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NARRATOR: Alaska, a vast,
remote wilderness,

twice the size of Texas.

There are dangerous
unpredictable forces

at work here.

Narrator: In one of the most
mysterious corners of the globe.

A lot of things can kill you
out here without even trying.

NARRATOR: This is a place
hundreds of times more deadly

than the Bermuda Triangle.

MAN: Oh, my God.

NARRATOR: Stories
of alien abductions.

I believe it was a UFO.

NARRATOR:...the paranormal,

vanishing airplanes,
and strange beasts...

The Alaskan Bigfoot,
he can rip you in half.

These accounts are
really widespread.

[Bleep], it peaked out
of the tree, right there.

NARRATOR: ...have haunted those
who dare set foot here.

In the last 30 years,

16,000 people have disappeared
without a trace.

More people have disappeared
than the Bermuda Triangle.

Two to three times the amount.

NARRATOR: Witnesses tell us
their shocking stories.

I was petrified.

NARRATOR: And we've gathered
some of the worlds

leading experts
in their field...

I'm always after
scientific evidence

that can be
independently corroborated.

NARRATOR: ...to try and unlock
the mystery

of the Alaska Triangle.

♪♪

The Alaska Triangle
could well be

the most dangerous place
on Earth.

♪♪

You're three times more likely
to go missing here

than in any other U.S. state.

♪♪

I believe the Alaska Triangle
is far more dangerous,

unpredictable,

and deadly,

than the well-known
Bermuda Triangle.

QITUVITUAQ: In the last
30 years alone,

over 16,000 people
have gone missing in Alaska.

Missing as in
their bodies were never found.

Nobody knows what
happened to them.

♪♪

16,000?
That doesn't seem possible.

It's truly frightening.

NARRATOR:
Alaska has over 57 million acres of designated wilderness,

much of it totally unexplored.

And there are species of animals
here unknown to man.

Could one of these be Bigfoot?

[ Growling ]

Because of its remoteness,
there could be more Bigfoot

in the triangle
than anywhere else.

Perhaps this is the reason
why people are disappearing.

♪♪

I saw something real huge.
It had a lot of dark hair.

It's a Bigfoot.

RAY: There was this Bigfoot.

Looked like he was
just watching us.

CLIFF: With so much
fantastic habitat,

and so few people
to compete with,

Sasquatch's basically
have the run of Alaska.

♪♪

NARRATOR: One man,
who's on a lifetime journey

to find Bigfoot

is cryptozoologist
Cliff Barackman.

Most of his work has been
in the lower 48 states.

But now his hunt
has drawn him north.

Cliff has come hundreds of miles
off the main road network

to one of Alaska's
most remote areas.

Alaska is truly America's
last frontier.

This is one of the most
wild regions anywhere on Earth.

Anything could be
hiding out here of any size.

NARRATOR: It's around Alaska's
biggest lake, Iliamna,

that there have been some of
the best Bigfoot sightings.

♪♪

Now Cliff is heading
into the wild woods

on the southern shores
of the lake,

around the village of Kokhanok.

I've been tipped off
that a number of people

have been seeing a Sasquatch
in the local area.

And I wanted to come out
and check out

what's going on for myself.

NARRATOR: Cliff's aim is to get
scientific proof

that Bigfoot exists,

and evidence that
the Alaska Triangle is its home.

For the locals,
they don't need this proof.

They say they know
that Bigfoot exists

because they've seen them.

[ Growling ]

♪♪

Peducia Andrews has lived here
her whole life.

[ Birds chirping ]

One day, in the summer of 2015,

while out berry picking,
her dog raised the alarm.

[ Dog barking ]

Pretty soon, she started
barking so weird,

I never heard that dog bark
like that before.

She woof, and she would jump
so high off the ground,

and I look at her and I say,
"What the heck are you doing?"

[ Barking ]

And then she did that one
more time, and I looked over

to where she was looking,
and I saw something real huge.

It had a lot of hair.

And I saw this dark creature
walking away.

♪♪

NARRATOR: Perhaps, Peducia
saw a moose,

or maybe even a bear.

Both are common around Alaska.

PEDUCIA: I grew up knowing
what a moose looks like.

