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Literally everyone has probably heard about the Bermuda Triangle, but few people know that it is actually far away not the only place on our planet covered in secrets and mysteries.

"Bermuda Triangles", where people disappear, UFOs and mysterious creatures are seen and where various paranormal phenomena take place, exist all over the world.

People find all sorts of explanations for things that scientists cannot explain, and some theories are almost ridiculous. There are no simple explanations for most of these phenomena.

Mysterious Superstition Mountains

Superstition Mountains is a mountain range located in Arizona, USA, and it fully justifies its name. According to legend, one day in the 19th century, a man named Yakov Volts discovered a gold deposit in the mountains, which he named "The Last Dutch Gold Mine".

He kept the location of the deposit a secret until his death and revealed the secret to only one person. However, the deposit was never found, despite the many expeditions that visited these mountains. Some claimed that the souls of dead people who gave their lives in search of gold roam in these places.

According to Indian legend, these mountains are guarded by certain creatures called "Tuar-Tooms" (Little People). They live under the mountains in caves and tunnels. Some believe that it is located in the mountains entrance to the Underworld.

Brazilian magnetic anomaly

Have you ever heard of "Bermuda triangles" of space? That's what you can call it Brazilian magnetic anomaly- a strange area in the south Atlantic. In this place, the magnitude of the magnetic field at sea level reaches a value that, under normal conditions, can be at an altitude about 1 thousand kilometers!

This region is centered off the coast of Brazil and is responsible for a huge number of problems with satellites and spacecraft. For example, due to this anomaly, device programs suffer, and in some cases, equipment fails.

Part of telescope equipment "Hubble" actually stops working when it passes through the area of ​​this anomaly, and International Space Station does not plan spacewalks while a spacecraft is passing through the area (this may happen up to 5 times a day). It's not just a matter of technical problems. Some astronauts claim that in this area collide with "shooting stars".

Scientists cannot determine with certainty what is happening in this area. It is generally suspected that there are high levels of radiation. There are also suggestions that all this is the work of aliens.

Mysterious Lake Angikuni

This mysterious lake gained notoriety after people began to disappear, and later even an entire village disappeared. This happened in November 1930, when a hunter named Joe Labelle began to look for shelter to spend the night. Labelle was familiar with the Inuit village, the population of which was constantly changing, and sometimes reached 2 thousand people!

Labelle reached the location of the village and found a gloomy picture: there was not a single inhabitant in the village. All things, including food and weapons, were left untouched. Labelle immediately wired the Canadian police and an investigation began.

Unearthed graves were discovered at the local cemetery, and the bodies of seven were found 100 meters from the village. dead sled dogs who died of hunger, despite the fact that warehouses with food supplies were opened in the village.

What really happened in this village? There were many versions and assumptions, including that people were abducted by aliens, ghosts or vampires. However, the police today recognize this story as simply a fictitious legend.

Devil's Sea

Devil's Sea, or whatever else these places are called, "Dragon Triangle"- this is an area in the Pacific Ocean where inexplicable things happen similar to those that take place in the Atlantic Ocean, in the Bermuda Triangle area.

Located off the coast of Japan, the Dragon's Triangle boasts a number of unexplained phenomena, including magnetic anomalies, unexplained flashes of light, appearance of strange objects and, of course, mysterious disappearances. Japanese fishermen avoid this area.

In 1952, the Japanese government organized a research expedition to the area on a ship Kayo Maru No. 5 to uncover the secrets of the Devil's Sea. The expedition never returned, but a crew of 31 people and the ship itself no one has ever seen.

According to legend, the Mongol Khan Kublai Khan made an attempt to conquer Japan in the 13th century and sent his troops across the Devil's Sea. As a result, he lost 40 thousand soldiers.

There are, as always, a great many theories about what is happening in the Dragon triangle. There are people involved here aliens, gates to parallel worlds and even Atlantis. Some suggest that there is high volcanic activity in the area, which is responsible for the disappearance of ships and people.

UFO Hunter Farm

In the northwest of Utah, USA, there is one of the most mysterious places on the planet, called "Sherman Farm". Happened in these places various mysterious incidents, which have been documented since the 1950s. One of the most famous stories happened with farmers Terry and Gwen Sherman after they acquired these lands in 1994.

On the very first day after moving, they saw a huge wolf in the pasture. They even made an attempt to tame the beast, since it seemed to them not dangerous. At first the wolf was quite obedient, but it ended with him dragging away the calf. When Terry shot the predator with a gun, the shot had no effect. The Shermans tried to track the beast, but to no avail: his traces suddenly disappeared.

