What’s Really Happening in the Bermuda Triangle

March 1918. World War I is raging both on land and at sea. German U-boats are even sinking ships off the American coast. Basically almost every country is at risk. Amid these tense backdrops, the American ship Cyclops sets sail from Brazil, heading for the United States. It's carrying manganese ore, a critical material for weapons production. Cyclops is massive, 165 meters long, with 306 people on board. Near the island of Barbados, Cyclops stops due to overloading and engine trouble. After that, it vanishes, simply disappears without a trace. No wreckage, no bodies, no SOS signal. The Americans assumed the Germans sank Cyclops, but after the war, when German archives were opened, it turns out they had nothing to do with it. There's no record anywhere. And the crew? That's not a simple mistake either. Captain George Worley had commanded Cyclops since its very first voyage in 1910. The investigation drags on for months, and eventually the U.S. Navy Department declares, The disappearance of Cyclops is one of the greatest mysteries in Navy history. All efforts to locate her have failed. No theory explains how or under what circumstances this disappeared. For the next 20 years, Cyclops lives on only in rumors. Some say pirates captured it, others blame a giant squid. Then the story gets even darker. During World War II, almost along the exact same route, two more ships of the Cyclops type disappear, Proteus and Neirus. Again, the Americans have no answers. No distress signals, no wreckage, no bodies. They assume the Germans sank them, but once more, there's nothing to confirm it. The U.S. simply doesn't have time to investigate further. There's a war to fight. Counting and searching for lost ships will have to wait. Years pass. One, two, three, until October 22nd, 1944, when U.S. Navy patrols spot a drifting merchant ship near Florida, the Rubicon. It's moving slowly, sending no signals. Patrol boats board the ship and find... a dog, wagging its tail with no humans aboard. Personal belongings are scattered in the cabins. Another year goes by, and then comes perhaps the most mysterious disappearance of all, Flight 19. In December 1945, five Avenger torpedo bombers take off from Fort Lauderdale Naval Base in Florida. It's just a small triangle, then home. The flight is led by seasoned pilot Charles Taylor. At first, everything is smooth. The pilots practice their maneuvers and prepare to return. But suddenly, Taylor reports a compass problem. We cannot be sure of any direction. Everything is wrong, strange. The ocean doesn't look right. The last transmission reaches the base at 6.04 pm, and after that, silence. They dispatch two Mariner-class seaplanes to search for the bombers. One of them, carrying 13 people, also disappears. In a single day, the U.S. loses six aircraft and 27 servicemen. Still, no bodies, no wreckage. So, what really happened? It appears the Americans flew straight into the Bermuda Triangle, a mysterious zone said to harbor sea monsters and even flying saucers. Here's the twist. At the time, no one called it a triangle. Up until the late 1940s, each disappearance was seen as an isolated incident. Only later did people notice a suspicious pattern start to emerge. The first article about strange wonders near the Bermuda Islands appeared on September 17, 1950. It comes with a map attempting to link the disappearances. Though no modern triangle exists yet, the outline is slowly forming. Two years later, paranormal magazine Fate publishes its own story. It lists the latest disappearances near Bermuda, South Florida, and Puerto Rico, along with Flight 19 and ships carrying manganese ore. Then comes a turning point. American writer Vincent Gaddis grabs a pencil and ruler, and outlines the area with the most disappearances. In February 1964, he writes an article titled, The Deadly Bermuda Triangle, describing the terrifying events said to occur there. Gaddis later turns the idea into a book, but it doesn't gain huge popularity. Another 11 years pass, and in 1974, former military officer Charles Berlitz jumps in, publishing The Bermuda Triangle. This time, it explodes, with 20 million copies sold, dozens of languages, and huge royalties. Why? Berlitz claims everything in the Bermuda Triangle disappears because of Atlantis, the legendary sunken continent. He believes it went down right in the triangle, creating special energy fields that interfere with compasses and radio signals. That's why ships and planes start disappearing one after another. Berlitz even includes disappearances that never occurred there, or happened centuries earlier. Thanks to the book, The Bermuda Triangle goes viral. In 1978, Steven Spielberg releases Close Encounters of the Third Kind, featuring Flight 19 being abducted by aliens. A Bermuda Triangle board game even hits the market, along with countless documentaries, news segments, and even a Scooby-Doo episode. Be sure to drop a like if you liked that show as much as I did. As hype builds, more Bermuda Triangle stories emerge. From the 1960s to the 1980s, planes and ships supposedly vanish without a trace. The world starts to wonder, could there really be a massive black hole near America, sucking in people, metal, and