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

You could walk for a year
without seeing another person.

In one of the most
mysterious corners of the globe.

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

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

My God!

Stories of alien abductions.

That was definitely
something not from this world.

The paranormal.

Vanishing airplanes

and strange beasts...

Bigfoot could be anywhere
in Alaska, hiding out.

Have haunted
those who dare set foot here.

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

In the last 30 years,

16,000 people have disappeared
without a trace.

In the vastness of this country,

it's easy
to be swallowed up in it.

Witnesses tell us
their shocking stories.

I was horrified.

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

I wanted to go out
and get the evidence myself

and say, "This is real."

This stuff exists.

To try and unlock the mystery

of the Alaska Triangle.

The Alaska Triangle is known

for its strange sightings
and unexplained events.

And some of its
greatest mysteries

seem to come from above.

I think it was a UFO.
Unidentified Flying Object.

But in one corner of the
triangle, the UFOs may not be acting alone.

The US military is here.
Not in the air, but underwater.

And some are convinced,
there's a link.

Intense UFO activity, and intense
submarine activity? Coincidence?

If there is a connection,

this could be one the most
shocking secrets of the triangle.

In the far southeast
of the Alaska Triangle

lies the historic town
of Ketchikan.

It's surrounded by
mountainous national forest

and the deep waters
of Alaska's Inside Passage.

It's an area shrouded in mystery

with deep ties to
the Alaskan native community.

But its biggest secret
doesn't lie in the past.

Ketchikan is home to
a secret submarine facility.

And a whole host
of unexplained UFO activity.

There is actually constant
UFO activity around Ketchikan.

There's so much, that people
just take it for granted.

And it does seem that there is a
connection between the UFOs and the water.

With the city of Ketchikan
stretched thinly along the coast,

its residents have a good view
of both the skies and the ocean.

And one man with a particularly
keen eye for his surroundings

is local artist, Terry Pyles.

Terry is
a former wilderness guide.

And his paintings of the local
wildlife are well-known in the area.

But one day in 2013,

Terry saw something the like of
which he had never seen before.

He was out on his deck
with his wife,

when a strange object in
the distance caught his eye.

I was looking at this thing drop
through the clouds and it's a glowing...

ball of what appears to be fire,

it's kind of a golden
yellow color, very bright.

And it's coming straight at us.

Terry stood
and watched, transfixed.

Neither of them had ever seen
anything like it.

But there was more to come.

Shortly after
the first one went by,

another one dropped out of the
sky following the exact same route.

Exact same pattern.

Takes the same turn.

Flying at about 1,500 feet
after dropping some altitude.

I was watching the second one
with binoculars.

And got a much better view of
it than I could with a naked eye.

It looked to me like it was
a cauldron of molten metal.

Got this churning
effect going on.

And then I noticed there were
these rotating lights that were chasing

each other round
the rim of this disk.

And then it disappeared
out of my view.

We were just dumbfounded.

And one particularly bizarre
aspect was that there was no noise.

Whatever they were, these
flying objects were totally silent.

Not hearing any sound
that was really bizarre.

And that's what
really blew my mind.

Terry is far from alone.

Southeast Alaska is renowned
for its UFO sighting.

This strange light
performing unusual maneuvers

was seen off the coast
in October 2020.

This video of the object
was taken in Skagway,

at the top of
the Alaska panhandle.

These curious photos

were taken from an outlying
island two months earlier.

And this, off the coast
of Juneau in 2011.

But the most spectacular
sightings come from Ketchikan.

Just one example is this video

which was taken
on New Year's Eve 2012.

Local residents were on the
mountain side making preparations

for a spectacular
fireworks display.

There were unexplained strange lights
in the sky moving above the mountain.

These lights still
haven't been explained.

They can only be described
as unidentified flying object.

550 miles
southeast in Vancouver,

author and researcher
Jonny Enoch

has been looking into the
unusual activity around Ketchikan.

He's convinced there is
a connection between UFOs

and the presence
of US military in the area.

Strange activity around
Ketchikan isn't just limited to UFOs.

There has been a long-standing
military presence there.

And most of their activity
is top secret.

