1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Chelsea, have you ever been bothered by the fact that there's no real educational avenue to studying UFOs? 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:10,000 I have been very... it's kept me up at night. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Good. I'm glad. It's not just general insomnia, because now we can put that insomnia to rest. 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:22,000 The University of Michigan is now offering a two-week long course on ufology. 5 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Here's the description that they provide for this. 6 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:35,000 Unpack the myths and facts surrounding UFOs. Following the release of the US Pentagon UFO report, there has been a surge of interest in unidentified aerial phenomena, UAPs. 7 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:41,000 People across the world are gripped by the history of UFOs and the stories told by those who have witnessed them. 8 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:51,000 On this two-week course, you'll hear from multidisciplinary experts to understand the importance of investigation and possible explanation for UFO sightings. 9 00:00:51,000 --> 00:01:04,000 The course will guide you through various UFO reports, a crucial aspect of the study of UFOs, and as you explore each one, you'll learn the factors make a UFO report compelling and begin to understand what conclusions can be drawn. 10 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:09,000 You'll have the opportunity to not only watch, but also analyze UFO videos. 11 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:17,000 You'll develop the skills and basic techniques used to analyze videos to critically observe UFOs within the course and beyond. 12 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:25,000 With a firm understanding of the history of UFOs, you'll start to explore the position of UFOs within the larger conversation of science and culture. 13 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:34,000 Learning from the experts at the University of Michigan and beyond, you'll hear from top researchers and scholars in the field to develop your knowledge of the study of UFOs. 14 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:41,000 And this course is designed for anyone interested in learning more about UFOs. You don't need any prior knowledge or experience. 15 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:46,000 I wonder what that means for people who do have prior experience. Would it be too basic? 16 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:53,000 I hope you're going to learn a lot. And sadly, the University of Michigan does not offer any credits for this course. 17 00:01:53,000 --> 00:02:00,000 So it's not like you can just top up your bachelor degree with this one course to get your science because it is taught under the heading of science. 18 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Is it a pre-rec for anything? Like physics or something? 19 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:04,000 It is not, sadly. 20 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,000 And I wonder who these experts are. 21 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,000 I don't know. 22 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,000 They have instructor right underneath it, but it says teach out experts. 23 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 And how much is this? 24 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 It just says it's a two week program. 25 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 I could teach this. 26 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:25,000 It is live until March 7th of 2022 if anybody would like to take it. Probably in the Michigan area. 27 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:28,000 I don't know if you can sign up for it if it's just online. 28 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Maybe I should talk to UBC about this. We can get one. 29 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 There's enough UFO people in the average community that could just talk crazy for two weeks straight. 30 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 It's true. I probably could. 31 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 Yeah, easy. I'd love to put that exam together. 32 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,000 But yeah, I thought that was some pretty good topical news. 33 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,000 That was good. And it made me have many questions. 34 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 And finally some relief. I can sleep at night. 35 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,000 So if you are interested, check it out. 36 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:59,000 It is known as UFOs scanning the sky's teach out through the University of Michigan online. 37 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 And it is available once again through March 7th of 2022. 38 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 And with that, let's get this episode rolling. 39 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:14,000 From the unexplained to the mundane, come join us on a journey to the fringe. 40 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Hello and welcome to Journey to the Fringe where we make learning fun. 41 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,000 We are your edutainers today. Taylor and Chelsea here hosting this podcast. 42 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,000 And today we are going to teach you about a fairly basic concept, shapes. 43 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 And we're going to stay on one shape. 44 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:41,000 That is the mysterious triangle that is found all throughout the planet 45 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,000 and is captivated people for some reason for a long time. 46 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,000 We are going to focus on those weird areas of the world 47 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:54,000 that people have decided to categorize as both mysterious and three sided in structure. 48 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Chelsea is going to start you off with the Bermuda Triangle. 49 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,000 And from there we are going to move on to an Alaskan anomaly. 50 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Chelsea, why don't you take over? 51 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Yeah, I'll do that. I guess there's other triangles other than the ones we're talking about. 52 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Many triangles. 53 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,000 Yeah, like the pyramids, other ones. 54 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,000 Those aren't really triangles. 55 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,000 What? I thought they were triangles. 56 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,000 No, they're pyramids. 57 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Oh, right. They're not called the triangles. 58 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 And depending on what angle you would look at a pyramid from, 59 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:33,000 does not necessarily transfer over nicely into a two dimensional triangle. 60 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Okay, well, I'm all out of ideas other than the ones I just I wrote down about. 61 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Maybe mountains. 62 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,000 They're also like pyramids. They're mountain shape. 63 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,000 Okay, so on with the Bermuda Triangle, 64 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,000 which is the most infamous of all triangles other than the Isosceles. 65 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Definitely not the pyramids. 66 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:58,000 The Devil's Triangle, I'm not really sure why it also goes by that name, 67 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:04,000 because it might be because he owns it, but none of my resources actually referred to him owning it, 68 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,000 is loosely defined as the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean. 69 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:16,000 If you can picture that area in your mind, it's like it's a giant triangle shaped area between Florida, 70 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,000 like the Miami area, if you want to be specific, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, 71 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:25,000 which is about 500,000 square miles to be exact. 72 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:29,000 And this is an area where an estimated 20 plus aircraft, 73 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:37,000 50 plus ships and peoples that have gone with them have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. 74 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:43,000 This has nothing to do with mysteries or anything, but it's just a random interesting fact. 75 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,000 The deepest point at the Atlantic Ocean, which is the Milwaukee depth, 76 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:56,000 is located in the Bermuda Triangle. The Puerto Rico Trench reaches a depth of 27,493 feet, 77 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:01,000 which is 8,300 meters at the Milwaukee depth, which I didn't know that. 78 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,000 Sounds creepy. 79 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:07,000 It seems kind of misleading to name it after another geographical location that's nowhere near it. 80 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Yeah, I'm not sure about that and why they did it, probably just to confuse. 81 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Probably to actually get some travel revenue towards Milwaukee when people think they're going to the Milwaukee. 82 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Sponsored by the beer. 83 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:22,000 In regards to all the mysterious happenings in the devil's shape, 84 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:26,000 I will be getting to some more well-known cases, which are points towards the mystery. 85 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,000 But what is typical of the mysteries in the Triangle? 