Screen Shot 2017-12-25 at 10.13.42 PMYou’ve heard a lot about this peculiar little triangle haven’t you? But what do you actually know about it? That it’s an area where ships and planes mysteriously disappear? That it’s a stop for UFOs to abduct you? Do you believe that the Bermuda triangle doesn’t actually exist? Well despite the amount of information you know about this triangle, this article will provide you with all the information you need to become an expert on this peculiar triangle.

What Exactly is the Bermuda Triangle?

Despite what advocates claim, the Bermuda Triangle is still imaginary, why may you ask? Because all we know about its parameters, is the fact that the triangle is about 500,000 square miles in between Miami, and the Islands of Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. Also known as the “Devil’s Triangle” the phrase “Bermuda Triangle,” was first brought up by the author of Argosy, Vincent Gaddis, however it wasn’t until about a decade later that another author, namely Charles Berlitz of “The Bermuda Triangle,” a book providing information and different theories as to why so many ships and planes were lost to the region.

The Lost Ones

About 75 planes have disappeared in this triangle, and hundreds of other ships along with them. Some even speculate that even Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” was based off of the triangle. Among them are some of the most Iconic, Flight 19 and the USS Cyclops. Flight 19 was not necessarily the ‘first’ accident in the Bermuda Triangle, but it was most definitely the first accident in the triangle that got this much press. Years later someone claimed to have found the wreckage of Flight 19, but they misjudged, so the wreckage of the planes is still out in the sea somewhere. The USS Cyclops was a slightly older accident, taking place nearly 30 years before Flight 19.

USS Cyclops

The USS Cyclops sank in March 1918, the exact date and time can not be stated, it however can be known that the last sighting of this ship carrying as much as 10,800 tons of manganese ore can be attributed to March 18th. Surprisingly this ship sank, sure there was a mild storm, but the weather wasn’t serious enough to sink a ship as big as the Cyclops. Claims that a German ship might have sank the Cyclops seemed almost believable given the fact that it was war time, but these rumors were soon put to rest by Germany’s claim to have not touched the ship. What’s even stranger still was the fact that before sinking the ship didn’t send a distress signal despite being equipped with one, in addition they didn’t respond to any other signals from American ships, further adding on to the mystery.

Flight 19

On December 5th 1945, at exactly 2:10 in the Afternoon five Navy Avenger torpedo bombers (TBM Avenger torpedo bombers), set out for a routine flight exercise, this group of fourteen men, known as Flight 19 never made it back. The plan was to complete “Navigation Problem Number One” estimated to take up around three hours of time, the practice exercise went smoothly until they dropped their bombs, at about 2:30 pm their compass lost control. Most of these men had logged over 300 hours of flight time, and their leader was Lieutenant Charles C. Taylor, an experienced pilot and veteran, so it was particularly strange when the planes crashed. Shortly after 6pm the last message ever received from Flight 19 was received, Lieutenant Taylor giving his men a final command. “All planes close up tight,” he said. “We’ll have to ditch unless landfall…when the first plane drops below ten gallons, we all go down together.”

Later at around 7:30 pm The navy sent 2 Flying Boats (Martin pbm Mariners), in search of Flight 19, this attempt was proved fruitless. Just 20 minutes later one of them vanished of the radar, and it’s believed that they either followed Flight 19’s lead or exploded like the frequently did, while the other one was known for sure to have exploded.

The next morning at daybreak the Navy sent more the 300 ships and aircraft combined in search for the missing ships, this attempt once again was proved useless. The search continued for several days over about 300,000 square miles of land and water, finding nothing the aircraft and ships had to return back, all of them empty handed. No one truly knows what happened to Flight 19 but several attempt to explain what happened there, eventually leading up to the birth of the term ‘The Bermuda Triangle”.

Reasoning With The Devil

Sure there have been many people have tried to come up with an explanation for the questionable things that have happened but not yet has a single explanation been decided upon and universally excepted. While explanations are endless and range from UFOs to scientific explanations only a few will be included in this article. So without further ado let’s begin.

Methane Gas

This theory connects the reason why ships and planes disappear in the Triangle to the craters in Siberia also known as the edge of the world. This reason suggests that methane is built up on the seafloor from global warming, and natural methane. So when there is a disturbance in the area, the bubbles get released into the water. These large bubbles then proceed to form into small bubbles and drag water up with them, ultimately sinking the ship. The major flaw in theory however is the fact that most ships are very strong, and bubble-water doesn’t sink ships very effectively, this also fails to explain why aircraft would sink.

Electric Fog

This theory is conceived by the one of the few survivors of the Bermuda Triangle. Bruce Gernon was in a flight with one other man when he flew through the triangle, Gernon ended up at his destination two hours early, that wasn’t the only thing he thought was strange about his trip, he also noticed something ‘following’ his plane. “And I- Everything turns this strange gray and there’s no-there’s no horizon, can’t see the horizon, you can’t see the sky, it’s weird it was like kind of fuzzy, then I saw this electricity, that’s when I thought of the word electronic fog.” As he once said in an interview. He described the flight as not flying through the fog, but in fact flying with it, as if the fog knew a secret that it didn’t want to tell. According to Gernon the fog follows the plane due to the metal, this would explain why the compasses malfunction.

Maybe It Was Just Our Imagination

Yet others argue that the Triangle was just made up, despite all the explanations and ships lost, saying that there’s nothing special about it. While it is true that the Bermuda Triangle doesn’t exactly suck up each thing that goes through it and some modes of transportation have made it out people have been actively believing and creating new theories. Perhaps the triangle is what some claim it to be, just a normal area, but we’ve concentrated on it too much. Some argue that the Bermuda Triangle is just a normal patch of water that people have just paid more attention to losses there. Despite all this argument nothing is completely settled on and decided, but until then the triangle, and its mystery lives on.

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