The thoughts that are conjured up in me when I think of Miami,Puerto Rico and Bermud are of shores,sun,surfing and a pleasant lifestyle yet when I realize about what I�m thinking I shudder.These locations are the three apexes of the infamous Bermuda triangle. The Bermuda triangle is a known place of anomaly since the 15th century,the first records of odd occurrences in the area can be found in Columbus�s log.In the log we can find entries in which the officers of the ship describe strange lights and erratic behavior of the ships compass.When Columbus reached the shores of Costa Rica he was met by the natives(Caribs and Arwaks), in their folklore Columbus found mentioning of �Sky-Gods� and �Green-Fire Boats� that could fly and travel under water. This is one of the first known encounters of man and the Bermuda triangle yet this phenomena continues to be with us till today-since 1945 there were reported a thousand(!!) vanishings. As you can see the Bermuda triangle is still very active,the people who have encountered strange occurrences there are many and unwilling to go back there. The most common explanation for the Bermuda triangle is weather, the area is known to be one with very erratic weather and this could explain the vanishings of ships and planes that just got lost and in the end either crashed or sunk to the bottom of the sea. The problem is that not all occurrences can be explained by weather, for example on a clear night National Airlines flight number 727 was coming in for a landing at Miami international Airport. As a routine procedure the co-pilot contacted the tower at Miami and asked them the exact time and set his cockpit clock to it.They were exactly on time,when they were getting ready for final approach the Co-pilot noticed a strange green mist covering the plane,yet he ignored it since it didn�t cause any problems.During this time a major drama was occurring on the ground flight 727 disappeared from all the radar scopes. Emergency routine was initiated and everybody was expecting the worse,while up in the air the passengers and crew ere getting ready to land.After exactly ten minutes of the disappearance flight 727 reappeared as suddenly as it has disappeared.The flight landed successfully yet ten minutes late.At first the radar scopes were blamed for malfunctioning yet they were tested and were found to be working perfectly. The mystery deepened when a supervisor from the airport came to the pilots and asked them why were they ten minutes late,the pilots said they were right on time,still the supervisor claimed they were late so the two pilots decided to take him back to the watch in the cockpit which was set to the towers time,when they checked it they found it to be ten minutes late.The pilots thought that it must have been a tired scope operator that misread time thus misleading the pilots,yet when they looked at their own watches they also were ten minutes late.The pilots couldn�t believe it so they went and checked with the passangers,the passengers watches too were all ten minutes late.This case is labeled as a �time loss� or �time warp�,many cases of this pattern occur in the area and weather is definitely not the explanation. The former case of �time warp� leads people to believe that the Bermuda triangle maybe some kind of a passage between dimensions. Time is the fourth dimension and perhaps the area above the Bermuda triangle maybe a passage in time,a break in the time and space continuum. Another case that strengtenth this thesis is of a less fortunate pilot called Carolyn Casico and her passenger. Carolyn a licensed pilot did a charter flight to Turk Island(in the Bermuda triangle), when she neared the island she was observed by many people and the airport manager himself who tried to contact her on the radio yet she wouldn�t answer,she kept circling over the island.At some point she opened the microphone in order to talk with her passanger,this is what was heard in the tower down below: �I can�t understand it this should be Grand Turk but there is nothing there.It�s the right place on the map the shape is right but this island looks uninhabited -no buildings...roads...nothing�. The airport manager listened in dismay and kept screaming in the microphone that she is above Turk Island and that they can hear her yet she wasn�t aware of his attempts.She did a few more circles above the island and at the end decided to turn back.Carolyn and her passenger were never seen or heard after the incident... Did Carolyn see the island as it was years ago when it was uninhabited, and if so why did she see it that way while people on the ground could see her plane and where is she today? In the early fall of 1881 the American schooner Allen Austin sailed for Spanish and Portuguese ports,during the journey they encountered a ship,they tried signaling to it calling at it yet they received no answer. When they got in for a closer look they saw that the ship was empty-not a living soul on board.Since the captain saw that the other ship was intact and looked in good shape he decided to