The Shermans began to get fed up with UFOs, unexplained strange animals, and also witnessed mysterious cattle killings. Ultimately, the couple was forced to sell the farm in 1996. New owner Robert Bigelow, founder National Institute for Scientific Discovery, wished to study the mysterious phenomena that took place in the area of ​​the farm. Bigelow still owns the farm and keeps his findings a deep secret.

The Mothman and Other Paranormal Activity in Point Pleasant

Creature named Mothman allegedly terrorized residents of West Virginia from November 1966 to December 1967. More than a hundred residents of the city of Point Pleasant witnessed this creature, which looked like a man about 2 meters tall with a wide chest, hypnotic glowing red eyes and wingspan that was 3 meters.

The Mothman, who became the hero of a book and a feature film and who even has his own monument, gave rise to many rumors and conjectures. Some believed it came from another planet, others said it was a mutant or a cryptid, but the simplest explanation was that the creature was actually a great owl or sandhill crane.

Reports of encounters with the Mothman stopped after the destruction of the Silver Bridge December 15, 1967, resulting in the death of 46 people. Some connected this event and the appearance of a mysterious creature.

Point Pleasant- a mysterious place not only because the mysterious Mothman was seen there. Witnesses claimed that UFOs appeared in these places, and they also saw "men in black", which made the locals nervous features of speech, appearance and manners. It was assumed that these people appeared to scout information about paranormal phenomena.

The Mysterious Triangle of Lake Michigan

Michigan Triangle- another mysterious triangle on the map, located in the center of Lake Michigan. There have also been incidents in this area mysterious disappearances of planes and ships. Among the most famous cases are the following:

Captain Donner: April 28, 1937 captain George R. Donner on the ship O.M. McFarland was heading from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and was supposed to cross the Triangle area. As they say, he was quite tired and decided to rest in his cabin. He asked the second mate to wake him up before they approached their destination. After 3 hours, the second mate went down to the captain's cabin to wake him up, but the chief was not there. They searched the ship and again in vain: Donner was nowhere to be found. He was never seen again.

Flight 2501: 23 June 1950 company aircraft Northwest Airlines was on flight 2501 from New York to Minneapolis. The plane was flown by an experienced pilot Robert K. Lind, there were 58 passengers in the cabin. Due to bad weather, while the plane was approximately in the Chicago area, it changed course and turned towards Lake Michigan. Around midnight, Lind asked permission to lower his altitude. from 1000 to 700 meters without explaining the reason. His request was denied, and that was the last the dispatcher heard from Lind. The plane disappeared just in the Michigan Triangle area.

Lind's plane was in excellent condition and was in good hands during the flight, but it was obvious that he crashed for some reason and fell into the water. However, despite the fact that searches for the lost plane were organized annually, nothing was found.

Alien attack in the Saint Louis Valley

San Luis Valley is located in the south of Colorado and is famous for the fact that in these places UFOs are often seen and pets are found killed inexplicably. UFOs appear here so often that a local resident Judy Messolin She even built an observation tower on her property, from which she has seen about 50 UFOs since 2000. Some unidentified objects have been observed large groups of people.

Those who don't believe in aliens can't deny strange, chilling, mysterious phenomena happening to animals. It all started in 1967, when a horse named Snippy was discovered one morning without a brain. Animals were found killed, but there was never a drop of blood near them. The bodies were damaged by sharp objects; it was clear that this was not the work of predators. All these incidents took place at night, and the victims were always healthy animals.

The investigation into the incidents did not yield any results; they continue to occur to this day. Some farmers say what they see strange light in the sky at night before something happens to their pets, so they believe that it is aliens who are raiding their farms.

Strange Disappearances: The Bennington Triangle

Bennington Triangle- another mysterious triangle, which is located in southwestern Vermont. In these places during between 1945 and 1950s At least 5 people disappeared.

On November 12, 1945, a certain person went missing here Midi Rivers who was hunting with a group of hunters. The next year she disappeared in the forest Paula Velder, a student at Bennington College. Disappeared here on October 28, 1950 Frida Langer, whose body was discovered a year later in areas where extensive searches were carried out immediately after her disappearance. There were more casualties. It was rumored that serial killers, maniacs, Bigfoot or aliens were to blame for the deaths.

