The Bermuda Triangle
You won't find it on a real map...
Cranks out there (enabled by pseudo-history documentaries and new age
books) believe that there is a specific spot in the ocean where planes and
ships go missing unusually frequently, caused by extraterrestrial entities or
other supernatural causes.
The Lost City of Atlantis
It is a mythical island that never existed, but is claimed to have a direct
cause for missing boats and planes in the Bermuda triangle, due to “leftover”
technology from the mythical civilization. The reason these people even believe
the Lost City of Atlantis is true is due to the self-purported psychic Edgar
Cayce claiming that he predicted that evidence for this mythical island would
turn up and his followers attribute this to “Bimini Road”, which geologists
consider to be of natural origin and a common feature on the planet.
Other claims that UFOs are responsible for the disappearances.
Nothing Unusual
Let’s first attack the very first claim; that these disappearances are
anomalous.
The number of reported disappearances is not statistically greater than any
other storm prone part of Earth’s many oceans. If it happens as consistently
everywhere else we can rule out that it is an anomaly or an unusual event in
the first place.
The disappearances
were directly proportional to tropical storms.
After writers began
to benefit from persuading others to believe in the supernatural anomalies,
many reported disappearances were fakes and many reports were outright
fraudulent or poorly researched.
The Bermuda triangle
is not the only “triangle”, there are other mythical areas of the Earth where
anomalous disappearances are claimed to occur, for example the “Bridge-water
Triangle in SE Massachusetts and the “Michigan Triangle”. It's not anomalous if
it happens consistently everywhere.
What really happened?
As technology has
improved on navigation instruments, the rate of reported disappearances have
significantly decreased and these numbers are directly related. That; or the
aliens want nothing to do with our weird instruments!
The fact remains,
saying aliens did it is an irrational assumption for something we already have
a scientific understanding of; methane hydrates, tropical storms, human
mistakes, rogue waves, and compass variations are all factors in what causes
any planes or ships to go missing.
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