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

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You could walk for a year without seeing another person.

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In one of the most mysterious corners of the globe.

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Everything in your being is telling you to get the hell out of there.

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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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That was definitely something not from this world.

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The paranormal, vanishing airplanes and strange beasts.

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Bigfoot could be anywhere in Alaska hiding out.

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Have hunted those who dare set foot here.

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Who's that? Now I feel like something's after me.

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

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In the vastness of this country, it's easy to be swallowed up in it.

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Witnesses tell us their shocking stories.

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I was horrified.

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

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I wanted to go out and get the evidence myself and say, this is real. This stuff exists.

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To try and unlock the mystery of the Alaska Triangle.

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Alaska's forests.

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Said to hide the most dangerous cryptid you could meet.

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Bigfoot.

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Everything in your being is telling you to get the hell out of there.

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But now it seems these creatures are on the move out of the wilderness,

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towards the human population.

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They're seeing these Bigfoot very close to the town.

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That could be extremely dangerous.

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Stalking people in their homes.

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I was driving down my driveway. It was terrifying.

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For the first time on TV, exclusive footage shows Bigfoot may now have breached city limits.

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This is crazy. Look at this.

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Coming dangerously close to tens of thousands of Alaskans.

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Maybe that's why we're seeing so much evidence now, because they're here.

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The Alaska Triangle.

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A land of the strange and paranormal.

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If there's one place a creature like Bigfoot could hide, it would be here.

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Cryptozoologist Lance Hightower has been tracking them for years.

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You've got this vast wilderness. It's rugged. It's dangerous.

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So Bigfoot could be anywhere in Alaska hiding out.

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But now it seems these creatures are migrating,

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worryingly close to where humans live.

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One encounter occurred just 25 miles north of Alaska's second largest city, Fairbanks,

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in the middle of the triangle.

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Todd Rector was out hunting with a friend and his dog.

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We spotted a trail and thought, let's do some hunting and we'll hike up the hill.

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We'll get up on the ridge line and get up in the spruce trees and see if we can't find some grouse.

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On his way up, Todd and his friend made a sinister discovery.

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I saw something off to the side.

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And I see that it's a dog skeleton.

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It struck me that all the hair and ligament and tendon and everything was gone,

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but every bone was still in place on that animal, which is rare, like if impossible.

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Predators normally tear their prey apart, but it seemed an intelligent and skillful creature

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had killed the dog with precision, then picked its skeleton clean.

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There was no broken bones. Every bone was laid out perfect.

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It was almost like it was like a range that way.

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As they wondered what kind of creature could have done this,

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a sinister sound came from the woods.

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It was like somebody turned on a switch. Boom.

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Instantaneously, the hair went up on our necks.

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We felt like we were being watched.

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And the dog picked up on it.

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A giant creature seemed to be lurking in the trees.

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It was at least eight or nine feet tall and judging by the muscle, at least 600 pounds, if not heavier.

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It was taller than any animal I'd ever seen in Alaska.

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Their dog chased after this monster.

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That thing shot into the alder thicket with such speed and ferocity,

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it made a loud cracking noise that broke through the trees.

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The dog had disappeared out of sight. They could only hear it in the distance.

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It wasn't barking, it was yapping. It was obviously scared.

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Todd and his friend were now concerned their dog was in danger.

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The yapping stopped. It sounded banished.

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As they searched desperately to find the dog, they found a huge footprint in the ground.

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It was easily 24 inches or so.

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I mean, 10 inches by 24 inches of moss scraped off of the ground to about 7 inches.

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Only a monster the size of Bigfoot could have made these impressions.

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The creature, for now it seemed, had disappeared.

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The dog was like, you know, looking around like, where'd it go?

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But the danger had not gone away.

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Whatever this was made a lot of noise and you could see the trees just moving.

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And everything in your being is telling you to get the hell out of there.

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So we got out of there and we never went back.

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Todd came to a horrific conclusion. What they saw, he believes, was Bigfoot.

