Hello everyone, how are you doing? Today I'll be sharing to you one of the most rated topics of all time due to it's mystery. The Bermuda Triangle 😊

The Bermuda Triangle is a fictional area of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately surrounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, where hundreds of ships and aircraft have vanished. Unexplained circumstances surround some of these incidents, including one involving U.S. squadron pilots. Navy bombers had become disoriented while flying over the area; the aircraft had never been identified. Other vessels and planes had obviously disappeared from the area in good weather, without even sending messages of distress. But while a variety of fanciful hypotheses have been suggested concerning the Bermuda Triangle, none of them indicate that unexplained disappearances occur more often than in other well-traveled areas of the ocean. In reality, without incident, people navigate the area every day.

Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

The region referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or the Devil's Triangle, is about 500,000 square miles of ocean from the southeastern tip of Florida. When Christopher Columbus passed through the region on his first journey to the New World, he claimed that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) had crashed into the sea one night, and that a peculiar light had appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about irregular compass readings, possibly because at that time the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few locations on Earth where the true North and the magnetic North matched up.

Did you know that? After gaining global popularity as the first person to sail solo around the globe, Joshua Slocum vanished on a 1909 trip from Martha's Vineyard to South America. While it is not known precisely what happened, several sources later attributed his death to the Bermuda Triangle.

William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest," which some scholars say was based on the real life of the Bermuda shipwreck, may have strengthened the area's atmosphere of mystery. However, accounts of mysterious disappearances did not really catch the public's interest until the 20th century. A particularly notorious disaster occurred in March 1918 when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men and 10,000 tons of manganese ore on board, sunk somewhere between Barbados and Chesapeake Bay. The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call, despite having been prepared to do so, and an exhaustive search found no wreckage. "Only God and the sea know what happened to the great ship," said the U.S. President Woodrow Wilson said that later. In 1941, two sister ships of the Cyclops likewise disappeared without trace along almost the same path.

The hypotheses and counter-theories of the Bermuda Triangle

By the time author Vincent Gaddis had coined the term "Bermuda Triangle" in a 1964 magazine article, there had been additional unexplained incidents in the area, including three passenger aircraft, which had gone down after having just sent "all's well" messages. Charles Berlitz, whose grandfather founded the Berlitz language schools, stoked the legend even further in 1974 with a sensational bestseller of the legend. Since then, dozens of fellow paranormal authors have blamed the triangle's supposed lethalness on everything from aliens, Atlantis, and sea monsters to time warps and reverse gravity fields, while more scientifically thoughtful theorists have pointed to magnetic disturbances, waterfalls, or major methane gas eruptions from the ocean floor.

However, it is possible that there is no single hypothesis that solves the mystery. As one skeptic put it, trying to find a common cause for every disappearance of the Bermuda Triangle is no more rational than trying to find a common cause for every car accident in Arizona. Moreover, while hurricanes, reefs and the Gulf Stream may pose navigational challenges there, the maritime insurance leader Lloyd's of London does not consider the Bermuda Triangle as a particularly dangerous location. The U.S. is not either. Coast Guard, which says: "In a study of several aircraft and vessel losses in the region over the years, nothing has been found to suggest that the fatalities were caused by anything other than physical causes. No special factors have ever been identified.