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Alaska, a vast remote wilderness twice the size of Texas.

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There are dangerous, unpredictable forces at work here.

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In one of the most mysterious corners of the globe.

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A lot of things can kill you out here without even trying.

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This is a place hundreds of times more deadly than the Bermuda Triangle.

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Oh my God.

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Stories of alien abductions.

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I believe it was a UFO.

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The paranormal, vanishing airplanes and strange beasts.

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The Alaskan Bigfoot, he can rip you in half.

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These accounts are really widespread.

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Peaked out of the tree right there.

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Have haunted those who dare set foot here.

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In the last 30 years, 16,000 people have disappeared without a trace.

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More people have disappeared than the Bermuda Triangle.

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Two to three times the amount.

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Witnesses tell us their shocking stories.

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I was petrified.

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And we've gathered some of the world's leading experts in their field.

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I'm always after scientific evidence that can be independently corroborated.

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To try and unlock the mystery of the Alaska Triangle.

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The Alaska Triangle is steeped in mystery with extraordinary stories and unexplained phenomena.

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From possessions and poltergeists to mythological monsters, it's a hub of supernatural activity.

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The place is absolutely riddled with the paranormal.

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Its cities are rife with reported haunts.

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This hotel is a hotbed for the supernatural.

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It's wilderness, stalked by strange beasts.

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We have something here.

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Now, paranormal investigators are on a mission to solve the mysteries.

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I feel like I've kind of dipped my arms in like ice water right now.

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And the results are astonishing.

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I can't speak. I can't move.

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Look how dangerous this is here.

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Alaska's state capital, Juno, wedged between mountains and ocean,

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founded in the Gold Rush and home to one of Alaska's most haunted buildings.

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Anyone who's worked or lived here for any length of time knows that this hotel is a hotbed for the supernatural.

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To understand the building's hauntings is to crack the supernatural mysteries of the Alaska Triangle itself.

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Leading the investigation, expert, intuitive and paranormal investigator, Jeff Richards.

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The Alaska Triangle is absolutely a magnet for the spirits of the dead.

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With more cases of hauntings and possessions than many other places in North America.

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The building's history goes hand in hand with the city itself.

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This hotel was built in 1913 on gold money.

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Juno was a mining town.

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It was a rough and ready sort of border town.

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Prospectors were exploring every nook and cranny with a fine comb.

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98% of them returned broke.

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To celebrate their successes or drink away their failures, Juno's most colorful characters headed to the Alaskan Hotel.

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This hotel was a bordello where rooms were rented out by the working girls.

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If you were to come in in 1913 into this very bar, you would see a lot of miners, trappers, fishermen, even lawmen and legislators.

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They all came together.

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Many think that notorious past has left a permanent paranormal mark.

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My family's had this hotel since I was two years old.

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I grew up around the supernatural and I grew up around the ghosts and the spirits that live in this building.

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For many guests, the hotel's paranormal activity is too much to bear.

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Some people can't stay here. They just leave. Some of them running, some of them screaming.

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Now, Jeff will use his years of experience investigating hauntings and supernatural activity to dig to the bottom of the hotel's paranormal history.

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Joshua, hey, pleased to meet you. It's amazing to be in such a famous haunted hotel.

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I'm hoping that Jeff can tell me a little bit more about the hauntings and possibly the other supernatural beings that inhabit this building.

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Yeah, come right back this way.

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I'd like to know if his findings concur with the legends.

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First up, Josh takes him to one of the most disturbing spots in the building.

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The first thing I want to show you is down in the basement.

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So this is where we have a resident poltergeist.

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The few people who have ventured into the hotel's basement report an aggressive spirit that physically attacks them.

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He's angry with women. There's a feeling of anguish and hatred, intense hatred and capriciousness in that particular spot in the basement.

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As an intuitive, Jeff feels attuned to the presence of spirits in haunted spaces.

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Do you feel that there's sort of this malevolent kind of presence or something that's more likely to push people out of this space than other parts of the hotel?

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It's like two hands coming up in front of me right now, almost like a roaring kind of masculine energy, wanting to push me back up those stairs for whatever reason.

