The Bermuda Triangle refers to a triangular sea area west of the Atlantic Ocean consisting of the British Bermuda Islands, Miami and Puerto Rico.
In the 80~90s of the last century, mysterious rumors about the Bermuda Triangle began to spread in China, among which the most widely circulated was the disappearance of ships and aircraft.
The first person to set foot in Bermuda was the legendary navigator Columbus. According to records, in 1502 AD, during Columbus's fourth voyage to the Americas, when approaching Bermuda, he suddenly encountered a strong wind at sea, and almost all the instruments on board failed, and the course was unrecognizable and dark. Fortunately, they were lucky enough to avoid the risk of sinking and docked off the coast of Florida.
The first media reported the disappearance of a Bermuda ship in 1840, when a French trading ship Rosari disappeared near Cuba, and a few weeks later, it was found in Bermuda. Miraculously, there were no traces of damage and fights on board, and it was empty, as if all the crew had evaporated out of thin air. But the goods in the warehouse are all well preserved. What exactly happened on board? No one can explain.
In the 20th century, the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle began to occur frequently, and it was named the "Devil's Triangle". Various ghost ships and mysterious disappearances frequently appear in media newspapers, the more typical ones are the "Cyclops" and "Carol Deering".
The Cyclops is a naval transport ship with a displacement of 12,000 tons. In March 1918, while on duty, the ship disappeared into the waters of the Bermuda Triangle. The U.S. Navy issued tens of thousands of pages of accident reports on the cyclops' disappearance, but most explanations are speculation. To this day, the whereabouts of the ship and its 309 sailors are a mystery.
The Carol Deering, a coal cargo ship that disappeared from Virginia to Rio de Janeiro, was last seen off the coast when the entire crew disappeared for no reason and the U.S. government could not give a proper explanation.
Not only ships, but also aircraft are also suffering from the Bermuda curse, and rumors of crashes and disappearances are common.
The most exaggerated thing is that the American media have reported that the scientific expedition team has found pyramids in the Bermuda Sea, which existed 7,000 years earlier than the Egyptian pyramids. Although there are many reports on the "pyramid theory", but today, when the level of science and technology is very developed, not a single photo has been leaked so far, and it is difficult to believe its authenticity.
Rumors have intensified, and some people also believe that Bermuda is a devil's sea, there may be a space-time tunnel, or a miniature black hole buried from the sky. Some even associate Bermuda with the disappeared Atlantis and aliens. Under all kinds of rhetoric, Bermuda has been portrayed as the most mysterious and terrifying sea area in the world.
Its existence once became popular culture. It also coincided with the "UFO fever" in the second half of the last century, and for a time, derivative art works, cultural peripherals, film and television works about Bermuda emerged one after another, and later introduced into China, becoming the "childhood memory" of many post-80s generations.
Looking back now, the so-called "Devil's Triangle" does not have any supernatural phenomena, and various disappearances and ghost ship incidents are just human exaggerations and self-amusement hype.
One thing that is certain is that Bermuda is indeed a high-incidence area for aircraft and ship accidents, which is related to its special geographical location and natural environment. But in fact, in terms of shipping accident rate alone, Bermuda is far inferior to the Sea of Japan, the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf and other places.
Ship disappearances are a high incidence in all parts of the world, especially in the era of lack of GPS.
And the so-called "ghost ship" is also not surprising. For example, on the coast of Japan, dozens or hundreds of ghost ships float almost every year, and these ships are either overturned in the angry waves, thus losing their owners; Or it is parked unattended at the pier, the cable breaks and washes into the sea.
The waters around Bermuda are often accompanied by hurricanes or thunderstorms, which are indeed a great threat to maritime navigation, but similar situations are by no means unique in the vast oceans, let alone some "mysterious force". Today, when the level of information is highly developed, many old stories are no longer worth scrutinizing and are no longer convincing, which is why the "Bermuda Triangle" is no longer a concern.
In reality, Bermuda is also a tourist destination, with a lively flow of visitors.