If you have questions about the great mysteries of the ocean, ship wrecks, and disappearances, then look no further. My name is Gabe Miller and I will be discussing these topics weekly on this blog. I will be researching and discovering the truth about the Bermuda Triangle and find out what secrets it really holds. Many myths have been created by the sailors who have gone through the unforgiving weather. I will be going over the countless plane and ship wrecks that have occurred in the perimeter and uncovering the whispers of an Underwater Graveyard.
May 12, 2025 – The Phenomenon of Flight 19
The Bermuda Triangle is an absolute phenomenon, known for rough waters, strange lights in the sky, and known to throw off compasses with its magnetic pull. The first ever recorded notes about the Bermuda Triangle came from Christopher Columbus where he reported seeing strange lights in the sky, as well as the ship’s compass malfunctioning. Today I will be solving the mystery of Flight 19 on December 5th, 1945. It was a routine day for captain Charles Taylor, he was leading a training flight with a total of fourteen crew members and five aircraft. They were supposed to depart from a naval base in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, fly over the Bahamas and then return back to the base. On the return home from the Bahamas the captain reported that both of his compasses had malfunctioned and he had become disoriented and didn’t know his location. He kept in contact on his radio trying to figure out his current location but no success was made. As they kept getting further out at sea their connections to radios grew weaker and weaker and it became hard for the radio to communicate with the pilots.
Four hours after their initial takeoff the navy was able to roughly identify their location two hundred kilometers north of their initial plan. Another plane was sent out to their approximate location, but mysteriously enough inexplicably disappeared. Five hours after take off the final radio transmission was recorded which was a failed attempt from one plane to contact another. The six planes involved were never found and neither was any wreckage from their plane, it’s as if the planes vanished off the face of the earth. This remains one of the weirdest phenomenons not only in the history of the Bermuda Triangle, but in all of plane history. Captain Taylor was an experienced pilot who had flown that area many times before, so how did he get so confused about his location? Over two hundred ships were later sent out to try to find the wreckage of the planes but none was found. The Bermuda Triangle is a hard area to flyover, but too tough for an experienced captain like Taylor. I don’t think so, I believe this mystery is real.
May 16, 2025 – Magnetite and Methane Gas
There are many things that make The Bermuda Triangle as fascinating and unique as it is, and one of those things is that the area known as The Bermuda Triangle is the underwater volcano that made the island of Bermuda millions of years ago which left approximately 500 billion tons of magnetite in the Bermuda Triangle. Magnetite is the world’s most magnetic naturally occurring substance which causes compasses to malfunction, defying the laws of physics. One of these unfathomable mysteries occurred on January 28th, 1948. A British airline named the Tudor Star Tiger which was a passenger plane which contained 32 people. The plane took off in Lisbon, Portugal and was flying to the island of Bermuda. The plane stopped on the island of Santa Maria to refuel before continuing its journey. While they were stopped they had heard of storms ahead in the atlantic ocean so the experienced pilot Captain McMilan decided they would stay the night in Santa Maria. The following day there were strong winds but no storms so the captain decided they would fly, a bold decision.
When the plane was about an hour and a half away from their destination, the captain radioed into the air tower to confirm their location. It was estimated that they would land in about 2 hours after that radio call. The air tower tried radioing them again about 30 minutes later, but there was no response, they tried an hour later when the plane should have been getting close to landing, again they got no response. The air tower declared a state of emergency and the air force that was based in Bermuda quickly sent planes out to look for the missing passenger plane because it was after their attended time of arrival and there was no distress call made by captain McMilan. 26 total planes were sent out for 5 days and no wreckage was found. The Bermuda Triangle contains a large amount of methane gas, and when enough is released from its ocean floor into the air, it can cause a plane’s own engines to burst into flames, which some experts believe is what happened to the plane. As odd as this phenomenon is, I don’t believe this case to be a mystery, as it was one of the earlier passenger planes to fly over Bermuda and flying conditions were not easy that day. I suspect that the plane ran into an unfamiliar amount of methane gas, which was also not very researched then.
