Flight 19

One of the many mysteries surrounding the Bermuda triangle is the several missing airplanes and ships, such as Flight 19 and the USS Cyclops, but most of these disappearances can be explained by natural occurrences. The Bermuda Triangle is a geographic area of the North Atlantic Ocean located off the southeast coast of the United States. The enigma of the area is its great controversy. “The enigma is that more ships and planes disappear in this area, in fair weather, more than in any other place in the world, for no readily explainable reason” (Bermuda Triangle: Introduction). Flight 19 is a well known aircraft that went down in the Bermuda Triangle. It was an Avenger torpedo bomber on a routine practice mission. It lifted off from the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida at 2:10 in the afternoon. Lt. Charles Taylor was flying students in the plane and miscalculated where he was. “Taylor indicated that his compasses were not working, but he believed himself to be somewhere over the Florida Keys...Apparently Taylor had become confused at some point in the flight...For some reason Taylor apparently thought…

have mysteriously disappeared over the years. It received it’s name from a magazine after an extremely popular disappearance known as Flight 19. Nobody knows for sure if the Bermuda Triangle is real because science cannot explain many disappearances including the USS Cyclops, Ellen Austin vessel, and Flight 19. The USS Cyclops is one of the most famous disappearances in all of the history of the Bermuda Triangle. It was a boat that went down in WW2 with no explanation. The U.S. was thinking all…

disappearances such as hexagonal clouds acting as air bombs, a strange ocean floor, and erratic weather conditions but, nothing proves to be the answer to these peculiar occurrences. The mystery of hundreds of losses at sea takes place in the Bermuda Triangle. Between the 1800s and the 1970s, various ships got lost at sea including, the USS Cyclops, the Marine Sulphur Queen, the Sylvia L. Ossa, and the Carroll A. Deering (Rudolph). The Bermuda Triangle lies in the Atlantic Ocean between the…

draw attention to the Bermuda Triangle (Kidsworld Magazine). His logs say while sailing they’ve come across strange things. For example, he states a fireball fell from the sky (Kidsworld Magazine). In another log he states that something strange happens to his compass (Kidsworld Magazine). His log about the compass could be true since one of the myths deals with a magnetic connection. Speculations about the Bermuda Triangle first started when the first disappearance occurred in 1945. Two most…

For the past few decades, maybe centuries, many planes and ships have randomly disappeared, and all in the same area - the Bermuda Triangle. One of the biggest disappearances includes Flight MH370. Many have speculated about the cause, or causes. Some of the causes are supernatural, including aliens, Atlantis death rays, and large, giant sea monsters, like krakens. Other theories are completely natural, like methane crystals, large waves, and human stupidity. Most have settled for the theory of…

In the film Cast Away, directed by Robert Zemeckis, compulsively prompt FedEx executive Chuck Noland is on his way to Malaysia when his plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean during a storm. The sole survivor of the flight, Chuck washes ashore on a deserted island. When his efforts to sail away and contact help fail, Chuck learns how to survive on the island, where he remains for four years until he manages to escape the island. During the last scene of the film, after Chuck has returned the last…

Disappearing out of thin air or falling into a rocky and huge ocean, what happened to The Flannan lighthouse men . These three people disappeared while waiting for the next shift of lighthouse men to show up. This happened on the date of December 26, 1900. Location of course is The Flannan Isles Lighthouse in the West Coast of Scotland. This island is named after Saint Flannan who lived there and died there. There were three people that disappeared, they were all males. No bodies were ever…

little island called Howland Island. Amelia Earhart sent one last transmission to Itasca where she stated that her and Noonan thought they were close to the island, but their plane was running on the verge of empty. Soon there were no sign of the plane, according to Szalay’s website (2017) Itasca started immediately on a two week search (Earhart’s Last Flight section, para. 17). At this time, Franklin Roosevelt was the president of the United States. The American people loved Amelia Earhart…

Different governments have tried to explain why some planes or vessel disappear when traveling through the Bermuda Triangle. Statistics have proven that the losts are relatively small considering the amount of traffic that operates in that region. Accidents happen and bad news sells extremely well. For example, in the recent disappearance of flight 370 of Malaysian Airlines in the Indic Ocean the entire world was concerned. The world´s most powerful countries joined together to find this…

All through human history many strange phenomena and disappearances have occurred. These strange disappearances have happened to not only a single person but a whole civilization and countless other strange things. This paper will show the top five mysterious disappearances that our history has to offer. The first mystery to discuss is the disappearance of Flight 19. Flight-19 is the codename for five Avenger bombers that took off from the naval base at Florida at 2:10 P.M. on December 5th,1945,…