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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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It peaked out of the tree right there.

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Have hunted 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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Alaska.

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Infamous for the many UFO sightings in the skies above.

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But beneath its 95,000 square miles of ocean, could there be alien life?

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According to Soviet naval intelligence, more than half the UFOs coming in and going out of this planet are coming out of our oceans.

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What a perfect place not to have human witnesses.

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Alaskan residents have reported seeing UFOs rising from its waters.

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I was just like, what the hell was that?

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So UFO experts have taken their investigations under water.

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70% of the earth is water.

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And we've explored 5%.

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Of course they're hiding underwater.

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And I think they've been underwater for, if not decades, centuries.

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The Triangle holds some of the world's deepest waters.

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With the Gulf of Alaska reaching down to depths of an incredible 26,000 feet.

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Could this be a perfect hiding place for a secret underwater alien base?

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There's definitely underwater UFO activity that's been reported over the last four decades.

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These UFOs have been tracked underwater and stayed underwater for a long time.

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Evaded to Navy.

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And they go so deep that we don't know where they're going.

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I am very convinced that there's some kind of base underwater.

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UFO researcher Johnny Enoch has been looking at the evidence.

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According to my sources, there are extraterrestrial bases under the water off the coast of Alaska.

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Alaska is the perfect place for extraterrestrials to set up underwater bases.

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I mean, you have 33,000 miles of untapped coasts and over 3 million lakes.

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I mean, where better a place to set up shop?

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According to UFO investigator Jeremy Ray, the US Navy has long known about alien aircraft using our oceans to hide underwater.

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He's found compelling photographs online that are said to have been taken by a naval officer aboard a nuclear submarine.

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The original owner could not be traced, so these are recreations of those images.

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In March 1971, USS Trapang was carrying out weapons testing in the Arctic when a UFO was reportedly sighted in the sea.

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The images look like a massive craft that's ascended out of the water, hovered for a little while for the Navy guys to take pictures of it.

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It's like a cylindrical saucer, but oval-shaped object that you can see in the photographs when it's coming out of the water.

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The water is still falling off the craft.

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Then the object turns sideways and supposedly from the report took off at a high rate of speed.

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Jeremy's team at MUFON, the mutual UFO network, does not believe the photographs are fakes.

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They're elite photographs and they've been out there on the internet for a while and nobody has come forward to debunk them.

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In August 2014, a US astronaut took this photograph from the International Space Station.

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Strange lights were seen in the waters of the Gulf of Thailand near the city of Bangkok.

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Could this be evidence of an underwater alien base in Southeast Asia?

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In the photographs it shows all these green lights that are on the water.

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That right there is strange in itself that he could actually see the lights all the way up into space.

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Some people think that it might be some kind of UFO activity.

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It's very mysterious. When you look at the photograph with your own eyes, it looks very, very strange.

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Some dismissed this interpretation of the photographs, saying it was easily explained by fishing boats using LED lights to attract squid to their nets.

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But it seems there is compelling evidence of UFOs using the oceans of the Alaska Triangle.

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And it comes directly from US servicemen themselves.

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In 1969, Dan Willis was serving in naval communications when he reported a UFO incident that would change his life.

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A recent change in military law means he can now speak publicly about it without fear of jail.

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I was a certified high-speed code operator, you know, the type of thing.

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I worked at the code room, the Naval Communication Station in San Francisco.

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I had a top-secret, extra-sensitive material handling security clearance.

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I received a secret priority message from a ship that was off the coast of Alaska coming in through a Morse code channel.

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The crew were reportedly startled by what they just witnessed off the port side of their ship.

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The crew reported a brightly glowing, reddish-orange elliptical object approximately 70 feet in diameter that emerged out of the ocean and then shot straight up into space.

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The radar operator tracked the blips going in excess of 7,000 miles per hour.

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I'm reading the message as I'm decoding it from Morse code.

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It was a highly unusual message.

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I never experienced anything like that, so it all stuck. It burned like an image in the back of my head. This message.

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Making a UFO sighting public was a crime for any US servicemen under the 1953 Espionage Act.

