The World’s Biggest Geographical Mystery
Mysteries excite us all, but the Bermuda Triangle mystery has terrified us for decades. What’s up with this place? How many ships and lives has it swallowed? Who do we blame for the disappearances? Is there any scientific explanation? All these questions arise in one’s mind but there are no valid answers.
Bermuda Triangle, also known as the devil’s Triangle, is a mythical section of the Atlantis Ocean where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents. Planes and boats have seemingly from the area in good weather without even radioing distress messages. But although myriad fanciful theories have been proposed regarding the Bermuda Triangle, none of them prove the mysterious disappearances which occur more frequently there than in any other parts in the ocean.
Vanished without a trace: Inside the myths and mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle
Some have called it The Devil’s Triangle. Others have referred it as Limbo of the Lost or Hoodoo Sea. But to most, it is the Bermuda Triangle, a stretch of water in the Atlantic Ocean known to swallow ships and vanish planes.
For centuries the Bermuda Triangle has been mystified as a harrowing patch of ocean, where sailors and pilots are prone to lose contact with the natural world and disappear forever.
Bermuda, and the long stretch of sea before it, has been turned to myths for centuries. Some even believe that William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest” is based on the sorcery and shipwreck in the area.
Also, when Christopher Columbus passed the through the Bermuda Triangle on his first voyage to the new world, he recorded that a bursting flame of fire struck the sea and caused a strange light to appear in the distance a few weeks later.
While in 1881, legend has it that the Ellen Austin, a ship sailing from Liverpool to New York, encountered a “ghost ship” in the Bermuda Triangle and things quickly went awry.
In 1945, the legend of the Bermuda Triangle began to take hold even more when five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from a naval base and vanished in the Atlantic Ocean before completing their mission. The last thing recorded in the communications by Flight 19 were eerie reports on their location: “Everything looks strange, even the ocean,” said one of the pilot. And then he said: “It looks like we are entering white water…we’re completely lost.” The disappearance was so baffling that that the official Navy report said it was “as if they had flown to Mars.”
The Bermuda Triangle has become legendary for the hundreds of ships and aircrafts that have crashed there over the past couple centuries. It is said that 1000 lives have been lost there. This area of water in the Atlantic Ocean, between Bermuda, San Juan and Miami, has become a graveyard for many people and vessels, and the fascination with it has only grown with each ensuing decade. Here are some of the most popular theories regarding the mystery there.
Methane Gas
Some people believe methane gas is responsible for bringing ships and planes to their watery graves in the triangle. It has been proven that sizeable amounts of methane gas exist in some spots in the ocean floor.
If that gas were released into the water, some experts believe that it could sink ships and even cause planes to crash. And it could potentially happen rapidly, in just mere seconds, which wouldn’t allow those onboard time to radio for help or abandon ship.
Wormhole
For science fiction enthusiasts, the wormhole theory holds a lot of appeal. A wormhole is essentially a space-time shortcut that could, in theory, even potentially allow time travel.
Although wormholes haven’t been proven to exist yet, it hasn’t stopped them from being thrown about as a Bermuda Triangle theory. Some people point to the wormhole explanation as a reason why many vessels aren’t found after crashing in the Bermuda Triangle.
Aliens
No discussion of the Bermuda Triangle theories can overlook the alien explanation. While there’s no reason to believe aliens are behind any of the Bermuda Triangle accidents, aliens can be a convenient scapegoat any time.
Why the aliens might choose the large, rather isolated area of the Bermuda Triangle to snatch up unsuspecting travelers is easy to imagine, however.
Will we ever know? Someday, maybe this mystery will finally be solved. But until then, it’s fun to imagine what forces might be at work in the Bermuda Triangle.
-CHADY HANYAH
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