Bermuda Triangle Conspiracy

1056 Words3 Pages

The Bermuda Triangle is one of the world’s longest mysteries. It is the graveyard for numerous planes and ships that have sunk into their final resting ground. Legends say odd animals lurk in it’s waters and that compasses mysteriously stop working. Is the Bermuda Triangle overrated and simply a figment of our imagination, or is this three sided death trap real? The Bermuda Triangle is located roughly between Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico off the Southeastern coast of the United States. It covers nearly 500,000 square miles in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s other nicknames include the Isle of Devils, Limbo of the Lost and the Devil’s Triangle. Some say that mysterious forces are the cause of the numerous disappearances. It is thought that the …show more content…

It was traveling from New York to Genoa, Italy. There were seven crew members along with Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife and their two-year-old daughter on the ship. It was carrying a large amount of raw alcohol. After days passed a British ship said they found Mary Celeste off the Azores Islands. There was no one on the ship and the lifeboat was also missing. Nine barrels full of raw alcohol were missing and all that was left was a sword on the deck. There was no trace of the people on the ship and the lifeboat has ever been found. Was this the attack of ghost pirates lurking in the Bermuda …show more content…

A routine patrol set out on a sunny day. The towers started receiving alerts from the flight leader that the crew was lost. They reported their compasses were malfunctioning and that everything “looked wrong.” This forced them to fly around until they ran out of gas. The same day, a rescue plane carrying 13 men also disappeared, another one bites the dust. To this day, none of the planes have been found. It was originally called a “pilot error,” but was later changed to “causes or reasons unknown,” after the family of the pilot didn’t believe he would make such a mistake…very sketchy. The Bermuda Triangle became even more popular after a reporter named E.V.W. Jones put together a list of planes and ships that mysteriously disappeared between the coast of Florida and Bermuda. (Post) During World War I, the U.S.S. Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship, set out from Rio de Janeiro on February 16, 1918. The ship briefly stopped in Barbados and from then on was never heard from again. The crew and 306 passengers where never see again either. In 1941, two of the Cyclops’ sister ships disappeared as well following the same route. Maybe the missing passengers are living in the lost city of Atlantis that is thought to be located at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle. ("Bermuda Triangle - Facts &

Open Document