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NARRATOR: Alaska, a vast,
remote wilderness

twice the size of Texas.

There are dangerous,
unpredictable forces

at work here.

NARRATOR: In one of the most
mysterious corners of the globe.

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

NARRATOR: This is a place
hundreds of times more deadly

than the Bermuda Triangle.

MAN: [ Filtered voice ]
Oh, my god.

NARRATOR:
Stories of alien abductions.

I believe it was a UFO.

NARRATOR: The paranormal,
vanishing airplanes,

and strange beasts...

The Alaskan Bigfoot.
He can rip you in half.

These accounts
are really widespread.

[Bleep] It peeked out
of the tree right there.

NARRATOR: ...have haunted
those who dare set foot here.

In the last 30 years,

16,000 people have disappeared
without a trace.

More people have disappeared
than the Bermuda Triangle,

two to three times the amount.

NARRATOR: Witnesses tell us
their shocking stories.

I was petrified.

NARRATOR: And we've gathered
some of the world's leading

experts in their field...

I'm always after
scientific evidence

that can be
independently corroborated.

NARRATOR: ...to try
and unlock the mystery

of the Alaska Triangle.

♪♪

The Alaska Triangle
is steeped in mystery

with extraordinary stories
and unexplained phenomena,

from possessions

and poltergeists

to mythological monsters,

it's a hub
of supernatural activity.

[ Screeching ]

The place is absolutely
riddled with the paranormal.

NARRATOR: Its cities are rife
with reported hauntings.

This hotel is a hotbed
for the supernatural.

NARRATOR: It's wilderness
stalked by strange beasts.

We have something here.

NARRATOR: Now paranormal
investigators

are on a mission
to solve the mysteries.

I feel like I've kind of
dipped my arms

in, like, ice water right now,

NARRATOR: And the results
are astonishing.

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

♪♪

Look how dangerous
this is here.

[ Roaring ]

♪♪

NARRATOR: Alaska's state
capital, Juneau,

wedged between
mountains and ocean.

Founded in the gold rush

and home to one of Alaska's
most haunted buildings.

♪♪

Anyone who's worked
or lived here

for any length of time
knows that this hotel

is a hotbed
for the supernatural.

NARRATOR: To understand
the building's hauntings

is to crack
the supernatural mysteries

of the Alaska Triangle itself.

Leading the investigation,

expert, intuitive,
and paranormal investigator,

Jeff Richards.

The Alaska Triangle
is absolutely a magnet

for the spirits of the dead

with more cases of hauntings
and possessions

than many other places
in North America.

NARRATOR: The building's history
goes hand in hand

with the city itself.

This hotel was built in 1913
on gold money.

Juneau was a mining town.

It was a rough
and ready sort of border town.

Prospectors were exploring
every nook and cranny

with a fine comb.

98% of them return broke.

NARRATOR: To celebrate
their successes

or drink away their failures,

Juneau's most
colorful characters

headed to the Alaskan hotel.

This hotel was a bordello

where rooms were rented out
by the working girls.

If you were to come in
in 1913 into this very bar,

you would see a lot of miners,
trappers, fishermen,

even lawmen and legislators.

They all came together.

NARRATOR: Many think that
notorious past has left

a permanent paranormal mark.

My family has had this hotel
since I was 2 years old.

I grew up around
the supernatural

and I grew up around the ghosts

and the spirits
that live in this building.

NARRATOR: For many guests,

the hotel's paranormal activity
is too much to bear.

Some people can't stay here.
They just leave.

Some of them running,
some of them screaming.

[ Scream]

NARRATOR: Now, Jeff will use
his years of experience

investigating hauntings
and supernatural activity

to dig to the bottom of
the hotel's paranormal history.

- Joshua.
- Hey. Pleased to meet you.

It's amazing to be
in such a famous haunted hotel.

I'm hoping that Jeff can tell me
a little bit more

about the hauntings and possibly
the other supernatural beings

that inhabit this building.

Yeah, come right back
this way.

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

NARRATOR: First up,
Josh takes him

to one of the most disturbing
spots in the building.

The first thing I want
to show you

is down in the basement.

♪♪

So this is where we have
our resident poltergeist.

NARRATOR: The few people
who have ventured

into the hotel's basement

report an aggressive spirit
that physically attacks them.

He's angry with women.

There's a feeling of anguish

and hatred, intense hatred,
and capriciousness

in that particular spot
in the basement.

NARRATOR: As an intuitive,
Jeff feels attuned

to the presence of spirits
in haunted spaces.