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It's like a deep foreboding fear.

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There's definitely disparities linked to Bigfoot and I don't care to have that kind of encounter ever again.

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While Todd's encounter was in wilderness, it was just off the highway towards the city of Fairbanks.

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And sighting suggests that Bigfoot are moving closer towards human settlements.

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Experts are concerned.

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They're seeing these Bigfoot very close to the town.

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There's numerous accounts of close encounters with aggressive behavior.

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So you need to have extreme caution when encountering any Bigfoot.

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There are now reports these creatures are leaving the remote forests and migrating towards towns and cities,

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according to cryptozoologist Lance Hightower.

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Bigfits are territorial. The likelihood of a Bigfoot being dangerous and harming human being is extremely real.

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In 2018, there was even a reported encounter right next to someone's home,

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near the town of Glen Allen in the south of the triangle.

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Ellen Vitero was out driving when she saw a sight she'd never forget.

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It was laid out. It was about middle of September. After work, I was on my way home.

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At 11 p.m., Ellen pulled into the driveway of her farm.

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As I pulled up, I saw there was something there.

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Its eyes lit up and flashed light back to me from the light of my vehicle.

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That was pretty disturbing because that's not a natural thing that happens with humans.

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This kind of dread set in and I looked at it,

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and its whole upper body moved towards me.

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And at that point, I realized that from head to toe, it was covered in hair.

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It was just very large.

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I believe that I just witnessed Sasquatch.

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Then, the Bigfoot seemingly disappeared.

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I was so scared that I called my boyfriend crying because I was so overwhelmed.

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But her ordeal wasn't over.

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I couldn't move. I couldn't get out of my vehicle.

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Her partner came outside armed.

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The creature fled.

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He just took right off into the woods.

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It ran faster than any human I had ever seen.

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I was so overwhelmed. It was a nerve-wracking experience.

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But Ellen's nightmare continued.

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The next day, my horses had escaped the pen.

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Nothing unnerves them. But that day, they were so distraught that they were kicking and naing and rearing up.

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And they busted through the pen and ran away.

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It took a lot to calm them down.

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And still to this day, I haven't seen that behavior in them.

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Later that day, Ellen returned to where she first saw the Bigfoot.

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And she found footprints.

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And I wanted to record it, so I went back and took photos.

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For the first time on television, we can reveal the photographs that Ellen took.

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One footprint measured around 20 inches long, literally dwarfing Ellen's size 8 1⁄2 foot.

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Today, Ellen returns to the scene of that fateful encounter.

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What I saw, it was only a little ways in.

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So as you can see, it's quite marshy, quite spongy.

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Yeah, it looks like it's all been washed away, but this was where I saw the footprint.

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Every time I come over this area, I always look down to see if I can maybe see another one.

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Ellen's experience still haunts her.

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I know for a fact, what I saw was not human.

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I felt so small and insignificant in that moment.

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It was terrifying.

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But Bigfoot territory not only appears to be advancing towards small towns like Glen Allen,

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but it also now seems to be getting worryingly close to major cities.

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In Fairbanks, in Woodland, on the outskirts of the city, a local man made this startling discovery.

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This is crazy, look at this.

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This is the first time this evidence of Bigfoot has been broadcast on TV.

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The video caused a sensation when it was posted online.

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Perhaps it meant that Fairbanks 30,000 residents were also now in danger.

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Keith Lindsay shot the alarming video.

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In October of 2019, me and my grandson, Keith Lindsay,

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was kind of bored sitting at home. It was a rainy day.

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So we decided to go out and do some exploring.

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Keith and his grandson Joe took a bike ride through their nearby forest.

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Over here is a lot more solid, dude.

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During their journey, they stumbled across something sinister.

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We had to cross through a few big mud puddles, and as we did, my grandson said,

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hey, look at that.

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I called my grandpa over and I was like, dude, what the heck is this thing in the mud?

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I went and looked and it was a huge footprint in the middle of this mud puddle.

