Bermuda Triangle - The Devil’s Triangle

If we look at Bermuda triangle with a cool eye, there is one obvious fact: many stories ... but only stories. No real secrecy about the place but a money-making mystery. One of the greatest mysteries of our world today is the Bermuda Triangle or as some people call it, "the Devil’s Triangle", this is the place where countless ships and airplanes have mysteriously disappeared, never to be heard from again.

Theories as to what causes these disappearances abound; some think that it is nothing more then human error that has led to so many tragedies, others think that it is underground volcanoes and other forces of nature that have brought down so many ships and planes, and still others think that it is extraterrestrials that are out to get us, and for some mysterious reason they chose the Bermuda Triangle.

Over the years, it has been proven that accounts and reports have been greatly embellished by different authors, but the fact still remains that a great number of ships have been lost in the area.

There are no real set boundaries for the Bermuda triangle because every author had his own ideas as to where it is exactly and how far it stretches, but most agree that the Bermuda Triangle stenches from the Straits of Florida, to part of the Gulf of Mexico and the island of Bermuda. Traffic in the area is very heavy due to the location, hundreds of ships regularly pass through the area, not to mention planes that are on their way to South America and the islands in the area, take all that and take it to a time that navigational instruments and tools were not developed, add the fact that sudden storms are a regular occurrence in the area and you will have a deadly combination that is sure to take its toll on human lives.

Not surprisingly, it was Christopher Columbus that first noticed and documented strange things happening in the area, they saw dancing lights in the horizon, flames shooting down from the sky and weird compass bearings, it freaked his crew out so much that they almost mutinied.

It sounds kind of weird to hear about it now, that so many years ago, these kinds of things were documented, but scholars think that the strange lights in the sky were the cooking fires of Indians, the shooting flames were nothing more then meteors, and the strange compass readings were just miscalculations of the stars. It is strange how something that appears so weird to some people, so out of this world, can be perfectly explained in a logical way by others.

But the question is this, is there any truth to the claims that the Bermuda Triangle is a supernatural gateway, that unnatural things happen there, are there really aliens coming all the way to earth just to pick on some passing ships? Where did the legend start anyway? How did it start?

It all started on September 16, 1950, in a newspaper. They started writing about the Bermuda Triangle and soon they were joined by many authors each with his own fantastic story to tell, each author had a different idea as to how big the Triangle was, and each and every author had his own theories as to what was causing the disappearances.

Later on, when the books that these people had written were verified, they found out that facts had been distorted, or made up altogether, important clues as to what really happened had been left out, and reports of the ships that had gone missing had never been changed when those same ships showed up at port. There was one author; it has been said about him that if he writes that the bicycle is red, then you can be certain that it is some other color.

These are the kind of people that have made the Bermuda mystery into what it is today, it sells books and makes people money, but talk to any person with some good common sense, that knows what he is talking about, and he will tell you that it is nothing more then the sea taking its toll on the most traveled shipping lane in the world, in the place that just happens to have the most unpredictable weather.

The Bermuda Triangle is no real mystery, it is a money-making mystery.
By Claudia Miclaus