Chapter 1: What mysterious events surround the Nevada Triangle?
October 2008, Preston Morrow and his dog are hiking near Mammoth Lakes, California. Looking up the beautiful mountain trail, they spot something odd, a wad of $100 bills. Preston counts $1,000. Next to it, ID cards, all belonging to Steve Fawcett. Preston tries to return his find. Maybe this Steve Fawcett guy is nearby.
On second thought, the name actually sounds familiar, but Preston doesn't find any local hikers with that name. He tells the authorities, they say Steve Fawcett vanished a year ago without a trace. until now. Fawcett's disappearance made headlines. He set off for a leisurely solo flight in Nevada and never returned. The largest search mission in United States history couldn't find him.
But after Preston found the IDs, a new search recovered pieces of Fawcett's plane and even two bones. Why weren't they found before? It's not like authorities didn't scour this area. They flew over it 20 times. The answer may lie in the location. A metaphysical conundrum where 2,000 people, hikers and pilots, vanished into thin air.
Sometimes, like with Fawcett, evidence suddenly pops back into existence. The ones that remain missing, however, they may be trapped in Area 51, the Land of the Dead, or even in a time warp. all of which are said to be within the Nevada Triangle. Welcome to Conspiracy Theories, a Spotify podcast. I'm Carter Roy. New episodes come out every Wednesday.
We'd love to hear from you, so if you're listening on the Spotify app, swipe up and give us your thoughts or check us out on Instagram at TheConspiracyPod. Stay with us. September 3rd, 2007, Steve Fawcett entered his sleek single-engine plane, the Belonka Super Decathlon, the aircraft equivalent to a millionaire's Bugatti, a billionaire in Fawcett's case.
When the 63-year-old wasn't making a fortune in finance, he ruled the skies. He was the first to complete a solo global flight around the world in a balloon. Then he was the first to do it in a plane without stopping to refuel. In February 2006, Guinness awarded him another record, the world's longest nonstop flight. That one wasn't easy.
He flew nonstop for 76 hours, only sleeping for 10 minutes at a time. During the nearly 26,400 mile flight, not only did his fuel tank leak, but his ventilation system broke. He unexpectedly had to burn through his water supply to cope with the resulting 130 degree cockpit.
During landing, the plane's tires burst hitting the runway, but Steve still walked out of the aircraft safe and sound. Suffice it to say, once Steve was in the sky, he fought immeasurable odds to stay there.
Despite his skill, he usually wore his Breitling emergency watch while flying. It's a consumer wristwatch that contains a small transmitter that can pinpoint your location in the case of, say, a plane crash. But on this fateful September day, he did not wear his watch. He likely didn't think he'd need the Breitling for this flight. It wasn't one of his death-defying stunts.
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Chapter 2: Who was Steve Fawcett and what happened during his flight?
Luckily, he ejected himself before it fell out of the skies. Unluckily, when he landed, he sprained both his ankles. With no way to call for help, Steeves had to crawl throughout Kings Canyon for 15 days. He found an abandoned cabin with some leftover food and hunting supplies. Thanks to those, he was able to survive until he was strong enough to leave and find those campers.
A heroic tale that the U.S. Air Force found fishy. when David's plane never turned up. They accused him of selling it to enemy forces. Due to a lack of proof, he was never charged. However, he was forever deemed a traitor. He spent the rest of his life looking for the T-33 wreckage to clear his name until he died in 1965. in a plane crash.
Steve's might still be considered a traitor if it weren't for some Boy Scouts in 1977. They found his cockpit while hiking around Kings Canyon. Now, that's just the cockpit. As for the rest of the plane? We couldn't find any reports that it was ever found or identified. One more while we're at it, even stranger than the last.
In 1941, Lieutenant Leonard C. Lydon was flying over the Nevada Triangle. A malfunction compelled him to parachute out of his aircraft. As he soared down to safety, he watched his plane go down into Kings Canyon National Park. He knew where it landed. But when he or officials went to that spot to retrieve the plane, it was gone. never to be seen again.
So these aircraft either disappeared for years, like Steve Fawcett's plane, or they vanished for good. Now, sure, maybe animals could have dragged Fawcett's remains around the Nevada Triangle, but they probably wouldn't do that with crashed planes. They can't exactly eat metal. So where do all of these disappeared planes go?
Why do some suddenly appear even after thorough and professional searches deem them lost? Some believe it's because smaller aircraft can't handle the area's high winds. extremely high winds, up to 400 miles per hour. One professor at the Desert Research Institute has said, quote, trying to fly over the Nevada Triangle in a small plane is like trying to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
And once they crash, the mountains and wild vegetation essentially hide the planes from rescuers. However, that explanation is a bit too convenient. It doesn't explain why experienced daredevil pilots like Fawcett can't seem to escape. Plus, what about the military men? They were in advanced fighter jets, not small hobbyist aircraft.
And then there's the Nevada Triangle's neighbor throwing a wrinkle into any logical explanation. Area 51. The Nevada Triangle is a 25,000-square-mile zone marked by the cities Fresno, Las Vegas, and Reno. Within it are vast, rugged, beautiful terrains like the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Yosemite, and Kings Canyon National Parks.
Scattered across these landmarks is something just as jaw-dropping, but for the wrong reasons. 2,000 mysterious disappearances and plane crashes. And that number may be a bit conservative. Though, is it the triangle's fault? Or are these planes actually being brought down by something else? Like whatever lies in Area 51.
