The mysterious Bermuda Triangle

If there is a mystery that the world of film and television has nurtured in spades and for years, that mystery is the Bermuda Triangle. I don't think there is a person who has not heard about this mysterious place where weird things happen.

Supernatural phenomenon or rational explanation? Today we review what has been said and what is known about the infamous Bermuda Triangle.

The Bermuda Triangle

It is a Atlantic ocean region, the north western part of the ocean specifically. Here, the story goes that planes and ships have disappeared for centuries. Are they aliens or are they forces of nature, is it a portal to another dimension? Questions like that have been asked many times.

The area has a shape that is a bit reminiscent of a triangle, marked by the Atlantic coast of Florida, in the United States, Bermuda and the Greater Antilles. These borders are not universally agreed, yes. It is said that mysterious disappearances have occurred since the XNUMXth century, that some ships have evaporated, others have appeared adrift without a crew, even rescue patrols have left without returning ...

What are the most popular theories? One has to do with geological issues that affect the navigation instruments, the magnetic compass for example, causing shipwrecks. Another theory says that the lost ships have been victims of gigantic waves, huge waves that can reach heights of nothing more and nothing less than 30 and a half meters ...

It seems that they exist and that they can destroy airplanes and ships without leaving a trace. In fact, the Bermuda Triangle is right at a place in the ocean where storms coming from different directions can converge from time to time causing these types of demonic waves.

Obviously, the official idea is that in this part of the Atlantic Ocean there are no more planes or more lost ships than in other parts of the globe. In fact, planes and ships pass through here every day without mishap, so it is hardly possible to speak of patterns of disappearance. Then?

Then, the world of cinema, television and mystery magazines of the mid-twentieth century have contributed much to the construction of the myth.  In 1964, the author Vincent Gaddis coined the name Bermuda Triangle in an article where he recounted mysterious incidents that occurred in the area. Later, Charles berlitz (yes, the one about language schools), revived the myth in the 70s by the hand of perhaps the most popular book on the subject: the bestseller Bermuda Triangle.

From there and with the help of a theme that was beginning to be popular, that of the aliens and their visits to our planet, there were many authors and researchers of the paranormal, who joined the wave of mysteries by contributing their own: from sea ​​monsters to the lost city of the Atlantis, to time loops, reverse gravity, magnetic anomalies, super water swirls or giant eruptions of methane gas coming from the depths of the seabed ...

The truth is that after the tsunami of products of mass culture related to the Bermuda Triangle the official voice remains the same: there is nothing strange about disappearances in the area and all can be explained by environmental causes. The area has tropical storms, hurricanes, the Gulf Stream can produce dramatic and very rapid changes in the climate, and to that is added the geography itself, full of islands that produce low parts of the sea that can be very treacherous for navigation, for example.

The United States Coast Guard has grown weary of saying that there are no supernatural explanations for accidents in the area. All are usually explained by a combination of natural forces with human abilities or disabilities. In fact, there is also no actual map of the area, no official institution has mapped it, and there is no such area with that official name.

At this point the truth is that it is better to think that it is all a great invention of popular and mass culture of the XNUMXth century, always eager to exploit mysteries in magazines, television series and movies. Humans like mysteries, so only that taste has fueled us. Thus, for some time now the mainstream Editorial / television has proposed the opposite ... and with the same success: to clarify that the Bermuda Triangle does not exist.

For example, a journalist named Larry kusche, cutting with the dominant ideology, a different line of investigation has been proposed starting from the premise that in truth there is no mystery to solve. Kusche has reviewed all the well-selling "disappearances" that are usually cited as evidence and has found that all those stories are buggy or fabricated plain.

Your book, «The Bermuda Triangle Mistery - Solved», complains that many of his colleagues on the subject have limited themselves to stacking stories, one on top of the other, without investigating a single one. And that the most popular of all, Berlitz, made it all worse by using more entertaining and popular language, reaching more people. Repeat, repeat, that something will remain. Thus, Kusche complains that this author, the most popular of all, has only contributed to sediment a lie and that he did not even bother to investigate well.

In fact, accuses him a bit of a liar and charlatan, of literally having invented cases, of having ignored in the story that when they disappeared the sea was hit by a fierce storm or of saying that they had sunk in the Triangle when in fact they had done so well away from this mysterious area.

The truth is that even today there are authors from both sides, because we still like mysteries and they continue to generate money. Then, Does the Bermuda triangle exist? I'm not a Berlitz fan, and I love mysteries, but I think the answer to this question should be affirmative. Why? Simple, ehe Bermuda Triangle exists from tabloid books, wanting to make money, and doing bad research. What do you think?


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