For human beings, the earth is so big that no one can set foot in every corner of the earth. Therefore, there are some mysterious places in the world that people can only understand by imagination.
Bermuda Triangle – once the most mysterious place
The Bermuda Triangle belongs to North America, located in the southeast of the Florida Peninsula in North America, the specific geographical location is "32°20′N, 64°45′W". The so-called "triangle" is a western Atlantic triangle formed by a three-point connection, with a side length of about 2,000 kilometers on all three sides, and these three points are British Bermuda, Miami in the United States and San Juan in Puerto Rico, so it is called the "Bermuda Triangle".
This triangle is mysterious and terrifying, so it is also called the "Devil's Triangle". Many post-80s and 90s mainly learned about the Bermuda Triangle from the book "The Unsolved Mysteries of the World", which can be described as a book for everyone, and the most mysterious in the book is the Bermuda Triangle.
So, what is the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle? At that time, there were some descriptions of it that were simply incredible, and there were sayings:
Most of the planes, yachts, warships, freighters, etc. passing through this place will mysteriously disappear without wreckage; What is even more outrageous is that the ships and planes that disappeared suddenly appeared many years later, and the passengers in them did not grow old at all; There are even accounts that a disappeared plane was found on the far side of the moon ...
Now it seems that the above description seems very sci-fi, but it is deeply imprinted in the minds of many people. But today, no one mentions the Bermuda Triangle anymore, what is the truth behind it?
A widely circulated mysterious disappearance
In and around the Bermuda Triangle, there have been mysterious disappearances of aircraft and ships. Here's one of the most well-known missing aircraft — the disappearance of the U.S. Navy's 19th Flying Squadron.
Many years ago , at 2 p.m. on December 5, 1945, five Avenger bombers of the U.S. Navy's 19th Flying Squadron, a total of 14 pilots, planned to fly east from Florida to the Bahamas and then return to base to complete flight training.
Unfortunately, only two hours after departure, he lost his way and instead of flying as planned, he flew straight to the center of the Atlantic Ocean. Eventually, the five bombers crashed into the sea as they ran out of fuel.
After that, the US military sent many warships and aircraft to search and rescue, but the result was even more regrettable, not only did not find the bomber and pilot who crashed into the sea, but also sent a PBM-5 seaplane during the search and rescue process, including the 13 personnel on board, none survived. In this sea, on the same day, 6 planes and 27 pilots were lost.
There are also some widely circulated cases of missing warships, the most classic being the "Cyclops" and "Caro Diring".
Regarding the Cyclops, it is a naval transport ship with a displacement of almost twenty thousand tons and can carry more than three hundred people. In March 1918, when it passed through the "Devil's Triangle" area with cargo, the ship and the people disappeared without a trace. You know, its tonnage is equivalent to a light aircraft carrier, and it is surprising that such a steel behemoth has inexplicably disappeared without even leaving any traces.
For the Carodiring, its experience is described even more bizarrely, so it is also called the "ghost ship". It is a multi-masted sailing ship built in 1919 and disappeared without cause while passing through the Triangle on January 9, 1921. Three weeks after its disappearance, it was found off the coast of North Carolina, with its hull intact, while personal belongings, documents, two lifeboats and two anchors, key navigation equipment and logbooks on board were missing.
The truth behind the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
Although, in addition to the above three typical cases, there are many similar incidents in the Bermuda Triangle, the experience is generally the same, which is nothing more than disappearing for no reason.
In fact, some people deliberately associate these events with some mysterious forces, such as underwater pyramids, aliens, time tunnels, etc. At the same time, they also casually waved a place on the map, the Bermuda Triangle, which once became synonymous with their culture.
In other words, the mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle are actually fake. The origin of all this originated in a novel written by a fiction writer, Edward Jones.
In 1950, Edward Jones published an article in the American newspaper about disappearances off the coast of Florida and Bermuda, detailing five incidents over a five-year period, involving the disappearance of a ship, nine aircraft, and 135 people.
It was this person who wrote the novel who first linked the disappearance of the US Navy's 19th Flying Squadron to the Bermuda Triangle, and an intriguing legend was born. Later, coupled with the free play of various novelists, rumors about the Bermuda Triangle got out of hand.
For example, in 1952, a magazine focused on the paranormal depicted this particular area for the first time as a triangle between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda, but this triangle was drawn by the editor;
For example, in 1964, the American writer Vincent Gaddiss also published a fantasy fictional work in the novel magazine "Big Ship": "Death Bermuda Triangle", which is full of a lot of personal fantasy and speculation, pushing the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle to a climax, which can be said to have earned enough eyeballs.
At that time, many people really believed that after all, the magazine "Big Ship" was equivalent to the "Story Meeting" we used to see, and the purpose was to find excitement and fun. In general, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is actually a cultural carnival.
With the popularity of the Bermuda Triangle, someone immediately sniffed out the business opportunities. In 1974, Belize published the book "Bermuda Triangle", and sold 5 million copies in one fell swoop, selling extremely high, making the Bermuda Triangle famous all over the world, and the mainland also knew the Bermuda Triangle at this time.
Perhaps some people still don't know that when they were children, they did not read natural science, but fantasy novels, which only belonged to cultural works. And for more people who already know the truth, naturally there is no longer any mention of the "Bermuda Triangle".
The real Bermuda Triangle
In that case, what does the real Bermuda Triangle look like? Actually, there is nothing special about this place.
If you want to talk about the number of accidents, you can summarize the area with the most traffic accidents at sea, and it turns out that the Bermuda Triangle does not even rank in the top ten.
In addition, human science and technology at that time were still relatively backward, whether it was aircraft performance, communication, positioning, or weather prediction, it was not satisfactory; Even today, if a plane falls into the sea and disappears, it is also difficult to find, after all, there is no trace of sinking into the sea, so it is not a mysterious thing.
Moreover, the Bermuda Triangle today has a considerable traffic flow, but no country has marked it as a danger zone.
Finally, once again, the Bermuda Triangle is a cultural carnival, but it is used by us as a popular science enlightenment book, fortunately it has not had any bad impact, but has greatly driven our childhood curiosity.