♪♪

Do you feel that
there's sort of

this malevolent
kind of presence

or something that's more likely
to push people

- out of this space?
- Yes.

- Than other parts of the hotel?
- Definitely. Yes.

So it's like two hands coming up
in front of me right now,

almost like a roaring
kind of masculine energy

wanting to push me back up those
stairs for whatever reason.

Like, I feel like
I've kind of dipped my arms

in, like, ice water right now.

Does that make sense to you?

NARRATOR: For Josh,
the poltergeist in the basement

arrived after a tragic accident.

Well, let me tell you
something about

the history of this place.

On September 8, 1998,
I was standing right here

and I was looking at a dead man
floating face down

in what at that time

was a hot tub
that we had rented to him.

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

NARRATOR: After Charles drowned,
his body was removed.

But Josh believes his spirit
never left.

That man is a poltergeist

and he is very,
very territorial.

After the death that we never
rented another hot tub

and we never used this area
for any commercial purpose.

I've done over
185 investigations.

I hear stories all the time

of a haunted space
that is haunted

because some incredibly violent
act has taken place there,

a murder or a suicide.

I think it's quite common
for those moments to leave a rip

in the energy of that space

that those spirits
are continually drawn back to.

NARRATOR: But Jeff feels
there's more at play here.

So the the negativity, then,

because I'm feeling right now,

it may very well be the energy
of that man that passed away.

But to me, it also feels like
there's something here

that's a bit older than that.

NARRATOR: Could it be
the hotel's colorful past

that has left spirits
festering in its basement?

Right where you're standing
was a horseshoe bar.

The bar was a hub
for every scoundrel,

scumbag legislators,

con man, murderer, thief,
you name it.

There were riots.
There were brawls.

It was just like the old west.

This feels like
something connected

to the original people
on this land.

Do you know if there's ever
been anything like

if anything was found
with regards to, you know,

burial sites
or, you know, sacred spaces,

ceremonial spaces
on the property

that the Alaska Hotel
resides on right now?

NARRATOR: Many of Alaska's towns
were built

on the sites of settlements

established by indigenous
Native American tribes.

Jeff's keen to know
if the Alaskan Hotel was, too.

This building
was built on native lands.

And this land is still sacred
to the Tlingit people.

And when the white people came,

they took it from
the Native Americans

and many of those homes
were decimated.

So a lot of that negative energy
could be coming

from the disenfranchised
native ancestors.

Building a home
on sacred grounds,

on burial lands
can potentially be problematic.

That can be a bad idea

because those grounds are
protected in the living world,

but they're also protected
in the spirit world.

And those energies might take
action against whoever is there.

♪♪

NARRATOR:
Jeff has felt the presence

of multiple spirits
in the basement.

♪♪

RICHARDS:
I've explored the basement.

I've seen a lot,
I felt a lot here.

I'm excited to get to the rest
of the hotel, though,

to see what else I can find.

♪♪

Okay, I'm gonna give you keys
to the two most haunted rooms

in the entire hotel.

Here's a key to room 219,
which is right here.Okay.

And here's a key to room 315,
which is on the third floor.All right.

I'm gonna get started.

♪♪

NARRATOR: First stop, room 219
on the second floor.

♪♪

This room has a very sad
sort of air about it,

as soon as you come
into the space,

I mean, I feel it right now.

It feels oppressive in the way

that it's taken a life
previously, at least one.

WOMAN: [ Screams ]

[ Screaming ]

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR: The Alaska Triangle,

a hub of
unexplained disappearances

and a hotspot
for paranormal activity.

Everybody knows about
the Bermuda Triangle,

but the Alaska Triangle
is even weirder.

NARRATOR: In Alaska's
capital city, Juneau,

paranormal investigator
Jeff Richards

is trying to contact
residents spirits

in one of the Alaska Hotel's
most haunted rooms 219.

This room has a very sad
sort of air about it.

As soon as you come
into the space,

I mean, I feel it right now.

We have a particular spirit

that gets seen
by a lot of people.

And we call her Alice.

Alice lived in a room
with her beau.

And that room was 219.

She was with him, but he left
to go out and seek his fortune.

NARRATOR:
One hundred years later,

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

♪♪

The energy of the basement
was menacing,

but this is, this is
almost sorrowful, you know?

It's...

Alice ran out of money
and so she turned to

the world's oldest profession.

♪♪

NARRATOR: Like many impoverished
women down on their luck,

back then,
she became a prostitute.

