World Trivia | 40 facts about the Bermuda Tringle

The are a lot of places on planet Earth, where unexplained things have happened. One of the most mysterious ones is the Bermuda Tringle.

We are about to learn more about the Bermuda Triangle, and how all of these years it managed to become one of the most terrifying places in the world!

1. The Bermuda Triangle is also known as the Devil’s Triangle.
2. It is a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean.
3. It is said that on this place a number of aircraft and ships have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
4. Most reputable sources dismiss the idea that there is any mystery.
5. The vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle is amongst the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world.
6. Ships frequently crossing through it for ports in the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean islands.
7. Cruise ships and pleasure craft regularly sail through the region, and commercial and private aircraft routinely fly over it.
8. Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings.
9. Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors.
10. The earliest suggestion of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 17, 1950.
11. The disappearances were mentioned in an article published in The Miami Herald (Associated Press) by Edward Van Winkle Jones.
12. Two years later, Fate magazine published “Sea Mystery at Our Back Door”.
13. This was a short article by George Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five US Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers on a training mission.
14. Sand’s article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place, as well as the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident.
15. Flight 19 alone would be covered again in the April 1962 issue of American Legion magazine.
16. In it, author Allan W. Eckert wrote that the flight leader had been heard saying, “We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don’t know where we are, the water is green, no white.”
17. He also wrote that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes “flew off to Mars.”
18. In February 1964, Vincent Gaddis wrote an article called “The Deadly Bermuda Triangle” in the pulp magazine Argosy saying Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region.
19. The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible Horizons.
20. Other writers elaborated on Gaddis’ ideas: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973).
21. Richard Winer (The Devil’s Triangle, 1974), and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.
22. The area is known for extremely violent and unexpected storms, which build up and dissipate quickly.
23. The Bermuda Triangle is one of only two places on Earth where a compass points to true north rather than magnetic north.
24. If this compass variation or error is not compensated for, ships and planes could find themselves far off course.
25. In fact, the underwater topography of the area could be a factor in the history of disappearances.
26. It goes from a gently sloping continental shelf to an extremely deep drop-off. Some of the deepest trenches in the world are found in the area of the Bermuda Triangle.
27. So, it is normal that ships or planes that sink into these deep trenches will probably never be found.
28. Scientists have discovered large concentrations of methane gas trapped in the ocean floor.
29. This happens due to decomposing sea organisms.
30. The methane accumulates as super concentrated methane ice, and if a pocket ruptures, the gas surges up and erupts on the surface without warning.
31. If a ship is in the area of the blowout, the water beneath it would suddenly become much less dense. It could sink and sediment could quickly cover it as it settles onto the sea floor.
32. Magnetic vortices, hot and cold currents, could create the electromagnetic gymnastics affecting instruments and vehicles. Others mention an electronic fog that could block both the visibility and the instruments.
33. Many theorise that the Triangle is home to the lost city of Atlantis.
34. According to legend and speculation, the city of Atlantis relied on the power of special energy crystals that were extremely powerful. The theory is that these energy crystals are in an altered state of some kind and send out rays of energy that confuse navigation.
35. The area is one of the most highly trafficked for amateur pilots and sailors, and one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world. Statistically, more traffic leads to more accidents and disappearances.
36. The Bermuda Triangle is not a registered territory.
37. It’s not even shown on maps.
38. But it’s understood that it stretches from Miami, Florida to the island of Bermuda, and to San Juan in Puerto Rico.
39. Some writers attribute the weird events to UFOS
40. There are plenty movies and songs inspired by the unexplained events which occured in the Bermuda Triangle.