Between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and the southern tip of Florida, there is a mysterious geographic zone called the Bermuda Triangle. Events take place in this place, which sometimes simply cannot be explained. With enviable regularity, there are messages about mysterious phenomena and incidents taking place there.
Writer V. Gaddis, investigating the circumstances of the death of aircraft from the Fort Lauderdale base, was one of the first to draw attention to the fact that this area has been notorious among pilots and sailors for decades. In addition, the author was struck by the fact that almost everyone who visited the Bermuda Triangle in unusual situations was extremely reluctant to describe the situations in which they found themselves. The impression was that some reason does not allow people to share this information.
All the more strange seemed to the writer the official response to his request for statistics of disasters in this place from the Coast Guard. Instead of the expected official response from an ordinary official with a list of sunken ships, he received an angry message from the Deputy Chief of the Coast Guard. The gist of the message was that the statistics are the same as in any other coastal area. In addition, it was strongly discouraged to publish in open sources all the "rumors and speculation" spread by the locals and the captains of the ships of the east coast, as this could have negative consequences for both shipping in the region and for the future career of the author.
Having received such an answer, Gaddis, with even greater persistence, delved into the solution of this difficult riddle … Almost immediately it became clear that the official statistics of accidents significantly differ from the real one and the number of accidents, emergencies and crashes in the waters of the Triangle is deliberately underestimated. Only in those cases when the case cannot be “hushed up”, it is given an official move and information about it becomes open to the general public.
The first official victim of the Triangle in 1918 was the huge, about 200 meters long, ship Cyclops, which transported coal for the US Army. It was the newest dry cargo ship with an excellent track record and thanks from the US State Department. On its last voyage, the ship left with 306 passengers and tens of thousands of tons of ore on board. Several hours after he entered the anomalous zone, communication with him was interrupted. The searches, which were carried out by almost all means free at that time, did not yield anything.
The death of three and a half hundred people and the loss of one of the largest bulk carriers at that time were a serious blow to the image of the United States, however, no objective reasons for such a disaster were expressed.
Subsequent official catastrophes occurred with enviable frequency and, as in the case of the "Cyclops", were characterized by their suddenness and inexplicability. The disappearance of five torpedo aircraft and an amphibious rescue aircraft in 1945, the disappearance of the Sea Queen tanker in 1965, the disaster of the bulk carriers Nereida and Proteus in the early 40s - this is not a complete list of only the official victims of the Triangle.
The most terrible story is the incident with the schooner "Carroll Deering", which occurred in 1921. The ship was last seen on January 29, 1921, sailing under full sail near Lookout. The crew was even spotted on the ship and a photographer at the cape lighthouse took a photo of the beautiful sailing ship. Two days later, the schooner was seen grounded about a hundred miles from where it was last seen. A rescue team was sent to her, however, she did not find anyone on the ship. The impression was that the entire crew and passengers, abandoning their affairs, suddenly left the ship, not taking with them any valuable things, no food, not even a ship's log!
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According to the Florida Coast Guard, which has "statistics like any other region," 6 ships and 10 aircraft have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle over the past hundred years. However, some researchers do not share this optimism. Enthusiasts involved in the riddles of the Triangle privately cite completely different numbers of victims of the "devil's place": about 80 ships and 20 planes.
Charles Berlitz, who has been studying this phenomenon for more than 30 years, published a book on the Bermuda Triangle, in which he cites the testimony of about three hundred eyewitnesses of strange incidents in the waters of the Triangle. His book about these events has withstood several reprints since 1974, and skeptics cannot yet refute most of the evidence presented in it.
What are the sources of the official explanation for such mysterious disappearances of ships and aircraft? Oddly enough, but even the scientific world recognizes the facts of the "abnormality" of this region. Regular interruptions in communication and unexplained, sudden storms that occur in it still have no scientific interpretation. There are ideas about methane emissions from the seabed, as well as about infrasound, the source of which is the movement of tectonic plates. However, no one can yet tell how their consequences can lead to the death of ships or the disappearance of crews.
Alternative points of view provide a variety of theories - from the abduction of ships or their crews by aliens to the existence in the waters of the Triangle of portals in space-time, falling into which ships and aircraft can disappear from our reality, moving either to another time or to another place. An indirect proof of this is an interesting fact that took place in 2010. An American radio amateur heard a strange signal on the air that struck him with its archaism. On the frequency used in the 1930s, someone was transmitting help signals; the radio amateur could not find the signal, however, he determined the direction of transmission quite accurately - it was in the direction of the Bermuda Triangle.
Mysterious incidents occur in this place and now. Despite the development of communications and navigation, anomalous phenomena still occur in the Bermuda Triangle. Some of Berlitz's followers want to organize a full-fledged expedition to study them. Its results will help to clarify many phenomena and mysteries that are still hidden from humanity …