The Bermuda Triangle has been linked to dozens of mysterious disappearances for decades, but two strange areas in the US are hiding even more deadly secrets.
Since before the founding of the US, a mysterious zone inside Lake Michigan has marked the final known location of several airplanes and sailing vessels, some disappearing without a trace.
Known as the Michigan Triangle, it sits between Ludington and Benton Harbor in Michigan and Manitowoc in Wisconsin.
An even more terrifying zone in the US sits in Alaska, where some have suggested that up to 20,000 disappearances have occurred within this triangle.
Sitting between Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiagvik, the Alaska Triangle has been marked by repeated tragedies, and countless disappearances involving everything from passenger planes to local residents out for a hike.
With Alaska being so sparsely populated, the total number of missing person cases within the triangle is shockingly high, leading some conspiracy theorists to blame everything from UFOs to secret government projects hidden in the wilderness.
The mysteries in both triangles have also led some to claim there are electromagnetic vortexes in the two areas that have caused airplanes to crash and ships to sink.
Now, recently discovered evidence at both sites have thrown both of the mysterious triangles back into the spotlight.
The Michigan Triangle, notorious for multiple disappearances dating back to the 17th century
A Northwest Airlines DC4 similar to the Northwest Airlines DC4 Flight 2501 that was lost in 1950 (Stock Image)
The Michigan Triangle
Conspiracy fans have blamed the mysterious disappearances near Michigan on ‘energy vortexes’, or ‘ley lines,’ – the supposed energy lines which intersect ancient landmarks throughout the world.
The discovery of a 9,000-year-old structure described as ‘America’s Stonehenge’ beneath the waters of Lake Michigan in 2007 added further fuel to the fire, with new clues about its origins being discovered over the last year.
This structure, found near Traverse City, consists of large, arranged stones believed to be a prehistoric hunting feature, possibly used to guide animals like caribou into traps.
As for the infamous disappearances in this area, the most memorable took place on the night of June 23, 1950.
A DC-4 carrying 58 passengers and crew lost radio contact with flight controllers, with witnesses reportedly hearing the engines sputtering and seeing flashes before it plunged into Lake Michigan during a storm.
The Coast Guard recovered debris and human remains from Flight 2501 after the crash from inside the Michigan Triangle, which was the deadliest commercial airliner accident in America at the time.
However, the history of the Michigan Triangle stretches back hundreds of years before that fatal day in 1950.
In 1891, the Thomas Hume vanished without any distress signals, along with its crew inside the Michigan Triangle
The ship Le Griffon disappeared on the return leg of its maiden voyage across the lake in 1679, vanishing near Lake Michigan’s Green Bay.
The ship had travelled to an island in Lake Michigan to trade animal pelts, but vanished with all six crew and its load of furs never being found.
In 1891, the ship Thomas Hume also vanished without any distress signals, along with its crew.
An even more mysterious disappearance took place on the schooner Rosa Belle, which was found floating bottom-up with no sign of her nine crew members in 1921.
Believers in the Michigan Triangle have also pointed to the mysterious disappearance of Captain George Donner, who retired to his cabin on the freighter OM McFarland on April 28, 1937.
He had instructed the crew to alert him when the ship neared its destination, but the crew found his room locked from the inside.
They broke down the door but there was no sign of Donner, who was too large to fit through the portholes and had shown no signs of depression.
Some believe more than 20,000 people have gone missing in a region called the Alaska Triangle
A Cessna similar to the one in which the politicians disappeared
The Alaska Triangle
One disappearance in Alaska has captivated the public’s attention for decades.
It involved a Cessna containing politicians Thomas Hale Boggs Sr, the US House Majority Leader, and Nick Begich, an Alaska Congressman, in 1972.
After one of the largest search and rescue operations in US history at that time, involving 40 military aircraft and 50 civilian planes, no wreckage was found.
Unlike other Alaska Triangle theories, this one also sparked a number of government conspiracy theories as well.
Boggs was a member of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President Kennedy and was a dissenter to the ‘lone assassin’ theory.
Some have claimed the plane was deliberately targeted, but no proof of an assassination has ever been verified.
Another high-profile disappearance involved Gary Frank Sotherden, who vanished in 1976 on a trip in the Alaskan wilderness.
After a skull was found in 1997, investigators were finally able to identify it as Sotherden’s in 2022, concluding that he most likely died in a bear attack.
A Cessna containing politicians Thomas Hale Boggs Sr and Nick Begich vanished in the Alaska Triangle in 1972
Alaska has a disappearance rate more than double the national average, leading some to theorize that electromagnetic energy here (and in Michigan) might be causing the crashes and disappearances.
Others have suggested the involvement of UFOs or even aggressive Bigfoot-type creatures roaming the areas.
However, more skeptical observers suggested that the high rate of disappearances in Alaska is due to missing and murdered indigenous women or due to the harsh landscape of Alaska itself.
