A woman's idyllic Alaskan dream soon descends into a paranormal nightmare as she starts to suffer attacks by an unseen force. Recent sightings may prove that a Native American legend about a mysterious race of giants is true.
A woman's idyllic Alaskan dream soon descends into a paranormal nightmare as she starts to suffer attacks by an unseen force. Recent sightings may prove that a Native American legend about a mysterious race of giants is true.
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
SPEAKER 1: Alaska-- a vast, remote wilderness twice the size of Texas.
TONY
HERNADEZ:
There are dangerous, unpredictable forces at work here.
SPEAKER 1: In one of the most mysterious corners of the globe.
SPEAKER 2: 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 2: I believe it was a UFO.
SPEAKER 1: The paranormal, vanishing airplanes and strange beasts--
SPEAKER 2: The Alaskan Bigfoot, he can rip you in half.
SPEAKER 3: These accounts are really widespread.
SPEAKER 5: [BLEEP] it peeked 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 2: More people have disappeared than the Bermuda Triangle, two to three times the amount.
SPEAKER 1: Witnesses tell us their shocking stories.
SPEAKER 6: I was petrified.
SPEAKER 1: And we've gathered some of the world's leading experts in their field--
SPEAKER 7: I'm always after scientific evidence that can be independently corroborated.
SPEAKER 1: --to try and unlock the mystery of the Alaska Triangle.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Alaska, a mysterious and deadly place where stories of apparitions and the paranormal curse the land. From
ghost ships, like SS Baychimo that sailed crewless for over 40 years, to haunted hotels like The Alaskan in
Juneau, where guests have jumped three stories to escape its hauntings.
SPEAKER 8: He was found in the street. Blood covering the walls.
SPEAKER 1: Could the spirits of the Alaska Triangle be conspiring to drive out those who dare visit, and those who live there?
SPEAKER 2: Some of these cases are so terrifying that the victims are actually forced to flee from their homes.
SPEAKER 9: Go, go, go, go!
[SCREAMING]
SPEAKER 1: Even hardy ghost hunters have been chased off by what they've discovered.
SPEAKER 10: It came on our recorders.
MAN SPIRIT: I want you!
SPEAKER 1: What are these ghosts trying to tell us?
SPEAKER 2: I think it's saying, I want you dead.
SPEAKER 3: I'm shaking a little bit because it's a little spooky.
SPEAKER 1: The deadly forces of the Alaska Triangle will seemingly stop at nothing.
SARAH JEBSON:Just devastating.
SARAH'S
FRIEND:
(SCREAMING) Sarah!
SPEAKER 1: This was once Sarah Jebson's idyllic cabin-- before, it seems, a violent spirit raised it to the ground, forcing Sarah
and her children out of their home.
SARAH JEBSON:All the years and hard work I put into this, and this is what's left of it, it makes me sad.
SPEAKER 1: Just one of many ghostly encounters from the Alaska Triangle that could have cost a family their lives.
SARAH JEBSON:This property just has, like, this weird vibe. It's almost like I lived on a vortex.
SPEAKER 1: Sarah story begins near the town of Sterling in the South of Alaska. Behind the picturesque setting, this area is a
hotspot for unwanted spirits, according to Tony Hernandez, a local paranormal investigator.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
This area has been populated and traveled through for thousands of years. Alaska itself, there's so many
undisclosed burial grounds from the old Indians.
SPEAKER 1: The swaths of hidden native burial grounds seem to act like a magnet to unwanted spirits.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
Do we have a lot of strange and unexplained activity within a certain defined area? Yes, we do. Where this
activity is happening is where people live.
SPEAKER 1: In 1999, Sarah Jebson moved to a quaint trapper's cabin in the woods. She was two miles from her nearest
neighbor.
SARAH JEBSON:As soon as I stepped out there, I was, like, I got to have this. I had, like, big plans for it.
SPEAKER 1: Sarah's daughter, Montana, was just five years old at the time.
MONTANA
JEBSON:
We kind of just played outside a lot.
SARAH JEBSON:Look girls, this is where we're going to live.
MONTANA
JEBSON:
Kind of lived in the mud life.
