The Bermuda Triangle is a mystical region of the Atlantic Ocean, located between Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, where a huge number of ships and planes have disappeared. Many aircraft and boats simply disappeared from the radar, despite the good weather and the absence of reports of any breakdowns. Despite the many rumors of wrecks in this area, their scale is slightly higher than in other parts of the world. In fact, most daily flights and trips end happily.
Reports of crew disappearances in the press did not attract public attention until well into the 20th century. A very sad incident occurred in March 1918, when the huge American cargo ship Cyclops, carrying 300 people and 10,000 tons of manganese ore, sank between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay. Cyclops did not send emergency signals, although he had everything necessary for this technical equipment. In addition, the search for the ship did not even lead to finding its wreckage.
American President Woodrow Wilson commented on the incident: "Only the sea and God know what happened to this heavy ship" In 1941, two similar ships disappeared. They also left no traces and sailed along the same route. Soon, rumors arose about the negative energy of this place.
In December 1945, navy bomber exercises were planned. The leader of the group had trouble navigating and then disappeared without a trace. The remaining five bombers flew aimlessly side by side until they ran out of fuel and were forced to splash down. On the same day, the rescue plane disappeared with a team of 13 people. After a long search, in the hope of finding at least some debris, the military representatives were forced to declare: "It seems that they all flew to Mars!"
In addition to everything, by this time 3 more were missing passenger transport. Since then, many fans of the paranormal have begun to blame this zone, attributing to it an alien base, a temporary hole, a sunken Atlantis, sea monsters, gravity distortion. Those who thought more logically announced magnetic anomalies, tornadoes and the release of methane from the ocean basin.
Methane may well become the basis of crashes. The least dense gas can cause control problems. Devices under the influence of gas could fail. During night flights, pilots do not see the ground and are guided only by the numbers on the dashboard, which incorrectly record the climbed altitude. In addition, getting this substance into the engine can also cause a disaster.
The space, called the devilish or Bermuda triangle, covers an area of about 500,000 square miles. Christopher Columbus, on his first voyage to a new land, reported that a bright flash of fire (possibly a meteorite) lit up the ocean at night and continued to glow for several weeks. He also described erratic, changing compass readings.
Extremely powerful hurricanes and storms formed in the Atlantic near the equator were responsible for the deaths of thousands of people and millions of losses. Some researchers blame the Gulf Stream, originating in the Gulf of Mexico, for what happened. Any current is an internal river, which can affect the route and movement of vehicles, especially if it splashes down. A similar event happened to the Witchcraft cruiser in December 1967. Unusually large waves can appear even in calm seas. One of these was the "Ocean Ranger" in 1982, which overturned the world's largest offshore platform.
In all likelihood, it is foolish to put forward a specific factor that caused so many crashes and casualties. It's like trying to put forward a single cause of traffic accidents in a particular city. One way or another, this mystical place for a long time to attract the attention of people around the world.
Perhaps the most mysterious place on Earth is the Bermuda Triangle - a section of the Atlantic Ocean over one million square kilometers, located between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the southern cape of the Florida peninsula. It is there, according to some researchers, that the flow of time is disrupted, space is bent, and aircraft and ships that find themselves in the "triangle" zone disappear without a trace. Even Christopher Columbus wrote about the strange behavior of compass needles, pillars of flame rising from the water, strange lights moving along the waves ... Scientists are making more and more attempts to uncover the mystery of this anomalous zone.
The tragic list of victims of the Bermuda Triangle opens with the French ship Rosalie, which disappeared in August 1840. It was found near Bahamas drifting with the sails raised. On board was the only living creature - a canary in a cage. The deck and cabins looked as if the crew had been here a few hours ago. What tragic circumstances forced to leave the ship and how did it further fate, no one knows.