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Like, I feel like I've kind of dipped my arms in like ice water right now. Does that make sense to you?

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For Josh, the poltergeist in the basement arrived after a tragic accident.

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Well, let me tell you something about the history of this place. On September 8th, 1998, I was standing right here and I was looking at a dead man floating face down and what at that time was a hot tub that we had rented to him.

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His name was Charles and he died at the age of 44 by drowning.

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After Charles drowned, his body was removed, but Josh believes his spirit never left.

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That man is a poltergeist and he is very, very territorial.

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After the death, that we never rented another hot tub and we never used this area for any commercial purpose.

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I've done over 185 investigations.

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I hear stories all the time of a haunted space that is haunted because some incredibly violent act has taken place. They're a murder or a suicide.

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I think it's quite common for those moments to leave a rip in the energy of that space that those spirits are continually drawn back to.

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But Jeff feels there's more at play here.

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So the negativity then, because I'm feeling right now, it may very well be the energy of that man that passed away.

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But to me, it also feels like there's something here that's a bit older than that.

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Could it be the hotel's colorful past that has left spirits festering in its basement?

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Right where you're standing was a horseshoe bar. The bar was a hub for every scoundrel, scumbag, legislator, con man, murderer thief, you name it.

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There were riots, there were brawls. It was just like the Old West.

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This feels like something connected to the original people on this land.

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Do you know if there's ever been anything, like if anything was found with regards to burial sites or sacred spaces, ceremonial spaces on the property that the Alaska hotel resides on right now?

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Many of Alaska's towns were built on the sites of settlements established by indigenous Native American tribes. Jeff's keen to know if the Alaskan hotel was too.

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This building was built on Native lands and this land is still sacred to the Klinkett people. And when the white people came, they took it from the Native Americans.

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And many of those homes were decimated. So a lot of that negative energy could be coming from the disenfranchised Native ancestors.

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Building a home on sacred grounds, on burial lands, 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.

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And those energies might take action against whoever is there.

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Jeff has felt the presence of multiple spirits in the basement.

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I've explored the basement. I've seen a lot. I've felt a lot here. I'm excited to get to the rest of the hotel, though, to see what else I can find.

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Okay, I'm going to give you keys to the two most haunted rooms in the entire hotel. Here's a key to room 219, which is right here. And here's a key to room 315, which is on the third floor.

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All right. It started.

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First stop, room 219 on the second floor.

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This room has a very sad sort of air about it. As soon as you come into the space, I mean, I feel it right now. It feels oppressive in the way that it's taken a life previously, at least one.

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The Alaska Triangle, a hub of unexplained disappearances and a hotspot for paranormal activity.

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Everybody knows about the Bermuda Triangle, but the Alaska Triangle is even weirder.

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In Alaska's capital city, Juno, paranormal investigator Jeff Richards is trying to contact resident spirits in one of the Alaska hotel's most haunted rooms, 219.

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This room has a very sad sort of air about it. As soon as you come into the space, I mean, I feel it right now.

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We have a particular spirit that gets seen by a lot of people, and we call her Alice. Alice lived in a room with her beau, and that room was 219. She was with him, but he left to go out and seek his fortune.

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100 years later, Jeff has picked up on spiritual energy in that same room, 219.

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The energy of the basement was menacing, but this is almost sorrowful. Alice ran out of money, and so she turned to the world's oldest profession.

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Like many impoverished women down on their luck back then, she became a prostitute.

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The only problem is her boyfriend did come back. He became furious.

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He killed her in a crime of passion. Jeff, a self-professed intuitive, thinks he can feel a link to those events.

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There's like a feminine voice, a woman's voice.

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And she's saying, tell me.

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Like sort of like shouting it, like tell me.

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Tell me.

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And there's confusion.

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And to this day, people see Alice in a diaphanous gown.

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Sadness is there because it's like something's been pulled away before it's time with no real explanation.

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Okay, I want to see, I want to go see 315.

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Another shocking story haunts the floor above.

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There's another strange occurrence that happened in room 315.

