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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,901 --> 00:00:04,168 Alaska, a vast remote wilderness 2 00:00:04,171 --> 00:00:06,105 twice the size of Texas... 3 00:00:06,107 --> 00:00:09,507 You could walk for a year without seeing another person. 4 00:00:09,509 --> 00:00:13,144 ...in one of the most mysterious corners of the globe. 5 00:00:13,147 --> 00:00:16,614 Everything in your being is telling you to get the hell out of there. 6 00:00:16,617 --> 00:00:19,150 This is a place hundreds of times more deadly 7 00:00:19,152 --> 00:00:20,786 than the Bermuda Triangle. 8 00:00:20,788 --> 00:00:23,288 My God! 9 00:00:23,289 --> 00:00:25,623 Stories of alien abductions... 10 00:00:25,626 --> 00:00:28,059 That was definitely something not from this world. 11 00:00:28,062 --> 00:00:30,062 ...the paranormal, vanishing airplanes 12 00:00:30,064 --> 00:00:31,896 and strange beasts... 13 00:00:31,899 --> 00:00:34,832 Bigfoot could be anywhere in Alaska, hiding out. 14 00:00:34,835 --> 00:00:37,235 ...have haunted those who dare set foot here. 15 00:00:37,237 --> 00:00:38,970 What was that? 16 00:00:38,972 --> 00:00:41,173 Now I feel like something's after me. 17 00:00:43,643 --> 00:00:45,109 In the last 30 years, 18 00:00:45,112 --> 00:00:49,148 16,000 people have disappeared without a trace. 19 00:00:49,149 --> 00:00:50,816 In the vastness of this country, 20 00:00:50,817 --> 00:00:53,051 it's easy to be swallowed up in it. 21 00:00:53,887 --> 00:00:56,889 Witnesses tell us their shocking stories... 22 00:00:56,890 --> 00:00:58,156 - I was horrified. - ...and we've gathered 23 00:00:58,158 --> 00:01:01,225 some of the world's leading experts in their field... 24 00:01:01,228 --> 00:01:03,728 I wanted to go out and get the evidence myself 25 00:01:03,731 --> 00:01:07,331 and say, "This is real. This stuff exists." 26 00:01:07,334 --> 00:01:09,968 ...to try and unlock the mystery 27 00:01:10,302 --> 00:01:12,004 of The Alaska Triangle. 28 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,216 Alaska is a land where the line between fact and legend 29 00:01:25,218 --> 00:01:26,617 is far from clear. 30 00:01:27,954 --> 00:01:30,588 It's alive with stories of strange creatures 31 00:01:30,591 --> 00:01:32,924 and mysterious beasts. 32 00:01:32,926 --> 00:01:36,260 A giant pre-historic bird known as the Thunderbird 33 00:01:36,263 --> 00:01:38,329 is said to rule the skies. 34 00:01:39,834 --> 00:01:42,366 Shapeshifters, such as the Kushtaka 35 00:01:42,368 --> 00:01:44,969 and the evil Windigo spread terror. 36 00:01:44,972 --> 00:01:47,605 And Bigfoot is rumored to have made his home 37 00:01:47,608 --> 00:01:49,073 in the thick forests. 38 00:01:50,143 --> 00:01:53,177 It seems to be a breeding ground for the paranormal. 39 00:01:54,514 --> 00:01:57,348 But some of the strangest sightings have been out at sea. 40 00:02:01,322 --> 00:02:04,555 There's plenty of sea monster stories out there. 41 00:02:04,557 --> 00:02:06,992 People don't really quite know what's going on. 42 00:02:08,627 --> 00:02:11,195 It just had a really long neck and a really long tail. 43 00:02:11,198 --> 00:02:14,199 It was some type of dinosaur. 44 00:02:16,870 --> 00:02:18,871 And it's the waters around one island 45 00:02:18,872 --> 00:02:21,006 in the west of the Gulf of Alaska 46 00:02:21,008 --> 00:02:23,241 that hold the biggest mystery of all. 47 00:02:24,377 --> 00:02:25,943 Well, there's been a lot of stories 48 00:02:25,945 --> 00:02:28,146 from people around these parts. 49 00:02:28,149 --> 00:02:30,549 There's gotta be stuff out there that we don't know about yet. 50 00:02:31,617 --> 00:02:33,784 This is Kodiak Island, 51 00:02:33,787 --> 00:02:35,987 and there's a growing body of evidence 52 00:02:35,990 --> 00:02:40,125 that something terrifying really is lurking in the depths here. 53 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:50,002 The Gulf of Alaska is one of 54 00:02:50,003 --> 00:02:52,638 the most remote bodies of water on the planet. 55 00:02:54,039 --> 00:02:57,042 Its depths are almost totally unexplored. 56 00:02:57,743 --> 00:03:00,579 In fact, they're the ideal hiding place. 57 00:03:01,914 --> 00:03:03,814 It's really a perfect storm. 58 00:03:03,817 --> 00:03:07,218 A remote location with huge bodies of water, 59 00:03:07,221 --> 00:03:10,923 it's the ideal spot for species to go unnoticed 60 00:03:10,925 --> 00:03:12,623 for hundreds of years. 61 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,195 But it's the waters around the island of Kodiak 62 00:03:17,198 --> 00:03:19,198 that hold the deepest secret. 63 00:03:20,699 --> 00:03:23,901 It's the second largest island in the US. 64 00:03:23,903 --> 00:03:27,673 But even for Alaska, this place is isolated. 65 00:03:27,675 --> 00:03:30,308 It's mountainous and heavily forested 66 00:03:30,311 --> 00:03:33,645 and it's home to the biggest brown bear on the planet. 67 00:03:33,646 --> 00:03:36,615 The giant Kodiak bear. 68 00:03:36,616 --> 00:03:39,784 But it's also home to all manner of darks legends 69 00:03:39,787 --> 00:03:41,652 and paranormal occurrences. 70 00:03:43,055 --> 00:03:45,257 And it's the sea around the island 71 00:03:45,259 --> 00:03:47,225 that posses the greatest danger. 72 00:03:48,860 --> 00:03:51,862 Huge numbers die in the hazardous waters here, 73 00:03:51,865 --> 00:03:53,098 every year. 74 00:03:54,334 --> 00:03:56,835 And some extraordinary things have been seen. 75 00:03:59,038 --> 00:04:01,939 Surfer, Ryan Murdock, grew up on the island 76 00:04:01,942 --> 00:04:04,643 and has spent more time than most in the water. 77 00:04:05,979 --> 00:04:09,014 I've been surfing Kodiak for over 20 years now. 78 00:04:09,015 --> 00:04:12,050 I started when I was a teen in high school. 79 00:04:13,151 --> 00:04:15,721 It's a great place because you can really push yourself 80 00:04:15,723 --> 00:04:18,156 to explore what life has to offer 81 00:04:18,158 --> 00:04:20,459 without being part of the crowd. 82 00:04:22,862 --> 00:04:25,297 The fog and rain can drive some inside, 83 00:04:25,298 --> 00:04:27,899 but some of us, you know, we like to be outdoors 84 00:04:27,901 --> 00:04:29,401 and to challenge ourselves. 85 00:04:30,769 --> 00:04:32,903 One morning, early in 2020, 86 00:04:32,906 --> 00:04:35,340 Ryan was out surfing with his friends. 87 00:04:37,009 --> 00:04:39,711 They were enjoying the unusually large waves 88 00:04:39,713 --> 00:04:43,014 just off Narrow Cape on the east of the island. 89 00:04:45,084 --> 00:04:48,319 Ryan's never going to forget what he encountered that day. 90 00:04:50,790 --> 00:04:52,891 When we went surfing that day, 91 00:04:52,893 --> 00:04:55,226 it was kind of a gloomy day like this. 92 00:04:56,194 --> 00:04:57,129 I had caught a wave 93 00:04:57,163 --> 00:04:59,630 and I was paddling back out to my friends, 94 00:05:01,701 --> 00:05:06,071 and I noticed a big triangle emerge from the water. 