Did you know Alaska has double the national missing persons rate ~ and a military plane carrying 40 people once vanished there without a single piece of wreckage ever found? ...We looked into it.

Welcome to Valid Source? ~ the podcast where we investigate the internet myths, viral claims, and trending gossip you've been thinking about but haven't had time to research. We're not experts. We're just two friends willing to do the extra digging.

This episode: Ashley and Harley dive into the Alaska Triangle ~ a 200,000+ square mile stretch of wilderness between Anchorage, Juneau, and Utqiaġvik where planes vanish, hikers lose their minds (literally, thanks to geomagnetic fields), and the missing persons rate is double the national average. Harley went full obsessive-researcher mode and listened to two whole podcasts on the subject, because of course she did. The girls work through the big historical cases ~ a Cold War-era military plane carrying around 40 people that simply ceased to exist, and a 1972 Cessna that disappeared with a sitting US Congressman and the House Majority Leader aboard, triggering one of the largest search and rescue operation in history and ultimately changing aviation law forever.

From Soviet hijack theories to Bigfoot-adjacent Otterman sightings, they try to ride the line between logical explanations and full conspiracy. Ashley made the connection, Harley can't believe it held together! The episode wraps with a Secret Lives of Mormon Wives debrief that somehow loops back to the Alaska Triangle in a way that has to be heard to be believed

Valid Source? verdict on the Alaska Triangle: the terrain, the weather, and the isolation explain a lot ~ but 16,000 missing people and zero wreckage on a military plane is the kind of math that makes you want to stay home and never hike again.

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