The Site
This site is a compilation of data from 1492 to 2001 on over 170
disappearances of ships, boats, planes and other phenomena which have occurred in or near
(sometimes far from!) the area known as "The Bermuda Triangle".
The number of discrepancies in the documentation is
astounding. Some of the disappearances occurred far from the boundaries of the triangle,
some occurred in very bad storms and rough seas, some have other factors which might be
responsible, some have no facts that can be verified, but there are a few that are quite
strange.
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The Area
The "Bermuda or Devil's
Triangle" is an imaginary area located off the southeastern Atlantic coast of the
United States, which is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small
boats, and aircraft. The apexes of the triangle are generally accepted to be Bermuda,
Miami, Fla., and San Juan, Puerto Rico. However, The U. S. Board of
Geographic Names does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle as an official name and does not
maintain an official file on the area.
An area called the "Devil's Sea" by Japanese and Filipino seamen, located
off the east coast of Japan, also exhibits the same magnetic characteristics. It is also
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Brief History
To my knowledge the first documentation that anything was amiss in the area came
from Christopher Columbus,
who reported compass malfunctions and a bolt of fire that fell into the sea. He
also reports of a light on the horizon.
The rest is history.... sort of.
Since that time there have been hundreds of disappearances in the area. A full time
job for the Coast Guard no doubt.
In the past, extensive, but futile Coast Guard searches prompted by search and
rescue cases such as the disappearances of an entire squadron of TBM Avengers (Flight 19)
shortly after take off from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., or the traceless sinking of USS
CYCLOPS and MARINE SULPHUR QUEEN have lent credence to the popular belief in the mystery
and the supernatural qualities of the "Bermuda Triangle."
It seems that interest in the "Bermuda Triangle" can be traced to (1) the
cover article in the August 1968 Argosy, "The Spreading Mystery of the Bermuda
Triangle", (2) the answer to a letter to the editor of the January 1969 Playboy
and (3) an article in August 4, 1968 I, "Limbo of Lost Ships", by Leslie
Lieber. Also, many newspapers carried a December 22, 1967 National Geographic Society news
release which was derived largely from Vincent Gaddis' Invisible Horizons: True
Mysteries of the Sea (Chilton Books, Philadelphia, 1965. OCLC# 681276) Chapter 13,
"The Triangle of Death", in Mr. Gaddis' book, presents the most comprehensive
account of the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. Gaddis describes nine of the more
intriguing mysteries and provides copious notes and references. Much of the chapter is
reprinted from an article by Mr. Gaddis, "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle", in the
February 1964 Argosy. The article elicited a large and enthusiastic response from
the magazine's readers. Perhaps the most interesting letter, which appeared in the May
1964 of Argosy's "Back Talk" section, recounts a mysterious and
frightening incident in an aircraft flying over the area in 1944.
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Theories
Countless theories attempting to explain the many disappearances have been
offered throughout the history of the area. The most practical seem to be environmental
and those citing human error. The majority of disappearances can be attributed to the
area's unique environmental features.
It has been said that the "Devil's
Triangle" is one of the two places on earth that a magnetic compass does point
towards true north. Normally it points toward magnetic north. The difference between the
two is known as compass variation. The amount of variation changes by as much as 20
degrees as one circumnavigates the earth. If this is the case and a compass variation or
error is not compensated for, a navigator could find himself far off course and in deep
trouble.
Another environmental factor is the character of the Gulf Stream. It is extremely
swift and turbulent and can quickly erase any evidence of a disaster. The unpredictable
Caribbean-Atlantic weather pattern also plays its role. Sudden local thunder storms and
water spouts often spell disaster for pilots and mariners. Finally, the topography of the
ocean floor varies from extensive shoals around the islands to some of the deepest marine
trenches in the world. With the interaction of the strong currents over the many reefs the
topography is in a state of constant flux and development of new navigational hazards is
swift. Not to be under estimated is the human error factor. A large number
of pleasure boats travel the waters between Florida's Gold Coast and the Bahamas. All too
often, crossings are attempted with too small a boat, insufficient knowledge of the area's
hazards, and a lack of good seamanship.
gas
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Dr. Ben Clennell, of Leeds University, England, is not the first to
make note of the possibility of methane hydrates as a source for causing ships to
disappear, he has become identified with the theory which, on September 21, 1998, at the
Festival of Earth Sciences at Cardiff, Wales, he proposed methane hydrates as the future
of energy.
As a part of his elaborate dissertation he claimed that methane locked below the sea
sediments in the Bermuda Triangle can explain the mysterious disappearances. He told how
subterranean landslides can unlock the vast beds of methane hydrate. This would be
disastrous, he told the audience, because large amounts of methane would reduce the
density of the water. “This would make any ship floating above sink like a
rock.” He went on to explain how the highly combustible gas could also ignite
aircraft engines and blow them to pieces. Although I believe a certain percentage of
flammable gas to air is required for the atmosphere to become combustible.
aliens and time
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There is another school of thought regarding the disappearance of people along with
their craft, it is thought that they are "trapped in-between time dimensions,"
of which there is "no way out." These disappearances are accidental and not
intentional. The victims were in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
The "Bermuda Triangle" is one of two portals, used by the
"human-like" aliens, to travel from their planet to ours. The "Bermuda
Triangle" is not actually a triangle. When it is "in-phase," it is
constantly in motion and in intensity (between one to one and a half mile wide). The
disappearances occur when caught in the center or within the first two outward radiating
rings.
The occurrence takes place 25 times a year and lasts for 28 minutes, for the
"Bermuda Triangle." The "Pacific Triangle," takes place only 3 times a
year. The "Bermuda and the Pacific Triangles" are linked to other triangles that
exist throughout the universe. The "human-like" aliens technology enable them to
use "time compression, solar power and the ability to reduce friction," for
travelling across vast distances. It takes them approximately 24 hours to travel from
their planet to Earth.
