Case file · Anomaly hotspot
The Alaska Triangle
A name given to a vast area between Anchorage, Juneau and Utqiaġvik where planes and people are said to vanish at unusual rates.
1972 CE · 61.22, -149.90 · status: legend
The account
The idea took off after the 1972 disappearance of the plane carrying Hale Boggs and Nick Begich, and was popularised by TV series.
The sceptical view
Alaska is huge, sparsely populated, mountainous and stormy; bodies and wreckage are easily lost in glaciers, forest and sea, so no special cause is needed.