86 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Well, they may or may not include these compass problems, electronic fog, 87 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 which is one of our favorites around here. 88 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,000 Ships found completely abandoned for no apparent reason and no distress signals. 89 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Ships are in planes that have completely disappeared and wreckages or many ships and aircraft 90 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:57,000 that have never been recovered ever yet, probably, maybe never, as well as people who have gone missing. 91 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,000 And with that, do you have any questions? 92 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Not at this point, no. 93 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Okay, now's time for the stories. 94 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 You thought there'd be more waiting, but there's not. 95 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,000 So gather round, I will tell you some, of the more famous ones. 96 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:15,000 I had heard of all of these ones, so that's clearly what I wanted to include. 97 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,000 I don't like going with the lesser-known ones. 98 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:21,000 First is the USS Cyclops, which is a US military craft. 99 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,000 And I would have to say is probably one of the first larger mysterious mysteries, 100 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,000 which really catapulted the infamy of the Triangle. 101 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:36,000 There are some before this, but this one's the first documented one in, like, modern-day records. 102 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:43,000 This incident resulted in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat. 103 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:56,000 USS Cyclops, which was a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship, carrying a full load of manganese or with over 300-ish men on board. 104 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:02,000 It set sail from Rio de Janeiro 16th of February 1918 to Baltimore, 105 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:09,000 with its route taking the Cyclops through the Triangle, and everything was normal aside from one tiny thing. 106 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Commander Warley had submitted a report that the Starboard engine had a crack cylinder and was not operative. 107 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,000 I mean, this doesn't sound good. 108 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 I'm not sure that, I mean, I'm not a sailor at all. 109 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:26,000 I don't even know if that's good to sail, but the commander seems confident. 110 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,000 There was nothing saying he wasn't right. 111 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 I've also seen how cheap managers can be. 112 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:41,000 With that being said, the ship, you'll see what happens to the ship, so who knows whether it was a mystery or Commander Warley's improper judgment. 113 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:46,000 There was also an unscheduled stop that the ship made. 114 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:57,000 She, they call her, I thought that meant Commander Warley at first, but it means the ship made in Barbados because the water level was over the Plymsel line, 115 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:05,000 which indicated that it was overloaded, but investigations in Rio prove that the ship had been loaded and secured properly. 116 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:11,000 So this meant that probably the, what was it they're carrying again? 117 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Manganese. 118 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Manganese. That sounds like a monkey. 119 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:24,000 It means that they're probably carrying too heavy of a load of manganese for the boat, but anyhow, this seemed fine and it was loaded on and secured properly. 120 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:30,000 So other than that, it was smooth sailing for the USS Cyclops. 121 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:36,000 Do you think that's why they call it Cyclops because it was missing a engine that was cracked? 122 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 You know what? That's actually a pretty fair question. 123 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,000 They couldn't have changed the name. 124 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 So this is 1911. 125 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:47,000 It's carrying too much load and it has one engine. 126 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Yeah. 127 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 So basically if any storm touches this thing, it's done. 128 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 It's missing an engine. 129 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:57,000 We can't say have one because we don't know how many it had in the first place. 130 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Okay. 131 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000 It could have zero engines now. 132 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:00,000 It could have zero. 133 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,000 It could have three and it could need four. 134 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,000 We're missing some information. 135 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:06,000 I'm sorry. 136 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,000 That was all my journalism here. 137 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,000 We're copying of information. 138 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:17,000 We're on the smooth sailing part as a reminder and that is until March 4th, 1918. 139 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:22,000 That's when everything changes and goes from smooth sailing to not smooth sailing. 140 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:27,000 It goes from sailing to probably not sailing anymore. 141 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:33,000 It up and vanishes without a trace somewhere between Barbados and Chesapeake Bay. 142 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Cyclops never sent an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so. 143 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,000 And an extensive search followed but no record was found. 144 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,000 No remains of the ship or crew. 145 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:50,000 I wonder if they searched the bottom of the ocean floor because I am pretty sure Manganese is heavy. 146 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 They would have no way to do it at the time. 147 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Especially if it was at that deep hurt. 148 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000 Oh my God. 149 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Woodrow Wilson himself is quoted as saying, only God in the sea know what happened to the great ship about the Cyclops. 150 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,000 That is concluding the end of this captivating story. 151 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:13,000 There is another weird thing though that makes it even weirder. 152 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 It has nothing to do with the triangle though. 153 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Well, kind of. 154 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:17,000 I misspoke. 155 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 It kind of does. 156 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:26,000 So in 1941, two of the Cyclops' sister ships, Proteus and Nereus, 157 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:32,000 similarly vanished without a trace along nearly the same route or the exact same route. 158 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,000 I'm not sure. 159 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 It was like similar. 160 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:38,000 It probably wasn't the exact same route because that would be too weird. 161 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:44,000 During World War II, also carrying heavy loads of metallic ore, spooky. 162 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,000 I wonder if they're missing an engine and we're overloaded. 163 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 No, but they were probably taken down by a U-boat. 164 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Those things were all over the ocean. 165 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Were they? 166 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Were things never seen again? 167 00:11:55,000 --> 00:12:01,000 I mean, there's a lot of ships that sank during World War II that we don't really know necessarily the location of. 168 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,000 That's scary. 169 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Onto the next one because that makes me have bad feelings. 170 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Okay, Flight 19. 171 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 Have you heard about this one? 172 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,000 I believe so. 173 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Yes, this is the Air Force One, right? 174 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Yeah, but don't spoil it. 175 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,000 So, yes, as Taylor spoiled for you already, just kidding. 176 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:28,000 It was a training flight of five TBM Avenger Torpedo bombers, which contained 14 men, which he alluded to when he said that. 177 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,000 I'm not sure what you call a pack of TBM Avenger Torpedo bombers. 178 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,000 Um, would it be like a murder? 179 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Like crows? 180 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 I think you can call it a squad or a squadron. 