Bermuda is known as the "Devil's Triangle" and its unsolved mysteries

The Bermuda Triangle in the northwest Atlantic Ocean - where many ships and planes mysteriously disappeared for a long time.

Is this why they become the "devil's triangle"?

The Bermuda Triangle is a maritime area in the Atlantic Ocean stretching from Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory), Bermuda (a British overseas territory), and Miami, United States. The three points form a triangle and the area has been linked to the deaths and disappearances of more than 8,000 people since the mid-19th century.

Although the exact number is not yet known, according to Business Insider, at least 50 ships and 20 planes have disappeared without a trace in this area. This mystery has turned Bermuda into the subject of endless theories.

According to some researchers, speculations about Bermuda have been around for centuries. Some believe that the play "The Tempest" by the great English writer William Shakespeare was based on mysterious stories and theories about shipwrecks in this area. Accordingly, the shipwreck of Admiral Geirge Somers, the founder of Bermuda, is said to have inspired Shakespeare.

When Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America, passed through the Bermuda area, he reportedly saw a fire break out in the sea and a strange light appear in the distance a few weeks later.

In 1881, legend has it that the Ellen Austin, a ship traveling from Liverpool (England) to New York (USA), encountered a "ghost ship" in the Sargasso Sea, an area of the Atlantic Ocean that overlaps the Bermuda Triangle.

Seeing this as an opportunity to recover valuable cargo, the Ellen Austin’s crew sent several men aboard the ship. However, a sudden storm caused the two ships to separate. When they returned the next day, they could not find any trace of the previous crew. The Ellen Austin’s captain attempted to board the ship again to examine the valuables. But when he arrived, a thick fog rolled in and once again separated the two ships. This time, the “ghost ship” had completely disappeared.

In 1895, Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail solo around the world, disappeared while traveling from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA to South America. Slocum had never been lost at sea in his life and his disappearance was believed to be related to the Bermuda Triangle.

In 1918, the largest and fastest fuel ship in the US Navy at the time, the USS Cyclops, disappeared while traveling from the Caribbean to Baltimore, Maryland with 309 sailors on board. No trace of the ship remains to provide any clues as to its true fate.

Despite being fully equipped with distress signals and equipment, the USS Cyclops sent no warning that anything dangerous was happening. The legendary ship, which transported supplies during World War I, disappeared without a trace.

After this incident, a series of theories were put forward, but none were convincing. If it was a shipwreck, then where was the wreckage? Why was there no distress call? Where did the ship go, where did it return? People began to turn to seemingly absurd theories such as mysterious sea monsters, such as a giant squid, causing the disappearance.

In 1941, the USS Proteus, carrying 58 men and cargo from St. Thomas to the East Coast, disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. A month later, its sister ship, the USS Nereus, disappeared with 61 men on board while making the same voyage.

In 1945, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle was revived when five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from a naval base in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA and disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean before completing their mission.

"Flight 19" was scheduled to fly over Grand Bahama Island (Bahamas) after completing its mission and then fly southwest to return to base. However, on the way back, the flight commander Charles C. Taylor became confused when his compass failed and this soldier directed the flight team to head northeast, thinking they were flying back to Florida, USA. In fact, the flight team went deeper into the Atlantic Ocean.

As the planes began to approach the Bermuda Triangle, their signals gradually weakened. Eventually all contact was lost and the planes disappeared without a trace. The last recorded message was a pilot saying: "Everything looks strange, even the ocean below. It's like we're entering a white body of water. We're completely lost."

The disappearance of "Flight 19" was so mysterious and confusing that a US Navy report stated that "it was as if they had flown to Mars".

In 1948, a DC-3 commercial airliner carrying 29 passengers and 2 crew members was headed to Miami, Florida. Just a few dozen kilometers from the airport, Captain Robert Lindquist radioed for landing instructions. However, the radio went silent and the plane was never heard from again.

In the same year, a British Avro Tudor aircraft carrying 25 passengers and 6 crew members disappeared without a trace. No information or wreckage was ever found.

A year later, G0-AGRE was flying from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica, but suddenly lost contact while passing through the Bermuda Triangle. Although the weather was clear and the flight was tracked, it was never heard from again.

In 1963, the SS Marine Sulphur Queen, a tanker carrying 39 people, suddenly disappeared. After a two-week search, the rescue team only found a few pieces of debris and a few life jackets.

The phrase "Bermuda Triangle" was officially used by the American media in 1964 after they realized there were many mysterious disappearances in this area.

In 1967, 1978, and 1984, a series of disappearances of cargo ships and planes continued to occur, and many cases remain unsolved to this day.

The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle has been a subject of interest for hundreds of years. Many people theorize that this is an area where aliens are active, while others believe that there are underwater cities and civilizations beneath the ocean. However, these stories are considered more fiction than fact.

The “matrix” hypothesis has emerged with a variety of different explanations. Experts have linked some of the disappearances to rapid and severe natural phenomena, shallow water areas and methane gas eruptions from the sea floor.

One theory is that methane gas is responsible for sinking ships in the ocean graveyard of the Bermuda Triangle. In Siberia, Russia, methane hydrate—a solid mixture of water and natural gas, mostly methane gas compressed in a crystalline structure—is believed to be the cause of sinkholes. Some theories suggest that the mechanism in the Bermuda Triangle is similar. If large amounts of methane gas escape from the ocean floor, it can create bubbles large enough to cause the water to turbulence and sink a ship. And it all happens so quickly, perhaps in just a few seconds, that those on board don't have enough time to send a distress signal or escape.

For science fiction lovers, they put forward the theory of "wormholes" - referring to a shortcut in space and time that, in theory, could even allow time travel to take place. This theory has so far not been scientifically proven.

Another theory is the phenomenon of "waterspouts", which are essentially tornadoes over the ocean and cause a powerful suction of water into the spout.

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