The military
presence here is mostly at sea,

in the narrow straits that run
between the islands along the coast.

And specifically,
it's underwater.

It's quite common for local
residents to see nuclear subs go by

even though the closest US naval
sub base is hundreds of miles away

in Washington state.

In fact, sightings
of subs became so common,

that eventually the military
was forced to admit the existence

of a secret submarine
testing site.

The site is called SEAFAC, Southeast
Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility.

The stated purpose is to conduct research
in how to mask the sound of the subs.

But its precise activities
are highly classified.

It's just a few miles north of
Ketchikan in the Behm Canal.

And around the site
is a huge restricted area.

The military claims they're
testing secret stealth technology there.

But could there
be more going on?

Investigative
journalist Andrew Gough

has also been looking
into a possible link

between the UFOs and the
military in the Ketchikan area.

This video was taken from a
front porch in Ketchikan in 2014.

Looking straight out
over the bay.

And a sub went by.

They're not normally
so close to town.

But this one went right by,
right on the surface.

And some believe that
one reason for the military presence

could be the large number of UFOs that have
been sighted in the skies above this town.

What's going on here?

I think, there is most likely
a connection

between the UFOs and the
SEAFAC submarine base.

Exactly what this connection
may be is the troubling question

that's hanging over this most
mysterious corner of the Alaska Triangle.

And the answer
could be truly shocking.

In southeast Alaska,
around the town of Ketchikan,

an unusually high number
of UFOs have been seen.

While off the coast there's intensive
and secretive submarine activity.

Whether or not there's
a connection

is the question that's been
troubling investigators.

Eric Hecker is a UFO
researcher from Anchorage

whose now been drawn
nearly 800 miles southeast

to look into how UFOs and
submarines here could be linked.

There is a very high probability
that there is a connection.

And that is absolutely
why I am here in Ketchikan

to see what we can figure out.

See if there's a correlation,
some sort of connection.

I hope we can find that.

Eric saw service in the US Navy,

working as a submarines
weapons technician.

So, he is well-placed to look into
the secretive SEAFAC operations,

glimpses of which can be
seen in these photos from 2018.

The military states that
the purpose of their facility

is to do acoustical testing

on their boats, their submarines

to understand their functions,
and their systems

and how they make noise
in the water,

which is very important
and top secret.

But that does not mean
that that is exclusively

the reason for their
investment in this area.

Eric's time in the navy

taught him that the military
often has an ulterior motive

and he wants to find out if there is
more to SEAFAC than they are letting on.

I do think that there is
a high potential

for any military facility

to be a cover
for something else.

What they do is say, "This
is what we're doing here."

And then they also do
something else.

This is how the military works.

Eric isn't alone. Andrew Gough
also has his suspicion about SEAFAC.

Weirdly, SEAFAC is 675 miles

from the major
US Navy submarine bases

in Washington state.

675 miles.

There must be a reason
it's all the way up here.

For Andrew Gough,

it seems likely that the military is
involved in reverse engineering,

taking apart
some alien technology

and trying to replicate it.

One theory is that
the military are testing

the UFO technology
that they found,

underwater technology.

They're reverse engineering it
to try and figure out how it works.

The thought being that this
is why the UFOs are here.

They are actually spying
on the military,

watching them do this.

This would be amazing,

but it's nothing new.

Many people believe this is
exactly what happened at Roswell.

The Roswell incident of 1947

is one of the most renowned
UFO incidents.

It's said that the military found alien
technology in the New Mexico desert

and then engaged in
a decade's long cover up.

The military found a crashed UFO

and then kept it all top secret
while they looked into how it worked

using reverse technology.

Obviously, it all
had to be kept secret,

so that the Russians wouldn't get
knowledge about the technology themselves.

It's just the same today.

Ketchikan and Roswell

are both now hotspots
for UFO sightings.

And Jonny Enoch
is another who believes

that the parallels are striking.

In my experience,

when we've looked at places like
the Roswell incident back in 1947

or Area 51 in Rachel, Nevada.

These top secret
military installations

are usually indicative of
a great project

that involves
secret investigations

into technology that may not
have been developed on this Earth.