We all know
what a bear looks like.

We know all that.

Of course,
assume it's a Bigfoot.

It's just too different.

NARRATOR:
Since the early 1900's,

there have been frequent
recordings of Bigfoot

sighted in Alaska.

And this is despite the fact

that this is, by far,
the most thinly populated state.

CLIFF: To have
a Sasquatch report,

you need a Bigfoot,
a person to see it,

and then someone
to report it to.

But, yet, we still have dozens
and dozens of them here.

♪♪

NARRATOR:
Even from the water, there have been some notable sightings.

♪♪

Ray Wassille has lived

on and around
Lake Iliamna his whole life.

♪♪

One afternoon in 2004,

he was preparing the boat
for a camping trip

with his brother
and their friend.

We left from the landing area

and we started
going across the lake.

NARRATOR: When he looked up,
he had the shock of his life.

♪♪

There was this Bigfoot,
or hairy man,

on the side of the lake.

It looked like
he was just watching us.

NARRATOR: Ray's friend,
Sarah Armstrong,

saw the Bigfoot
just as clearly as he did.

We were just getting ready,
and I look off to the right,

and I can see this black figure.

And I'm trying to adjust my eyes
and focus

and figure out
what it is I'm seeing.

And just as I'm about to ask,
"What is that?"

Ray says,
"What the hell is that?"

NARRATOR: Then they realized
they were looking at a Bigfoot.

[ Growling ]

It was like a dark black,
just furry, long hair, you know.

You could see it,
the outline of it, pretty good.

[ Growling ]

♪♪

NARRATOR: Now, Cliff is hoping
for his own Bigfoot encounter.

And he's looking in the area
just across the lake

from where Ray and Sarah
had their sighting.

Wow!

Check that out!

That is amazing!

Prime Bigfoot habitat as far
as the eye can see.

♪♪

NARRATOR: If there are
Bigfoot out there,

Cliff wants to find them.

But do they want to be found?

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR: If there's
one place on Earth

where legend comes alive,

it's the Alaska Triangle.

And there's no greater legend
than Bigfoot.

[ Growling ]

Bigfoot hunter Cliff Barackman
has made the tough journey

to Lake Iliamna
to go and search.

If there's anywhere
on the planet that Bigfoots

could live undisturbed,
it's right here.

NARRATOR: It was here, in 2004,
that there was a clear sighting.

And news of it quickly
spread south.

♪♪

Down in Tulsa, Oklahoma,

Dr. Lance Hightower is
a renowned Bigfoot researcher.

♪♪

Bigfoot is a very large type
of creature.

Some people would say it looks
like an ape in the face.

Males, typically will range
anywhere from 8 feet,

and we have heard as high
as 12 feet in height

with a shoulder width of 4
to 4 1/2 feet,

as well as 3 feet thick.

So you're talking a creature
that is massive.

They're very, very elusive.

This is what makes it
so challenging and difficult

for people
to really prove that they exist

because they're so elusive,
so evasive,

so hard to catch one
on footage, on picture.

NARRATOR: But the best chance
could be in the Alaska Triangle.

With so much ready game,
Bigfoot may even be bigger here.

LANCE: Everything is larger
in Alaska.

Why not Bigfoot?

The food sources for something
as large as a Bigfoot,

deer, caribou, moose,
is abundant.

♪♪

NARRATOR:
Most Bigfoot sightings put the creature at about 7 or 8 feet.

The one that Sarah and Ray saw
was certainly bigger than that.

We could tell that it was at
least 9, 10 feet.

♪♪

And then, bam.

Just like that,
it was gone.

♪♪

Wow! What to say, you know?

We know we seen a Bigfoot.

It's shocking to see something
like that.

And even more shocking when
it just disappears that fast.

How can you explain
something like that?

NARRATOR: Whatever it was,

one way you don't explain it
is by saying it was a bear.

CLIFF: Kokhanok is in
a very wild area.

And the people who live here
live amongst bears.

There is almost no chance
whatsoever

that they would be confusing a
standing bear with a Sasquatch.

Bears have snouts,
they have ears,

they lack the large shoulders,

and they habitually move about
on four legs.