even common sense? Honestly, if we're being serious, over the last 100 to 150 years, about 100 ships, 50 planes, and at least a thousand people have vanished in the Bermuda Triangle. Now, these cases are hard to explain. It's pure mystery. Now, wouldn't it be fascinating to know what the very first person to sail here felt? Well, let's step back in time and ask them. Because that first person was Christopher Columbus. Back then, he was looking for a shortcut from Europe to India. But Columbus had no clue that two entire continents would block his way. In fact, there was a lot he didn't know. Even astronauts flying to the moon had a better idea of their route than Christopher Columbus did about his. They knew where they were going, how long it would take, what they'd see along the way, and how they'd get back. Columbus, on the other hand, knew none of that. He just had three ships and 90 men. No maps, no radio, not even a clue about how long the journey would take. Yet, he sailed on, and eventually reached the area we now call the Bermuda Triangle. And that's when his mystery story began. In his ship's log, Columbus describes the sea he sees here, thick with dense seaweed. He also mentions the compass acting strangely, sudden flashes in the sky, and mysterious lights on the horizon. All of this terrified the sailors, already exhausted from the voyage. But here's the twist. Columbus's expedition ended safely, not just once, but multiple times. Word of all his strange observations in this region eventually reached Europe, and so people thought, well that's scary, why would anyone sail there? But then treasure was found in the Americas, so fear didn't stop sailors from heading this way. Now, let's break it down step by step. The most famous Bermuda Triangle tale involves compass problems. Columbus noticed that at one point, his compass needle stopped pointing to the North Star, and shifted towards Northwest. Interesting. He thought, and just kept sailing. But his superstitious crew freaked out. Columbus decided to explain it, saying maybe there's some other point in the world that the compass is pointing to. The sailors believed him, calmed down, and the journey continued. Basically, Columbus made it up, but he ended up being right. The compass needle doesn't point to the North Pole, not even the North Star, as people once thought. It actually points to the North Magnetic Pole, which today is roughly here. And it's always on the move. Back in Columbus's time, it was somewhere around Canada. In fact, there are almost no places on Earth where a compass points perfectly north. Everywhere has some level of deviation, sometimes a huge one. But modern sailors, pilots, and tourists know how to handle it. Making all these mysterious compass problem stories pretty funny. As for that sudden flash in the sky, it was most likely just a meteor. Sailors all over the world had seen them at different times. Now about those mysterious glows. Columbus's crew was desperate to see signs of land. Maybe a fisherman waving a torch, or a signal fire along the coast. They were exhausted, and starting to lose hope of ever finding land. So it's easy to see how they might have imagined a light on the horizon, or even mistaking a mirage for one. Yet this area kept spooking them, and for good reason. The region Columbus sailed later became known as the Sargasso Sea. It's a massive stretch of the Atlantic, almost the size of the United States. And right in the middle lies the Bermuda Triangle. The sea's name comes from the Portuguese word Sargasso, meaning seaweed. Strong currents swirl clockwise, trapping tons of seaweed and forming floating islands. Another quirk of the Sargasso Sea is the horse latitudes. These are areas where the wind can vanish completely, for weeks. A ship drifting here during a lull could get stuck. It couldn't move, and would start getting overgrown with seaweed. Meanwhile, the crew would be roasting under the sun. Eventually food and water would run out. Thirsty, sunstruck horses couldn't take it. They'd panic and rush into the sea. And that's how the term horse latitudes came about, along with tales of ghostly horses glimpsed overboard. Sometimes ships trapped here were found with nothing but skeletons. Their crews never saw the wind return. But more often than not, ships weren't found at all. They were destroyed by the shipworm, or toredo. This tiny mollusk literally chewed wooden ships into sawdust, sinking them. Though called a worm, it's really just a mollusk that loves seaweed here. In legends, it became a terrifying monster, gnawing ships to pieces. So, trying to count how many ships vanished here over 400 years, from Columbus to the 20th century, is basically impossible. Imagine it. No radio, wooden hulls, fully at the mercy of the wind. Any accident and no one would ever know. And pirates? They were everywhere. We have no idea how many disappearances were actually caused by them. After all, pirates weren't exactly known for filing reports. Stories about this mysterious area spread like wildfire. Over time, people started talking about ghost ships found drifting in open water, completely crewless. One of the most famous tales is the Mary Celeste. Discovered in 1872, the ship was intact, fully