Paranormal Phenomena of the Bridgewater Triangle

It is better to stay away from mysterious triangles. Another such area is located in Massachusetts near Boston. In these places various paranormal phenomena, and encounters with cryptozoological creatures have also been reported.

Since the 1970s, there have been reports of tall, hairy, monkey-like creatures who wander through the swamps. They said that they saw pterodactyl-like creatures fighting in the air. In 1976, a man said he encountered a huge red-eyed dog that killed two of his ponies.

In addition to encounters with cryptids, finds have been reported mutilated animals, mostly found cows and calves. Some believed that these animals were victims of satanic cults, but no one ever got to the bottom of the truth.

Moreover, the Bridgewater Triangle was chosen by UFOs. Reports of unidentified objects appearing in the area have become appear as early as the 18th century. People have seen "fireballs" in these places. Since then there have been a great many messages of this kind.

This place is located in the vast Canadian expanses of Nahanni National Park. It received its terrible name because of a series of tragic incidents that stretched over more than 100 years. At the end of the 19th century, gold was discovered here and fortune hunters from all over the country flocked to the valley. The first disaster occurred in 1898, when a group of six gold miners disappeared without a trace. They tried to find them, but could not. Seven years later, two MacLeod brothers and their friend Robert Vere disappeared in the same valley. Just like the first group, they simply disappeared without a trace. Only three years later, nine headless corpses were accidentally discovered, which could only be identified by miraculously preserved talismans.

The mysterious disappearances of people continued later. It got to the point that in 1962-1965, two expeditions were sent to the valley to clarify the circumstances. However, these scientists were also soon found without their heads. In 1978, another, much more prepared and equipped expedition gathered. It was headed by the famous American paranormal investigator Hank Mortimer. The scientists had with them a full set of tools that might be needed in emergency situations, as well as the necessary equipment to maintain constant communication with the camp. However, already in the evening of the first day of the expedition, the operator in the camp heard on the radio the terrible screams of the expedition members and the words of radio operator Ray Wilson: “There is emptiness coming out of the rock... This is terrible!” A helicopter with armed soldiers on board was immediately raised on alarm, but at the place where, according to the members of the expedition, their tent should have stood, nothing was found at all, no traces of the presence of people. And only after five days of continuous searches, rescuers still managed to find the headless corpse of one of the scientists.

Deaths and mysterious disappearances in the Valley of the Headless continue to this day. But there is not even the slightest hint of what is really happening there. People put forward many versions. Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is a gang of thugs operating in the valley who are hunting for gold miners and their prey. However, local police do not confirm this guess. According to the sheriff, no one had ever noticed any strange strangers in this place. But the local residents themselves are sure that all the deaths are the work of soskvachs. Creatures similar to hairy giant men were often seen here, and traces of him were found even more often. Whether Bigfoot could have dealt so cruelly with uninvited guests of his domain is unknown.

Perhaps the most famous mystical place in the world is the Bermuda Triangle, a section of the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico.

The name of the Bermuda Triangle has already become a household name and, of course, we have all repeatedly heard stories about the inexplicable and traceless disappearances of ships and planes in it, about ghost ships found here, abandoned by the crew, about mysterious movements in time, instantaneous in space and many other creepy things things.

There are also a great many explanations for all these phenomena - some claim that aliens are at work here, others believe that there are temporary or black holes in the Bermuda Triangle, others suggest that faults in space are to blame, and some even think that people are being abducted inhabitants of the disappeared Atlantis!

Skeptics and scientists do not find anything mystical in the notoriety of the triangle - it has been established that this area is very difficult to navigate, since there are many shallows here, and storms and cyclones often arise.

In 1502, the navigator Bermudez, originally from Spain, near the coast of Central America came across islands surrounded by dangerous shoals and reefs. He called them the Devil's Islands. And only a few decades later they began to be called Bermuda in honor of himself.

For many centuries, the area of ​​Bermuda was recognized as dangerous among travelers, but the unfavorable zone expanded significantly only in the 20th century.

It all started in 1950, when a correspondent for the Associated Press, one of the world's largest news agencies, wrote about mysterious disappearances in the area, which he called the "Devil's Sea." The famous name appeared only 14 years later in a publication by Vincent Gaddis in one of the magazines about the unknown.

However, the real popularity of the triangle was brought by Charles Berlitz’s 1974 book “The Bermuda Triangle,” which collected all the mysterious cases that occurred in this zone.

However, it was later established that some facts in the book were presented incorrectly, and other strange cases occurred completely outside the boundaries of that same triangle. But some argued that they want to hide the secret of these waters at any cost.