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There was a sailor in the year 2007 who rented a room. He was rather intoxicated, and he wanted a room that was haunted.

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Though the man entered the room alone, guests reported hearing loud voices.

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It was as if someone were talking to someone else in the room who wasn't there.

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But it wasn't just voices.

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People here screaming, yelling, virtual chaos in the room.

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He ends up actually throwing himself out of this window.

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So whatever he was experiencing was so terrible, was so frightening that he was compelled to leap out this window and fall three stories down the window itself.

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It's small, it's a very small opening.

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This wall here is just a few feet away.

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So he would have been skidding down that wall getting bumped and banged up and scratched the whole way down.

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When the police finally enter the room, they find a scene of carnage.

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There was blood all over the room. The window was broken, and when I say blood all over the room, I mean the walls, the ceiling, the beds, everywhere.

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I do feel a bit uneasy right now in the room, especially with the door closed.

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But it's not even that, it's just like everything is sort of kind of closing in a little bit.

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This room feels, it feels oppressive in the way that it's taken a life previously, at least one.

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I want to get some of the equipment out and start trying to communicate with whatever this might be.

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Jeff will use a trio of electromagnetic meters to gauge any spirits activity in the room.

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Hopefully we're able to net something here today, okay? Warm up, big time.

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I'd like to invite anyone who may be present in this room right now to step forward and communicate with me.

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My name is Jeff, and I enter your space with nothing but respect.

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I'm simply here to record your story.

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Jeff's specialist device picks up on electromagnetic variations in the room's atmosphere.

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Incredibly, it can translate any paranormal messages into actual words, which are then spoken by the machine.

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Basement.

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July.

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Can I just...

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July 12th, 1921, July.

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Okay? That's again, we're getting a string of very significant hits here right now.

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Amazingly, Jeff has heard the spirit voice say the same date he picked up on earlier and wrote on his pad.

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What's July? What's the 12th of July? Was that the day you were killed? 12th of July?

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Go ahead, touch that light. Yes, good, good.

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Jeff believes the ghost can show its presence by boosting the energy in the room, which registers on his machine.

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I'd like to know what it is that you want while you're here. Can you tell me why you're here?

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Hell.

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What about hell?

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Are you stuck in hell?

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Are you in hell?

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Alice.

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This does not happen often, but when it does, it's significant.

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Alice.

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So we're speaking with Alice. Is this Alice?

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In a remarkable development, Jeff feels he's in direct contact with the hotel's best known ghost, the Gold Rush era guest known as Alice.

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Brutally murdered by her furious lover.

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Alice, you can touch this light if this is Alice that we're speaking with. This is Alice.

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Okay, very good.

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Alice.

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Did you die in room 219?

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Alice, are you still with us?

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I'm not.

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I'm not.

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I'm not.

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I'm not.

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I'm not.

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I'm not.

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Alice.

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Alice.

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Alice, I'd like to say thank you for speaking with us.

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I thank you for your communication.

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I'm going to say goodbye now.

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Once again, thank you.

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I firmly believe that today, I was speaking directly to Alice. My theory is that the young man who stayed in this room had an encounter with her.

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The scorned woman who was killed before, you know, she was ready, obviously very tragically, she was killed and is sort of now left wandering, trapped.

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Alice, for me that confirms the name. That confirms, you know, what has been speculated about in this hotel for years and years and years.

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We have now given them some conclusive proof.

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That's a big deal. It's very, very significant.

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July basement, again, these are all clues leading towards us connecting today with Alice from room 219.

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Those were huge hits. Those were really big hits. From an investigative perspective, those were great.

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I think we're done.

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From the hundreds of paranormal experiences to psychic contact, the evidence of intense paranormal activity at Juno's Alaskan Hotel is abundant.

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And there are plenty more hauntings for Jeff to investigate.

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The State's Biggest City, Anchorage, has also seen a boom in unexplained paranormal activity.

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At its epicenter, the 100-year-old historic Anchorage Hotel.

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I grew up in Anchorage and I have heard stories about this hotel being haunted for my whole life.