November 7, 1872 the brigantine "Mary Celeste" with a cargo of liquor left New York and headed for Gibraltar. A month later, she was discovered by the crew of the Den Gratia. The brigantine moved in strange zigzags, the wind filling its sails. Several sailors from the Den Gratia lowered a boat and moored aboard the Mary Celeste. It turned out that the ship was empty, although it did not have any damage. Cups of unfinished coffee stood on the table in the wardroom, bread and eggs lay in disarray, the tablecloth was stained with melted butter. The cargo in the holds was intact. However, navigation instruments were not found on board. There was enough water and food on board. Some documents mention that on the same table lay a saber with traces of blood on the blade. The same traces were found on other objects. The last entry in the logbook, dated November 24, reported that the Mary Celeste was 150 miles west of Azores. Eleven days later, the ship was found 700 miles from the location mentioned in the magazine.
However, the most famous Devil's Triangle was the story of the disappearance of the American flight of torpedo bombers, which consisted of five Avenger-type aircraft. The 19th flight, which made up these aircraft, took off at 2:10 pm on December 5, 1945, from the air force base at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the bombers were to fly 160 miles to the east, then 40 miles to the north and return to base. During the flight, training bombing was planned.
At 1545 hours, the command and control tower received a message from the flight commander, Lieutenant Taylor:
Emergency condition! We don't see the ground!
Give us your coordinates, the command post demanded.
We don't know where we are, was the answer.
Keep heading west! And then Lieutenant Taylor said strange words:
We don't know where the west is. The ocean looks different than usual.
At 4:00 pm, a panic-stricken Taylor handed over command of the flight to another officer.
We are about two hundred miles northeast of the base. Most likely we ... - the officer's voice became more and more muffled and finally disappeared completely.
A rescue aircraft hurried to the rescue of the bombers, equipped with everything that might be needed in an emergency, and able to land on the surface of the sea even with very high waves. They tried to inform the 19th link about this, but there was no communication. The rescue aircraft transmitted several messages to the control room and confirmed that it was approaching the desired square, and then silence fell on the air ...
On a general alarm, planes rose from all the bases of the Florida peninsula, and search ships left the ports. At 1904 hours, the command post controller received the weak callsigns of the 19th flight. This happened two hours after the planes were supposed to run out of fuel. For several weeks, 21 search vessels plowed the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, 300 aircraft monitored the ocean surface from the air. Everything turned out to be fruitless. The flight of torpedo bombers and the rescue aircraft disappeared without a trace.
The list of 50 ships and aircraft missing in the Bermuda Triangle is closed by the cargo ship Anita, which left the port of Norfolk in March 1973, but never reached its destination - Hamburg.
In 1999, new mysterious incidents occurred, which, fortunately, did not end tragically, but posed new unresolvable questions for scientists. One of these incidents was Shannon Bracey from New Zealand, who decided to cross alone on a yacht Pacific Ocean, go around South America and get to the Bahamas. The plans of the brave woman also included the crossing of the Devil's Triangle. Here is what she told reporters:
All my life I have dreamed of a long solo voyage. And so, when I was forty-two years old, the opportunity arose to go on a journey. It all happened when I was already approaching Bermuda. At noon, when I was in the cabin, the sea surface was covered with a haze. It seemed that I had fallen into a strip of fog. Soon a real storm began, and the haze thickened so much that visibility became zero. And suddenly around me appeared ... ghosts! They were people in sailor uniforms, some women with mournful faces and crying children. I understood that they were all dead for a long time and this made me feel chilling horror. Some force took me to a terrible, unknown world. And suddenly I saw my dead husband, who extended his arms to me, as if wanting to hug. At that moment, I lost consciousness.
When Shannon woke up, the sky above her was strewn with stars. The clock in the cabin showed 12. The woman was unconscious for twelve hours!
Cases like the one that happened with Shannon Bracey are already known a lot. But none of them reveals the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle. Moreover, observations of people caught in this anomalous zone, even more confusing already strange story this amazing corner of the planet Earth.
On April 11, 1963, a Boeing 707 pilot flew from Puerto Rico to New York. 20 minutes after takeoff, he suddenly saw how the surface of the ocean began to swell and finally rose in a huge dome, reaching several hundred meters in diameter! For thirty seconds, he, along with the commander of the liner and the flight engineer, watched with surprise an unprecedented natural phenomenon.