And that is exactly
what I think is going on here.

There is a strong possibility

that the UFOs that have been
sighted in the area

are, in fact, spying on the military
to see what they are getting up to.

Unlike in Roswell,

if there's reverse engineering
going on at Ketchikan,

it's happening under water.

This suggests that the UFO
technology is underwater technology.

Such as that of a UFO that
could pass as easily through water

as through air and space.

We normally think of UFOs
as flying objects.

But many believe those same
objects pass to and from our oceans.

In St. Louis, Missouri,

Debbie Ziegelmeyer is a researcher
from MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network.

For her, the UFOs have
more than a passing interest

in the depths of the ocean.

In fact, she believes
that the ocean bed

would be
the ideal place for aliens

to keep their presence
on Earth hidden.

These craft,
they have the capabilities

probably a thousand years
ahead of us technology-wise.

Of course, if they can travel
through space or through worm holes,

even through time,

there's speculation that some
of these are time travelers.

Of course, they got the
technology to hide underwater,

that would be
the logical place to hide.

And it would also be logical
to choose a remote body of water,

such as the waters
of the Alaska Triangle.

I would say that if I was
going to hide underwater,

it would be the Gulf of Alaska,
which is right there off of Ketchikan.

If this were the case,

then rather than the UFOs keeping
an eye on what the military is up to

it could be that the military is here
investigating underwater UFO activity.

It's very possible, that the
US military knows about this

and the submarine activity
in the area

could very well be
to investigate

and keep an eye
on what's going on.

Whether it's UFOs spying
on the military

or the military spying on UFOs,

Eric Hecker wants
to see what he can uncover.

He's going out into the waters of
Ketchikan to lower a hydrophone,

an underwater microphone,

to listen to any evidence
of underwater alien activity.

I'm really hoping that
by the end of today

we can walk away
with a recording

of an anomalous sound
with that hydrophone.

That, to me, would be something.

If we could find a sound,

that is unidentifiable,
that would make my day.

That would make
this visit amazing.

In southeast Alaska,
off the coast of Ketchikan,

UFO investigator Eric
Hecker has taken to the sea

suspecting underwater
alien activity.

If Eric can find evidence of
an alien presence under water,

then the ramifications
would be huge.

Visibility under water is poor
so Eric is lowering a hydrophone

an underwater microphone.

We're going to put
the hydrophone down

and we're going to take
a listen for a while

and see if we can capture
any of the anomalous activity

that's been reported
in the area by the locals.

Hydrophone is in the water

and we are recording.

Sound is amplified by water

and travels around four
times faster than through air.

Any unnatural sound

could be evidence
of alien activity.

Even, according to some
researchers, of an alien base.

Is there an
underwater base down there?

That would make sense

because this out of the way place
in Alaska would be the perfect spot.

An underwater alien base

would be one of the greatest
news stories of all time.

So little of the ocean bed
has been explored,

a base like this could remain
undiscovered for centuries.

In fact, more men
have walked on the moon

than visited the deepest parts
of our oceans.

But there is another theory.

And that is
there is a portal here.

A portal is a place where space
and time become conflated.

And a craft can pass from
one dimension to another

or from one place to another
in the universe.

If UFOs are visiting Earth,

then, with their
superior advanced technology,

it's likely that they are
coming and going via a portal.

And Alaska
would be the perfect place.

It's isolated.
There are few people about.

And they would be able to come
and go without being observed.

The idea that there may be
a UFO portal in the waters of Ketchikan

was given a boost in 2013,

when an underwater
volcano was discovered

with a multitude events
right in the Behm Canal.

These 3D images are from high tech
sonar surveys conducted by NOAA,

the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration.

They clearly reveal the shape of a
previously unknown volcano on the ocean bed.

The suspicion that
there may be a link

between UFOs and volcanoes
is long-standing.

The thought being
that alien craft

may be able to harness the
extreme electromagnetic energy

generated inside volcanoes.

It's these craft that Eric is
listening for with the hydrophone.

This is very interesting.

There is certainly lot of,
what would be considered

organic sounds,
I can hear the water moving.

I can hear the boat hull
slapping against the water.