stocked with food and all the crew's belongings. But the crew was nowhere to be found. Newspapers blamed the Bermuda Triangle, but actually, the Mary Celeste was found far from the Triangle, and another part of the Atlantic altogether. In short, the Triangle had a shady reputation long before modern times. But while ship disappearances in the past are pretty easy to explain, modern ones are a little trickier. In the 19th century, sails were replaced by steam engines, wooden hulls were reinforced with metal, and by the early 20th century, radio communication became a thing. Radio often saved sailors' lives, but not everyone used it. In 1909, Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail solo around the world, disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. On November 14th, 1909, Slocum set off on his yacht, The Spray, heading for South America. His route took him right through the Triangle, and after that day, he vanished. So how could such an experienced sailor just disappear? Actually, it's not that surprising. Slocum was 65. A storm could have sunk him, or a large steamship could have collided with him. Sounds unbelievable, but these things really happened in the 19th and 20th centuries. Large steamships were clumsy, they couldn't turn quickly or slow down fast. Meanwhile, small boats sailed at night with almost no lights, no radar, no GPS. Sailors relied entirely on their eyes. That's why the Titanic didn't see the giant iceberg. So imagine spotting a tiny yacht like Slocum's. Now, let's return to the Cyclops, which kicked off this story. Size alone doesn't explain its disappearance. It was only 100 meters smaller than the Titanic, and even had radio. So what happened to it? And to the Proteus and the Nehru's? Clearly they sank, but the big question is, how exactly did they go down? First, ships of this class had design flaws. Sailors on the Cyclops reported weird metallic creaking sounds, and even saw the deck bend under small waves. The beams running along the hull had weakened due to rust. The same problem affected Jason, and the cargo ship Chucky, built like Cyclops, literally split in half despite calm seas. The second reason? Manganese ore cargo. It was denser than the coal the Cyclops was designed to carry. That means a ton of ore takes up less space than a ton of coal. This left extra room on the ship, meaning that the ore was able to shift from side to side. On top of that, the Cyclops could carry a maximum of 8,000 tons, but on its final voyage, it was loaded with a whopping 11,000 tons. To make things worse, one of the engines broke down along the way. Still, the crew pressed on. The ore was critical for the war effort. And finally, there was a nasty storm in the area at the time. Most likely, the storm caused the ore to suddenly shift to one side. The ship tilted, water rushed in, and it either capsized or split in half and sank. It happened so fast that the crew didn't even have time to send an SOS. The Proteus and the Nehrus were also carrying manganese ore, and ran into the same problems as the Cyclops. The only ship in this series that didn't sink on its own was the Jupiter, and that's only because it had been converted into the first US aircraft carrier, and later sunk by the Japanese during World War II. Okay, what about the Rubicon, where only a dog was found on board? All we know about this case is from the New York Times. The headline read, Drifting Ship Has Only One Dog On Board. Sounds mysterious until you read the article. It turns out the ship didn't have lifeboats. Its mooring line had snapped, and the last log entry was made while the Rubicon was docked in Havana, Cuba. The journalists tried to make sense of it. When the ship was in Havana, a powerful hurricane struck. The crew had to abandon Rubicon and reach shore on lifeboats. Everything happened so quickly that they even forgot the dog on board. Then the hurricane grew so intense that the mooring lines couldn't hold, and it snapped, and the Rubicon was carried out to open sea. But no official investigation was done at the time, since everyone was focused on World War II. Reporters tried to track down Rubicon's crew, but they came up empty-handed. Maybe the sailors just didn't want to talk. There's even a theory that the ship was carrying contraband, and the crew might have vanished on purpose. After the war when the communists took power in Cuba, any investigation became nearly impossible. And so, the story remained a forgotten mystery until Bermuda Triangle fans brought it back into discussion. Now, onto the most famous case. What about Flight 19? How did five planes vanish without a trace, and then a sixth plane disappeared in exactly the same way? Since then, the Flight 19 story has become wrapped in chilling details. Supposedly, in their final moments, the pilots said something like, we're entering white water, don't come after us, they look like they're from space. But official reports and radio transcripts tell a different story. The only pilot with real experience in these flights was the group commander, Lieutenant Taylor. The rest were trainees. And the weather wasn't on their side that day. Strong winds and heavy rain. Lieutenant Taylor's compass was malfunctioning, and because