While Sasquatches
have a flat face,

a conical head, wide shoulders,

and usually walk around
on two legs.

To think that these people
who live here 365 days a year

would be silly enough to mistake
a bear for a Sasquatch,

well, that's not giving
the local people credit.

NARRATOR:
And there are now those in the scientific community

who are convinced
that Bigfoot is out there.

Dr. Robert Alley is a retired
professor

of anatomy and physiology
from the University of Alaska.

For him, Bigfoot, or Sasquatch,
is real.

It's just a matter
of what it is.

Bigfoot and Sasquatches
represent the classic hominid

mixing of genes.

Just as you and I have
Neanderthal genes,

Sasquatches have
a combination of,

maybe, Java Man,
giant Homo erectus genes,

mixed with more modern
human genes,

and maybe even
older human genes.

You might say Java Man
on steroids with a fur coat.

NARRATOR:
The long extinct Java Man was big, about 8 feet tall

and twice the overall size
of a gorilla.

And in his years of research,
Dr. Alley has found that

this furry, Java Man Bigfoot
is dangerous and calculating.

ROBERT:
Perhaps most significantly, they're accredited

with the abduction of children,
abduction of women,

even occasionally,
abduction of men.

NARRATOR: Human abduction,
if true,

this would mean the mystery

of all the missing people
of the triangle could be,

at least in part,
down to Bigfoot.

But Bigfoot hunter
Cliff Barackman

is still keen to come
face-to-face with one.

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR:
In the Alaska Triangle,

thousands of people
have gone missing.

Lost without a trace.

It's a wilderness as mysterious
and unexplored

as our deepest oceans.

The Alaska Triangle is very
much the analogy

of the Bermuda Triangle
in the tropics,

where planes and people
have gone missing.

Within this triangle is
200,000 square miles,

much of which has never been
explored by any man,

so who's to say what mysteries
still lie within this triangle.

NARRATOR: Alaska is 4 1/2 times
as large as Washington state,

until now, commonly thought of
as the home of Bigfoot.

It's now looking as if Alaska
is true Bigfoot country.

[ Growling ]

♪♪

And in the indigenous folklore,
the beast has always been here.

♪♪

Q Litchard comes from
a long line of native shaman.

♪♪

QITUVITUAQ:
Stories of Bigfoot go way back.

They go way further back
than when westerners came here.

The native people knew
about them for a long time.

And they weren't considered
mythology for the native people,

they were just considered
a fact of life.

You respect them,
you don't mess with them

because they're powerful.

You don't enter their territory.

NARRATOR: The traditional
description of the creature

is also a perfect match
for modern-day sightings.

QITUVITUAQ: Bigfoot are probably
about as wide as I am tall.

They have very broad,
muscular shoulders.

Imagine encountering something
that's 6'2" across

and 8-foot tall, 12-foot tall.

It's a pretty intimidating
creature.

♪♪

[ Growling ]

♪♪

NARRATOR: Despite this, Bigfoot
witnesses, Sarah and Ray,

felt compelled to go
and investigate their sighting.

♪♪

They did what others
wouldn't dare do.

They went to the exact spot
where they had seen the beast.

We start looking
on the ground...

♪♪

...and sure enough,

we saw these incredibly large
foot tracks all over this area.

You could clearly see
the toe prints and the heel,

and it was shaped just like
a human foot, but much larger.

♪♪

NARRATOR: For Sarah, it was
a strange, eerie experience.

It just seemed private,
or mystical,

or just to leave it be.

♪♪

NARRATOR: Within
the native population,

Bigfoots certainly have
spiritual qualities.

And it's these that could link
them to the triangle.

But where's
the scientific evidence?

This is what Cliff is after.

While he's out on his search,

what looks like
irrefutable proof,

comes straight to him.

Cliff receives an e-mail
and he knows, straight away,

this is something special.

All right.
I'm checking out this video

sent in by a witness
from Fairbanks, Alaska,

which is smack-dab
in the Alaska Triangle.

This guy was out metal
detecting on the beach

and he found a very strange
set of footprints where he feels

there should not have been
a strange set of footprints.

♪♪

They're pretty widely spaced.
They're in a straight line.

That tends to jive with what
we think about the way

Sasquatches walk.