181 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000 Squadron, okay. 182 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Not sure where I got... well, murder sounds better to me. 183 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Murder sounds more right for a military squadron. 184 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Yeah, it does. Or crows. 185 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:55,000 The squadron they take off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, of course. 186 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:00,000 December 5, 1945, to conduct practice bombing runs. 187 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:16,000 The flight plan was scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale for 227 kilometers, north for 117 kilometers, and then back over to Fort Lauderdale 230 kilometers to complete the exercise. 188 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:25,000 Except the squadron slash murder never returned to the base and the leader of the missions compass had started to malfunction. 189 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:30,000 Well, they don't know exactly what happened to the murder slash squadron. 190 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,000 I put murder because I forgot what it was when I was writing it and I just found out that it's a squadron. 191 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:46,000 They suspect that with the leader's compass malfunctioning that they got severely lost and flew until they ran out of fuel and had to basically like flying to the ocean and abandon ship. 192 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:50,000 If you like twists, then I have a good one for you. 193 00:13:50,000 --> 00:14:03,000 The same day a rescue plane and its 13 man crew, which was deployed to rescue the squadron, it was a PBM Mariner, if you find that important, also disappeared. 194 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:04,000 It was gone. 195 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,000 With an asterisk. 196 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:18,000 This one did have signs of its fate as a tanker off the coast of Florida reported seeing an explosion and searchers observed a widespread oil slick when searching for the lost squadron. 197 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:23,000 That and the Mariner did have a history of explosions due to vapor leaks. 198 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:27,000 So black to flight 19 that other one might be explained. 199 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:32,000 It just tragic that it went looking for another one and it commonly exploded. 200 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,000 Yes, it was a commonly known thing. 201 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:42,000 So back to the lost squadron after a massive week long search failed to turn up any signs of the squadron at all. 202 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:48,000 The official Navy report declared that it was quote as if they had flown to Mars. 203 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:53,000 They're not sure though, because I'm sure nobody actually checked Mars to check that off the list. 204 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:59,000 It could have been a lot of places that they didn't scratch off and here we are. 205 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:06,000 We have no idea what ever happened to flight 19 and it is a great deal of years later. 206 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Okay, so next one I have is Ellen Austin, which is a weird name. 207 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:15,000 Which is a weird name for a ship. It has a first and last name. 208 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 Oh, it's not a person. Okay. 209 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:24,000 It's not a person. I also thought it was going to be a person with a first and last name like that. 210 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 No middle name for Ellen. 211 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Ellen was an American 210 foot long white oak schooner, which is a type of boat. 212 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 If you weren't sure. 213 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,000 As I'm not up on my boats, obviously, or airplanes. 214 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:43,000 We don't know how many engines they need. And I guess some boats don't need engines. 215 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 You can just use paddles. 216 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,000 But I don't think many canoes are going missing in the free meter triangle. 217 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Mostly because I don't think canoes are really native to Florida or South Florida. 218 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,000 Search it. Maybe some kayaks. 219 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:02,000 And a schooner, I think doesn't need a engine because it has. 220 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,000 I shouldn't even talk. I have no idea. 221 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Okay. In 1881, this is actually before the Cyclops. 222 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,000 I misspoke on the Cyclops one as I do sometimes. 223 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Ellen Austin was going to New York from London when she stumbled upon an unknown ship drifting aimlessly near the Bermuda Triangle. 224 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:28,000 I'm not actually sure that that route would take you by the Bermuda Triangle. 225 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:29,000 But here we are. 226 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,000 That's the mystery of the triangle. 227 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Yes. She somehow got there. 228 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:40,000 The captain of Ellen Austin, which was Captain Baker, tried to make contact to no avail. 229 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:45,000 So he decided to observe the ship for two days to make sure it wasn't a trap. 230 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:54,000 After two days, the captain entered the ship with his crew and the ship seemed in perfect condition other than the fact that it was completely missing its crew, which was weird. 231 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,000 There's like no people on board at all. 232 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 The whole shipment was still packed away and intact. 233 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:11,000 The captain is thinking quick on his feet and he decides to tow it back with Ellen Austin so that the captain places a prize crew on the ship to set sail together. 234 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:21,000 However, after two days of sailing on calm waters, a squall separates the path of the two ships in which the found ship vanishes. 235 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,000 That nobody knows anything about. 236 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,000 It was empty, but it's not now empty. 237 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,000 It has some of the crew from Ellen on there. 238 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Days pass after the storm and they're looking for the ship, obviously. 239 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,000 He wants his crew back. 240 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,000 They're on board. 241 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:42,000 And a lookout finally spots the vessel through his telescope eyeglass thing only to realize that it was drifting aimlessly again. 242 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 So that's bad news. 243 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:50,000 And after hours of effort, Ellen Austin caught up with the vessel unknown, but no one was on board. 244 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,000 Spooky. 245 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,000 That's the end of the story. 246 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Those are my stories. 247 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:01,000 So what's causing all these mysterious mysteries in the Bermuda Triangle? 248 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 There's many different theories. 249 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000 So first I'm going to start with natural. 250 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:15,000 Natural theories behind the Bermuda Triangle include magnetic anomalies, water spouts, or huge eruptions of methane gas from the ocean floor. 251 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:21,000 There are no actual magnetic anomalies explaining the compass problems reported in the area. 252 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:28,000 That is that compasses will naturally have magnetic variations in relation to the magnetic poles. 253 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:38,000 Being that magnetic compass north and geographic north are mostly the same, aside for a small number of places which will cause some fluctuation. 254 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:49,000 For example, as of 2000 in the U.S., those small number of places were on the line from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico, which is called the Igonic Line. 255 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:59,000 Notice how I didn't say any word close to New York and London being on that list close to the Bermuda Triangle, as one of my stories did. 256 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,000 I just went with it. 257 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 I read that and thought, hmm, that's weird. 258 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 But now that I read it out loud, I was like, yeah, that can't be right. 259 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:16,000 Next point, the Gulf Stream, which is a river within an ocean, part of which originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida. 260 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Things can be carried away and essentially lost in the giant ocean and never seen again when they get swept into the Gulf Stream. 261 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,000 It's also known to cause quick changes in weather. 262 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:32,000 As far as natural explanations go, I'm going to end off with methane. 263 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Another popular one focuses on the large fields of methane hydrates on the continental shelves. 