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But Dan was in a dilemma about keeping such an important event under wraps.

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I have to admit for a second I was thinking of taking this secret message to make a copy of it on the Xerox machine, but I knew if I did I'd be facing 10 years in prison, so I had a second thought about doing that.

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So Dan took the top secret message to his superiors, who then passed it on to the highest ranks of the US Navy.

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Dan came to one conclusion about this reported UFO sighting.

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This is 1969, so I couldn't imagine that anybody on Earth had this type of technology and imagined it to be extraterrestrial.

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It was something that was in an official Navy secret report going to the Chief of Naval Operations.

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This was not part of my reality.

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This startling UFO report was never to see the light of day.

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But the incident continued to trouble Dan.

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People don't question things until they have an actual experience themselves, and since that experience over the decades it left a burning question in my mind.

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What is this?

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After Dan's life-changing experience, he decided to hunt for evidence of other UFO sightings across Alaska's oceans.

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He was startled by what he found.

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Could there be a secret underwater alien base off the coast of Alaska?

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I've been researching through and there's a number of reports I find of discs coming out of the ocean near Alaska.

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This particular report happened all the way back in the summer of 1945.

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An Army transportership, US Delaroff, was heading past a DAC, one of the Aleutian Islands, in the southwest corner of Alaska.

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Suddenly, one of the crew was said to have spotted ripples in the water just a mile from their vessel.

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In this report from one of the crew members, he stated that he turned and saw a large, round object which just emerged from the sea.

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They witnessed a UFO come up out of the water that was 150 to 200 feet wide, and it started circling the boat and making everyone feel rather uneasy.

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1945, that could be quite startling to see.

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150, 250 foot circular object come out of the ocean.

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Totally quiet. It was on its own propulsion system, wasn't affected by the wind the sailors set.

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This mysterious, unidentified flying object was said to be in one of the most dangerous places in the world.

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But the crew held their fire for fear of provoking an attack.

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It circled around the ship two or three times until it took off, leaving everyone mesmerized.

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The crew kept watch as they were moving towards the ship.

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The tenía parallel son complimented it by being caἶp sˆ acceptance from NASA.

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It was still alive by that spot, but no light far left until they either geographical on the ship or sunk into that point.

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of the crew witnessed this, including the radio man.

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And they signed a summary and reported this

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when they got back to shore.

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Mysteriously, the top secret report compiled by the crew

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never saw the light of day.

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Dan believes he's identified a pattern.

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They're all strikingly similar.

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All the reports that I've researched through,

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people see things coming up under the ocean.

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And they shoot off at tremendous speeds.

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Could these UFO encounters be proof of an underwater alien

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base in Alaska?

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If so, why would such an advanced life

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form be attracted to its waters?

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UFO researcher Johnny Enoch has been investigating.

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In the reports I've heard about extraterrestrial craft

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coming in and out of the water, it's usually

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because there is an underwater network

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that they're accessing, where they may enter in one spot

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and leave from another.

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Some have said the UFOs are using wormholes

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as a superhighway to the ocean.

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It connects to other places in the universe.

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Johnny believes he's found a precedent for an alien base

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in Alaska's waters.

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Using satellite imagery, he's found

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what he thinks is an abandoned extraterrestrial structure

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in the Pacific Ocean off the Californian coast.

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What we're looking at here is an alien base.

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What we're looking at here is some underwater footage

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off the coast of Malibu.

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And it's absolutely incredible.

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We have signs of an advanced civilization

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due to the architectonics here.

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We have several pillars all lined up

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in a symmetrical fashion.

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And there appears to be some sort of a lentil or doorway

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in the front of it.

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And even if you look at the top of it,

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it's got this roof-like structure.

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Perhaps this is the remains of an ancient and advanced

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civilization.

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I think we very well could be looking

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at an underwater alien base.

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Back in Alaska, the reported sightings of UFOs over its seas

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have continued right up to present day, most notably

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around Smitty's Cove, 60 miles from Anchorage.

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Locals have reported something strange lurking in the waters.

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I saw thousands and thousands of those ships out there.

