Story TV has a series about this tonight...8 part series:

Missing in Alaska
Alaska's Mutant Monkeys
Primate sightings in the Alaskan woods have the team puzzled, since experts say that monkeys have never lived in Alaska. Missing person reports in the area, reported cries from the trees, and sightings of what look like oversized monkeys call to mind the legends of vicious baboon-like creatures from long ago. With new monkey species constantly being discovered all around the world, the team investigates if there could be a variety in the Alaska Triangle that is making meals out of men?

Missing in Alaska
Hunted by the Hairy Man
Tales of Bigfoot sightings are reported globally but the Alaskan version is the most extreme, standing over 14 feet. Is this massive, aggressive creature targeting people in the Alaska Triangle? Cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard and team try to track down the beast, hoping to learn how this monster remains so elusive.

Missing in Alaska
Zombies of HAARP
The Aurora Borealis has been seen as a mystical force in Alaska for many centuries, but could a manmade version be used for mind control? Our team explores a top secret government facility known as HAARP, an electromagnetic generator that could be driving people to disappear in the Alaska Triangle.

Missing in Alaska
Alaska's Birds of Slay
A jogger vanishes from the top of Mt. Marathon in Alaska and a witness describes seeing a monstrous, airplane-sized raptor around the time of the disappearance. Could ancient stories of the Thunderbird be true? The team investigates the missing jogger's final steps and the potential existence of this enormous predator.

Missing in Alaska
Taken Into the Wild
Ancient lore talks of a Canadian warrior tribe that once terrorized the Nahanni valley, decapitating their enemies with scythes. The tribe vanished many years ago, but might have resurfaced in the Alaska Triangle. Missing person reports have coincided with eyewitness' sightings of frightening ancient soldiers. Our team investigates the mystery.

Missing in Alaska
Swallowed by the Lake Dragon
With the unsolved case of a missing kayaker at Lake Iliamna, many believe that the legendary Iliamna Lake Monster (or "Ilie") is the culprit. In this huge body of water, a reclusive creature has plenty of room to hide. The team investigates this beast and the possibilities of its existence.

Missing in Alaska
Scared of the Bear God
Sixty years ago, the residents of an entire Alaskan village disappeared without a trace. A passing fisherman witnessed a massive, ferocious white bear, reminiscent of a northern legend, the Bear God called Torngarsuk. Could nature have paved the way for a real, extraordinary sized bear? The team searches for answers.

Missing in Alaska
Shapeshifters From the River
Tlingit folklore describes a creature that's half-otter, half-man, who steals the souls of its victims. Could a shapeshifting Otterman, or Kushtaka, be disguising itself to target humans as prey? Our team uses eyewitness accounts and their own stakeout to investigate whether this creature is merely a myth.

https://storytelevision.com/schedule
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Why Over 20,000 People Have Vanished In "The Alaska Triangle"

Unlike the Bermuda Triangle, statistics back up fears of the Alaska Triangle.
Tom Hale
Senior Journalist


Two caribou standing on top of a mountain range in Alaska.

It's not hard to see why so many poor souls go missing in the Alaskan wilderness.

The over-hyped perils of the Bermuda Triangle have become the stuff of modern-day folklore. Fewer people, however, know about the so-called Alaska Triangle, said to be the location of more unsolved missing person cases than anywhere else in the world.

The Alaska Triangle is a loosely defined area in the state between the three points of Anchorage and Juneau in the south, and Utqiagvik, a small remote city found on the northern coast.

It’s estimated that well over 20,000 people have vanished in this vast swath of land since the early 1970s. Considering how sparsely populated the area is, that’s a shockingly high rate. For the whole of Alaska, it works out to be an average of 2,250 people disappearing every year, twice the national average, many of which appear to occur in this triangle of ultra-rugged land.

Some of the highest-profile people to go missing in the Alaska Triangle are Thomas Hale Boggs Sr, who was serving as the US House Majority Leader, and Nick Begich, an Alaska Congressman. The two politicians disappeared on October 16, 1972, when flying in a light aircraft from Anchorage to Juneau alongside Begich's aide, Russell Brown, and the pilot, Don Jonz.


