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10 Shocking Facts About the Bermuda Triangle

22 Jul 2024 03:30 PM
10 Shocking Facts About the Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda Triangle is the greatest unsolved mystery of the modern age. It is also called the Devil's Triangle. 
It's a triangular area in the North Atlantic Ocean, stretching from Bermuda Island to Miami, USA, and Puerto Rico.The  Bermuda Triangle has swallowed hundreds of people, along with numerous boats, ships, and planes, leaving behind a trail of astonishment. The reasons for these disappearances range from scientific to sheer myth.

Here are 10 Shocking facts about the Bermuda Triangle  
 

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1. Covers an area of 500,000 square miles

The Bermuda Triangle is generally considered to have vertices at Miami Florida, USA, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. The Bermuda Triangle is not small. In fact, it is quite large and covers an area of 500,000 square miles of sea. This is larger than the combined area of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh & Maharashtra. It is one of the interesting facts about the Bermuda triangle.

2. People Vanished

The earliest account of a disappearance goes back to  September 17, 1950. when a ship called Sandra vanished with 300 people on board.

3. Disappearance of Flight 19

Disappearance of Flight 19
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Some famous cases often associated with the Bermuda Triangle include the disappearance of Flight 19 in 1945, the loss of the USS Cyclops in 1918, and the mysterious vanishing of the DC-3 aircraft carrying Flight 441 in 1958.

The disappearances are ascribed to UFOs and alien activity, the city of Atlantis lost under the triangle, and other technical, natural, and geographical reasons. 

4. The Powerful Gulf Stream Passes From The Bermuda Triangle

The Powerful Gulf Stream Passes From The Bermuda Triangle
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Whenever any plane or ship disappears in the Triangle, its debris cannot be found. The reason behind this is that the Gulf Stream runs near the triangle, which quickly gets rid of the debris. The Gulf Stream is a powerful ocean current that originates from the Gulf Of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida into the North Atlantic. 

5. A minimum of 1000 people lost their lives in the last Century

A minimum of 1000 people lost their lives in the last Century
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A minimum of 1000 lives are lost in the last 100 years. On average, four aircraft and 20 yachts go missing every year. 

6. Home to several important military bases and training ranges

Inside the Bermuda Triangle, US Government has AUTEC for Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center, which is located on the Andros Island of Bahamas. Here US Navy tests their submarines, sonar and other weapons. However many are of the view that it is more than just the testing center. 

7. Electronic Fog in Bermuda the Bermuda Triangle

Electronic Fog in Bermuda the Bermuda Triangle
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People have experienced electronic fog in the Bermuda Triangle, which can also be a Time Travel Tunnel. Pilot Bruce Gernon claims he lost 28 minutes after flying through a time-warping cloud tunnel. The plane went missing from radars, only to re-emerge in Miami Beach. Source: The Fog by Bruce Gernon. 

8. Biggest and Famous Losses of US Military

Biggest and Famous Losses of US Military
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One of the biggest and most famous losses of the US Military occurred in 1945. Five US Navy Avenger torpedo bombers flew from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for a sortie to the island of Bimini. The mission had 14 men. After about 90 minutes, the radio operators received a signal that the compass was not working. After that, communication was lost. The bombers were never found. The three planes that went to rescue them also disappeared. 

9. First mentioned in the accounts of Christopher Colombus

First mentioned in the accounts of Christopher Colombus
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The first person to report on the Bermuda Triangle was Christopher Columbus. In his journals, he wrote that inside the triangle, the ship's compass stopped working, and he also saw a fireball in the sky.

10. Compass points to True North, not the Magnetic North

Compass points to True North, not the Magnetic North
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The Bermuda Triangle is one of the rare places on Earth where the compass does not point toward Magnetic North. Instead, it points towards the true north, which creates confusion. That's why so many ships and planes lost their course in the triangle. This is one of the amazing facts about the Bermuda Triangle.

11. Bermuda Triangle Infographic

Bermuda Triangle Infographic
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12. Bermuda Triangle Video

About Bermuda Triangle

One of the most mysterious places in the world is the Bermuda Triangle.  It is a triangular area, An area shaped like a dented trapezium in the Western part of the North Atlantic Ocean. This area enclosed by the ends from Bermuda Island to Miami Florida and San Juan Puerto Rico. The Miami city accomplished the Triangle's easternmost end. Here hundreds of people, aircraft and watercrafts mysteriously disappear into air or beneath the water.

In research, US navy claimed that in real the Bermuda Triangle doesn't exist. Why is it such a mysterious place? What is the reason behind it? Where is the Bermuda Triangle located and what is the length of this area? Is there a map? And do you get to confirm that when you cross the line and enter the area of Bermuda Triangle then what will be happen? Several types of questions arise in our mind. 

Myths about Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda Triangle is a very mysterious area on the Atlantic Ocean and there is a myth about this triangle that at this place several types of disappearances have occurred, many ships and planes passing over it have disappeared. In the last hundred years, approx thousand lives are lost. On an average, 20 yachts and 4 planes go missing every year. And there is no evidence of disappearance. So people believe that devil lives here therefore they also call it "devil's triangle". But no one knows the exact reason behind it. Why do all of these big transportation machine go missing, but there are some stories and myths prevailing. Most of the disappearances have mainly taken place around the southern boundary of the triangle between Puerto Rico and Florida.

Bermuda Triangle History

The mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle have been documented for centuries, the Bermuda Triangle's infamy first started with Christopher Columbus. He wrote in his journals that inside this area, the watercraft's compass stopped working and he saw a fireball in the sky too. According to Columbus, when he looked down at his compass and observed that his compass was giving strange readings that day was October 8, 1492. He didn't take it seriously and he did not inform his crew too, because having a compass that didn't point to magnetic north may have sent the exactly on border crew into the wildly unthinking behavior. This decision was apparently an ideal decision considering three days after when Columbus directly spotted a mysterious light, the crew got alarmed to go back to Spain.

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