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I was freaked out.

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If aliens have set up home in the oceans,

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it could only be here in the Alaska Triangle.

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Our Earth is 70% water, and we've explored 5%.

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There are trenches, deep water trenches.

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Some of the coastlines are 2,000, 3,000, 4,000 feet deep.

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So there's so many places to hide things underwater.

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Naturally, extraterrestrials would be heading underwater.

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It's a great place to hide.

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They've probably been doing it for centuries.

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Debbie Zigglemeyer has carried out over 800 investigations

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from MUFON.

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The mutual UFO network.

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She is their director of underwater research.

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Investigating is like a mystery novel.

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Every piece of evidence gets a little bit closer

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to solving the mystery.

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Debbie's investigation is now centering on Alaska.

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In the southeast of the Triangle, off the coast of Anchorage,

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she's found some intriguing satellite images.

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I thought it would be a good idea to take a look at satellite

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images.

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So I started a little bit east, right along the bottom line

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of the Alaska Triangle.

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I found some very interesting things underwater.

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I'm not really sure about them.

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Some interesting lines, almost like roadways,

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some type of like a structure.

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I actually found almost like underwater highways.

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And then alongside of it, there's rocks

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that just look out of place, funny shapes.

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But mainly what intrigued me were what

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looks like highways underwater.

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Could these markings signify an alien superhighway that

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leads to a covert underwater headquarters?

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There have been compelling reports of UFOs along the coast

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here.

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One comes from Beverly Walts, who had a startling experience

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one evening at her home near to Smitty's Cove in Whittier.

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I was looking out my window just because I

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like to look out over the water.

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And I had noticed something odd going out there

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over the mountains.

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I saw these objects like all these different lights.

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And so I took my binoculars and I was looking out.

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And I saw the ships.

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They came from very low, just rising up.

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It just seems like thousands and thousands

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of those ships out there coming up, up, up, up, up, up,

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up, up, up.

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And then when they got up into the skyline

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that you couldn't see anymore, it would just like,

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psh, so fast and just disappear.

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I was freaked out.

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I was like, what is that?

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What's going on?

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Really strange.

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I had never seen anything like it.

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Nothing that our military has.

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I didn't attribute it to anything man-made,

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is what I'm trying to say.

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UFO investigator Debbie Ziegelmeier

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believes she's found the source of Beverly's UFO sighting

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in the waters of Smitty's Cove.

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This is a good place to start.

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Since there's activity here, there

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are sightings over the water.

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There's lights that have been seen in the water.

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Why this mysterious area?

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What's pretty desolate around here,

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the communities are all small.

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There's less chance of somebody seeing the craft.

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I'm sure there's parts of this area

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where it's never been seen by humans even.

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But the interesting part about Smitty's Cove

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is it's fairly shallow and then it drops off very, very deep.

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This is really a good place to take a look.

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Debbie's traveled over 3,000 miles from St. Louis, Missouri

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to Smitty's Cove.

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Here, she hopes to find more evidence of the underwater alien

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base she's been searching for.

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Wow, I think this area, especially right over in there,

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is a really great place for an investigation.

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Next, Debbie meets local diving instructor, Alex Fancher.

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Hey, good to see you.

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Hi.

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If you want to go rig up, grab all your stuff,

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get your gear on, we're going to get going.

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With his underwater team, she plans

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to dive down to the depths of this mysterious cove.

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This is the first time I've done a cold water dive like this.

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So I'm a little bit out of my element.

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Now Debbie's geared up and ready to start her search.

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Will she find the answers she's been looking for?

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We're looking for bases.

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We're looking for lights.

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What are the craft doing underwater?

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This is probably my best chance at finding something

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in the water.

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Alaska.

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It has more than 3 million lakes and over 33,000 miles

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of remote coastline.

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Could there be a hidden alien base deep in the oceans here?

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Typing remains in place.

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This is gonna be very quick of the day.

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Just kidding.

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exclusion.

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Getting that hillstock online,

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and seeing it giving the American folks a little bit

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extra manual understanding.

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They're just so pleased they could rock it.

