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[narrator] Alaska,
a vast remote wilderness

twice the size of Texas...

You could walk for a year
without seeing another person.

[narrator] ...in one of
the most mysterious corners of the globe.

Everything in your being
is telling you to get the hell out of there.

[narrator] This is a place
hundreds of times more deadly

than the Bermuda Triangle.

Oh, my God!

[narrator]
Stories of alien abductions...

That was definitely something
not from this world.

[narrator] ...the paranormal,
vanishing airplanes

and strange beasts...

Bigfoot could be anywhere
in Alaska, hiding out.

[narrator] ...have haunted
those who dare set foot here.

- [creature growls]
- What was that?

Now I feel like
something's after me.

[suspense music playing]

[narrator]
In the last 30 years,

16,000 people have disappeared
without a trace.

In the vastness
of this country,

it's easy to be swallowed up
in it.

[narrator] Witnesses tell us
their shocking stories...

- I was horrified.
- [narrator] ...and we've gathered

some of the world's
leading experts in their field...

[man] I wanted to go out
and get the evidence myself

and say, "This is real.
This stuff exists."

[narrator] ...to try
and unlock the mystery

of The Alaska Triangle.

[suspense music playing]

[narrator] Alaska
is a land where the line between fact and legend

is far from clear.

It's alive with stories
of strange creatures

and mysterious beasts.

A giant pre-historic bird
known as the Thunderbird

is said to rule the skies.

[roars]

Shapeshifters,
such as the Kushtaka

and the evil Windigo
spread terror.

And Bigfoot is rumored
to have made his home

in the thick forests.

It seems to be
a breeding ground for the paranormal.

But some of
the strangest sightings have been out at sea.

[man speaking]

Oh, there's plenty
of sea monster stories out there.

People don't really quite know
what's going on.

[Sonny] It just had
a really long neck and a really long tail.

It was some type of dinosaur.

[narrator] And it's the waters
around one island

in the west
of the Gulf of Alaska

that hold the biggest mystery
of all.

[roars]

Well, there's been
a lot of stories

from people
around these parts.

There's gotta be stuff
out there that we don't know about yet.

[narrator]
This is Kodiak Island,

and there's a growing body
of evidence

that something terrifying
really is lurking in the depths here.

The Gulf of Alaska is one of

the most remote bodies
of water on the planet.

Its depths
are almost totally unexplored.

In fact, they're
the ideal hiding place.

[Andrew] It's really
a perfect storm.

A remote location
with huge bodies of water,

it's the ideal spot
for species to go unnoticed

for hundreds of years.

[narrator] But it's the waters
around the island of Kodiak

that hold the deepest secret.

It's the second largest island
in the US.

But even for Alaska,
this place is isolated.

It's mountainous
and heavily forested

and it's home to
the biggest brown bear on the planet.

The giant Kodiak bear.

But it's also home
to all manner of darks legends

and paranormal occurrences.

And it's the sea
around the island

that posses
the greatest danger.

Huge numbers die
in the hazardous waters here,

every year.

And some extraordinary things
have been seen.

[roars]

Surfer, Ryan Murdock, grew up
on the island

and has spent more time
than most in the water.

I've been surfing Kodiak
for over 20 years now.

I started when I was a teen
in high school.

It's a great place because
you can really push yourself

to explore
what life has to offer

without being
part of the crowd.

The fog and rain
can drive some inside,

but some of us, you know,
we like to be outdoors

and to challenge ourselves.

[narrator]
One morning, early in 2020,

Ryan was out surfing
with his friends.

They were enjoying
the unusually large waves

just off Narrow Cape
on the east of the island.

Ryan's never going to forget
what he encountered that day.

[Ryan] When we went surfing
that day,

it was kind of a gloomy day
like this.

I had caught a wave

and I was paddling
back out to my friends,

and I noticed a big triangle
emerge from the water.

And it was approximately
ten to 12 feet tall

and probably about ten
to 12 feet wide at the base,

a blue or grayish color.

It was bigger
than any whale fin

or anything that
I had seen surfing before.

