Bermuda Triangle The Bermuda Triangle has a reputation for being a cosmic back-of-the-sofa, with planes, ships and sundry articles disappearing into its depths like so many lost coins and cigarette lighters. Whatever you call it - the Devil's Triangle, Limbo of the Lost, the Hoodoo Sea - the triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale, Florida (some 1,300,000 sq km/500,000 sq mi), has long had a reputation for being a spooky place where large items inexplicably vanish.
Christopher Columbus was the first to feel the Bermuda Triangle heebie-jeebies when he saw weird lights in the sky and all his compasses suddenly went haywire, but even before this old sea dogs were spinning salty yarns of deadly tides, methane gas, dragons, sea monsters and curses.
But the legend really only started to grow legs with the hullabaloo of Flight 19 in 1945, when a total of five well-fuelled Navy jets failed to come home to Mother Goose. Not only did these planes disappear but a search and rescue plane sent out after the crew also failed to return.
Explanations for the disappearances range from the fantastical to the delusional: rips in the space-time continuum; gateway to another dimension; the sunken city of Atlantis giving off powerful energy fields; your garden-variety abduction by aliens; evil Dr No-like characters with weird technologies conducting anti-gravity experiments; and - in a paranormal chop suey - aliens, stranded here by mid-century engine trouble, lying low in the Bermuda Triangle with anti-gravity machines to protect them from curious humans.
More prosaic minds have chalked the disappearances up to a combination of instrument error, discrepancies between true north and magnetic north (one of the Bermuda Triangle's trademarks), hostile weather conditions, possible oceanic flatulence (which in itself is rather mindboggling), and the 9000m (30,000 ft) deep Puerto Rico Trench lurking within its interior. Any heavy plane going down in that kind of water ain't gonna be coming up for air anytime soon.
Sceptics have pointed out that many of the disappearances attributed to the Bermuda Triangle happened outside its boundaries. True believers say this only proves that the Triangle is larger and its influence more malevolent than had first been thought.
Aliens, Atlantis, and antigravity machines aside, the Bermuda Triangle does have a truly terrifying aspect to it. In the 1980s Barry Manilow had a hit with a song by the same name; he loses one girl in the Bermuda Triangle (no, not Mandy) but gains another, thus leading him to the passionate conclusion, 'Bermuda Triangle/Not so bad.' Barry Manilow, white flared suits, blow-dried hair that can withstand anti-gravity machines? How scary is that?
Sumber : Dimas&Donni (Donni_09)
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