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that are coming in and out.

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You never know.

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There might be something there.

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If aliens are here, Debbie has a theory

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as to why their aircraft would be attracted to water.

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Water is H2O.

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So you've got hydrogen, two parts oxygen.

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I believe the electromagnetic field that's

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around these craft is being replenished by hydrogen.

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And since we've got the hydrogen in the water, it could be.

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Local dive master, Alex, has pinpointed the place

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to start the investigation.

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There's a lot going on underwater.

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There's a ton of rubble, a ton of wreckage.

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The water's really deep here, so there's a lot happening.

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OK, let's per se, you wanted to hide something.

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Be a good place.

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Everywhere's a good place.

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The ocean's big.

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It gets really deep very fast.

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This is a great place to hide something.

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With temperatures in these waters dropping as low

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as 34 degrees Fahrenheit, Alex will die of a long side

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Debbie in case something goes wrong.

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All right, check those rigs.

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All right.

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Got weights in.

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Thank you.

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Dry suit good.

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Add a little air.

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Sweet.

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We are ready to go.

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We are.

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If you see anything interesting, let me know.

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Thank you.

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All right, we're ready to go.

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Thanks for joining us.

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We'll see you in a bit.

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If you see anything interesting, let me know.

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If you have anything going on, keep me posted.

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Sounds good?

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Sounds good.

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All right.

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I'll let you roll, and then I'm going to head right behind you.

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Now it's time to start the search.

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With visibility at just five feet,

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Debbie has a hard task on her hands.

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This is totally different from anything

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I've ever dove before.

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It's a really hard dive.

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It's cold, harsh conditions.

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It's obviously deep enough.

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Could very easily have some kind of alien craft

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that could be coming in and out of the water with ease.

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What are these strange creatures on the seabed?

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Some kind of alien life form?

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Closer inspection reveals they're actually

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earth-born marine animals.

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Invertebrates, known as seawebs, but Debbie presses on.

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Every dive that a diver takes could potentially

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be a brand new dive because of the currents,

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because of the weather, because of earthquakes.

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Underwater changes.

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So if there's something hidden under there,

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maybe it wasn't there before.

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Maybe it is now.

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Next, through the depths, some bizarre triangular shapes.

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But another false alarm.

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These are man-made.

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I would like to see the area out a little bit deeper.

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Unfortunately, as an open water diver,

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we're limited to about 130 feet.

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Next, Debbie finds a mysterious plane wreck.

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A sunken boat.

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All intriguing, but nothing at these depths

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that seems extraterrestrial.

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Debbie can't go any deeper on this dive.

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She decides to return to the surface.

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It was kind of dark.

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It's pretty incredible.

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Pretty harsh conditions in there, cold.

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Looking around, there were a lot of man-made things.

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Did I see anything underwater that was in the water?

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No.

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I think it was a little bit of a shock.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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Did I see anything underwater that I thought

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may be alien related?

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I didn't, unfortunately.

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At least when you have an area where there's activity,

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where there's the craft that are hovering over the water,

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it always feels good to get in the water and take a look.

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See?

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And I got to do that.

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It was exciting.

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Unfortunately, I didn't see anything that looked alien.

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But you never know.

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Debbie's quest to find evidence of aliens underwater

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continues.

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Much of the triangle's vast oceans remain unexplored.

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But something more bizarre has been reported

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roaming these waters.

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The seas of the Alaska Triangle are as deadly to shipping

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as those of the renowned Bermuda Triangle.

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In fact, there are over 3,000 shipwrecks

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along Alaska's coast.

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But here, ships don't just disappear.

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It's much more bizarre than that.

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They reappear, too, as ghost ships.

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The ghost ships of the Alaska Triangle, for me,

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this is the best evidence of something really mysterious

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going on here and for the existence

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of supernatural forces at work.

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Alaska is home to all manner of paranormal activity,

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from sightings of mysterious creatures in the wilderness

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to ghostly figures haunting the towns and villages.

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But when the vast bulk of the SS Bay Chimoh disappeared

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in 1931, no one expected ever to see it again.