I exclaimed to my friends,
"Look behind you!",

and they turned around
and they saw this thing

looming behind them,

and, maybe five seconds,
ten seconds passed

and the thing dipped back
into the water, you know,

with a motion
that I wouldn't attribute

to a whale or a sea mammal.

This was something that raised
the alarms high enough

that, "Okay,
we're getting out of here as quick as possible."

[narrator] This was
no inanimate object.

This was
some giant sea creature

totally unknown
to these experienced surfers.

[Ryan] I've been
in close encounters with sea lions,

and whales and any type
of sea mammal you could name,

but, I'd never seen anything
like that before.

[narrator] But this wasn't
the first time

a mysterious sea creature
has been reported

in the waters
of Kodiak Island.

Far from it.

In Kodiak town,
are the offices

of the local newspaper
The Kodiak Daily Mirror.

And now, the paper
has a new publisher,

Kevin Bumgarner.

Kevin's recently moved up
from Florida,

and is keen to get to
the bottom of what's going on.

Alaska does have
more coastline

than all the other states
in the United States put together,

and I think that creates
the possibility

to see things out of the norm.

[narrator] According to Kevin,

the local people are convinced

that there's
a strange creature lurking in the depths.

When the people of Kodiak
talk about this,

um, they're very serious.

When people here tell me
they've seen something,

they've seen something.

I don't think
they're making that up,

I don't think
they're hallucinating.

There is a lot of belief

that there is something else
out there.

[narrator] Recent sightings
have led to Kevin

looking deeper into the story.

He's been reviewing
past editions of the paper

down in their archive,

and he's astonished
at what he's found.

Reports of the monster
go way back,

and there's some
pretty convincing evidence.

Well, here is our 1969 edition

where the sea monster
was first reported.

We actually got a sonar image
of a sea monster.

[narrator] The sonar image
was recorded from a fishing boat

and it appears to show
a dinosaur-like creature

walking or swimming

along the undulating seabed,
330 feet down.

Visual proof here
that something is or was in the waters off Kodiak.

[narrator]
Evidence is now mounting,

that this mysterious legend
from The Alaska Triangle

is based on reality.

And whatever
monstrous creature is lurking in the deep,

Kevin wants to find it.

[Jeff] Do you see that?

Keep watching.

[narrator] Alaska
is known as the last frontier,

but it's
the surrounding waters

that hold some of
the biggest mysteries.

And on the Island of Kodiak
in the Gulf of Alaska,

stories of a living
sea monster

are more than just talk.

[Kevin] Visual proof here
that something

is or was
in the waters off Kodiak.

[narrator] But it's not
just Kodiak.

There's strong evidence
that strange sea creatures

have been seen all along
the southern coast of Alaska.

In fact,
age-old images of them

can be found carved into rocks
along the seashore.

Cryptozoologist,
Lance Hightower,

has made a study
of these rock carvings,

also known as petroglyphs.

Some of these petroglyphs
in Alaska

are hundreds,
if not thousands, of years old

and they depict drawings

of some of
these sea creatures.

Is it possible
that these creatures were seen

by people of long ago?

I think so.

You have many local people
around these shorelines

seeing something
and being horrified and terrified.

So on that account,
I do believe that the oceans

hide secrets
of these creatures.

[narrator]
For the native communities,

these images
don't just represent historical sightings.

Ancient carvings
serve as warnings,

having practical use

and are in fact,
a rich source of knowledge.

For them,
what sounds like legends

are, in fact, real.

This is something author
and historian, Andrew Gough, has looked into.

Native traditions
are far more accurate

than we give them credit for.

They have no reason
to embellish what they've seen.

I think we need to look at
what they're telling us

and think twice about it being
some fantastical story.

It's probably closer
to the truth than we realize.

[narrator] One of
the native stories

tells of a vicious,
pointy-nose sea creature called the Gunakadeit.

And in 2020, scientists
came across this fossil

on an island
off the southeastern coast.

It's an animal
previously unknown to science,

with an uncanny resemblance
to the native sea monster.

John Moran is
a marine biologist from Juneau.

[John] It's a marine reptile

with a pointy-type snout,
200 million years old.

It's a pretty complete
specimen,

I think it's almost intact
and articulated,

except for maybe
a little bit of the tail.

It's a...

