A cryptozoologist hunts for scientific proof of Bigfoot in the remote Alaskan wilderness, and experts investigate a mysterious vortex of energy that may be behind unexplained disappearances and paranormal activity in Alaska.
A cryptozoologist hunts for scientific proof of Bigfoot in the remote Alaskan wilderness, and experts investigate a mysterious vortex of energy that may be behind unexplained disappearances and paranormal activity in Alaska.
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SPEAKER 1: Alaska, a vast remote wilderness twice the size of Texas.
SPEAKER 2: There are dangerous, unpredictable forces at work here.
SPEAKER 1: In one of the most mysterious corners of the globe.
SPEAKER 3: A lot of things can kill you out here without even trying.
SPEAKER 1: This is a place hundreds of times more deadly than the Bermuda Triangle.
SPEAKER 4: Oh my god.
SPEAKER 1: Stories of alien abductions.
SPEAKER 5: I believe it was a UFO.
SPEAKER 1: The paranormal, vanishing airplanes, and strange beasts.
SPEAKER 6: The Alaskan Bigfoot, he can rip you in half.
SPEAKER 7: These accounts are really widespread.
SPEAKER 2: They peaked out of the tree right there.
SPEAKER 1: Have haunted those who dare set foot here. In the last 30 years, 16,000 people have disappeared without a
trace.
SPEAKER 8: More people have disappeared than the Bermuda Triangle, two to three times the amount.
SPEAKER 1: Witnesses tell us their shocking stories.
SPEAKER 9: I was petrified.
SPEAKER 1: And we've gathered some of the world's leading experts in their field.
SPEAKER 10: I'm always after scientific evidence that can be independently corroborated.
SPEAKER 1: 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 US state.
SPEAKER 2: I believe the Alaska Triangle is far more dangerous, unpredictable, and deadly than the well known Bermuda
Triangle.
SPEAKER 11: In the last 30 years alone over 16,000 people have gone missing in Alaska, missing as in their bodies are never
found. Nobody knows what happened to them.
SPEAKER 2: 16,000? That doesn't seem possible.
SPEAKER 11: It's truly frightening.
SPEAKER 1: 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?
Because of its remoteness, there could be more Bigfoot in the triangle than anywhere else. Perhaps this is the
reason why people are disappearing.
PEDUCIA
ANDREWS:
I saw something real huge. It had a lot of dark hair. It's a Bigfoot.
RAY VASILY: It was this Bigfoot. It looked like he was just watching us.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
With so much fantastic habitat and so few people to compete with, Sasquatches basically have the run of Alaska.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
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.
SPEAKER 1: 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. Peducia
Andrews has lived here her whole life. One day in the summer of 2015 while out berry picking, her dog raised the
alarm.
PEDUCIA
ANDREWS:
Pretty soon she started barking so weird. I've never heard a dog bark like that before. She woof and she would
jump so high off the ground. And I looked at her. And I said, what the heck are you doing? 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.
SPEAKER 1: Perhaps Peducia saw a moose or maybe even a bear. Both are common around Alaska.
PEDUCIA
ANDREWS:
I grew up knowing what a moose looks like. We all know what a bear looks like. We know all that. Of course, I
assume it's a Bigfoot. There's just two different.
SPEAKER 1: Since the early 1900s, 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
BARACKMAN:
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.
SPEAKER 1: Even from the water there have been some notable sightings. Ray Vasily 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.
RAY VASILY: We left from the landing area and we started going across the lake.
SPEAKER 1: When he looked up, he had the shock of his life.
RAY VASILY: There was this Bigfoot or hairy man on the side of the lake. It looked like he was just watching us.
SPEAKER 1: Ray's friend Sarah Armstrong saw the Bigfoot just as clearly as he did.
SARAH
ARMSTRONG:
We were just getting ready and I look off to the right, and I can see this black figure. 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?
SPEAKER 1: Then they realized they were looking at a Bigfoot.
RAY VASILY: It was like a dark black, just furry, long hair. You could see it, the outline of it, pretty good.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
Wow! Check that out! That is amazing! Prime Bigfoot habitat as far as the eye can see.