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But it was seen for another 38 years as a ghost ship.

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A ghost ship?

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Really?

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Are we sure?

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First, it's there?

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Then it's not?

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If this is true, it has to be a supernatural event

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of the highest order.

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The most famous ghost ship in history

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has to be the Flying Dutchman, an 18th century ship that,

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if seen, is a portent of doom.

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But it's a myth.

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There was no such ship.

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But the ghost ship stories of the Alaska Triangle

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are based on real historical ships.

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And the best known of these is the SS Bay Chimoh.

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The Bay Chimoh disappeared.

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But how and why remains a mystery?

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Is this the Alaska Triangle at work?

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What's going on here?

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How could this possibly happen?

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It really is one of the big mysteries of the Alaska Triangle.

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Back in the 1920s, the SS Bay Chimoh

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was the pride of the Hudson Bay Company.

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The fur trade was big business.

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And the Bay Chimoh was at the heart of this.

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At the time, it was the largest ship ever

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to cross into the Arctic Circle, to the shock

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of the local people.

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The indigenous people that first saw it

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must have been absolutely blown away by the sight of it.

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They would have never seen such a vessel before.

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They were kayaking people.

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They made skin boats and dug out boats.

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And then the sight of this 1,300 ton steel vessel

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must have been extremely impressive.

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One indigenous group were so in awe of the huge ship

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that they carved this intricate ivory reproduction.

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But was this an act of devotion, or was the motive

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something more sinister?

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Shortly after the carving was made,

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the Bay Chimoh ran into a thick Arctic ice flow.

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Historian, Anthony Dalton, has written a book about what

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next happened to the ship.

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In October, 1931, she became irrevocably trapped in the ice.

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And Captain Sidney Cornwell had to call the order which

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no mariner wants to hear.

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That is abandon ship.

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The location just off the coast at Barrow,

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near the northern tip of the Triangle.

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The crew all disembarked, and they set up a camp nearby.

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Because the cargo, which was said to be at least a million

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dollars in furs, they wanted to keep an iron in.

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So they stayed in a nearby camp.

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There was no sense of urgency about anything.

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In case the ship's there, we're here.

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It's not really a problem.

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It's Alaska.

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This sort of happens if necessary.

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We'll wait here throughout the winter.

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On November 24th, five weeks into their wait,

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the temperature hit 60 degrees below zero.

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This was followed by a huge snowstorm.

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The crew were trapped in their shelter.

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On the morning of the 27th, the storm calmed,

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and the men looked outside to check on the ship.

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To everyone's astonishment, they

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found that it had completely vanished into thin air.

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There was nothing there, just ice.

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As far as they could see, the Bay Chimewa

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disappeared.

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The men were astounded.

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The ship couldn't possibly have sunk through the ice,

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and it couldn't have blown away.

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But the disappearance of the Bay Chimewa

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isn't the most extraordinary part of the story.

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Because soon afterwards, its ghostly form returned.

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The first sighting of the ghost ship Bay Chimewa

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was by Inuit hunters who saw it from a distance

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and noticed that it was unmanned and floating freely.

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Seven months later, in May 1932, there was another sighting.

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By a young Arctic adventurer who was traveling by dog sled

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right across northern Alaska.

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And this time, he went to investigate.

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A year after the Bay Chimewa first went missing,

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a young Arctic explorer by the name of Leslie Melvin

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seized the ship, frozen in the ice

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like it was the first time it was discovered.

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And he looks at it and says, it's totally unmanned.

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What is going on here?

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What does he decide to do?

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He decides to approach it.

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What happens next is incredible.

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He approaches the ship with his dogs.

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He stands right in front of it, and then he boards it.

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Author and explorer Hugh Newman has studied

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the various accounts of the sightings.

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In May 1932, a gentleman called Leslie Melvin

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actually boarded the Bay Chimewa.

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This time it was in a different location.

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Yet at the same time, planes flying over the area

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could see nothing, no sign at all of the Bay Chimewa.

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He discovers it's completely deserted

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and wonders, how did it get here?

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Did it sail itself?

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After this, sightings continued for an astonishing 38 years.