♪♪

NARRATOR: This video places
Bigfoot right in the middle

of the Alaska Triangle.

♪♪

It was filmed by metal
detectorist, Keith Lindsey.

♪♪

Well it was the spring of 2012,
late April,

and I heard on the TV

that the river
was at an all-time low.

So being my hobby is metal
detecting,

I thought I'd come down to the
river and see what I could find.

♪♪

I came down.
I started metal detecting.

And then when I turned,
I looked up this way

and I saw these big footprints.

So I thought,
"Hmm. that's strange,"

so I walked over
to investigate them.

♪♪

I put my coil, which is
an 11-inch coil, up to them

and they were probably
5 or 6 more inches longer.

So I thought,
"Wow, that is really weird."

And it was still cold.

So I thought, "Well, who's
gonna be out here

walking around
in their bare feet?

And who's got feet that big?"

♪♪

NARRATOR: Judging by the size
of his detector,

these footprints are between
16 and 18 inches long.

KEITH: And then I noticed
the stride.

The stride was a lot farther

than what a normal
human being could walk.

So I tried to take
the stride myself,

and I was still coming up
a foot or 2 short.

I mean, I would have had
to have jumped

to almost make that distance.

So that's why I started video
taping,

was because I thought
"Nobody's gonna believe this."

NARRATOR: Giant footprints
in a straight line,

and with a stride
that's over 6 feet.

Classic Bigfoot,
now caught on video.

♪♪

They are typically flatfooted.

They won't have an arch.

And one print to another print,
the distance will be large,

but also,
they will be in a line.

Whereas a human, it has this
left and right pattern

as if it's in a gait cycle.

Whereas the Bigfoot has
a straight-line appearance.

♪♪

KEITH: I never really
thought about Bigfoot

until I found
these footprints.

You know, I'm just
to the point where, yeah,

I believe it could be.

NARRATOR: We're sending
the video to Dr. Robert Alley

for his expert analysis.

Meanwhile, Cliff's search
for Bigfoot

is going to take him
late into the night,

the time when Bigfoot is said
to be at his most dangerous.

[ Calling ]

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR: There are 129 million
acres of forest in Alaska.

Much of this forest
is totally unexplored by man.

And the thickest
and most mysterious

lies within the Alaska Triangle.

It's here that cryptozoologist
Cliff Barackman,

is on the hunt for Bigfoot.

And it's here that people
go missing without a trace,

never to be seen again.

[ Growling ]

These footprints,
caught on video

right in the middle
of the triangle,

could be vital Bigfoot evidence.

But just of the southern tip
of the triangle,

there are signs of Bigfoot
that are fixed and permanent.

♪♪

On a remote mountainside
on Prince of Wales Island,

native elder Al Jackson

knows of a group of cedar trees
that are upside down.

♪♪

Al: Friend of mine,
he was about 15 years old,

and he hunted with an elder.

And the old man told him,

"If you're ever hunting up
on Klawock Mountain,

you have to watch out
for those big, black gorillas

that live up there."

He told him then, that he said
"They mark their territories

by driving these blown-down
trees into the ground,

upside down."

NARRATOR: Theres no evidence
of logging machinery being used.

There are no tracks in the area
and no marks on the trees.

QITUVITUAQ: It's known that
if you see trees uprooted

and driven into the ground
upside down

with the roots facing upwards,

that that's Bigfoot territory
and you don't want to trespass.

Otherwise, you're gonna suffer
the consequences.

ROBERT: The strength required
to insert a tree

the size of the upside down
trees on Prince of Wales Island,

into even the soft muskeg
for 4 feet,

is absolutely phenomenal.

You're looking at maybe
1,500 pounds of log.

And so you certainly need
to have 1,000 pounds of animal

doing that.

NARRATOR: 1,000 pounds.

That's three times the weight
of an adult male gorilla.

But back at Lake Iliamna,
Cliff Barackman

is still hoping
for that personal encounter.

It is just shy of midnight,

even though
it doesn't look like it,

but this is what sunset
looks like in Alaska.

♪♪

I want to start making noises,
basically knocks.

Sasquatch use knocking noises

to communicate back and forth
with one another.