I can hear some miscellaneous,
organic, water flowing sounds.

Could you kill your electronics
right now completely?

- Yeah.
- That's okay?

I'm hearing all kinds of things.

It's difficult for Eric to hear
anything beyond the noise of the water.

But with the sound recorded

the next step
is some expert analysis.

775 miles northwest of Ketchikan

is Anchorage,
Alaska's biggest city.

It's here where forensic audio
analyst, Kurt Reimann has his studio.

Kurt has been called upon as an audio
expert in some high-profile court cases.

And he has considerable
experience in using and interpreting

the sound from hydrophones.

A hydrophone is a
good tool to have underwater.

And it's not directional.

So it will tell you if the sound is
coming from somewhere underwater.

So you don't have to point
it in a particular direction.

The sound will come to it from
wherever the sound is radiating from.

If anyone can find
anything unusual

in the underwater sound
from Ketchikan, then it's Kurt.

Here's the sound
on a spectrogram

and you can see and hear at
the beginning, this is the sound of

the boat idling and...

You can hear water bubbles
and just the clicks,

the general
ocean noise that happens.

But the boat noise isn't alone.

On studying
the recording intently,

Kurt began to notice evidence
of an unusual sound.

And little by little,
as you go across the screen,

you can start to see this
line happen here

and this is
the one kilohertz tone.

You can see it right there. It's a
single note, that goes all the way across.

This is electronically created.

In order to get this...

This is not something that's
just happening naturally.

It's a sound
that's been created.

By deleting sound
of other frequencies,

Kurt can begin
to isolate the anomaly.

So I can grab
a section and eliminate it.

What's left is an
inexplicable artificially created sound,

the like of which isn't
emitted by any submarine.

But something more dramatic
was still to come.

Eric might have been closer to an
underwater UFO than he realized.

In fact, some astonishing audio
evidence suggests that his boat

could have been
right on top of one.

In Anchorage, Alaska

forensic audio analyst
Kurt Reimann

has been analyzing an underwater
recording from Ketchikan.

The recording was made with a
hydrophone by UFO investigator Eric Hecker.

And much to his surprise, Kurt has
come across a strange artificial tone.

So, here's the sound
and it's a steady single tone.

But this wasn't the
end of Kurt's investigations.

At seven minutes and 24
seconds into the recording,

something unexpected happens.

The pitch goes up.

The pitch goes up a few
cycles. Five or six cycles.

You can see it's very steady
straight across, straight across,

straight... and then
it goes up.

Something is happening here.

And that's
really interesting because

the only way
a sound goes up in pitch,

if the tone
was originally steady,

is if it is
getting closer to you.

And it's very subtle. You might not
even be able to hear it, but here it is.

And then it goes back down.
And you can see it all along here.

You can see that the sound
moved toward the recorder and back.

And if they are sitting in the
water the only explanation is

that they were over whatever it
was that was making the sound

and it came closer
for about seven seconds.

It's very subtle,
but it's there.

What does that?

I mean, there's
no reason for that to happen.

That's a strange thing.

So maybe it was giving them
the eye. I don't know.

An unexplained
underwater phenomenon,

perhaps evidence
of an alien craft.

And where there's alien craft
there could be an alien base

with its UFOs and the US military,
perhaps spying on each other.

This would be remarkable enough.

But there is another theory

that the UFOs and military
are working together

and the motivation is trade.

UFO researcher
Debbie Ziegelmeyer

believes that this could be
the most likely scenario,

with the US government trading
for super advanced technology,

alien technology.

Our government would be willing to
trade whatever they feel is necessary

so they can increase their military
intelligence, their military technology.

It seems like that's the
purpose of the whole cover up.

This raises the question,

what would
the US military have to trade

with a species so much more
technologically advanced?

The obvious answer
is not technology,

but biology.

Something relating
to life on Earth

and Debbie Ziegelmeyer
would go as far to say

perhaps even human life.

They've got some kind of
a partnership going on,

trading for technology and
some of it is abduction of humans.

If true, this
could at least partly explain

the large number of people who
go missing in the Alaska Triangle.

There is no proof of this.

