WILLIAM SHATNER: An area in the North Atlantic
where ships vanish into thin air.
A mountain range in the Nevada desert
in which planes enter but never return.
And a notorious region of the Alaskan wilderness
that may contain a portal to another world.
We've all heard of the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
But the truth is that there are numerous places
all over the world where ships, planes,
and people enter, and then...
...just disappear.
But why?
Do these locations defy the laws of physics?
Do they possess evil energy?
Or is it possible that there are some places on Earth
that we are simply not meant to go?
Well, that is what we'll try and find out.
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SHATNER: In the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean
lies a region where numerous ships and airplanes
have inexplicably disappeared.
Although this notorious area cannot be found
on any official map,
it has come to be known all over the world
as the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle's approximately
500,000 square miles of water
between Bermuda, Miami, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In the area, planes will crash,
ships will go missing.
It's just absolute bedlam.
The Bermuda Triangle is seen as a mysterious place
just because it's so big and vast,
and lots of interesting things happen there.
It is very strange that you have many ships lost there,
and airplanes just went missing with no explanation for it.
Is that a coincidence, or is there something
nefarious at work?
SHATNER: One of the noteworthy incidents that took place
in the Bermuda Triangle is the disappearance
of the USS Cyclops.
In March of 1917, the massive cargo vessel,
which had a crew of 306 seamen,
was navigating through the Triangle
when it mysteriously went missing.
No wreckage or bodies were ever found,
and over the years, there have been hundreds
of other seemingly bizarre vanishings
in this area that have baffled experts.
The Bermuda Triangle is one of the great mysteries
in modern history.
Now, of course, hundreds of theories
have been proposed.
The first logical theory is the weather.
Maybe there was a sudden hurricane
that came out of nowhere.
Perhaps these jets and these ships
lost their way, and perhaps that's the reason
why all hands were lost.
That's a possibility.
-(thunder crashing) -But when there are things
that are difficult to solve,
at that point people say, "Aha!
"There must be something there beyond science
that's making this happen."
SHATNER: Is it possible that science
cannot explain some of the disappearances
that haven taken place within the Bermuda Triangle?
There are those who believe that the answer is yes.
And as evidence, they point to perhaps
the most infamous mass disappearance
that has taken place there to date.
Five Navy torpedo bombers,
collectively known as Flight 19,
take off for what is supposed to be a routine training mission
over the Atlantic Ocean.
RICKSECKER: They took off due east from Fort Lauderdale
into the Bermuda Triangle.
After they reached their first stop on the run,
they turned north.
And that's when things started to get crazy.
Their compasses started acting strange,
and the crew started getting really confused
about what was going on.
One of the pilots actually thought
that they may have been over the Florida Keys,
which was nowhere near where they were supposed to be.
SHATNER: For over four hours, ground control
stayed in close radio contact with the pilots
as they tried to find their bearings.
BENJAMIN RADFORD: Flight 19 was led by Commander Charles Taylor,
and the problem was that Taylor didn't know where he was.
And not only was his compass malfunctioning,
it was getting dark.
And so you can sort of look at Flight 19
as sort of the perfect storm of bad things happening.
SHATNER: At about 6:30 p.m., the planes
ominously dropped off radar.
The Navy immediately launched a search and rescue operation,
but curiously, no wreckage was ever found.
All five planes vanished without a trace.
RICKSECKER: The pilots were never heard from again.
Nothing has ever been found that'd been lost.
Almost equally bizarre
was that one of the search and rescue planes
went missing as well.
About two hours after takeoff, a Mariner floating plane
lost contact with the base.
Another one of the search and rescue planes
came to take a look at the area
and found nothing.
This search and rescue plane was completely missing.
SHATNER: All told, 27 airmen disappeared
in the Flight 19 incident.
But how is it possible that so many Navy pilots
experienced malfunctions with their compasses
that caused them to become lost
and ultimately crash?
Perhaps the answer can be found by examining reports
of not only bizarre vanishings
but also other kinds of strange occurrences
that have taken place in the Bermuda Triangle
for centuries.
Our first reports of strange phenomena
in the Bermuda Triangle actually came
from Christopher Columbus in 1492.
One night when they were journeying through the area,
he noticed these unusual dancing lights across the water
that he described as small wax candles
that would rise and lower across the night sky.
Columbus kept copious diary notes,
and these state that he couldn't understand
the strange lights going up and down.
But beyond that, he reported that his compass
started spinning wildly.
This was something extremely unusual.
