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June 6th 2008 18:23
'Little people' eMail zips through rural Alaska
An intriguing e-mail hit Bush Alaska in May. In it, a hunter from Marshall recounted how he found a boy alleged to have been abducted by the ircenrraat.
What the heck is an Ircenrraat (pronounced irr-chin-hhek) are “little people” who are a popular source of tales in Yup’ik teachings and legends. These tricky little folks dwell in the tundra, usually underground. It’s to cold for them otherwise and tundra bears find the little tidbits very tasty. Their source of amusement seems to be centered around the trapping, disorienting and in general making human life uncomfortable. They sound like mini mother-in-laws.
Sophisticated city dwellers diss the ircenrraat as superstitious moose droppings, but not those who’ve lived in Yup’ik territory for any length of time. Persistent stories furnished by respectable observers suggest that there is more to the story. Odd things happen in the vastness of the Alaskan tundra, things that seem to defy logic and reason.
The man that started the eMail, Nick Andrew Jr. of Marshall AK, sent the story as a private message to a family member, who had no sense of confidentiality and leaked the story.
The gist of the story: Also a link back to the source.
Andrew was on a snowmachine hunting birds the evening of May 7, of this yearm some distance out of town -- three hours away if you had to walk it, he estimated. Preparing to return home, he decided to check a different location on a hunch.
"Stopping to look, I saw a small boy all alone in middle of the marsh," he said.
He recognized the child as a boy from the village. "I asked him where's his dad or hunting partners? I grilled him with questions of who he was with and if he was alone. He was scared and had been crying. All his answers were 'I don't know.' "
He described the boy as "disoriented, dazed, confused and scared" with "no concept of time. He did not appear tired, nor was he hungry or thirsty."
But the lad was lucky, it seems. He was found in a spot frequented by large tundra brown bears.
Andrew took the boy home, noting that there were no footprints in the spring snow to indicate anyone had walked into the area. He found that puzzling. He counted at least 10 other snowmachiners in the neighborhood, none of whom had spotted the boy.
After getting the boy back to the village, he left his VHS radio on overnight, in case some other hunter reported a missing child. No one did.
"It wasn't until the next day that the story started emerging that he'd had what you'd call an out-of-the-ordinary experience," he told me. "He'd had some missing time, just like people who report being abducted by UFOs."
The boy said he was "brought into" Pilcher Mountain, a site often associated with ircenrraat encounters. There, he was questioned and saw other "little beings."
"He said he made contact with a little girl abducted over 40 years ago," Andrew said. "She told him who she was and she wanted help."
After that the ircenrraat decided to release the boy. "And that's when he came to, I guess, a few minutes before I found him."
Andrew maintained calm perspective about the experience. "Is this kid telling the truth?" he said, leaving the answer open-ended.
Responses to the e-mail, treated the news with gravity. "Ladies, please share with your husband/partners," read one forwarder. "Please tell your children about Ircinraqs (sic) and their deceptiveness," said another. "Thank God (he) found this little boy alive."
Yup'ik descriptions of the "little people" resemble those in widespread stories shared by many cultures around the world. A conference on such creatures is held every year in Twisp, Wash.
Though accounts of sightings or of inexplicable events attributed to ircenrraat are common in Western Alaska, they seldom receive wide circulation outside the area.
Now is this a great story or what?
Raven
What the heck is an Ircenrraat (pronounced irr-chin-hhek) are “little people” who are a popular source of tales in Yup’ik teachings and legends. These tricky little folks dwell in the tundra, usually underground. It’s to cold for them otherwise and tundra bears find the little tidbits very tasty. Their source of amusement seems to be centered around the trapping, disorienting and in general making human life uncomfortable. They sound like mini mother-in-laws.
Sophisticated city dwellers diss the ircenrraat as superstitious moose droppings, but not those who’ve lived in Yup’ik territory for any length of time. Persistent stories furnished by respectable observers suggest that there is more to the story. Odd things happen in the vastness of the Alaskan tundra, things that seem to defy logic and reason.
The man that started the eMail, Nick Andrew Jr. of Marshall AK, sent the story as a private message to a family member, who had no sense of confidentiality and leaked the story.
The gist of the story: Also a link back to the source.
"Stopping to look, I saw a small boy all alone in middle of the marsh," he said.
He recognized the child as a boy from the village. "I asked him where's his dad or hunting partners? I grilled him with questions of who he was with and if he was alone. He was scared and had been crying. All his answers were 'I don't know.' "
He described the boy as "disoriented, dazed, confused and scared" with "no concept of time. He did not appear tired, nor was he hungry or thirsty."
But the lad was lucky, it seems. He was found in a spot frequented by large tundra brown bears.
Andrew took the boy home, noting that there were no footprints in the spring snow to indicate anyone had walked into the area. He found that puzzling. He counted at least 10 other snowmachiners in the neighborhood, none of whom had spotted the boy.
After getting the boy back to the village, he left his VHS radio on overnight, in case some other hunter reported a missing child. No one did.
"It wasn't until the next day that the story started emerging that he'd had what you'd call an out-of-the-ordinary experience," he told me. "He'd had some missing time, just like people who report being abducted by UFOs."
The boy said he was "brought into" Pilcher Mountain, a site often associated with ircenrraat encounters. There, he was questioned and saw other "little beings."
"He said he made contact with a little girl abducted over 40 years ago," Andrew said. "She told him who she was and she wanted help."
After that the ircenrraat decided to release the boy. "And that's when he came to, I guess, a few minutes before I found him."
Andrew maintained calm perspective about the experience. "Is this kid telling the truth?" he said, leaving the answer open-ended.
Responses to the e-mail, treated the news with gravity. "Ladies, please share with your husband/partners," read one forwarder. "Please tell your children about Ircinraqs (sic) and their deceptiveness," said another. "Thank God (he) found this little boy alive."
Yup'ik descriptions of the "little people" resemble those in widespread stories shared by many cultures around the world. A conference on such creatures is held every year in Twisp, Wash.
Though accounts of sightings or of inexplicable events attributed to ircenrraat are common in Western Alaska, they seldom receive wide circulation outside the area.
Raven
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Comment by katyzzz
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Who am I to doubt such a story?
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Comment by Ash
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It`s amazing what happens out in the middle of nowhere. We have a few Aussie ones that are rather chilling too.
No point in being narrow-minded about these things... you know what they say about saying 'It could never happen to me'.....
Ash
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Odd the number of tales about little people Ash, are they referring to grays or to other hominids? There is usually an element of truth to myths, fables, legends and really good lies.
Soooooooooo, I'll leave the door open and a light on, just in case.
Raven
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The fact that there are a lot of kids in these events freaks me out even more because they seem to be more open to these sorts of things.
I`ll be leaving the light on for sure so best they not be getting any ideas of visiting me!
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There are way to many of these types of story's for there not to be a truth behind them.
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Just off for my spycatching role in the UFO. Watch it, bye.....
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Our worst, still unsolved, true, really FREAKY story...
Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Drop Bears, sounds interesting, but what's up with Picnic at Hanging Rock ~ is this a homework assignment? I'll check it out.
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Its half true, cos a testosterone pumped up koala just might do that!
all these years and NO ONE knows what a bloody bunyip looks like....But we areall scared of swimming in dams.
Picnic at hanging rock is a story about a school that goes out to hanging rock for a picnic, and 3 of the girls disappear. Its a true story, and there was no trace - NO TRACE - of what happened to them. Miles around the area was searched, with dogs, nothing, not a shred of clothing. Its isolated, so abduction was unlikely. But never, ever has any trace of those girls been found.
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