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What Is The Bermuda Triangle Conspiracy
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The Bermuda Conspiracies
Nimra Durrani
In December 1945, a group of five U.S. Navy avenger torpedo bombers known as “Flight 19” disappeared in the Atlantic off the coasts of Miami, Florida, Bermuda and San Juan, Puerto Rico. That created the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle as people wondered what happened to Flight 19.
“The strange events of December 5, 1945 have since become fodder for all manner of wild theories and speculation. In the 1960s and 70s, pulp magazines and writers such as Vincent Gaddis and Charles Berlitz helped popularize the idea that Flight 19 had been gobbled up by the “Bermuda Triangle,” a section of the Atlantic supposedly known for its high volume of freak disappearances and mechanical failures.
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According to his log, on October 8, 1492, Columbus looked down at his compass and noticed that it was giving weird readings. He didn’t alert his crew at first, because having a compass that didn’t point to magnetic north may have sent the already on edge crew into a panic. This was probably a good decision considering three days later when Columbus simply spotted a strange light, the crew threatened to return to Spain.”
“The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of ocean off the southeastern tip of Florida. When Christopher Columbus sailed through the area on his first voyage to the New World, he reported that a great flame of fire (probably a meteor) crashed into the sea one night and that a strange light appeared in the distance a few weeks later. He also wrote about erratic compass readings, perhaps because at that time a sliver of the Bermuda Triangle was one of the few places on Earth where true north and magnetic north lined up.”
The Bermuda Triangle is one of the most unusual and hazardous areas in the ocean. It also is one of the two places on Earth that a magnetic compass doesn’t point towards the True North. It usually points toward the Magnetic
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In other cases, the ships and planes were real enough — but Berlitz and others neglected to mention that they "mysteriously disappeared" during bad storms. Other times the vessels sank far outside the Bermuda Triangle.”
In May 1991, The Bermuda triangle was announced to be real and right off the coast of South Florida. Undersea explorers also announced that month, that they may have discovered the five Navy planes that mysteriously vanished in 1945.
“Just as the skeptics were about to claim a logical explanation, the legend of the Bermuda Triangle today was declared to be alive and well and vexing off the coast of South Florida. The undersea explorers who announced last month that they might have discovered five Navy planes that vanished mysteriously in 1945, laying a foundation for the myth of a craft-swallowing Caribbean twilight zone, said that on closer inspection, the planes they found turned out not to be those of the fabled "Flight 19."”
According to some people, there’s fog in the Bermuda triangle that captures ships and planes that go across the triangle. The pilots think they’re traveling through the fog so it causes them to crash or lose control. That’s also what caused Flight 19 to be

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