he was the commander, everyone followed his orders. Soon enough, the planes got lost, and Taylor reported their position to the base. The trainees repeatedly suggested turning west towards Florida. The base told Taylor the same thing, but he kept to his plan. Then, he sent the last message. All aircraft stay close. If we don't see land soon, we'll have to make an emergency landing in the water. When anyone drops below 10 gallons, we all descend together. Okay? As you can see, there's no mention of any white water or aliens. Right after the planes vanished, an official investigation began. The crash was blamed on Lieutenant Taylor, who was reportedly in a mentally unstable state. He got confused about his position and made several geographic mistakes. The cadets trusted him and followed his lead until the very end. They flew over the ocean until their fuel ran out, and then they ended up in the water. Later, Lieutenant Taylor's mother managed to clear her son of any blame. So in the final report, the crash is officially listed as unknown. As for the disappearance of the rescue plane, this one is actually easier to explain. Just 20 minutes after it took off, the merchant ship Gaines Mill reported over the radio an explosion in the sky with an oil slick on the water. The ship also sent the coordinates, which matched perfectly where the rescue plane should have been at that moment. This tragedy happened because of the quirks of the Mariner planes. They trapped gasoline fumes in the cabin so any spark could set them off. Pilots even called the Mariners flying gas tanks, and smoking was strictly forbidden, understandably so. Honestly, between 1942 and 1945, Fort Lauderdale lost 95 people on training flights, so another disappearance wasn't all that surprising. And Flight 19 wasn't the only group flying over the Bermuda Triangle that day. Other pilots returned safely. The ocean. It's a pretty scary place, and honestly, we have no idea just how scary. Especially if you go all the way down to the very bottom. To give you some perspective, humans have launched more successful missions into space than we've managed on the ocean floor. Even if you were lucky enough to get here safely in a deep sea submersible, you still wouldn't see much. Maybe 10 meters ahead, maybe 20. That's it. This is why hunting for shipwrecks on the ocean floor is so expensive and tricky. Take the Titanic for example. It was only found 73 years after it sank. Why the long wait? Simply put, the technology just wasn't ready yet, even though people had a pretty good idea where it was all along. The Titanic rests at 3,800 meters down. Meanwhile, the average depth of the Bermuda Triangle is 5,000 meters. And if that's not deep enough for you, there's the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest point in the Atlantic. It plunges down to 8,742 meters, almost the height of Mount Everest. There are no exact boundaries for the Bermuda Triangle. Every author draws it differently, so its size ranges from 1 to almost 4 million square kilometers. For comparison, the U.S. covers about 9.8 million square kilometers. So if 10, 100, or even 1,000 ships vanish in this area, finding them is almost impossible. And to make things trickier, the Gulf Stream flows right through here, a strong current up to 90 kilometers wide. It runs right under the areas where ships and planes often disappear. The Gulf Stream can just scoop up a wreck and carry it far, far away. Luckily, in the shallower parts of the Bermuda Triangle, things are a bit better. Over the past 40 years, some lost ships and a few Avenger-class planes have been found, but their serial numbers didn't match Flight 19. And yes, that was a bit of a disappointment to the hardcore fans. Of course, not everyone believed in the Bermuda Triangle or trusted Berlitz's book. Then, in 1975, a man appeared who actually did real research on the topic, Lawrence Cuchet, a librarian at Arizona State University and an amateur pilot. He got interested when he noticed how many students kept coming to the library to read about the Bermuda Triangle. Cuchet spent two years digging through materials and studying the subject. Then, he published a book, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved. In it, he explains the gaps between Berlitz's wild claims and the real facts. He proved that many of the cases Berlitz cited either never happened or happened far away from the Triangle. Cuchet wrote, Trust in Berlitz is so low, it's basically non-existent. If Berlitz said a ship was red, the chances are almost 100% it was actually a different color. In his work, Lawrence Cuchet went really deep, diving into original US Navy reports, personally interviewing military personnel stationed in Fort Lauderdale, and even flying the same routes taken by the missing planes. And in the end, he confirmed that the commander of Flight 19, Lt. Taylor, truly got lost. The Avenger class planes were heavy and sank quickly. Plus, the base didn't even have the coordinates to search for them, so the planes were basically doomed. So, what else catches your eye here? Ah, the disappearance statistics. Turns out, they're a bit exaggerated, often by accident. Sometimes ships were reported missing, and then bam, they'd return