SARAH JEBSON:It was something that said, this is yours. I loved it.
SPEAKER 1: Soon, though, it was clear that Sarah and her children were not welcome here. Could the forces of the Alaska
Triangle be at work around her property?
SARAH JEBSON:Ow! Shoot! The place was full of carpenter ants. Ahh! All over my property.
MONTANA
JEBSON:
They're biting me!
SARAH JEBSON:Brush them off, brush them off. They came out of the woodwork. It got really bad. I'd be laying in bed at night
and ants would be falling on my face.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SCREAMING]
We started to notice just a lot of bizarre happenings.
[ELECTRIC BUZZ]
The light would flicker on and off. Things like my answering machine going off randomly.
PHONE
RECORDING:
If you would like to make a call, please hang up and try again. [BEEPING] If you need help, hang up and then dial
your operator.
SARAH JEBSON:Just the weirdest things like that.
SPEAKER 1: It seems Alaska could be a breeding ground for paranormal activity. Some experts believe there's more here than
anywhere else in the US. One reason could be the many Native burial grounds drawing unwanted spirits to the
area. Sarah discovered her home may have been built on one.
SARAH JEBSON:I started walking around my property and I found all these little holes. And then I found holes that looked like a
gravesite, big enough for a body. So I thought maybe, I live on an Indian burial ground.
SPEAKER 1: So could it be the ghosts of these ancient burial grounds that were terrorizing Sarah and her family?
PHONE
RECORDING:
We're sorry, we're sorry.
SPEAKER 1: Jeff Richards may have the answer. He's an intuitive and an expert in the paranormal.
JEFF
RICHARDS:
Building a home on the sacred grounds on burial lands-- I mean, that can potentially be problematic. That can be
a bad idea because those grounds are protected in the living world, but they're also protected in the spirit world.
And those energies might take action against whoever is there.
SPEAKER 1: But now, had the Triangle produced a spirit much more malevolent, more terrifying, that was targeting Sarah
herself?
SARAH JEBSON:I started having, like, a dream that I was like digging-- digging a hole under my cabin. I probably had it about 20
times. Why would I want to dig a hole under my cabin? It never really made sense.
SPEAKER 1: At night, Sarah's dreams of digging kept recurring. Until one evening--
WOMAN
SPIRIT:
(WHISPERING) Just a second. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me.
SARAH JEBSON:I heard this woman's voice.
WOMAN
SPIRIT:
(WHISPERING) Listen to me.
SARAH JEBSON:Like, it happened probably good 15 times.
SPEAKER 1: Who was this woman speaking to Sarah?
WOMAN
SPIRIT:
Listen to me.
SPEAKER 1: Soon, she'd have an answer when she took pictures of her children.
WOMAN
SPIRIT:
Listen to me.
One she had processed would shock her to the core.
SARAH JEBSON:It was very blurry, but you can see this woman's face, then her hair, and her head turned looking at me. It's
scary to see.
SPEAKER 1: But her daughter, Montana, saw something even more terrifying.
MONTANA
JEBSON:
In the photo, there's a hole in her head.
SPEAKER 1: So why was this female spirit targeting Sarah? The strange forces of the Alaska Triangle were coming together to
haunt her home. Soon, Sarah would uncover the reason. An act of the utmost evil may have taken place in her
cabin-- murder.
[SCREAMING]
[GUNSHOT]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
The Alaska Triangle-- thousands of people have mysteriously gone missing here. Many possibly driven out by
dark spirits.
SPEAKER 2: The Alaska Triangle is absolutely riddled with the paranormal. We have more cases of hauntings and possessions
than many other places in North America. We have many different types of phenomena that are all manifesting
themselves in this space, and none of them are really connected to one another.
SPEAKER 1: The strange forces of the Triangle had violently come together over Sarah Jebson's home near Sterling.
WOMAN
SPIRIT:
(WHISPERING) Listen to me.
SPEAKER 1: A ghostly figure had appeared in her photographs, and she'd had bizarre dreams of digging under her cabin.
Sarah realized this was a message that she needed to act on.
SARAH JEBSON:I ripped up the main floorboard out of the cabin, and started digging the hole.