Maybe they're hitting a tree
with a stick.

Maybe they're clapping.

Maybe they're doing it
with their mouth.

I don't really know.
But they make those noises.

I want to start with this
lower volume noises

thinking that I'm gonna be here,
boom, make a noise.

♪♪

Now it's a listening game.

♪♪

[ Whistles ]

♪♪

NARRATOR: For all Cliff knows,
there could be a Bigfoot

out there
watching his every move,

perhaps,
even within yards of him.

[ Growls ]

LANCE: They're intelligent.
They're very elusive.

They can almost hide
in plain sight.

You could walk right by them
and never know them.

Only if they want to be seen,

that's when you'll
see a Bigfoot.

If they want to appear,
they will.

If not, we'll never know it.

Generally, these creatures
don't want to be seen.

They don't want to be
encountered.

They are curious.

They will approach you.

They'll especially approach
women and children.

And they will defend
their territories.

NARRATOR: Cliff's brought
with him a thermal camera.

Anything white is give off heat.

♪♪

Is Bigfoot out there?

♪♪

For the native community,
the elusiveness of Bigfoot

comes down to more than
just physical stealth.

For them, there's no clear
distinction

between the physical
and the spiritual worlds.

And Bigfoot has
mystical qualities.

QITUVITUAQ:
Bigfoot are so mysterious, and they're so well hidden

because they know how to do
things that we don't understand.

They know how to shift
in and out of this reality.

They know how to change
their energy

and go into some strange
shadow-like form.

Then they pop right back into
this reality whenever they want.

That's one of the reasons
we'll never find them

because as soon as they want
to disappear,

they literally do disappear.

[ Growling ]

NARRATOR:
Does this explain the sudden disappearance of the Bigfoot

that Sarah and Ray saw?

There was something there.
And then there wasn't.

Bam!

Just like that, it was gone.

♪♪

They know how to do things
that we can't...

we don't even understand yet.

It's beyond us.

NARRATOR:
For some, the sudden appearance and disappearance of Bigfoot

is a sign of other dimensions
coming into play.

And if Bigfoot is abducting
people,

this could explain why no trace
of them has ever been found.

♪♪

In Fairbanks, Bigfoot does seem
to have left his mark.

Dr. Robert Alley is studying
Keith's video of the footprints.

It shows very clearly, a series
of footprints leading off

without any human footprints
in close proximity.

With scale, an 11 inch metal
detector,

suggesting tracks of 16, 17,
or 18 inches in length.

And toes that are visible.

Very clearly demarcated.

Along with a stride
that really stretched out

well beyond 6 feet.

What is it?
Well, really, it's not a bear.

It's bipedal and it doesn't

fit into a human range
of variability.

Really, whether you
like it or not,

all you have is a Sasquatch
or a Bigfoot.

NARRATOR: The evidence
is mounting

that Bigfoot lives in Alaska.

And that the Alaska Triangle
could be the reason.

SARAH: Alaska is pretty amazing.

It's really magical.

I definitely believe.

♪♪

You know, I believe
because I saw it.

People have seen too much of it
for us to not believe them.

And I know
there's something out there.

Whoo!

ROBERT: I am 100% convinced that
Bigfoot exists and are real.

Maybe in sparse numbers,
but definitely, definitely real.

It looks like the mystery
of the Alaska Triangle

won this round,

but I'll be back
and I'll challenge it again.

What we know is just a tiny
little bit of what is out there.

And just because
it falls outside

of our realm of understanding,

doesn't mean
it's magic or impossible.

♪♪

NARRATOR: Could Bigfoot
somehow be tapping

into supernatural forces
of the triangle?

If so, then maybe these forces

are the reason
for them being here.

Some believe that Bigfoot
could be jumping in

and out of wormholes
in space and time.

There are those who think
these forces can even be found

using modern technology,

and we're going to put that
to the test.

Perhaps super powerful
force fields and wormholes

could be behind the mystery
of the Alaska Triangle itself.

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR: The greatest mystery
of the Alaska Triangle

is the inexplicable
disappearance of people,

boats,

and even airplanes.

There are some who think

this is a sign of other
dimensions at work.

