BARMUDA Part 2

 

History and Notable Disappearances

Tales of bizarre occurrences in the region began as soon as the first Europeans set sail across the Atlantic. During his first voyage to the New World in 1492, Christopher Columbus reported seeing a strange light on the horizon and a large flame crash into the sea. He also claimed to have encountered unusual compass readings as he sailed through the area. In 1609, the Virginia-bound Sea Venture became the first wreck tied to the region when it foundered on the shores of Bermuda. In the centuries that followed, other vessels disappeared in the area; some were found, but with no sign of their missing crew.

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In 1872, the Mary Celeste was discovered floating in the Atlantic with no one aboard, but its cargo was intact and the crew's personal belongings were untouched. The story of the Mary Celeste became fodder for popular authors of the day and led to it being dubbed the "Ghost Ship." In 1909, a ship helmed by Joshua Slocum, the first person to circumnavigate the globe solo, disappeared on its way from Massachusetts to Venezuela. A U.S. Navy cargo ship, the USS Cyclops, disappeared in March of 1918 shortly after leaving the island of Barbados. The Cyclops was carrying a load of manganese ore and a crew of more than 300. No distress call was ever sent and no wreckage was ever found. The incident remains the single largest non-combat loss of life in U.S. Navy history.

 

      

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One of the most famous disappearances occurred on December 5, 1945, when five Navy bombers carrying fourteen men on a training mission went missing off the coast of Florida. The leader of the group, referred to as Flight 19, radioed to base and said the planes' compasses were malfunctioning, and they had become lost. To further deepen the mystery, a rescue plane with thirteen men on board also disappeared during the search effort.

By the 1950s, these and other tales of missing ships and planes in the region began to draw some attention. In 1964, author Vincent Gaddis first used the term Bermuda Triangle in an article about the disappearances in the pulp magazine Argosy. Gaddis claimed that more than 1,000 lives had been lost in the region. Limbo of the Lost, a book published in the late 1960s, also discussed the Bermuda Triangle. 

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In 1974, Charles Berlitz, a noted language teacher and paranormal enthusiast, wrote a book called The Bermuda Triangle, in which he made the sensational claim that the lost city of Atlantis was somehow responsible for the disappearances. The book became a best seller and catapulted the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle into the public consciousness. Soon, dozens of books on the subject hit the market and a documentary film called The Devil's Triangle was released in theaters in 1974. Director Steven Spielberg even used the mystery of Flight 19 as an element in his 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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