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This is crazy, look at this.

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I was mind blown.

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Keith concluded no human could have left this size of footprint.

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I've been a nurse for 35 years. I've never seen anybody with feet that big.

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There's my hand. Look at the size of that footprint.

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It was basically about 18 inches long and probably 6 to 8 inches wide.

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We knew that it wasn't a human footprint.

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Something else stood out about this footprint.

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There's pretty deep in the mud. It's like at least 3 inches in the mud.

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I weigh about 200 pounds and my footprint barely went down where this one was down several inches.

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So to me, it had to be something that weighed 6, 800 pounds or more.

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I stepped here, it looks like a right foot and kept on going.

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Keith noted there was just one solitary footprint in the bog.

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When it stepped into the mud puddle and then stepped out, it had to have been like a 5 to 6 foot stretch

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because the next step was on solid ground and it didn't leave a footprint.

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So whatever left the print had astride far greater than any humans.

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This led Keith to a worrying conclusion.

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There's no way it could be a human footprint, so it had to have been a big foot.

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So Bigfoot could be closing in on Fairbanks, putting city dwellers like Keith and Joe in serious danger.

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And Keith and his grandson were alone in the woods near a freshly laid Bigfoot print.

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I started thinking to myself, is it watching us? It got a little bit scary.

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The Alaska Triangle. Here, it seems Sasquatches are moving dangerously near to where Alaskans live.

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In October 2019, on the outskirts of the state's second largest city, Fairbanks,

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Keith Lindsey and his crew were on the same boat, and they were on the same boat.

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In October 2019, on the outskirts of the state's second largest city, Fairbanks,

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Keith Lindsey and his grandson Joe found a giant footprint and recorded it on video.

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This is crazy. Look at this.

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Bigfoot seemed to be prowling close to their city, and Keith was aware of the danger.

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I kind of started looking around because, you know, is this fresh? Did it just happen?

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Is he still in the area? He just didn't know.

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I got scared, and I was kind of like, we got to get out of here, man.

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Like, we got to leave because this thing is probably still around here.

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They hastily headed home.

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Oh, you're stuck now.

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Well, we made it to the main road. Thank goodness.

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The question is whether this footprint really belonged to a Sasquatch.

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At the North American Bigfoot Center in Oregon, leading expert Cliff Berwickman has been examining the evidence.

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You can see five toes across the front and a well-defined heel.

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The Sasquatches seem to come down rather flat-footed. They don't come down heel-first like people do.

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If the foot came down flat, then you would expect a nice, clean heel impression,

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and that's exactly what we see here. I think this is legit.

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Cliff also believes the fact that one print was found on its own adds further weight to it being evidence of Bigfoot.

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Sasquatches routinely have step lengths of 8-10 feet when they're running,

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so that seems very reasonable that you'd only find one because the muddy area is only about 6-8 feet long.

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So you would expect to find one print in the mud in this case. That looks to me like a Sasquatch footprint.

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Thousands of miles away in Oklahoma, crypto-zoologist Lance Hightower has also been examining this find.

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It's very rare to find a Bigfoot print of the quality like the one in Fairbanks.

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So to find a print that size, that magnitude, that's terrifying but exciting as it's a big footprint.

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That's terrifying but exciting at the same time.

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And this isn't the first time Keith's found evidence of Bigfoot so close to the city.

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In 2012, he found similar footprints on a nearby riverbank.

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I came down, I started metal detecting, and then when I turned I looked up this way and I saw these big footprints.

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So I thought, hmm, that's strange, so I walked over to investigate them.

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Keith also recorded his previous discovery on video but he never had physical proof of that important find.

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The first footprint I ever found, I didn't cast it. So I regretted doing that.

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So I told myself that if I ever found another one, I would have the stuff on hand to do it.

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Of course it was raining that day and I didn't bring it.

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So Keith made sure he returned to the scene.