It turns out that astronauts were witnesses of such cataclysms. “There can be no doubt about the different levels of water in the ocean,” Vladimir Kovalenok said after the flight on the Salyut-6 orbital station. The astronaut has repeatedly seen giant domes of water rise on the surface of the sea, around which cumulus clouds swirl. Cosmonauts Valery Ryumin and Vladimir Lyakhov saw a multi-kilometer shaft in Indian Ocean. What causes water to swell, still no one knows. But maybe the strange events in the Bermuda Triangle are somehow connected with the secret life of the sea element? Scientists have yet to find answers to this and many other questions.
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This place is located in the vast Canadian expanses in national park Nahanni. It got its terrible name because of a series of tragic incidents that stretched over more than 100 years. IN late XIX For centuries, gold was discovered here and fortune hunters from all over the country reached out to the valley. The first misfortune occurred in 1898, when a group of six gold miners disappeared without a trace. They tried to find them, but could not. Seven years later, in the same valley, the two MacLeod brothers and their friend Robert Veer disappeared. Just like the first group, they simply disappeared without a trace. Only three years later, nine decapitated corpses were accidentally discovered, which could only be identified by miraculously preserved talismans.
Mysterious disappearances of people continued later. It got to the point that in 1962-1965, two expeditions were sent to the valley to clarify the circumstances. However, these scientists, too, were soon found without heads. In 1978, another, much more prepared and equipped expedition gathered. It was headed by the famous American paranormal researcher Henk Mortimer. The scientists had with them a full set of tools that may be needed in emergency situations, as well as the necessary equipment to maintain constant communication with the camp. Nevertheless, already in the evening of the first day of the expedition, the operator in the camp heard on the radio the terrible cries of the expedition members and the words of radio operator Ray Wilson: “Void comes out of the rock ... It's terrible!” On alarm, a helicopter with armed fighters on board was immediately raised, but at the place where, according to the members of the expedition, their tent should have been, nothing at all was found, no traces of the presence of people. And only after five days of continuous searches, the rescuers still managed to find the headless corpse of one of the scientists.
Deaths and mysterious disappearances in the Valley of the Headless continue to this day. But there is not even the slightest hint of what is actually happening there. People put forward many versions. Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is a gang of thugs operating in the valley who hunt for gold miners and their prey. However, the local police do not confirm this conjecture. According to the sheriff no strange strangers in this place no one ever noticed. But the locals themselves are sure that all the deaths are the work of the squatters. Creatures resembling hairy giants were often seen here, and even more often traces of it were found. Could big Foot to deal so cruelly with uninvited guests of their possessions is unknown.
The waters south of Tokyo bear the ominous name of the Devil's Sea, as many fishing boats and other larger ships have disappeared into them. In 1953, a research vessel with 31 crew members, including scientists, Kaiyo Maru #5, went to the Devil's Sea to investigate these mysterious disappearances. Guess what happened to this ship? It has disappeared.
However, his end was not mysterious. The ship was destroyed by a volcano. Crew members explored the newly formed volcanic island when the eruption happened, leaving no one alive. Devil's Sea lawyers also ignored the fact that the number of fishing boats that disappeared in the region did not exceed the number lost in other Japanese waters.
North of Reno, Nevada, on the Paiute Reservation, according to local legend, trout hunters disappear into the waters of Pyramid Lake almost every spring. Allegedly demonic spirits, "children of the water", grab the fishermen and lead them to death, while their bodies disappear. On the shores of Pyramid Lake, the cry of water babies pierces the silence, and the laughter of invisible children echoes with the pyramidal rock that gave the lake its name.
Nevertheless, if the lake takes lives every year (according to the assurances of local residents), why is it not written about in local newspapers? Probably, water babies carefully monitor this, hiding from justice.