SHATNER: Curiously, Christopher Columbus
is not the only famous navigator
to witness inexplicable activity in the Bermuda Triangle.
In 1928, pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh
had a similarly baffling experience.
Charles Lindbergh was on a nonstop flight
between Havana in Cuba
and St. Louis in Missouri.
And over the Florida Straits,
he suddenly encountered this very strange haze
that surrounded the aircraft.
And he thought, "Well, okay, if I climb higher,
I should be able to lose it."
But it seemed to follow him.
He couldn't see anything around him at all.
At the same time, his compass started spinning wildly.
And this continued for hours
until finally the haze started to disappear
and he could see beneath him the Bahamas.
And he knew at this point
that he was now around 300 miles off course.
So, obviously, he recorrected himself
and finished his journey.
But it would definitely seem as if Charles Lindbergh
did experience the same type of phenomena
which could well have been behind the disappearance
of a number of planes in the Bermuda Triangle.
SHATNER: Do the anomalies witnessed
by both Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindbergh
suggest that unusual phenomena may be responsible
for causing airplanes and ships to disappear
in the Bermuda Triangle?
And is it possible that science does not have all the answers
when it comes to what happens in this area, as some believe?
The fact that there have been scores
of rather mysterious disappearances...
...with all hands on board just disappearing
off the face of the Earth,
it means that it's possible
that perhaps none of these disappearances
will ever be adequately explained.
And so there is a chance that 100 years from now,
we'll still be debating what happens
in the Bermuda Triangle.
Are the strange incidents that happen
in the Bermuda Triangle just freak accidents?
Or could there be stranger forces at play,
as many people believe?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining several mysterious disappearances
that have occurred in the heart of the United States.
SHATNER: On a bright, clear morning in this small desert town,
billionaire adventurer and pilot Steve Fossett
takes off for a scenic flight...
...and is never heard from again.
PAULIDES: Fossett should have been back
within about two hours.
He didn't come back.
The airport called search and rescue,
and what encompassed was the biggest search
for an aircraft in Nevada of all time.
It went on for days.
MAN: We've got 200 people looking.
We haven't just hit these areas once,
we have flown over 'em two, three, four times
with different type of aircraft at different altitudes.
And then, on top of that,
it wasn't just the people in the air,
it wasn't just the ground-pounders,
but there was also people at home that were looking.
There were thousands of people online
that were looking at Google Earth,
trying to see if they could find some remnants or a crash site.
In essence, they threw every imaginable resource
into finding Steve Fossett.
SHATNER: Federal investigators leading the search
for Steve Fossett were baffled by his disappearance
because he was a highly experienced pilot.
Steve Fossett had set some 91 aviation records,
including being the first person to circumnavigate the globe
in an airplane solo without refueling.
So that's why when he went off on that day
in an airplane and disappeared, people were shocked,
because this is not something you expect
from somebody like Steve Fossett.
PAULIDES: During the search for Mr. Fossett,
the searchers came across a multitude
of other planes that had crashed.
Some they knew about, a few they didn't.
But what it tells you is the quality of the search
they made for him.
It was intensive, and they weren't finding him.
SHATNER: After a month of investigation,
authorities stopped the search for Steve Fossett.
And then, in February of 2008,
Fossett was declared legally dead,
even though both he and his plane
were still missing.
But what could have caused such a highly skilled pilot
to seemingly disappear off the face of the Earth?
There are those who believe the answer is tied to the fact
that Fossett was flying in what is known
as the Nevada Triangle.
MORENO: The Nevada Triangle, it goes from Reno
down to Las Vegas,
and then over to Fresno, and it's on the edge
of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
And the reason that it's known as the Nevada Triangle
is that some 2,000 mostly small aircraft
have crashed within that zone in the last 60 years.
It's seen as this kind of Bermuda Triangle
of the Sierra Nevada.
SHATNER: While the Bermuda Triangle
may be better known, the Nevada Triangle
is actually far more deadly.
On average, nearly three planes go missing
in this mysterious area every month.
MORENO: One of the earliest planes that disappeared
in the Nevada Triangle was from a flight
taken by a man named by Charles Ogle.
And Ogle, like Fossett, was a successful businessman
and a veteran pilot.
And so, for him to disappear on a routine flight
was out of the ordinary.
But he did, and his plane is still out there somewhere.
So, that's still a mystery of the Nevada Triangle
that hasn't been resolved.
Another famous story of an airplane
that crashed in the triangle was a B-24 Liberator.