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I went back to the footprint two days later and I took some plaster of Paris and I casted the footprint and this is what I ended up with.

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So you can see the different toes, five big toes.

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Keith's convinced no human could have created this.

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It's a big footprint.

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The fact that he found this big foot marking so close to Fairbanks is a real cause for concern for city dwellers like Keith.

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All of these foothills are just covered with houses now.

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As Fairbanks grows, we keep pushing out farther into the wilderness and maybe this is Bigfoot trying to push back.

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Maybe that's why we're seeing so much evidence now because they're here.

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And Bigfoot experts believe this doesn't bode well for the future.

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The fact that Sasquatch habitat overlaps with human habitats, well that could cause some problems.

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Sasquatches like every other animal are territorial. They're going to try to defend that.

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That's the areas that they are interested in chasing us out of.

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Perhaps Bigfoot's encroachment on the triangles, towns and cities is behind Alaska's missing.

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There's a lot of people that end up disappearing here in Alaska and I think some of them probably could be from Bigfoot.

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As Bigfoot seems to make its onward march towards human civilization, the future for Fairbanks 30,000 residents seems uncertain.

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But Alaska may have other paranormal beings putting lives here in danger.

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Even right in the heart of Alaska's largest city, Anchorage, no one seems safe from the spirits of the triangle.

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The Alaska Triangle, one of the most haunted places on earth. Many of its infamous hauntings have been reported in this place.

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The historic Anchorage Hotel.

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People have seen somebody standing at the end of the bed.

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From cops who've been gunned down to ghostly children in the corridors.

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They just scared themselves to death.

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Its spirits terrify anyone who dares spend the night here.

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Is there somebody in here?

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Step back.

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There's definitely something going on at this hotel.

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Anchorage at the southern end of the triangle.

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In the early 1900s, thousands swarmed the so-called City of Tents to help build Alaska's first railroad.

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The historic Anchorage Hotel was one of the first buildings in town.

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Terry Russie is the manager.

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This is the first hotel that was built in Anchorage in 1916.

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That you could actually go to a dining room and sit down and eat. Everything else was houses and tents.

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Terry soon realized this hotel had a dark history of hauntings.

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I did not leave any ghost until I saw my first sighting back in 2004.

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Terry was alone in the lobby.

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I saw a smoky silhouette in the mirror.

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The figure was of a woman in an old-fashioned white dress.

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But when Terry turned around, there was nothing behind her.

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The ghostly figure appeared only in the mirror.

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What was that? There's no sun over there. There's no reflection.

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It just kind of disappeared up into the mirror, which is room 215 right above it.

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It's believed room 215 was where this ghostly woman in white saw her final days.

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A bride was here back in the Golders days.

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She was supposed to get married and she hung herself.

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The groom never made it to the wedding. He struck a road and went on.

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And that's why guests have reported so many overnight encounters.

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People have seen somebody standing at the end of the bed.

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After Terry first witnessed this tragic woman in white, later that day there was another sinister event.

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The lap behind the lobby chair was smoking.

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So I ran over to go unplug it.

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The smoke formed an apparition of the suicide bride.

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And it just disappeared into the lampshade.

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Paranormal expert Mike Cook has uncovered more tragedy that could explain the hotel's many hauntings.

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February 20th, 1921.

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Anchorage's first police chief, John Jack Sturges, was patrolling outside.

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Anchorage was very lawless, violent, and he had information of an illegal gambling ring.

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And so he went to the back alley of the hotel.

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Some people out in front of the hotel heard some gunshots.

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They went around and there was John laying in the alley.

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He had a bullet in his chest.

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When they extracted the bullet out of him in the autopsy, they'd realized that he was shot with his own gun.

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That is one of the oldest unsolved cases for Alaska.

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To this day, nobody has any idea who killed the chief of police for Anchorage.

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It's believed John Sturges still haunts the hotel, together with the many other spirits that never checked out.

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Guests here have recorded their ghostly encounters in the hotel's special book of hauntings.

