KATMAI VILLAGE
Former Village — King Salmon, Alaska
Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/katmai-village-alaska/

Alutiiq village abandoned during the 1912 eruption crisis.

Katmai Village is a former village in King Salmon, Alaska. Alutiiq village abandoned during the 1912 eruption crisis. It sits in the archive under abandoned settlements, disaster history and dark history. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. The site is open to visitors. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.

Katmai is the week — the 'earthquakes' that's the unusually frequent, the 'two families' that's the wise enough to leave. The 'June 6' is the noon — the '1912' that's the century's biggest eruption, the '60 hours' that's the sun disappeared. The 'Novarupta' is the vent — the 'Katmai' that's the took the name, the 'ash' that's the buried the village.
The 'four villages' is the emptied — the 'Savonoski, Kaguyak, Katmai, Kukak' that's the all fled, the 'no deaths' that's the miraculous. The '1916 flood' is the finished — the 'what ash spared' that's the water took, the 'National Geographic' that's the seven expeditions. Katmai is the Pompeii — the 'cemetery crosses' that's the poked through ash, the 'never returned' that's the residents' permanent exile.
The file keeps Katmai: the earthquake warning, the 60-hour dark, the ash burial, and the 1916 flood.
Katmai Village is the archive's Alaska file — the evacuated Pompeii.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Katmai Village is the archive's Alaska file — the village that listened to earthquakes.
A site keeps its warning — the file's suggestion being that Katmai's hold is the timely: the 'unusual quakes' that's the read correctly, the 'century's largest' that's the vindicated the flight, and the 'ash' that's the preserved what was abandoned.

HISTORY — 2 documented facts
· Residents fled the Novarupta eruption; the village was not re-established. Descendants retain connections to this homeland. Katmai Village's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Witness: Firsthand Accounts of the Largest Volcanic…' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.
· [1912-06-06–1912-06-08] The June 1912 Novarupta eruption buried Katmai-coast villages in ash; residents were permanently relocated. The documented date is 1912-06-06–1912-06-08. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The record appears in 'Katmai National Park'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 3 cited
· History of Katmai — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/katm/learn/historyculture/history.htm
· Witness: Firsthand Accounts of the Largest Volcanic Eruption in the Twentieth Century — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-v11-i1-c9.htm
· Katmai National Park — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/katm

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