I think the Alaska Triangle
is a special place on the planet

that is bending space and time
to create this vortex of energy

where people go missing,

where there are portals
or wormholes opening.

NARRATOR: But what is it
about Alaska

that would allow
for these phenomena?

♪♪

The arctic atmosphere

is home to one
of the wonders of our planet,

the Aurora Borealis,
or the Northern Lights.

This incredible light display
dances across the sky

as the Earth's magnetic field

is bombarded by charged
particles from the sun.

A thousand miles
south of the Arctic Circle

lies the city
of Vancouver, Canada.

More people live in this
one city

than in the whole of Alaska.

And it's from here that
journalist and researcher

Jonny Enoch

has been looking into
some important historical work

that could have a bearing
on the search

for unusual forces in Alaska.

JONNY: In 1972, author and
biologist Ivan Sanderson

documented 12 places
on the planet

where there was bizarre weather,
strange occurrences,

vanishing people, and disturbing
paranormal occurrences.

NARRATOR: Sanderson called
these areas, Vile Vortices,

where it's thought that an
extreme electromagnetic force,

the force that holds
atoms together,

can have an effect on the very
fabric of space and time.

The most famous of these
vortices, the Bermuda Triangle.

JONNY: A vortex can transform
everyday situations

into otherworldly events.

If there was a vortex above
the Bermuda Triangle,

that would explain everything.

NARRATOR:
A vortex that contorted space and time into a wormhole,

would mean boats
and planes could disappear.

If there was any evidence
of this in the Bermuda Triangle,

then it could explain
the Alaska Triangle, too.

Now, some firsthand evidence
of a vortex has come to light,

down in Miami, Florida.

Vortices definitely existing
because I've been through it.

NARRATOR: In 1970,
pilot Bruce Gearnin,

was flying
in the Bermuda Triangle,

from the small island of Bimini,
in the Bahamas, to Miami.

Shortly after takeoff,
he found himself

traveling through
a strange tunnel in the clouds.

When he came out the other end,
there was Miami below him.

His instruments showed
that he'd traveled 100 miles

in under 3 minutes.

The tunnel was like a wormhole.

When you enter it, you come out
in a different place and time.

It was almost like
being teleported.

One night,
I was watching television

and Ivan Sanderson came on.

He was explaining time warps.

And it was right at that point
that I realized

that was the key to the mystery
that I had just witnessed.

NARRATOR: So what would
make Alaska

prime territory for time warps?

One theory points
to its abundance

of extreme
electromagnetic force fields.

Mike Ricksecker is
a paranormal investigator

with a particular interest
in electromagnetism.

In 1964, there was
a massive earthquake

that hit the Anchorage area,
a 9.2 magnitude.

Absolutely devastating.

Buildings were toppled.

Streets were upended.

It created a lot of destruction
around this area.

We know that
electromagnetic activity

helped to cause this earthquake.

NARRATOR: An increase
in electromagnetic readings

have been reported
before major earthquakes.

Scientists are yet
to understand the reason.

And the '64 quake was
the biggest earthquake

ever recorded in North America.

The second biggest ever in
the whole world,

the epicenter ==
Prince William Sound,

on Alaska's southern coast.

In fact, Alaska averages
100 minor quakes every day.

That's more earthquakes than all
the other states combined.

Alaska, in general,
is a very volatile area.

When I first showed up in '92,

there was ash still falling
from the sky

from volcanoes
that are in the area.

NARRATOR: There's one sure way
Mike knows

how to detect any unusual
electromagnetic activity.

So, we're up here in
the mountains of Alaska.

We have some dowsing
rods with us.

What I'm gonna
try to do here,

is walk around a little bit,
see if we start to feel

a little bit of something
going on,

then I'll go ahead and stop

and see
if the activity keeps going.

NARRATOR: If the rods move,

it would be the sign of
unusual electromagnetic energy.

And this knowledge goes back
a long way.

Since ancient times,
it's been known that our planet

is covered with geomagnetic
anomalies and vortices.

We know the ancient peoples
saw the movement of energy

on the planet as a serpent.

So that's why every one of these
ancient cultures

is based around
a serpent mythology.

To understand the Alaska
Triangle, you have to understand

that there's
an energy grid on our planet.