264 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:43,000 It has been proven that these bubbles can sink ships by decreasing the density in the water. 265 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,000 Any sinking ships could then be rapidly dispersed by the Gulf Stream. 266 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:54,000 That being said, it's not happened or been known to have happened anytime in recent history in the Bermuda Triangle. 267 00:19:54,000 --> 00:20:00,000 They've done demonstrations of how that would work and the ship just literally drops into the ocean. 268 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:06,000 Yeah, I have seen it, I think, particularly on Bermuda Triangle shows them actually do that. 269 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:11,000 But it's not a known thing to have happened in the Bermuda Triangle, but I thought I would mention it anyway. 270 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,000 But yeah, it basically just takes the ship right down. They can't sail in it. 271 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:20,000 As soon as the ship's underwater, it's basically just going to get water on it and not be able to come back up. 272 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:27,000 It did say if it sunk fairly quickly and then that dispersed, it could just then technically get swept away in the Gulf Stream. 273 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:30,000 That is natural explanations. 274 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:38,000 Now on to, as far as skeptics go with an explanation, they say that there's literally no more hazard in the Triangle 275 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,000 than there is in literally any other spot in the ocean. 276 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:47,000 And tons of aircraft and vessels operate in this area every day with no incident. 277 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Rendering the number of disappearances pretty much significant. 278 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:56,000 This area is one of the world's most heavily traveled shipping lanes. 279 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:03,000 So the ratio of regular operation to disappearances really basically non-existent, like I said. 280 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Others say that the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery perpetuated by writers who purposefully or unknowingly make use of misconceptions, 281 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,000 faulty reasoning, and sensationalism. 282 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:24,000 There was a study released by a insurance company that provides insurance for ships that said it's no more expensive to 283 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:30,000 insure a ship going through the Bermuda Triangle because they literally don't see it as a threat at all. 284 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Nothing is more apt to happen there than anywhere else. 285 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,000 Underwriters don't really care about their the ones who make the rates for everything. 286 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:43,000 They'll look at the risk and say what the rate of insurance will be, like X dollars per million dollars of liability. 287 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:48,000 They really don't have any skin in the game for whether or not to be skeptic or not. 288 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,000 They're just saying what's going to make this company money. 289 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,000 They're also assessing risk rates, so the rates would be higher if... 290 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Yeah, if there was actually a risk in that area that was quantifiable, then the insurance companies would know about it. 291 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Yeah, and they would be either saying you don't travel through there or you're paying a hefty sum to travel through the Bermuda Triangle, which is not happening. 292 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Are you curious about the paranormal bias now? 293 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,000 Does that have you thinking? Does it have you losing sleep at night? 294 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:23,000 Okay, obviously. There is that it is the leftover technology from Atlantis, of course. 295 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:28,000 I guess we really have to encapsulate everything under the sun with the paranormal, 296 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:37,000 but this does come with reason as some connect the Bimini Road off the island of Bimini in the Bahamas with Atlantis, 297 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,000 which is an underwater rock formation made of limestone. 298 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Yeah, which is where what's his name said Atlantis would be? 299 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Edgar Cayce. 300 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Edgar Cayce, the sleeping psychic. 301 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Yes, there's that, but other than that, there's literally nothing really happening more over by the road of Bimini or anything. 302 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000 It's literally just Edgar Cayce saying that. 303 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Thank you for saying that because that is right and I didn't have it in my notes. 304 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:14,000 Others say that BT Bermuda Triangle holds a parallel universe causing a time space warp that sucks the objects around it into a parallel universe. 305 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Can we focus on the fact that you decided at this point to save time by acronyming BT and try to explain it? 306 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:28,000 There's a few things that it's been called by. I like to like space it up. BT, the devil's shape. 307 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000 I called it that once, I think. 308 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,000 The devil's shape. So the triangle is the devil's shape? 309 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:40,000 Yeah, because it's the devil. It goes by the devil's triangle. So then I like to call it the devil's shape. 310 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,000 It probably doesn't make sense, but I liked where I was going with it. 311 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Okay, and then there's that the UFOs. That was completely my creation. It doesn't go by the devil's shape at all. 312 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:55,000 But if it catches on, then here we are. Then there's UFOs. 313 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:06,000 I will just leave it at that on UFOs because it could go a million different ways, either that it's inhabited by UFOs or UFOs or like zapping out airplanes and boats. 314 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:15,000 If you get where I'm going with the paranormal, yeah, basically anything that's not a ship sinking and they can't find it is where you'll find all the paranormal. 315 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,000 That's the end of my BT segment. 316 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:19,000 Okay. 317 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,000 For me to triangle if I lost you. In which case that's bad. 318 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:27,000 That is some high level name use there. I don't know if you watched it in your research. 319 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:38,000 If you watched the channel, let me know. LEM, I, N, N, O on YouTube before for its view on the yacht love pass in Russia and his theory on what happened there. 320 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:43,000 He also has a video on flight 19 explaining what he thinks actually happened. 321 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,000 I think it's a really good video and a pretty simple explanation. 322 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:53,000 If I recall right, he had a pretty good one on the Diatlov process. That was a little while ago that we watched it, right? 323 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:59,000 There was a malfunction of the wood stove in the tent, which caused everybody to have to leave because it was too smoky. 324 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,000 And then they were just kind of stranded. 325 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Yeah, but the guy was missing a ton. 326 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,000 Yeah, but that's also the first thing that predators will go for if they found a dead body. 327 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Yes. Okay. What does he say about his simple explanation is the head pilot in that crew on flight 19 had just been shipped to the new location at Florida Waterdale on the opposite side of Florida. 328 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:28,000 So he was used to flying in the opposite directions for going to the ocean and back because they were in training. 329 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,000 They were very tired and he got disoriented and forgot which direction land was. 330 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,000 He was always describing which direction he was flying. 331 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:41,000 He would say towards land or away from land and be flying the wrong direction and giving bad advice as to where he was. 332 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Yeah, I guess that's another natural explanation from it that it's human error, which I mean, if you're going with this, what is it called? Arkham's razor? 333 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Arkham's razor. The simplest answer is likely the right answer. 334 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Which is, I mean, you put humans in anything and we're going to fuck it all up. 335 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:00,000 Yeah. 336 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,000 And that seems to be the simplest answer. 337 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:10,000 That and I really, I'm glad that my memory is actually working on this one. I didn't have to write it down. 338 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:18,000 The Bermuda Triangle came to being because of, like I said, these people writing about these mysterious circumstances. 339 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Yeah, my little search. 