But something strange
is going on.

The skies and waters
of Ketchikan

are guarding
closely held secrets

that we may
never know the answers to.

The UFOs are here.

It's just a matter
of what they are up to.

And I'm sure
the US military knows it

and that's why there's all this
secret submarine activity here.

Something weird
is definitely going on here

and with so many sightings
of UFOs, we just can't deny it.

And the strange
sound discovered by Kurt

is evidence that the ocean here

does hold
the deep mysterious secret.

The sound has
to be coming from something

and has to be powered
and it's generating this note.

Why? What is it?

For Eric Hecker,
it's a vital clue.

But it's just the start.

The state of Alaska is full
of all kinds of anomalous activities.

And I sure hope that I get
to come back to Ketchikan

and look into this further.

I think there's a lot
going on in this town.

I think there's a lot
going on in the water.

But in the Alaska Triangle,

it's not just aliens that are
spreading fear and terror.

There are thick forests here

as unexplored and impenetrable
as the ocean bed.

And it's said they are home to
monstrous creatures, unknown to science.

The most horrific of all,
the half-human wendigo.

It looked like a demon. Was just
the freakiest thing I've ever seen.

Alaska is the last great
wilderness in the United States.

Out here,
anything could be hiding.

One native Alaskan story
tells of a fearsome creature

that feasts on human flesh.

A creature that was itself
once human.

Shockingly, there's now an
increasing body of evidence to suggest

that this is more
than just a story.

If we weren't in the car, who's to
say what it would have done to us?

Could this
be the footprint of a wendigo?

In Alaska, stories of
mysterious beasts are age-old.

And there's none more
terrifying than the wendigo.

One of the stories, that have
come out of Native American legend

is that of the wendigo.

Now, this is like a
cannibalistic, ferocious beast

that goes around
terrorizing the locals.

He is described as being
very tall, very long limbed.

On its face,
pulled back dry skin

and you can almost
see its skull.

And it has
this terrifying appearance.

Native legend says that
the wendigo were once humans.

But through either, starvation

or just pure evil

they turned to cannibalism
and ate human flesh.

Through repeated eating
of other humans

they were cursed by the
powers in the spirit world

to slowly change their shape

and become the horrific wendigo.

Remarkably,
wendigo sightings aren't limited

to the most far-flung areas.

In fact, they've even been
sighted within just a few miles

of the state capital, Juneau.

Kay Klose and
her daughter Wrenna

used to live out in the forest

just eight miles
from the city center.

As they were
driving home one evening,

they had a terrifying encounter.

It was probably about
seven o'clock at night

and my daughter and I were
on North Douglas Highway.

Probably about
two miles from my house.

And this thing leaped across
the road in front of my car.

My lights hit it
and it turned around...

It was the scariest thing
I've ever seen.

It looked at us, like,

it was thinking
for a minute, like,

"What am I
going to do with you?"

And it hissed at us.

It was pretty terrifying.

Whatever this thing was
was absolutely not

just an animal.

It had very distinctive
features of a flat nose,

long hands but then the
fingers were all broken up.

Really long weird hands.

I mean, it was a half-human,
half-animal thing.

Whatever the creature was,

Kay and Wrenna knew they
had to get away and fast.

I've been around wildlife
and animals my whole life.

I've never seen anything
that looked like that.

It looked like a demon.

Was just the freakiest thing
I've ever seen.

Wrenna is an artist

and is drawing an illustration of the creature
that the two of them saw that evening.

So the face of the creature,

was human to me

and it was covered in hair

and it had a big mouth.

But it's nostrils, I recall,

were flaring up when
its eyes were really big

and its ears were kind of
like, tucked back, like,

you know, like a dog would be
if it was freaked out.

And its feet, kind of like
human feet,

but claws on it.

The visual of this creature
has never really left me.

This is pretty much,
the gist of what I saw.

Wrenna's drawing
looks very much like a wendigo.

If it was a wendigo,

and it's roaming
this close to the city,

then no one
is Alaska is truly safe.

Now, experienced hunter
and tracker, Chuke Rowley

has decided to risk visiting the area
where Kay and Wrenna had their sighting.

