16,000 people have vanished in the Alaskan Triangle since the 80’s. What is this Bermuda Triangle cousin

Let’s find out:

We all know going into the wilderness is risky. It’s dangerous out in those woods ya’ll. You can trip and sprain your ankle and find yourself stuck, a freak storm could blow over, there’s a tone of wildlife that wants to eat you….

But there’s a particular part of Alaska that seems deadlier than any other. The Alaskan Triangle.

The triangle goes through four of the regions in the state including a large part of Juneau and Yakutat, Anchorage and the Barrow Mountain.

But what exactly is going on in what is called the Alaskan Triangle? The disappearances are massive. Alaska as a whole has a missing person rate twice the national average, and a very high percentage of missing people never being found. About 1 in 4 in every 1000 people go missing there. A famous case involves 24-year-old Chris McCandless who set off in 1993 to find himself and died by ingesting poisonous berries. There’s some speculation though as to why he ingested those berries when he would have known they were poisonous. Was he just delirious? His body was emaciated and showed signs of drastic starvation after 112 days in the Alaskan wilderness. His story was made into a book, and a movie, Into the Wild. The Denali National Park that Chris died in is in the middle of the Alaskan Triangle.

In 1950 a military craft disappeared which had 44 passengers. Nothing was ever found.

In 1990 a Cessna 340 disappeared along with 5 people.

The world first started really paying attention to the Alaskan Triangle in 1972 when U.S. House Majority Leader Hale Boggs disappeared in a plane between Anchorage and Juneau. He also had with him Russell Brown, Aide, Representative Nick Begich, and the Pilot Don Jonz. There was a massive manhunt, the country’s largest ever at the time, which lasted for 39 days. It involved 40 military aircraft and 50 civilian planes. They searched 32,000 square miles. But nothing was ever found. Like….absolutely nothing. No bits of the plane, no signs of life, no clothing…just nothing.

There’s a few theories so let’s talk about them:

Dennis Waller, author of In Search of the Kushtaka, Alaska’s Other Bigfoot: The Land-Otter Man of Tlingit Indians, thinks perhaps there are shape-shifting creatures that come from Tlingit and Tsimshian Indian tales. They also allude to a Bigfoot like creature that could live in this triangle area. Kushtaka is known as “land otter man”. These are shapeshifters that assume human form, an otter form, and others. The more sinister stories claim the Kushtaka would shapeshift into something tantalizing that would lead hikers to their death. They could imitate a crying baby and lure victims into a freezing river where they would kill the person by tearing them into shreds. The Bigfoot resemblance is that they are said to emit a high pitched three-part whistle. Similar sounds to what the Bigfoot could make.

Another theory is glaciers and snow. Glaciers may look solid but there are dangerous parts of it that can have hidden holes and crevices that people may fall into. There’s no way to see these crevasses coming until you make one wrong step.

Energy vortexes. Stay with me. But this is another theory. These are swirling centers of energy crackles that radiate in a spiraling cone shape that create positive and negative energy. They supposedly affect humans. People use positive vortexes to heal and meditate. But negative vortexes can deplete your energy and cause disorientation and hallucinations. People claim the triangle is filled with these, much like Japan’s Devil’s Sea and Easter Island, and of course the Bermuda Triangle. There is a bit of science to it though, there have been electronic readings done in Alaska that have found some magnetic anomalies. These have screwed up compasses and rescue workers have claimed to have light-headedness.

ALIENS. In 1986 a Japanese plane that was flying to Anchorage from Iceland saw three unidentified objects that followed them for 400 miles. Through the Alaskan triangle. The pilots said one of the objects was twice the size of a regular aircraft! They also saw flashing lights and that they disappeared and reappeared quickly. Even air traffic controllers reported seeing something on the radar that was 5 miles away from the plane, but couldn’t figure out what it was. They were followed for 32 minutes before the UFOs disappeared.

Or could it just simply be the wilderness and Mother Nature? More than half of the country’s federally protected wilderness is in Alaska alone. There are three million lakes and 33,000 miles of coastline. The second highest cause of death in Alaska is accidental injuries. The third-highest is actually drowning. The problem though is that because of the horribly cold temperatures, bodies that drown sink to the bottom instead of floating making it even harder to find missing persons.

So, what’s your theory? Is the Alaskan Triangle something supernatural or is it just an incredibly dangerous part of the country?

Alaskan Triangle - 16,000 people missing - what's the cause?

Written by Charlotte

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