95 00:05:08,641 --> 00:05:12,076 And it was approximately ten to 12 feet tall 96 00:05:12,079 --> 00:05:15,379 and probably about ten to 12 feet wide at the base, 97 00:05:15,382 --> 00:05:17,716 a blue or grayish color. 98 00:05:17,718 --> 00:05:19,617 It was bigger than any whale fin 99 00:05:19,620 --> 00:05:23,055 or anything that I had seen surfing before. 100 00:05:25,024 --> 00:05:27,259 I exclaimed to my friends, "Look behind you!", 101 00:05:27,261 --> 00:05:29,261 and they turned around and they saw this thing 102 00:05:29,262 --> 00:05:31,196 looming behind them, 103 00:05:31,197 --> 00:05:35,334 and, maybe five seconds, ten seconds passed 104 00:05:35,336 --> 00:05:39,204 and the thing dipped back into the water, you know, 105 00:05:39,206 --> 00:05:41,206 with a motion that I wouldn't attribute 106 00:05:41,207 --> 00:05:43,408 to a whale or a sea mammal. 107 00:05:45,677 --> 00:05:48,680 This was something that raised the alarms high enough 108 00:05:48,682 --> 00:05:51,516 that, "Okay, we're getting out of here as quick as possible." 109 00:05:54,019 --> 00:05:56,321 This was no inanimate object. 110 00:05:56,322 --> 00:05:58,590 This was some giant sea creature 111 00:05:58,591 --> 00:06:02,259 totally unknown to these experienced surfers. 112 00:06:02,262 --> 00:06:04,963 I've been in close encounters with sea lions, 113 00:06:04,964 --> 00:06:08,934 and whales and any type of sea mammal you could name, 114 00:06:08,935 --> 00:06:13,137 but, I'd never seen anything like that before. 115 00:06:15,708 --> 00:06:16,975 But this wasn't the first time 116 00:06:16,976 --> 00:06:19,411 a mysterious sea creature has been reported 117 00:06:19,413 --> 00:06:21,346 in the waters of Kodiak Island. 118 00:06:21,848 --> 00:06:22,980 Far from it. 119 00:06:24,417 --> 00:06:26,685 In Kodiak town, are the offices 120 00:06:26,687 --> 00:06:29,553 of the local newspaper The Kodiak Daily Mirror. 121 00:06:31,324 --> 00:06:33,858 And now, the paper has a new publisher, 122 00:06:33,860 --> 00:06:35,259 Kevin Bumgarner. 123 00:06:35,927 --> 00:06:38,196 Kevin's recently moved up from Florida, 124 00:06:38,197 --> 00:06:41,399 and is keen to get to the bottom of what's going on. 125 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:44,702 Alaska does have more coastline 126 00:06:44,704 --> 00:06:49,007 than all the other states in the United States put together, 127 00:06:49,009 --> 00:06:52,244 and I think that creates the possibility 128 00:06:52,245 --> 00:06:55,012 to see things out of the norm. 129 00:06:55,915 --> 00:06:56,947 According to Kevin, 130 00:06:56,949 --> 00:06:58,350 the local people are convinced 131 00:06:58,351 --> 00:07:02,187 that there's a strange creature lurking in the depths. 132 00:07:02,189 --> 00:07:05,956 When the people of Kodiak talk about this, 133 00:07:05,959 --> 00:07:07,192 um, they're very serious. 134 00:07:07,194 --> 00:07:10,327 When people here tell me they've seen something, 135 00:07:10,329 --> 00:07:11,329 they've seen something. 136 00:07:11,331 --> 00:07:13,197 I don't think they're making that up, 137 00:07:13,199 --> 00:07:15,466 I don't think they're hallucinating. 138 00:07:16,636 --> 00:07:18,269 There is a lot of belief 139 00:07:18,271 --> 00:07:20,605 that there is something else out there. 140 00:07:22,774 --> 00:07:24,175 Recent sightings have led to Kevin 141 00:07:24,177 --> 00:07:26,177 looking deeper into the story. 142 00:07:28,247 --> 00:07:30,615 He's been reviewing past editions of the paper 143 00:07:30,617 --> 00:07:32,216 down in their archive, 144 00:07:32,218 --> 00:07:34,386 and he's astonished at what he's found. 145 00:07:35,254 --> 00:07:38,023 Reports of the monster go way back, 146 00:07:38,024 --> 00:07:40,292 and there's some pretty convincing evidence. 147 00:07:41,226 --> 00:07:45,831 Well, here is our 1969 edition 148 00:07:45,832 --> 00:07:49,634 where the sea monster was first reported. 149 00:07:50,636 --> 00:07:55,841 We actually got a sonar image of a sea monster. 150 00:07:55,843 --> 00:07:59,144 The sonar image was recorded from a fishing boat 151 00:07:59,146 --> 00:08:01,779 and it appears to show a dinosaur-like creature 152 00:08:01,781 --> 00:08:03,247 walking or swimming 153 00:08:03,250 --> 00:08:07,952 along the undulating seabed, 330 feet down. 154 00:08:07,954 --> 00:08:13,225 Visual proof here that something is or was in the waters off Kodiak. 155 00:08:14,759 --> 00:08:16,261 Evidence is now mounting, 156 00:08:16,262 --> 00:08:19,497 that this mysterious legend from The Alaska Triangle 157 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:21,098 is based on reality. 158 00:08:22,334 --> 00:08:25,437 And whatever monstrous creature is lurking in the deep, 159 00:08:26,004 --> 00:08:27,605 Kevin wants to find it. 160 00:08:27,608 --> 00:08:28,540 Do you see that? 161 00:08:29,141 --> 00:08:30,175 Keep watching. 162 00:08:45,857 --> 00:08:48,559 Alaska is known as the last frontier, 163 00:08:49,528 --> 00:08:50,861 but it's the surrounding waters 164 00:08:50,864 --> 00:08:53,197 that hold some of the biggest mysteries. 165 00:08:54,299 --> 00:08:57,335 And on the Island of Kodiak in the Gulf of Alaska, 166 00:08:58,403 --> 00:09:01,005 stories of a living sea monster 167 00:09:01,008 --> 00:09:03,073 are more than just talk. 168 00:09:03,076 --> 00:09:05,910 Visual proof here that something 169 00:09:05,913 --> 00:09:08,346 is or was in the waters off Kodiak. 170 00:09:09,447 --> 00:09:11,982 But it's not just Kodiak. 171 00:09:11,985 --> 00:09:14,818 There's strong evidence that strange sea creatures 172 00:09:14,821 --> 00:09:18,056 have been seen all along the southern coast of Alaska. 173 00:09:19,591 --> 00:09:22,027 In fact, age-old images of them 174 00:09:22,028 --> 00:09:25,062 can be found carved into rocks along the seashore. 175 00:09:26,831 --> 00:09:28,899 Cryptozoologist, Lance Hightower, 176 00:09:28,902 --> 00:09:31,101 has made a study of these rock carvings, 177 00:09:31,104 --> 00:09:33,337 also known as petroglyphs. 178 00:09:34,407 --> 00:09:36,173 Some of these petroglyphs in Alaska 179 00:09:36,176 --> 00:09:39,009 are hundreds, if not thousands, of years old 180 00:09:39,011 --> 00:09:40,711 and they depict drawings 181 00:09:40,713 --> 00:09:43,815 of some of these sea creatures. 182 00:09:43,817 --> 00:09:47,184 Is it possible that these creatures were seen 183 00:09:47,187 --> 00:09:49,086 by people of long ago? 184 00:09:49,889 --> 00:09:51,722 I think so. 185 00:09:51,725 --> 00:09:55,059 You have many local people around these shorelines 186 00:09:55,062 --> 00:09:58,263 seeing something and being horrified and terrified. 187 00:09:58,264 --> 00:10:01,166 So on that account, I do believe that the oceans 188 00:10:01,168 --> 00:10:03,134 hide secrets of these creatures. 189 00:10:05,904 --> 00:10:07,272 For the native communities, 190 00:10:07,373 --> 00:10:10,575 these images don't just represent historical sightings. 