SPEAKER 1: She was shocked by what she found.
SARAH JEBSON:I found six tiara candle holders from the '70s with melted wax in the bottom and a woman's blouse.
SPEAKER 1: But as Sarah dug deeper, she uncovered something even more horrific.
SARAH JEBSON:I found almost, like, finger bone fragments and I found hair.
SPEAKER 1: Now, Sarah was closer to a horrifying truth. Perhaps, someone was buried under her home and had returned to
haunt it. In an abandoned car on her property, Sarah found another clue to the mystery. A secret diary belonging
to a man who once lived in the cabin.
SARAH JEBSON:This guy's like personal, like, deep thoughts we're all in that diary. And the last journal entry in there was about
his mistress. She just had had enough and wanted to leave.
SPEAKER 1: After she threatened to leave him, the jealous lover wrote chilling words to his mistress.
SARAH JEBSON:He was like, well, if I can't have you, no one can have you.
SPEAKER 1: Sarah came to one terrifying conclusion. The woman threatened by her lover was the ghostly voice speaking to
her in her dreams.
WOMAN
SPIRIT:
(WHISPERING) Listen to me.
SARAH JEBSON:So nobody else could have her, this guy killed her--
[SCREAMING]
[GUNSHOT]
--and buried her underneath my cabin. And that's what she had been trying to tell me with her whispers and my
dreams.
SPEAKER 1: But instead of settling the spirits, Sarah's discovery would unleash something far more sinister.
MONTANA
JEBSON:
There was this one time, me and my sisters, and my mom, were all sleeping in the living room.
SARAH JEBSON:I got a weird feeling and I opened my eyes. My 75-pound glass table was levitated in the air about 5 feet.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Girls!
[GLASS BREAKING]
[SCREAMS]
It dropped out of the air.
MONTANA
JEBSON:
And it comes, like, slamming down. You're just like, what's going on?
SARAH JEBSON:Go, go, let's go. Let's go.
[SCREAMS]
SPEAKER 1: Petrified in the dark of night, Sarah fled with her family to her mother's house, but the dark spirit wasn't done
with Sarah yet.
SARAH JEBSON:All of a sudden, this black mist started rolling underneath the doorway.
SPEAKER 1: Then the evil spirit launched a physical attack.
SARAH JEBSON:I could actually feel something pulling me by my ankles.
[SCREAMING]
I felt petrified. Like, I was like-- I was, like, dead, but I was alive.
[SCREAMING AND CRYING]
SPEAKER 1: Expert intuitive Jeff Richards has been examining Sarah's case.
JEFF
RICHARDS:
I've done over 185 investigations and I've been attacked physically twice by spirit. It happens in very extreme
instances, and when it does happen, it's very worrisome. You know, if a spirit has that type of power, then we
have to sort of wonder what else they're capable of.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
SPEAKER 1: Sarah finally sought help from two of Alaska's leading paranormal investigators-- Neelie Lythgoe and Tony
Hernandez. For years, they've been tackling some of the Alaska Triangle's most terrifying spirits.
SPEAKER 11: What sparked her interest in the case, initially, was the violent activity that was happening on the property. We
had never had a report of this high of violence in a haunting situation.
SPEAKER 1: So Tony and Neelie made the 140 mile journey to Sarah's home in Sterling.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
The location was the back woods, you know, and you're driving down the road and it's spooky. You're spooked. I
was spooked a little bit.
[DOOR CREAKING]
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
Hi, I'm Neelie.
SARAH JEBSON:Sarah.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
Tony. Right off, I know where something's there. You can feel it at that point.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
We're here to help. I was concerned for Sarah. She was extremely distressed.
SPEAKER 1: Soon after setting up their cameras and audio recorders to capture any evidence, the ghost hunters started
picking up readings.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
I even get a little tense right now thinking of that activity level that was there.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
And then it came on our recorders.
SPEAKER 1: This is a never-before-heard clip of the original recording.
MAN SPIRIT: (GROWLING) I want you!
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
Clear as a bell, I want you!
MAN SPIRIT: (GROWLING) I want you!
SPEAKER 1: But then a far more menacing warning.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
It threatened us.
