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The Bermuda Triangle : A Mystery That Intrigues

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Ships and planes disappear without a trace. It’s a mystery that intrigues and amazes all. But this horrifying tragedy happens all over the world. Even with today’s compasses and technology, how could you still get lost? In some places, they seem to vanish more than any other part of the world. Of these, the most known location is the Bermuda Triangle. Legend An unexplainable section of the world, the Bermuda Triangle, bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico has baffled people from all over the world. Obtaining its name from Vincent Gaddis, an American author who first used the phrase “Bermuda Triangle” in the 1964 February issue of the magazine Argosy, the Bermuda Triangle covers about 500,000 miles (History.) Also called “Devil’s …show more content…

Soon enough, a pattern began forming, large boats and ships would disappear or be found abandoned. On December 1945, five Navy Avenger torpedo bombers with fourteen men together named Flight 19 left Fort Lauderdale in Florida. Charles C. Taylor, the leader, became lost due to compass malfunctioning. All five “flew aimlessly until they ran low on fuel and were forced to ditch at sea” (History.) The same day, a rescue plane and a thirteen man crew disappeared. Another well-known shipwreck, the Ellen Austin, left England to go to New York in 1881. During their trip, they found an abandoned ship and the captain told six men to go on and ride beside them until they arrived in New York. Eventually, the boat got lost and was never to be seen again. But in 1944, retired Navy officer Commander Gould said the ship was found again by the Ellen Austin. He reported that no one was on board and the ship was “sailing erratically” (10 Terrifying.) December 22, 1967, Dan Burack and Patrick Horgan set sail on the Witchcraft. Only a few kilometers in, they hit something and called Coast Guard. They came 19 minutes later, but there was no sign or trace of the men or the boat (10 Terrifying.) Making its way from Puerto Rico to Miami, the Airborne Transport DC-3 disappearance occurred on December 28, 1948. At 4:30 AM, a radio transmission was sent reporting

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