191 00:10:12,979 --> 00:10:15,346 Ancient carvings serve as warnings, 192 00:10:15,349 --> 00:10:16,815 having practical use 193 00:10:16,817 --> 00:10:19,918 and are in fact, a rich source of knowledge. 194 00:10:19,919 --> 00:10:22,052 For them, what sounds like legends 195 00:10:22,054 --> 00:10:24,121 are, in fact, real. 196 00:10:25,957 --> 00:10:29,961 This is something author and historian, Andrew Gough, has looked into. 197 00:10:31,062 --> 00:10:34,164 Native traditions are far more accurate 198 00:10:34,167 --> 00:10:36,000 than we give them credit for. 199 00:10:36,003 --> 00:10:39,004 They have no reason to embellish what they've seen. 200 00:10:41,006 --> 00:10:43,307 I think we need to look at what they're telling us 201 00:10:43,309 --> 00:10:47,077 and think twice about it being some fantastical story. 202 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,248 It's probably closer to the truth than we realize. 203 00:10:51,049 --> 00:10:52,584 One of the native stories 204 00:10:52,586 --> 00:10:57,121 tells of a vicious, pointy-nose sea creature called the Gunakadeit. 205 00:10:59,258 --> 00:11:02,860 And in 2020, scientists came across this fossil 206 00:11:02,863 --> 00:11:05,296 on an island off the southeastern coast. 207 00:11:06,264 --> 00:11:09,634 It's an animal previously unknown to science, 208 00:11:09,635 --> 00:11:13,270 with an uncanny resemblance to the native sea monster. 209 00:11:16,107 --> 00:11:19,177 John Moran is a marine biologist from Juneau. 210 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,213 It's a marine reptile 211 00:11:23,216 --> 00:11:27,951 with a pointy-type snout, 200 million years old. 212 00:11:27,953 --> 00:11:29,254 It's a pretty complete specimen, 213 00:11:29,255 --> 00:11:32,023 I think it's almost intact and articulated, 214 00:11:32,024 --> 00:11:33,591 except for maybe a little bit of the tail. 215 00:11:34,159 --> 00:11:35,726 It's a... 216 00:11:35,729 --> 00:11:37,294 Technically, a sea monster, I guess. 217 00:11:39,764 --> 00:11:41,298 The newly discovered fossil 218 00:11:41,301 --> 00:11:42,834 could be a sign that there's truth 219 00:11:42,836 --> 00:11:45,003 behind the Gunakadeit stories. 220 00:11:46,772 --> 00:11:48,940 The Gunakadeit fossil is very interesting, 221 00:11:48,942 --> 00:11:52,043 because we have very deep oceans, 222 00:11:52,044 --> 00:11:54,011 very mysterious unexplored areas 223 00:11:54,014 --> 00:11:57,948 in which creatures like this could still be living. 224 00:11:57,951 --> 00:12:00,851 And if this creature has survived in the modern times, 225 00:12:00,854 --> 00:12:05,155 then perhaps other, even larger creatures have, too. 226 00:12:05,158 --> 00:12:09,027 Strange water creatures are common in global folklore, 227 00:12:09,028 --> 00:12:12,029 and the natural reaction is to call them monsters, 228 00:12:12,032 --> 00:12:13,798 and you can understand that. 229 00:12:13,799 --> 00:12:16,033 But really, they're just new species, 230 00:12:16,036 --> 00:12:17,601 and they probably have been here 231 00:12:17,604 --> 00:12:19,104 even longer than we have. 232 00:12:21,875 --> 00:12:25,176 An entirely unknown species of large sea creatures 233 00:12:25,177 --> 00:12:28,546 are still being discovered in the seas of Alaska. 234 00:12:30,216 --> 00:12:33,817 They recently discovered a new species of beaked whale, 235 00:12:33,820 --> 00:12:37,121 the black beaked whale, just within the last few years, 236 00:12:37,124 --> 00:12:38,423 new to science, 237 00:12:38,424 --> 00:12:39,957 a 20-something-foot animal 238 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,993 that we didn't really know was there. 239 00:12:43,261 --> 00:12:45,596 An entirely new species of whale 240 00:12:45,599 --> 00:12:48,633 discovered in Alaska, 24-feet long. 241 00:12:50,001 --> 00:12:52,636 If you can have a 20-something-foot animal 242 00:12:52,639 --> 00:12:54,038 just show up, that you didn't know was there, 243 00:12:54,039 --> 00:12:55,807 that's pretty amazing. 244 00:12:55,808 --> 00:12:57,709 There could be all kinds of creatures living in the deep ocean 245 00:12:57,711 --> 00:12:59,376 that, you know, how would you ever see them? 246 00:12:59,379 --> 00:13:02,980 If they die and sink, you'd never know they were out there. 247 00:13:02,982 --> 00:13:06,150 And in the past, even bigger, mysterious carcasses 248 00:13:06,153 --> 00:13:08,352 have washed up in the Gulf of Alaska. 249 00:13:11,657 --> 00:13:14,591 In 1956, near Yakutat, 250 00:13:14,594 --> 00:13:17,629 a massive 100-foot long carcass was found. 251 00:13:18,697 --> 00:13:21,365 Scientists who studied it were mystified. 252 00:13:23,434 --> 00:13:26,971 And in 1930, on an island near Valdez, 253 00:13:26,972 --> 00:13:30,774 a huge mysterious skeleton was found in the ice, 254 00:13:30,777 --> 00:13:33,577 nearly 30-feet long, with flippers. 255 00:13:36,981 --> 00:13:39,283 Both of these historic finds have similarities 256 00:13:39,286 --> 00:13:41,686 to the creature caught on the sonar image 257 00:13:41,687 --> 00:13:44,221 in the archives of The Kodiak Daily Mirror. 258 00:13:46,258 --> 00:13:48,725 And we've sent this image to Lance Hightower 259 00:13:48,727 --> 00:13:50,294 to see what he makes of it. 260 00:13:52,130 --> 00:13:54,665 Well, on first appearance, it's fascinating, 261 00:13:54,668 --> 00:13:58,802 because just on looking at it immediately, 262 00:13:58,804 --> 00:14:02,206 it obviously looks like a prehistoric dinosaur 263 00:14:02,208 --> 00:14:04,908 and it's resting on the bottom of the seabed. 264 00:14:04,910 --> 00:14:07,278 Now what we see is elongated, 265 00:14:07,279 --> 00:14:11,615 what gives the appearance of a neck with a head. 266 00:14:11,618 --> 00:14:13,116 The neck appears to be 267 00:14:13,119 --> 00:14:16,086 at least two-thirds of the body length. 268 00:14:16,088 --> 00:14:19,224 We have a tail that is roughly about half the size 269 00:14:19,225 --> 00:14:21,292 of the entire body length. 270 00:14:21,293 --> 00:14:23,727 And then we have on the ventral aspect 271 00:14:23,730 --> 00:14:26,163 or the underside of this creature, 272 00:14:26,166 --> 00:14:29,567 some appendages which appear to be like fins. 273 00:14:30,635 --> 00:14:32,636 The elongated body, the neck... 274 00:14:33,272 --> 00:14:34,605 This could be a plesiosaur. 275 00:14:36,808 --> 00:14:38,610 This would be extraordinary. 276 00:14:40,879 --> 00:14:43,881 Plesiosaurs are a kind of aquatic dinosaur, 277 00:14:43,884 --> 00:14:47,451 thought to have become extinct over 60 million years ago. 278 00:14:49,955 --> 00:14:51,822 And now, some remarkable new evidence 279 00:14:51,825 --> 00:14:52,956 has come to light, 280 00:14:52,959 --> 00:14:55,860 that suggests that off the coast of Alaska, 281 00:14:55,861 --> 00:14:58,462 plesiosaurs are alive and well. 282 00:15:02,802 --> 00:15:05,370 And it had a really long neck and a really long tail. 283 00:15:06,171 --> 00:15:08,605 It was some type of dinosaur. 