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Mike has been using it for his research.

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I mean, this book is just filled with guests' experience. It starts all the way in 2006.

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Two guests said they were getting ready to leave their room.

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They reported a little boy sitting in the front of the door blocking entry.

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This sinister childlike figure seemed intent on stopping them from leaving.

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Scariest still, there was no way he was staying at the hotel.

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There were no children in this building at that time.

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That is insane. That is crazy.

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After being thrown into darkness, the husband called for help.

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But this child apparitioned in the room.

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The husband called for help.

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But this child apparitioned had more tricks up his sleeve.

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TV volume went very loud.

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Guests turned it down.

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But it went loud again.

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When the lights came back on, the boy had disappeared.

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But the hauntings by children didn't stop as Hotel Concierge Cari Bailey remembers.

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It's believed that there are two children here.

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They've been known for running up and down the halls, turning on and off lights,

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knocking on doors, laughing, just doing children activities.

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The reason for these hauntings could lie in Anchorage's early beginnings.

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Diseases like tuberculosis and flu ran wild,

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and it's thought these children were guests at the hotel who were suddenly struck down.

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It was a five and six year old who died during an epidemic back in the 20s.

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So, the children were taken to the hospital.

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The six year old who died during an epidemic back in the 20s.

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So, researcher Mike Cook is embarking on a paranormal investigation

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to seek out who is haunting this hotel and why.

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He plans to spend the night here and communicate with spirits.

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He may not like what he finds.

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Is there anybody on this floor?

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The historic Anchorage Hotel is one of the oldest in Alaska

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and is also said to be the most haunted.

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Guests and staff have reported seeing ghosts of children

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or a strange apparition of a bride standing over their bed.

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Paranormal researcher Mike Cook has traveled here to carry out an overnight investigation.

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He hopes to speak to the spirits here to find out why they continue to haunt it.

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Tonight I'm really hoping to make contact with any kind of spirit that will come through.

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There's a lot of spirits that are said to be within this building.

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There have been so many reports from staff and guests

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that there's definitely something going on at this hotel.

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Mike begins setting up with his fellow investigator Heather.

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Go up a little bit. Right there, right there, perfect.

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Night vision cameras are set up all over the second floor,

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including in room 215 where many hauntings have been reported.

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We've got camera inside the bedroom of 215

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and then we've got a camera in the bathroom where they say that the water goes off.

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There's a mic in the hallway.

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Guests claim that they heard kids laughing.

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All the lights on the second floor are completely out.

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So I'm going to go in there in the dark to see if we can't get something.

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Good luck.

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He's barely started and Mike's on the way to the bathroom.

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He's barely started and Mike's already sensed a presence in the hallway.

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Which room are you going into?

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Mike uses a device called the spirit box.

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This scans local radio frequencies for words or messages from the entities here.

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Can you say something?

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Are you in this room? 201.

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Can you make a noise? Can you walk?

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Heather has spotted something on the CCTV.

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I think I did see an orb just now.

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Where in the bedroom or the hallway?

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In the hallway.

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Perhaps this spirit is one of the children said to haunt this hall.

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So there's nobody on this floor right now.

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But I thought I just heard somebody cough down at the end of the hallway.

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Is there anybody on this floor?

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Can you make a noise?

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Mike moves down the hall to investigate.

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So I'm hearing stuff coming out of 209 right now.

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And I'm going to see if the front desk can let us into this room because...

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I keep hearing stuff coming out of this room.

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I want to see if you see the room.

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Well it's cold in here.

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I'm going to sit here for a minute because I could have sworn I heard something coming out of here.

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I'm sure.

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You heard that right?

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I'm going to go grab the book of haunting through the hotel.

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I'm going to look at 209 to see if my intuition is right and see what might have come out of this room.

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The hotel's book of hauntings confirms previous paranormal activity.

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209.

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Guests saw a ghost.

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White light was dancing across the room then swooped down and tugged at the blankets.