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But the ship remained out of reach to anyone attempting

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to salvage it.

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The strange thing is, anyone who seeks out the Bay Chimewa

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never finds it.

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They see it, it starts moving away at unnatural speeds.

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Or if they approach it and try to board it,

506
00:36:08,820 --> 00:36:11,320
extreme weather comes out of nowhere

507
00:36:11,420 --> 00:36:13,660
and prohibits them from doing so.

508
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,460
It's almost as though the Alaska Triangle is using

509
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,560
supernatural forces to protect the ship.

510
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,900
All this was adding to a growing myth about the ship.

511
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,600
There's a real ghost ship, something just

512
00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:28,540
on the edge of reality, possibly slightly

513
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,480
into a more otherworldly reality.

514
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,720
But to the native people, it wasn't so much a ghost ship

515
00:36:37,820 --> 00:36:42,920
as a spirit moving in another dimension.

516
00:36:43,020 --> 00:36:45,920
Kidu Widiwak Lichard is a native shum

517
00:36:46,420 --> 00:36:48,420
The Native American view on reality

518
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,420
is everything is made of spirit.

519
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,320
Everything in this reality has a certain spirit.

520
00:36:54,420 --> 00:36:56,760
Reality is made of spirit.

521
00:36:56,860 --> 00:36:58,760
And there are different realities

522
00:36:58,860 --> 00:37:01,260
that have different degrees or strengths

523
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,300
of spiritual energy.

524
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,840
This world is also a spirit world.

525
00:37:07,940 --> 00:37:11,080
The Bay Chimewa was moving between different levels

526
00:37:11,180 --> 00:37:12,740
of spirit and spirit.

527
00:37:13,660 --> 00:37:15,900
And when something goes to a different spirit world,

528
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,040
it's like sitting a different dimension.

529
00:37:18,140 --> 00:37:21,580
We're talking about another place that's like this,

530
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,080
but it's like a different layer.

531
00:37:24,180 --> 00:37:28,180
If this theory is true, would a different layer of reality

532
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,380
explain the mysterious voyage of a second ship,

533
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,960
which disappeared in Alaska in the 1760s?

534
00:37:35,060 --> 00:37:38,520
It was last seen with all its crew frozen solid

535
00:37:38,620 --> 00:37:39,960
beneath the sea.

536
00:37:40,020 --> 00:37:43,060
Is this, once again, the triangle at work?

537
00:37:46,260 --> 00:37:50,760
The ghost ship, Bay Chimewa, is said

538
00:37:50,860 --> 00:37:54,340
to haunt the arctic waters of northern Alaska.

539
00:37:54,440 --> 00:38:00,240
It's a chilling story, but at least the crew all survived.

540
00:38:00,340 --> 00:38:02,340
But there is another ghost ship story,

541
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,340
and that ship is called the Octavius.

542
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,380
The Octavius is a ship that's made of the sea.

543
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,400
It's called the Octavius.

544
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:13,180
The question is, could the Alaska triangle

545
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:17,280
be responsible for what happened to its crew?

546
00:38:17,380 --> 00:38:22,720
Octavius was a British sailing ship in the 1700s.

547
00:38:22,820 --> 00:38:26,260
She sailed from Britain to China trading.

548
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,620
Once she left China, the captain,

549
00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:31,420
who had his wife and child with him,

550
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,760
decided he would make an attempt on the Northwest Passage.

551
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,260
The fabled Northwest Passage connected the Pacific

552
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,760
with the Atlantic via the Arctic Sea.

553
00:38:42,860 --> 00:38:47,100
Yet this route hadn't even been discovered yet.

554
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:52,200
Why the captain would attempt this unknown route in 1762

555
00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:54,380
is still a mystery.

556
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,380
The ship disappeared.

557
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:01,780
But in the 1770s, it was found, apparently abandoned,

558
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,880
drifting off the coast of Greenland.

559
00:39:05,980 --> 00:39:09,880
The Octavius is probably the classic ghost ship story.

