Echoes from the Last Frontier
Echoes from the Last Frontier is a documentary-style podcast that dives into the real mysteries, disasters, and forgotten legends of Alaska. From towering waves to vanished planes, each episode brings you gripping true stories from one of the world’s wildest frontiers.
Echoes from the Last Frontier
Into The Ice: The Lost C-54 Of Mount Spurr
In 1950, a U.S. military C-54 Skymaster vanished over the icy wilderness of Alaska with 44 people on board. No distress call. No wreckage. Just silence. What followed was the largest aerial search of that time in American history—thousands of missions flown, and nothing found. Then, nearly 50 years later, pieces of the aircraft began to emerge from the Capps Glacier, slowly exhumed by the ice itself. In this four-part episode, we uncover the mystery behind the doomed flight, the decades of unanswered questions, and the haunting moment when the mountain gave up its ghosts. This is a story of Cold War tensions, unforgiving terrain, grieving families, and the glacier that remembered when no one else could.
