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BERMUDA TRIANGLE

Theories and mysteries surrounding the enigmatic area in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean."

By Esther KingooPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
BERMUDA TRIANGLE
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Over the last century, approximately a hundred ships and aircraft have vanished in the region of the infamous Bermuda Triangle. Scientists continue to search for the cause of these unexplained disappearances and catastrophic events that have occurred in the area. Similar anomalies have been reported in other parts of the world, leading to questions about what could be more perilous than the Bermuda Triangle. The black boxes of planes that have crashed in this area contain numerous such messages, all shrouded in mystery. The Bermuda Triangle covers a vast territory from the Bermuda Islands in Florida to Puerto Rico, encompassing approximately 805,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to two Japans. Furthermore, it also includes the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean. The Milwaukee deep, which is located in the Bermuda Triangle, has been the site of many disappearances of ships and aircraft. Even when researchers have managed to find lost vessels, what they have seen doesn't always make sense. For example, in 1944, the Rubicon, an American ship that had been missing for a month, was discovered safe and sound with no one on board except for a dog. Similar incidents have occurred with other vessels like the Friendship Rosalia and the Mary Celeste. The Bermuda Triangle's deadly reputation extends beyond the sea, as seen with the disappearance of Flight 19 and the strange experience of a Beechcraft Bonanza pilot in 1970. The pilot encountered a large, cylindrical cloud that caused their electronic devices to stop working and their compass needle to spin randomly. Despite the strange experience, the plane miraculously arrived in Miami in just 47 minutes and with less fuel than expected.

The inexplicable story of the loss of Pan-American World Airways flight 914 with 57 passengers onboard on July 2nd, 1955, is still a mystery today. The plane took off from New York and was supposed to land in Miami three hours later, but it disappeared from all radars and its wreckage was never found. It was believed that the plane had crashed and all the passengers had died. 37 years later, the Weekly World News published an article about this flight, which stated that a plane appeared out of nowhere on the radar at Krakas airport in Venezuela on September 9th. After landing, the pilot asked where he was because he needed to get to the Miami airport at a specific time, namely 9:55 a.m on July 2nd, 1955. The man was told it was 1992. The panic-stricken captain began to shout for the airport personnel not to approach his plane. He started the engines again and, without waiting for permission to take off, lifted the plane into the air, disappearing from radar again.

The Bermuda Triangle is famous for its mysterious incidents. Scientists are still trying to find a scientific explanation for the catastrophes that happen there. There are several theories. Some suggest that the cause of shipwrecks in this area is a large number of shades and reefs. Others are interested in masses of bubbles in the Bermuda Triangle waters, which appear from cracks in tectonic plates. According to them, this is explosive methane gas that turns into giant bubbles when it reaches the surface, and it can destroy or even swallow an entire ship. There is also a theory that infrasound generated by waves during a storm has a harmful effect on the nervous system, and as a result, a ship's crew panics, and fear overpowers common sense in people, causing them to rush overboard. However, these theories have nothing to do with airplanes.A meteorologist named Steve Miller proposed a fairly reasonable theory. He noticed unusual hexagonal clouds with straight edges over the Bermuda Triangle in NASA satellite images. Miller suggests that they're capable of generating something called aerial bombs, which are sharp currents of wind that can reach the speed of a hurricane of 300 kilometers

Under an article about the Bermuda Triangle in the comments, a certain Jaden Hunsaker put forward her own hypothesis. She explains why not only ships but also planes disappear in the Triangle. The thing is that Christopher Columbus during his sea voyage in 1492 saw a flash in the sky. In his logbook, there were records that the sky suddenly became bright after which the compass needles began to behave strangely. The girl suggests that this flash could be a magnetic asteroid, and since planes and ships are made of metal, they could be attracted to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to the magnetic celestial body that fell into it. Science has indeed encountered asteroids that have their own magnetic fields, but there is one thing: if such an object fell into the ocean in the 15th century, records of this would have been preserved not only in Columbus's journal, and Columbus himself, who was close to the crash site, once he felt the magnetic effect of the asteroid on himself, would have perished in a giant tsunami. But while some are trying to approach the Bermuda Triangle scientifically, conspiracy theorists have also found what they think is the most logical answer. They believe that this zone is a hot spot for alien activity, where extraterrestrial beings are abducting people to study them. Therefore, on all the ships found in the Bermuda Triangle, only animals have survived, and the valuable cargo was untouched. There is a lot of evidence to support this hypothesis. One of them is documented in the Greek Daily Newspaper Artist Mafdo's Press of August 17, 1995. It had an interview with a merchant seaman and radio operator on the Pothiti Swjc called Polycarp's Bensas. The sailor claimed that during one of their trips to the sea, he felt something was wrong when the ship began to go through the waves incredibly fast, although the equipment showed the usual speed, and the sensations didn't let the sailor down. A few minutes later, a complete devilry began on board. At first, the captain of the ship became very sick. It seemed to him that his hands were very heavy, and he couldn't raise them to the helm, and the helmsman couldn't keep a steady course because the compass was spinning like crazy. The crew then noticed that all the clocks on the boat had gone ahead by two hours. Suddenly, Bensas saw a large white unidentified flying object in the sky, joined by two more small ones. The sailor immediately ran to send a message about what had happened using Morse code but noticed that he suddenly began to move very slowly. At the same time, another sailor tried to light a cigarette, but nothing came out of it because it immediately burned out. At the same time, the entire ship's crew felt an abnormally slow heartbeat. Bensas is fully convinced he encountered something extraterrestrial that day in the Bermuda Triangle that could manipulate time. Sometimes even official institutions admit that they've noticed something strange in the Bermuda Triangle. For example, a photo was taken by the U.S. Air Force in 2020. However, attempts to unravel the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle don't end with UFO explanations. For example, writer Charles Berlets has his own theory. He claims that earlier on the territory of the triangle, there could have been the capital of an ancient developed civilization. Of course, most scientists consider such theories about the existence of lost cities only fiction and myth, but there are those who, like Berlets, don't doubt the existence of Atlantis

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    Written by Esther Kingoo