NEW SAVONOSKI
Former Village — Naknek, Alaska
Status: Historic site · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/new-savonoski-alaska/

Later Savonoski community on the lower Naknek River.

New Savonoski is a former village in Naknek, Alaska. Later Savonoski community on the lower Naknek River. HauntHunt files it with abandoned settlements. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — the record is history-forward, no paranormal claims on file. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.

New Savonoski was born of the eruption, not killed by it. When Novarupta buried the Katmai region in June 1912, the people of Old Savonoski in the Savonoski River drainage fled by bidarka to the Naknek coast; most resettled on the lower Naknek River at the site that took the name New Savonoski. Oral history records two families — by Pelegia Melgenak's account — lingering at the old village a full year before joining the move.
The new village rebuilt its religious life deliberately: a chapel raised at New Savonoski was dedicated to Our Lady of Kazan, exactly as its predecessor had been at Old Savonoski — the name carried downriver along with the people.

ABANDONED FOR A LIVING TOWN
New Savonoski is the rare ghost site that emptied toward opportunity rather than away from it: the community later relocated five miles downriver to South Naknek, at the river's mouth, which remains an inhabited village. The file is careful about the taxonomy — New Savonoski is a distinct settlement from Old Savonoski, and its closure year and precise footprint are not established.
What the record preserves is the chain: eruption, flight, one warm ash-blanketed year at the old site, a riverbank village with a re-dedicated chapel, and a final move that left New Savonoski to the grass while its people kept living five miles away. No paranormal claim attaches.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Former Old Savonoski residents resettled here; the community was later left for nearby South Naknek. New Savonoski'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. 'Witness: Firsthand Accounts of the Largest Volcanic…' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· 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

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