560
00:39:09,980 --> 00:39:11,980
It's a three-mastered schooner that

561
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:16,180
was said to be found drifting off the West Coast of Greenland

562
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,420
in the 1770s.

563
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,360
Somehow, she made it from the North Pacific

564
00:39:22,460 --> 00:39:24,500
to the North Atlantic.

565
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,960
It was said to be weather-better and completely tattered

566
00:39:28,060 --> 00:39:29,400
with no one on board.

567
00:39:32,780 --> 00:39:36,780
The story of the Octavius is quite spine-chilling.

568
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,280
How did it get there?

569
00:39:38,380 --> 00:39:42,780
It disappeared north of Alaska.

570
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:47,160
From there, she drifted through the Northwest Passage

571
00:39:47,260 --> 00:39:53,260
and been spat out around the east side of Greenland.

572
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,360
Ironically, the Octavius is the first ship

573
00:39:56,460 --> 00:39:58,300
to have sailed the Passage.

574
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,200
And it appears to have done so all by itself.

575
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,400
The big question was, where was the crew?

576
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:15,840
When she was boarded, the crew were all below decks.

577
00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:18,640
They were all frozen stiff.

578
00:40:18,740 --> 00:40:22,380
The captain's wife and son were frozen stiff in their cabin.

579
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,780
And the captain was frozen stiff at his desk

580
00:40:26,780 --> 00:40:30,240
with pen in hand.

581
00:40:30,340 --> 00:40:34,040
It was like a scene out of the movie, The Thing.

582
00:40:34,140 --> 00:40:36,480
How could this have happened?

583
00:40:36,580 --> 00:40:39,380
To having seen this, the crew believed

584
00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,480
that the ship may be cursed.

585
00:40:41,580 --> 00:40:44,160
So they got off the ship as quickly as they could.

586
00:40:44,260 --> 00:40:46,360
And the Octavius was never seen again.

587
00:40:50,060 --> 00:40:54,660
The last entry in the ship's log was November the 11th, 1762.

588
00:40:55,660 --> 00:40:57,880
13 years earlier.

589
00:40:57,980 --> 00:41:00,320
So this tells us that this ship had been traveling

590
00:41:00,420 --> 00:41:02,260
unmaned for 13 years.

591
00:41:05,420 --> 00:41:08,060
Its last position in the log book

592
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:13,600
was roughly 250 miles north of Point Barrow.

593
00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:17,580
Barrow, where the Bay Chimo was going to disappear

594
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:21,640
170 years later, this must have been where the captain

595
00:41:21,740 --> 00:41:23,540
and the crew froze to death.

596
00:41:25,660 --> 00:41:29,660
It's the survival of these ships in one form or another

597
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,620
that differentiates them from any that have disappeared

598
00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:34,660
in the Bermuda Triangle.

599
00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:38,460
The stories of the Bay Chimo and the Octavius

600
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:42,160
and the remarkable longevity of those ships on the ocean,

601
00:41:42,260 --> 00:41:46,400
they seem to add to this idea that there was a force possibly.

602
00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:49,040
Maybe there was some kind of hand of fate

603
00:41:49,140 --> 00:41:51,240
that was keeping them afloat on the seas.

604
00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:58,620
Up in the Arctic, these ships are usually damaged and destroyed

605
00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:00,380
within a year of being abandoned,

606
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,060
or within a few months.

607
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:04,360
So the fact that these lasted for so long

608
00:42:04,460 --> 00:42:07,700
in extremely treacherous, icy conditions

609
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,800
with very bad weather is quite remarkable.

610
00:42:10,900 --> 00:42:14,340
The Octavius was seen for another 13 years after it

611
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:15,640
was abandoned.

612
00:42:15,740 --> 00:42:18,640
And the Bay Chimo was seen for 38 years.

613
00:42:18,740 --> 00:42:20,840
So what's going on here?

614
00:42:20,940 --> 00:42:22,280
How did they survive?

615
00:42:22,340 --> 00:42:24,240
In 1905, it really is one of the big mysteries

616
00:42:24,340 --> 00:42:25,380
of the Alaska Triangle.

