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.  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.  

   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 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.