SPEAKER 1: If there are Bigfoot out there, Cliff wants to find them. But do they want to be found?
If there's one place on Earth where legend comes alive, it's the Alaska Triangle. And there's no greater legend
than Bigfoot. Bigfoot Hunter Cliff Barackman has made the tough journey to Lake Iliamna to go in search.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
If there's anywhere on the planet that Bigfoots could live undisturbed, it's right here.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
LANCE
HIGHTOWER:
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
and 1/2 half feet as well as three 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.
SPEAKER 1: But the best chance could be in the Alaska Triangle. With so much ready game, Bigfoot may even be bigger here.
LANCE
HIGHTOWER:
Everything is larger in Alaska, why not Bigfoot? The food sources for something as large as a Bigfoot, deer,
caribou, moose is abundant.
SPEAKER 1: Most Bigfoot sightings put the creature at about 7 or 8 feet. The one that Sarah and Ray saw was certainly bigger
than that.
RAY VASILY: We could tell that it was at least 9, 10 feet. And then, bam! Just like that it was gone. Wow! What to say? We
know we've seen a Bigfoot.
SARAH
ARMSTRONG:
It's shocking to see something like that. And even more shocking when it just disappears that fast.
RAY VASILY: How can you explain something like that?
SPEAKER 1: Whatever it was, one way you don't explain it is by saying it was a bear.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
Kokhanok 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
ROBERT ALLEY: 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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 ALLEY: Perhaps, most significantly they're accredited with the abduction of children, abduction of women, even
occasionally abduction of men.
SPEAKER 1: 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. 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.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
The Alaska Triangle is very much the analogy of the Bermuda Triangle and 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?
SPEAKER 1: Alaska is 9 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. And in the Indigenous folklore, the beast has always been here. Q.
Litchard comes from a long line of Native shaman.
Q. LITCHARD: Stories of Bigfoot go way back. They go way further back then when Westerners came here. The native people
knew about them for a long time. And they weren't considered a mythology for the native people. They're 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.
SPEAKER 1: The traditional description of the creature is also a perfect match for modern-day sightings.
Q. LITCHARD: Bigfoot are probably about as wide as I am tall. They have very broad muscular shoulders. Imagine encountering
something that's 6 foot 2 across and 8 foot tall, 12 foot tall? It's pretty intimidating creature.
SPEAKER 1: 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'd seen the beast.
SARAH
ARMSTRONG:
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.
SPEAKER 1: For Sarah, it was a strange eerie experience.
SARAH
ARMSTRONG:
That just seemed private or mystical or just to leave it be.
SPEAKER 1: Within the native population, Bigfoot 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 email and he knows straight away this is something
special.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
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.
SPEAKER 2: 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
hobbies 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, 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 going to be out here walking around in their bare feet and who's got feet that big?
SPEAKER 1: Judging by the size of his detector, these footprints are between 16 and 18 inches long.
SPEAKER 2: 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 two short. I would have had to have jumped to almost
make that distance. So that's why I started videotaping was because I thought nobody's going to believe this.
SPEAKER 1: Giant footprints in a straight line and with a stride that's over 6 feet. Classic Bigfoot now caught on video.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
They are typically flat footed. 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 Bigfoots have a straight line appearance.
SPEAKER 2: never really thought about Bigfoot until I found these footprints. I'm just to the point where I believe it could be.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
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.
These footprints caught on video right in the middle of the Triangle could be vital Bigfoot evidence. But just off
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 JACKSON: Friends 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 Kigluaik Mountain, you have to watch out for those big black gorillas that live up there. He told
them that he said they marked their territories by driving these blown down trees into the ground upside down.
SPEAKER 1: There's no evidence of logging machinery being used. There are no tracks in the area and no marks on the trees.
Q. LITCHARD: 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 going to suffer the consequences.
ROBERT ALLEY: 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.
SPEAKER 1: One thousand 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.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
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 lower volume noises thinking that I'm
going to be here, boom, make a noise. Now it's a listening game.