♪♪

Only problem is her boyfriend
did come back.

[ Knock on door ]

He became furious.

♪♪

[ Screams ]

NARRATOR: He killed her
in a crime of passion.

Jeff, a self-professed
intuitive,

thinks he can feel a link
to those events.

♪♪

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

♪♪

And she's saying, tell me.

♪♪

Like, sort of like
showing it like, tell me.

♪♪

And there's confusion.

To this day,

people see Alice
in a diaphanous gown.

♪♪

Sadness is there
because it's like

something's been pulled away

before it's time
with no real explanation.

♪♪

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

♪♪

NARRATOR: Another shocking story
haunts the floor above.

♪♪

ADAMS: There's another
strange occurrence

that happened in room 315.

There was a sailor in the year
2007 who rented a room.

He was rather intoxicated

and he wanted a room
that was haunted.

♪♪

NARRATOR: Though the man entered
the room alone,

guests reported hearing
loud voices.

[ Shouting indistinctly ]

It was as if someone
were talking to someone else

in the room who wasn't there.

NARRATOR:
But it wasn't just voices.

♪♪

People hear screaming, yelling.

[ Screaming ]

NARRATOR:
Virtual chaos in the room.

MAN: [ Screaming ]

He ends up actually throwing
himself out of this window,

so whatever he was experiencing
was so terrible, was so,

so frightening that he was
compelled to leave out

this window
and fall three stories down.

The window itself,
it's -- it's small.

It's a very small opening.

This wall here
is just a few feet away.

So...

he would have been
skidding down that wall,

getting bumped, banged up,

and scratched
the whole way down.

♪♪

NARRATOR: When the police
finally enter the room,

they find the scene of carnage.

There was blood
all over the room.

The window was broken.

And when I say blood
all over the room,

I mean the walls, the ceiling,
the beds, everywhere.

I do feel a bit uneasy
right now in the room.

I mean, especially
with the door closed.

But it's not even that.

It's just like everything's
sort of...

♪♪

Kind of closing in
a little bit.

This room feels...

It feels oppressive
in the way that it's taken --

it's taken a life previously,
at least one.

They stuck in hell.

Alice.
This does not happen often.

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR: In Alaska's
most haunted building,

world renowned paranormal
investigator Jeff Richards

is drawn to room 315
where an encounter took place.

Okay.

When I want to get some of
the equipment out and start,

start trying to communicate
with whatever this might be.

NARRATOR: Jeff will use a trio
of electromagnetic meters

to gage any spirit's activity
in the room.

Hopefully we're able to net
something here today, okay?

Warming up big time.

♪♪

I'd like to invite anyone
who may be present in this room

right now to step forward
and communicate with me.

My name is Jeff,
and I enter your space

with nothing but respect.

I'm simply here
to record your story.

NARRATOR: Jeff's specialist
device picks up on

electromagnetic variations
in the room's atmosphere.

Incredibly, it can translate
any paranormal messages

into actual words which are
then spoken by the machine.

♪♪

Basement.

♪♪

July.

Can I just...

July 12, 1921, July.

Okay. That's again,
we're getting a string

of very significant
hits here right now.

NARRATOR: Amazingly, Jeff has
heard this spirit voice

say the same date
he picked up on earlier

and wrote on his pad.

What's July?
What's the 12th of July?

Was that the day
you were killed?

12th of July.

Go ahead, touch that light.

Yes. Good, good.

NARRATOR: Jeff believes
the ghost can show its presence

by boosting the energy
in the room

which registers
on his machine.

I'd like to know what it is
that you want, why you're here.

Can you tell me
why you're here?

♪♪

Hell.

♪♪

What about hell?

Are you stuck in hell?

♪♪

Are you in hell?

♪♪

Alice.

♪♪

This does not happen often.

But when it does,

it's significant.

♪♪

Alice.

♪♪

So we're speaking with Alice.

Is this Alice?

NARRATOR:
In a remarkable development,

Jeff feels he's
in direct contact

with the hotel's best
known ghost --

The Gold Rush era guest
known as Alice,

brutally murdered
by her furious lover.

Alice, you can touch this light

if this is Alice
that we're speaking with.

This is Alice.

Okay, very good.

Alice?

Did you die in room 219?

♪♪

Poltergeists.

♪♪

Alice, are you the poltergeist
in the basement?

♪♪

Alice, are you still with us?

♪♪

Alice?

♪♪

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

♪♪

I thank you for
your communication.

