In the ominous anomalous zone in the Atlantic Ocean, planes and ships along with passengers disappear without a trace for inexplicable reasons. Not a single wreckage from the disappeared ships was found.
The very name of this place "Bermuda Triangle" was invented by the American writer Vincent Gaddis - the author of a book about sea secrets. This area of the Atlantic Ocean, located between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Florida, has had a bad name since ancient times.
Bruce Guernon is the only pilot to survive the strange events in the Bermuda Triangle.
His story is amazing. In December 1970, he flew from the Bahamas with his father and a friend and headed for Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Shortly after the climb, Bruce Gernon noticed a strange, semicircular cloud directly on the course.
The plane was inside the cloud. Suddenly it darkened sharply, and only strange lightning flashed around. It was not like the lights of St. Elmo - static electricity that sailors and pilots know about.
Bruce Gernon saw a tunnel-shaped opening in the cloudy haze and drove the car towards a blue sky. The tunnel began to close, but the plane managed to break through. And then something unimaginable began.
“When I flew into this tunnel, strange lines began to form around me that were spinning counterclockwise. I had to concentrate on exiting the tunnel because I was worried that I might confuse the sides of the entrance and exit of the tunnel.
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And at that moment something strange began to happen to the plane itself, because in order for me to reach the exit from the tunnel, it had to take me about 3 minutes, and I flew in about 20 seconds,”the pilot later recalled.
But it was too early to rejoice. At the end of the tunnel there was not a blue sky, but a whitish haze. Gernon and his passengers felt a feeling similar to weightlessness. All navigation devices are out of order. The compass needle darted in all directions.
But the pilot miraculously managed to contact the ground. Gernon asked for his coordinates. But the ground service said they did not see him on the radar screen at all.
It was only when the fog cleared a little that the dispatcher discovered Gernon. And it was incredible again. It turned out that they were not in the middle of the path, but already almost at the goal. The flight, which was supposed to last at least 75 minutes, took only 47.
It is believed that large-scale vortex formations can cause abnormally fast movement in space. In the Atlantic, such eddies are produced by the Gulf Stream. Satellite images often show the formation of powerful circulating currents in the form of whirlpools in the Gulf Stream.
These water vortices, in turn, create streams of highly rarefied air, which spread from the center of the vortex vertically upward like a ray of light.
Such cyclones pose a danger not only under water, but also in the air, reaching an altitude of 12 kilometers. Supporters of the hypothesis of astrophysicist Nikolai Kozyrev believe that such vortex formations can affect the course of time.
Such vortices can not only change the mass of ships and aircraft, but also create distortions in time. Indeed, in the Bermuda anomaly, mysterious movements occurred more than once, and all of them, according to eyewitness descriptions, were accompanied by a strange white fog.
There are records of the famous navigator Christopher Columbus about the area of the Bermuda Triangle. Sailing through the Sargasso Sea, he observed mysterious phenomena, due to which the entire crew periodically fell into a panic. In Columbus's diary, there are references to constant compass failures, sudden fire explosions on the surface of the ocean, and bright white light coming straight from the bottom of the sea.
On March 4, 1918, the Cyclops coal carrier with a displacement of 19,600 tons departed from the island of Barbados, heading to the port of Norfolk, carrying 309 people and a cargo of manganese ore. Entering the waters of the Bermuda Triangle, this 540-foot vessel, one of the largest in the US Navy, disappeared without leaving any trace or even giving an SOS signal.
But the Bermuda Triangle gained world fame after the mysterious disappearance of link 19.
On December 5, 1945, a flight of 19 of five Avenger torpedo bombers, led by Lieutenant Charles Taylor, took off from the US Navy airbase in Fort Lauderdale.
At 1410 hours the planes head east with fuel on board for five and a half hours. But after two hours, communication with the torpedo bombers was lost. Before that, the flight commander, Charles Tayloruspell, reported that the plane had lost its course and unusual things were happening around it.
From now on, everything that happened to Unit 19 has been shrouded in sinister mystery. The pilots reported that the navigation systems were out of order, the link lost its orientation in space. However, the most mysterious moment in the history of Link 19 remains the received signal two hours after the Avengers, according to the specialists' calculations, should have run out of fuel.