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For decades, guests and staff alike have reported all manner of ghostly encounters.

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Some days you can just feel like there's a lot here going on.

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There are hundreds of ghostly encounters recorded in a dedicated log of the hotel's paranormal activity.

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Room 219 says the temperature was comfortable but then it became very cold rapidly.

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Um, 203 guests woke up to laughter coming from the closet.

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The window was locked when the guests left the room but when they returned the window was open.

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These are typical things that happen here.

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There literally are hundreds and they go back for years.

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The hotel is creaking with sinister stories of death and disaster.

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And many of those stories are rooted in local history.

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In 1921, Sheriff Sturgis was murdered in the alley behind our hotel.

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He was murdered with his own gun.

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He did not die immediately but he never would say who murdered him.

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We believe that he comes here from time to time especially around the time of his death.

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It's on the hotel's busy upper floors where ghosts are most regularly reported.

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And the reports of the strange encounters go way beyond regular bumps in the night.

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Many are truly deeply disturbing.

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Now as the hotel's hauntings reach an all-time high, psychic investigator Angelique Conrad will dig into the questions of who are these ghosts and where did they come from.

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Angelique, it's nice to meet you.

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Very nice to meet you.

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Energy never stops existing, it just changes form.

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So I think when we pass, sometimes what people perceive as ghosts are maybe just shadows of what someone's energy was.

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For Angelique, it's this hotel's turbulent history that lies behind its intense paranormal activity.

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Today we're going to be doing a reading for the building and I'm going to tune in to what is in the building.

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If I feel anything or hear or sense anything, I'm just going to be open to that.

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She uses crystals to help channel any paranormal activity.

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And so we do acknowledge these beings of light that surround us.

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I'm asking any beings that live in the Anchorage Historic Hotel to come through.

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One energy is coming through and I feel like I'm feeling the back of my head.

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Like a gunshot.

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Oh, my head hurts now.

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Could it be the ghost of local policeman Sheriff Sturgis, gunned down here by an unknown assailant almost a century ago?

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I'm going to ask if anyone else wants to come through.

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I'm sensing a woman is coming through to me and she's looking for someone.

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She's got like a light pink or white dress on.

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I feel something around my neck.

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They committed suicide there.

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Angelique seems to have connected with a bride said to have hanged herself in the hotel when her groom stood her up.

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I know that we close.

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I do feel a lot of energy under the building and around the building.

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I do feel that there are some beings that are possibly stuck here.

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It's almost like a loop, like an energetic loop that gets played over and over again.

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Across America, stories swirl a beast roaming the wilderness like the Big Foot or Sasquatch.

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But Alaska has its own mythical monster.

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They're very dangerous.

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They're expected of thousands of human abductions.

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It is extremely bad luck to even mention its name.

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Feared by generations of Native Americans.

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They have old stories going back thousands of years about these things.

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And possibly attacking people today.

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I know it happened because I got the scars to prove it.

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Its name is Kushtaka.

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It's a creature synonymous with the spirit world of Native American Klingid people.

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The indigenous population of Southeast Alaska.

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The Kushtaka is a shape shifting creature in Klingid society.

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And it's known to inhabit all of Southeast Alaska.

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The literal translation is land otter man.

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They're very dangerous.

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They're very big and muscular and they have a lot of physical power behind them.

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Part man, part otter.

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This land and water dwelling monster is reputed to have abducted countless people over generations.

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Kushtaka is tying into Klingid culture in accounting for missing people and what might happen to them.

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For centuries Native American artists have depicted the creature's terrifying form in masks and art.

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This being is similar to the Klingid Kushtaka because this being hair covered and very cold in the body is the same sort of creature that would steal a drowning fisherman and take him to another land.

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And as such is much feared.

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Tales of its attacks stretch back hundreds of years.

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Thomas Bay, Southern Alaska, known as the Bay of Death.

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It's the site of one of the Alaska Triangles most infamous mysteries.

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And locals like Bjorn Dila grew up on its terrifying tales.

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The legend of Thomas Bay is the quintessential spook story of Southeast Alaska.