I'm gonna say goodbye now.

♪♪

Once again, thank you.

♪♪

[ Switch clicks ]

I firmly believe that today

I was speaking directly
to Alice.

My theory is that the young man
who stayed in this room

had an encounter with her.

The scorned woman who was killed
before, you know, she was ready,

obviously very tragically,
she was killed

and is sort of now left
wandering, trapped.

Alice.

For me,
that confirms the name,

that confirms, you know,
what has been speculated

about in this hotel
for years and years and years.

We have now given them

some conclusive proof.

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

July basement again.

These are all clues leading
towards us

connecting today with Alice

from room 219.

Those were huge hits.

Those are really big hits from
an investigative perspective.

Those were great.

I think we're done.

NARRATOR: From the hundreds of
paranormal experiences

to psychic contact,

the evidence of intense
paranormal activity

at Juneau's Alaskan Hotel
is abundant

and there are plenty
more hauntings

for Jeff to investigate.

But supernatural forces
in the triangle

aren't just urban phenomena.

[ Screams ]

NARRATOR:
From deep in the wilderness,

far from civilization,

come legends
of a mysterious beast.

Part man, part animal,
a terrifying creature

that walks freely between
the physical and spirit worlds.

[ Screaming ]

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR: Across America,

stories swirl
of beasts roaming the wilderness

like the Bigfoot or Sasquatch.

[ Growling ]

But Alaska has
its own mythical monster...

They're very dangerous.

NARRATOR: ...suspected of
thousands of human abductions.

It is extremely bad luck
to even mention its name.

NARRATOR: Feared by generations
of Native Americans,

they have old stories
going back thousands of years

about these things.

NARRATOR: And possibly
attacking people today.

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

NARRATOR:
Its name is Kushtaka.

[ Roars ]

♪♪

It's a creature synonymous
with the spirit world

of Native American
Tlingit people,

the indigenous population
of southeast Alaska.

The Kushtaka is
a shape-shifting creature

in Tlingit society

and it's known to inhabit

all of southeast Alaska.

The literal translation
is land otter man.

♪♪

They're very dangerous.

They're very big and muscular

and they have a lot
of physical power behind them.

NARRATOR:
Part man, part otter,

this land and water
dwelling monster is reputed

to have abducted countless
people over generations.

♪♪

Kushtakas tie into
Tlingit culture

in accounting for missing people
and what might happen to them.

NARRATOR: For centuries,
Native American artists

have depicted the creatures

terrifying form
in masks and art.

♪♪

This being is similar
to the Tlingit Kushtaka

because this being hair covered
and very cold in the body

is the same sort of creature

that would steal
a drowning fisherman

and take him to another land.

And as such is much feared.

NARRATOR:
Tales of its attacks

stretch back
hundreds of years.

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

It's the site of one
of the Alaska Triangle's

most infamous mysteries.

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

The Legend of Thomas Bay,

the quintessential spook story,
Southeast Alaska.

♪♪

Back at the beginning
of the 20th century,

Alaska was still a wild,
unexplored frontier,

but people were starting
to explore it.

So this is a couple years
after the Klondike

gold rush ended.

There's no gold to be had,
really,

but people are still
just fleeing the lower 48

in hopes of kind
of economic opportunities

that Alaska might offer.

NARRATOR: Among them,

a gold hungry
prospector known as Charlie.

Charlie knew this
elderly Tlingit man

who had this big piece of quartz
that was flecked full of gold.

And Charlie was following

this Tlingit man
around being like,

"Where did you find this?"

NARRATOR: The tribesman gives
Charlie a vital tip off.

Charlie heads alone
into the wilderness,

desperate to find his fortune.

His destination? Thomas Bay.

An area revered
by Native Americans

for its evil spirits

and known for
an historic landslide

that wiped out
an entire settlement.

The Tlingit people of the area

wouldn't have anything
to do with the bay.

There was a fear of something
menacing in the forest.

NARRATOR:
They call it Devil's Country.

Undeterred,
Charlie sets up camp alone.

♪♪

DIHLE:
So Charlie sets up camp

and immediately it just starts
pouring rain.

NARRATOR: For a full week,

Charlie waits out the rain
in his tent.

♪♪

DIHLE: Charlie, after week's
rain comes out of his tent.

He's following this
Tlingit man's directions

to this gold deposit.

NARRATOR:
Alone in the wilderness,

with supplies fast running out,

the man searches the hillsides

for any sign
of the long rumored gold seams.

