Palmyra Atoll: America’s Haunted Paradise (w music)

There’s a place in the Pacific that officially belongs to the United States, but is so remote

that ships once vanished trying to reach it. From above, it looks like paradise

— palm trees, turquoise lagoons, and coral reefs so bright they almost glow.

But step onto the land, and you’ll find something unsettling: abandoned buildings,

rusting equipment, and signs of a past no one talks about. In the early 1900s, explorers and settlers

came here chasing fortune… and some were never heard from again. Deaths were ruled

“accidental,” but rumors spread of betrayal, violence, and secrets buried

with the dead. During World War II, the U.S. military moved in,