The area known as the Alaska Triangle.
The Alaska Triangle, sometimes called Alaska’s Bermuda Triangle, is a place in the untouched wilderness of the Frontier State where mystery lingers, and people go missing at a very high rate.
The Alaska Triangle connects the state’s largest city of Anchorage in the south, to Juneau in the southeast panhandle, to Barrow, a small town on the state’s north coast. Here is some of North America’s most unforgiving wilderness.
The area began attracting public attention in October 1972, when a small, private plane carrying U.S. House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, Alaska Congressman Nick Begich, an aide, Russell Brown, and their bush pilot Don Jonz seemingly vanished into thin air while flying from Anchorage to Juneau. For over a month, 50 civilian planes and 40 military aircraft, plus dozens of boats, covered a search area of 32,000 square miles, but no trace of the plane, the men, wreckage, or debris was ever found.
Afterward, more planes went down, hikers went missing, and Alaskan residents and tourists seemed to vanish into thin air. In fact, since 1988, more than 16,000 people have disappeared in the Alaska Triangle, with a missing person rate of more than twice the national average.
In any given year, 500-2000 people go missing in Alaska, never to be seen again. Authorities conduct hundreds of rescue missions and often return without finding the missing person or evidence.
These disappearances are blamed on everything from severe weather to aliens, swirling energy vortexes, and an evil shape-shifting demon of Tlingit Indian lore called Kushtaka. But the most likely explanation for these many missing people is the wilderness itself. This area has dense forests, craggy mountain peaks, massive glaciers, hidden caves, and deep crevasses where downed aircraft or lost hikers might easily be hidden and then covered by snowfall, hiding any trace of human activity. This harsh landscape is also filled with wild animals and is subject to unforgiving weather, including avalanches.
More than half of the nation’s federally-designated wilderness lies in Alaska, and many of the permanent disappearances are linked to dangerous, natural elements. Alaska is bound by 33,000 miles of coastline and contains more than three million lakes, untamed wildlife, and winters that blanket vast reaches of the state in snow and ice.
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