But the mysterious incidents with link 19 did not end there either. One radio amateur who listened to the Avengers broadcast claimed that the last words of the commander were the following: "Don't follow me … They look like people from the Universe …".
For six days the search parties combed the waters of the Bermuda Triangle to no avail. Only 50 years after the disappearance of Link 19, were 5 Avengers found lying in formation at a depth of 250 meters near Fort Lauderdale.
Newspapers were full of headlines "Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle Solved". With the help of an underwater robot, it was possible to examine the numbers of the aircraft and it turned out that they belong to another, unknown link.
The mysterious death of Flight 19 was the most famous, but far from the only one. Each year, the US Coast Guard reports several missing ships in the Bermuda Triangle. 2-3 planes every year disappear without a trace over the Cursed Sea. Scientists attribute this phenomenon to increased shipping and crossing of airways in this area of the Atlantic.
But if most of the catastrophes can be explained by the insidiousness of the sea, storms, hurricanes. That the cases occurring in the anomalous triangle represent an insoluble mystery for scientists.
In the summer of 1969 in the Bermuda Triangle, five unmanned yachts were discovered in eleven days. All cases occurred in clear weather and for no apparent reason. Dozens of people disappeared without a trace. One of the boats found was the Teignmouth Electron yacht, owned by Donald Crowhurst, who raced around the world.
He was in the lead and had a chance to win 5,000 pounds, there was no reason for the successful yachtsman to commit suicide. However, his entry was found in the logbook: "I can't go on like this."
Scientists are of the opinion that equipment breakdowns in the Bermuda Triangle are caused by the strongest bursts of geomagnetic activity. It is theoretically known that a strong electromagnetic disturbance under certain conditions can cause the curvature of space and time.
Professor Boris Ostrovsky, MD, has published an elaborate theory to explain the anomalies of the Bermuda Triangle. According to the scientist, all the mysteries in this area can be explained by tectonic processes. An infrasonic wave occurs before an underwater earthquake.
Animals hear infrasound and therefore leave dangerous areas. But for the human ear, these sound vibrations are inaccessible. But this does not mean that they are harmless. Infrasound affects the psyche - it creates a feeling of fear and panic.
During underwater earthquakes, when a gigantic mass of water vibrates over a vast space, the vibrations are transmitted into the atmosphere, reach the ionosphere and are reflected between the ionosphere and the ocean surface. Aircraft in such conditions lose their orientation.
It is believed that as a result of electromagnetic influence, the structure of the metal of aircraft and ships also changes. Perhaps in this, too, one should look for the causes of disasters.
Amazingly, this theory seems to be able to explain the centuries-old mystery of the Maria Celeste.
On December 5, 1872, the brigantine "Mary Celeste" was discovered 400 miles from Gibraltar. Not a single person, dead or alive, was on board. The last entry in the logbook was made 10 days before the ship was found.
It said that the ship was following its intended route. A thorough investigation has never explained the team's disappearance. The vessel left the port of Staten Island, New York for Genoa, Italy four weeks before it was found.
There was a crew of 7 on board, in addition to the captain and his family. Captain Benjamin Briggs, 37, probably thought the voyage would be easy, as he took his wife and two-year-old daughter with him.
When the ship was discovered, it gave a strange impression. There was water between the bulkheads and decks; in the hold, its level reached about a meter. The covers of almost all the hatches were neatly removed, only one - the bow - had been torn off its hinges and lay on the deck. The rest of the ship appeared to be intact. At the same time, it was clear that he did not fall into a strong storm.
The lifeboat was not torn off, but carefully lowered into the water. The further fate of the crew and the captain's family is shrouded in mystery.
In the area of the Bermuda Triangle, the most dangerous tropical cyclones are very frequent, the wind speed in which can exceed 80 meters per second. The most devastating hurricanes occur on the way to Florida.
Sea tornadoes lift and suck in water, turning into huge water columns. They move rapidly and zigzag. For small ships, encountering a sea tornado means certain death. In addition, such natural anomalies are capable of disrupting radio communications, which explains the lack of an SOS signal from dying ships.
Throughout the history of the study of the Bermuda Triangle, hundreds of hypotheses have been put forward, dozens of books have been written and many scientific experiments have been carried out, but the mystery of this anomalous zone remains unsolved. And ships and planes continue to disappear from radar. After all, the Bermuda Triangle lives by its sinister laws.