284 00:15:24,322 --> 00:15:26,291 Sea monster legends have been with us 285 00:15:26,293 --> 00:15:28,158 since time immemorial. 286 00:15:30,095 --> 00:15:33,030 But some legends have proven to be true, 287 00:15:33,899 --> 00:15:36,600 including that of a giant sea serpent. 288 00:15:38,736 --> 00:15:41,205 For hundreds, and even thousands of years, 289 00:15:41,206 --> 00:15:44,509 there has been legends of sea serpents, 290 00:15:44,510 --> 00:15:48,679 horrific snake-like creatures terrifying sailors. 291 00:15:48,682 --> 00:15:50,114 But now we understand 292 00:15:50,115 --> 00:15:53,384 they're most likely talking about the oarfish, 293 00:15:54,052 --> 00:15:57,187 this huge, snake-like creature in the water 294 00:15:57,190 --> 00:16:00,325 that grows to over 30 feet in length. 295 00:16:00,326 --> 00:16:03,094 This tells us that legends 296 00:16:03,096 --> 00:16:06,129 are often times based in reality. 297 00:16:07,832 --> 00:16:09,701 Around the Gulf of Alaska, 298 00:16:09,702 --> 00:16:12,602 sea monster legends are a part of everyday life. 299 00:16:15,106 --> 00:16:18,743 On its east coast, across from Kodiak 300 00:16:18,745 --> 00:16:21,078 lies the small community of Haines. 301 00:16:24,015 --> 00:16:28,186 Here, Sonny Williams is a third-generation fisherman, 302 00:16:28,187 --> 00:16:31,822 and his story takes the search for an Alaskan sea monster 303 00:16:31,825 --> 00:16:33,390 to a whole new level. 304 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:38,261 I've spent 50 years of my life on the water, 305 00:16:38,264 --> 00:16:40,465 just more or less lived on the water. 306 00:16:42,033 --> 00:16:44,201 Having spent so much time at sea, 307 00:16:44,203 --> 00:16:47,904 Sonny ventures to places others dare not go. 308 00:16:47,907 --> 00:16:50,307 And one morning in the early 2000's, 309 00:16:50,309 --> 00:16:54,245 he found himself over 100 miles down the coast. 310 00:16:54,246 --> 00:16:56,514 The place is called Salisbury Sound, 311 00:16:56,914 --> 00:17:00,150 and I was right there. 312 00:17:01,620 --> 00:17:05,155 Water flows out of there like you turned on the faucet or something. 313 00:17:06,424 --> 00:17:09,292 It's definitely very dangerous there. 314 00:17:12,196 --> 00:17:16,166 It was in Salisbury Sound that Sonny saw something on his sonar 315 00:17:16,169 --> 00:17:19,636 unlike anything he'd ever seen before. 316 00:17:19,638 --> 00:17:22,640 First I saw a whole bunch of salmon, 317 00:17:22,642 --> 00:17:28,378 and the next thing I saw was, like, a really big head 318 00:17:28,381 --> 00:17:31,949 that was swimming along, snapping up all the salmon. 319 00:17:32,817 --> 00:17:35,086 And it was amazing. 320 00:17:36,355 --> 00:17:39,824 I turned around and went back and looked at it again 321 00:17:39,826 --> 00:17:41,291 and it was still there. 322 00:17:43,095 --> 00:17:45,028 It was about 40 fathoms down. 323 00:17:45,897 --> 00:17:49,267 And I went over the second time 324 00:17:50,001 --> 00:17:51,501 and I saw the whole thing. 325 00:17:55,374 --> 00:17:58,108 Even though Sonny was viewing the animal on his sonar, 326 00:17:58,111 --> 00:18:00,845 just like in the sonar image from Kodiak, 327 00:18:00,846 --> 00:18:03,114 the outline was perfectly clear 328 00:18:03,115 --> 00:18:04,816 and he's still able to visualize 329 00:18:04,817 --> 00:18:06,317 the monstrous creature. 330 00:18:06,785 --> 00:18:08,019 It had fins, 331 00:18:08,020 --> 00:18:09,353 and it just had a really long neck 332 00:18:09,355 --> 00:18:10,988 and a really long tail. 333 00:18:11,457 --> 00:18:14,224 It was some type of dinosaur. 334 00:18:16,060 --> 00:18:17,862 It's like the dinosaur from the picture books. 335 00:18:17,864 --> 00:18:19,230 Exactly. 336 00:18:19,231 --> 00:18:24,234 And I was just like, "Wow, it's... It's... it's alive? 337 00:18:24,237 --> 00:18:27,838 All this time it's been out there?" 338 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,108 Even for a dinosaur, this animal was big. 339 00:18:31,943 --> 00:18:35,746 At the time, I was on a 40-foot boat 340 00:18:35,748 --> 00:18:39,549 and it was twice as long as my boat. 341 00:18:41,153 --> 00:18:43,221 What Sonny saw, sounds very similar 342 00:18:43,222 --> 00:18:45,756 to the Kodiak sea monster. 343 00:18:45,758 --> 00:18:48,826 It could be evidence that a dinosaur-like creature 344 00:18:48,827 --> 00:18:52,028 inhabits a wide stretch of the Alaskan coastline. 345 00:18:53,765 --> 00:18:56,099 And now, further evidence has come to light 346 00:18:56,102 --> 00:18:58,035 from a small group of tourists 347 00:18:58,037 --> 00:19:00,003 who were on a sightseeing cruise. 348 00:19:00,372 --> 00:19:01,972 They stopped at a glacier 349 00:19:01,974 --> 00:19:05,209 just to the east of Sonny's sighting. 350 00:19:05,211 --> 00:19:07,711 Here, they witnessed large chunks of ice 351 00:19:07,713 --> 00:19:09,046 collapse into the sea. 352 00:19:11,182 --> 00:19:14,618 Shortly after this, what appears in the tourist's video 353 00:19:14,621 --> 00:19:16,787 is a series of what look like humps 354 00:19:16,788 --> 00:19:18,155 emerging from the water, 355 00:19:18,157 --> 00:19:22,093 three in front, followed by four behind. 356 00:19:22,095 --> 00:19:27,030 It's as if some mysterious beast was woken from the depths. 357 00:19:27,032 --> 00:19:30,835 The tourists watching were convinced this was one creature 358 00:19:30,836 --> 00:19:33,637 with its vast body hidden beneath the surface. 359 00:19:38,844 --> 00:19:41,011 But an even more extraordinary video 360 00:19:41,013 --> 00:19:43,146 comes from fisherman from Nushagak Bay 361 00:19:43,148 --> 00:19:45,148 in the southwest of the triangle, 362 00:19:46,151 --> 00:19:49,153 just 125 miles to the west of Kodiak. 363 00:19:51,623 --> 00:19:54,724 It appears to show a huge serpent-like sea creature 364 00:19:54,727 --> 00:19:56,426 swimming just offshore. 365 00:19:58,329 --> 00:20:02,165 This creature looks too big, even for an oarfish. 366 00:20:02,167 --> 00:20:06,237 In fact, the humps resemble the head, body, and tail 367 00:20:06,239 --> 00:20:09,006 of a giant dinosaur-like creature. 368 00:20:10,741 --> 00:20:11,741 Whatever it was 369 00:20:11,743 --> 00:20:14,278 had those watching totally mystified. 370 00:20:15,646 --> 00:20:18,048 And these were men who know the sea 371 00:20:18,050 --> 00:20:21,051 and the creatures within it better than anyone. 372 00:20:26,625 --> 00:20:27,959 These multiple sightings 373 00:20:27,961 --> 00:20:29,594 could mean a living population 374 00:20:29,596 --> 00:20:31,596 of prehistoric sea monsters. 375 00:20:35,032 --> 00:20:38,169 Lance Hightower, for one, seems convinced. 376 00:20:39,037 --> 00:20:40,104 So the question arises, 377 00:20:40,105 --> 00:20:42,006 is it possible that one creature 378 00:20:42,008 --> 00:20:44,275 is being seen by numerous people? 379 00:20:44,277 --> 00:20:45,776 Or do we have a population 380 00:20:45,778 --> 00:20:47,944 of these plesiosaurus breeding? 