Modern history already includes more than a hundred mysterious disappearances without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle area. This is an area with difficult weather conditions and very busy traffic on water and in the air. Therefore, when ships suddenly disappear from radars in good weather conditions, it is difficult not to notice.

In 1945, increased attention to this anomalous zone was attracted by the disappearance of a military squadron. Five Avenger-class torpedo bombers, with experienced crews, suddenly and without a trace disappeared during a routine flight in clear weather and over calm seas.

In radio conversations, the pilots spoke about the failure of navigation equipment, complete disorientation and... panic “We don’t know where west is. Nothing works... Strange... We can't determine the direction. Even the ocean doesn’t look the same as usual!..”

After the navigation equipment completely failed, the pilots spent an hour and a half trying to find land in the west, then another hour in the east, but they never found it. It was as if an entire American state had disappeared. And when the crew saw the ground, they did not recognize it at all, and did not dare to land.

The last words of the pilots still cause a lot of controversy: “We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don’t know where we are, the water is green, not white.”

The search for five aircraft or their wreckage was in vain; moreover, during the search, another of the aircraft disappeared - the Martin Mariner seaplane.

Skeptics later put forward theories that the pilots were not experienced enough, that the pilots lost their bearings, that aircraft of this type were unreliable and could easily explode due to fuel leaks. This could have happened to one plane, but it is quite difficult to assume that five planes spontaneously ignited every second and therefore none of the pilots reported the disaster.

In 1963, the 130 m long cargo ship Marine Sulfur Queen disappeared without a trace. The ship disappeared without distress signals and its remains were not found. The exact location of the vessel at the time of the disappearance is unknown, but its course gave reason to talk about the disappearance of the Marine Sulfur Queen in the Bermuda Triangle.

The disasters that occurred and are occurring in the Bermuda Triangle area have become, on the one hand, the object of close attention of the public, and on the other, an opportunity for speculation and cheap sensations. Many scientific theories have been created that would explain the unexpected disorientation of people and equipment failure in the area. But until scientists have come to a consensus, many continue to see the presence of mysticism in the mysterious disappearances.

Underwater Bermuda Triangle

What does the Bermuda Triangle hide underwater? The bottom topography in this area is interesting and varied, although it is nothing ordinary and has been studied quite well, since some time ago various studies and drilling were carried out here in order to find oil and other minerals.

Scientists have determined that the Bermuda Triangle or the lost Atlantis contains mainly sedimentary rocks on the ocean floor, the layer thickness of which is from 1 to 2 km, and it itself looks like this:

• Deep-sea plains of oceanic basins - 35%;
• Shelf with shoals - 25%;
• Slope and foot of the mainland - 18%;
• Plateau - 15%;
• Deep ocean trenches - 5% (the deepest places of the Atlantic Ocean are located here, as well as its maximum depth - 8742 m, recorded in the Puerto Rican Trench);
• Deep straits - 2%;
• Seamounts - 0.3% (six in total).

Theories of the origin of the anomalous zone

There is a consensus on how the Bermuda Triangle, which frightens many sailors and pilots, appeared - as a result of geological activity. As you can see, there is nothing mysterious or enigmatic in the appearance of this place. Researchers put forward other opinions, but all of them were criticized by scientists.

If we take into account the fact that over the past 100 years about five thousand planes and ships have disappeared in the zone of anomalous phenomena, we can say that something strange is still in the area of ​​​​the Bermuda Triangle. It is this something that causes the death of people, sea and air transport.

Let's pay attention to some theories that are an attempt to explain what is happening in the anomalous zone:

• the cause of the disasters is giant wandering waves, the height of which is 30 meters;
• infrasonic waves are generated in the ocean, causing the crew to panic - people rush into the water;
• in the mystical area there are so-called “blue holes”, which are the remains of tunnels through which you can move in time;
• in the ocean, gigantic gas bubbles filled with methane are formed (once they enter such a bubble, sea and air transport begins to sink, since the density of air or water inside the resulting bubble is very low);
• the mystical water area is the place where the lost city of Atlantis was once located (if you believe the legend, the crystals were the sources of its energy: now from the bottom of the ocean they send waves that disable the navigation equipment of planes and ships);
• a sharp change in weather conditions in the water area occurs due to the presence of a powerful warm Gulf Stream current there;
• the area of ​​mystical incidents is the place through which aliens make their way to our Earth;
• the impossibility of finding the remains of air and sea transport that have suffered a disaster is due to the peculiarities of the relief that is characteristic of the bottom of the water area - it is confusing and mysterious;
• air and sea transport disappears because it is subject to deliberate attacks in the form of piracy and unofficial warfare;
• in the area of ​​water there is a curvature of space and magnetic fog occurs.