Technically,
a sea monster, I guess.

[narrator]
The newly discovered fossil

could be a sign
that there's truth

behind the Gunakadeit stories.

The Gunakadeit fossil
is very interesting,

because we have
very deep oceans,

very mysterious
unexplored areas

in which creatures like this
could still be living.

[narrator] And if
this creature has survived in the modern times,

then perhaps other,
even larger creatures have, too.

[Andrew]
Strange water creatures are common in global folklore,

and the natural reaction
is to call them monsters,

and you can understand that.

But really,
they're just new species,

and they probably
have been here

even longer than we have.

[growls]

[narrator] An entirely
unknown species of large sea creatures

are still being discovered
in the seas of Alaska.

They recently discovered
a new species of beaked whale,

the black beaked whale,
just within the last few years,

new to science,

a 20-something-foot animal

that we didn't
really know was there.

[narrator] An entirely
new species of whale

discovered in Alaska,
24-feet long.

[John] If you can have
a 20-something-foot animal

just show up,
that you didn't know was there,

that's pretty amazing.

There could be all kinds
of creatures living in the deep ocean

that, you know,
how would you ever see them?

If they die and sink,
you'd never know they were out there.

[narrator] And in the past,
even bigger, mysterious carcasses

have washed up
in the Gulf of Alaska.

In 1956, near Yakutat,

a massive
100-foot long carcass was found.

Scientists who studied it
were mystified.

And in 1930,
on an island near Valdez,

a huge mysterious skeleton
was found in the ice,

nearly 30-feet long,
with flippers.

Both of these historic finds
have similarities

to the creature
caught on the sonar image

in the archives
ofThe Kodiak Daily Mirror.

And we've sent this image
to Lance Hightower

to see what he makes of it.

Well, on first appearance,
it's fascinating,

because just on looking at it
immediately,

it obviously looks like
a prehistoric dinosaur

and it's resting on the bottom
of the seabed.

Now what we see is elongated,

uh, what gives the appearance
of a neck with a head.

The neck appears to be

at least two-thirds
of the body length.

We have a tail that is roughly
about half the size

of the entire body length.

And then we have
on the ventral aspect

or the underside
of this creature,

some appendages
which appear to be like fins.

The elongated body,
the neck...

This could be a plesiosaur.

[narrator] This would be
extraordinary.

Plesiosaurs are
a kind of aquatic dinosaur,

thought to have become extinct
over 60 million years ago.

And now,
some remarkable new evidence

has come to light,

that suggests
that off the coast of Alaska,

plesiosaurs are
alive and well.

[man speaking]

[Sonny] And it had
a really long neck and a really long tail.

It was some type of dinosaur.

[narrator]
Sea monster legends have been with us

since time immemorial.

But some legends
have proven to be true,

including that of
a giant sea serpent.

[Andrew] For hundreds,
and even thousands of years,

there has been legends
of sea serpents,

horrific snake-like creatures
terrifying sailors.

But now we understand

they're most likely
talking about the oarfish,

this huge, snake-like creature
in the water

that grows to over 30 feet
in length.

This tells us that legends

are oftentimes based
in reality.

[narrator]
Around the Gulf of Alaska,

sea monster legends
are a part of everyday life.

On its east coast,
across from Kodiak

lies the small community
of Haines.

Here, Sonny Williams is
a third-generation fisherman,

and his story takes the search
for an Alaskan sea monster

to a whole new level.

I've spent 50 years of my life
on the water,

just more or less lived
on the water.

[narrator] Having spent
so much time at sea,

Sonny ventures to places
others dare not go.

And one morning
in the early 2000's,

he found himself
over 100 miles down the coast.

[Sonny] The place is called
Salisbury Sound,

and I was right there.

Water flows out of there
like you turned on the faucet or something.

It's definitely
very dangerous there.

[narrator] It was
in Salisbury Sound that Sonny saw something on his sonar

unlike anything
he'd ever seen before.

[Sonny] First I saw
a whole bunch of salmon,

and the next thing I saw
was, like, a really big head

that was swimming along,
snapping up all the salmon.

And it was amazing.

I turned around and went back
and looked at it again

and it was still there.

It was about 40 fathoms down.

