SOMETHING TOOK THEM

A True Documented Terror - The Nome, Alaska Missing Persons Mystery: The Case That Inspired the Film The Fourth Kind

By: Ted Lazaris

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Editorial Review

A relentless, chilling thriller that grips from the first page and refuses to let go.
In SOMETHING TOOK THEM, Ted Lazaris delivers one of his most haunting Documented Terror entries yet — a story grounded in realism, driven by escalating dread, and anchored by an unforgettable final image that lingers long after the last page.
This is prestige horror at its finest — controlled, believable, and deeply unsettling.


SOMETHING TOOK THEM
A True Documented Terror — The Nome, Alaska Missing Persons Mystery
The Case That Inspired the Film The Fourth Kind
The storm passed.
The town survived.
They did not.

In the remote town of Nome, Alaska, people began to disappear.
Not once.
Not twice.
But again and again.
Men walked into the winter night and never returned.
Search teams followed footprints across the snow—until the tracks simply stopped.
No bodies.
No signs of struggle.
No explanation.
Authorities blamed the cold.
Exposure.
Alcohol.
Bad decisions in brutal weather.
But the families knew something was wrong.
Residents reported waking in the dark, unable to move.
Others described shadows outside their homes, watching from the tree line.
A few claimed they heard voices calling their names in the middle of the night—voices that did not belong to anyone they knew.
Investigators searched the tundra.
Helicopters scanned the frozen ground.
Police filed reports.
Still, people kept vanishing.
What happened in Nome was never fully explained.
Some cases were closed.
Others were forgotten.

A few were left unresolved—buried beneath snow, silence, and official conclusions that never satisfied the ones left behind.
This is the real story behind the disappearances that inspired the film The Fourth Kind—
a chilling account of isolation, fear, and the terrifying moment when a search ends without answers.
Because in Nome, Alaska, the cold is not the only thing waiting in the dark.
And sometimes, when the storm clears, someone is missing.