What You Didn't Know About the Bermuda Triangle

A hotspot for unexplained disappearances and alleged UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle has been teasing our imaginations for decades. With mysterious disappearances of planes, ships and people, the Bermuda Triangle has spawned a slew of conspiracy theories and just as many books, movies and even comics. But how much do you

know

about the most mysterious corner of our planet? Hello and welcome to another episode of The Infographics Show. Today we take a look at 50 shocking facts about the Bermuda Triangle. 50. The Bermuda Triangle extends from Bermuda to Miami and Puerto Rico and covers 440,000 square miles of ocean. 49. Due to so many unexplained disappearances, it is also

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n as the Devil's Triangle. 48.

Planes or ships lost in the

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are often not found; Scientists believe this is because the Gulf Stream passes near the

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and quickly clears debris from the search area. 47. It is estimated that 1000 lives have been lost in the last 100 years. 46. ​​Despite the apparent danger posed by alleged sea monsters, aliens and the ancient city of Atlantis, it remains one of the world's top vacation destinations. 45. Within the Triangle is the US Navy's AUTEC facility, which stands for Atlantic Underwater Test and Evaluation Center, located on Andros Island in the Bahamas. The Navy uses the facility to test submarines, sonar and other weapons, but many believe they have a role to play in the Triangle disappearances or are investigating the true sources. 44.

Pilot Bruce Gernon claimed to have lost 28 minutes while flying through a cloud tunnel that distorted time and also affected his instruments. Flying from Bermuda to Miami, the three-hour trip only took a third of the time, and Gernon believed he had catapulted forward in time. 43. Skeptics point out that probably the only thing Mr. Gernon experienced was a very strong tailwind and a well-documented phenomenon known as a spinning cloud, which would have had very fast-moving air inside it that propelled the plane and could have had static. electricity that would have affected his instruments. 42. On November 5, 1945, the US Navy lost five Avenger torpedo boats and a rescue aircraft sent to locate the missing aircraft, known as Flight 19, while flying within the Bermuda Triangle. 41.

The Navy Avengers flight dropped practice bombs on hen and chicken beds near Bermuda at 2:30 p.m. and turned north for the second leg of its journey when flight leader Lt. Charles C. Taylor, a seasoned combat veteran of the Pacific Theater. -He reported over the radio that his compass was not working correctly. Suddenly a front arrived with heavy rain and gusty winds, disorienting Flight 19. 40. Another pilot flying near the Florida coast was the first to hear the flight's radio communications. Taylor told him that both of his compasses were off and that he was trying to find Ft. Lauderdale - he was sure he was in the Florida Keys but

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't know where.

This statement made no sense as he had just passed over the Bahamas less than an hour later and now he believed they were hundreds of kilometers off course. 39. The pilots lost in the Atlantic were instructed to point their planes toward the setting sun and fly toward the continent, but for some reason Taylor believed that they had somehow flown toward the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of miles away, by which pointed its planes towards the northeast. to try to find Florida. 38. At least one pilot acknowledged the mistake and said over the radio, "Damn, if we flew west, we'd make it home." 37.

When fuel began to run out, Taylor prepared his men for a crash landing in the ocean. As the disoriented pilots headed deeper into the Atlantic, their radio communications weakened, eventually fading into an eerie hum of empty static. 36. The Navy sent search planes immediately, sending a pair of PBM Mariner seaplanes from Ft. Lauderdale. Only 20 minutes later one of them disappeared from the radar. It is believed to have caught fire and crashed into the ocean, as Sailors were famous for catching fire, and a merchant ship saw a fireball and found evidence of an oil slick in the ocean. 35.

Despite a five-day search involving 300 ships and aircraft, all searching an area of ​​300,000 square miles, no remains or bodies were ever recovered from any of the missing aircraft. A Navy board of inquiry argued that Taylor had confused the Bahamas with the Florida Keys after his compasses failed, but could find no clear explanation for why the flight became so disoriented or why Taylor believed he was hundreds of miles from your actual location. . 34. Witnesses stated that Lieutenant Taylor had arrived at Flight 19's pre-exercise briefing several minutes late and requested to be excused from leading the mission, saying, "I just don't want to take this one out." 33.

The Avenger pilots also mysteriously failed to use their aircraft's rescue radio frequency or ZBX receivers, which would have allowed them to locate Navy radio towers on the ground. The pilots were even asked to turn on the devices, but they did not hear the message or did not acknowledge hearing it. 32. In 1991, treasure hunters believed they had solved the mystery of Flight 19 when they discovered five World War II Avengers near Fort Lauderdale, however, none of the serial numbers matched those assigned to the Flight 19 planes. 19. 31. In the 1977 film “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” Flight 19 was portrayed as having been taken by aliens and deposited in the deserts of Mexico. 30.