It was 1943, and this B-24
took off from Fresno, reported in a few times,
and then just kind of suddenly disappeared.
And so the U.S. military
immediately sent out nine more B-24s
to do searches.
And then another one disappeared.
And so it became part of the legend
of the Nevada Triangle, is you have two B-24s,
these big lumbering planes that are, you know,
supposed to drop bombs on places, et cetera,
and they both go down in the mountains
somewhere between the Nevada-California border.
SHATNER: What is going on in the Nevada Triangle
that is causing so many planes to disappear?
Perhaps the answer can be found by taking a closer look
at the Steve Fossett case,
because two years after Fossett's plane vanished,
it then seemed to inexplicably reappear.
In October of 2008, there's a hiker
out in the Mammoth Mountains area
walking with his dog, and he finds
$1,000 in $100 bills
and thinks that's kind of interesting and unusual.
But also he found the pilot's license.
He started to look at the license,
and he realized, "Wait, this is that guy
that was missing."
So he took it to the local authorities,
and then they mount a new search of that area
and they start finding other things.
They find the engine of the plane,
and they find a tail section with the number on it
which clearly identifies it as the airplane.
Also, they find a pair of sneakers
and a couple of bones.
So, they take the bones, they do DNA on 'em,
and it turns out that it is the remains of Steve Fossett.
PAULIDES: The intriguing part about this
is that several articles at the time
stated that aircraft had flown over the location
where he was found 19 times.
And somehow the wreckage was missed.
Also, people on the ground, when they recovered his remains
and the aircraft, stated that there was even a small fire
on the ground in close proximity to where all of this happened.
Discoloration of the associated foliage
would have been unusual and something to look at
by the people in the air.
And so I don't have a rational explanation
how Steve Fossett's plane
was missed 19 times from the air.
COLLINS: How is it possible that all of these searches
missed this wreckage?
I mean, there is no obvious answer.
But we have to raise the question
of whether the wreckage was not there
during the intervening period,
and that Steve Fossett
encountered one of these mysterious anomalies
that we know to be associated
with the Bermuda and Nevada Triangle regions.
Steve Fossett's plane could have actually gone
into another dimension for a year
and then be ejected out of it back into our own reality.
PAULIDES: When you look at the Steve Fossett case
and you understand that normal search and rescue
is gonna find this pilot and the plane,
and somehow or another,
it didn't happen for over a year,
you have to ask yourself,
was it there or was it not?
SHATNER: Do mysterious anomalies within the Nevada Triangle
cause planes to disappear?
Perhaps. But many researchers believe
there is a much more powerful triangle
located in the American Midwest.
It's an area of Lake Michigan where thousands of ships
have gone missing and have never been found.
Steven Kubacki, a 23-year-old student
at nearby Hope College,
sets out for a day of cross-country skiing
along the shore of Lake Michigan.
But by nightfall it becomes clear
that Steven isn't going to return.
Steven Kubacki told his friends where he was going
and that he'd be back later that night.
When he didn't return, his friends called for help.
Search and rescue responded, and Michigan State Police
found his skis and a backpack on the beach of Lake Michigan.
And what happened is, is that the search and rescue
individuals found tracks going from the beach and the backpack
out onto the ice and ending.
It was a one-way track.
They searched for over a week.
They found no other evidence.
Everybody thinks Kubacki's dead.
Essentially, the case is closed.
SHATNER: The authorities concluded that Steven Kubacki
had fallen in the lake and drowned.
That is, until he mysteriously reappeared over a year later,
more than 600 miles away from where he was last seen.
PAULIDES: 14 months later, Steven wakes up
in Massachusetts approximately 20 miles from his dad's house.
He makes his way there,
and his parents are just floored.
They thought Steven was dead.
He has no idea how he got there,
and the last memory he said he had
was being on a very cold Lake Michigan.
So the million-dollar question is: what happened
from the time he was on Lake Michigan on a frozen lake
to the time he arrives in Massachusetts?
It's a scenario that's played out
hundreds and hundreds of times
on Lake Michigan on the shores.
People disappear.
They lose their memory,
and suddenly they appear someplace else.
They don't have any idea where they're at.
SHATNER: Steven Kubacki is just one of many people,
planes, and ships to have gone missing
in what is known as the Michigan Triangle.
TUTTLE: The Michigan Triangle is bordered
by Manitowoc, Wisconsin and Ludington, Michigan,
on the north side, and the southeast point
is the bottom of the state of Michigan.
In the Bermuda Triangle, things just go missing.