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The guest goes on to write to say the best part is he doesn't believe in ghosts.

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So it seems like now he does.

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Yo, the room.

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That was weird.

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Room 215 suddenly seems active.

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I'm going to do an instant replay.

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Watch this.

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I've rewound it.

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Watch.

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You're going to see an orb show up right here and it's going to shoot all the way across the room.

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Wait for it.

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There it is right there.

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There it shoots.

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There it is.

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There it goes up there.

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That was insane.

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Oh, did you see that?

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Did you see that?

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Watch this.

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That is crazy.

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That's the bathroom.

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So there's definitely spirits here in this hotel.

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The second floor is highly active.

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So Mike heads for room 215.

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Said to be the scene of a young bride's tragic suicide.

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We got 215, which is one of the most active rooms on this floor.

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Let's go check it out.

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Let's see what I've got here.

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Mike turns to a device used by many ghost hunters, the Tesla coil.

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It's actually putting out positively charged electrons out into the air.

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Giving the entities and the spirits the power or the energy they need to speak to us through the spirit box.

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Is there anybody here in the room with us?

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Are there any spirits?

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Oh, I think I heard just me.

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It's just me.

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This is where guests have heard faucets mysteriously turning themselves on.

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Can you turn on the bathroom water?

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What?

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What?

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I'm getting something, but I can't understand it.

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Can you say it again?

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What's your name?

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Oh, that sounded like a female.

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I can't make out what she was saying.

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Perhaps this is the spirit of the bride who's believed to have taken her life here.

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To find out, Mike turns to his REM pod device.

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I'm going to turn this on and see if we can't get anything to go off.

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An alarm sounds when an entity enters its electromagnetic field.

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Is there anybody in the room with us?

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Why is this room so active?

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I don't know.

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Mike thinks he's heard something outside.

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Is there somebody in here?

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Step back.

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Look at that.

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Did you... it stopped.

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I could have sworn I heard something outside the room walking.

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And then when I went to the door to check it out, this went off.

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Pulled him to back up and it stopped as soon as I said that.

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That's an intelligent spirit right there.

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That is proof right there that there's something in this room disrupting that magnetic field.

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And that was incredible.

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That was amazing.

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Can you touch it?

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There's somebody in here. Can you touch it?

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Hey Mike, I saw an orb go into the REM pod.

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An orb's been spotted by Mike's colleague Heather.

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If you're a female, touch it.

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If you're a male, touch it.

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Oh, whoa.

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Mike, I'm going to go back to the room.

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I'm going to go back to the room.

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Mike, I'm going to go back to the room.

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Whoa.

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If this isn't the suicide bride, then perhaps it's the murdered police chief, John Sturgis, who's said to haunt the hotel.

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Okay.

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Is this John Sturgis?

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Touch it if it is.

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I feel like whatever was here has left for the minute.

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So Mike heads for the bathroom, where hauntings have also been reported.

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Whatever is out there, there's got to be something explainable.

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We're going to leave the REM pod in here kind of set for a little while.

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Yeah, let's go up to the...

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Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Can you make it stop?

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Can you stop? Back away?

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There's something here, and I think it's whatever it is, is trying to feel us out and make its presence known.

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For the rest of the night, the spirits are silent.

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But Mike's investigation here is not over.

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Getting them to answer questions is going to take some more investigation to see who's who and why they're here.

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I'm going to keep investigating, see what I can come up with.

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This place is definitely active with spirits.

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But the Anchorage Hotel is not the only place where dark spirits roam freely.

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The paranormal may be found in all corners of this mysterious state.

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This is, after all, the region where otherworldly and evil go hand in hand.

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This is the Alaska Triangle.

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The Alaska Triangle is the place where the spirits roam freely.

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The Alaska Triangle is the place where the spirits roam freely.

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The Alaska Triangle is the place where the spirits roam freely.

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The Alaska Triangle is the place where the spirits roam freely.

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The Alaska Triangle is the place where the spirits roam freely.