MAN SPIRIT: (GROWLING) I will get you in time, Tony.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
I will get you in time, Tony. Let's go back outside, guys. This was where I got unsettled.
MAN SPIRIT: (GROWLING) I want you.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
It was one of the most intense paranormal activities that I've had.
SPEAKER 1: These were no empty threats either.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
Down the end of the hall, I saw the beads, I mean, just moving on their own like they were dancing. I didn't know
if those beads were going to, like, wrap around my head or what was going to happen. And that's when we saw
the ball of light.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
It was huge. A basketball-sized sphere.
SARAH JEBSON:It was the weirdest thing ever.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
I wanted to see if it was hot or cold.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
And next thing you know, Neelie's walking up to it, reaching out her hand to this thing.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
No! And the thing shot off out the window.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
We gathered our equipment and drove home. We'll be in touch.
SARAH JEBSON:OK.
SPEAKER 1: Even after years of ghost hunting, it was an encounter Tony and Neelie would never forget.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
We've investigated many cases in the state of Alaska. Sarah's case was one of the scariest cases we've ever
done.
SPEAKER 1: When Neelie and Tony got back to base, they reviewed their evidence. They'd captured one inexplicable image.
This is the never-before-seen photograph of what the investigators believe is the apparition.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
And the type of apparitional photos that we got. The orb floating around. I was definitely scared for Sarah.
Something is there, and either wanted her to leave or wanted to dominate her in some way.
SPEAKER 1: The investigators listened back to their recordings for any signs of what ghost hunters call electronic voice
phenomena. They found one sinister message, and this is the original recording.
MAN SPIRIT: I want a bouquet!
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
Where do bouquets happen? Usually at funerals.
MAN SPIRIT: I want a bouquet!
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
Is it referring to the dead, or is it referred to burials on the property?
[PIANO MUSIC]
SPEAKER 1: So could Sarah shed any further light on what the ghost that terrorized her is trying to say? For the first time,
she's about to hear Tony and Neelie's disturbing recordings.
MAN SPIRIT: (GROWLING) I want you!
SARAH JEBSON:See, that's super creepy. I mean, it's scary to think that something I can't see wants me. He terrorized me.
MAN SPIRIT: (GROWLING) I want you!
SARAH JEBSON:That really makes me kind of sick to my stomach.
SPEAKER 1: Could this be a message from the mysterious hole Sarah found under her home? Is this evil spirit a former
resident who she believes murdered his mistress?
[SCREAMING]
[GUNSHOT]
SARAH JEBSON:When I ripped up that floor in the cabin, there were fake flowers under there, too.
MAN SPIRIT: I want a bouquet!
SARAH JEBSON:It makes me want to look.
SPEAKER 1: Intuitive Jeff Richards is particularly interested in the paranormal spirits of the Alaska Triangle.
MAN SPIRIT: I want a bouquet.
SPEAKER 1: He's found something no one else had noticed in the recording.
JEFF
RICHARDS:
I think it's saying, "I want you dead."
MAN SPIRIT: I want a bouquet.
JEFF
RICHARDS:
Which is even worse.
MAN SPIRIT: I want a bouquet.
JEFF
RICHARDS:
It's a horrific capture.
SPEAKER 1: Could this be a deadly warning from the spirit stalking Sarah?
MAN SPIRIT: I want a bouquet.
SPEAKER 1: Soon, Sarah would find out when she invited an old friend to stay for a while.
SARAH JEBSON:Recently, he had lost his girlfriend. So he had a very empty spot in his soul. So good to see you again. He came in
and I made him smile and laugh, and he was a good friend of mine.
SPEAKER 1: But it seemed the paranormal presence in Sarah's cabin took hold of her friend.
SARAH JEBSON:Within a week, things started changing.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
He started getting very irritable, very possessive, very controlling, spouts of anger, hatred, foulness. It's like he
almost was possessed.
SPEAKER 1: Soon, the evil spirits taunting Sarah pushed her friend to the edge.
[SCREAMING]
SARAH JEBSON:He looks at me--
SARAH'S
FRIEND:
Sarah!