381 00:20:47,947 --> 00:20:51,315 And my feeling and belief is that when you see one, 382 00:20:51,317 --> 00:20:53,049 there's others around. 383 00:20:53,051 --> 00:20:56,052 That is what makes this story very fascinating. 384 00:20:57,021 --> 00:20:58,923 But it's around Kodiak island 385 00:20:58,924 --> 00:21:01,525 that there've been the more sightings. 386 00:21:01,527 --> 00:21:05,296 And it's here, that local newspaper publisher, Kevin Bumgarner, 387 00:21:05,298 --> 00:21:09,099 - is going in search of the legendary Kodiak dinosaur. - How are you? 388 00:21:09,102 --> 00:21:12,169 I want to know what's going on. 389 00:21:12,171 --> 00:21:15,038 He's chartered a boat with its own sonar 390 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,608 to scour the depths for the monstrous beast. 391 00:21:18,611 --> 00:21:20,310 You know, it's like, exciting, 392 00:21:20,313 --> 00:21:22,346 but I'm just a little bit nervous. 393 00:21:36,094 --> 00:21:37,627 On Kodiak island, 394 00:21:37,630 --> 00:21:40,197 newspaper publisher, Kevin Bumgarner, 395 00:21:40,199 --> 00:21:43,000 is going in search of the legendary sea creature 396 00:21:43,001 --> 00:21:45,201 known as the Kodiak dinosaur. 397 00:21:45,971 --> 00:21:49,205 I want to know what's going on. 398 00:21:49,208 --> 00:21:51,275 You know, it's like, what's the sea going 399 00:21:51,277 --> 00:21:54,144 to allow us to see today? 400 00:21:54,146 --> 00:21:57,580 Um, you know, what happens if we do see something 401 00:21:57,583 --> 00:21:59,250 that's kind of out of the norm? 402 00:22:01,153 --> 00:22:03,621 Kevin has decided to journey to where he thinks 403 00:22:03,623 --> 00:22:05,623 he'll have the best chance of a sighting. 404 00:22:08,894 --> 00:22:10,760 He's heading for Narrow Cape, 405 00:22:10,762 --> 00:22:12,962 the location on the east of the island 406 00:22:12,964 --> 00:22:15,165 where surfer Ryan Murdock and his friends 407 00:22:15,167 --> 00:22:18,102 had their sighting of a monstrous sea creature. 408 00:22:21,605 --> 00:22:23,973 But the first stop is the harbor. 409 00:22:23,976 --> 00:22:25,809 To conduct this search properly, 410 00:22:25,811 --> 00:22:28,144 Kevin intends to go out to sea. 411 00:22:31,282 --> 00:22:35,185 He's arranged to meet local boat captain, Jeff Sandford. 412 00:22:35,188 --> 00:22:36,886 - Are you ready for this? - How you doing? 413 00:22:36,888 --> 00:22:38,622 I am doing well, how are you? 414 00:22:38,624 --> 00:22:40,191 Go out there and see what we can find. 415 00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:41,791 All right. Let's do it. 416 00:22:41,794 --> 00:22:44,795 Jeff had spent his whole life fishing. 417 00:22:44,797 --> 00:22:46,697 And he's been taking people out on these waters 418 00:22:46,699 --> 00:22:48,398 for nearly 20 years. 419 00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:54,605 Kodiak has a general proximity to extremely deep water. 420 00:22:55,339 --> 00:22:56,740 I wanna say... 421 00:22:56,742 --> 00:22:58,776 less than a hundred miles off the coast, 422 00:22:58,778 --> 00:23:02,113 it's goes down into the several thousand feet of water. 423 00:23:02,115 --> 00:23:05,915 Combine that with several hundred square miles 424 00:23:05,917 --> 00:23:09,920 of productive shallow water reefs. 425 00:23:09,922 --> 00:23:11,888 It's kind of a breeding ground 426 00:23:11,891 --> 00:23:14,191 for some kind of sea creature to be. 427 00:23:14,859 --> 00:23:17,361 Lots to eat, lots to do. 428 00:23:18,864 --> 00:23:21,030 All the marine life in these waters 429 00:23:21,032 --> 00:23:24,234 means the chances of unknown species are high. 430 00:23:24,836 --> 00:23:26,269 I'd say on a weekly basis, 431 00:23:26,271 --> 00:23:28,605 we pull up something out of charter fishing. 432 00:23:28,607 --> 00:23:30,207 I have no idea what it is. 433 00:23:30,209 --> 00:23:33,277 I have to take a picture and send it in to the office. 434 00:23:33,278 --> 00:23:34,612 I don't even know. 435 00:23:37,182 --> 00:23:40,049 It's a totally different perspective out on the water. 436 00:23:45,991 --> 00:23:48,159 For Jeff and Kevin, to see something on the surface 437 00:23:48,161 --> 00:23:49,426 is a long shot. 438 00:23:52,096 --> 00:23:53,963 Their best bet is picking something up 439 00:23:53,965 --> 00:23:56,032 on the boat's sonar. 440 00:23:56,035 --> 00:23:59,036 You know, what we really want to be able to do today 441 00:23:59,038 --> 00:24:01,638 is through scanning and sonar, 442 00:24:01,641 --> 00:24:05,942 see if there is anything out there. 443 00:24:05,944 --> 00:24:08,112 Yeah, we hope to be able to, you know, 444 00:24:08,114 --> 00:24:12,715 see what lies underneath. 445 00:24:12,718 --> 00:24:15,986 We've got that latest and greatest bottom sounding equipment, 446 00:24:16,821 --> 00:24:20,391 quite sensitive piece of machinery. 447 00:24:20,393 --> 00:24:25,028 It sends a signal down that bounces off of whatever's down below 448 00:24:25,030 --> 00:24:26,997 as it sends it back up. 449 00:24:26,999 --> 00:24:30,166 This thing, paints a pretty picture for us. 450 00:24:31,403 --> 00:24:34,003 I've seen some things on here that made me wonder, 451 00:24:34,138 --> 00:24:36,105 "What is that?" 452 00:24:37,107 --> 00:24:40,243 Here, the deep sea is unexplored, 453 00:24:40,246 --> 00:24:42,880 and these are dangerous waters. 454 00:24:42,882 --> 00:24:45,082 See the coast guard maneuvering over that boat? 455 00:24:45,383 --> 00:24:46,750 Yes. 456 00:24:46,751 --> 00:24:48,318 Doing a little rescue job there. 457 00:24:52,123 --> 00:24:53,624 They're relying on the sonar, 458 00:24:54,259 --> 00:24:56,393 but as they approach Narrow Cape, 459 00:24:56,394 --> 00:24:59,296 Jeff sees something straight ahead in the water. 460 00:25:00,298 --> 00:25:01,898 - See something? - Yeah. 461 00:25:01,901 --> 00:25:03,567 I just spotted something over here. 462 00:25:05,336 --> 00:25:08,105 Dead ahead, 100... 150 yards. 463 00:25:08,106 --> 00:25:09,272 You see that? 464 00:25:10,642 --> 00:25:13,042 I don't, but... 465 00:25:13,045 --> 00:25:14,244 Yeah, keep watching. 466 00:25:18,115 --> 00:25:21,085 I seen something pop up... 467 00:25:21,586 --> 00:25:23,686 and hasn't come back up. 468 00:25:23,689 --> 00:25:26,824 The animal has dived and hasn't resurfaced, 469 00:25:26,826 --> 00:25:29,492 but there's still the hope that the sonar will pick it up. 470 00:25:31,630 --> 00:25:34,230 Anywhere in this area right here. 471 00:25:38,169 --> 00:25:41,372 And there it is, something huge on the sonar. 472 00:25:43,008 --> 00:25:44,775 The shape is ill-defined, 473 00:25:44,777 --> 00:25:47,411 but this is a solid mass in the water. 474 00:25:50,048 --> 00:25:51,448 I have no idea what that is. 475 00:25:54,152 --> 00:25:58,255 Like, what am I running over that's solid and vertical? 