The book "Bermuda Triangle" by Charles Berlitz has already been 40 years old. As the name implies, the publication, which was released in 1974, is dedicated to the Bermuda anomaly that captured part of the Atlantic Ocean. It was this work that brought the town wide fame for the mysterious zone that devours any transport ship passing in the area.
But despite the elapsed time, interest in the anomaly has not subsided at all, researchers regularly and persistently try to crack the anomaly's tough nut.
The legendary "Devil's Triangle" is another name for a mysterious anomaly, which props up Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale with the tops of the corners.
According to the prevailing legend, the anomaly "lodged" near Bermuda possesses satanic power, and caused a dozen dozen catastrophes, destroying both air and sea vehicles.
And despite hundreds of expeditionary attempts to find at least something from the dead ships or people, the researchers each time left here dejectedly empty-handed.
Charles Berlitz, revealing the secret of the "Bermuda Triangle" to the public, linked disasters and disappearances of ships and aircraft with alien creatures.
Allegedly, it is they who open portals here to other dimensions, and kidnap ships and people. UFOs fly here, whose base is hidden under water in the center of the anomaly.
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The book was a huge success, and even generated some hysteria around the "Bermuda anomaly", because, among other things, there was a version with a pyramid from the era of the mythical Atlantis.
Against the general background of the "UFO Hunt" developing in those days, the proposals, as well as the stories given in the book, came in very handy and were a great success.
Bermuda Triangle, prehistory
According to the legend, which overgrown Bermuda literally over a dozen years, ships, people and planes, crossing the territory of the mysterious triangle, disappeared without a trace inside the anomalous zone.
There was no way to find out who would be the next victim of the terrible place. Soon, the initially unnamed place gets its own name - "Devil's triangle".
Most likely, this name comes from folk superstitions, allegedly once in this place the Devil flirted with sea travelers, who played so much with the waves that he lost the travelers in the abyss. Since then, the forces of Beelzebub periodically wake up in this place - this is the cause of disasters.
Perhaps, in this place of the Atlantic Ocean, the Devil really laid something terrible in ancient times, which became the cause of the tragedies taking place here. However, another version sounds more reliable, it relies on aliens who have left in the center of the triangle some extremely complex device associated with the transfer of matter to another place in the universe.
In another case, aliens use this place as a secret base on Earth. Of course, eyewitnesses to their appearance are captured, and their further fate is unknown. Another suspect in the disasters was a "mystical whirlwind" that sucks ships and planes to the seabed and throws them into another dimension.
The myth of the mysterious triangle was first voiced in the Associated Press on September 16, 1950, when American reporter E. Jones wrote a small brochure about the "mysterious disappearances" of planes and ships between the coasts of Florida and Bermuda.
It was the reporter who was the first to use the name Bermuda Triangle, but the glory of giving the anomaly a name for some reason did not go to him, but to the person who said about it 14 years later.
Two years after the article and the seven-page brochure, George H. Sand published a series of strange maritime accidents.
In its history, ships, both sea and air, having fallen into the zone of the water triangle formed by Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, disappear without a trace for no apparent reason, and do not have time to report anything on the radio.
I would like to note that versions of the disappearances and presence of alien intelligence in this part of the ocean appeared several years before Jessup's book "The Case for UFOs" … or the book by Frank Edwards in volume 55 about "flying saucers and conspiracies." As the name implies, although the authors were not adherents of the idea of an alien presence, they willingly supported the theory with people from other planets who settled in Bermuda.
Just after these events, Vincent H. Gladdis (a fan of spiritualism) and "gives" the name of the ubiquitous anomalous zone - "Bermuda Triangle", which immediately takes root in society.
Vincent Gladdis wrote an article for Argosy in February 1964, and later used the title in his book Invisible Horizons, referring to the anomaly as The Deadly Bermuda Triangle. Since then, it has become a tradition to believe that it was Gladdis who gave the name to the now world famous myth of the Bermuda Triangle.
Over the years, the myth has been described and shown, and television series and films have been made based on it. The Bermuda Triangle is firmly embedded in our culture, and has always been portrayed as a very real and mysterious place where people and vehicles go missing.
This is terrible, the legend scares, but: "whether it be a ship, whether it be an airplane full of many travelers, be afraid to travel on this part of the ocean, the yellow fog devours everything and everyone, there is no salvation for anyone here" … Fearfully? Then let me tell you that the eerie mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is not as terrifying as a myth that has been blown up by years of wrong facts and stories to the Pleiades themselves.
If you look at the area of the Bermuda Triangle and look for facts, then the terrible tragedy of Bermuda is described by not hundreds of ships missing here. And not even fifty, but only ten, and even then, this is if we "pull" to this area all the crashes that occurred nearby.
