Chilling reality of deadly ‘Alaska Triangle' that’s been the site of 20,000 disappearances

Scientists have solved what gives the Bermuda Triangle its unique blend of mystery which has led several people to go missing without an apparent trace in it.

A number of planes and ships have gone missing in there without ever coming back out again, though on the bright side a huge number of aircraft and boats have moved through this mysterious space over the years and been completely fine.

However, various scientists reckon they've cracked the reason, as University of Southampton oceanographer Simon Boxall suggested 'a potentially deadly formation of rogue waves' occurs within the Bermuda Triangle which could scupper ships.

There are also a high number of hurricanes in the area and a slight magnetic anomaly could have interfered with aircraft.

A study from 2013 pulled back the curtain on the mystery and reached the verdict that there essentially isn't one, as the Bermuda triangle isn't statistically more dangerous than other normal shipping and aviation lanes around the world.

If you get stuck out here you're f**king screwed (Simon Bruty/Anychance/Getty Images)

While the Bermuda Triangle's reputation may be inflated far beyond the reality, over on the other side of the North American continent is a triangle with far more dangerous conditions.

This is the Alaska Triangle, and History Channel documentary History of the Alaskan triangle claims that 'thousands of people have vanished in recent decades without a trace', with some claims that as many as 20,000 people have gone missing there since 1970.

It's the space between Utqiagvik, Anchorage, and Juneau, which are very far away from each other and thus make for a really big triangle, with conditions in-between being particularly inhospitable to human life.

As much as people may wish to champion the cause of supernatural goings on, in this part of Alaska the temperatures are freezing and the visibility is poor so a wayward traveller could easily become swallowed up by the geography.

The Manual also warns that losing your way out here is possible as a person's compass could be inaccurate by as much as 30 degrees due to a phenomenon called declination, making it easy to head in the wrong direction in a part of the world where there's not many places for a person to take shelter from the elements.

The Alaska Triangle was first put on the map in 1972 when a plane with four people on board flying from Anchorage to Juneau went missing and was never found.

The elements themselves mean people who go missing and die out there are very difficult to find, with fresh layers of snow quickly burying evidence of them.

Attempting to find someone across such a large amount of space as the Alaska Triangle would be a herculean effort whether or not the weather was acting against search efforts or not.

Planes can crash in poor weather, hikers can get lost, and the snows keep falling over the last traces of their life.