The first supernatural report from within the Bermuda Triangle came from Christopher Columbus, who wrote in his journals about fireballs in the sky and that his compass had suddenly stopped working, eerily similar to the situation on Flight 19. 29 Until the 19th century, the Bermuda Triangle was one of two places on Earth where a magnetic compass pointed not toward magnetic north, but toward true north. Due to variations in the Earth's magnetic field, the phenomenon has corrected itself. 28. The term “Bermuda Triangle” was first coined in 1964 by writer Vincent Gaddis in the men's pulp magazine Argosy. 27. Some scientific theories about disappearances involve large bubbles of methane floating to the surface near a ship or plane, which can alter the buoyancy of a ship and sink it, or affect the engines of a plane and bring it down.

Methane could also ignite and destroy a ship or plane through an explosion or fire. 26. Whether for natural or unnatural reasons, the Triangle is well known to host extremely violent and unexpected storms that seem to form literally out of nowhere. 25. The ocean beneath the triangle is one of the deepest in the world, ranging from a gently sloping continental shelf to an extremely deep slope. 24. The Triangle is also one of the busiest shipping routes in the world, which could explain the high rate of accidents and disappearances. 23. In 1976, Milton Bradley released a Bermuda Triangle board game and in 1987 an Atari game of the same name was developed. 22.

A documentary narrated by Vincent Price about the Bermuda Triangle offered a reward of $100,000 to anyone who could solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. 21. Depending on the weather and time of year, the Triangle's strange weather, electromagnetic problems, and other phenomena may be experienced outside the Triangle's normal boundaries. 20. Before earning the more famous nickname of the Devil's Triangle, the area was known as the Limbo of the Lost in reference to all the bodies that were never recovered. 19. William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was inspired by a shipwreck that occurred in 1609 within the Bermuda Triangle. 18. One of the Triangle's first mysteries was the disappearance of the USS Cyclops.

In March 1918, the 165-meter (542-foot) long ship disappeared with 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore between Barbados and Chesapeake Bay. 17. The ship was considered state-of-the-art at the time and was equipped with radios that could have called for help; however, no SOS distress call was ever sent. This led President Woodrow Wilson to say, “Only God and the sea know

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happened to the great ship.” 16. Later, two of Cyclops' sister ships disappeared on the same route. 15. In the early 1940s, British South American Airways' Star Tiger and Star Ariel, along with a Douglas DC-3 flown by the British Royal Air Force, disappeared without a trace over the triangle.

The ships were some of the most technologically advanced of the time and none transmitted a single distress call before disappearing. 14. In 1963, the tanker Sulfur Queen and its crew of 39 well-trained sailors disappeared without a trace. At 7,420 tons and more than 300 feet tall, the Sulfur Queen was a formidable ship that suddenly disappeared, but a Coast Guard search turned up nothing and no distress call was ever sent. 13. In 2017, Turkish Airlines flight TK183 experienced unexplained mechanical and electrical problems while flying over the triangle and was forced to change course. 12. In May 2017, a private plane was in contact with air traffic controllers in Miami when it suddenly disappeared from radar and lost radio contact.

Debris believed to belong to the plane was later found. 11. The Bermuda Triangle lies right in the heart of hurricane alley, which likely leads to many of the triangle's disappearances. 10. In 2001, a marine engineer and her husband, working in conjunction with the Cuban government to survey the seabed around Cuba, discovered a series of symmetrical and geometric stone structures that resembled an urban complex, to include possible structures in pyramid shape. 9. Further investigation with an underwater ROV revealed large stone blocks that looked like hewn granite, and some appeared to have been deliberately stacked on top of each other. 8. Scientists estimate that it would have taken 50,000 years for the structures to sink to the depths at which they were discovered, but no culture in the world had the architectural knowledge necessary to construct complex buildings 50,000 years ago.

An underwater archeology specialist at Florida State University said that if the structures were real, then “the structures are out of time and out of place.” 7. Compared to the legend of Atlantis, scientists quickly dismissed the idea that it was the legendary lost city, but pointed to local legends of the Mayans and Yucatecans about an island inhabited by their ancestors that disappeared beneath the waves . 6. Despite an initial flurry of publicity and promises of further investigation by National Geographic, the Cuban government and others, the discovery of a possible sunken city quickly faded into obscurity, leading many to believe that there has been some type of information suppression. about the discovery. 5.

Two popular songs were named after the Bermuda Triangle, one by Fleetwood Mac in 1974 and another by Barry Manilow in 1981. 4. As of 2018, 75 planes and hundreds of ships have been officially recorded as lost in the Triangle. 3. Within the triangle, a series of stone formations called Bimini Road were discovered, which bear a strong resemblance to a stone-paved road and further fuel theories that Atlantis lies within the Bermuda Triangle. 2. The television shows The X-Files, Wonder Woman, Sabrina: The Teenage Witch, Quantum Leap, and The Librarians all had Bermuda Triangle-themed episodes. 1. A sister to the Bermuda Triangle is located in the Pacific.

Known as the Devil's Sea, it is a triangular area that extends from Japan to the Bonin Islands and includes portions of the Philippine Sea. Is the Bermuda Triangle really the site of ancient Atlantis? Or is the Bermuda Triangle just a busy area of ​​the ocean with a strange climate? Also, be sure to check out our other video 50 Facts About the Cold War You Didn't Know! Thanks for watching and as always don't forget to like, share and subscribe. Until next time!