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Video - 10 secrets of the Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is an area in the Atlantic Ocean where mysterious disappearances of ships and aircraft allegedly occur. The area is bounded by lines from Florida to Bermuda, on to Puerto Rico and back to Florida through the Bahamas.
Supporters of the Bermuda Triangle mystery have put forward several dozen different theories to explain the mysterious phenomena that, in their opinion, occur there. These theories include assumptions about the abduction of ships by aliens from outer space or residents of the legendary Atlantis, movement through “holes” in time, rifts in space, etc.
Recently, the topic of the Bermuda Triangle has returned to the pages of the world media. The mystery of this anomaly again began to excite researchers.
We asked the Azerbaijani esoteric researcher Vagif Alekperov to contribute to these discussions.
According to him, although the Bermuda Triangle is not directly related to Azerbaijan, nevertheless, all processes occurring on the planet are interconnected and therefore are problems of all humanity.
“The cause of the anomalies in the Bermuda area is unknown, but there are many interesting hypotheses. One of them was put forward by the American hydrobiologist Sanderson, who noticed that zones with similar properties are located at the same latitude and are spaced at an equal distance from each other, forming the so-called Devil’s Belt: the Bermuda Triangle, the Gibraltar Wedge, the Afghan Anomalous Zone, the Devil’s Sea, the Hawaiian Anomaly.
It is noteworthy, by the way, that in the middle of the last century, after a series of mysterious disasters in the Devil’s Sea, Japanese authorities declared this territory a dangerous place. Common signs of anomalous zones are disturbances in the perception of time, poor health, a feeling of fear and panic, etc.,” said our interlocutor.
Scientists, according to researcher Alekperov, are skeptical about the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle, explaining everything by random coincidences, weather conditions, magnetic storms, the influence of infrasonic waves on the human psyche, etc. However, this ignores the obvious symmetry in the location of the Devil's Belt zones, which form a regular pentagon on the map. The connection of its diagonals gives a five-pointed star, a pentacle, that is, a figure that ancient magicians used in their practice.
“Therefore, the essence of anomalous phenomena is probably associated with mysticism, and, in my opinion, there are also its mathematical foundations. The point here is in the proportions of the golden section - 0.618 - which, as has been known since the time of Pythagoras, enclose the pentacle. The following chain of the strangest coincidences in history is also connected with these proportions. In 1664, a frigate sank near England. Only one survived - a certain Hugh Williams. In 1785, a corvette crashed near England. Of the entire crew, again only one survived, and again it was a man named Hugh Williams. In 1860, another shipwreck occurred near England. And again, of all the crew members of the sunken ship, only Hugh Williams managed to escape.
It’s easy to calculate that the total period of time (in years) is 196, and the intervals are 75 and 121. Guided by the rules of school arithmetic for calculating proportions, we get 75/121 = 121/196 = 0.618 - with an error of only one thousandth,” said V .Alekperov.
This small error is more than compensated by the amazing fact that all three shipwrecks occurred on the same day - December 5 - the same day when five Avenger aircraft disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle, our interlocutor emphasized.
“And about one more significant circumstance. All these coincidences look clearly non-random, but from the point of view of science, the facts presented are nothing more than an interesting curiosity that should not be paid serious attention to. That is, scientists studying the Bermuda Triangle will still stubbornly continue to look for some natural causes there - magnetic fields, underwater currents, gas accumulations, etc.
But familiarity with the history of such searches leads to the idea that this is a taboo topic for academic science,” said the Azerbaijani researcher.

The waters south of Tokyo bear the ominous name of the Devil's Sea, as many fishing boats and other larger ships have disappeared into them. In 1953, a research vessel with 31 crew members, including scientists, Kaiyo Maru #5, set sail into the Devil's Sea to investigate these mysterious disappearances. Can you guess what happened to this ship? It disappeared.

However, his end was not mysterious. The ship was destroyed by a volcano. The crew were exploring a newly formed volcanic island when it erupted, leaving no survivors. Devil's Sea lawyers also ignored the fact that the number of fishing boats that disappeared in this region was no greater than the number of boats lost in other Japanese waters.

