Revisiting the Alaska Triangle
Challenges of Writing About a Mysterious Topic I've Already Covered
How much more strange phenomena is at my disposal to unveil about the Alaska Triangle? Honestly, one of the challenges I face in writing the new book is in deciding what to include about peculiar region of the world. Of course, there is plenty of unusual activity that occurs in the Great White North, but my book Alaska’s Mysterious Triangle already covered the subject matter at length. What do I pull from that book, what new material do I include, and what do I leave on the cutting room floor even if it’s interesting and relevant?
I have an entire section I am dedicating to triangle areas of the world, including the Bermuda Triangle, Bridgewater, Lake Michigan, Nevada, the Dragon’s Triangle near Japan, a triangle area I learned about during my 2022 Ireland tour, and more. When we discuss the energy of the earth, vortices, and strange areas of magnetism around the globe, what we call “triangles” are some of the most notorious areas of strange activity on the planet. So, the coverage of the Alaska Triangle is certainly necessary, but I’m not just going to copy and paste entire swathes of text out of the old book and put it into the new one.
Of course, I have to cover some of the basics, such as the Alaska Triangle consisting of an area from Juneau to Anchorage to Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), the fact that every year 500-2000 people go missing in Alaska (and more than 16,000 have since 1988), and that a 1965 geographical survey by the U.S. Department of the Interior classified some of the magnetization in the region as “negative anomalies.” However, when it comes to the strange activity of the area, much of which many would describe as “supernatural” in nature, well … let’s just say Alaska’s Mysterious Triangle covered missing people and airplanes, extraterrestrials, paranormal activity, cryptid encounters, government cover-ups, and more. Let’s take a glimpse at what I’m looking to cover in the new book:
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