The western part of the North Atlantic Ocean boasts a loosely defined triangular region known as the Devil’s Triangle. Rumours are if you walk into it, you don’t come out.
But is this a myth or does it really happen?
It is September 17 in 1950 and the first unusual disappearance pertaining to the triangle is reported in The Miami Herald.
Flight 19; a group of five United States Navy Grumman TBM Avenger Torpedo Bombers, was on a training mission when it entered the Bermuda Triangle. What happened next?
Communication was lost. The Flight vanished into thin air.
It was reported that the flight captain’s last words were, “We are entering the white water, nothing seems right. We don’t know where we are, the water is green, no white.”
Can we explain the phenomenon?
Paranormal: Leftover technology from the mythical city of Atlantis fiddles with the electronic equipment of ships and planes.
Compass Variations: Compass anomalies are common in and near the triangle. Magnetic anomalies have been used to present explanations.
Incidents
Air:
- 1945: July 10, Thomas Arthur Garner, AMM3, USN lost at sea in a US Navy PBM3S patrol seaplane. They were never heard from again. An extensive search found nothing.
- 1945: December 5, Flight 19 was lost and later the same day PBM Mariner was lost. The later was searching for the former.
- 1948: January 30, Avro Tudor G-AHNP Star Tiger was lost.
- 1948: December 28, Douglas DC-3 NC16002
- 1949: January 17, Avro Tudor G-AGRE Star Ariel
- 1956: November 9, Martin Marlin
- 1962: January 8, A USAF KB-50
- 1965: June 9, USAF C-119 Flying Boxcar
- 1965: December 6, Private ERCoupe F01
- 2005: June 20, Piper-PA-23
- 2007: April 10, Piper PA-46-310P
- 2017: February 23, The Turkish Airlines flight TK183 was forced to change course as mechanical and electronic problems occurred over the triangle.
- 2017: May 15, A Private MU-2B aircraft.
Sea:
- 1492: Christopher Columbus and Santa Maria’s crew reported seeing an unknown light.
- 1800: USS Pickering
- 1812: Patriot
- 1814: USS Wasp
- 1824: USS Wild Cat
- 1840: Rosalie
- 1881: Ellen Austin
- 1918: USS Cyclops
- 1921: Carroll A
- 1925: SS Cotopaxi
- 1941: USS Proteus
- 1963: SS Marine Sulphur Queen
- 2015: SS El Faro