In the Michigan Triangle, strange things happen.
One ship went down in the Michigan Triangle
and it turned turtle, flipped upside down.
It was found upside down with none of the 11 crew on it.
PAULIDES: One of the most famous stories
from the Michigan Triangle is Flight 2501,
a Northwest Orient flight from New York to Seattle
back in 1950.
It flew over the lake, vanished,
and as advanced as technology is today with side-scan sonar,
they've gone up and down that lake
as recently as a year ago,
and they still cannot find that flight.
SHATNER: What could be causing the strange occurrences
within the Michigan Triangle?
Well, some researchers claim they are the result
of a geological phenomenon known as magnetotelluric current.
TRAVIS TAYLOR: The idea of telluric current
is the concept that planets will generate
certain locations that have
more electromagnetic anomalies than others.
And in these places, just below the surface
is actually a mixture of minerals and salts
and things in the ground that are conductive.
So there's an energy field
that travels certain paths around the Earth.
HUGH NEWMAN: Some people have suggested that inside
the Lake Michigan Triangle,
where people have had very strange disappearances,
strange anomalies, and many other things,
it could be some kind of geology mixed with Earth energies
and telluric currents that cause this.
And so we have to consider there could be something
much more profound going on there
than we currently realize.
SHATNER: Is the Michigan Triangle
affected by the energy of the Earth itself?
There are those who believe the answer is yes,
and as evidence they point to a curious discovery
that was made at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
COLLINS: In 2007, underwater archaeologist
Mark Holley of the Northwestern University
was diving in Lake Michigan.
He was looking for shipwrecks,
but he actually came across something quite different.
In 12 feet of water, he found a series
of standing stones
that seemed to form a circular pattern.
What was interesting is that amongst the stones
was what appeared to be this carving of an animal
known as a mastodon that actually disappeared
towards the end of the last ice age.
And so this stone structure must have been down there
for at least 10,000 years
before the lake took its final form
at the end of the last ice age.
SHATNER: The formation was dubbed the Michigan Stonehenge
due to its similarity
to the world-famous ancient monument
located in Wiltshire, England.
While we don't know specifically
what the Michigan Stonehenge was used for,
there are a lot of ideas about how other stone circles
around the globe, like Stonehenge,
the Rollright Stones, and Drombeg Circle,
were tapping into the telluric current
in the ground and harnessing that Earth energy
and these nodes of power.
COLLINS: Stone circles are found all over the world.
Often, the stone circles are placed very close
to where this strange phenomena can be seen.
And this is very likely the case
with what we have at Lake Michigan.
So we have to ask ourselves, what was this stone circle,
and how did it relate to the fact
that in the area around Lake Michigan, to this day,
there are a large number of disappearances
of planes and humans,
and is it possible that the two are linked?
The idea that electrical currents in the Earth
cause strange disappearances inside the Michigan Triangle
is certainly a provocative theory.
But something even more bizarre may be happening
in a region of the Alaskan wilderness,
where it is believed that people
cross over into another dimension.
SHATNER: Alaska-- here among the rugged mountains,
dense forests, and towering glaciers
lies a mysterious stretch of wilderness
where more than 16,000 people
have gone missing since 1988.
Locals refer to this area as the Alaska Triangle.
RICKSECKER: The Alaska Triangle stretches from Juneau
in the south to Anchorage in the middle,
all the way up to Utqiagvik
at the most northern point in Alaska.
Like other triangle areas of the world,
planes will crash, people will go missing.
But the Alaska Triangle seems to be more volatile
than other areas of the world.
PAULIDES: You have to remember that Alaska
has some of the most notoriously difficult terrain,
weather...
...and it has the highest number of private planes
anywhere in the United States.
So, in one sense it's not surprising
they have a number of people that go missing there.
In another sense it's quite fantastic
when you look at the stories behind the missing.
In January 1950, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster
taking off from Elmendorf Air Force Base
was headed toward Montana.
It was a beautiful day, only a few clouds in the sky,
yet just as it passed over into Yukon Territory,
the Air Force lost complete radio contact with it.
Both United States and Canadian military forces teamed up,
about 7,000 personnel scanning 350,000 square miles
of territory for this missing airplane,
and couldn't find a thing.
But what's even stranger is, just two weeks later,
a smaller plane went down in the same area.
They were able to find that immediately.
Yet the larger airplane, the Skymaster,
they've never been able to find a thing.
It completely disappeared.
PAULIDES: When you look at the Alaska Triangle,
one of the few times a search and rescue person
has ever disappeared was an individual
named Gerald DeBerry.