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Back at the beginning of the 20th century, Alaska was still a wild unexplored frontier.

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But people were starting to explore it.

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So this is a couple years after the Klondike goal rush ended.

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There's no goal to be had really.

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But people are still just fleeing the lower 48 in hopes of kind of economic opportunities that Alaska might offer.

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Among them, a gold hungry prospector known as Charlie.

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Charlie knew this elderly Klingid man who had this big piece of quartz that was flecked full of gold.

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And Charlie was following this Klingid man around being like, where did you find this?

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The tribesman gives Charlie a vital tip off.

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Charlie heads alone into the wilderness, desperate to find his fortune.

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His destination, Thomas Bay.

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An area revered by Native Americans for its evil spirits and known for an historic landslide that wiped out an entire settlement.

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The Klingid people of the area wouldn't have anything to do with the bay.

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There was a fear of something menacing in the forest.

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They call it Devil's Country.

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Undeterred, Charlie sets up camp alone.

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So Charlie sets up camp and immediately just starts pouring rain.

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For a full week, Charlie waits out the rain in his tent.

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Charlie, after weeks of rain, comes out of his tent.

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He's following this Klingid man's directions to this gold depot.

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He's going to be a great man.

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Charlie, after weeks of rain, comes out of his tent.

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He's following this Klingid man's directions to this gold deposit.

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Alone in the wilderness, with supplies fast running out, the man searches the hillsides for any sign of the long-rumored gold seams.

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He's up high on a ridge. He's kind of turned around.

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And then he exposes this huge ledge full of gold.

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Of the hundreds of thousands of prospectors who sought their fortunes in the gold fields of America, few ever tasted such luck.

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After marking the find, Charlie goes in search of more gold.

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But his luck is about to run out.

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He turns around and right there are these creatures that are neither man nor monkey, but just hideous, shrieking, screaming, hollering and trying to get him.

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The only word that he can use to describe them are devil creatures.

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So he tries to use his gun, which doesn't work that well.

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Terrified for his life, Charlie flees Thomas Bay, taking nothing with him.

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Except an incredible tale that will last for centuries.

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And for Alaskans, it corroborates a legend as old as Alaska itself.

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The legend of the Kushtaka.

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Deep in the Alaskan wilderness, stories of a supernatural beast have been around for centuries.

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The Kushtaka is one of the most terrifying creatures there is in our folklore.

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We don't acknowledge their existence. They're the boogeymen. They're demonized.

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Now, cryptozoologist Lance Hightower is on a mission to find the mythical monster and sort legend from reality.

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We're on a hunt looking for evidence of the Kushtaka. We have the ideal environment. We have dense forests, steep cliffs and water.

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In fact, we're not too far away from the very famous location, Thomas Bay.

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So I think this is going to be an ideal location, and I'm looking forward in getting in there and seeing what we can find.

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Could Kushtaka be a genuinely unknown species?

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Science does not know everything. We're discovering new species all the time.

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That is, there's many new and undiscovered species waiting to be found, including very big animals.

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Lance is ready to find out and prepared for every eventuality.

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So I have in my backpack an EM meter. It's been said that these Kushtaka elicit some type of electromagnetic frequency.

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And in addition, I have a infrared, so as night falls, I want to be able to see what's going on around me.

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As we go over here and investigate, I have no idea what's over there, so we want to be safe at all costs.

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It's a precaution worth taking. It was not far from this spot in woods like these.

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That one of the most recent and terrifying Kushtaka encounters occurred.

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Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think that I would have an encounter with the Kushtaka.

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The Kushtaka are shapeshifting beings from the Klingent mythology.

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They have old stories going back thousands of years about these things.

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They're infamous for appearing out of nowhere and swooping on their victims.

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People like Diana Lynn Tucker.

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Back in 2007, my husband and I had saved up enough money to come to Alaska for the summer.

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We rented a little summer home and we had some friends come up to visit us.

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It was a beautiful, beautiful July date.

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My friend and I decided to go on a walk.

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So Shari and I found a couple of paths to go and there was one, it was more woodsy than the other one.