The Alaska Triangle is roughly between the three points of Anchorage and Juneau in the south, and Utqiagvik, a small remote city found on the northern coast.
Image credit: Google Maps, edited by IFLScience.

A massive search effort was launched to find the four missing people, but the bodies nor the plane were ever discovered. Given these mysterious circumstances, the incident has sparked a number of conspiracy theories. Boggs was a member of the Warren Commission, the official body set up to investigate the assassination of JFK, and reportedly disagreed with many of the group’s findings.

Another prominent case was Gary Frank Sotherden, a 25-year-old New Yorker who traveled to the Alaskan wilderness in the mid-1970s to go hunting, but he never returned home. In the summer of 1997, a hunter found a human skull along the Porcupine River in northeastern Alaska, from which DNA was recovered in 2022. State troopers later concluded that the skull belonged to Sotherden who most likely died after being mauled by a bear.

Instead of mystical forces and otherworldly explanations, it’s self-evident that the remote patches of Alaska are a very easy place to disappear within. There are more caribou than people in Alaska. As the most sparsely populated state, just 730,000 people live in Alaska, meaning just 1/20th of 1 percent of the state is inhabited.

The rest is relatively untouched wilderness, complete with ragged mountain ranges, glaciers, bitterly cold weather, millions of lakes, countless crevasses, vast valleys, and lots of bears.

Some out-there theories suggest the Alaska Triangle is the site of unusual magnetic activity or a high number of extraterrestrial alien visitors. However, simpler and more likely explanations are easily at hand: your chances of going missing in a vast and empty land full of natural dangers are relatively high.

https://www.iflscience.com/why...laska-triangle-69957

Reckon it has something to do with it being a thousand miles of fuckall, wilderness, and bears.

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Reckon it has something to do with it being a thousand miles of fuckall, wilderness, and bears.

Yeah, that's what the article said.

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Instead of mystical forces and otherworldly explanations, it’s self-evident that the remote patches of Alaska are a very easy place to disappear within. There are more caribou than people in Alaska. As the most sparsely populated state, just 730,000 people live in Alaska, meaning just 1/20th of 1 percent of the state is inhabited.

The rest is relatively untouched wilderness, complete with ragged mountain ranges, glaciers, bitterly cold weather, millions of lakes, countless crevasses, vast valleys, and lots of bears.

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
Reckon it has something to do with it being a thousand miles of fuckall, wilderness, and bears.

And essentially encompassing the areas between the two largest cities in the state and the highways that travel between them.

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
Reckon it has something to do with it being a thousand miles of fuckall, wilderness, and bears.

Not to mention those yuuugggeeee meese.

That looks like a cute triangle.

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fuckall, wilderness, and bears

People with little to no survival training, experience or the proper gear wander out into the wild, get lost and die quickly from exposure or worse. The animals quickly clean up the carcasses and its difficult to ever find any trace of them in that vast wildness. Its not surprising at all.

I tired watching that program yesterday and while it was interesting for a while I quickly got bored with it because all these shows never find any concrete evidence of anything. Alaska is huge and ignorant people who don't understand the dangers of being out in the wild don't last long when they wander off unprepared. I'm sure most disappearances are due to people just getting lost and dying of exposure, some most likely fall victim to some animal on two legs and of course there are dangerous 4 legged animals out there looking for a easy meal but I don't believe big foot or aliens have anything to do with these disappearances.

Could they have drawn a more ridiculous triangle?

Land - They roughly drew a triangle the size of Texas that encompasses arctic circle (i.e. so far north trees don't grow), mountains, islands, Gulf of Alaska, fjords, 3rd largest tide in the world, largest fault line in North America, etc.

Weather - the arctic circle has violent storms where you could die even with arctic survival suit, food, water, and shelter; Gulf of Alaska has violent storms (I've puked my guts out there) and if you capsize the water temperature leads to death quickly; Avalanches in mountain passes; violent floods if fast thaw in spring; etc. Hell, even being dropped off by float plane to go fly fishing can go from a day trip to a 10-day trip due to weather.

