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Bitter Rock, Alaska, 1897. “The photograph owner claims it was taken by a Russian sailor prior to his disappearance. It appears to be the being known as “the six-wing” and matches descriptions of reported sightings prior to the mass disappearances of 1943, 1973 and 2003.”

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“In the summer of 1943 the commanding officer stationed on Bitter Rock left the island and was gone for two days. When he returned, the base was deserted. […] “Only one image was recovered. It appears to show a man with growths (barnacles?) on his face and extremities.”

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Extract from a textbook: “Figure 13: The red-throated tern, endemic to Bitter Rock, displays an abnormally high degree of mutation. Most such mutations are fatal, but these two specimens, photographed in 1982, have survived into adulthood.”

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These pictures were done as a commission for the book Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall:

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_{Images: National Archives, National Park Service, Pixabay, Unsplash}

_{© Eduardo Valdés-Hevia and Kate Alice Marshall}