Bermuda Triangle Mysteries - Why It Is Called As Devil's Triangle
Undoubtedly, this universe is full of unusual and strange places and amongst them one is Bermuda Triangle. Once we get to know about these places then truly one gets enthusiastic to know about it. One of the surprising mysteries is about the Devil’s triangle. Probably, one remains curious about the mysterious places and tries to grab the feeling of it. The detail mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is described below:
Bermuda Triangle Mysteries

For centuries it is lying mysterious to know about the fact of this Bermuda Triangle. Tales of lost mariners, disappeared ships, crashed aircraft and even vanishing humans, had been emerged from the waters of the Bermuda Triangle.
The vast area of Atlantic Ocean approximately more than half a million square miles is known as the Devil’s Triangle, and unsolved mystery as to why so many travelers get grabbed into this triangle.
Some of them say that there are magnetic anomalies which throw compasses off the course near to it, others claim that tropical cyclones entrap it, and some say there’s is no mystery at all, visiting the area can be much more pleasant than one might think, with the sun-splashed islands of Turks and Caicos beckoning in the south and the coves of Bermuda in the north.
Bermuda Triangle History
A fabled section of the Atlantic Ocean more or less bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. Various accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became perplexed while flying over the area; the planes were never found.
Other cases of boats and planes have also found to vanish in this triangle, even under good weather conditions. Even in this devil’s triangle the radioing distress messages were also not signaled by the boats and planes.
Bermuda Triangle Incidents
- In 1881, legend has it that the Ellen Austin, a ship sailing from Liverpool to New York, encountered a "ghost ship" in the Bermuda Triangle and things quickly went skewed.
- When Christopher Columbus passed through the Bermuda Triangle on his first voyage to the new world, he recorded that a bursting flame of fire struck the sea and caused a strange light to appear in the distance a few weeks later.
- In 1895, Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail solo around the world, vanished on a voyage from Martha's Vineyard to South America.
- In 1941, a Navy ship called the USS Proteus was carrying 58 passengers and a cargo of ore from St. Thomas to the East Coast when it suddenly vanished in the Bermuda Triangle. One month later, its sister ship, The USS Nereus, disappeared with 61 people along the same route.
- In 1945, the legend of the Bermuda triangle began to take hold even more when five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from a naval base in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. and vanished in the Atlantic Ocean before completing their mission.
- In 1948, a DC-3 commercial flight vanished over the Triangle with 29 passengers and two crew members headed toward Miami.
- One year later, in 1949, a G-AGRE plane dubbed "Star Ariel" departed from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica. But the flight suddenly lost communications when it switched over to Kingston frequency above the Bermuda triangle. Though the weather was clear and the flight appeared to be on track, it was never seen or heard from again.
- In 1963, the SS Marine Sulphur Queen, a large tanker carrying 39 passengers and molten sulphur, was last seen near the southern coast of Florida. After more than two weeks of looking, the rescue team only found a few pieces of debris and life preservers.
- The phrase "Bermuda triangle" was officially coined by Vincent Gaddis in a 1964 pulp magazine article titled "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle.
- In 1967, the people on the 590-foot cargo ship Sylvia L. Ossa became victims of the Triangle's mysteries when the ship suddenly disappeared.
- With 37 people on board. Though debris including life preserver and a lifeboat was found, the ship itself was never again detected.
- In 1984, a Cessna plane departing from Fort Lauderdale, and en route to an island in the Bahamas, completely vanished from radar signals before dropping down into the ocean.
- There were no radio signals issued, and though one woman claimed to have seen the plane plunge into the water, no wreckage was ever found.
- On January 31, 2020, the wreckage of the SS Cotopaxi was found off the coast of Florida.
Various Assumptions of the Bermuda Triangle
- Assumptions about the Bermuda Triangle have been widespread since ages. Some recommends that the Triangle's mysteries are a result of alien activity. Others believe that it's the powerful workings of the mythical underwater city Atlantis.
- Bermuda Triangle tales have been proven to be more imaginary tale than piece of evidence. The US government has never acknowledged this area of ocean as an actual, threatening location, but could not find any evidence to suggest that disappearances are occurring with more rate of recurrence in the Triangle than in other large areas of ocean.
Scientists have different perception that these many disappearances occur due to rapid and severe weather changes, shallow waters, and methane gas eruptions in the seafloor.
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