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Diana heads deep into the woods, enchanted, but alone.

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Next thing I know, everything went silent.

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It was like that nightmare came to life.

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Unaware of the danger, Diana was walking in the world of the Kushtaka.

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The land otter man, as the name Kushtaka translates, is a man who has been living in the woods for a long time.

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He's said to live between the water and the land, but also between the physical and spirit worlds.

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They know how to do things that we don't even understand yet. It's beyond us.

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This may sound like a nightmarish fairy tale, a legend, but Alaska remains the last great unexplored region of the United States.

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There's things there that remain anomalous because no one's really had a chance to investigate them.

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Experts link the Kushtaka's awesome powers to the location of its habitat, deep in the Alaska Triangle.

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We know that there are unexplained electromagnetic forces within the Triangle.

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And we know that science has confirmed that electromagnetism affects both humans and animals.

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Native American communities blame the Kushtaka for many inexplicable occurrences.

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There are several thousand people reported missing in Alaska.

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Could Kushtaka's be responsible for some of this?

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Look at this. Look how dangerous this is here. Anything could be watching us.

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This is like a fortress in here. You have the high cliffs, dense forest, and if I was going to be a Kushtaka, I would be in the shadows.

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I need to find a way to investigate up there. I need to get over there.

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It was in woods like these that Texan Diana Lynn Tucker encountered the shape-shifting Kushtaka while out walking on summer vacation.

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All of a sudden there were these ravens. I don't even know what they were. These big black birds and they were coming into the trees.

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Separated from her friend, Diana is vulnerable to attack.

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I'm looking around for Cherie. I can't find her anywhere. I can't speak. I can't move. I can hardly breathe.

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It just became dark with these black crow birds. And then I look over.

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And there's this bird like man, this huge entity with this beak face. Suddenly I just fell.

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The birds were coming at me. I could feel the blood going down my arms.

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And I'm sorry. It's just so scary.

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The shape-shifting Kushtaka had made Diana's worst nightmare as a reality by transforming into a bird.

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When I was a child, I had older brothers and we watched a very famous movie about these big black birds that were just evil.

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And ever since then they've just always, always terrified me.

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The Kushtaka is something that preys upon your most primal fears with this ability to almost peer into your soul.

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Incredibly, Diana escaped with her life.

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And my friend, she was, what is wrong? And why are you bleeding? She thought that I had like fallen.

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And I was freaked out and scared. What in the hell just happened? It was unexplainable.

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Diana could make no sense of her terrifying experience.

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Until she came face to face with a Native American elder.

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She looked up at me with just the fear of God in her eyes as if she had just seen the devil.

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And she asked me if I had been touched by the Kushtaka.

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She told me that the fact that I came out of it alive meant that I had a very strong soul and there was some larger purpose for me in life.

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It was validating. This was real. This did happen. I was approached and there's something out there.

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I know it happened because I got the scars to prove it.

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It was just frightening as hell.

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Diana survived her experience.

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Now Lance Hightower is seeking the shape-shifting beast she says attacked her.

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Anything could be watching us right now and we wouldn't know it. How dense everything just look at it.

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There could be something 15 yards away you'd never know in the shadows.

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What's more, Native Americans believe the Kushtaka can make itself invisible.

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If the Kushtaka has all the special powers that the Klingit people say it does then this could be one of the hardest creatures to track down.

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That's because it appears to morph between our realm and another realm.

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So I pulled out my EMF meter. It reads the electromagnetic frequency that these Kushtaka are supposed to emit.

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Into the early hours of the Alaskan twilight Lance searches for any sign of the Kushtaka.

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Okay, it's dark here now. I did my investigation up on this ridge. There's no telling what's up there that could be watching me right now.

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I didn't register anything on my EMF meter or my infrared but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

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These are master of disguise going to the shadow world. What I know, it's dark. I sense all on this ridge and I need to get out of here.

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As Lance leaves Alaska, the mystery of the Kushtaka remains hidden deep in the forest.

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From hotel hauntings to supernatural beasts, the mysteries of the Alaska Triangle continue.

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Thank you for watching.