Strange happenings

An article in the New York Times, dated March 24, 1951,

reported the disappearance of a C-124 Globemaster. This plane

disappeared north of the Bermuda Triangle. The Globemaster was an Air

Force plane on a flight to Ireland. The Air Force said it exploded near

Ireland. It had 53 people onboard.

The Marine Sulphur Queen, a cargo ship with 39 men aboard,

vanished on January 1963. In 1968, a crew of 99 on the naval submarine,

Scorpion, was lost. The wreckage was found approximately 400 miles

southwest of the Azores on the ocean floor. One author says ‘hundreds’

of people saw a small plane plunge into the water just off Daytona,

Florida. That very day, no planes were reported missing!

Also, a 4-motor plane, headed to Bermuda, started to go up and

down continuously. When they got to Bermuda, the strange motion

stopped. Captain Chuck Wakeley’s plane wings started to glow in

November of 1964! The plane started increasing speed on its own for the

next five minutes. When the plane slowed down, everything was normal.

Many of the pilots who disappeared knew the area very well.

In 1944, seven bombers in World War II left the U.S. to go to Italy.

They rested in Bermuda, then left. Almost an hour away from Bermuda,

one of the planes went out of control. The plane was flipping and

bouncing all over the place. After their unexpected experience, they

returned to Bermuda. There, they learned that five of the other six
planes had disappeared. The sixth plane returned intact. The next

recorded disappearance didn’t occur until 1963. It happened when two

four-engine planes disappeared 300 miles southwest of Bermuda. A short

while after that, in June of 1965, a small plane vanished with a crew of

ten. The most unbelievable event, though, was in 1967. Passengers on the

cruise ship Queen Elizabeth I saw a plane about 100 yards away disappear

into thin air.

Many of these disappearances have been small planes. Although there

have been some big disappearances, such as Flight 19. All disappearances

are well-documented. The crew members who have come back have

sometimes been insane, telling about wild stories and tales. It is believed

that unexpected storms, and downward air currents may have caused the

planes to disappear, as well as destroyed the ships. Some people believe

that the missing people, as well as the planes and ships, were transported

to a time warp, or black hole. The searchers rarely find bodies. Ocean

currents have supposedly swept the wreckage far from the disappearance

sights. Sometimes, they do find a little wreckage, such as life jackets,

after some disappearances. Usually, there is no distress call. Some

people have survived the terrors of the Triangle. One is Joe Talley, the

captain of the Wild Goose. One night, in 1944, he was sleeping on his

boat. A boat, called the Caicos Trader, was towing his boat through the

waters of the Triangle. All of a sudden, water started flowing into the

boat. He awoke immediately. Soon, he was underwater. Somehow, he

managed to grab a towline and follow it to the surface. He got to the

surface just in time. The crew of the Caicos Trader pulled him up, right

before they cut the line. Once he was onboard, he was told that a force

had hit the Wild Goose and was pulling it down! They cut the line, so they

wouldn't get pulled down, also. Imagine if that had happened to you.

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Another one of these occurrences happened in 1966, to a man named

Captain Henry, captain of the Good News. His ship was towing an empty

barge through the waters of the Triangle. The sky was clear. Suddenly,

their compasses went out of control, spinning in circles. Then, out of

nowhere, a low fog settled over everything. They couldn’t see where they

were, because everything blended together. Even weirder, though, on the

barge they were towing, the electricity came on. The generators on the

barge started working, but there wasn’t any power on the boat. Captain

Henry got worried. He couldn’t even see the barge. Captain Henry

remained calm, though. The towline to the barge was still tight. He tried

to speed up, so he could get out of the fog. He felt something pulling him

back. He felt like he was playing tug of war! After struggling awhile, he

finally got the boats free and they came out of the fog. I bet Captain

Henry was glad to get out of there. Others have also reported stories

like this one. Most of them tell about weird things going on with the

electricity and compasses, like Captain Henry’s story. They also talk

about the strange fog coming out of nowhere. Some people have even

talked about seeing weird lights in the sky!

Not everyone disappears in the Triangle. In 1935, a freighter spotted

a yacht called La Dhama. The crew took the logbook after finding no life

onboard. Arriving at their destination, the freighter’s crew discovered a

passenger from the yacht. The former passenger had boarded an ocean

liner and watched the yacht sink. This took place five days before the

logbook was taken! In 1960, a plane disappeared from radar for 10

minutes. A few moments later, it landed. The control crew told the

pilots about their disappearance the pilots looked at their watches they

were 10 minutes behind.

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 One day Carolyn Casico was flying to Turk Island. When the people of

the island noticed her plane circling in the air above. She said that she

didn’t see any land, and was sure it was the right spot on the map. So, she

soon turned around and flew away, never to be seen again.

The U.S.S. Cyclops disappeared in the Triangle while shipping coal. The

captain of the Cyclops was George Worley. Captain Worley, for an

unknown reason, sailed south instead of north. Worley was poor when it

came to seamanship. Worley’s actual name was Johann Friedrich Georg

Wichmann. Worley was accused of being a Nazi because he was German.

Nobody had a kind word for Worley. Worley would place his officers

under arrest at the slightest offense. Worley’s favorite punishment was

to make his sailors walk barefoot across the white hot heat of the steel

decks. Both officers and crew hated Worley. Captain Worley was known

as an eccentric tyrant. The Literary Digest suggests a giant octopus

pulled down the vessel. The Cyclops had two sister ships, Nerus and

Proteus.

The most famous vessel that disappeared in the Triangle is the

Mary Celeste. The captain of the Mary Celeste deliberately sank his

ship. Captain of the Dei Gratia, David Reed Morehouse, found the vessel

damaged and abandoned. Morehouse brought it back to harbor and, in

return, was charged with first degree murder and piracy. Captain

Morehouse was found not guilty. Mary Celeste is thought to be

jinxed. In 1944, Dick

Stern was flying a bomber in the Triangle when, suddenly, the bomber

went out of control. It nose-dived toward the Atlantic Ocean. At the

last moment, he was saved by a miracle. The bomber began to gain

altitude. In 1961, Dick Stern and his wife were on a commercial flight to

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Miami, again in the Triangle. The plane began to shake and go out of

control. Again, he survived. However, by no means was he ever going

through this area again.

In 1998, the Coast Guard answered 8,000 distress calls in the

Triangle. Since 1945, 100 ships and 1,000 lives have been lost in the

Triangle. The Triangle covers 440,000 square miles. Magnetic north and

true north are in exact alignment in the Triangle. The Triangle area is

one of the most heavily traveled places in the world. Some think the

Triangle’s apexes should include the Azores. In spite of its reputation, it

is very beautiful. The Bermuda Triangle points to Reykjavik, Iceland.

The Bermuda Triangle is notorious for unpredictable weather.