And I went over
the second time

and I saw the whole thing.

[narrator] Even though Sonny
was viewing the animal on his sonar,

just like in the sonar image
from Kodiak,

the outline
was perfectly clear

and he's still able
to visualize

the monstrous creature.

[Sonny] It had fins,

and it just had
a really long neck

and a really long tail.

It was some type of dinosaur.

It's like the dinosaur
from the picture books.

Exactly.

And I was just like, "Wow,
it's... It's... it's alive?

All this time
it's been out there?"

[narrator]
Even for a dinosaur, this animal was big.

At the time,
I was on a 40-foot boat

and it was twice as long
as my boat.

[narrator] What Sonny saw,
sounds very similar

to the Kodiak sea monster.

It could be evidence
that a dinosaur-like creature

inhabits a wide stretch
of the Alaskan coastline.

And now, further evidence
has come to light

from a small group of tourists

who were
on a sightseeing cruise.

They stopped at a glacier

just to the east
of Sonny's sighting.

Here, they witnessed
large chunks of ice

collapse into the sea.

Shortly after this,
what appears in the tourist's video

is a series
of what look like humps

emerging from the water,

three in front,
followed by four behind.

It's as if
some mysterious beast was woken from the depths.

The tourists watching
were convinced this was one creature

with its vast body hidden
beneath the surface.

But an even
more extraordinary video

comes from fisherman
from Nushagak Bay

in the southwest
of the triangle,

just 125 miles
to the west of Kodiak.

It appears to show
a huge serpent-like sea creature

swimming just offshore.

This creature looks too big,
even for an oarfish.

In fact, the humps resemble
the head, body, and tail

of a giant
dinosaur-like creature.

Whatever it was

had those watching
totally mystified.

And these were men
who know the sea

and the creatures within it
better than anyone.

[man speaking]

These multiple sightings

could mean a living population

of prehistoric sea monsters.

Lance Hightower, for one,
seems convinced.

[Lance]
So the question arises,

is it possible
that one creature

is being seen
by numerous people?

Or do we have a population

of these plesiosaurus
breeding?

And my feeling and belief
is that when you see one,

there's others around.

That is what makes this story
very fascinating.

[narrator]
But it's around Kodiak island

that there've been
the more sightings.

And it's here, that local
newspaper publisher, Kevin Bumgarner,

- is going in search of
the legendary Kodiak dinosaur. - How are you?

I want to know
what's going on.

[narrator]
He's chartered a boat with its own sonar

to scour the depths
for the monstrous beast.

[Kevin] You know,
it's like, exciting,

but I'm just
a little bit nervous.

[narrator] On Kodiak island,

newspaper publisher,
Kevin Bumgarner,

is going in search of
the legendary sea creature

known as the Kodiak dinosaur.

[Kevin] I want to know
what's going on.

You know, it's like,
what's the sea going

to allow us to see today?

Um, you know, what happens
if we do see something

that's kind of
out of the norm?

[narrator] Kevin has decided
to journey to where he thinks

he'll have the best chance
of a sighting.

He's heading for Narrow Cape,

the location
on the east of the island

where surfer Ryan Murdock
and his friends

had their sighting
of a monstrous sea creature.

But the first stop
is the harbor.

To conduct
this search properly,

Kevin intends
to go out to sea.

He's arranged to meet
local boat captain, Jeff Sandford.

- [Kevin] Are you ready
for this? - How you doing?

I am doing well, how are you?

Go out there
and see what we can find.

All right. Let's do it.

[narrator] Jeff had spent
his whole life fishing.

And he's been taking people
out on these waters

for nearly 20 years.

Kodiak has a general proximity
to extremely deep water.

I wanna say...

less than a hundred miles
off the coast,

it's goes down into the
several thousand feet of water.

Combine that
with several hundred square miles

of productive
shallow water reefs.

It's kind of
a breeding ground

for some kind of sea creature
to be.

Lots to eat, lots to do.

[narrator] All the marine life
in these waters

means the chances
of unknown species are high.

[Jeff] I'd say
on a weekly basis,

we pull up something
out of charter fishing.

I have no idea what it is.

I have to take a picture
and send it in to the office.

I don't even know.