By the way, look at the photo above - here you can see that the anomalous zone does not "lie exactly on the equator" as it is often said, pointing to the mystical side of the phenomenon. The central figure that represents the "Bermuda Triangle" is the departure of the naval aviation flight number 19.
The missing link of the Avengers, Departure "number 19"
In all cases, the story began on December 5, 1945, when five single-engine Avenger torpedo bombers left Fort Lauderdale. Charles Berlitz's book says that the Avengers were flown by 14 experienced pilots.
The commanders of the aircraft practiced the flight task of training bombing, had to make two turns as part of the navigation exercise - a mystical way, this happens just over the tops of the Bermuda triangle.
Then something terrible happens, the connection periodically disappears, the planes moving for a couple of hours without changing the course, nevertheless, circle inside the anomaly. Then the link disappears completely without a trace. Adding creepiness to the situation is the rescue mission of the twin-engine flying boat Martin 162 (Martin Mariner), who went to the rescue of colleagues - there were no traces left either.
Berlitz was opposed by Larry Kusche (Larry Kush), pointing out the hoax of facts. Surprisingly, Kusche's edition, The Bermuda Triangle Revealed Mystery, is published in volume 75, following the Berlitz edition.
In the book, Kusche explicitly states that there is no anomaly in Bermuda. Kusche did not deny the fact that five torpedo bombers disappeared without a trace under unknown circumstances, as well as the disappeared Mariner seaplane.
This is an actual fact that happened, but he read the investigative reports, and declares - this is an incredible case for the entire world aviation, but the cause of the disaster is the human factor, but not the cruel intrigues of aliens, or Atlanteans.
After reviewing the reports of the investigation team, Larry Kusche points out that 14 people flew the torpedo bombers, 13 of whom began retraining to fly this machine under the command of Lieutenant Charles Taylor. At the same time, the flight commander was recently transferred from the Florida Keys, and has not previously flown in the area.
It turns out that the commander of the group did not know the terrain, and the other pilots and navigators who had arrived for training were inexperienced. “Many people talk about this when they tell the Bermuda mythology half a century ago. Although at least four navigators were experienced, as evidenced by the same military reports.
Meanwhile, the weather situation in the area is considered very difficult - frequent tsunamis, storms, and the compass is naughty. There is no anomaly here, skeptics assure, there are many places on Earth where you cannot rely on a compass needle, or you need to gain great altitude.
In the case of the American Avengers (torpedo bombers), they might not have had a chance to climb higher, because they were "pressed" to the water by a thundercloud. The pilots circling in this area surrounded by lightning eventually burned all the fuel, leaving the landing on the water, where the storm wave was raging.
However, the version of Larry Kusche also "limps", Lieutenant Taylor flew 2500 hours on this type of aircraft, which characterizes him as an experienced and skillful specialist in naval aviation. The mention of a transfer from another place is somewhat weak for arguments, since it came from a neighboring sea area.
And the water stretching around leaves little chance to consider visual reference points for navigation, even if the flights take place in the usual place. The commanders of other machines can be called trainees with a stretch - the total flight time is about 350 hours, Captain Powers arrived from the main headquarters of the Marine Corps.
In some cases, for the good of the cause, the Devil's triangle grows in size.
And you know, I, for example, would note in this case one strangeness, as if having a presentiment, knowing what awaits him that day, one of the radio gunners did not appear for the flight, and remained alive.
The further development of events of that time is difficult to imagine reliably, since even on the official pages of the US Navy and Navy, conflicting data appeared (now they are not at all).
Although, in theory, such structures should have complete information. But a rough picture is drawn as follows:
The fact that the flight had been lost in space and was experiencing a navigational problem was learned at 15:50 - 16:00, when senior instructor Lieutenant Robert Fox, intending to land in Fort Lauderdale with his charge, heard a radio broadcast where someone without a call sign openly requests Powers.
Minutes later, the radio brings a voice, “I don't know where we are. I think we got lost in the last reversal."
A little later, Lieutenant Fox manages to talk with Charles Taylor and find out about the breakdown of the onboard compasses (the TBM-3 was a fairly technologically advanced machine of that time, in addition to the pilot's and navigator's compasses, there was also a gyrocompass and a radio compass).
Many ignore the fact that there were still four aircraft left, from which the flight commander could determine the location and choose a course for the base.
Nevertheless, everything looks as if the pilots and navigators of the entire group were left without means of navigation, or were subjected to some kind of mystical influence.
The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle?
Now let's look at the tragedy of the Bermuda Triangle in a slightly different way, but we will not consider here the well-known negotiations between Taylor and Fox.
There also seems to be nothing mystical about the death of a flying boat, its explosion was recorded and explained by technical reasons.
Although, of course, it should be noted that there were no reports from the Mariner about a problem with the plane, only words that they were arriving in the area of the last bearing of the missing link.
