Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
From ships and planes vanishing to UFO sightings in the area the bermuda triangle mystery is certainly a weird part of our history.
6. The Carroll A. Deering
In 1921, the Carroll A. Deering was found run aground with her crew nowhere to be found. It was discovered off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and it's one of the most written about mysteries related to the Bermuda Triangle. The five-masted ship had successfully delivered a load of coal to Rio during its last voyage before departing and making a stopover for supplies in Barbados. About two months later, the Deering's wreckage was discovered and rescue ships could not approach it for a while because of bad weather.
When rescuers finally boarded the schooner they found it completely abandoned. The crew's personal effects, the ship's log, navigation equipment, and two lifeboats were also missing. The vessel couldn't be salvaged and was scuttled using dynamite two months after its wreckage was found. The ship had charted a course covering the Bermuda Triangle and it's often believed that the crew disappeared in that area.
5. The USS Proteus and Nereus
In November 1941, the cargo ship USS Proteus (AC-9) disappeared with its load of bauxite as well as the 58 people that were on board. The next month, its sister ship the USS Nereus (AC-10) also vanished with its 61 passengers and it was also carrying a load of bauxite and had also departed from St. Thomas in the v. Islands. Both sea vessels were sister ships to the USS Cyclops. A memorial listing of her crew can be found at the CWGC Halifax Memorial.
4. The Sinking of The USS Cyclops
In 1918, the USS Cyclops sunk and it soon became the first of many legends connected to the Bermuda Triangle. The 542-foot-long ship served as the U.S Navy’s collier during World War I, and at the time of its sinking, it was bound to Baltimore, Maryland from Bahia, Salvador. It was ferrying 10,000 tons of manganese ore, and the ship had also made an unscheduled stopover at Barbados for additional supplies before disappearing without a trace. At the time no wreckage was found and there was no distress signal sent from the ship.
A total of 306 people including passengers and crew lost their lives, making it the largest loss ever documented related to the Bermuda Triangle. In 1941, two of the Cyclop's sister ships vanished under similar circumstances and also along the same route in 1941. The Bermuda Triangle proponents stand by their theory that the lack of a distress call points out to something supernatural.
3. The Disappearance Of A Private Plane
Just last year in October, a private plane transporting four people vanished over the Bermuda Triangle. Onboard were American entrepreneur Jennifer Blumin, her husband, and their two children. They were headed to Titusville, Florida, and the Seventh District Coast Guard found some debris like part of a seat, an air intake plug and fuel from the ill-fated plane about 15 miles east of Eleuthera, Bahamas.
The Coast Guard spokesman Lt Cmdr Ryan Kelly explained that there was no indication of adverse weather that could explain what had happened to the plane.
2. Alien Portal
A number of strange occurrences happened in the Bermuda Triangle between 1945 and 1965 including five plane crashes and 10 shipwrecks. The Bermuda Triangle is also one of the sites with the highest number of UFO sightings and supposed alien abductions.
Theorists have been hard at work over the years trying to explain the mysteries behind the mythical Bermuda triangle. Naturally, UFOlogists strongly believe that the Triangle is a portal that aliens use to travel to and from our planet. They also believe that the area functions as a gathering station for aliens where they conduct research, capture people, aircrafts, and ships.
1. The Devil's Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is also commonly known as the Devil's Triangle, and it covers a 500,000 square mile area on the ocean off of Florida's southeastern tip. There's nothing official about the area and it isn't a registered territory or even depicted on maps. The understanding is that it stretches out from Miami, Florida and goes all the way to Bermuda, and finally on to San Juan in Puerto Rico.
The legends about the mythical area began during the time that Christopher Columbus sailed through it during his very first new world voyage. Columbus reported that one night a great ball of fire, believed to have been a comet, fell into the sea and a mysterious light materialized in the distance in the weeks that followed. Columbus also wrote about experiencing erratic compass readings when passing over the area. Joshua Slocum, who became famous for being the first person in the world to sail solo across the globe, disappeared in 1909. He was heading to South America from Martha's Vineyard, and many people attributed his disappearance with the Bermuda Triangle.
