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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. The Devil's Triangle The Atlantic ocean, three cities, Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale, all form a triangle, ships, people and planes have vanished without trace, and as disturbing as it may seem a group of aircraft during World War II on December 5th, 1945, five Avenger bombers, took off from Fort Lauderdale, the Naval Air Station - they were never seen again. The incident is famous... So is the Bermuda Triangle... It became known as the Devil's Triangle... The myth began back in 1950, September 16th. A reporter E.V.W. Jones wrote a piece on “mysterious disappearances” of ships and planes between the Florida Coast and Bermuda in an Associated Press dispatch. Fate magazine jumped on the band wagon two years later, an article by George X. Sand about a “series of marine disappearances, each leaving no trace whatsoever, that have taken place in the last few years” in a “watery triangle bounded roughly by Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico”. Ideas and suggestions started forming, M.K. Jessup wrote about alien intelligences being behind the incidents in the book, The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, written in 1955. Frank Edwards wrote Stranger Than Science, agreeing to the theory that aliens were somewhere abouts in the waters of the triangle, eventually Vincent H. Gaddis came up with the name: The Bermuda Triangle. Gaddis wrote an article in February 1964's edition of Argosy relating the story in his later book Invisible Horizons, titled The Deadly Bermuda Triangle. Here lies the myth of the world famous Bermuda Triangle. The Avenger bombers, a crew of 14 men, including 13 trainees, in the last stages of their training along with Lt. Charles Taylor. Five pilots had transferred from the Miami Naval Air Station. Taylor knew the Florida Keys but had no knowledge of the Bahamas, the direction Flight 19 was headed... At 3:50pm a pilot and his flight instructor, Lt. Robert Cox were readying to land at Fort Lauderdale, overheard a transmission to someone called Powers, Powers replied, “I don't know where we are. We must have got lost after that last turn.” A little later Lt. Cox established a radio contact with another of the pilots on the lost Avengers out at sea, he was informed that Taylor's compasses were not working and he was sure they were in the keys, not knowing how to get to Florida Keys. Cox instructed him to fly north toward Miami “if you are in the keys.” Taylor was not in the keys, he was in Bermuda, and by flying north he was heading further out to sea. Bad communications helped the problem further, Taylor was asked to give up the controls to one of the students, it seems he didn't do this. Dusk slowly approached, communications got worse, Lt. Taylor expressing they would fly north-northeast for a while and then go west. 5:15pm veering off to the east, Taylor was over heard talking to the others, advising them all to join up, so that if they went down, they'd be together. Sundown at 5:29pm, bad weather coming in from the north, the situation developing into an emergency. 6:00pm communications improved, Taylor was advised to switch to the emergency frequency of 3, 000 kilocycles; he refused, afraid he'd lose the rest of the group; interference from Cuban commercial stations... Flight 19 now shut off from the whole wide world. At 7:50pm a crew of a nearby ship spotted oil on the surface of the water but no planes and certainly no survivors. Weather conditions were becoming extreme, no retrieval or debris of wreckage was undertaken at this time. Flight 19 assumed down and out of fuel. Taylor's last transmission heard at 7:09pm, while overnight the search continued, hundreds of planes and boats joined in the search the next day. The lost Avengers were never found. It is often reported on the day of Flight 19, the sea was calm, it was horrendously rough. The Avengers total disappearance could be explained by the turbulent state of the sea, the planes known throughout the navy as iron birds, weighing 14, 000 pounds empty will have been sucked down to the bottom of the sea, while any wreckage swallowed aimlessly by the disturbed waters. On 4th April, 1975, Loyd's of London, issued a statement to Fate magazine... “428 vessels have been reported missing throughout the world since 1955”, an explanatory statement that losses at sea are no different from anywhere in the world, that Bermuda, the triangle, had simply had its own losses over time. The Devil's Triangle written by Bill Barber |
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