Bermuda triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, occasionally termed the Devil's Triangle, is a term used to describe an area which is popularly believed to be an area where planes, ships and people will disappear, and for which no satisfactory explanation for the disappearances have ever been given.

The first unexplained phenomena was in 1493 when Christopher Columbus described "strange lights in the sky" in the area. Since that time, over 170 unexplained disappearances have occurred in the area [1]. The term "the Bermuda Triangle" was not used until possibly 1964 [2]. According to some skeptics, the area was not considered significant until a 1974 book that described an unexplained 1944 disappearance in the area [3]. Earlier dates for disappearances, that were recorded at the time, dating right back to Christopher Columbus in 1493, dispute this theory, however.

Supporters and critics of the phenomena all agree that it is not a fixed area but more of a generalised area, or possibly even a floating area, which may change from time to time. The only opposition that has ever been levelled to claim that this area is not significant is that some of the disappearances may not have appeared within the specified vertices (although many, such as Amelia Earhart and the Mary Celeste, could easily have passed through the Bermuda triangle as the location of their disappearances was never known to any reasonable degree). Of people who put a specific area to the Bermuda triangle, they state that the vertices are Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda.

The majority of people in the world do, however, believe that the Bermuda triangle has something significant about it, making opposition to it a minority, rather than the other way around. To date, nobody on earth has ever been able to explain away even a small proportion of the events, and instead have clung to events which probably were not in the area. [4].

Of note, there is a similar area in Japan, called "The Devil's Sea". Followers of the moving worm hole theory to explain the Bermuda triangle have argued that the two points may in fact both be the same worm hole. Others have claimed that the Japan area is not significant. There are certainly a lot fewer reports surrounding the Japanese area.

Significance

The area is significant because it is a place where an unusually large number of strange, unexplained disappearances have occurred, amongst other strange phenomena.

The area is the area with the single greatest number of reports and investigations into unexplained phenomena on earth, and, whilst many of the reports have alternative "non-conspiracy" angles, not a single report has ever been completely disproven. To this day, no planes ever fly over the area in domestic or international flights, nor do any ships travel through the area, signifying how widely believed it is that this area has something unexplained about it. There have, in the past, on occasions been times when ships and planes have routinely flown over the area, although these have always ended in disaster, with a ship or plane going missing, often in a spectacular manner, which has led to whoever was flying/sailing over the area ceasing this activity.

Albert Einstein spent time in Bermuda in 1937 in order to qualify for citizenship of the United States of America, where he fled to following leaving Germany due to his fears regarding the nazi persecution of Jews and fears for his own well-being. Immediately following this, Albert Einstein was employed by the US government to investigate the Bermuda triangle as a possible answer for the Einstein-Rosen bridge theory, to find the other end of the wormhole that the US government believed existed in the Bermuda triangle, an investigation that continued from 1937 until his death in 1955.

Opposition to the phenomenon

A number of groups of people have suggested that the area is not significant at all, pointing to various holes in the evidence that has supported it being an unusual area.

Included amongst the evidence is the suggestion that some of the disappearances happened in areas not slated to be within the Bermuda triangle area. (e.g. world famous pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the Pacific en route from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island [5] while trying to complete a round the world air flight and it was claimed that the Mary Celeste was found in the triangle when in fact it was found between the Azores and Portugal.).

It is claimed that the area was not named "the Bermuda triangle" until a 1974 book, although the area was mentioned in other publications (including Christopher Columbus in the 15th century) as being an area of great paranormal significance.

In December 1944, five US Navy bombers based at Fort Lauderdale disappeared while on a routine trining flight. In 1974, a sensational book The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz publicised this incident. Subsequently, it was claimed that other aircraft and ships had vanished in the area. It is claimed that some of these had never existed or the accidents occurred elsewhere or there were well-established natural cause such as storms that caused the accident.

The majority of the world's population have rubbished any opposition to this phenomena on the basis that there is absolutely no satisfactory explanation for disappearances such as Mary Celeste, the 5 US Navy bombers or Amelia Earhart and that the sole opposition to this triangle's existence as an area of paranormal activity is that there is dispute about the area that the triangle surrounds. No supporter of the Bermuda triangle being a paranormal area states that there is one fixed area and all agree that the area is either moving or else is only centred around the Bermuda triangle area. This is why the number of people who dispute the area's significance is such a tiny minority. Most people around the world agree that this area is of great significance and that the answer may lie in scientific exploration, surrounding Albert Einstein's theory of the worm hole or something similar.

In support of the Bermuda triangle worm hole

Many strange phenomena have been described by people going to the Bermuda Triangle area, which continue to this day. The first documentation of this strange phenomena was in 1493 by Christopher Columbus, who described "strange lights in the sky".

Survivors have described going through a tunnel, which is consistent with Albert Einstein's theory of a worm hole, in particular of the Einstein-Rosen bridge, which has suggested that the Bermuda Triangle area, at least some of the time, may be a link to another part of space, explaining why there is no trace of any of the craft afterwards.

Alternative theories as to what the Bermuda triangle is

One claim is that the triangle was the location of Atlantis and that fire crystals produced there still emit energy beams that destroy passing vessels.

In addition to the worm hole theories, various other explanations that support the mystery have suggested that aliens (who did not necessarily use a worm hole located nearby) had orchestrated the events for some reason.

See also

• Worm hole
• Black hole
• Albert Einstein