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What if one of the most mysterious places on Earth wasn’t somewhere across the ocean… but right here in the United States?

In this deep dive episode, we’re heading north to one of the strangest regions in the world: The Alaska Triangle.

Stretching between Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik, this massive wilderness has become famous for unexplained disappearances, missing aircraft, strange lights in the sky, and stories that go back long before modern investigators ever arrived.

More than 20,000 people have vanished in Alaska since the 1970s, and some of the cases are almost impossible to explain. We’ll look at one of the most famous disappearances in American history ... the mysterious 1972 flight carrying House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, a congressman, an aide, and a pilot… a plane that vanished without leaving behind a single piece of wreckage.

But the mystery doesn’t stop there.

We’ll also explore the eerie legends told by Indigenous communities in the region, including stories of the Kushtaka, a shape-shifting being said to lure travelers deeper into the wilderness. 

Is the Alaska Triangle simply one of the harshest environments on Earth?

Or is there something about this region that we still don’t fully understand?

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