340 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,000 It came from a 1964 science fiction writer by the name of Vincent Gabbas. 341 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:35,000 Yeah, it wasn't necessarily, I didn't read science fiction, but there were people like perpetuating that it was a mystery and they did coin the Bermuda Triangle. 342 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:47,000 That very well is probably correct information, but it's all coming from people who kind of elaborated stories and had things kind of a little bit wrong, but it made for good books. 343 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:53,000 Like that's why the Bermuda Triangle is so famous today because people are so like they want a mystery. 344 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:57,000 I love mysteries and of course I'm going to read about them because I love them. 345 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Yeah. 346 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000 I don't care if they're true or not. I just want a good story. 347 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:09,000 And this is also the time that this term is coined is right around the exact same time that John Keel's kind of getting into everything and becoming more notable. 348 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:15,000 John Keel, who's famous for the Mothman prophecies and many UFO investigations and men in black. 349 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:22,000 He's also notably a war propagandist like worked for the military during World War Two and the war propagandist. 350 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Yeah, I wonder if that has anything to do with people coming back from the war kind of getting back into everything. 351 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:31,000 That would be 20 years later, but that spin that's coming off it. 352 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 Yeah, probably not something that he wanted to be widely known. 353 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,000 I think you dragged out everything that we needed to know about the Bermuda Triangle. 354 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Oh, good. 355 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,000 It wasn't in my notes, but that I remembered. 356 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:50,000 Okay. And with that, I think we can move on to a more intriguing triangle or at least location. 357 00:27:50,000 --> 00:28:00,000 I think the term triangle, although it helps to confine an area into settled grounds, it doesn't necessarily mean that we're looking in the right direction. 358 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,000 I just feel like people are stuck on the idea of it being triangles. 359 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,000 It's a nice convenient shape. 360 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000 Yeah, it's the simplest shape. 361 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Super strong. 362 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:16,000 You only need to remember three locations for it, not like a hexagon where you'd have to remember the six locations that it pinpoints around. 363 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,000 Oh, no, that's just inconvenient. 364 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,000 Yeah, or dare I say a heptagon. 365 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000 No, you may not. 366 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000 No, let's just stick with a triangle. 367 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,000 And maybe that's also why it's called that, for we are trying to come up with something here. 368 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,000 Ah, yes. 369 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:38,000 Now where we're going to go is much further north and much further west to the new lands of Alaska. 370 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:50,000 The area in Alaska between three points, Anchorage on the west, Barrow in the very top north, and Juno on the southern coast, which actually does kind of come down. 371 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:56,000 Do you know what part of what you're looking at a map Alaska creeps down like really far down on BC? 372 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,000 Yes. 373 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,000 Juno's down there. 374 00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,000 Yes. 375 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:07,000 It's actually funny to watch because if you actually look at a map with regards to this, a lot of this Alaskan triangle will actually seep over into the Yukon territory. 376 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:18,000 This area is considered mysterious and dangerous in its own right, especially compared to the Bermuda Triangle, which Chelsea, how many people had gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle over the course of it? 377 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,000 Or how many vessels? 378 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,000 I'm not. 379 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,000 I don't have a person count. 380 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:26,000 It was about 20, 20 airplanes, 50 ships, and their peoples. 381 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:34,000 In the Alaskan Triangle from 1988 to present, over 16,000 people have mysteriously disappeared. 382 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,000 Oh my God. 383 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:38,000 And the missing rate in Alaska in itself is ridiculous. 384 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:46,000 In 2007, 2,833 people were reported missing, and the state's population is only 670,000. 385 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,000 That is terrifying. 386 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Has David Pilates did a 411 missing in Alaska? 387 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,000 I have no idea. 388 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:59,000 I'm sure he has, but they have a missing persons rate that is at least double the national average. 389 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,000 It's four in 1,000 per annum. 390 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 Oh, and Barrow's like right at the very top of Alaska. 391 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:09,000 Without further ado, I'm going to get into a few of the cases that are more notable in this area, 392 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:17,000 which stem back to my first one's going to go to 1950, and the newest one's probably going to be in about 2013. 393 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,000 So first is the case of the Douglas C-54D Skymaster. 394 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:31,000 So at 11.15 a.m. Alaskan Standard Time on January 26, 1950, a Douglas C-54 Skymaster with the U.S. military, 395 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:36,000 departed Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage headed for Great Falls, Montana. 396 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,000 The plane held 36 passengers and 8 crewmen. 397 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:46,000 The passengers included two military dependents, the pregnant wife of an Air Force Master Sergeant and her young son, 398 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000 but the rest of the passengers were military personnel. 399 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:56,000 It was scheduled to take 8.5 hours, and the forecast was good weather with clear skies for most of the journey. 400 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:02,000 The excellent visibility afforded the passengers a view of some of the most rugged, beautiful scenery on the planet. 401 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:09,000 And this area as well, I don't know if you know this, but the highest point in North America is actually in Alaska, and it's in this area. 402 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,000 I believe I did know that. 403 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,000 You can't remember the name of the mountain. It's very anglicized. 404 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:20,000 I'm sure it definitely has another name, but it's Mount McKenzie or something like that. 405 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000 Tallest mountain in North America? 406 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,000 Mount McKinley? 407 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,000 Mount McKinley. 408 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,000 Okay, good. I hope that's it because I'm just going by, yeah, Mount McKinley. 409 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,000 Also, the phone is Denali. 410 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,000 Yeah, that's in Denali National Park, I think. 411 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,000 Yeah. 412 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,000 Yeah, Denali. 413 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,000 This is super rugged territory. 414 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,000 So you get to see this beautiful scenery that you can't really see anywhere else in North America. 415 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:46,000 The plane reported its position to communication stations as it passed, and after two hours, the Skymaster passed over the border into the Yukon, 416 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:52,000 and when the plane crossed over, the Snake Radio Range located near Favour Creek Yukon territory. 417 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:59,000 The pilot called the station, estimated the aircraft would reach the next reporting point at Aishihik in 20 minutes. 418 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000 His call did not raise any concerns and appeared routine. 419 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,000 He did not mention any problems with the plane and the weather remained favorable. 420 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:12,000 The Aishihik stations never received a communication, and the Bear Creek communication was the last ever received from this plane. 421 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:18,000 When the C-54 failed to arrive on time in Montana, it was listed as missing. 422 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:25,000 An intensive search followed, which included the US Army, US Air Force, Canadian military, and civilian aircraft. 