On May 27, 2020, 41-year-old Nathan Campbell rented a charter plane from Talkeetna to fly him to a small lake in the northwest corner of Denali National Park.
Along with some basic camping gear, Campbell brought a good supply of food, stored in plastic bins, and a two-way satellite communicator to check in on his wife and children. He planned to spend the next four months alone in the middle of the Alaskan interior.
Campbell had chosen a strange place for a summer vacation. The plane had dropped him off on the shores of Carey Lake, a mile-long bruise surrounded by hundreds of square miles of uninhabited wilderness, filled with some of Alaska’s harshest terrain.
If he wants to travel in any direction, he must fight his way through man-high alder thickets and waist-high beaver ponds. To reach the nearest town – Lake Minchumina, population 13 – would require a week of hellish forest walking on foot. If it was solitude Campbell was looking for, he certainly found it.
But Campbell wasn’t there for fun, he was on a mission. On the long flight from Talkeetna to Carey Lake, as the vast green carpet of the boreal forest drifted beneath them, the normally shy Campbell told his pilot Jason Sturgis how he planned to spend his summer.
Campbell had come to Carey Lake to search for something that until now only existed in the darkest, least updated corners of the Internet: the Black Pyramid, a gigantic underground structure said to be four times the size of the famous Cheops in Egypt. and thousands, if not millions of years old.
Conspiracy theorists claim that the structure is so powerful and its importance to national security that all traces of the pyramid – and the military base it would protect – have been erased from satellite images.
Although pilots, trappers and natives have traveled through the Carey Lake area for generations, a quick search through the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner archives reveals few references to a giant alien pyramid or a top-secret base in central Alaska. But then again, until Nathan Campbell showed up, no one had really looked for it. And his reasons for starting his quest deep in the Alaskan wilderness, if you follow the vague logic of the conspiracy theory, make perfect sense.
First, the Black Pyramid fits neatly into the pantheon of paranoid-inducing military installations in Alaska. The most infamous of these is the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, just outside Fairbanks. Depending on who you ask, HAARP is a high-frequency transmitter used to remotely trigger earthquakes to topple Venezuelan dictators, control the world’s climate and undermine the fossil fuel industry, or to help scientists control the ionosphere to study. Choose.
Secondly, the supposed location of the Black Pyramid has long been recognized as an area of geostrategic importance. In the 1930s, General Billy Mitchell was the so-called “Father of the United States Air Force.” saw that Lake Minchumina – about forty miles north of where Campbell landed at Carey Lake – was equidistant from the major urban-industrial centers of the Northern Hemisphere.
That meant that a B-52 taking off from the shores of Lake Minchumina could hit Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, Paris or even New York with the same tank of fuel. In modern warfare, General Mitchell had shown that the middle of nowhere could become the center of everything.
Then, in the early 1990s, came the real evidence for the Black Pyramid. Scientists studying shock waves from a 1992 Chinese underground nuclear test recorded a grainy, pyramid-shaped interference spot 700 meters below the surface of interior Alaska. Age, origin and position: unknown. Pyramids have a special appeal in conspiracy theory and the New Age.
According to internet gurus, the unique shape of a pyramid resonates energy that even in a palm-sized object made of basic quartz can tenderize meat, improve your sex life and remove bad odors from your bathroom.
If the nuclear test results were true, and there was a giant pyramid under the center of Alaska, its powers would undoubtedly be enormous, capable of sending out energy waves that could spring an outhouse in Fairbanks smell or produce stunning images. orgasms a thousand miles away on the outskirts of Dawson City (as long as you and your partner are attuned to the frequency of the pyramid, of course).
The Black Pyramid became more widely known after a tip from an anonymous retired Navy captain from the legendary conspiracy theory radio program Coast-to-Coast. Throughout the 1980s, the captain worked on top-secret radar installations in Alaska.
For years he noticed that a mysterious, immensely powerful source of electromagnetism near Lake Minchumina was disrupting his base’s aircraft and communications. Now, after seeing the results of the Chinese tests, the captain realized the source of the disturbances: a huge underground pyramid-shaped structure in the heart of Alaska that could not be seen on any maps or satellite images. Not surprisingly, when the captain presented these facts to his superiors, they threatened him with a court-martial. Now we know why.
Imagine a weapon powerful enough to disrupt global communications, and perfectly positioned to attack any major power in the Northern Hemisphere. Building standard military base infrastructure – roads, LZs, a Buffalo Wild Wings – would only draw unnecessary attention to it.
To maintain its perfect secrecy, wouldn’t it be better to hide it in one of the most remote, inhospitable corners of the country, so that only the true believers, skilled in wilderness survival and prepared to fight hordes of mosquitoes and to brave molluscs… long storms, could reveal its secrets?
With the captain’s report, everything came together – secret bases, government cover-ups, global warfare, ancient aliens, pyramid power – to create the story of the Black Pyramid. The story that if he followed the internet stories, Campbell would definitely have planned his summer vacation. No one knows for sure whether Campbell believed any of this.
He may have spent a month poking around in every clump of dwarf birches, looking for a secret door to the command center. Or, like a bad deer hunter trying to escape his nagging wife, Campbell’s quest could have been an excuse for some time alone in the wilderness, to wander the woods on a mission that didn’t really need a resolution.
Anyway, somewhere out there he got himself into trouble. Travel from Carey Lake in any direction would have been slow, difficult and dangerous. Did Campbell surprise a bear, fall into a beaver pond or get caught in a freak snowstorm? Nobody knows.
All the NPS has to offer are scattered testimonies and snippets of evidence. Before the plane took off, Campbell instructed his charter pilot, Jason Sturgis, to pick him up at Carey Lake in mid-September, just before the onset of winter in Alaska. Then Sturgis got on his plane and flew back to Talkeetna. That was the last time anyone saw Campbell alive. Sometime in mid-June, Campbell’s satellite messages stopped.
His wife contacted Sturgis, who told her to call a helicopter flying company to check the location of Campbell’s last transmission. The results of her calls and whether she attempted a search are unknown. It wasn’t until Campbell missed his September 15 pick-up date that the NPS sent a search team to Carey Lake.
After slogging through the brush for a few days, rangers found some of Campbell’s belongings — cracked food containers, moldy clothing, a battered tent — but no signs of the Wasilla resident. The only clues were the rodent-chewed remains of his diary, buried in his tent. The last entry, dated sometime in late June, simply said: “went to get water.” Then he just disappeared.
The NPS flew over the area for several days, but eventually had to abandon the search. Campbell, if he was alive, was hopefully prepared. The icy winds and freezing temperatures of winter could arrive at any moment. Soon snow would cover the landscape and make foot travel virtually impossible. To survive, Campbell would have to retreat. But a few boxes of ramen and a Wal-Mart tent weren’t enough; without a larder stocked with elk meat and a well-equipped shelter, Campbell was as good as dead.
On October 1, 2020, Campbell was declared missing. Wherever he is, hopefully he has found what he was looking for. Somewhere deep in the Alaskan wilderness, the search for the Black Pyramid continues.
By Chad Oelke, source: medium.com/@chadoetke