board the mysterious ship.The ship was found to be well taken care of yet empty. The captain decided to leave a crew on the ship to bring it in and get the prize for retrieving it,yet after the rest of the boarding team returned to the Allen Austin a very violent storm broke out and it lasted only half an hour.After the storm there was no sign of the mystery ship,the odd thing is that there was no sign of a shipwreck either,not a piece of wood nothing, the sea was clear as ever. Cases in which ships are found floating around without any crew brought on a new idea,pherhaps someone or something is collecting human specimen in the area of the Bermuda triangle. As scary as this sounds the possibility exists,if there is only need for humans the ships are left intact to float on and if the passengers aren�t kidnapped why would they abandon a perfectly good ship during it�s journey? But who would want to kidnap humans?Most people that believe in this thesis say that it must be extraterrestrial beings,to me this seems far fetched since there is no reason why they should concentrate on the Bermuda triangle are.If they are extraterrestrial they should have no problem reaching any point on earth,yet if whatever snatches the people is bound to the Triangle area it brings up the thesis that they come from within not from outside-but I�m getting ahead of myslef,another fascinating case of a ship found without a crew is the case of Westbury Star. The log of his Majesty�s ship Harwhal,may 16 1767: �For a fortnight we have been becalmed in the midst of this damnable Sargasso Sea and the patience of men and officers alike is sorely tired. We seemed to be clasped within the grasp of some strange force that will not let us go.Though we had not heard the whisper of a breeze for days ,oddly there is the sound of wind around us.Strange lights,appearing as huge,glowing green puffs,were sighted on the modish last night� The captain was interrupted by shouts from the topside,a ship was spotted and it was nearing them. The ship was identified as the Webstury Star out of Liverpool,they tried to signal them yet no answer came back.On a closer look they saw that the ship was abandoned and the sails were trimmed neatly yet the ship was moving.The captain of Harwhal was shocked,he couldn�t understand how a ship with its sails folded could move yet his own ship with sails wide open wouldn�t move... The Star continued sailing as the crew of Harwhal looked unbeleivingly. As I said earlier,it is unlikely that extrateresstrials would kidnap so many people from the same spot when they can actually help themselves to the whole globe,Darwin said that there are two main species the ones that left the sea and the others that stayed at sea.If that species has managed to develop at our rate or perhaps even higher their doorway to our world may be located in the area of the Bermuda triangle and that is why all their operations take place in that area. The case of Flight-19 is intriguing because it occurred to army combat pilots who are very experienced and there was a very peculiar radio transmission recorded from that flight.On December 5 1945 a group of five Avengers took off for a routine training flight over the sea.After the first leg of the flight plan all five aircrafts experienced instrument malfunctions simultaneously.After a few minutes contact was lost with this flight and the last words of the commander of the flight that came over the microphone were:�Don�t come after us...they look like...�. A search aircraft with a large crew was sent out after the five aircrafts never to be heard of again. The aircrafts and crew disappeared without trace until 1991,a research vessel that was sweeping the area located with it�s strong sonar 5 aircrafts lying on the seabed.A camera was lowered and from the pictures you could see that these were the lost crafts,they were identified by the insigna.Everyone thought that with this a mystery of 46 years is solved yet a few questions do remain unanswered-why do 5 aircrafts crash one near the other,when a plane crashes into sea it breaks into pieces,why are they almost intact, how do 5 veteran fighter pilots get lost 5Km off-shore and most importantly where are the bodies or skeletons? The Bermuda Triangle exists,it�s the area between Miami,Bermuda and Puerto Rico, yet what lies behind that triangle is unknow.What swallows and spits out from time to time huge ships and airplanes is unknown.Where are the people that have simply vanished off ships and aircrafts,people who have families,jobs,housed and a life-unknown.The only known fact is that almost in all occurrences in the are the color green appears,as mist puffs or simply the color of the air-what is this green? There are as many as a hundred researches going on in the area yet none have any conclusive answers to give us. Whether it be a doorway to another world or a break in time and space continuum it is there and it is taking people into it�s midst and not returning them to us- that�s a fact.





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