The Bermuda Triangle is a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, where dozens of ships and planes have disappeared over time.
Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a US Navy bomber squadron became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found. Other ships and planes reportedly disappeared from the area in fine weather without even sending distress messages by radio.
Although innumerable fanciful / paranormal theories have been proposed about the Bermuda Triangle, none of them prove that these disappearances occur more frequently in this sector than in other areas of the ocean. In fact, many people navigate this area every day without incident.
The Bermuda Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle , covers an area of approximately 1.1 million km² in the extreme southeast of Florida.
When Christopher Columbus sailed these seas on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a large flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about erratic compass readings.
Everything would skyrocket starting in 1964 , when writer Vincent Gaddis coined the phrase “Bermuda Triangle” in a magazine article: Mysterious additional accidents occurred in the area, including three airliners that went down despite sending messages that “everything is fine”.
Charles Berlitz, whose grandfather founded the Berlitz language schools, further fueled the legend in 1974 with a sensational bestseller about the legend. Since then, dozens of paranormal writers have blamed the triangle’s supposed lethality on every imaginable plot, from aliens, Atlantis, sea monsters, time warps and reverse gravity fields, while scientists have pointed to magnetic anomalies, waterspouts or huge eruptions of methane gas from the ocean floor as explanations. However, in all probability, there is not a single theory that solves the mystery, but a set of several factors.