These "time holes" can be described as an "accordion in
motion." When the "time hole" is compressed, the craft enters one end and
when the "time hole" expands itself, the craft is at the opposite end exiting
one "time hole" and entering another. The "human-like" aliens know
exactly which "time hole" is compressed, at any given time.
atlantis & crystals
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This theory was helped along in more recent years by the psychic Edgar
Cayce (1877-1945) who became the U.S.'s most prominent advocate of a factual Atlantis.
Widely known as "The Sleeping Prophet," Cayce claimed the ability to see the
future and to communicate with long-dead spirits from the past. He identified hundreds of
people...including himself ...as reincarnated Atlanteans.
Cayce said that Atlantis had been situated near the Bermuda island of Bimini. He believed
that Atlanteans possessed remarkable technologies, including supremely powerful
"fire-crystals" which they harnessed for energy. A disaster in which the
fire-crystals went out of control was responsible for Atlantis's sinking, he said, in what
sounds very much like a cautionary fable (what is that about history repeating itself ?)
on the dangers of nuclear power. If still intermitently active beneath the ocean waves,
damaged fire-crystals send out energy fields that interfere with passing ships and
aircraft...which is how Cayce accounted for the Bermuda Triangle.
Cayce prophesied that "elements of Atlantis would rise in 1968 and 1969".
The Bimini Wall or Road was discovered off the coast of Bimini in 1968.
ray brown's crystal
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In 1970, Dr. Ray Brown, a naturopathic practitioner from Mesa, Arizona, went scuba
diving with some friends near the Bari Islands in the Bahamas, close to a popular area
known as the Tongue of the Ocean (This was depicted in the television show, "In
Search Of...Atlantis," originally made in 1979.
During one of his dives, Brown became separated from his friends and while
searching for them he was startled when he came across a strange pyramid shape silhouetted
against the aquamarine light. Upon investigating further, Brown was surprised by how
smooth and mirror-like was the stone surface of the whole structure, with the joints
between the individual blocks almost indiscernible. Swimming around the capstone, which
Brown thought might have been lapis lazuli, he discovered an entrance and decided to
explore inside. Passing along a narrow hallway, Brown finally came to a small rectangular
room with a pyramid-shaped ceiling. He was totally amazed that this room contained no
algae or coral growing on the inner walls. They were completely spotless! In addition,
though Brown had brought no torch with him, he could nevertheless see everything in the
room with his normal eyesight. The room was well lit, but no direct light source was
visible. Brown's attention was drawn to a brassy metallic rod three inches in diameter
hanging down from the apex of the center of the room and at its end was attached a
many-facetted red gem, which tapered to a point. Directly below this rod and gem, sitting
in the middle of the room, was a stand of carved stone topped by a stone plate with
scrolled ends. On the plate there was a pair of carved metal bronze-colored hands,
life-sized, which appeared blackened and burnt, as if having been subjected to tremendous
heat. Nestled in the hands, and situated four feet directly below the ceiling rod gem
point, was a crystal sphere four-inches in diameter. Brown tried to loosen the ceiling rod
and red gemstone but neither would move. Returning to the crystal sphere, he found, to his
amazement, that it separated easily from the bronze hand holders. With the crystal sphere
in his right hand he then made his way out of the pyramid. As he departed, Brown felt an
unseen presence and heard a voice telling him never to return!
Fearing, rightly, that his unusual prize might be confiscated as salvage-treasure
by the American Government, Dr. Brown did not reveal the existence of his strange crystal
sphere, nor did he relate his experiences until 1975, when he exhibited his crystal for
the first time at a psychic seminar in Phoenix.
Since that time, the crystal sphere has made only a very few public appearances but
on each occasion people who have seen it have experienced strange phenomena directly
associated with it.
Deep inside the crystal form, one gazes upon three pyramidal images, one in front
of the other,in decreasing sizes. Some people who enter a deep meditative state of
consciousness are able to discern a fourth pyramid, in the foreground of the other three.
Elizabeth Bacon, a New York psychic, claimed while in trance, that the crystal
sphere had once belonged to Thoth, the Egyptian God who was responsible for burying a
secret vault of knowledge in Giza, near the three great Pyramids. Perhaps the positions of
the three pyramidal images in the crystal sphere hold the long-sought key to finding a
fourth, as yet unfound, subterranean pyramid that will lead us to the Hall of Records? Who
knows?
Looking at the crystal sphere from the side, the internal images dissolve into
thousands of tiny fracture lines. Brown feels that these may prove to be electrical in
nature, like some form of microscopic circuitry. From yet another angle, and under special
conditions, many people have been able to see a large single human eye staring out
serenely at them. Photographs of this eye have also been taken. I have not been able to
find this photo anywhere.
Dr. Brown's crystal sphere has been the source of a wide variety of paranormal and
mysterious occurrences. People have felt breezes or winds blowing close to it. Both cold
and warm layers surround it at various distances. Other witnesses have observed phantom
lights, heard voices or felt strange tingling sensations surrounding it. A compass needle,
when placed next to the crystal sphere, will spin counter-clockwise, then commence turning
in the opposite direction when moved only inches away. Metals become temporarily
magnetized when they come into close contact with the sphere.
There are even recorded instances where healing has taken place by merely touching
the sphere.
We may only speculate as to why the crystal sphere was created and what part it
once played within the underwater Bahamas pyramid discovered by Ray Brown.
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Disappearances and
other strange occurrences in the area are contained in links listed in the table below,
listed by dates. The books listed give sources and references except where noted.
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byerly.org .
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