MYSTERY CASE#7:

The Devil's Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is located in the western region of the North of Atlantic Ocean. The triangle is also termed to as Devil’s triangle, a name derived from the mysterious disappearance of people, ships and aircrafts under strange circumstances. Many people visit the region, hence it is ranked as the most visited geographical feature. Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda demarcate the vertices of Bermuda triangle, which spreads to less than one thousand miles on each side. The triangle has an area of about five hundred thousand square miles.

According to livescience.com most of the fateful accidents occur around the Florida Straits and Bahamas. Vincent Gaddis coined the term Bermuda Triangle in the 1964, in the Argosy magazine known as Men’s pulp. He asserted that aircrafts and ships disappeared in this triangle in a very strange manner. His argument was an echo of George X. Sands who had written about the unexplained accidents around the triangle in 1952. Later other authors like John Wallace wrote about the same mysterious triangle.

The most popular losses that the United States has experienced is the disappearance of the plane of Flight nineteen in December the year 1945, NC16002 plane in December the year 1948, SS Marine Sulphur Queen in 1963 and USS Cyclops in the year 1918. In all these cases disappearance, the planes and the ships have never been traced. This has been used to support the mystery of the Bermuda triangle, although the accidents might have been due to poor weather conditions or mechanical failure.

Flight 19

World famous cultures and scientists have over the years tried to explain the forces behind the Devil’s triangle mystery. Charles Berlitz, in his book he asserts that at the bottom of the sea lays a legendary city that used crystal energies to submerge the ships and aircrafts. Other theories suggested that there were extraterrestrial underwater aliens, who submerged ships and used the humans to carry out their research.

The scientists believed that the mystery is due to natural circumstances such as weather, hydrological or geological explanations. There is evidence that at the triangle, there is an enormous explosion of methane gas. The scientist asserts that if a surface vessel gets caught inside a large methane gas, it losses its ability to float, and submerge. If the bubble is so gigantic, it may possess high gravitational pull that attracts the aircraft toward it hence making it crash into the triangle. The ships and aircrafts may then ignite spontaneously and explode, produce little or no trace of it. Some scientist postulated that a subnormal magnetic or tidal waves exist at the triangle. This resulted to loss of electronic aid for navigation hence confusing the pilots. The plane then plummeted into the triangle.

There are a lot of weaknesses about these scientific postulates. The theory of the bubble exploding might be a bit of exaggeration since methane gas exists naturally in the atmosphere and does not result to the said explosion. The pilots are taught to fly aircrafts even with the loss of electronic aid; hence the second theory is wanting.

Various groups, among them the United States Navy have debunked the existence of this triangle. However, it remains a mystery that still lacks enough exploration.

Mystery Case#7: UNSOLVED

Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ7eC2Npfp4