Phenomenons

Got done editing this one and hopefully keep updates on time now that I am back to work. I have a lot of stories and tales whether they are true or just fables I guarantee you they are going to be fun to read. You can share your own experiences and stuff related to the topic.

Having lived in a totally secluded place during childhood where mysteries and unknown were unfolded in our own discoveries and sightings.

Myth 1.

“A check of Lloyd’s of London’s accident records by the editor of Fate in 1975 showed that the triangle was a no more dangerous part of the ocean than any other. U.S. Coast Guard records confirmed this and since that time no good arguments have ever been made to refute those statistics. So the Bermuda Triangle mystery disappeared, in the same way many of its supposed victims had vanished.”

Fact 1

This is completely false. Lloyd’s does not insure the smaller stuff, so all yachts go unreported and uncataloged in statistics. Lloyd’s seldom insures the smaller charter and private aircraft, so likewise for them. Lloyd’s is not the ultimate source. It is not a marine investigation bureau. It reports on sailing news relevant to insurance.

US Coast Guard SAR (Search and Rescue) statistics for all districts are published yearly in a thick voluminous report. This details the statistics for calls of assistance, causes of accidents, weather, deaths, conditions, whatever. However, missing vessels are not readily included. In reality, the designation Overdue Vessels are more important. But because it is hard to determine the number of people on board and exactly where the vessel last was, “missing” or “overdue” cannot be easily calculated. They may be catagorized under “caused by other factor” if at all. I have just received a list of vessels from the 7th district after 12 years of asking for and being denied missing vessel statistics, always receiving the reply “nobody tracks such statistics.” For the last 2 fiscal years this includes about 300 vessel names or types. And now I must start my search, to see which reported back to port (if any), what the weather conditions were like, etc.
The Coast Guard is not even capable of accurately determining the numbers, and therefore could never have conducted a study. What they probably did was comment on the popular notion that 20 aircraft and 50 ships are missing. That number was bandied about incessantly in the 1970s and is still in the Encyclopedia Britannica. This number is not extraordinary for 100 years, though it is more aircraft than elsewhere over seas.
NTSB database searches reveal that in the last decade only a handful of aircraft disappearances have occurred off New England while over 30 have happened in the Triangle. These are American statistics only, and do not reflect other nationalities.
Then there are those who claim the disparity is due to the Triangle’s greater amount of traffic. In reality, the 1st Coast Guard district answers about just as many calls for assistance as the 7th, but the number of disappearances is still remarkably different.

Myth 2

“Investigations to date have not produced scientific evidence of any unusual phenomena involved in the disappearances. Thus, any explanation, including so-called scientific ones in terms of methane gas being released from the ocean floor, magnetic disturbances, etc., are not needed. The real mystery is how the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery at all.”

Fact 2

Not only utterly false, but actually stupid. One would have to witness a disappearance in order to determine what was directly involved. This has obviously not be done, and such a comment, as a result, is a lame one. There have been NO scientific expeditions to investigate the overall Triangle. Independent people, often possessing degrees in one of the sciences, have made their own, sometimes truncated study. Most have produced some very interesting discoveries. Dr. A.J. Yelkin’s study revealed unexplained magnetic deviations during phases of the Moon. Dr. Zink’s observations at Bimini revealed unexplained magnetic variations in the compass at the precise time each year in early August (consistent in some ways with Yelkin’s theories). Wilbert Smith’s studies revealed areas of “reduced bindings” in the magnetic field that came and went. But as for any scientific expeditions into the Triangle to take readings or tests or to see if something would happen, none has ever been done.

The icons below represent just a sampling of the many vessels that have utterly vasnished in the Bermuda Triangle. This list is only partial, and has been compiled from Coast Guard reports, US Navy reports, National Archives and Records Administration, and Merchant Vessels of the United States Registry. These are not compiled from “popular accounts” or old books. These vessels were sailing in fair weather. For an example of Gian’s method of research, see this link. For a more detailed account of these vessels, please consult his new book on The Bermuda Triangle, published by McGraw-Hill. While this web site can give some indication of the incredible amount of missing vessels and aircraft, it is not possible to detail the entire phenomena of the Bermuda Triangle except in print.

Many US warships are listed missing by the US Navy between 1780 and 1824, including the General Gates, Hornet, Insurgent, Pickering, Wasp, Wildcat and Expervier. Her disappearance in 1815 delayed the closing of the War of 1812. She carried the peace proposal on board.

The Rosalie was indeed a real ship. She was built in 1838 of 222 tons of wood. In 1840 she was found deserted but in ship shape near the Bahamas. She was not the Rossini.

Ellen Austin was also a real ship. And her encounter with an unnamed deserted vessel in 1881 in the Triangle is based on reliable witnesses. More.

When I was a kid, my father would always scare us with all the stories we were not sure if he was just making up or for real. Being a big family living in a far-away from farm, no electricity or means of transportation except the cart drawn by a carabao (also known as water buffalo). I can't call the lifestyle too primitive nor ignorant, it is just a little behind the technologies other populace were already enjoying during that time when I was born.

At night, when any of the kids have to go potty (please excuse me) we would have to go either in the bush or in the man-made bathroom, a pit that was dug by my father and put up a series of bamboo slats across the top to serve as floor, then would create a whole to which we could sit and whew! 'relax'. That's how our first bathroom was made. But since I don't like sitting on it and scared the improvised floor was gonna break down and fall apart, you know where I'm gonna end up, I prefer the bush. And while doing what I was doing I had with me my sister and my brother behind me, their job is my look-out just to feel secure, knowing I am scared of the dark and with just a gas torch serving as lamp carried by my brother and when the wind blows a little harder we would be in complete darkness.
"Turn around children and see the gigantic monster behind you ready to swallow you altogether alive!" My father yelled from the front window trying to scare us. I gulped and immediately stand up and pull my pants up quick and ran into the house. I was so scared, I was a little toddler of 3 at that time and since then I never want to look out the window in the dark.

I am trying to construct the lay out of this blog...

In recent years man has begun exploring the space above his planet. But what about the seventy-five percent of the earth that lies beneath the water? Have we been ignoring the wealth of evidence that corroborates the existence of intelligent underwater lives? Some believed that we have a and he has analysed centuries of reports of strange marine happenings that yield some startling conclusions. The result is a scientific but fresh and unbiased book that opens new frontiers and excites the imagination.

One of my interests are the unknowns and the unsolved mysteries, whether it's crimes or occurrences. When I was a kid, one of the first things that stirred my curiosity was the book my brother had at home called "The Limbo of the Lost". Talks about the disappearances of ships and boats in Bermuda Triangle, The Loch Ness of Scotland. Other things are sightings of unexplainable things. It inspired me to create a site where I could share the latest and the oldest phenomenons and and mysteries.