It's a totally
different perspective out on the water.

[Jeff speaking]

[Kevin speaking]

[narrator] For Jeff and Kevin,
to see something on the surface

is a long shot.

Their best bet
is picking something up

on the boat's sonar.

You know, what we really want
to be able to do today

is through scanning and sonar,

see if there is anything
out there.

Yeah, we hope
to be able to, you know,

see what lies underneath.

[Jeff] We've got
that latest and greatest bottom sounding equipment,

quite sensitive piece
of machinery.

It sends a signal down
that bounces off of whatever's down below

as it sends it back up.

This thing, uh, paints
a pretty picture for us.

I've seen some things on here
that made me wonder,

"What is that?"

[narrator] Here,
the deep sea is unexplored,

and these are
dangerous waters.

[Jeff] See the coast guard
maneuvering over that boat?

[Kevin] Yes.

Doing a little
rescue job there.

[narrator] They're relying
on the sonar,

but as they approach
Narrow Cape,

Jeff sees something
straight ahead in the water.

- [Kevin] See something?
- [Jeff] Yeah.

I just spotted something
over here.

Dead ahead, 100... 150 yards.

You see that?

I don't, but...

Yeah, keep watching.

I seen something pop up...

and hasn't come back up.

[narrator]
The animal has dived and hasn't resurfaced,

but there's still the hope
that the sonar will pick it up.

[Jeff] Anywhere in this area
right here.

[narrator] And there it is,
something huge on the sonar.

The shape is ill-defined,

but this is a solid mass
in the water.

[Jeff] I have no idea
what that is.

Like, what am I running over
that's solid and vertical?

- [Kevin] Right.
- [Jeff] I don't know.

And does
that vertical nature say,

you know, long and skinny?
What does that...

I mean, is it something
swimming straight up and down?

I don't know.

It's not bay fish,
I know that.

And how far down would it look
to be based on that?

Well, this is 30,
35 feet down, roughly.

But it also is saying
you know, it's somewhere...

somewhere between
22 and 52 feet... It's 30 feet long.

[Kevin] So 30 feet long
in 30 feet of water

- and we're 100 feet
to the bottom. - [Jeff] Right.

[narrator] Thirty feet long,

that's the length
of the mystery skeleton that washed up at Valdez.

It also happens to be
the average length

of a prehistoric plesiosaur.

[Jeff] I don't know
what it is.

It doesn't look like anything
you've ever seen.

I just... can't explain it.

[narrator] And then,
before they can do another pass,

the creature disappears.

They don't manage
to pick it up again.

Eventually, the pair
head back into harbor.

[Jeff] I don't know.

It remains a mystery
for yet another day.

[narrator] It was
a tantalizing glimpse of the unknown,

another experience
that can be added

to the body of evidence

that there's something
out there.

And for Kevin, this is just
the beginning of the search.

There are things
that did show up

as we don't know what this is,
and the expanse of the ocean being what it is,

I think that there is
something out there

that we have
not yet discovered.

There's lots of legends

and they're based
in something, you know.

There's some fact behind them,

some observation
that somebody made.

You know, a lot of times
you can explain them away,

but, you know, sometimes,

you can't really
figure it out.

You know, there's...
Weird things happen.

[Lance] I do think Alaska
would be the perfect place

to harbor these sea monsters
or sea creatures.

It makes sense
that a creature like this

could easily call this home.

I don't think
we presently have a grasp

on what all is out there.

Um, I think we think we know.

But we don't know for sure.

[narrator]
The mysteries of Alaska are as deep as the ocean,

but the skies above have
their own deadly secrets.

It's not just people
who go missing here,

whole airplanes simply vanish
as if into thin air.

So it begs the question,
what is going on inside The Alaska Triangle?

[narrator]
The mysterious occurrences of The Alaska Triangle

don't just happen
on the ground and out at sea.

Here, the phrase,
"There's something in the air,"

takes on a whole new meaning.

The skies
of The Alaska Triangle are a dangerous place to be.

There's about
100 plane crashes

in the triangle every year.

Something mysterious
is clearly happening there.

[narrator] With so few roads,
air transport is paramount

for travel and supplies.

