Bermuda triangle and mysteries

THE Bermuda Triangle mystery has seen 75 planes and hundreds of ships go missing at the location without explanation.

Here’s everything you need to know about the so-called Devil’s Triangle which has been baffling experts for decades

Where is the Bermuda Triangle?

The Bermuda Triangle lies in a section of the North Atlantic Ocean.

It covers an area of 440,000 miles of sea.

It’s one of the most heavily travelled shipping lanes in the world, with vessels crossing through to get to ports in America, Europe and the Caribbean.

How many planes and ships have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle?

The Bermuda Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle, has been blamed for the disappearance of dozens of planes and ships in the past 100 years.

When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later.

William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest,” which some scholars claim was based on a real-life Bermuda shipwreck, may have enhanced the area’s aura of mystery.

Reports of unexplained disappearances did not really capture the public’s attention until the 20th century when the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men on-board, sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay.

At least 1,000 lives have been lost in the last 100 years.

On average, four aircraft and 20 yachts go missing every year.

What other famous Bermuda Triangle disappearances have there been? # header

One of the most famous mysteries was the disappearance of Flight 19 when five TBM Avenger Torpedo Bombers vanished over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945.

All 14 men on the flight disappeared without a trace and a Martin Mariner Flying Boat also vanished during the search with 13 men on board.

In 1918, the USS Cyclops was a massive carrier ship that supplied fuel to the American feet in WWI. The ship set sail with 309 people on board and was full of heavy cargo.

After it failed to arrive in Baltimore from Barbados, search teams retraced its route but it was never found. Two of the Cyclops’s sister ships disappeared along the same route in 1941.