[WHISTLE]
SPEAKER 1: For all Cliff knows, there could be a Bigfoot out there watching his every move, perhaps even within yards of him.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
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.
ROBERT ALLEY: 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.
SPEAKER 1: Cliff's brought with him a thermal camera. Anything wide is giving 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.
Q. LITCHARD: 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. But 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.
SPEAKER 1: Does this explain the sudden disappearance of the Bigfoot that Sarah and Ray saw?
SARAH
ARMSTRONG:
There was something there and then there wasn't.
RAY VASILY: Bam! Just like that it was gone.
Q. LITCHARD: They know how to do things that we don't even understand yet. That's beyond us.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
ROBERT ALLEY: 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 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.
SPEAKER 1: The evidence is mounting that Bigfoot lives in Alaska and that the Alaska Triangle could be the reason.
SARAH
ARMSTRONG:
Alaska is pretty amazing. It's really magical. I definitely believe.
RAY VASILY: I believe because I saw it.
SARAH
ARMSTRONG:
People have seen too much of it for us to not believe them. And I know there's something out there.
[SCREAMING]
ROBERT ALLEY: I am 100% convinced that Bigfoot exist and are real, maybe in sparse numbers but definitely, definitely real.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
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.
SPEAKER 1: 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. 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.
LANCE
HIGHTOWER:
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.
SPEAKER 1: 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. It is 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 ENOCH: 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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 ENOCH: A vortex can transform everyday situations into other worldly events. If there was a vortex above the Bermuda
Triangle that would explain everything.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
BRUCE
GERNON:
Vortices definitely exists because I've been through it.
SPEAKER 1: In 1970, Pilot Bruce Gernon 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.
BRUCE
GERNON:
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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
In 1964, there was a massive earthquake that hit the Anchorage area 9.2 magnitude, absolutely devastating.
Buildings were toppled, streets were upended, and created a lot of destruction around this area. We know that
electromagnetic activity helped to cause this earthquake.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
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.
SPEAKER 1: There's one sure way Mike knows how to detect any unusual electromagnetic activity.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
So we're up here in the mountains of Alaska. We have some dowsing rods with us. What I'm going to 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.
SPEAKER 1: If the rods move, it would be the sign of unusual electromagnetic energy. And this knowledge goes back a long
way.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
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 is an energy grid on our planet. Now these have been traditionally called ley lines. But to
the ancient peoples, they call this the serpentine energies.
SPEAKER 1: It's these same energies that Mike is trying to detect in the Alaska Triangle.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
So we're getting a little push from the left side of the air. If we move away and that goes back out, then they'll let
us know that the activity, the energy was centralized back there. And we can already see a certain move out a
little bit. Yes, it's moved back out. As we come back, see, 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
Alaska is near the North Pole. 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.
SPEAKER 1: The native population believes this electromagnetic energy can have dangerous spiritual properties.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
The unusual electromagnetic energy makes it so we have super charged areas that could allow inter-dimensional
travel or portals to be opened from other realms.
SPEAKER 1: If this were true, then these portals could go a long way to explaining the mystery of the Alaska Triangle.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
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.
SPEAKER 1: Strange things do happen. Bruce Gernon did have a bizarre experience of some kind. And conditions are more
extreme in Alaska.
BRUCE
GERNON:
So there seems to be a definite relationship with being so close to the North Pole that 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.
SPEAKER 1: 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.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
We're going to walk in this general direction, kind of same as we did with the rods, and see if we can get any
indications off of this meter.
SPEAKER 1: The detector shows Mike the level of milliwatts per square meter, the power of the electricity in the air.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
And there is a general electric field. It keeps reading at about 0.1, 0.2 right now. It's 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.
SPEAKER 3: Could it be an indicator that the Alaska Triangle is having an effect here?
SPEAKER 1: As well as leading to vortices, there are those who believe that this effect has attracted visitors from far away.
MIKE
RICKSECKER:
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.
CLIFF
BARACKMAN:
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.
SPEAKER 1: 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're only just beginning to contemplate.