SARAH JEBSON:And then decides to freak out.
[SCREAMING]
Something in the house did that to him.
[SCREAMING]
SPEAKER 1: One day, Sarah says these spirits drove her friend to set her cabin ablaze. She came home that evening to find
fire raging through her house.
SARAH JEBSON:Everything I ever worked for was in that house.
[CRYING]
SPEAKER 1: The spirits of the Alaska Triangle had finally succeeded in driving Sarah out of her home.
SARAH JEBSON:I put a lot into it. It was a lot.
SPEAKER 1: Homeless and scared, Sarah and her family were forced to flee Alaska altogether. But today, Sarah's bravely
going back to her burnt-down cabin.
SARAH JEBSON:I hope when I go there that whatever happens for me, I can finally get some closure from the past, so I can live
for the future.
SPEAKER 1: After all this time, what will Sarah find in her shell of a home? The site of so much sadness and fear for her and
her family.
SARAH JEBSON:I got to go out there. I got to take care of business. I put it off for a long time.
SPEAKER 1: But Sarah might be in danger here.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Whatever raised her cabin to the ground could have something sinister in store for her return.
SARAH JEBSON:Oh, my god. Wow, this is way worse than I could ever imagine it. I'm actually very nervous about being back
here. A lot has happened here, good and bad. Just devastating.
SPEAKER 1: Are the spirits that hounded Sarah out still present?
SARAH JEBSON:There's most definitely something still here.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
Hey, Sarah!
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
I am so sorry, Sarah. I love you so much.
SARAH JEBSON:I love you.
SPEAKER 1: Paranormal detectives Neelie Lithgow and Tony Hernandez have also returned to conclude their investigation.
SARAH JEBSON:I love you guys.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
Oh, I'm just glad to see you again.
SARAH JEBSON:I know. I know. I never thought I'd ever see you again.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
Yeah.
SPEAKER 1: Last time they set foot here, the entity made threats to the investigators.
MAN SPIRIT: I want a bouquet.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
Is it waiting for me somewhere-- or us? You know, now we're going back here.
SPEAKER 1: So they are also aware of the danger here.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
It being so active the last time we were here, I'm just hoping that we are going to get evidence. And if we don't
pick anything up, that might be a good thing.
SARAH JEBSON:It's like a beacon for negativity. Yeah, and then and then it just feeds all the bad spirits.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
Well, I think we should get started.
[PIANO MUSIC]
SPEAKER 1: Tony tries communicating with the spirit.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
I'm talking to the spirit that we talked to before. Why are you here? Did you cause the fire here? There is an
entity there on a negative side. Maybe that whole area could be, in a way, cleansed and so it can heal. Who are
you?
SPEAKER 1: Neelie wants to capture any messages from the other side.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
OK, I'm just going to take out some digital recorders to try to pick up electronic voice phenomena.
MAN SPIRIT: I want you!
SPEAKER 1: Will the spirit speak to them once again?
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
This would have been the bedroom right here, and this was a very active area.
SPEAKER 1: Tony scans for any electromagnetic fields. A spike means a ghostly presence. He's drawn towards the hole that
Sarah dug beneath her cabin, as she was told to do in a dream.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
Oh, oh, I did get a spike here. Whoa. I did get a spike in this area here. I know Sterling shut off all the power out
here, so for there to be a spike is very unusual.
SPEAKER 1: Here, Sarah thought she'd uncovered the grave of a woman murdered by her jealous lover. In a diary she found
nearby, a former resident of the cabin left a chilling message.
SARAH JEBSON:He killed her so nobody else could have her, buried her underneath my cabin, and that's what she had been
trying to tell me.
SPEAKER 1: Could the spirit be the murderer preventing his dark secret from getting out, or could it be his innocent victim?
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
Yeah, I did get a spike right here. Oh, there's some kind of electromagnetic field right here. I think we need to
start digging here right away. I think that's the next step. See what we find.
SPEAKER 1: This may be the only way to find answers. Sarah plans to dig deeper.