Chippewa legend says that Lake Superior never gives up its dead. But the reason why the lake keeps its victims is by no means mysterious. The cold waters of the lake cause slow decomposition, which under normal conditions would fill the body with gases, causing it to float to the surface.
More than 200 ships have disappeared in Lake Superior, especially along the southern part. Intense storms cause ten-meter waves that will gladly sink any boat in no time; did not escape this fate and the 210-meter "Edmund Fitzgerald". Underwater possessions of Cape Sig have become a reserve for many shipwrecks that attract divers. However, others disappeared without leaving a trace.
Bermuda Triangle
Most famous point on this list has its reputation for nothing. Yes, there have been significant incidents in the Bermuda Triangle, which stretches from south Florida to Bermuda and Puerto Rico, including the loss of USS Cyclops with 309 crew members in 1918. Five American Avenger bombers disappeared there in 1945.
However, the Bermuda Triangle is notorious for violent storms, changeable weather, and treacherous shallow waters, according to oceanographers. Along with bad weather, the triangle is famous for one of the busiest shipping lanes on the planet. Proportionately, the level of missing ships and aircraft in this zone does not exceed the rest of the places on our planet. The Bermuda Triangle didn't even get into notoriety until the 1950s, only then did it rise to fame, thanks to the overblown and even fabricated stories written over the next few decades. And like many other things in our lives, it has become a household name.
East of the Bermuda Triangle, circulating currents have created the Sargasso Sea. Floating algae create whole rugs floating in the Sargasso Sea and swirling with strong currents. For a long time, sailors avoided this region and gave rise to legends about ghost ships sailing in the Sargasso Sea. In the 1840s, one such ship was the Rosalie, which was found empty, without a single crew member on board, wrote CNN.
West of the Sargasso Sea, one of the most mysterious ghost ships in maritime history, the Mary Celeste, was discovered in 1872. The entire crew, including the captain's wife and daughter, disappeared, although the cargo of explosive ethanol and a large number the food the ship was carrying remained untouched. An ethanol leak could have frightened the crew, causing them to leave the ship, fearing an explosion. A lifeboat could have sunk in a storm.
michigan triangle
The Bermuda Triangle's northern cousin, the Michigan Triangle, stretches from Ludington to Benton Harbor, Michigan and Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Ships and at least one aircraft are the trophies of this region. In 1891, Thomas Hume's schooner and her crew of seven set sail for the Michigan Triangle, but did not return and left no trace. In 1921, the Rosa Belle was found floating in this triangle completely empty, without eleven crew members aboard. In 1950, flying over the triangle, Northwest Airlines flight 2501 disappeared, and with it 58 passengers.
Bennington triangle
The Bennington Triangle in southwest Vermont was the last place where five people were seen who disappeared between 1945 and 1950. The first time, an 18-year-old tourist disappeared, although her two companions were only 100 meters behind her. Exactly three years later, on the same day, a man disappeared from a moving bus. Nobody noticed his disappearance.
One logical explanation was the presence of a serial killer in the woods of Vermont. However, serial killers typically target specific demographics. Among the people missing in the Bennington Triangle was a 74-year-old woman guide and an 8-year-old boy.
South Atlantic Anomaly
Strange and powerful forces envelop the Earth with energy, but there is nothing supernatural in them. The Van Allen Radiation Belt forms a lopsided donut of charged particles around the planet. The belt sags closest to Earth over South America And Atlantic Ocean off eastern Brazil. This region is designated by NASA as the South Atlantic Anomaly. As the Hubble telescope, satellites and other spacecraft passed through the anomaly, they received and continue to receive an intense bombardment of protons, the building blocks of atoms, with energies above 10 million electron volts.
Being 200-800 kilometers from the surface, the anomaly should not affect either what is on the ground or aircraft. However, some attribute it to the crash of Air France flight 447, which killed 228 people in 2009. The true cause of the disaster may simply be a tool failure that needed a few lines of code to change, according to scientists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Take a closer look around: what if there is some kind of “triangle” next to you?
