Bermuda Triangle is the greatest unsolved mystery of the modern age. It is also called the Devil's Triangle. It's a triangular area in the North Atlantic Ocean, stretching from Bermuda Island to Miami, USA, and Puerto Rico.The Bermuda Triangle has swallowed hundreds of people, along with numerous boats, ships, and planes, leaving behind a trail of astonishment. The reasons for these disappearances range from scientific to sheer myth. Here are 10 Shocking facts about the Bermuda Triangle
1. Ellen Austen
The Ellen Austene disappeared in 1881 during one of its several trips between New York and London. The ship ran into another ship that was sailing in the Bermuda triangle. Ellen Austen crew boarded the ship to find that there was no crew on board. So they split in half, so they could guide the newly found ship back to London. The Ellen Austen and the other ship were separated during storm in the triangle and the Austen was never seen again.
2. USS Cyclops
The USS Cyclops was a carrier ship that was active in World War-I. There were about 309 people on board as well as heavy cargo departing from Barbados and en-route to Baltimore on March 4, 1918. The ship never made it to Baltimore and no wreckage was ever found. The disappearance was considered to be one of the largest losses of life that didn't involve in Combat in U.S. Military history.
3. Flight 441
On October30, 1954, Flight 441 took off with 42 passengers including naval officers and their families on their way to Lajes in the Azores Islands. The plane was about 400 miles off the coast inside the Bermuda Triangle,when communication was last exchanged, and no SOS call was put in. Flight 441 never arrived at its destination and literally disappeared without a trace and making it one of the most notable disappearance to date.
4. Flight DC-3
On December 29,1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft with 32 passengers on board disappeared while on route from SaN Juan, Puerto Rico and Miami , Florida. The plane was initially low on batteries but the pilot continued to fly anyway. The plane, nor traces of the people or wreckage, was ever found.
5. Star Tiger and Star Ariel
Two planes from British American airways disappeared over the triangle in the span of under the year. The Star Tiger disappeared on Jan 30, 1948 flying from Azores to Bermuda. The second plane, The Star Ariel disappeared on Jan 17, 1947 from Bermuda to Kingston , Jamaica. Both aircrafts were passengers planes and had limited RADAR technology making it more difficult from them to reach their designation.
6. Witchcraft
The witch craft was a luxury cabin boat owned by Hotel Guru Dan Burack. On December 22, 1967 Dan and another man named Father Horgan , went out about a mile off shore to see the Christmas light along the Miami coastline. Burack called the coast-guard stating that he had hit something and would need to be towed back to shore, and would shoot a flare gun to announce his position. However, when the coast-guard arrived, the boat was nowhere to be found. The search expanded 1,200 miles with no results.
7. Frank And Romina Leone
Newly Wed couple Frank and Romina Leone went fishing on their brand new boat on June 18, 2003. But when they didn't show up to their jobs .Several days later, friend and family feared the worst. The boat had departed from Boynton Beach inlet in Florida. The U.S coastguard searched the waters from Miami to Savannah Georgia, but the boat was never found.
8. Flight 19
On December 5, 1945, Five TBM Avengers Torpedo bomber planes disappeared along with 14 men during a training flight over the triangle. The crew was known as Flight 19 and the incident is the most famous of all the Bermuda Triangle cases and inspired a scene for the movie " Close Encounters" of the third kind. No traces of the planes were ever found.
Those were only some hot cases of Bermuda Triangle. Few more examples related to this triangles are like the civilian tanker SS Marine Sulphur Queen, Collier naval-ship and Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 etc.
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