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Chapter 3: What was the significance of the search for Steve Fawcett?
After eight miles, Graves ended the car chase. He stopped, exited his car, and was shot dead by the sheriff. In a wrongful death suit, Graves' mother insisted he may not have even known why he was being chased. As of 2025, no verdict has been publicly announced, We know that Graves did not have a weapon and his car was low on gas.
Was he really trying to storm the secret base unarmed in a car running on empty? Or was this road rage gone wrong? It doesn't seem like the guards asked questions before they fired. And maybe they didn't ask questions if YouTuber Kenny Veach got a little too close to Area 51. Or if aviator Steve Fawcett was flying overhead. Though in Kenny's case, there's another theory.
The caves he went exploring may lead to somewhere even more elusive than a military base. the land of the dead. You see, there's a Paiute legend surrounding Death Valley. Yes, that's the California desert, not Nevada, but stay with me. The tale talks of a widowed chief who missed his late wife so much, he decided to try to bring her back from the afterlife.
With the help of spirit guides, he found a large underground cave system that led him to Nirvana. He entered the afterlife to find a city with meadows, a dance hall, and a princess. She warned him to bring his wife back to the land of the living. They'd both have to run out of the spirit world without looking back.
Once the chief found his wife, they rushed to the cave between worlds, but the chief looked back. Suddenly, the city and his wife vanished. He was alone. He later recounted the journey to his tribe and named the afterlife Shinaoav, roughly translated to Ghost Land. It's a myth, but not everyone thinks so.
During the 1920s to 40s, modern accounts of an underground Death Valley city started to emerge. One man digging a mine shaft claimed he fell into it after the ground gave way. He saw catacombs adorned with gold and eight foot tall mummies in modern leather suits. Other people reported similar caves, and some even encountered living people speaking an unknown language.
The tunnels reportedly stretched across Death Valley and into other parts of Nevada, into the Nevada Triangle. A few expeditions were launched, but nothing could be entirely confirmed. Still, there's a chance Kenny and others who went missing in the Nevada Triangle found this underground society and either they decided to stay there or weren't allowed to come back.
But there's one more explanation for why the people who disappear into the Nevada Triangle are so hard to find. and why those eight planes were found before anyone even knew they were missing. The planes weren't hidden by rocks or vegetation, but by time itself. I'm sorry, what was that, Carter? Well, bear with me here. It sounds wild, but some of these dots really connect.
Okay, so back in November 1989, a Las Vegas news station aired an interview that changed UFO lore forever. Scientist Bob Lazar claimed to have worked in a secret Area 51 lab. This lab, S4, reportedly housed nine flying saucers from outer space. His job was to reverse engineer these craft, take its advanced technology, figure out how it worked, and implement it into U.S. planes.
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Chapter 4: Why do so many people and planes go missing in the Nevada Triangle?
There are multiple accounts on the other end of the Nevada Triangle in Yosemite National Park. Yosemite is a beautiful wilderness area, about 1200 square miles of famous waterfalls, giant trees, and mountains over 13,000 feet, almost as high as Colorado's famous 14ers, and plenty of areas for people to go missing.
One of the most well-documented disappearances in Yosemite is the case of Jean Hesselschwert. In 1995, she and her boyfriend were on a hike and split off to different trails. This was the last time her boyfriend saw her alive. When he went back to meet up with her, she wasn't there or anywhere. A massive search ensued. Like Kenny, search dogs were unable to pick up Jean's scent. She was gone.
Until months later, when fishermen saw a body floating down one of Yosemite's creeks. It was Jean. The thing is, this was three miles away from where she disappeared. In an area that was inaccessible for amateur hikers like her, no one understood how her body got there.
One park spokesperson even said that the creek is fairly choked with debris, so it didn't make sense for the water to carry her to this spot. And bear with me here because the explanation that's been offered gets weird. Hikers in Yosemite report seeing something big in the skies. Something that doesn't belong. Not a UFO, but a large winged creature.
Something that looks remarkably like a pterodactyl. Yep, I said it. In the documentary, Mysteries at the National Parks, researcher Jonathan Whitcomb suggested that a pterodactyl slipped through time, picked up Jean, and then dropped her into the hard-to-hike area, killing her. And theorists think she's not the only victim. The creature could cause the plane crashes too.
If 2022's Jurassic World Dominion is any indication, a pterodactyl could attack a plane's engines, sending it into the mountainside. Now, that's Hollywood, but if we're accepting a time-traveling dinosaur, well, the theory's going full sci-fi. I mean, dinosaurs attacking planes, slipping into our timeline and picking hikers off like prey, aircraft sliding through
through the doors of time, disappearing from the modern day, then snapping back into it later? Oh, probably not likely. But then what happened to Gene? What happened to Steve Fawcett? Something strange is happening. Something that causes people or their planes to vanish in one location and reappear after a couple of years in another, even though those areas were thoroughly searched.
The dots are a bit out there, but you have to admit, they line up as well as anything else. At the end of the day, the Nevada Triangle is a bizarre, dangerous area that even the most experienced people never come out of. Maybe a supernatural, time-traveling, alien-fueled explanation brings comfort to the ones left behind.
Because some people, like Lieutenant Steves, do reappear alive and well after falling victim to the odd vortex. The evidence that something paranormal is going on, something that they can potentially survive, is better than them being lost forever in a terrible accident. And if you're fascinated by these strange metaphysical mysteries, you may be compelled to investigate, but be careful.
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