476 00:25:58,257 --> 00:26:00,057 - Right. - I don't know. 477 00:26:01,226 --> 00:26:04,161 And does that vertical nature say, 478 00:26:04,163 --> 00:26:08,164 you know, long and skinny? What does that... 479 00:26:08,166 --> 00:26:10,534 I mean, is it something swimming straight up and down? 480 00:26:10,536 --> 00:26:11,935 I don't know. 481 00:26:12,770 --> 00:26:14,637 It's not bay fish, I know that. 482 00:26:17,275 --> 00:26:21,077 And how far down would it look to be based on that? 483 00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:25,082 Well, this is 30, 35 feet down, roughly. 484 00:26:26,917 --> 00:26:30,253 But it also is saying you know, it's somewhere... 485 00:26:30,256 --> 00:26:35,125 somewhere between 22 and 52 feet... It's 30 feet long. 486 00:26:35,126 --> 00:26:39,229 So 30 feet long in 30 feet of water 487 00:26:39,230 --> 00:26:42,031 - and we're 100 feet to the bottom. - Right. 488 00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:44,768 Thirty feet long, 489 00:26:44,903 --> 00:26:48,605 that's the length of the mystery skeleton that washed up at Valdez. 490 00:26:50,842 --> 00:26:53,009 It also happens to be the average length 491 00:26:53,011 --> 00:26:55,311 of a prehistoric plesiosaur. 492 00:26:56,780 --> 00:26:58,048 I don't know what it is. 493 00:26:58,049 --> 00:27:00,150 It doesn't look like anything you've ever seen. 494 00:27:01,118 --> 00:27:03,988 I just... can't explain it. 495 00:27:05,890 --> 00:27:08,192 And then, before they can do another pass, 496 00:27:08,193 --> 00:27:10,094 the creature disappears. 497 00:27:12,096 --> 00:27:14,263 They don't manage to pick it up again. 498 00:27:16,968 --> 00:27:19,603 Eventually, the pair head back into harbor. 499 00:27:20,904 --> 00:27:21,805 I don't know. 500 00:27:24,142 --> 00:27:26,242 It remains a mystery for yet another day. 501 00:27:27,244 --> 00:27:30,881 It was a tantalizing glimpse of the unknown, 502 00:27:30,883 --> 00:27:32,750 another experience that can be added 503 00:27:32,751 --> 00:27:33,884 to the body of evidence 504 00:27:33,885 --> 00:27:36,153 that there's something out there. 505 00:27:37,888 --> 00:27:41,224 And for Kevin, this is just the beginning of the search. 506 00:27:42,826 --> 00:27:45,996 There are things that did show up 507 00:27:45,998 --> 00:27:52,935 as we don't know what this is, and the expanse of the ocean being what it is, 508 00:27:52,938 --> 00:27:55,204 I think that there is something out there 509 00:27:55,207 --> 00:27:57,374 that we have not yet discovered. 510 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:03,012 There's lots of legends 511 00:28:03,015 --> 00:28:05,214 and they're based in something, you know. 512 00:28:05,217 --> 00:28:06,250 There's some fact behind them, 513 00:28:06,251 --> 00:28:08,618 some observation that somebody made. 514 00:28:08,621 --> 00:28:10,319 You know, a lot of times you can explain them away, 515 00:28:10,321 --> 00:28:12,021 but, you know, sometimes, 516 00:28:12,023 --> 00:28:13,423 you can't really figure it out. 517 00:28:13,425 --> 00:28:15,358 You know, there's... Weird things happen. 518 00:28:17,127 --> 00:28:19,195 I do think Alaska would be the perfect place 519 00:28:19,198 --> 00:28:22,833 to harbor these sea monsters or sea creatures. 520 00:28:22,835 --> 00:28:24,867 It makes sense that a creature like this 521 00:28:24,869 --> 00:28:27,136 could easily call this home. 522 00:28:29,074 --> 00:28:33,042 I don't think we presently have a grasp 523 00:28:33,045 --> 00:28:35,378 on what all is out there. 524 00:28:35,381 --> 00:28:38,115 Um, I think we think we know. 525 00:28:39,116 --> 00:28:40,651 But we don't know for sure. 526 00:28:42,086 --> 00:28:45,322 The mysteries of Alaska are as deep as the ocean, 527 00:28:45,324 --> 00:28:50,294 but the skies above have their own deadly secrets. 528 00:28:50,296 --> 00:28:52,663 It's not just people who go missing here, 529 00:28:52,664 --> 00:28:56,834 whole airplanes simply vanish as if into thin air. 530 00:28:56,836 --> 00:29:02,439 So it begs the question, what is going on inside The Alaska Triangle? 531 00:29:16,755 --> 00:29:19,923 The mysterious occurrences of The Alaska Triangle 532 00:29:19,924 --> 00:29:22,558 don't just happen on the ground and out at sea. 533 00:29:23,761 --> 00:29:26,730 Here, the phrase, "There's something in the air," 534 00:29:26,731 --> 00:29:28,932 takes on a whole new meaning. 535 00:29:28,933 --> 00:29:31,934 The skies of The Alaska Triangle are a dangerous place to be. 536 00:29:31,936 --> 00:29:34,771 There's about 100 plane crashes 537 00:29:34,773 --> 00:29:37,007 in the triangle every year. 538 00:29:37,009 --> 00:29:40,009 Something mysterious is clearly happening there. 539 00:29:41,412 --> 00:29:44,948 With so few roads, air transport is paramount 540 00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:47,017 for travel and supplies. 541 00:29:48,318 --> 00:29:51,989 Here, the bush pilot has almost legendary status. 542 00:29:51,990 --> 00:29:56,160 One reason is that crashing isn't the only danger. 543 00:29:56,162 --> 00:30:01,531 Since 1962, Alaska's had more than 9,000 plane crashes. 544 00:30:01,534 --> 00:30:02,932 Nine thousand. 545 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,969 And of course, some of those are due to weather and to rain, 546 00:30:05,971 --> 00:30:08,605 but there's much more to it than that. 547 00:30:08,606 --> 00:30:12,009 You know, planes that just disappear into thin air 548 00:30:12,010 --> 00:30:17,314 with no distress signals and no wreckage whatsoever. 549 00:30:17,316 --> 00:30:20,083 This is what makes The Alaska Triangle 550 00:30:20,085 --> 00:30:21,518 just so mystifying. 551 00:30:30,260 --> 00:30:31,894 In The Alaska Triangle, 552 00:30:31,896 --> 00:30:34,298 it's not just people disappearing. 553 00:30:36,901 --> 00:30:39,970 In the skies, planes suddenly vanish, 554 00:30:40,003 --> 00:30:42,005 and no one knows why. 555 00:30:43,607 --> 00:30:46,943 In fact, planes have been disappearing in The Alaska Triangle 556 00:30:46,945 --> 00:30:48,979 since the early days of flight, 557 00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:51,080 and mysterious forces have overcome 558 00:30:51,083 --> 00:30:53,482 even the most experienced pilots. 559 00:30:56,820 --> 00:31:00,590 One of the great aviation pioneers was Wiley Post. 560 00:31:02,026 --> 00:31:04,928 Now, journalist and researcher, Andrew Gough, 561 00:31:04,930 --> 00:31:07,096 has been looking into Wiley's early attempt 562 00:31:07,098 --> 00:31:10,334 at taking on the forces of The Alaska Triangle. 563 00:31:11,236 --> 00:31:16,272 In 1931, he circumnavigated the globe in eight days, 564 00:31:16,275 --> 00:31:20,042 destroying the previous world record. 565 00:31:20,045 --> 00:31:23,279 Two years later, he becomes the first person 566 00:31:23,281 --> 00:31:26,182 to fly solo around the world. 567 00:31:26,184 --> 00:31:29,051 This is a guy who experimented 568 00:31:29,054 --> 00:31:34,057 with high altitude flying and discovered the jet stream. 569 00:31:34,058 --> 00:31:39,563 I mean, his credentials are totally pristine. 