SARAH JEBSON:I'm really hoping I could actually set this woman free that's been trying to tell me to listen to her. Because I
would hate to be that woman that was just forgotten about, buried, forgotten about, and she needs closure just
as much as the rest of us do. I wouldn't want to be stuck underneath of a cabin with nobody caring.
[DIGGING DIRT]
SPEAKER 1: It's not long before Sarah has struck on something.
SARAH JEBSON:Like, what would a tarp be doing underneath? Oh, and it smells bad.
SPEAKER 1: Could something sinister be wrapped in this tarp? But it's frozen in the subsoil. Sarah can't break it free.
SARAH JEBSON:I've dug down so far, I'm hitting frost, I'm hitting ice.
SPEAKER 1: To go deeper, Sarah will have to wait until the ground thaws in spring. But there could be more clues in one of the
abandoned cars left here.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
We did pick up another EVP on the property that told Tony and I to check the vehicle plates.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
Found another car here. So I'm curious if there is a plate on this car. I'm not seeing one. It doesn't look like it,
maybe we got something in here. Here we go. Hey, I found a newspaper with the date! Sunday, May 7, 1978.
SPEAKER 1: It turns out this could be a message for Sarah.
SARAH JEBSON:May 7 is my birthday, but I was born in '76!
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
I'm shaking a little bit because it's a little spooky. May 7, it's Sarah's birthday. It's not the right year, but for it to
be the same day, it warrants more investigation, definitely. It was almost, like, it was placed there for us.
SPEAKER 1: So what does the placing of this clue mean? Expert Intuitive Jeff Richards has been looking at the evidence.
JEFF
RICHARDS:
The drive for the spirit, it does appear, was to take everything that Sarah loved away from her. And they
succeeded in a way. I think the fact that somebody was compelled to burn down this cabin, that's pretty
terrifying.
TONY
HERNANDEZ:
With the EMF readings, I think we can say that there is still something here.
NEELIE
LYTHGOE:
Well, I find it ironic with the date of Sarah's birthday on it. That right there is telling us that, actually, something
is working in the works here still.
SARAH JEBSON:I definitely believe there is something more spiritual here than any of us could even fathom. It's deeper than
what we know.
SPEAKER 1: The quest for the truth behind Sarah's case goes on. As Neelie and Tony's investigation continues, there's,
perhaps, more to uncover in one of the most infamous hauntings in Alaska.
SARAH JEBSON:It's done nothing but bring me grief and heartache. That's how extreme the paranormal and the haunting activity
has been there. Maybe I can move on and maybe have some sort of normal life, whatever that might be.
SPEAKER 1: But evil spirits aren't the only dark forces threatening the lives of Alaskans. The Triangle has over 500,000 square
miles of terrain with much of it uninhabited. This is a place where the strange and paranormal appear as
everyday occurrences. But stories passed down by Native Alaskans speak of something more sinister lurking
deep in the Triangle-- giants.
JEFF
RICHARDS:
If the public knew that these creatures existed, I think it would go against everything they believe.
SPEAKER 12: Giants are so huge and muscular, they could literally rip you limb from limb. They would have been menacing
with their appearance. They had reddish hair, and they were very frightening to encounter.
SPEAKER 13: We have about 1,500 accounts of giant skeletons found. One of the theories is that tribes of giants still exist.
They're still hunting humans today.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[GROWLING]
SPEAKER 1: Stretching back to biblical times, stories of giants, such as the battle between David and Goliath, have long
sparked the imagination.
[GROWLING]
But many of the legends about these colossal creatures are found here in Alaska. According to Native Alaskans,
like Qituvituaq Litchard.
QITUVITUAQ
LITCHARD:
Giants and humans have never really coexisted peacefully together. According to the native stories, they're very
dangerous. Anywhere from 12 to 20 feet tall. They ate people. They hunted people, and they thought of us as
food.
SPEAKER 1: One particular legend has been passed down by Qituvituaq's forefathers as a warning of the danger of giants
here.
QITUVITUAQ
LITCHARD:
There's a place in Alaska called the Headless Valley. According to the Native people, there was a tribe of giants
and they were not to be messed with. When people went there to explore, they'd often find decapitated bodies.
Giants are violent if you enter their territory. But people didn't listen until enough people went missing. So there's
places where we're not supposed to go.
