ALASKA'S BERMUDA TRIANGLE OR LACK OF GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLITY?

I just learned about this, so please let me know if this is old news.
Alaska has the highest missing persons rate of any state. By as much as 16%. And the #1 state for congress peoples death or disappearence. Here is some news.

"It’s been a summer of disappearances in Alaska. In early June, Iditarod musher Melanie Gould went missing from her hometown of Talkeetna, vanished in the middle of the night. Her truck was found days later, at the end of a remote mining road, more than 100 miles from her home.

An extensive search with dogs and aircraft ensued, only to be called off a week later, with still no sign of Gould. There was no telling what had happened to her then, whether she had been in the woods for more than a week, or she’d gotten into another vehicle -- voluntarily or otherwise -- and was missing elsewhere.

And then, two days after the official search ended, she was unexpectedly found, alive. She came out of the woods, tired, hungry, and cold. Then she disappeared anyway, gone to live with family elsewhere, leaving behind many unanswered questions about her vanishing act, including a report that she had stayed away from the initial search effort despite hearing them in the woods."

"Whether it’s just a matter of succumbing to the wilderness or something more sinister, Alaska has played host to its fair share of disappearances over the years. In 1972, then-Congressman Nick Begich, the father of current Alaska senator and former Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich, disappeared while flying to Juneau from Anchorage. The plane was never found."

The vast emptiness of much of Alaska and its reputation as an end-of-the-road kind of place has contributed to many disappearances, and nowhere is this more evident than in the Alaska Missing Persons Clearinghouse.

A collection of people gone missing over the years in the Last Frontier, the clearinghouse is a collection of 80 photographs, and it’s eerie to look through these past disappearances -- all of them still unsolved -- like a Facebook for the vanished.

"There’s no rhyme or reason to the demographics of the missing people: they are male, female, young, old, black, white, Alaska Native, and otherwise. A few of the pictures are in black and white, despite their disappearances being fairly recent. Melanie Gould was listed in the database for a brief time before her reemergence from the woods."

Just check it out!