BERMUDA TRIANGLE

The Bermuda Triangle…a place of curses right here on earth. In the last 200 years, 20 planes, 50 ships and hundreds of people have just vanished in a small area in the Atlantic Ocean, otherwise known as : flight 914 took off from New York enroute to Miami, but vanished in the sky without a trace. , the impossible happened and the same aircraft reappeared again! one morning in 1992, at an airport in Caracas Venezuela, air traffic controllers noticed an old fashioned and propeller driven model that hadn’t been used in years, hurtling in the direction of the runway. Juan de la Corte immediately made radio contact with the pilot, and the pilot responded that they are flight 914, ready to touchdown in Miami. When Corte explained in confusion during the landing that this wasn’t Miami, and the year 1992, the pilot panicked and took off, never to be located again, dropping behind a calendar of 1955. The passengers in the plane also wore very old-fashioned garments. Noone knows whether this was real or not; most likely a prank tale. The whole story could very well be fabricated. Did they enter some wormhole on earth? A gateway to a parallel universe? A vortex? Is time travel real?

The Bermuda triangle lies on the Sargasso Sea, a region of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the area of water that connects between Miami to Porto Rico to Bermuda. It covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida. A cool fact is, Satellite weather images show honeycomb cloud patterns above the Bermuda Triangle. These open and closed cells occur when cold, dry air mixes over warm water. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “There is no evidence that mysterious disappearances occur with any greater frequency in the Bermuda Triangle than in any other large, well-traveled area of the ocean,” and boaters and fliers continue to through the triangle without event. It might be a matter of being too focused on the intriguing stories surrounding that specific area that it’s become a central point of interest for doom, disregarding other places around the world that may have had similar accidents. It could also be…the reality.

It all started with the famous explorer Christopher Columbus, who warned about this danger zone even back then. According to his journal, in he noticed his compass behaved strangely when he crossed this area with his ship. saw strange lights in the distance against the sky, with unidentified flying objects. Could he be referring to UFOs? couldn’t be; maybe shooting stars or a fire in the distance. Skip to 1606, while traveling through the triangle area, a large English ship carrying 150 travelers became wrecked at Bermuda after encountering a huge hurricane. Even though this was just from the weather, it left a lousy impression on how people saw this place. In fact, it is supposed that this shipwreck inspired Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, which often referred to Bermuda being vexed or cursed. Next, in 1881, a ship was sailing from Liverpool to New York City, when it passed through the triangle. The people on board say that they came across a ghost ship with no one on board. There are varying reports on exactly what happened, but the people on board generally reported that some of the crew decided to get on the ghost ship but then the ships were separated by a massive storm. When they were reunited with the ghost ship the next day, there was no trace of the crew. Dangerous storms, hurricanes, whirlpools, underwater disturbances, rogue waves…so many natural disasters seem to center around this area. Later in February 1918, one of the U.S Navy’s largest ships, the USS Cyclops, carrying 300 people, crossed the Bermuda Triangle, but the ship never landed or sent an SOS signal despite being able to do so. Whatever they faced, left them no time to react. Its wreck was never seen again. Two US navy ships disappeared in 1941 in the time frame of 2 months. It wasn’t until 1945, when the suspiciousness tied to that area became high profile. During World War 2, five Navy pilots carrying 14 men took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in order to conduct practice bombing runs.

Tons of abandoned shipwrecks were recovered from its deep graveyard, with many still missing to this day. Various fictional stories were crafted to describe its anomalies; an alien base, a portal to another world, secret experiments zone, etc. But, there has to be scientific explanations for all the eerie events happening in that zone, right?

But with his compasses apparently malfunctioning, the leader of the mission, known as Flight 19, got lost. All five planes flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea. That same day, a rescue plane and its 13-man crew also disappeared and none of the remains were ever found. Perhaps this could be explained by saying the pilot was not up to task and ended up running out of fuel. However, the real cause is the compass going wild, again being the main culprit. Either the location of the triangle attracts certain magnetic forces in this spot on earth, or the significant amount of electromagnetic fields that can build up around planes and clouds.

A survivor of a flight On December 5th 1970, tells his tale to support this claim. Pilot Bruce Gernon, his father and his business partner embarked on a journey from Andros Island to Miami. The trip should’ve taken 75 minutes, but he encountered a dark tunnel of clouds out of nowhere at the altitude of 3500 feet, engulfing the vehicle. Flashes of light similar to lightning struck around him and it seemed the donut-shaped cloud ring had no end. Every time he nears an exit, the clouds shifted and warped and his machines malfunctioned. When he finally made it out, he found he had reached his destination in just 47 minutes, like a time leap portal!

Some conspiracy theories would even involve ancient myths by the Vikings, the giant squids “Krakens”. Indeed in 2004, huge squids 9+ meters long were recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, but let’s leave that up to imagination. Logically speaking, there can be no single theory that solves all the paranormal occurrences. If such a place with mysterious oddities exists in the ocean, then the fact that only 5% of the ocean has been explored…sends shivers down the spine.