Apex predators - grizzly/brown bear, polar, bear, wolves, wolverines, etc. There is a reason that security carried .375 H&H magnums to protect construction crews when they were building the TransAlaskan pipeline from Deadhorse (arctic circle) to Valdez.

It's the plane crash capitol of the United States if you look at statistics per capita

Boroughs (aka counties) larger than most states are dry so they're drinking moonshine and smuggled booze. A lot of these sightings are from people drunk on shine or on a serious bender.

Tourists - they get off a plane or cruise ship and think they're at the zoo. Absolutely clueless at the dangers of getting lost (e.g. blindly following GPS on mountain road up above the snow line). Hell, some are so fucking dumb they can't even go to the zoo without being mauled by a polar bear (e.g. this Aussie):

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Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity

DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer.

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Hell, some are so fucking dumb they can't even go to the zoo without being mauled by a polar bear (e.g. this Aussie)

"...hopped a couple of fences to get a close-up snapshot..." Stupid like that should hurt. Bad. Real bad.

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It’s estimated that well over 20,000 people have vanished in this vast swath of land since the early 1970s. Considering how sparsely populated the area is, that’s a shockingly high rate. For the whole of Alaska, it works out to be an average of 2,250 people disappearing every year, twice the national average, many of which appear to occur in this triangle of ultra-rugged land.

At first I thought "well over 20,000 people have vanished" was a HUGE number... but then I read that it's since the early 1970s, an average of 2,250 people which doesn't seem unfathomable.

BUT a little quick math in the head is 20,000 / 50 = 400.
Huh? How can it be an average of 2,250 people per year?

Well, they said over 20,000 people. So they are technically correct.

This guy lost in Alaska got lucky and saw the Katmai Park Dumpling Mountain bear cam and called for help.



https://www.kdlg.org/2023-09-1...cam-prompting-rescue

I wonder what the attrition rate was for the Gold Prospectors in the 1800's?

Yep, I now have a sudden hankering to plan me a homesteading saga in that beautiful area. I'll start gathering my provisions just as soon as I finish my hot chocolate in front of my gas fireplace in rural Tennessee amidst the balmy 31-degree weather outside.

Alaska is one of the few remaining places in this country where natural selection still works. It's remote enough that public services aren't readily available, and there aren't a bunch of nanny-state regulations and oversight to protect you from yourself. If you're lazy, stupid, or just downright unlucky, there's a good chance you're going to die.

The people who live up there outside the cities are as hard and resilient as the environment they live in. They work constantly in often miserable conditions, and have to have the skills and equipment to get stuff done for themselves. I love it there, and if I could find a way to move up there while affording to live and support my family, I would.

The numbers disappearing per year don't add up and they didn't seem to be armed for old griz. A bear made a visit to one place while they were gone and ate the food.

That HAARP site is interesting:

The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is the world’s most capable high-power, high frequency (HF) transmitter for study of the ionosphere. The principal instrument is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a phased array of 180 HF crossed-dipole antennas spread across 33 acres and capable of radiating 3.6 megawatts into the upper atmosphere and ionosphere. Transmit frequencies are selectable in the range of 2.7 to 10 MHz, and since the antennas form a sophisticated phased array, the transmitted beam can take many shapes, can be scanned over a wide angular range and multiple beams can be formed. The facility uses 30 transmitter shelters, each with six pairs of 10 kilowatt transmitters, to achieve the 3.6 MW transmit power.

https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/faq
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While working at MITRE in the 80's, one of the co-workers was working on a project balancing signals off meteors. Here are are some articles done later on Meteor Burst Communications:

https://www.researchgate.net/p...ulate_as_You_Operate

https://media.defense.gov/2021...-1/0/METEO_BURST.PDF

Sounds like a good place to take pedophiles and wife beaters

My question lately is: Why is it only ever a triangle?

I mean, why not "The Rhodesian Rectangle" or "The Hungarian Hexagon" or...

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...8 part series:

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Is this...?

...but could...?

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...but might have...

...many believe...

Could nature have...?

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Sounds pretty definitive to me.