{"id":60,"slug":"kaguyak-village-area-alaska","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Kaguyak — written variously as Kayakak, Kaliak, or Naushkak — was one of the Alutiiq villages of the Katmai coast, a settlement older than the nineteenth-century community of Douglas, also called Ashivak, that succeeded or neighbored it. The National Park Service is careful here: the relative locations of Kaguyak and Douglas are uncertain, and the file's research notes forbid quietly merging them. What is certain is that Kaguyak families were on the water in June 1912, putting up fish in Kaflia Bay when Novarupta erupted.","Those families rode out the eruption in the camp at Kaflia — the three days of darkness, the ash-choked bay, the evacuation aboard the tug Redondo to Afognak. Kaguyak itself was among the coastal villages never re-established; a 1952 photograph shows the Russian Orthodox church and cemetery still standing at Kaguyak-Douglas, a nave above an emptied coast."]},{"heading":"What the record admits not knowing","paragraphs":["The eruption scattered the Katmai-coast people into a dozen survival stories — resettlement at Perryville for Katmai villagers, New Savonoski for the river communities. For Kaguyak the record is more shadow: it appears on the maps as a place with several names, a successor village of uncertain footing, and a graveyard photographed forty years after abandonment.","The file keeps that uncertainty as the point. Six years after the eruption, the entire district was folded into Katmai National Monument, making Kaguyak an archaeological landscape rather than a living one — a village whose location is a research question, filed without a paranormal claim of any kind."]}],"name":"Kaguyak village area","aliases":["Kaliak","Kayakak","Naushkak"],"type":"FORMER_VILLAGE","type_label":"Former Village","cats":["ABANDONED_SETTLEMENT","DISASTER_HISTORY"],"groups":["dark-history","ghost-towns"],"desc":"Historic Katmai-coast settlement area affected by the 1912 eruption.","full_desc":"Kaguyak village area is a former village in King Salmon, Alaska. Historic Katmai-coast settlement area affected by the 1912 eruption. The archive files it under abandoned settlements and disaster history. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.","address":null,"city":"King Salmon","county":null,"state":"Alaska","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":58.72572,"lon":-156.535989,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"NPS warns that Kaguyak and later Douglas/Ashivak had uncertain relative locations. Do not silently merge those settlements or assign exact coordinates.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":49.3,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.35,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":1,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"NPS identifies Kaguyak among coastal villages not re-established after 1912. Kaguyak village area's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Witness: Firsthand Accounts of the Largest Volcanic…'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Witness: Firsthand Accounts of the Largest Volcanic Eruption in the Twentieth Century","url":"https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-v11-i1-c9.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Witness: Firsthand Accounts of the Largest Volcanic Eruption in the Twentieth Century","url":"https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-v11-i1-c9.htm","publisher":"National Park Service","type":"GOVERNMENT","authority":1}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}