to port. But nobody bothered to remove them from the missing stats. By the way, Cuchet got curious. How many ships and planes disappear outside the Bermuda Triangle? He checked, and it was about the same. Sometimes, Berlitz would claim a ship vanished on a clear day, but later it turns out there had been a storm that day. And generally, the Bermuda Triangle sits along Hurricane Alley, a zone in the Atlantic where most storms are born. So, there's really nothing mystical going on here. Cuchet verified a lot of this, but scientists weren't fully satisfied and kept hunting for other explanations, like magnetic anomalies or methane bubbles rising from the ocean floor, which could sink ships. For a long time, the latter was considered almost the main theory. How would this theory explain disappearances? Through underwater landslides, huge volumes of methane suddenly erupt from the ocean floor, sending millions of bubbles to the surface. The water's density would drop, and it could no longer support a ship, so it sank. This theory also explained planes. If an aircraft flew through a massive methane cloud, its instruments could give false readings. The pilot might think they were gaining altitude, but in reality they were dropping, eventually crashing into the water. The problem? This idea had some weak points. Methane deposits aren't just in the Bermuda Triangle. They exist worldwide. Also, the U.S. Geological Survey checked it and found that the last major methane release in this region happened 15,000 years ago. So, this version was discarded. Today, scientists are looking at a newer theory. Killer waves. Or rogue waves. Massive, isolated waves over 30 meters high. Back in 1861, on Eagle Island, a 26-meter lighthouse collapsed for unknown reasons. Scientists guessed a giant wave might have caused it. But to topple a lighthouse, the wave would have had to clear a 40-meter cliff. People thought that wasn't possible. Yet, in 1900, near another lighthouse on the Flannan Islands, three keepers disappeared after a storm. Rescuers found wave-damaged crates sitting 33 meters above sea level. Sailors returning from voyages also reported massive waves, but nobody believed them. How do you measure a wave with your eyes? Maybe they just imagined it. Plus, rogue waves didn't fit any mathematical models. Oceanographers thought the maximum wave height was 20 meters. Everything changed on January 1, 1995, when a 26-meter wave was recorded near the Drapner oil platforms off Norway. Rogue waves are different from tsunamis caused by underwater earthquakes. Tsunamis can be predicted, gain height near the shore, and rarely threaten sailors out in the open ocean. Rogue waves, however, appear out of nowhere, often even in calm, sunny weather. And most importantly, we still don't fully understand why. In 2000, the European Space Agency launched the MaxWave project to study them. Satellites monitored the ocean and spotted 10 waves taller than 25 meters over just three weeks. So it's very likely that some of the ships that vanished in the Bermuda Triangle were victims to these killer waves. Killer waves, sure, they're scary, but they're rare. They definitely don't explain all the disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle. And honestly, do we really need a single cause that explains everything? Isn't that a bit odd? This region is very busy. It's been bustling since the day it was discovered. Saying that a lot of ships and planes sank here is like saying there are a lot of car accidents in the New Jersey Turnpike. You know, when I was a kid and I first heard about the Bermuda Triangle, I thought, wow, everyone must avoid it at all costs, along with things like quicksand and falling anvils. That's terrifying. But if you actually look at the statistics, it turns out that's simply not true. Today, the Bermuda Triangle isn't some far off forbidden place. It's home to popular resorts in Florida, Bermuda, and the Bahamas. The US military patrols the area regularly, and over 200 cruise ships pass through it safely every single year. All in all, over the last 100 years, around 10 million vessels and aircrafts have passed through this region. And if only 100 ships and 50 planes went missing, that's just 0.001% of the total. The well-known insurance company, Lloyd's of London, has confirmed multiple times, losses in the Bermuda Triangle are comparable to those in other parts of the ocean. Ships don't pay extra just to pass through. In 2013, the World Wildlife Fund even conducted a study to identify the most dangerous zones at sea. And guess what? They list Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, and the North Sea, but not the Bermuda Triangle. The WWF report explains that nearly 50% of maritime accidents happen due to bad weather, poor safety practices, aging ships, or crew errors caused by fatigue. So it might seem like the case is closed. What else is there to discuss? But nope. Laurence Cuchet's book, which carefully dismantles the Bermuda Triangle myths, never really caught on. Unlike Berlitz's book, people continued believing the nonsense and brushed off scientific evidence as fake. Fake by whom? The US government? Reptilians? Nobody ever really clarified. Meanwhile, Bermuda Triangle fans would