Some Amazing Facts About The Bermuda Triangle Mystery

For decades, the Atlantic Ocean’s fabled Bermuda Triangle has captured the human imagination with unexplained disappearances of ships, planes, and people.

Some speculate that unknown and mysterious forces account for the unexplained disappearances, such as extraterrestrials capturing humans for study; the influence of the lost continent of Atlantis; vortices that suck objects into other dimensions; and other whimsical ideas. Some explanations are more grounded in science, if not in evidence. These include oceanic flatulence (methane gas erupting from ocean sediments) and disruptions in geomagnetic lines of flux.

Popular culture has attributed various disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings. Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors.

The Origin

The name “Bermuda Triangle” was given to this region by writer Vincent Gaddis in 1964. He came up with the phrase while writing for the men’s pulp magazine called Argosy. Still, he was not the one that made this region famous and gave it international notoriety. Charles Berlitz was the one that did that, a man whose family was behind extremely popular language learning courses.

He was obsessed with the paranormal and believed that Atlantis was real and was connected to the Bermuda Triangle. He talked about this theory in his book, fittingly titled “The Bermuda Triangle,” and it became a bestseller. After that huge burst of popularity, many other media outlets started to talk about it, and the mystery became common knowledge.

Surreal Explanations

Many people tried to explain the mystery throughout the years. Other writers tried to expand upon the idea that the region was connected to Atlantis. They believed that this mythical city could be found at the bottom of the ocean, and it used its legendary crystal energies to sink boats and airplanes. Other theories were even more interesting.

One suggested that the Bermuda Triangle was a time portal, although no one could explain why a rift in the fabric of space-time appeared exactly on that spot. Others tried explaining it by involving extraterrestrials, but those theories were completely unconvincing. Still, when it comes to the Bermuda Triangle, anything is possible.

Trying To Make Sense Out Of It

Naturally, some tried giving a more realistic explanation, mostly dealing with geology. Scientists suggested that these airplanes and ships were destroyed by flammable methane gas. Pockets filled with this gas can be found near the bottom of the ocean in many places, which is a well-known fact, and these people suggest that an electrical spark or lightning ignited a bubble of methane that came to the surface and caused the ships to sink. Still, this theory is not completely valid, since methane can be found all over the world, and nowhere else did these types of accidents happen.

A Fabricated Mystery?

Many people do not believe that there is a mystery that should be explained whatsoever. Larry Kusche, a journalist, wanted to discover the origin of all of these mysteries and came up with an unexpected answer. He believed that there is no mystery whatsoever and that the stories about all of these mysterious disappearances were created by mistake.

He claimed that some people even went so far as to fabricate these tales to create a mystery. He claimed that most researchers didn’t investigate the disappearances properly and that a lot of their reports contained old data, which was mostly false. He even analyzed the books that dealt with the paranormal aspects of the Bermuda Triangle and managed to find errors there, which would mean that a lot of the mystery surrounding this region is made up of people wanting to create an interesting story.