As the captain of the Gaines Mills tanker passing in those places reported to the coast guard headquarters, at 19:50 pm an air explosion and a pillar of fire up to 35 meters high were recorded. According to Captain S. Stanley, in deep confusion, the crew watched a vertical column of fire hanging in the air, which lasted a good ten minutes.
True, later the captain told a more understandable picture of the event, allegedly the crew saw the plane catch fire, fell into the water, exploded, left oil stains, a mass of debris … The planes arriving in the search area did not find signs of a seaplane crash.
The US military sent a huge force in search of the missing: 300 aircraft and 21 ships, many volunteers and the National Guard were looking for the now missing 6 aircraft.
The entire coast was literally combed, the water surface was carefully examined. You will not believe it, but even the floats from the missing seaplane were not found, nothing at all that could tell the cause of the tragedy that happened in these places.
On December 10, 1945, the search work was curtailed, the crews of the missing aircraft were declared missing. On April 3, 1946, the American Naval Directorate identified Lieutenant Taylor as the culprit for the death of flight number 19, they say the flight commander got confused, then panicked, confused … to be honest, these are strange conclusions, to suspect that the combat pilot was confused and panicked.
Taylor's mother and aunt rejected such a statement by the military, forcing the Navy to reconsider the decision. Dissatisfied women are hiring a lawyer and demanding more thorough trials and re-examination of the case. Strange, but on November 19, the verdict was adjusted, and the tragedy takes on different conclusions about the causes of what happened - "for unknown reasons."
Often the radio communications coming from Taylor are mystifying, allegedly someone heard him say through the interference: "everything is not so here … this is strange … the ocean does not look as it should" …. “We can't get out”… “that damn yellow fog”… “I don't know, they look like…”.
In fact, there is no documentary confirmation of these words, it is not possible to find a person with a specific surname, who would have said it initially.
Probably, this comes from adherents of false sensations and unnecessary evidence, an attempt to explain everything with the help of aliens, and at the same time "fasten" alien spaceships hovering over the Bermuda Triangle to this.
And yet there are enough strangeness in this disaster. At 5:15 pm, Taylor informs Port Everglades: “I can't hear you very well. We follow the course of 270 degrees … we will keep the course until we reach the shore, or land on the water when the fuel burns out (Taylor has experience of two such landings).
Robert F. Fox, talking with Lieutenant Taylor, comes to the conclusion that he is in the sky over the Florida Keys, because when asked where they are, Taylor answers - over the Keys (I am sure I'm in the Keys).
Robert Fox, while orienting a colleague, advises that the planes turn their port side towards the Sun and follow this course.
Oddly, however, Taylor hears, speaks, and does not react in any way to the words. Meanwhile, the connection continues to deteriorate, at about 19 o'clock in the evening, the connection, which was hanging on parole, ceases altogether, Lieutenant Taylor's group has clearly moved a considerable distance.
At 7:05 p.m., the last thing the Miami coast heard from the planes was one of the pilots calling Taylor in.
At 20:00 pm the estimated time was up, and the aircraft of departure "number 19" ran out of fuel. Now look at a strange mystery: Lieutenant Taylor was accused of losing his bearings and took the group into the Atlantic Ocean.
For example, I was also amazed: a flight of aircraft, keeping the chosen course, went a considerable distance.
However, the bearing of their location indicated the center of the Bermuda anomaly, and accordingly, based on this, the search was carried out in the triangle.
How can this be, what a mystic, maybe the truth is this place hides some kind of secret beyond our understanding?
What's happening in the Bermuda anomaly
According to the Coast Guard, the designated place is famous for frequent storms, and strange thunderclouds like to rush in the sky.
At the same time, researchers who do not believe in devilish tricks or games with parallel worlds could not find confirmation of the five hundred disappearances of aircraft and sky ships that allegedly disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda anomaly.
There are not even a dozen confirmed cases of ships missing here.
It turns out that most of the ships that crashed and are cited as proof of the anomaly happened quite far from the "Devil's Death Triangle", the ships could not experience the influence of mysterious forces of irrational origin.
Some authors of theories assure us that all ships disappear in this place completely without a trace, nothing can be found!
But what can you find? The Avengers are a heavy iron machine that, having fallen into the sea, exploding / not exploding from hitting the water, will inevitably go to the bottom.
Similarly, for a long time, rescuers cannot find traces of modern aircraft disappearing over any part of the sea.
According to experts, there is no reason to blame the Bermuda Triangle for requiring more ship casualties than any other part of the planet.
If you look at the outlined triangle with a normal eye, then it becomes obvious disasters in this place of the ocean occur no more often than in any other place in the Atlantic.
The fact is that catastrophes happen, for one reason or another, in absolutely any place on the planet. Airplanes crash, ships sink, but we are not looking in every case for a "magic crystal" or some kind of "transguangulator" - a high-tech device installed / lost by ancient aliens.