Angjuni Lake: The Village That Went Missing!

In 1930, an Inuit village in Canada went missing all at once. The mystery continues to this day.

Fur trappers came across the village and found empty huts with fires still burning in the hearths, food uneaten, and sled dogs frozen in place. 

Even more chilling is a report that the graves had all been dug up. 

The legends lives on, although there apparently is no real evidence. It is a chilling story that would make a great opening to a movie.

There are tons of abandoned sites around the world. I lived in Phoenix upon what was once a missing tribe's crematory. There was no evidence today of the HoHoKam's muertes village, but I did plant a tree once and about 3-4 feet down, ran into hardened ancient charcoal. 

Other villages that became abandoned around the world - 

Centralia, PA: After underground coal fire in the early 1960s, the town eventually evacuated from the smokes of a fire that may never stop burning.

Hashima Island, Japan: This island just off shore was an undersea coal processing location for decades. Eventually, it closed down and folks left the island sitting like a carcass in the sea.

Pripyat: With the Chernobyl debaucle in 1986, over 49,000 citizens of this town were emergently removed forever. 

Montezuma's Castle, Arizona: Nestled in a limestone cliff and built by an ancient pueblo people, the structure remains, as does its mystery. Why did they build there? Where did they go? 

Adak Island, Alaska: It was an ideal Cold War Era location and utilized for military supplies. It closed in 1997, having served its purpose. The military withdrew and the buildings crumble.

There are hundreds of such locations that either have natural disasters, industries that die, wars that end, or indigenous people that move on, lose water or resources.