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The valley where prospectors lost their heads

Deep within Canada’s Nahanni wilderness lies one of the most mysterious places in North American folklore. Known as the “Valley of Headless Men,” the region gained its name after multiple prospectors ...
The legends told about the Northwest’s Nahanni (Headless) Valley (TIME, Jan. 20) stirred up so much interest that the Vancouver Sun sent out its own explorers for a first-hand look. By last week the ...
Award-winning documentarian and Buffalo native Austin Hoyt has released The Haunting Nahanni, a memoir tracing a 1959 wilderness expedition on the South Nahanni River in Canada’s Northwest Territories ...