♪♪

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

And then he exposes
this huge ledge

full of gold.

NARRATOR: Of the hundreds
of thousands of prospectors

who sought their fortunes
in the gold fields of America,

few ever tasted such luck.

After marking the find,

Charlie goes in search
of more gold.

But his luck
is about to run out.

[ Roars ]

He turns around and right there

are these creatures
that are neither man nor monkey,

but just hideous, shrieking,
screaming, hollering

and trying to get him.

The only word that he can use
to describe them

are devil creatures.

[ Roaring ]

So he tries to use his gun,

which doesn't work that well.

NARRATOR:
Terrified for his life,

Charlie flees Thomas Bay

taking nothing with him

except an incredible tale

that will last for centuries.

And for Alaskans,

it corroborates a legend
as old as Alaska itself --

The legend of the Kushtaka.

[ Roaring ]

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR: Deep in
the Alaskan wilderness,

stories of a supernatural beast
have been around for centuries.

The Kushtaka is one of the most
terrifying creatures there is

in our folklore.

We don't acknowledge
their existence.

They're the boogey man,
they're demon eyes.

NARRATOR: Now, cryptozoologist
Lance Hightower is on a mission

to find the mythical monster

and sort legend from reality.

We're on a hunt looking
for evidence of the Kushtaka.

We have the ideal environment,

we have dense forest,
steep cliffs, and water.

In fact,
we're not too far away

from a very famous location,
Thomas Bay.

So I think this is going
to be an ideal location

and I'm looking forward
and getting in there

and seeing what we can find.

NARRATOR: Could Kushtaka be
a genuinely unknown species?

Science does not
know everything.

We're discovering new species
all the time.

That is, there's many new
and undiscovered species

waiting to be found,

including very big animals.

NARRATOR: Lance is ready
to find out and prepared

for every eventuality.

So I have in my backpack
an EM meter,

it's been said that
these Kushtaka elicit

some type of
electromagnetic frequency.

And in addition,
I have a infrared.

So as night falls,

I want to be able to see
what's going on around me.

As we go over here
and investigate,

I have no idea
what's over there,

so we want
to be safe at all cost.

NARRATOR: It's a precaution
worth taking.

It was not far from this spot
in woods like these

that one of the most recent

and terrifying Kushtaka
encounters occurred.

Never in my wildest
dreams today

every think that I would have
an encounter with the Kushtaka.

[ Screams ]

The Kushtaka are shape-shifting

beings from
the Tlingit mythology.

They have old stories
going back thousands of years

about these things.

NARRATOR: They are infamous
for appearing out of nowhere

and swooping on their victims.

People like Diana Lynn Tucker.

Back in 2007, my husband
and I had saved up enough money

to come to Alaska
for the summer.

We have rented
a little summer home

and we had some friends
come up to visit us.

It was a beautiful,
beautiful July day.

My friend and I
decided to go on a walk.

So Shari and I found a couple of
paths to go and there was one

it was more woodsy
than the other one.

NARRATOR: Diana heads deep
into the woods.

Enchanted, but alone.

♪♪

TUCKER: Next thing I know,
everything with silent.

It was like that nightmare
came to life.

NARRATOR:
Unaware of the danger,

Diana was walking
in the world of the Kushtaka.

[ Growling ]

Just like cryptozoologist
Lance Hightower

on an expedition deep
into the wilderness.

He's looking for signs
of the legendary otter man.

Wait a minute.
We have something here.

♪♪

Okay, at first glance,
I thought this was a decomposing

carcass here of an animal,
but looks like what we have here

is plant-based fibers
that starts to decay

and pull apart very much
like a dead animal.

But in this area,

this would be very much
what a Kushtaka would eat.

An opportunistic animal
right here on the shoreline.

So this is a prime area for
the Kushtaka to hunt and feed.

NARRATOR: The land otter man,

is the name Kushtaka
translates,

is said to live
between the water and the land.

But also between the physical
and spirit worlds.

They know how to do things
that we don't

even understand yet.

It's beyond us.

♪♪

This may sound like
a nightmarish fairy tale,

a legend, but Alaska remains
the last great,

unexplored region
of the United States.

There's things there
that remain anomalous

because no one's really had
a chance to investigate them.

NARRATOR: Experts linked
the Kushtaka's awesome powers

to the location of its habitat
deep in the Alaska Triangle.

♪♪

We know that there are
unexplained electromagnetic

forces within the triangle.

And we know that science
has confirmed

that electromagnetism affects
both humans and animals.