And he was on a search outside of Fairbanks,
and he was on an ATV,
and he never showed back up after the search.
The Alaska State Troopers bring K-9s in,
the K-9s can't find a scent.
They bring professional trackers in,
they can't find tracks.
And strangely, they couldn't find the ATV.
It was a year later, a hiker finds the ATV,
engine's turned off,
and the Alaska State Troopers went in
and did another massive search.
He's never been found.
SHATNER: The number of people that are reported missing
in Alaska every year is twice as high
as the national average.
But can all of these disappearances
be explained by Alaska's unforgiving wilderness?
It's possible, but there are those who believe
that something more extraordinary
may be taking place.
And as evidence, they point to stories
in local folklore that describe strange creatures
suddenly appearing out of thin air.
Alaska's an area where there are many unknowns,
many mysteries.
And there are very common stories
of what you might call monsters in the lake.
One of the very compelling examples
actually comes from the Kenia Peninsula,
on the southern part of it.
There's an abandoned town called Portlock.
It was a cannery town, a very successful one early on.
But it started getting terrorized
by a monster.
So, this monster would attack people,
kill people, to the point where, by 1950,
the entire town was abandoned.
This creature was identified as the Nantinaq.
Nantinaq can be thought of very much
in the sort of wider tradition of bigfoot or Sasquatch,
somewhere on the slippery slope between man and creature.
NEWMAN: Some people have suggested
that these are entities that live between worlds,
that they come through portals,
and they return back through portals.
What this world is that they come from, we don't know,
but they're rarely seen.
They often disappear into thin air.
So there is a good chance that it's not just that people
get lost in the wilderness.
But actually they're being transported
with these beings to other realms.
SHATNER: Could strange creatures really be traveling
to the Alaska Triangle from other realms?
While such an idea may sound like a far-fetched fantasy,
many researchers claim that it's entirely possible.
Because scientists have discovered
that there are numerous geological anomalies
found throughout this mysterious area.
The land in Alaska is extremely volatile.
The U.S. Department of the Interior
did a geological survey in the area
and discovered negative magnetic anomalies
that are prevalent in the area.
They can wreak havoc with guidance systems,
compasses, all kinds of electronic equipment
that can cause planes and other vessels
to go missing or crash.
And there are theories that these anomalies
can spawn portals,
these doorways into other dimensions.
SHATNER: While geological activity in Alaska
is known to cause magnetic anomalies,
could it also be creating portals in this area,
as some believe?
At the moment, we can't say for sure.
But one thing is certain--
hundreds, if not thousands, of people
continue to mysteriously disappear in the Alaska Triangle
every year.
As strange as it seems, there are those
who are convinced that energy portals
are actually responsible for many disappearances
in the Alaska Triangle, and some researchers claim
that there could be an entire network
of these interdimensional hotspots all over the world.
SHATNER: A Japanese research vessel named Kaiyo Maru No. 5
leaves harbor to conduct scientific tests
of the ocean floor.
But shortly into the voyage,
the Japanese Navy orders the ship to help
investigate reports of numerous fishing boats
going missing in the ocean just south of mainland Japan.
The Japanese government sent out nine scientists
and 22 other crew members on Kaiyo Maru No. 5
to discover what was happening to these missing vessels.
But within a couple hours,
all contact with the ship was lost,
and all they ever found of their investigative vessel
were some remnants of the ship floating in the water.
No bodies were ever found.
COLLINS: When the Kaiyo Maru No. 5
went missing without a trace in the very same area,
this convinced the Japanese government
that this region was so dangerous to ship in
that it should be avoided at all costs.
SHATNER: Technically, the area of the Pacific Ocean
located directly south of Japan
is referred to as the Philippine Sea.
But for centuries it has been known
by another, more infamous nickname--
the Dragon's Triangle.
The Dragon's Triangle, also known as the Devil's Sea,
is an area between Japan in the north,
the Philippines in the south,
and the island of Guam in the east,
and it's somewhere that for many hundreds of years
has been considered one of the most dangerous places
on Earth.
KAKU: There's mythology about the Dragon's Triangle
going back to the year 1275,
when the Mongol hordes invaded Japan.
At that point, it looks as if Japan
was gonna be overwhelmed by the Mongols.
But then a tremendous wind destroyed the fleet
of the Mongols, and the Japanese
called it God's Wind...
...because it destroyed the Mongol fleet
about to invade Japan.
