Write a Diary Entry on topic Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
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In 1492, Christopher colombus discovered the Bermuda Triangle.
During his voyages, Columbus kept a log, which went on to be the best record of his journeys west. The now legendary and controversial explorer, who by all reports was an impossibly difficult person to be around, and he did not have the best relationship with his Spanish crew: by 1492, he was constantly lying to them, misrepresenting the distances they had covered, and coming up against the very real and unnerving possibility of a mutiny.
Then, on one fateful day, according to Columbus’s log, something weird happened.
Columbus looked down at his compass and it gave him a strange reading. It wasn’t pointing to magnetic north, as it always had and as it was supposed to. It was as if the laws of nature were changing. As if they no longer were in the same world. At this point, surely enough, they had journeyed inside the area that would one day be known as the Bermuda Triangle.
Now, keep in mind, at this point Columbus’s crew was already on edge, on a level that people in the present day can’t even begin to understand. They were on a wooden ship, countless miles from the world they’d known, embarking on a voyage that, as far as they knew, no one else had ever taken. Combining that with a bizarrely erratic compass could have easily pushed the crew to a mutiny, so Columbus hid this mystery from his Spanish crew. He apparently made some quick explanation up on the fly, which didn’t really satisfy him — after all, he saw fit to mark the strange occurrence in his log — but was good enough to keep the crew from lashing out.
But the strangeness didn’t end.
On October 11th, 1942, Columbus and his crew saw what could only be described as a strange, ethereal light shimmering in the distance. Columbus himself described the light as “a small wax candle that rose and lifted up, which to a few seemed to be an indication of land.” Evidently, this bizarre light in the distance actually moved in an equally bizarre pattern, lifting up and down. Not surprisingly, this weird phenomenon was enough to make an already-frightened crew threaten to go back to Spain.
We can’t ask Christopher Columbus what he saw, exactly. He and everyone else who saw that light have been dead for centuries. But nonetheless, if we assemble the details, we start to see an unnerving portrait of the events being painted for us: in 1492, Columbus sailed into the Bermuda Triangle, and while he was there, his magnetic compass went awry and he saw a strange light.
We don’t know if native people from the area may have experienced the Triangle’s mysteries in the centuries before this. We may never know. Many researchers have analyzed the explorer’s logs, and come to conclusions that the light may have been a meteorite. We’ll never know for sure, but one thing that is certain is that whatever Columbus experienced in the triangle, it creeped him out enough that he chose to record it.
He wouldn’t be the last.
In the centuries since, countless others have experienced weird phenomenon within the region now commonly known as the Bermuda Triangle, or sometimes, the Devil’s Triangle. Many ships, planes, and people have disappeared within the Triangle’s three boundaries, lost to time, their absence forever unexplained and unexplainable. Shipwrecks. Missing persons. Lost yachts. Vortexes. The Bermuda Triangle is easily one of the most speculated on, bizarre, and disturbing places on the planet.
Many theories exist. Are the disappearances the result of gas bubbles? Is the area a place of concentrated weird storms? Maybe it is simply a center of magnetic charge or electrical activity. Or maybe… maybe there are higher, unrecognized forces at work—perhaps something greater than man, or something from another dimension?
What did Columbus see on that fateful day in 1492? What did he encounter, when he first recorded the mystery that would become the obsession of countless journalists, researchers, and conspiracy theorists in the centuries ahead?
We don’t know, but the answers are still haunting people to this day—and the Devil’s Triangle is still claiming new victims.
As recently as May of 2017, another plane crash occurred within the boundaries of this mysterious location. This time, it was a small twin-engine turboprop MU-2B carrying a New York City CEO, her boyfriend — who was the pilot, as well as the founder of a profitable scooter company — and her children. The family had just vacationed in Puerto Rico, and were making their flight back to Florida when they disappeared. Three days later, airplane debris was found floating in the seas, miles off the coast of Eleuthera.
It’s a familiar story to anyone who has followed the Bermuda Triangle. But it’s not the only strange occurrence that has occurred in 2017.