Here, the bush pilot
has almost legendary status.

One reason is that crashing
isn't the only danger.

Since 1962, Alaska's had
more than 9,000 plane crashes.

Nine thousand.

And of course,
some of those are due to weather and to rain,

but there's
much more to it than that.

You know, planes that just
disappear into thin air

with no distress signals
and no wreckage whatsoever.

This is what makes
The Alaska Triangle

just so mystifying.

[narrator]
In The Alaska Triangle,

it's not just people
disappearing.

In the skies,
planes suddenly vanish,

and no one knows why.

In fact, planes
have been disappearing in The Alaska Triangle

since the early days
of flight,

and mysterious forces
have overcome

even the most experienced
pilots.

One of the great
aviation pioneers was Wiley Post.

Now, journalist
and researcher, Andrew Gough,

has been looking into
Wiley's early attempt

at taking on the forces
of The Alaska Triangle.

In 1931, he circumnavigated
the globe in eight days,

destroying
the previous world record.

Two years later,
he becomes the first person

to fly solo around the world.

This is a guy who experimented

with high altitude flying
and discovered the jet stream.

I mean, his credentials
are totally pristine.

So why would he,
of all people,

have trouble navigating
in The Alaska Triangle?

Is it because this is where
the paranormal comes alive?

[narrator] In August 1935,

Wiley Post was
on a flying trip around Alaska with his friend,

the equally famous performer
and comedian, Will Rogers.

[Andrew] They headed off
from Fairbanks

and headed to Point Barrow
on the northern tip

of The Alaska Triangle.

This 500-mile journey

should've been
pretty straightforward

for an experienced pilot
like Wiley Post.

But just miles
from their destination,

they became
strangely disorientated

and lost their way.

Bizarrely,
their engine experienced

sudden catastrophic failure.

The plane took a nosedive
into a lagoon,

shearing off its right wing.

Both men were dead instantly.

[narrator] Dan Hampton is
a retired lieutenant colonel

from the United States
Air Force,

and former combat pilot.

He's been looking into
the mystery

of why air tragedies
such as Wiley's

are commonplace
in The Alaska Triangle.

One thing that
leaps immediately to mind

is electromagnetic
interference.

This is up near the pole.

Things get screwy up there
anyway. I've flown up there.

I've had my magnetic-based
backup instruments go crazy.

If you're trying to navigate
off of a magnetic compass,

who knows
where you're gonna end up.

[narrator] But Wiley Post
was experienced enough

to cope
with a wayward compass.

And electromagnetic
interference

wouldn't account
for the sudden engine failure.

It does seem that there were
other forces at work.

[Andrew] What's behind this?

It's one of Alaska's
greatest aviation mysteries.

[narrator] The death
of these two men hit the headlines nationwide.

But bigger mysteries
were to come,

including planes more than
twice the size of Wiley's, completely disappearing.

Steve Levi is an author
and historian from Anchorage,

who's been researching
the story of how in 1943,

a newly-built Douglas C-48

with a wingspan
of nearly 100 feet, simply vanished, midair.

[Steve] When you start
talking about missing planes in Alaska,

a lot of people think we're
talking about bush planes.

This particular plane,
you can see,

if something like this
goes down,

they had have to been able
to spot it.

If it went down in a lake,
if it went down in a forest

there's still
a large enough plane

that it had to have
been found, but it never was.

[narrator] In June 1943,
a C-48 set off

on the first leg
of its journey

from Fairbanks
to Whitehorse in the Yukon.

[Steve] They left about 5:30
in the morning,

they were going all the way
to Whitehorse.

And it's easy to get
from here to Whitehorse

because there's
a roadway there,

and they were gonna be
following the road.

[narrator] The good visibility
meant there was no problem

following the roads.

And the airplane
had more than nine hours of fuel on board.

[indistinct chatter
over radio]

For over an hour,

they called in
their position reports as required.

[sonar beeps]

And then...

nothing.

[airplane engine rumbling]

The plane simply vanished,

never to be seen again.

There wasn't even
a distress call.

[Jerry] What's really curious,
is that other aircraft

were flying the same route
as the C-48

on the very same day.

They reported nothing unusual.

[Steve] They searched
for four weeks.