Perhaps it was nothing more than typhoons
that suddenly erupted, drowning ships.
But some people think that perhaps
all the disappearing of the ships
is due to some mysterious spirit of some sort.
And so this is a matter of legend
that goes back thousands of years.
SHATNER: Is the Dragon's Triangle
merely the site of powerful typhoons
that cause ships to sink?
Or could there be something far more incredible going on?
Perhaps the answer can be found by examining a theory
which suggests that the Dragon's Triangle
is directly connected
to other mysterious triangular regions
around the globe.
NEWMAN: In 1972, Ivan T. Sanderson,
who was a biologist and author, produced a paper called
"The 12 Devil's Graveyards Around the World."
And this caused a sensation because he noted
that places like the Bermuda Triangle
and the Dragon's Triangle, or the Devil's Sea,
were part of this global system marking ten points
on the surface of the Earth
where strange occurrences kept happening.
COLLINS: Sanderson predicted that the Earth
was covered by a series of what he referred to
as "vile vortices."
Five of these were located in a latitude
known as the Tropic of Cancer on the north of the Equator,
and five of them were to the south of the Equator
on the Tropic of Capricorn.
And the remaining two
were at the North Pole and the South Pole.
And these were locations around the world
where there were disappearances of vessels
and other strange occurrences on a regular basis.
SHATNER: Many researchers find Ivan T. Sanderson's theory
to be compelling,
even if not every mysterious triangular area
reported to exist on the planet
is located in a vile vortice.
And they claim that the pattern he discovered
suggests that the disappearances within these areas
may be due to vast global forces.
When we're looking at these locations
of these triangles that are placed
at specific points around the planet,
we are looking at things like gravitational anomalies,
instrument malfunctions,
magnetic anomalies,
and many other strange occurrences,
all within these specific triangles.
So we have to question, is there a deeper mystery here
that we don't yet fully understand?
If pockets of unstable energy
are causing bizarre vanishings around the globe,
then it naturally begs the question,
what could be powering them?
Well, according to one extraordinary theory,
the source may be an enormous crystal
embedded within the Earth.
SHATNER: Bermuda, Michigan,
Nevada, Alaska, Japan--
countless ships, planes, and lives
have been lost in these areas.
So many, in fact, that some people
refer to them collectively as the Devil's Triangles.
Is it possible that all of these areas
are somehow connected, as many researchers believe?
Perhaps a clue can be found with a theory
which proposes that the nature of the Earth itself
may be far different from what we commonly think.
DAVID STEVENSON: There is a theory that the Earth
early in its history had a core
that was completely liquid but was cooling.
And as it cools, there would come a point
where the center of the Earth would crystallize.
And if you keep growing that crystal,
it's very likely to become polycrystalline,
meaning that there's lots of crystals.
And so, over a period of billions of years,
you end up with something that is a solid
in a region of the Earth consisting of many crystals.
MICHAEL DENNIN: When you're looking at the center
of the Earth being a crystal,
crystals have facets on their surface.
And, really, crystals are also known
for storing energy,
and their different facets and points
will have different levels of energy.
This is certainly part of why we have anomalies
on the Earth's surface, and why they vary
around the surface of the Earth.
SHATNER: Is the center of the Earth
really a giant crystal filled with energy?
According to some scientists, it's a distinct possibility.
And there are those who believe that if the Earth
really has a crystal core,
it might explain why some areas of the planet
are home to mysterious disappearances
and strange phenomena.
NEWMAN: In the early 1970s, three Russian scientists
produced a paper called "Is the Earth a Large Crystal?"
They believed that this angular crystal
could have actually been at the center of the Earth,
and they believed that the energetic signatures
of the points of this crystal could be witnessed energetically
and noted on the Earth's surface.
SHATNER: Incredibly, the study revealed
that the points of the hypothetical crystal
aligned with many of the so-called Devil's Triangles
around the globe.
It would seem that electromagnetic phenomena
is present that seems to mark out this grid,
and that it is at such locations
where these disappearances and vanishes occur,
and therefore they are seen as dangerous locations,
places where human beings, where human life can be lost.
We need to get to grips with these ideas
if ever we want to start understanding
the disappearances and crashes and similar incidents
taking place in such places.
So, what do you think?
Are there strange forces on our planet
that cause people to simply vanish without a trace?
It's a hard concept to prove, but what's undeniable
is that certain areas seem to swallow up
those who enter them.
And so, until science can provide us
with more answers, it's probably best
to avoid these mysterious places
and allow them to remain...
...unexplained.
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