423 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,000 They failed to find any clues about what happened to the plane. 424 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:36,000 One Canadian forest ranger reported seeing a low flying plane on January 26, matching the description of the missing plane, 425 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,000 and it was flying about 40 miles southwest of Snake. 426 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:45,000 He said the plane just disappeared, and then he heard a loud explosion and then columns of black smoke. 427 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:52,000 Searchers found the site incredible, but they found no evidence of a plane in any condition at all in the area indicated. 428 00:32:52,000 --> 00:33:00,000 The searchers received other reported sightings of the plane in several different directions, but no remnants of the missing plane were ever found. 429 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:08,000 Experts believe whatever happened to the Skymaster was sudden and destructive and likely caused by structural failure, navigational error, or crew incapacitation, 430 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000 which basically means they got no idea. 431 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,000 Where did it go? 432 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,000 No idea. 433 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:17,000 And that's several different eye ranking and powerful military organizations. 434 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000 Possibly Mars again. 435 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:26,000 Yeah, I mean, I'll get into the areas that come into question, but I'm going to go on to the next one, and this is a really prominent one. 436 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,000 This is a member of Congress in the US. 437 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:35,000 In 1972, two prominent politicians, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begik, 438 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:43,000 along with aid Russell Brown and bush pilot Don Jones, mysteriously vanished in the region while on their way back from Anchorage, 439 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,000 while flying in their Cessna 310 aircraft. 440 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:55,000 An intense search lasted for 39 days, including 400 aircrafts and SR-71, dozens of boats, including 12 from the Coast Guard. 441 00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:00,000 The search area covered 32,000 square miles, which is about the size of South Carolina. 442 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:05,000 No evidence of the plane was ever found, and the men were declared dead. 443 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:15,000 At the time, conspiracy theories claiming the disappearance was orchestrated or cover up by then FBI Director J. Edgar Booper in response to an intense political struggle to handle Boggs. 444 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,000 To this day, no traces of the plane or men have ever been found. 445 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:27,000 And after this incident, Congress passed a law mandating installation of emergency location transmitters in all US civilian areas. 446 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:35,000 And unlike a lot of the triangles you'll see out there, as people are describing, there are modern-day missing vessels out this way. 447 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:47,000 On September 9th of 2013, Alan Foster, a professional charter pilot with more than 9,000 hours of flight time, was flying his recently purchased PA-32-360 from Atlanta to Anchorage. 448 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:53,000 He was only 360 miles from home when he landed at Yucatown, Alaska, to refuel. 449 00:34:53,000 --> 00:35:02,000 After he departed Yucatown, he called the Juno Flight Service for a weather update, telling them he would stay in Cordova if it wasn't good enough to make it to Anchorage. 450 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:07,000 18 minutes later, radar showed a transponder target confirmed as Foster's plane at 1100. 451 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:15,000 The aircraft was never seen again, and despite an extensive search, no one has ever cited any sign of Foster or his plane. 452 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:21,000 One of the problem the searchers encountered was Foster's failed to register an ELT beacon or his aircraft. 453 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,000 Perhaps this was something he planned to do when he returned home. 454 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000 Oh no, he put it off until later. 455 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,000 And you should always not do that, unless you don't want to. Then you can wait. 456 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,000 Exactly. 457 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:37,000 And this is not just a thing that happens to vessels in this area. 458 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:45,000 We have this story that I have dubbed the Adventure of Cocoon Boy, and this is Richard Lyman Griffiths from Spokane, Washington. 459 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:52,000 He had invented a wilderness survival cocoon, and in the summer of 2006, he headed into the wilderness of southeast Alaska to test his invention. 460 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000 No one reported him missing for a year. 461 00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:00,000 When authorities began searching for him, they learned a bus dropped off Griffiths along the Alaskan Highway. 462 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:10,000 He stopped at a lodge near the White River where he left some of his gear and told people he planned to hike upriver to McCarty, a small town in the Ringel St. Elias National Park. 463 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:17,000 He was never seen again. Since Griffiths told friends he might spend the winter in Alaska, no one worried about him until the spring. 464 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,000 But finally, a friend called Canadian Mountain reported him missing. 465 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:30,000 His friend had no idea where Griffiths was planning to go to test his wilderness cocoon, and no trace has ever been found of Griffiths or his bright orange cocoon. 466 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,000 Okay, well Griffiths made a lot of mistakes along the way. 467 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,000 He did, but he had a bright orange cocoon. 468 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,000 I guess, but there were many other things he did wrong. He did one thing right. 469 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:48,000 He brought the orange cocoon. He did not take notes from his listening journey to the spring. I'm fairly confident. 470 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:55,000 I mean, I don't think that coming back a year later from being taken by the elves would have helped him with the bright orange cocoon. 471 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,000 I mean, maybe if they came back a year and a day later, that's the problem. 472 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:04,000 Right. I hope he didn't write a down wrong like I just said it. A year and a day. Might have been there. 473 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:08,000 This area is also not protected from UFO sightings. 474 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:14,000 There's a very famous one that actually has a very in depth Wikipedia article that I'm going to read to you. 475 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,000 Protected? 476 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000 There are UFO sightings within the triangle as well. 477 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,000 I thought you said protected area of UFO sightings. 478 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,000 Yeah, it's a UFO reserve. 479 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:23,000 Is it? 480 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,000 Oh, but it'd be cool if it was. 481 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,000 Yeah, it would. 482 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:31,000 Anyhow, Japan Airlines Flight 1628 was en route from Paris to Tokyo with a cargo of Beaujolais wine. 483 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:38,000 The flight was scheduled to refuel and wreck of it and an anchorage at 5.09 p.m. on November 17, 1986. 484 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,000 Japan Airlines 1628 under the control of Captain Kenju Tarachi. 485 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,000 Tarachi got it. 486 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000 Yeah, you got it right there. 487 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:51,000 Another control of Kenju Tarachi was about 104 miles northeast of Fort Yukon. 488 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:57,000 The flight controller asked the pilot to adjust his heading to fly south of Fort Yukon and Fairbanks. 489 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,000 The copilot complied and turned the plane left above 15 degrees. 490 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:06,000 Meanwhile, Captain Tarachi saw bright lights shining through his window. 491 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,000 Lights were to the left and below JAL 1628. 492 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,000 And the pilot assumed they were military planes. 493 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,000 Captain ignored the lights until he realized they were keeping pace with his aircraft. 494 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:21,000 Tarachi quickly contacted the anchorage center and asked what aircraft was in the position. 495 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:30,000 The anchorage center flight controller said there were no military aircrafts in the area and the ground raider did not show any aircraft traffic other than Flight 1628. 496 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,000 The mysterious lights began moving erratically. 497 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,000 They suddenly appeared directly in front of the JAL plane. 498 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:45,000 And Tarachi said the inside of the cockpit brightened like the sun had lit it up and he felt the warmth of the UFO's thrusters on his face. 499 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,000 That is terrifying. 