570 00:31:39,565 --> 00:31:43,500 So why would he, of all people, 571 00:31:43,501 --> 00:31:47,104 have trouble navigating in The Alaska Triangle? 572 00:31:47,105 --> 00:31:52,108 Is it because this is where the paranormal comes alive? 573 00:31:53,877 --> 00:31:56,046 In August 1935, 574 00:31:56,048 --> 00:32:00,349 Wiley Post was on a flying trip around Alaska with his friend, 575 00:32:00,352 --> 00:32:04,320 the equally famous performer and comedian, Will Rogers. 576 00:32:05,123 --> 00:32:06,990 They headed off from Fairbanks 577 00:32:06,991 --> 00:32:10,227 and headed to Point Barrow on the northern tip 578 00:32:10,229 --> 00:32:12,395 of The Alaska Triangle. 579 00:32:12,397 --> 00:32:15,097 This 500-mile journey 580 00:32:15,099 --> 00:32:17,233 should've been pretty straightforward 581 00:32:17,236 --> 00:32:21,003 for an experienced pilot like Wiley Post. 582 00:32:22,773 --> 00:32:25,075 But just miles from their destination, 583 00:32:25,076 --> 00:32:27,778 they became strangely disorientated 584 00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:29,046 and lost their way. 585 00:32:30,981 --> 00:32:32,950 Bizarrely, their engine experienced 586 00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:36,118 sudden catastrophic failure. 587 00:32:36,121 --> 00:32:38,587 The plane took a nosedive into a lagoon, 588 00:32:38,589 --> 00:32:41,057 shearing off its right wing. 589 00:32:41,059 --> 00:32:43,527 Both men were dead instantly. 590 00:32:49,733 --> 00:32:52,102 Dan Hampton is a retired lieutenant colonel 591 00:32:52,104 --> 00:32:53,836 from the United States Air Force, 592 00:32:53,838 --> 00:32:56,138 and former combat pilot. 593 00:32:56,141 --> 00:32:57,807 He's been looking into the mystery 594 00:32:57,809 --> 00:33:00,242 of why air tragedies such as Wiley's 595 00:33:00,244 --> 00:33:03,313 are commonplace in The Alaska Triangle. 596 00:33:03,315 --> 00:33:05,281 One thing that leaps immediately to mind 597 00:33:05,284 --> 00:33:07,851 is electromagnetic interference. 598 00:33:07,853 --> 00:33:09,752 This is up near the pole. 599 00:33:09,755 --> 00:33:12,221 Things get screwy up there anyway. I've flown up there. 600 00:33:12,223 --> 00:33:16,960 I've had my magnetic-based backup instruments go crazy. 601 00:33:16,961 --> 00:33:19,663 If you're trying to navigate off of a magnetic compass, 602 00:33:19,664 --> 00:33:21,064 who knows where you're gonna end up. 603 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,134 But Wiley Post was experienced enough 604 00:33:24,135 --> 00:33:25,935 to cope with a wayward compass. 605 00:33:26,636 --> 00:33:28,605 And electromagnetic interference 606 00:33:28,606 --> 00:33:31,307 wouldn't account for the sudden engine failure. 607 00:33:31,309 --> 00:33:34,344 It does seem that there were other forces at work. 608 00:33:35,278 --> 00:33:36,712 What's behind this? 609 00:33:36,714 --> 00:33:40,282 It's one of Alaska's greatest aviation mysteries. 610 00:33:42,119 --> 00:33:45,489 The death of these two men hit the headlines nationwide. 611 00:33:47,759 --> 00:33:50,693 But bigger mysteries were to come, 612 00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:55,999 including planes more than twice the size of Wiley's, completely disappearing. 613 00:34:00,070 --> 00:34:03,406 Steve Levi is an author and historian from Anchorage, 614 00:34:03,409 --> 00:34:07,076 who's been researching the story of how in 1943, 615 00:34:07,078 --> 00:34:09,679 a newly-built Douglas C-48 616 00:34:09,681 --> 00:34:15,985 with a wingspan of nearly 100 feet, simply vanished, midair. 617 00:34:17,789 --> 00:34:20,956 When you start talking about missing planes in Alaska, 618 00:34:20,958 --> 00:34:23,460 a lot of people think we're talking about bush planes. 619 00:34:23,461 --> 00:34:25,228 This particular plane, you can see, 620 00:34:25,230 --> 00:34:26,963 if something like this goes down, 621 00:34:26,965 --> 00:34:29,231 they had have to been able to spot it. 622 00:34:29,233 --> 00:34:32,168 If it went down in a lake, if it went down in a forest 623 00:34:32,170 --> 00:34:34,204 there's still a large enough plane 624 00:34:34,206 --> 00:34:37,106 that it had to have been found, but it never was. 625 00:34:39,876 --> 00:34:43,380 In June 1943, a C-48 set off 626 00:34:43,382 --> 00:34:45,114 on the first leg of its journey 627 00:34:45,117 --> 00:34:48,184 from Fairbanks to Whitehorse in the Yukon. 628 00:34:50,721 --> 00:34:52,289 They left about 5:30 in the morning, 629 00:34:52,291 --> 00:34:54,356 they were going all the way to Whitehorse. 630 00:34:54,358 --> 00:34:56,226 And it's easy to get from here to Whitehorse 631 00:34:56,228 --> 00:34:57,626 because there's a roadway there, 632 00:34:57,628 --> 00:34:59,396 and they were gonna be following the road. 633 00:35:01,331 --> 00:35:03,934 The good visibility meant there was no problem 634 00:35:03,936 --> 00:35:05,367 following the roads. 635 00:35:06,603 --> 00:35:10,072 And the airplane had more than nine hours of fuel on board. 636 00:35:12,311 --> 00:35:13,543 For over an hour, 637 00:35:13,545 --> 00:35:16,213 they called in their position reports as required. 638 00:35:18,851 --> 00:35:19,916 And then... 639 00:35:19,918 --> 00:35:21,016 nothing. 640 00:35:26,125 --> 00:35:28,023 The plane simply vanished, 641 00:35:28,025 --> 00:35:29,992 never to be seen again. 642 00:35:29,994 --> 00:35:32,195 There wasn't even a distress call. 643 00:35:33,130 --> 00:35:36,599 What's really curious, is that other aircraft 644 00:35:36,601 --> 00:35:39,869 were flying the same route as the C-48 645 00:35:39,871 --> 00:35:41,838 on the very same day. 646 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,606 They reported nothing unusual. 647 00:35:45,376 --> 00:35:47,077 They searched for four weeks. 648 00:35:47,079 --> 00:35:49,913 We're talking about 500 man-hours 649 00:35:49,914 --> 00:35:51,248 looking for the plane, 650 00:35:51,250 --> 00:35:54,550 and the plane had to have gone down near the roadway. 651 00:35:56,286 --> 00:35:58,255 No wreckage or debris 652 00:35:58,257 --> 00:36:00,724 from the C-48 was ever found, 653 00:36:00,726 --> 00:36:02,125 which is very unusual. 654 00:36:02,126 --> 00:36:04,960 You'd expect from an aircraft that size 655 00:36:04,963 --> 00:36:08,465 there to be some tiny trace of it somewhere, 656 00:36:08,467 --> 00:36:09,599 but there was nothing. 657 00:36:10,134 --> 00:36:11,168 It's a complete mystery. 658 00:36:11,170 --> 00:36:14,436 We have no clue at all what happened to it. 659 00:36:15,639 --> 00:36:18,275 In 1950, another Douglas plane, 660 00:36:18,277 --> 00:36:22,179 this time even bigger and with 44 people on board, 661 00:36:22,181 --> 00:36:24,014 disappeared without a trace 662 00:36:24,016 --> 00:36:26,282 in a similar part of The Alaska Triangle. 663 00:36:27,985 --> 00:36:29,786 As with the C-48, 664 00:36:29,788 --> 00:36:32,322 it had the military completely baffled. 665 00:36:34,291 --> 00:36:36,126 It's as if these planes had been taken 666 00:36:36,128 --> 00:36:38,260 by some mysterious force. 