priestly, an associate from Pennsylvania State University. Unedited copies of these gentlemen's affidavits have been prepared in support of this report.
The outpost, which was staffed by seven permanent party personnel of the Danish Weather Service, included three men and their wives plus their four children, three enlisted men, all single, and a Doctor Jana Ludvigsen of the Danish Bureau. Doctor Ludvigsen, despite her youth (she was 41 at the time of her assignment to Frobisher), was generally considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on arctic environmental phenomena.
The detachment and its appointment and equipment were in complete disarray. It was obvious to our investigating team that there had been a struggle of significant proportions.
A generator powered walk-in refrigeration unit, serial number USAF-776523-AA, was discovered to be holding the remains of the six men. All six had been butchered and hung by their legs in the unit. They appeared to be, if you will pardon the expression, prepared for consumption. The bodies were hung right beside two frozen beef carcasses. From this, we drew the assumption that there was no shortage of meat at the time of this outrage.
The Frobisher complex includes four tarpaper constructed buildings of the billet type. One was used for married personnel and their families; one was used for single personnel. A third building contained an activities room, a kitchen, the chapel and the medical facilities. The fourth building, of course, contained the weather equipment.
Based on our discovery in the isolated refrigeration locker, we were prepared for an assault by a force or forces unknown. Our search was then conducted with great caution, building by building.
In the day room of the activities building, we discovered the bodies of two of the three wives and the remains of Doctor Ludvigsen. All three of the women had been brutally assaulted.
In the kitchen unit we found the dismembered parts of the four children. The subsequent attempt at inventory after attempting to reconstruct the bodies, using both the dismembered parts and the clean bones, indicated that several components of those bodies were still missing.
The nature and arrangement of the cooking utensils, the desposits of dried blood and certain entrails, found frozen on the floor of the kitchen unit, indicated a surprisingly sophisticated selection of cannibalized human parts.
It was evident from our preliminary investigation that some attempt was made to save, possibly for future consumption, certain parts of the children. Apparently, this effort was aborted when two crudely fashioned containers containing those parts were found some ten miles from the Frobisher camp.
Despite the extended investigation conducted by my party and subsequent visits by other agencies of the WMO, no further details have been recorded.
We are unable to explain the following:
1. The whereabouts of Mrs. Gunther Erickson, the wife of one of the Danish detachment scientists.
2. The cause or reason for this violation.
3. The whereabouts of the perpetrators.
4. The repeated discovery of a subhuman print, not unlike that normally attributed to a species of prehistoric animal from the Cenozoic era.
REFERENCE: INCIDENT 3
"Authorities today continued the grisly task of searching for more victims in this terrible scene of carnage and wanton disregard for human life. The death toll now stands at six and Pastor T. Emmett Copley, the rector of the Battle Harbor Sanctuary Church, informs me that at least three more children are still missing.
"So far, this is what authorities have been able to reconstruct from this bizarre and puzzling series of events.
"Myron Bell, the church's assistant pastor, was chauffeuring the church's youth group to this remote forest retreat when he encountered mechanical troubles. Authorities speculate that since the bus was discovered only two miles from its destination at the time of the difficulties, Pastor Bell encouraged the children to take only what was necessary and hike on to the retreat area. There is evidence the children left in two groups, one group of six led by thirteen-year-old Jenna Simmons, a church group youth leader. This group, authorities inform us, is the group whose bodies have been located.
"The second group was all boys; fourteen-year-old Donald Capers, fifteen-year-old Gaston Maccar and fifteen-year-old Ronal Breathwaite are still missing. Both Capers and Maccar are residents of the Chinchapah Boy's Home and were employed by the church to assist Pastor Bell at the retreat. Both boys, incidentally, have minor police records and are regarded by both pastors as church rehabilitation projects.
"Let me review the facts as we know them at this time.
"Battle Harbor authorities have thus far found the bodies of six children. All of the children discovered thus far have been dismembered and mutilated. In addition, there is strong evidence to indicate that some parts of the children were surgically removed prior to the mutilation. Authorities also found evidence of extensive cannibalistic activity.
"We're going to speak now to Constable Jeffrey Hullings of the Battle Harbor investigating team and learn if authorities have developed any new theories on what actually happened here.
"You've heard my report up to this point, Constable. Is there anything additional you can tell our listeners?"
"We are still looking for the three boys. So far we haven't found any trace of them."
"Do authorities have any theories about what happened here?"
"There are two possibilities as we see it. One, that the children fell victim to some sort of cult that eats human flesh, or, second, that the three missing boys are somehow involved with this in some manner."