From ships and planes vanishing to UFO sightings in the area the bermuda triangle mystery is certainly a weird part of our history.
6. The Carroll A. Deering
In 1921, the Carroll A. Deering was found run aground with her crew nowhere to be found. It was discovered off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina and it's one of the most written about mysteries related to the Bermuda Triangle. The five-masted ship had successfully delivered a load of coal to Rio during its last voyage before departing and making a stopover for supplies in Barbados. About two months later, the Deering's wreckage was discovered and rescue ships could not approach it for a while because of bad weather.
When rescuers finally boarded the schooner they found it completely abandoned. The crew's personal effects, the ship's log, navigation equipment, and two lifeboats were also missing. The vessel couldn't be salvaged and was scuttled using dynamite two months after its wreckage was found. The ship had charted a course covering the Bermuda Triangle and it's often believed that the crew disappeared in that area.
5. The USS Proteus and Nereus
In November 1941, the cargo ship USS Proteus (AC-9) disappeared with its load of bauxite as well as the 58 people that were on board. The next month, its sister ship the USS Nereus (AC-10) also vanished with its 61 passengers and it was also carrying a load of bauxite and had also departed from St. Thomas in the v. Islands. Both sea vessels were sister ships to the USS Cyclops. A memorial listing of her crew can be found at the CWGC Halifax Memorial.
4. The Sinking of The USS Cyclops
In 1918, the USS Cyclops sunk and it soon became the first of many legends connected to the Bermuda Triangle. The 542-foot-long ship served as the U.S Navy’s collier during World War I, and at the time of its sinking, it was bound to Baltimore, Maryland from Bahia, Salvador. It was ferrying 10,000 tons of manganese ore, and the ship had also made an unscheduled stopover at Barbados for additional supplies before disappearing without a trace. At the time no wreckage was found and there was no distress signal sent from the ship.
A total of 306 people including passengers and crew lost their lives, making it the largest loss ever documented related to the Bermuda Triangle. In 1941, two of the Cyclop's sister ships vanished under similar circumstances and also along the same route in 1941. The Bermuda Triangle proponents stand by their theory that the lack of a distress call points out to something supernatural.
3. The Disappearance Of A Private Plane
Just last year in October, a private plane transporting four people vanished over the Bermuda Triangle. Onboard were American entrepreneur Jennifer Blumin, her husband, and their two children. They were headed to Titusville, Florida, and the Seventh District Coast Guard found some debris like part of a seat, an air intake plug and fuel from the ill-fated plane about 15 miles east of Eleuthera, Bahamas.
The Coast Guard spokesman Lt Cmdr Ryan Kelly explained that there was no indication of adverse weather that could explain what had happened to the plane.
2. Alien Portal
A number of strange occurrences happened in the Bermuda Triangle between 1945 and 1965 including five plane crashes and 10 shipwrecks. The Bermuda Triangle is also one of the sites with the highest number of UFO sightings and supposed alien abductions.
Theorists have been hard at work over the years trying to explain the mysteries behind the mythical Bermuda triangle. Naturally, UFOlogists strongly believe that the Triangle is a portal that aliens use to travel to and from our planet. They also believe that the area functions as a gathering station for aliens where they conduct research, capture people, aircrafts, and ships.
1. The Devil's Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is also commonly known as the Devil's Triangle, and it covers a 500,000 square mile area on the ocean off of Florida's southeastern tip. There's nothing official about the area and it isn't a registered territory or even depicted on maps. The understanding is that it stretches out from Miami, Florida and goes all the way to Bermuda, and finally on to San Juan in Puerto Rico.
The legends about the mythical area began during the time that Christopher Columbus sailed through it during his very first new world voyage. Columbus reported that one night a great ball of fire, believed to have been a comet, fell into the sea and a mysterious light materialized in the distance in the weeks that followed. Columbus also wrote about experiencing erratic compass readings when passing over the area. Joshua Slocum, who became famous for being the first person in the world to sail solo across the globe, disappeared in 1909. He was heading to South America from Martha's Vineyard, and many people attributed his disappearance with the Bermuda Triangle.