SPEAKER 1: But tales of giants here are not mere folklore. During the early 20th century gold rush, a discovery was made
near Atlin in the Southeast corner of the Alaska Triangle, that would make news headlines across the USA.
Researcher Jonny Enoch has uncovered a press report from November 18, 1900, showing startling scientific
evidence of giants in Alaska.
JONNY ENOCH: I found this article from the 1900s that says skeletons of giants in Alaska-- ancient cemetery uncovered in the
Outland Gold district. This is incredible because this really lends credibility to the stories we've heard from Native
American traditions about giants.
SPEAKER 1: After digging at the Yellow Jacket Mine in Atlin, a gold prospector, James L. Perkinson, made a find beyond
anything he ever expected.
JONNY ENOCH: Five skeletons, nearly complete, were exhumed and each is the set of bones that belong to a giant. One of the
skeletons measures over seven feet in length. So the man must have been considerably over that height, and
the men were of gigantic frame.
SPEAKER 1: The forearms of these monsters were described as enormous and they were armed and dangerous, too-- with
three foot wooden spears found alongside their bodies. For Jonny Enoch, this is evidence that giants existed in
Alaska.
JONNY ENOCH: Could this be verifiable proof that at one time those ancient lands of Alaska were inhabited by giants?
SPEAKER 1: But giants investigator Hugh Newman suspects the true number of giants in the Alaska Triangle has been
covered up by the scientific establishment.
[GROWLING]
In 1936, on the Aleutian Islands in the Southwest corner of the Triangle, a giant skull was found measuring nearly
twice the size of a human's. However, there's little in the history books about this groundbreaking discovery.
HUGH
NEWMAN:
It was found on Kagamil Island-- and it was so large that it was claimed that it would have held the largest brain
ever discovered in the Western hemisphere. What's really interesting is that it was discovered by the head of the
Smithsonian Institution, Ales Hrdlicka.
SPEAKER 1: But the well-respected anthropologist Hrdlicka had previously questioned the existence of giants.
HUGH
NEWMAN:
He had declared publicly to the world, all the giant discoveries that have been found over the last 50 to 70 years,
were hoaxes and so forth.
SPEAKER 1: Hugh Newman has uncovered evidence that the giant skull was registered with America's National Smithsonian
Museum, but he cannot trace what has happened to it.
HUGH
NEWMAN:
We even have the assession card as well, proving that it was discovered, proving that it was given to the
Smithsonian. Proving that it really existed. So that in itself is really intriguing in its own right.
SPEAKER 1: Four years later, in 1940, on the Aleutian Island of Shemya, more giant skulls and leg bones were discovered.
They were found during excavation work by the military for World War II.
HUGH
NEWMAN:
They were building some airstrips to help with the war effort. People there discovered giant skeletons, and some
of the skulls were at least two or three times the size of an average human skull. It completely blew them away.
And there were many of them, not just one. And so this really opened up a whole possibility that there could be a
reality to these giants in Alaska.
SPEAKER 1: This evidence was later revealed to the world-famous biologist Ivan Sanderson when two servicemen, who found
the bones, wrote to him about their important discovery. But when Sanderson tried to trace these giant artifacts,
the US authorities had no record of them. The bones, it seemed, had been collected by academics, then
mysteriously disappeared.
HUGH
NEWMAN:
They were never to be heard of again.
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And so the problem is, is that we've got this massive cover up-- almost like a conspiracy-- to not bring giants into
the historical timeline.
SPEAKER 1: So could scientists and the US authorities be hiding the existence of giants in Alaska? Could this superhuman
race one day reappear in these lands? Cryptozoologist Lance Hightower has been investigating the stories of
giants here.
LANCE
HIGHTOWER:
At this point, we know that thousands of people have gone missing without a trace, never to be found again. But
who's to say that people can go missing because of giants? And just because we haven't seen them doesn't
mean they don't exist.
SPEAKER 1: What is certain is that the numerous legends of these monsters cannot be ignored. If there's one place on the
planet where such creatures could exist, it could only be in a land as strange as this-- in the deadly and
treacherous Alaska Triangle.
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