500 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:54,000 Tarachi said he and his crew were not immediately frightened, but instead watched in amazement as the lights pulsed and kept pace with the jumbo jet. 501 00:38:54,000 --> 00:39:00,000 When Tarachi reported the strange lights, the anchorage center controller said he saw nothing on his radar. 502 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:05,000 The plane's radar though showed a large green dot round object 7 to 8 miles away. 503 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:14,000 When the cargo plane arrived above Ilson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, it was a clear night and the bright city lights lit up the sky. 504 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:20,000 Tarachi looked out his window and saw the silhouette of a gigantic spaceship following their plane. 505 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,000 He later said the UFO was twice the size of an aircraft carrier. 506 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:29,000 He could only guess this was the mother ship of the smaller UFO's the plane had previously encountered. 507 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:35,000 The massive unidentified aircraft struck fear in Tarachi and he attempted a base of maneuvers to avoid it. 508 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,000 The UFO mirrored his every move. 509 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:46,000 The anchorage center controller offered to scramble a military jet, but Tarachi declined, fearing the enormous spaceship would consider such an action computational. 510 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:55,000 When a United Airlines passenger jet flew into the area near the Japan airline cargo plane, the air traffic controller asked the United flight crew to get a visual on the situation. 511 00:39:55,000 --> 00:40:02,000 Tarachi said that as soon as the United Airlines plane or worknight view of the UFO disappeared and he did not see it again. 512 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:14,000 One week after the Japan Airlines 1628 incident, John Callahan, the FAA division chief of accidents and investigations in Washington DC, received a call from a flight control supervisor in Anchorage. 513 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:21,000 The Anchorage flight controller told Callahan that the Anchorage FAA office was full of media and asked him what they should do. 514 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:26,000 Callahan asked what happened and the Anchorage official replied it's the UFO. 515 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:36,000 Callahan asked what UFO? The Anchorage official explained that a week earlier, a UFO chased a 747 across Alaska skies for approximately 30 minutes. 516 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:48,000 Callahan told his Anchorage associates to get the data together and immediately ship it to DC. Callahan said he wanted everything including the radar recordings and the recordings between the controller on the ground and captain Tarachi. 517 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:53,000 Callahan also contacted the military, but the Air Force refused to send their tapes. 518 00:40:53,000 --> 00:41:05,000 When Callahan received the tapes, he listened to a three-way conversation between the Anchorage Air Force traffic control, Elmendorf Air Force Base, the Norav Regional Operations Control Center, and Captain Tarachi on Japan Airlines 1620. 519 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:12,000 He also played the tape of the ATC radar sightings. Callahan noted there was no sign of UFOs on the ATC radar. 520 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:20,000 Still, from listening to the conversation, it was clear those at Elmendorf with their more sophisticated radar saw the UFOs were tracking their maneuvers. 521 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:26,000 The military controller noted the UFOs were traveling at thousands of miles per hour as they swirled around the 747. 522 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:32,000 One of the most surprising findings Callahan discovered was near the end of the incident when the United Airlines flight arrived. 523 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:38,000 At that moment, Captain Tarachi no longer saw the giant UFO, the United pilot never saw the craft. 524 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:45,000 Military radar, though, clearly showed the UFO and it had tucked in behind the United flight and began following it. 525 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:54,000 When Elmendorf's Norav Regional Operations Control Center notified the United crew to inform them, a giant unidentified aircraft was following them. 526 00:41:54,000 --> 00:42:01,000 Callahan's boss told him not to tell anyone about the UFO incident until they could meet with intelligence and security personnel. 527 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:10,000 The following day, as boss set up a briefing, the meeting included three FBI agents, three CIA agents, and Ronald Reagan's scientific study team. 528 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:20,000 Callahan and his staff presented everything they had and answered questions. When the meeting concluded, one of the CIA agents swore the participants to secrecy and told them this meeting never happened. 529 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:27,000 The agents admitted UFOs were not stealth bombers, which were then in development, or any other military aircraft type. 530 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:37,000 The CIA confiscated all the original voice recordings and radar tapes conducted to the UFO incident, but they did not know Callahan had copies of everything at his office. 531 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:44,000 Callahan said he believed Captain Chorochisaw three UFOs and Reagan's scientific team agreed with him. 532 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,000 I was going to say 30 minutes is a long time. 533 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:50,000 Yeah, and to be actually caught on the radar is just crazy. 534 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:58,000 Like, you could have a sighting like that for two minutes and it would feel like an hour. I can only imagine what 30 minutes was doing, especially when there's more than one. 535 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:06,000 And I do like that he thought that one was the mothercraft. He must have taken that university course and knew what he was talking about. 536 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:09,000 And then after that, he took a time travel course. 537 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,000 Yes, exactly. He's from the future. 538 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:23,000 That was Japanese. To add just a little bit more mystery to the Alaskan Triangle. Did you know there is their own type of Bigfoot within the Alaskan Triangle? 539 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:24,000 Definitely. 540 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:35,000 It is called the Kushaka. The Tlingit and Simshian native people, indigenous to Southeastern Alaska, tell stories about a mystical shapeshifting demon called the Kushaka. 541 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,000 No, not a demon. 542 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:40,000 Kushaka roughly translates to the land otter man. 543 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:45,000 Oh, that is creepy. I wish I just would have left that at not hearing it. 544 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:52,000 According to the legend, this creature appears to travelers in an irresistible form such as a child screaming for help. 545 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:58,000 The Kushaka lures his victims to a river where he either tears them to shreds or turns them into another Kushaka. 546 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:02,000 Fuck, am I supposed to ignore children screaming for help now? 547 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:06,000 Yeah, write that down on your notes in fact, during to the fringe notepad. 548 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:14,000 You better have it handy, everyone listening. That's not a threat, really. I'm sorry. You should just have it just for times like this. 549 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:18,000 You should put a note on your notepad that you need to have it ready for times like these. 550 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:28,000 Yes, we give very valuable information such as this one, ignore children screaming for help because they could lure you irresistibly and tear you to shreds by a river. 551 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:31,000 Or turn you into a giant land otter man. 552 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,000 Yeah, and we just saved your life. 553 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:37,000 Or better than death. Like I have no frame reference point for this. 554 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:41,000 Neither do I. I've never had either. I would prefer not to have either either. 555 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,000 Yeah, and there's always tales. Have you ever heard of Fort Lock, Alaska? 556 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,000 No. 557 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:51,000 It's seemingly abandoned in the late 40s due to Kushaka attacks. 558 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:56,000 There's a way more story to it than that though, and it could be an episode in itself. 559 00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:00,000 See, okay, I need to write that down right now. What is it called? 560 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,000 Fort Lock, Alaska and the Kushaka. 561 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:16,000 Okay, see, when you look at somewhere like Alaska and you look at first nations stories and stuff like that, I'm more apt to believe things like that, especially if they're abandoning towns on account of otter man. 562 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:22,000 Yeah, and there's a lot more to it than that, but that is one of the tales as to why this town was abandoned. 563 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,000 Okay. 564 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:28,000 And I don't feel like focusing on it today because that is outside of the Alaskan Triangle, surprisingly enough. 