♪♪

NARRATOR: Native American
communities blame the Kushtaka

for many
inexplicable occurrences.

♪♪

There are several
thousand people

reported missing in Alaska.

Could Kushtakas be responsible
for some of this?

♪♪

♪♪

NARRATOR: Cryptozoologist
Lance Hightower

is deep in the wilderness
near Thomas Bay, Alaska

on the trail
of the mysterious Kushtaka.

[ Roars ]

Look at this.
Look how dangerous this is here.

Anything could be watching us.
This is like a fortress in here.

You have the high cliffs,
dense forest.

And if I was gonna be
a Kushtaka,

I would be in the shadows.

I need to find a way
to investigate up there.

I need to get over there.

♪♪

[ Roars ]

NARRATOR: As the sun sets,

Lance heads
deep into the forest.

♪♪

Okay, we made it to the top
of the ridge here.

And as a hunter, one of
the things I'm looking for

is any signs such as scad,
anything like that.

And I don't see any right now.

But in addition,
I'm looking for movement.

You want to be still
and you want to see movement.

And if there's movement,
you want to wait just a second

to see what you have.

NARRATOR:
It was in woods like these

that Texan,
Diana Lynn Tucker,

encountered
the shape-shifting Kushtaka

while out walking
on summer vacation.

♪♪

TUCKER: All of a sudden,
there were these ravens.

I don't even know what they
were, these big black birds,

and they were coming
into the trees.

NARRATOR:
Separated from her friend,

Diana is vulnerable to attack.

TUCKER:
I'm looking around for Shari.

I can't find her anywhere.

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

I can hardly breathe.

It just became dark
with these black crow birds.

And then I look over.

[ Roaring ]

And there's this birdlike man,

this huge entity
with this beak face.

Suddenly, I just fell.

[ Wings flapping ]

The birds were coming at me.

I could feel the blood
going down my arms.

And, um,

I'm sorry it was so scary.

[ Roaring ]

NARRATOR:
The shape-shifting Kushtaka

had made Diana's
worst nightmares a reality

by transforming into a bird.

When I was a child,

I had older brothers and we
watched a very famous movie

about these big black birds

that were just evil.

And ever since then,
they've just always,

always terrified me.

The Kushtaka
is something that preys

upon your most primal fears
with this ability

to almost peer into your soul.

NARRATOR: Incredibly,
Diana escaped with her life.

And my friend, she was, "What is
wrong and why are you bleeding?"

She thought that I had,
like, fallen.

And I was freaked out
and scared.

What in the hell just happened?

It was...unexplainable.

♪♪

NARRATOR:
Diana could make no sense

of her terrifying experience.

♪♪

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

♪♪

She looked up at me with just
the fear of god in her eyes,

as if she had
just seen the devil,

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

She told me that the fact
that I came out of it alive

meant that I had
a very strong soul

and there was some larger
purpose for me in life.

It was validating.

This was real.
This did happen.

I was approached
and there's something out there.

[ Roaring ]

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

[ Wings flapping ]

It was just
frightening as hell.

♪♪

NARRATOR: Diana survived
her experience.

Now Lance Hightower is seeking
the shape-shifting beast

she says attacked her.

HIGHTOWER: Anything could be
watching us right now

and we wouldn't know it.

How dense everything,
just look at it.

There could be something
15 yards away

you'd never know
in the shadows.

NARRATOR: What's more,

Native Americans
believe the Kushtaka

can make itself invisible.

If the Kushtaka
has all the special powers

that the Tlingit people
say it does,

then this could be one
of the hardest creatures

to track down.

That's because it appears
to morph

between our realm
and another realm.

HIGHTOWER: So I pulled out
my EMF meter.

It reads
the electromagnetic frequency

that these Kushtaka
are supposed to emit.

NARRATOR: Into the early hours
of the Alaskan twilight,

Lance searches for any sign
of Kushtaka.

♪♪

Okay, it's dark here now.

I did my investigation up
on this ridge.

There's no telling
what's up there

that could be
watching me right now.

Well, I didn't register anything
on my EMF meter or my infrared,

but that doesn't mean
they don't exist.

These are master of disguise
going to the shadow world.

But I know it's dark.

I sense all on this ridge
and I need to get out of here.

♪♪

NARRATOR:
As Lance leaves Alaska,

the mystery of the Kushtaka

remains hidden deep
in the forest.

From hotel hauntings
to supernatural beasts,

the mysteries of
the Alaska Triangle continue.

[ Roaring]