Just north of Reno, Nevada, on the Paiute Tribe Reservation, local legend has it that trout lovers disappear into the waters of Pyramid Lake almost every spring. Allegedly demonic spirits, “children of the water,” grab fishermen and lead them to death, while their bodies disappear. On the shores of Pyramid Lake, the cries of water babies pierce the silence, and the laughter of unseen children echoes from the pyramidal rock that gives the lake its name.

However, if the lake takes lives every year (according to the assurances of local inhabitants), why is this not written about in local newspapers? Probably, the water babies carefully monitor this, hiding from justice.

Chippewa legend says that Lake Superior never gives up its dead. But the reason why the lake preserves its victims is not at all mysterious. The cold waters of the lake cause slow decomposition, which under normal conditions would cause the body to fill with gases, causing it to float to the surface.

More than 200 ships disappeared in Lake Superior, especially along the southern part. Intense storms cause ten-meter waves that will gladly sink any boat in no time; The 210-meter Edmund Fitzgerald did not escape this fate either. The underwater properties of Whitefish Point have become a sanctuary for many shipwrecks that attract divers. However, others disappeared without leaving a trace.

Bermuda Triangle

The most famous item on this list has its reputation for good reason. Yes, there have been significant incidents in the Bermuda Triangle, which stretches from southern Florida to Bermuda and Puerto Rico, including the loss of the USS Cyclops with its 309 crew in 1918. Five American Avenger bombers disappeared there in 1945.

However, the Bermuda Triangle is famous for its strong storms, changeable weather and treacherous shallow waters, according to oceanographers. Along with the weather, the Triangle is home to one of the busiest shipping lanes on the planet. Proportionally, the level of loss of ships and aircraft in this zone does not exceed other places on our planet. The Bermuda Triangle didn't even have a bad reputation until the 1950s, only to become famous thanks to inflated and even fabricated stories written over the next few decades. And like many other things in our lives, it became a household name.

East of the Bermuda Triangle, circulating currents created the Sargasso Sea. Floating algae create entire mats that float across the Sargasso Sea and are swirled by strong currents. For a long time, sailors avoided this region and created legends about ghost ships sailing in the Sargasso Sea. In the 1840s, one such ship was the Rosalie, which was found empty without a single crew member on board, CNN reported.

One of the most mysterious ghost ships in maritime history, the Mary Celeste, was discovered in 1872 west of the Sargasso Sea. The entire crew, including the captain's wife and daughter, disappeared, although the ship's cargo of explosive ethanol and large quantities of food remained intact. The ethanol leak may have scared the crew, causing them to abandon ship for fear of an explosion. And the lifeboat could easily sink during a storm.

Michigan Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle's northern cousin, the Michigan Triangle, extends from Ludington to Benton Harbor, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Ships and at least one plane are the spoils of the region. In 1891, the schooner Thomas Hume and her crew of seven sailed to the Michigan Triangle, but did not return and left no trace. In 1921, the ship "Rosa Belle" was found floating in this triangle completely empty, without eleven crew members sailing on it. In 1950, Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 disappeared while flying over the triangle, and with it 58 passengers.

Bennington triangle

The Bennington Triangle in southwestern Vermont was the last place to be seen for five people who disappeared between 1945 and 1950. The first time, an 18-year-old tourist disappeared even though her two companions were only 100 meters behind her. Exactly three years later, to the day, a man disappeared from a moving bus. No one noticed his disappearance.

One logical explanation was the presence of a serial killer in the woods of Vermont. However, serial killers usually target certain demographic groups. Among the people who disappeared in the Bennington Triangle were a 74-year-old female guide and an 8-year-old boy.

South Atlantic Anomaly

Strange and powerful forces envelop the Earth in energy, but there is nothing supernatural about them. The Van Allen radiation belt forms a lopsided donut of charged particles around the planet. The belt sags closest to Earth over South America and the Atlantic Ocean off eastern Brazil. This region is designated by NASA as the South Atlantic Anomaly. While passing through the anomaly, the Hubble telescope, satellites and other spacecraft were and are receiving intense bombardment from protons, the building blocks of atoms, with energies exceeding 10 million electron volts.

Being 200-800 kilometers from the surface, the anomaly should not affect anything on the ground or aircraft. However, some use it to explain the crash of Air France Flight 447, which killed 228 people in 2009. The real cause of the disaster may simply be a tool failure that needed to change a few lines of code, according to scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Look around more carefully: what if there is some kind of “triangle” next to you?