The Bermuda Triangle or The Devil’s Triangle

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The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil’s Triangle, is the cause of many unexplained disappearances that happened within its boundary. One of the many mysteries of the triangle is Flight 19. Five Avenger planes vanished without even a single trace. What happened to Flight 19, did aliens actually abduct the planes? Or is there another explanation as to how they disappeared?
The Bermuda Triangle is situated in the Atlantic Ocean. It is formed by an imaginary line that forms a triangle. The points that form the triangle starts from the island of Bermuda; then to San Juan, Puerto Rico; and then finally to Miami, Florida. The scope of the Bermuda Triangle varies roughly from 500,000 square miles to about more than a million square miles.
One of the famous mystery disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle is the famous Flight 19. It was December 5, 1945 and while doing their routine patrol they vanished. Flight 19 consisted of five Avenger torpedo bomber planes, each with a three-man crew. However, one of the crew did not show up that day, and so with fourteen crewmen, they took off for their scheduled routine patrol.
They took off without any problems. The weather was pleasant and they were fully equipped and ready. Until 3:45 p.m., the tower operators in Fort Lauderdale received a bizarre message from the flight leader, Lt. Charles Taylor. Lt. Taylor reported that they could not see land and that they were off-course. He also reported that they were lost. Baffled, the tower operators told Lieutenant Taylor to go westward, but he answered that they did not know which way west was.
This baffled the tower operators further. At 4:25 p.m., they received a new message from the Avengers...

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