Now, these have been
traditionally called ley lines,

but to the ancient peoples,

they called this
the serpentine energies.

NARRATOR:
It's these same energies

that Mike is trying to detect
in the Alaska Triangle.

♪♪

So, we're getting a little push
from the left side there.

If we move away,
and that goes back out,

then that will let us know
that the activity, the energy,

was centralized back there.
And we can already see

it starting
to move out a little bit.

Yeah, see.
It's moved back out.

As we come back,
see, it's going...

it's moving back
as we move back into this area.

Yeah.
So this is a hot spot here.

♪♪

So, as we come down
the mountainside here,

we see that the left rod
has moved inward

and it's maintaining that.

So what I would say is that up
and down here,

there is some sort of line
of electromagnetic activity

running up and down
the mountainside here.

So it's not running across,
but up and down.

NARRATOR: The line that Mike
has found heads due north

towards the North Pole,
just over 1,000 miles away.

The intense electromagnetism
of the North Pole

feeds into the triangle.

If there is a vortex here,
it could be many times

more powerful
than even the Bermuda Triangle,

and the force behind thousands
of disappearances.

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR:
In the Alaska Triangle,

electromagnetic forces spread
and converge like nowhere else.

Alaska is near the North Pole,

where the magnetic fields
get thinner here.

And because of that,
when solar storms hit,

it lights up the atmosphere

because we don't have
the magnetic protection

of the electromagnetic field.

♪♪

NARRATOR:
The native population believes this electromagnetic energy

can have dangerous,
spiritual properties.

QITUVITUAQ: The unusual
electromagnetic energy makes it

so we have
supercharged areas

that could allow
interdimensional travel

or portals to be opened
from other realms.

NARRATOR: If this were true,

then these portals
could go a long way

to explaining the mystery
of the Alaska Triangle.

I think a lot of people who go
missing, hikers and adventurers,

or people going out
in the country,

can accidentally come across
these areas

and vanish
off the face of the Earth.

♪♪

NARRATOR: Strange things
do happen.

Bruce Gearnin did have a bizarre
experience of some kind.

And conditions are more extreme
in Alaska.

So, there seems to be
a definite relationship

with being so close
to the North Pole,

and maybe the magnetic energy
changes this vortex.

Instead of being horizontal,
perhaps it is vertical.

So the one I flew through,
when I came out the other end,

I went forward
in space and time.

But in Alaska,
if you enter into it,

maybe you go right down
into the Earth and vanish.

♪♪

NARRATOR:
We don't have the tools yet to find these possible portals.

For now, researchers need
to rely on cruder devices

to understand
the forces at work in Alaska.

Mike is using an
electromagnetic field detector.

We're gonna walk in this
general direction,

kind of the same as we did
with the rods,

and see if we can get any
indications off of this meter.

NARRATOR: The detector shows
Mike the level of milliwatts

per square meter,

the power of the electricity
in the air.

MIKE: And there's a general
electric field

that keeps reading
at about a 0.1, 0.2 right now,

so a pretty low level.

♪♪

Here, it's a little higher
on the electric field.

It's between a 0.2 and a 0.3.

♪♪

We're getting
some variations here

that we shouldn't be getting.

Which does give us an indication

that there's a little bit
something more going on here.

Could it be an indicator
that the Alaska Triangle

is having an effect here?

NARRATOR:
As well as leading to vortices, there are those who believe

that this effect has attracted
visitors from far away.

MIKE: There have been a lot
of extraterrestrial sightings

in Alaska.
A lot of reports.

A lot of photography.
A lot of video footage.

And it makes a lot of sense
that there would.

You have the electromagnetic
activity from the vortices

that they could be tapping into.

I believe the immense power
of the Alaska Triangle

is used like a superhighway
by extraterrestrials

looking to open up portals
and connect

to other places in the universe.

NARRATOR: Perhaps one day
we'll have the technology needed

to discover portals
and explore them,

as well as other forces
that could be at play here.

♪♪

Theories persist,

but for now, the secrets
of the Alaska Triangle

remain just that.

And the tales that have emerged
from this vast, mysterious area

suggest there may be something
else out there

that we are only just beginning
to contemplate.

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