travel to the area themselves, only to be disappointed when nothing mysterious happened at all. Apparently the mystery was never there to begin with. Today in the internet age, information is open and easy to verify. Even ChatGPT knows the Bermuda Triangle is a myth. And yet the legend just keeps growing. Fake news, thousands of forums, endless paranormal websites, new theories appear non-stop, portals to parallel universes hidden beneath the triangle, or secret US underwater bases. Old, long forgotten stories resurface too. In 2012, rumors started spreading that a massive glass pyramid, said to be about 150-200 meters tall, supposedly was discovered at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle. If this is true, it would be even bigger than the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. Which is pretty wild. The story went viral almost instantly. So viral that different versions of it are still circulating today. In 2021, the Georgian publication Intermedia.ge, now defunct, published an article titled, Scientists Couldn't Explain the Pyramids Discovered in the Bermuda Triangle. The article referred to a supposed 1970s scientific expedition led by Charles Berlitz himself. According to the story, he discovered the glass pyramid on the And that supposedly is where all the Bermuda Triangle's mystique comes from. But the glass pyramid story actually first appeared back in 1990 in the American tabloid, The Weekly World News. And everything in that paper is entirely fictional. Still, someone read the story, and it took on a life of its own. Journalists in different countries cited it as a source, added their own twists, and then republished it. That's how different versions emerged, claiming the pyramid was discovered by oceanographer Verlag Meyer, or a Franco-American scientific expedition, or naturopath Ray Brown. Nevermind that Verlag Meyer was completely made up. He never existed. And there were no expeditions to the ocean floor led by Charles Berlitz. As for Ray Brown, he does seem to be real. But that's a whole different story. Journalists wrote that Ray claimed to see bronze hands at the bottom, holding a crystal ball just like that. He grabbed the ball, but never showed it to anyone. And here's the kicker, he didn't have time to explore the pyramid itself because his air was running low, and he had to surface quickly. Of course, we don't have any evidence beyond Ray's own words, and info about his scientific work, you'll only find it on pretty unreliable articles on even sketchier websites. So check your malware if you're going on there. By the way, naturopathy, which Ray Brown practiced, is a type of alternative medicine that's not scientifically supported, and can sometimes do more harm than good. And the dates for when he supposedly found the pyramid, they're all over the place. 68, 70. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Ray Brown the naturopath was more legend than real person. This whole story is a perfect example of how modern myths get started. It usually begins small, a joking article in a tabloid, then a few dozen reprints on blogs and websites, each author adding their own twist. Next come hundreds of social media posts, thousands of shares and comments. People don't check the facts. And before you know it, fiction becomes fact. As the saying goes, if you call a person a pig long enough, eventually they'll start to oink. So why in today's world do so many people still believe in conspiracy theories? Believe it or not, this is actually more of a philosophical question. A 2017 study published in Motivation & Emotion called We Are Not Alone found that belief in UFOs and the paranormal is linked to a person's need for meaning in life. In other words, people who feel a lack of purpose are more likely to believe in supernatural explanations. Today with science on the rise, religious explanations for natural events have taken a back seat. We can believe in God, but we no longer think a storm is God's punishment, or that a meteor is an angel falling from heaven. Still, religious thinking doesn't just vanish. People want to believe in miracles, because surprisingly, miracles give us comfort. Psychologists call this the illusion of control. It's easier to believe ships and planes vanish due to supernatural force, because without it, life feels a lot scarier. Picture this, you're living your life and suddenly something goes wrong because of human error, a random coincidence, or a giant wave. Science removes these comforting illusions that make us think the world revolves around us. This illusion has been with humans for thousands of years, so it's not easy to let go. Now some of you might be asking, why did I make a video about the Bermuda Triangle on a history channel? Some people will say it's clickbait, that I just want views, and maybe there's some truth in that. But here's the point. Historical myths are different from conspiracy myths. The history of the Bermuda Triangle can actually teach us something about the world. A fake story that's dangerous. Aryan race, Russian world, American exceptionalism, the eternal Japanese empire, Mao Zedong's great leap forward, and Stalin's enemy of the people. 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