565 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,000 Don't worry, I'm adding it to the list. 566 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:37,000 Okay, but that is as much intrigue and lore as I can spread on the Alaskan Triangle for one episode. 567 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,000 That was a good one. I like that more than the Bermuda Triangle. 568 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:50,000 And that is part of being the final frontier on Earth, really. This is one of the last sparsely inhabited zones on the planet because it is so uninhabitable. 569 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,000 Yeah. 570 00:45:51,000 --> 00:46:07,000 Now, what exactly is going on here? Well, one theory claims that the Alaskan Triangle lies on what is known as the vial vortices, causing the area to have powerful electromagnetic and electromagnetic anomalies and negative energy vortices. 571 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:15,000 And this was a term coined in the 70s, which is really somebody trying to explain weird areas in the world. 572 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:21,000 I forget his name. I didn't write it down. But the most famous example of the vial vortices is the Bermuda Triangle. 573 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:37,000 And according to the theory, the vial vortices also exist in Algerian megaliths, Himmuktu, the Indus Valley in Pakistan, Himmukhulia volcano in Hawaii, and the Devil's Sea near Japan, the South Atlantic anomaly, and the North and South Poles. 574 00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:50,000 These energy vortices create various strange phenomena, and they can allegedly induce disorientation, confusion, and hallucinations. They can also cause electrical instruments to malfunction. 575 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:55,000 And the person who came up with this theory did at least face it off originally, Lane Line. 576 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:56,000 Yes. 577 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,000 Which is, I think, why they are triangular in shape. 578 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:00,000 Yes. 579 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:06,000 But what was not mentioned by him as a vial vortices is Alaska. 580 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,000 Ah. 581 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,000 All those other places are the places he said that the vial vortices would be. 582 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:14,000 I did look at that for the Bermuda Triangle as well, and that was not one of them. 583 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:20,000 Yeah. That guy's theory is either just incomplete or didn't take everything into account. 584 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:23,000 I would assume incomplete, and both of them. 585 00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:33,000 So, according to the theory of the vial vortices, positive energy vortexes also exist, and there are areas people actively search out to find inspiration or to recharge and feel uplifted. 586 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:43,000 Humans have purposely built monuments in some of these areas, including the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, Sedona Desert, and Arizona, and also believed to be in this positive vortex. 587 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:50,000 There is also a theory that there is a giant black pyramid in the Alaskan Triangle. 588 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,000 Yes, I was going to say that. 589 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:57,000 And that is as far as I'm going into that theory, because it's going to be its own episode at some point. 590 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,000 And, sorry, I will say one more thing on it. 591 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:02,000 The energy from this pyramid causes people planes and boats to disappear. 592 00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:14,000 On a much more mundane answer to what's going on here, Alaska has more than 3 million lakes and 1,000 glaciers, and hikers and mountain climbers can fall into deep crevices. 593 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:23,000 Also, airplanes can slam into mountains, barking in avalanche that covers the wreckage with snow in a matter of moments, and leave no trace of the aircast's final resting spots. 594 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:24,000 Gouché. 595 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:30,000 Also, accidental injuries occur at twice the national rate in Alaska and are the third leading cause of death. 596 00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:36,000 People wandering into the wilderness unprepared for what to expect in authorities rescue hundreds of individuals every year. 597 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:47,000 Many times the cold temperatures cause bodies to sink to the bottom of the water as well, rather than float, adding another challenge to actually finding missing persons in the area. 598 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,000 Oh, creepy. 599 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:56,000 But, to leave it on a high note, most hikers survive their wilderness adventures in the Alaskan Triangle without suffering even a scratch. 600 00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:01,000 And most planes and boats in the area reach their destination without an issue. 601 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:06,000 Alasa is truly a mysterious and undiscovered place. 602 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:09,000 It is still safe and fun to go see now. 603 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,000 Any questions, Chelsea? 604 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,000 No, I think I was going to bring up the black triangle just briefly. 605 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:15,000 Pyramid. 606 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,000 Right, the pyramid. 607 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,000 Now my brain is confused. 608 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,000 Yeah, wow, Alaska's so mysterious. 609 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:21,000 I had no idea. 610 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:22,000 That was a good one. 611 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,000 I'm impressed. 612 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:24,000 No questions though. 613 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,000 Just a comment, really. 614 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:30,000 Yeah, I've had a lot of fun actually reading these stories and it just happened at such a rate. 615 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:36,000 Yes, part of it is just the fear undiscovered nature of this vast untouched nature. 616 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:40,000 But part of it is, is these end up being some mysterious missing persons. 617 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,000 It was a lot of fun to read in a kind of morbid sort of way. 618 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,000 Yeah, it is. 619 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:54,000 I always enjoy in a kind of morbid way again, the reading like mysterious missing people because it's so creepy, which is also why the Bermuda Triangle is so popular. 620 00:49:54,000 --> 00:50:00,000 Because people like those, well, people like me like those kind of things, which just perpetuate something that's wrong. 621 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:07,000 But it could be right and we could just read things that are actually right and stop listening about the Bermuda Triangle. 622 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:13,000 I will happily have a go on my face, but it turns out the Bermuda Triangle is powered by the Atlantis Pyramid. 623 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:14,000 True, it could be that. 624 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,000 There is a lot of research behind that one. 625 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,000 Well, yeah, that is today's episode. 626 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:24,000 There are many different triangles out there that we could continue the series on with. 627 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:29,000 No other shapes though, unless we wanted to touch on the hexagon of Saturn, but nobody's ever gone missing there. 628 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:33,000 There's no other mysterious shapes other than the Pentagon probably. 629 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,000 What is a Pentagon but five triangles? 630 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:37,000 Oh my God, it is. 631 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,000 And I'll leave you with that thought. 632 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:44,000 With that, we are done with our shape lesson for today. 633 00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:48,000 Congratulations, you can make it part of the way now through kindergarten. 634 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,000 That's what you get for listening from us. 635 00:50:50,000 --> 00:51:01,000 And while we learn about all the other shapes on other podcasts, we have been Taylor and Chelsea here telling you about those triangles out there and how mysteriously mysterious they are. 636 00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:06,000 We will be going up for our next shape and or next topic next week. 637 00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,000 I don't think it'll have a shape. 638 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:09,000 Everything's got a shape. 639 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,000 The next episode, I wonder what shape it'll take. 640 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:12,000 I don't know. 641 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:17,000 Anyhow, I have been Taylor here with Chelsea talking to you about triangles. 642 00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,000 And that's all for listening and we will see you next time. 643 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:49,000 Thank you for listening to Journey to the Fringe. 644 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:51,000 We are there. 645 00:51:51,000 --> 00:52:02,000 And if you really want to communicate with us and give us ideas for new episodes or tell us that we're wrong and terrible, either way, please send us an email at journeytothefringeatgmail.com. 646 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:21,000 For now, I'll see you in the next episode.