We're talking about
500 man-hours

looking for the plane,

and the plane had to have
gone down near the roadway.

[Jerry] No wreckage or debris

from the C-48 was ever found,

which is very unusual.

You'd expect
from an aircraft that size

there to be some tiny trace
of it somewhere,

but there was nothing.

It's a complete mystery.

We have no clue at all
what happened to it.

[narrator] In 1950,
another Douglas plane,

this time even bigger
and with 44 people on board,

disappeared without a trace

in a similar part
of The Alaska Triangle.

As with the C-48,

it had the military
completely baffled.

It's as if these planes
had been taken

by some mysterious force.

What if there was something
otherworldly involved,

some sort of evil force

from within
The Alaska Triangle?

[narrator]
It's a shocking theory.

And some now believe
that the explanation

could lie not in our skies,

but somewhere far beyond.

[narrator]
The Bermuda Triangle is famous worldwide.

But more than twice
as many airplanes

have disappeared
without a trace

in The Alaska Triangle.

[Jerry] Well, clearly,
something very odd is going on.

Surely, there's some kind
of paranormal phenomenon

that's making
these aircraft disappear.

[narrator]
One disturbing theory

is that these planes
are being taken by UFOs.

The Alaska Triangle
is a hotbed of UFO activity,

and there's good evidence
that these UFOs

do have an interest
in airplanes.

In 1950, a US Navy pilot
reported encountering a UFO

in the skies over Kodiak.

It was tracked on radar,

and the navy chiefs
issued a top secret report

to the highest levels
of government.

A few months later,
a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force

filled a report of three UFOs

hovering over
Elmendorf Airbase in Anchorage.

Then, in 1986, in the middle
of The Alaska Triangle,

the crew of
a Japanese airline's flight

watched in horror as two UFOs
taunted their plane,

before a huge mothership
came into view.

If UFOs are abducting
whole planes,

perhaps to investigate
new human technology,

then that would explain
many of the unsolved cases

of missing planes in Alaska.

But the most famous instance
of a disappearing aircraft

in The Alaska Triangle

involved an unremarkable
bush plane.

In 1972, a Cessna carrying
leading politician Hale Boggs

seemed to vanish
into thin air.

[Andrew] Hale Boggs
was the House majority leader

and a member of the infamous
Warren Commission

that looked into
the assassination

of JFK in November, 1963.

[narrator]
Boggs set out on a journey across southern Alaska

with Congressman Nick Begich,
on October 16th, 1972,

flown by
a very experienced pilot.

[Steve] They took off
from Anchorage

and they were
on their way to Juneau

and they never arrived.

The weather was good.

There was no reason that they
should've gone down.

The plane
just simply disappeared.

And we're talking about
just poof and gone.

[Andrew]
The United States Coast Guard,

the Alaska State Troopers,

and even
the Air National Guard,

all took part in the search,

but they found nothing,

despite it being
a well-traveled air route

and over an area of land

that had a lot
of ground activity.

[Steve] There was
no wreckage found,

there was no record
of them landing,

there was no crash site,
nothing.

They were just gone.

They just disappeared.

[Andrew] Indeed, no wreckage
has ever been found

all these years later,

rendering the whole case
strangely mysterious

and then very sinister.

[Jerry] How can it be
that these planes

just disappear?

Maybe it's related
to paranormal phenomenon

that we don't yet understand.

Maybe it's related
to the UFO activity.

It doesn't make any sense
at all.

[narrator] Andrew Gough
thinks the answer may have less to do with UFOs,

and more to do
with other dimensions.

It's long been suspected
that there are portals or wormholes

in The Alaska Triangle

that draw
unsuspecting aircraft into their path.

Could this be
the answer as to why, in so many instances,

no wreckage
has ever been found?

Is it because the planes
have been taken into another dimension

and remain there, trapped?

[Jerry] It's a mystery.

Completely unexplained
why these aircraft

are disappearing
in The Alaska Triangle.

Why or how
this is taking place,

we don't know,

but it is a fact
that it's happening.

[narrator] All these
airplane disappearances

echo the disappearances
of people on the ground.

The mysteries of Alaska
seem to know no bounds.

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