617
00:42:28,340 --> 00:42:32,280
The answer may lie with the native people of the area.

618
00:42:32,380 --> 00:42:37,080
For them, it's all to do with the nature of spirits.

619
00:42:37,180 --> 00:42:41,520
Material things can pass to and from the spirit world.

620
00:42:41,620 --> 00:42:45,100
This is quite different to the modern Western concept of ghosts.

621
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,160
Most people who believe in ghosts

622
00:42:50,220 --> 00:42:53,780
believe they come from some other world or dimension,

623
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,960
and that this is not tangible.

624
00:42:57,060 --> 00:43:01,560
But the fact that they manifest in our world

625
00:43:01,660 --> 00:43:04,060
and we can see them, why do we not

626
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:08,000
regard that as scientifically valuable?

627
00:43:08,100 --> 00:43:11,240
It all comes down to what you think a ghost is

628
00:43:11,340 --> 00:43:16,540
and what are your preconceptions of the spirit world?

629
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,380
If supernatural forces were at work,

630
00:43:19,380 --> 00:43:23,980
then perhaps the men who boarded the Octavius were right.

631
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:29,740
There's a widespread belief that both ships were cursed.

632
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,880
Among the native community, it was a common practice

633
00:43:32,980 --> 00:43:35,620
to put a curse on wrongdoers.

634
00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:41,620
They would create totems out of animal bone, skin, hair.

635
00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:44,420
They would then place this in the waters

636
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,360
so that the curse could take hold.

637
00:43:50,380 --> 00:43:54,580
Was the Octavius trespassing in the waters of the triangle?

638
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:59,120
Was the bechimo cursed because of its part in the fur trade

639
00:43:59,220 --> 00:44:02,260
and the mass slaughter of animals?

640
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:08,160
In 1931, the bechimo was carrying a million dollars

641
00:44:08,260 --> 00:44:10,100
in fur.

642
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,600
That's a huge sum of money.

643
00:44:12,700 --> 00:44:16,700
One has to wonder if it's not the fur, but the animals

644
00:44:17,620 --> 00:44:21,000
that it came from that is causing the triangle

645
00:44:21,100 --> 00:44:27,000
to try to keep its own, to try to retain its cultural integrity

646
00:44:27,100 --> 00:44:29,340
and hold on to what is rightfully it.

647
00:44:31,940 --> 00:44:35,540
When you destroy and disrespect this life force that

648
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:39,480
flows through everything, it can come back at you.

649
00:44:39,580 --> 00:44:41,380
You can be cursed by it.

650
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,920
It will be angry.

651
00:44:43,980 --> 00:44:45,940
So when you have a ship like this that's

652
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,420
plundering and destroying, just violating all

653
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:54,580
of these natural laws, they're going to suffer the consequences.

654
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:58,160
The ivory carving of the bechimo was thought

655
00:44:58,260 --> 00:45:02,160
to be some kind of celebration of this wonderful ship that

656
00:45:02,260 --> 00:45:05,000
was traveling around the Alaska waters.

657
00:45:05,100 --> 00:45:07,640
But was it something more sinister?

658
00:45:07,740 --> 00:45:12,700
Was it perhaps a kind of curse or even some kind of dark magic

659
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,720
that was placed on the ship?

660
00:45:14,820 --> 00:45:18,760
It was soon after this that the boat then got into trouble.

661
00:45:18,860 --> 00:45:20,460
So was it something to do with this?

662
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:27,800
It's the old saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction.

663
00:45:27,900 --> 00:45:29,640
And it's definitely possible.

664
00:45:32,940 --> 00:45:35,480
We may never see the bechimo again.

665
00:45:35,580 --> 00:45:37,880
It's impossible to know.

666
00:45:37,980 --> 00:45:42,380
But then again, if it suddenly appeared sailing freely,

667
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:47,440
on the Arctic Sea, we wouldn't be surprised.

668
00:45:47,540 --> 00:45:50,540
I don't think we can underestimate the impact

669
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,680
that the Alaska Triangle is having

670
00:45:52,780 --> 00:45:55,480
on these supernatural events.