During his voyages, Columbus kept a log, which went on to be the best record of his journeys west. The now legendary and controversial explorer, who by all reports was an impossibly difficult person to be around, and he did not have the best relationship with his Spanish crew: by 1492, he was constantly lying to them, misrepresenting the distances they had covered, and coming up against the very real and unnerving possibility of a mutiny.
Then, on one fateful day, according to Columbus’s log, something weird happened.
Columbus looked down at his compass and it gave him a strange reading. It wasn’t pointing to magnetic north, as it always had and as it was supposed to. It was as if the laws of nature were changing. As if they no longer were in the same world. At this point, surely enough, they had journeyed inside the area that would one day be known as the Bermuda Triangle.
Now, keep in mind, at this point Columbus’s crew was already on edge, on a level that people in the present day can’t even begin to understand. They were on a wooden ship, countless miles from the world they’d known, embarking on a voyage that, as far as they knew, no one else had ever taken. Combining that with a bizarrely erratic compass could have easily pushed the crew to a mutiny, so Columbus hid this mystery from his Spanish crew. He apparently made some quick explanation up on the fly, which didn’t really satisfy him — after all, he saw fit to mark the strange occurrence in his log — but was good enough to keep the crew from lashing out.
But the strangeness didn’t end.
On October 11th, 1942, Columbus and his crew saw what could only be described as a strange, ethereal light shimmering in the distance. Columbus himself described the light as “a small wax candle that rose and lifted up, which to a few seemed to be an indication of land.” Evidently, this bizarre light in the distance actually moved in an equally bizarre pattern, lifting up and down. Not surprisingly, this weird phenomenon was enough to make an already-frightened crew threaten to go back to Spain.
We can’t ask Christopher Columbus what he saw, exactly. He and everyone else who saw that light have been dead for centuries. But nonetheless, if we assemble the details, we start to see an unnerving portrait of the events being painted for us: in 1492, Columbus sailed into the Bermuda Triangle, and while he was there, his magnetic compass went awry and he saw a strange light.
We don’t know if native people from the area may have experienced the Triangle’s mysteries in the centuries before this. We may never know. Many researchers have analyzed the explorer’s logs, and come to conclusions that the light may have been a meteorite. We’ll never know for sure, but one thing that is certain is that whatever Columbus experienced in the triangle, it creeped him out enough that he chose to record it.
He wouldn’t be the last.
In the centuries since, countless others have experienced weird phenomenon within the region now commonly known as the Bermuda Triangle, or sometimes, the Devil’s Triangle. Many ships, planes, and people have disappeared within the Triangle’s three boundaries, lost to time, their absence forever unexplained and unexplainable. Shipwrecks. Missing persons. Lost yachts. Vortexes. The Bermuda Triangle is easily one of the most speculated on, bizarre, and disturbing places on the planet.
Many theories exist. Are the disappearances the result of gas bubbles? Is the area a place of concentrated weird storms? Maybe it is simply a center of magnetic charge or electrical activity. Or maybe… maybe there are higher, unrecognized forces at work—perhaps something greater than man, or something from another dimension?
What did Columbus see on that fateful day in 1492? What did he encounter, when he first recorded the mystery that would become the obsession of countless journalists, researchers, and conspiracy theorists in the centuries ahead?
We don’t know, but the answers are still haunting people to this day—and the Devil’s Triangle is still claiming new victims.
As recently as May of 2017, another plane crash occurred within the boundaries of this mysterious location. This time, it was a small twin-engine turboprop MU-2B carrying a New York City CEO, her boyfriend — who was the pilot, as well as the founder of a profitable scooter company — and her children. The family had just vacationed in Puerto Rico, and were making their flight back to Florida when they disappeared. Three days later, airplane debris was found floating in the seas, miles off the coast of Eleuthera.
It’s a familiar story to anyone who has followed the Bermuda Triangle. But it’s not the only strange occurrence that has occurred in 2017.
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