Paranormal Sightings in Alaska
19 nightmarks documented
19 paranormal sightings in Alaska
Thunderbird of Alaska — giant Nanuq raptors stalk the Arctic from Utqiagvik to the Yukon
Since at least 1849, witnesses across Alaska have reported black birds with 14-foot wingspans. In 2002, residents of Togiak described one the size of a small plane.
Adak Island ghost base — paranormal activity at the abandoned Cold War naval station
The abandoned Cold War naval station on Aleutian Adak Island produces persistent ghost reports — 1950s-uniformed sailors in Building 501, a weeping woman in the chapel.
Mount Hayes electromagnetic anomaly — the 'pyramid' beneath the Alaska Range
Seismic reflections from a 1992 Chinese nuclear test are said to show a pyramidal structure beneath the Alaska Range, west of Mount Hayes. The DOD denies its existence.
Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 UFO encounter — the mothership that tracked a 747 over Alaska (1986)
On November 17, 1986, a JAL 747 cargo jet was shadowed for 50 minutes over Alaska by two walnut-shaped craft and a carrier-sized 'mothership' — confirmed on FAA radar.
Japan Airlines Flight 1628 — giant 'walnut' craft shadows 747 over Alaska (1986)
A JAL cargo 747 captained by Kenju Terauchi was shadowed for 30 minutes over Alaska by a walnut-shaped mothership on Nov 17, 1986 — confirmed on FAA and military radar.
Disappearance of Hale Boggs and Nick Begich — the Cessna 310 that vanished over Alaska (1972)
On October 16, 1972, a Cessna carrying House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Rep. Nick Begich vanished en route to Juneau. The largest air search in U.S. history found nothing.
Unidentified object observed at Cold Bay AFS on the Aleutian Islands, Alaska (1966)
An unknown at the edge of America — Cold Bay's Aleutian outpost faced the Soviet Union across the Bering Sea.
Bright object observed over Palmer in Alaska's Matanuska Valley (1962)
A bright unknown over Alaska's Matanuska Valley — where NORAD's forward sentinels watched for Soviet threats across the Bering Strait.
Unidentified object observed near DEW Line station at Kotzebue, Alaska (1962)
An unknown at an Arctic DEW Line station — where the Cold War's first line of nuclear defense couldn't identify what it detected.
The Alaska Triangle — 20,000 vanished in an unexplained vortex of the last frontier
Since 1959, more than 20,000 people have vanished inside a 200,000-square-mile zone of Alaska — including U.S. Representatives Boggs and Begich in 1972.
Unidentified object observed at Ladd AFB near Fairbanks, Alaska (1952)
An unknown at Ladd AFB near the Arctic Circle — 100 miles from constant darkness and the Soviet frontier across the Bering Strait.
Second Blue Book unknown at Ladd AFB near the Arctic Circle, Alaska (1951)
Ladd AFB's second unknown — the Arctic staging base near Fairbanks failed to identify objects twice in extreme polar conditions.
Unidentified object observed over Alaska by military personnel (1950)
An unknown over Alaska — America's closest territory to the Soviet Union, where polar darkness hid everything except this.
Portlock — the Alaska ghost town abandoned after a cryptid began killing residents (1949)
By 1950, residents of Portlock, Alaska fled the village after a decade of deaths they blamed on Nantiinaq, the Alutiiq 'Hairy Man.' The cannery ruins still stand.
Iliamna Lake Monster — the giant unidentified creatures of Alaska's largest lake
Alaska's largest lake harbors a dark, 30-foot creature documented in bush-pilot sightings since the 1940s. Audubon offered $100,000 for proof; still unclaimed.
Anjikuni Lake equivalent — the vanished village of Nunivak Island (1930)
In 1930, a fur-trapper arrived at a Yup'ik fishing camp on Nunivak Island to find fires still burning, fish drying — and all 30 residents vanished without trace.
The Ketchikan Bigfoot photographs — Southeast Alaska Sasquatch encounters
From Ketchikan north to Yakutat, more than 40 Sasquatch reports have accumulated since 1920, backed by Tlingit and Haida oral tradition and trapper sightings.
Kushtaka — the Tlingit otter-men who steal souls along Alaska's Inside Passage
Tlingit shapeshifters of Southeast Alaska that lure travelers from canoes and glaciers, transforming them into otter-men. Thomas Bay is the most-reported territory.
Tizheruk — the sea-serpent of the Bering Strait
Iñupiat sea-serpent of the Bering Strait — 15-20 feet long, with a single tail flipper. Credited with dragging ice-edge hunters below since the early 1900s.