What is the Bermuda Triangle?

[SwampFire]

Do you believe anything paranormal exists there? Is the phenomena an unusual natural occurrence? I have some definite ideas about what it is and will post back later. In the meantime, what do you think?

[krissy]

I love this topic. I think I made a post somewhere on the old SD board about the BT in regard to an old In Search Of episode.

Apparently, back in the mid 70's or so, a radio station in Florida was having a live broadcast where listeners could call in to offer their own experiences as well as opinions and theories.

Well, at one point in the broadcast, someone ( or something? ) called in.

Might take a few mins. to load:

www.shattereddreamzz.com/bermudatriangle.html

[SwampFire]

Yeah! That's awesome, and creepy. I listened to that about a hundred times after you posted it.

Have you ever seen the discovery channel explanation where scientists blame huge methane bubbles for all of the oddities?

[Millergirl4]

admin said:

Yeah! That's awesome, and creepy. I listened to that about a hundred times after you posted it.

Have you ever seen the discovery channel explanation where scientists blame huge methane bubbles for all of the oddities?

I did watch that on the discovery channel. I don't really know what to think. It is an interesting theory and I tend to think that it is an unusual natural occurance of some sort.

[SwampFire]

I think it's interesting that Spooky brought up Coral Castle in the forum at the same time I was thinking about the Triangle. I believe the two things may be related as in Ed Leedskalnin's (builder of Coral Castle) book he references areas of the earth that are more magnetic than others. He says that these areas are arranged in lines across the earth and that he chose the location for his castle specifically because of the magnetic properties of the ground.

If you think about it, magnetism is a force that exists without our help at all. We have to build plants (nuclear or traditional) to harness all other types of energy but magnetism just exists all around us. If there is a strong magnetic force at Coral Castle it would lie along the same longitudinal line as the triangle and does, in fact bisect the triangle at its center (30 deg N approx). Also along this parallel is the Devil's Sea on the Pacific side which is reported to have the same anomalies as the Bermuda Triangle. If you were to get curious and break out a ruler and draw a line on a mpa you might also see that pyramids in Mexico and Egypt are closely associated with 30 degrees N. Coincidence? Maybe.

This kind of stuff really floats my boat.

Lots to think about

[greenjelloshots]

Wow, that is some trippy stuff to think about, SF. Very interesting.

[beck]

Have you ever seen the discovery channel explanation where scientists blame huge methane bubbles for all of the oddities?

[glow=green,2,300]I saw it too. Best joke I'd seen in a while.[/glow]

[SwampFire]

I thought that perhaps the idea had some merit with regard to the ships. The physics of it seem to work out to at least a possibility but maybe short of probability due to the numbers of ships that we think have been affected. The planes being effected by the gas bubbles though was not convincing to me really at all.

[beck]

[glow=blue,2,300]Sure, the ships, that part seemed plausible. But it leaves so many other aspects unexplained, in particular, the plane disappearances. Those that left curious comments behind, and those who simply became silent and left no evidence to go on. Single planes, groups of planes.

But science throws an intriguing theory out there that suggests some of these events can be explained now that we have a better understanding of the earth's magnetic fields and poles. We know now that the two main fields are not perfectly half-spheres as we thought long ago, and that corollaries, which resemble huge pipes, actually leaves parts of the earth and auger, wormlike, back into the field, sometimes re-entering in completely different quadrants. They're only just beginning to recognize and measure these events, much less the possible ramifications of them ..[/glow]

[shagedellic]

Does anybody have any recommendations as to a good website for in-depth information on the triangle and it's history? It's a phenomena that's always interested me, but I've never read up on it much. I'd like to.

[beck]

Hi Shag! Just wanted you to know I exalted you .. you'll note a certain <ehem> stinginess with karma around here =P

Sorry I had no links to suggest tho!!

[glow=blue,2,300]Haaaaa! Made you look! made you look![/glow]

[shagedellic]

beck said:

Hi Shag! Just wanted you to know I exalted you .. you'll note a certain <ehem> stinginess with karma around here =P

Sorry I had no links to suggest tho!!

[glow=blue,2,300]Haaaaa! Made you look! made you look![/glow]

Thanks for not "smiting" me, becks. I've been "smited" quite enough lately, or so it seems. I dunno about karma, seems to me that the lady's quite a bitch, anyways. ;D

[shagedellic]

Anybody have any links? Yes, I'm too lazy to Google.

[beck]

beck said:

Have you ever seen the discovery channel explanation where scientists blame huge methane bubbles for all of the oddities?

[glow=green,2,300]I saw it too. Best joke I'd seen in a while.[/glow]

[glow=blue,2,300]I think I'll ammend on this old comment .. when considering the ocean is so vastly unexplored, much less properly studied, it leaves a wide berth for extraordinary things; this is confirmed every time man has reached record depths, always stumbling across a wealth of unexpected inhabitants who have no eyes to experience the world completely void of light, or new information on different ways our world's breathing or venting of magma, and the surprisingly large communities/food-chains that depend on such ..

I don't rightly know if it's true, but once heard that we have literally mapped more of the moon and Mars than we have our own oceans. It may be old news now, but I recall a stat that stated approximately 1% of our oceans are actually explored or mapped.

Low number or not, that leaves a helluva lotta room for possibilities, and the fact that there will be many more surprises is further supported by the new types of life and other wonders we see each time we explore a new record depth.[/glow]

[beck]

admin said:

Do you believe anything paranormal exists there? Is the phenomena an unusual natural occurrence? I have some definite ideas about what it is and will post back later. In the meantime, what do you think?

[glow=green,2,300]To get back to our original Q here, for me it's technically yes and no -- based on semantics/the word 'paranormal'. I believe that nature we do not yet understand is to blame for the events that seem to happen in the region, and I very much think the 'gravity -wormhole/corollaries' plays a part in it.

However, that is not to say I think that every disappearance has been natural, because I likewise believe in UFO encounters between 'alien' craft and our own. I think people would be surprised at the high number of pilots who either do not report UFO encounters, or basically recant statement as it's well known in the aviation community that reporting events is usually not what a pilot wishes to do, especially when it sometimes comes down to possibly losing a job.

Regardless, the sheer number of mass sightings and thorough investigations of such leave little doubt on my part. And I've seen aircraft do things that human aircraft cannot, simply put.

Are UFO's paranormal? In my eye, technically no; it's just nature that's older and/or progressed, evolved differently; if looking at the universal picture, one might be able to see it as qualifying as 'normal'.

BTW I'm not suggesting that UFO encounters are specifically responsible for an events in the Bermuda Triangle; encounters could happen anywhere, and therefore *could* be considered when trying to account for *all* the events that have gone down in the 'Devil's' triangle.[/glow]