Bermuda Triangle: The Devil's Lair

Many people argue, that it doesn't exist. And, you won't find it in any map.The U. S. Board of Geographic Names does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle and does not maintain an official file on it. However, within this imaginary area, many real vessels and the people aboard them have seemingly disappeared without explanation.

The Bermuda Triangle is located off the Southeastern coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean, with its apexes in the vicinities of Bermuda, Miami, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. It covers roughly 500,000 square miles.

The main mystery surrounding the Devils Lair is of unusual and unsolved disappearances o f many ships and planes.According to Llyod's of London reported 428 missing vessels throughout the world between 1955 and 1975.But, the report only contained huge vessels which were insured.Gian J. Quasar, author of "Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery" , later found out 300 missing vessels from the previous 2 years! Not even a single disappearance has been solved, all were closed as "UNSOLVED CASE".

The most famous Bermuda Triangle story is the mystery surrounding five missing Navy Avengers in 1945. The story of Flight 19 is usually summarized this way: a routine patrol set out on a sunny day with five highly experienced student pilots. Suddenly, the tower began receiving transmissions from the flight leader that they were lost, compasses were not working, and "everything looked wrong." They were never seen again, and extensive Navy investigations turned up no clues to explain the disappearance.

Now, lets hear some really far fetched stories and explanations about the disappearances.The most popular explanation, favoured by many, is Alien Abduction! Well, the place teems with imagined alien sightings, so Floridan people added 2 with 2 and got 4! But abductions aren't the only theory; some also have theorized that the Bermuda Triangle area is a portal to other planets.Many believe that the Bermuda Triangle area is home to the lost city of Atlantis and remnants of its advanced technologies. Therefore, the ancient Atlantis still haunts the place, and it's energy source send energy waves which disrupts communication system, or disintegrates them.

Another, more mystic and weird, explanation is given by Rob MacGregor and Bruce Gernon. On December 4, 1970, Gernon and his father were flying to Bimini in clear skies when they saw a strange cloud with almost perfectly round edges hovering over the Miami shore. As they flew over it, the cloud began spreading out, matching or exceeding their speed. At 11,500 feet, they thought that they had escaped the "cloud," only to discover that it had formed a tunnel. It appeared the only way they could escape the cloud was to go through the tunnel. Once inside, they saw lines on the walls that spun in a counterclockwise direction. Gernon's navigational instruments went haywire and the compass spun counterclockwise. When Gernon contacted Miami Air Traffic Control to get radar identification, the controller said that there were no planes on radar between Miami, Bimini and Andros.As Gernon got out of the tunnel, he was above Miami, 28 minute before the minimum time of departure! This lead Gernon to believe that the fog has time travel qualities.I like this explanation a lot!

Now lets see some more plausible theories.Not proved of course, but more realistic nonetheless.
1.)The area is subject to violent and unexpected storms and weather changes. These short but intense storms can build up quickly, dissipate quickly, and go undetected by satellite surveillance. Waterspouts that could easily destroy a passing plane or ship are also not uncommon. A waterspout is simply a tornado at sea that pulls water from the ocean surface thousands of feet into the sky. Other possible environmental effects include underwater earthquakes, as scientists have found a great deal of seismic activity in the area. Scientists have also spotted freak waves up to 100 feet high.

2.)Scientists at Cardiff University have discovered the presence of large concentrations of methane gas trapped in the ocean floor.Within seconds of a methane gas pocket rupturing, the gas surges up and erupts on the surface without warning. If a ship is in the area of the blowout, the water beneath it would suddenly become much less dense. The vessel could sink and sediment could quickly cover it as it settles onto the sea floor. Even planes flying overhead could catch fire during such a blowout.

As long as people will argue about the explanations, the triangle will remain a mystery. The unsolved cases will hung on, crying to be solved, but they wont be.The mystery surrounding the Devil's Lair is too intense for the World to solve.Mother Nature has worked really hard so that we may not know the mystery! But nonetheless, whatever the reason, I am not going through that route!