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THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE

Posted by Jon King on Dec 05, 2008

Tagged with: bermuda triangle, freak weather, mystery, supernatural, unexplained, weird nature

To enter the Bermuda Triangle is surely to enter the Twilight Zone, as Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor discovered to his ultimate demise on December 5th, 1945, when his squadron of TBM Avenger bombers disappeared without trace while flying off the coast of Florida.

Lieutenant Taylor was not the first to experience the wrath of the Bermuda Triangle.

A similar fate had met Lieutenant Commander GW Worley in March 1918, when his ship the USS Cyclops left Barbados and promptly went missing without trace or explanation, together with a crew of 309.

It was the single biggest loss of life in the history of the US Navy outside a combat situation, but even this was not the first such incident to have occurred inside the Bermuda Triangle. And neither would it be the last.

Indeed, countless reports of ships going missing or aircraft disappearing off radar screens have been logged over the years. In October 1492 even Christopher Columbus and his crew reported seeing ‘strange dancing lights on the horizon’ and ‘in the sky’ whilst sailing through the heart of the Bermuda Triangle.

Columbus also recorded in his log that he had experienced inexplicable compass readings inside the Bermuda Triangle.

Though skeptics and scientists are quick to offer their own theories, ranging from freak weather conditions to human error, none has yet come up with a satisfactory answer to one of the most compelling and enduring mysteries ever.

Over to you…

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