So, we're a half mile, where the
incident happened, the wendigo sighting.

We're fairly close to a city.

And at the same time, we're in a
remote location, in very dense rainforest.

It's kind of a scary thought,

there could be a creature out here,
with access to people, who are close by.

Frankly, that frightens me.

Chuke's plan is to
spend the night in the forest.

He knows that his best chance
is to stay in one place,

and let the human-eating
wendigo come to him.

So, a lot of the times, when I'm
looking for some kind of animal,

I may use bait.

Tonight, I'm the bait.

And in the middle of the
night, Chuke has the scare of his life.

What is that?

Something's out
there in the trees.

In the Alaska Triangle,

there's one creature that
is feared above all others.

Any encounter is
fraught with danger

and the legend behind the
creature adds to the horror.

Fundamentally, it's like a cannibalistic,
vengeful, terrorizing creature

that should
be avoided at all costs.

But hunter
and tracker, Chuke Rowley,

is in the forest
of southeast Alaska,

actively looking for a wendigo.

It's here, where Kay Klose
and her daughter, Wrenna,

had their terrifying encounter.

And Chuke is setting up camp,
close to that spot.

So, I scouted some game trails,

I found a nice spot
in a clearing

and I'm going to be spending the night
out here in the tent just kind of watching,

listening, seeing
what I can find.

But while Chuke
stakes out the area near Juneau.

200 miles south,
on Prince of Wales Island,

a report has come in
of an extraordinary find,

with a cigarette pack for scale.

These photos of strange
footprints was taken by a hunter

as he was tracking a bear,

close to where a bear made a sudden
and unexpected change of course.

They've never been shown
on TV before.

We've sent them to
cryptozoologist, Lance Hightower,

whose been making
a study of them.

Well, these footprints, upon initial
inspection, are very interesting.

They appear canine to me,
in nature.

But they are considerably
larger than a typical wolf print.

What's also
an interesting feature

is that wolf digits
are not elongated.

These are.

You have an elongated,
lengthened digit,

with what appears to be a claw
at the end of each digit.

But for the most part they
are very strange and very odd.

Whatever made these prints,

could not be a wolf,

and may have been a wendigo.

These could be the
first ever known photographs

of wendigo footprints.

They look just like the kind of print, the
creature drawn by Wrenna would make.

If true, they would be proof
that this fearsome creature

has made the Alaska Triangle
its home.

Perhaps the wendigo itself,

is some manifestation of the
mysterious forces of the Triangle.

Whatever it is, Chuke Rowley
is keen to find out.

And it's not long into his night in
the forest before he hears footsteps

outside his tent.

Something is right out there.

Something's walking around.

The sound of footsteps
in the snow is terrifyingly clear.

Something's
out there in the trees.

There was something moving.

Something shuffling around.

Really creepy.

I can't hear it anymore.

That was creepy.

Something right out there
came right up to my tent.

Whatever it was,
Chuke didn't hear it again.

And the next morning, the
creature appeared to have gone.

But there were some
interesting marks in the snow.

One thing kind of interesting

is there are some tracks here

that have been covered up

by the snow.

And it's along this game trail.

Humans don't walk out here.

I don't know what that was.

I wish there wasn't a layer of
snow, so I could see some detail.

Something large...

has been out here.

The shape of the track is
particularly unusual and distinctive.

I make a track,
even if I'm moving,

it is not,

triangular like that.

And I'm not sure what that could
be, I've never seen anything like that.

In fact, it's the kind of track,

that would be left in soft snow

by whatever animal left these
tracks on Prince of Wales Island.

It seems that the wendigo
may be more than just a legend.

There's definitely
something strange going on here.

We just don't know the true
power of the forces at play in Alaska.

It could even be, that a great number
of these Native Alaskan legends

come about due to the
power of the Triangle.

Whatever the truth
behind the wendigo legend,

there are now multiple witnesses

to some kind of strange
and horrific creature

lurking in the forests of
the Alaska Triangle.

Definitely the scariest thing
I've ever seen in my life.

It's just
one of the many dark secrets

closely guarded
by this wild, mysterious land.