667 00:36:39,262 --> 00:36:43,032 What if there was something otherworldly involved, 668 00:36:43,034 --> 00:36:45,768 some sort of evil force 669 00:36:45,771 --> 00:36:47,503 from within The Alaska Triangle? 670 00:36:49,706 --> 00:36:51,273 It's a shocking theory. 671 00:36:53,177 --> 00:36:55,177 And some now believe that the explanation 672 00:36:55,179 --> 00:36:57,079 could lie not in our skies, 673 00:36:59,016 --> 00:37:01,083 but somewhere far beyond. 674 00:37:15,498 --> 00:37:18,534 The Bermuda Triangle is famous worldwide. 675 00:37:19,869 --> 00:37:21,804 But more than twice as many airplanes 676 00:37:21,806 --> 00:37:23,606 have disappeared without a trace 677 00:37:23,608 --> 00:37:25,775 in The Alaska Triangle. 678 00:37:25,777 --> 00:37:28,077 Well, clearly, something very odd is going on. 679 00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:30,914 Surely, there's some kind of paranormal phenomenon 680 00:37:30,916 --> 00:37:33,250 that's making these aircraft disappear. 681 00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:36,920 One disturbing theory 682 00:37:36,922 --> 00:37:40,056 is that these planes are being taken by UFOs. 683 00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:45,161 The Alaska Triangle is a hotbed of UFO activity, 684 00:37:45,163 --> 00:37:47,197 and there's good evidence that these UFOs 685 00:37:47,199 --> 00:37:49,431 do have an interest in airplanes. 686 00:37:51,835 --> 00:37:56,072 In 1950, a US Navy pilot reported encountering a UFO 687 00:37:56,074 --> 00:37:57,974 in the skies over Kodiak. 688 00:37:59,143 --> 00:38:00,876 It was tracked on radar, 689 00:38:00,878 --> 00:38:03,713 and the navy chiefs issued a top secret report 690 00:38:03,715 --> 00:38:05,614 to the highest levels of government. 691 00:38:07,818 --> 00:38:11,588 A few months later, a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force 692 00:38:11,590 --> 00:38:13,789 filled a report of three UFOs 693 00:38:13,791 --> 00:38:16,626 hovering over Elmendorf Airbase in Anchorage. 694 00:38:19,262 --> 00:38:23,666 Then, in 1986, in the middle of The Alaska Triangle, 695 00:38:23,668 --> 00:38:26,101 the crew of a Japanese airline's flight 696 00:38:26,103 --> 00:38:29,972 watched in horror as two UFOs taunted their plane, 697 00:38:29,974 --> 00:38:32,608 before a huge mothership came into view. 698 00:38:37,014 --> 00:38:39,815 If UFOs are abducting whole planes, 699 00:38:39,818 --> 00:38:43,018 perhaps to investigate new human technology, 700 00:38:43,021 --> 00:38:45,855 then that would explain many of the unsolved cases 701 00:38:45,856 --> 00:38:47,623 of missing planes in Alaska. 702 00:38:52,063 --> 00:38:55,065 But the most famous instance of a disappearing aircraft 703 00:38:55,067 --> 00:38:56,565 in The Alaska Triangle 704 00:38:56,568 --> 00:38:59,101 involved an unremarkable bush plane. 705 00:39:01,072 --> 00:39:06,342 In 1972, a Cessna carrying leading politician Hale Boggs 706 00:39:06,344 --> 00:39:08,545 seemed to vanish into thin air. 707 00:39:10,447 --> 00:39:13,148 Hale Boggs was the House majority leader 708 00:39:13,150 --> 00:39:16,186 and a member of the infamous Warren Commission 709 00:39:16,188 --> 00:39:18,355 that looked into the assassination 710 00:39:18,356 --> 00:39:22,425 of JFK in November, 1963. 711 00:39:24,161 --> 00:39:27,329 Boggs set out on a journey across southern Alaska 712 00:39:27,331 --> 00:39:32,735 with Congressman Nick Begich, on October 16th, 1972, 713 00:39:32,737 --> 00:39:35,338 flown by a very experienced pilot. 714 00:39:38,309 --> 00:39:39,876 They took off from Anchorage 715 00:39:39,878 --> 00:39:41,177 and they were on their way to Juneau 716 00:39:41,179 --> 00:39:43,012 and they never arrived. 717 00:39:43,014 --> 00:39:44,614 The weather was good. 718 00:39:44,615 --> 00:39:47,317 There was no reason that they should've gone down. 719 00:39:47,318 --> 00:39:49,284 The plane just simply disappeared. 720 00:39:49,286 --> 00:39:52,222 And we're talking about just poof and gone. 721 00:39:54,791 --> 00:39:56,925 The United States Coast Guard, 722 00:39:56,927 --> 00:39:59,228 the Alaska State Troopers, 723 00:39:59,231 --> 00:40:01,965 and even the Air National Guard, 724 00:40:01,967 --> 00:40:04,199 all took part in the search, 725 00:40:04,202 --> 00:40:06,202 but they found nothing, 726 00:40:06,204 --> 00:40:09,105 despite it being a well-traveled air route 727 00:40:09,106 --> 00:40:11,474 and over an area of land 728 00:40:11,476 --> 00:40:14,210 that had a lot of ground activity. 729 00:40:15,980 --> 00:40:17,880 There was no wreckage found, 730 00:40:17,882 --> 00:40:19,916 there was no record of them landing, 731 00:40:19,918 --> 00:40:21,784 there was no crash site, nothing. 732 00:40:21,786 --> 00:40:23,119 They were just gone. 733 00:40:23,954 --> 00:40:25,054 They just disappeared. 734 00:40:27,056 --> 00:40:29,925 Indeed, no wreckage has ever been found 735 00:40:29,927 --> 00:40:32,061 all these years later, 736 00:40:32,063 --> 00:40:35,297 rendering the whole case strangely mysterious 737 00:40:35,300 --> 00:40:37,099 and then very sinister. 738 00:40:38,302 --> 00:40:40,335 How can it be that these planes 739 00:40:40,338 --> 00:40:41,503 just disappear? 740 00:40:42,306 --> 00:40:44,807 Maybe it's related to paranormal phenomenon 741 00:40:44,809 --> 00:40:47,010 that we don't yet understand. 742 00:40:47,012 --> 00:40:49,545 Maybe it's related to the UFO activity. 743 00:40:49,547 --> 00:40:51,181 It doesn't make any sense at all. 744 00:40:52,849 --> 00:40:56,952 Andrew Gough thinks the answer may have less to do with UFOs, 745 00:40:56,954 --> 00:41:00,088 and more to do with other dimensions. 746 00:41:00,090 --> 00:41:04,260 It's long been suspected that there are portals or wormholes 747 00:41:04,262 --> 00:41:05,695 in The Alaska Triangle 748 00:41:05,697 --> 00:41:11,233 that draw unsuspecting aircraft into their path. 749 00:41:11,235 --> 00:41:16,105 Could this be the answer as to why, in so many instances, 750 00:41:16,106 --> 00:41:20,643 no wreckage has ever been found? 751 00:41:20,644 --> 00:41:25,614 Is it because the planes have been taken into another dimension 752 00:41:25,617 --> 00:41:28,150 and remain there, trapped? 753 00:41:29,954 --> 00:41:31,286 It's a mystery. 754 00:41:31,289 --> 00:41:33,789 Completely unexplained why these aircraft 755 00:41:33,791 --> 00:41:36,192 are disappearing in The Alaska Triangle. 756 00:41:36,994 --> 00:41:39,161 Why or how this is taking place, 757 00:41:39,164 --> 00:41:40,597 we don't know, 758 00:41:40,599 --> 00:41:42,532 but it is a fact that it's happening. 759 00:41:44,702 --> 00:41:46,802 All these airplane disappearances 760 00:41:46,804 --> 00:41:49,505 echo the disappearances of people on the ground. 761 00:41:52,976 --> 00:41:58,414 The mysteries of Alaska seem to know no bounds. 63036

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