- Of all the mysterious regions in the world,
the Bermuda Triangle, which spans between Puerto Rico,
Florida, and the Island of Bermuda,
is perhaps the most fascinating.
It's history is littered with stories of disappearances
and strange encounters, and today no one can explain
why dangerous and frightening phenomena are localized there.
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Here are 10 real, unsolved Bermuda Triangle mysteries.
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(dramatic music) Number 10 is the Tiger Star.
(water splashing) The Tiger Star was a passenger aircraft,
which vanished without a trace on the 30th of January, 1948,
at the time investigators and journalists were beginning
to turn their attention to the Bermuda Triangle
and the occurrences which were taking place there.
The Star Tiger mystery was the story which catapulted
the Bermuda Triangle into the public conscientiousness.
The plane was traveling from England to Bermuda
when its radio officer, Robert Tuck,
requested a radio bearing from Bermuda.
This suggests that the plane was off course, however,
it would be the last communication the Star Tiger ever made.
The plane vanished without a trace,
and the only other possible sighting of it
came from a ship at sea, The SS Troubadour.
If their sighting was correct,
something very wrong happened to that plane,
as it was miles away from its intended flight path.
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(dramatic music) Number nine is the Sylvia L. Ossa.
(water splashing) In 1976, a 179-meter ship
bearing the name, Sylvia L. Ossa, became the subject
of one of Bermuda Triangle's greatest mysteries.
The cargo ship was carrying 37 passengers,
along with a large cargo of iron ore.
The ore was being shipped from Brazil to Philadelphia,
but unfortunately, this route took
the Sylvia S. Ossa into the Bermuda Triangle,
from which it would never return.
No one is certain when the ship vanished,
but when the company which owned the Sylvia L. Ossa
asked the Coast Guard to search for it,
only a few pieces of debris were found,
including a lifeboat, which had not been deployed by hand.
Reporting in The New York Times, a Coast Guard spokesperson
observed the biggest mystery of all:
A ship that size would not sink quickly.
The crew should've had time to message for help,
but were silenced by this tragic mystery.
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(dramatic music) Number eight, is MU-2B.
(water splashing) Some of the Bermuda Triangle's
most perplexing mysteries
seem distant by today's standards, however,
the true horror of this region is that it continues
to cause havoc each and every year.
Flight MU-2B, in 2017, is an unnerving example of this.
This private aircraft
was carrying 40-year-old, Jennifer Blumin, and her family.
Leaving on May 15th from the Rafael Hernandez Airport
in Puerto Rico, Jennifer's plane should have landed
in Florida soon after to refuel,
but ground staff quickly realized
that the plane was missing.
It took days of searching before any debris was found
in the water.
Even then, most of the plane had vanished.
What perplexed investigators most
was that there was no evidence of pilot fault,
mechanical failure, or bad weather conditions,
leaving many to speculate purely
on the destructive influence of the Bermuda Triangle itself.
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(dramatic music) Number seven is Flight 19.
(water splashing) On December 15th, 1945,
the Bermuda Triangle's most famous disappearance occurred.
Five torpedo bomber planes vanished
while on a training mission in the Triangle.
The bombers were carrying 14 airmen, and at the time,
they were being lead by Navy Lieutenant,
Charles Carroll Taylor.
Radio transmissions from the aircraft
indicated that their compasses had stopped working
for an unknown reason.
The crews were unable to find their bearing,
and the last transmission was Taylor giving the order
that all five planes should ditch in the water
at the same time.
The planes were never found.
Adding to this tragedy, a search plane exploded in the air
while searching for flight 19.
Both flight 19's disappearance
and the search plane's explosion,
remain unexplained to this day.
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(dramatic music) Number six is SS El Faro.
(water splashing) The SS El Faro was a huge,
240-meter-long cargo ship,
which departed from Jacksonville, Florida,
in September of 2015.
The ship was carrying 33 crew,
along with 390 shipping containers, and 290 vehicles.
As the ship entered the Bermuda Triangle,
a large storm front swept into the area,
however, a ship this large should've been able
to contend with such storms,
which are common to that region.
The malevolence of the Triangle soon made itself known,
as the storm was transformed
into a category three hurricane.
The Captain of the SS El Faro sent a message to land,
saying that they had lost power and that they were taking on
some water, and that they had everything contained
and under control.
After that, the radio fell silent.
Subsequent scans of the open water show that the ship
is now sitting in darkness on the ocean floor,
and even looks intact.
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(dramatic music) Number five is the USS Cyclops.
(water splashing) America has created
one of the most powerful navies in human history,
but this military and technological might
is nothing compared to the insidious powers
at the heart of the Bermuda Triangle.
Case in point is the disappearance of the USS Cyclops.
In 1918, the Cyclops disappeared while traveling
between the West Indies and Baltimore.
At the time, it was the largest ship in the U.S. Navy,
and feared by any foolish enough to do battle with it.
With over 300 people on board,
the Cyclops sent its last message
from deep within the Triangle.
It simply said, "Weather fair, all well."
Like many Triangle disappearances,
whatever happened to the Cyclops stopped her crew
from ever sending an SOS.
The official report by the U.S. Navy ended by saying,
"The disappearance of this ship has been one of the most
"baffling mysteries in the annals of the Navy."
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(dramatic music) Number four is the unknown light.
(water splashing) Not all Bermuda Triangle mysteries
revolve around strange disappearances.
There are other bizarre puzzles out there in the depths,
still waiting to be explained.
One of the most interesting
is the mystery of the unknown light.
Throughout the history of the Bermuda Triangle,
many sailors and aircraft pilots have been dazzled
by a strange spectra light,
which appears both above and underneath the water.
Many have connected the strange lights to UFO phenomena.
The most famous witness to this
was Christopher Columbus himself.
In 1942, Columbus and his crew sailed through the Triangle
and saw an earthly light spinning in the sky above,
and what looked like a gigantic candlelight
floating up and down the surface of the sea,
where there could be no fire.
What this light is, no one knows, but seafaring myths say,
"It appears before disaster."
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(dramatic music) Number three is DC-3.
(water splashing) The 1940s was the first decade
where the world began to truly tremble
at the thought of passing through what some have called,
"The Devil's Triangle."
Since the disappearance of DC-3 flight,
50 miles from Miami in 1948,
investigators have attempted to find any wreckage
which could explain what happened to the plane.
The last message sent by the plane was by the pilot,
Robert Linquist, who asked ground control
for some landing instructions.
After that, the radio went silent.
What's so mysterious about this case is that it involved
a bizarre radio anomaly.
The message that Robert Linquist sent
was not received by Miami,
but instead was heard over 600 miles away in New Orleans.
This has lead many to contemplate
the strange space spinning properties of the air space
above the Triangle, and some suggesting that the Triangle
contains a tear in reality.
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(dramatic music) Number two is the Great Isaac Lighthouse.
(water splashing) Most people associate the Bermuda Triangle
with what happens to those traveling
through its air and water, however,
there are reports of bizarre instances
on land inside the Triangle as well.
The best example of this
is the Great Isaac Lighthouse mystery.
On August 4th, 1969, the Great Isaac Lighthouse,
on a small island in the Bahamas,
was found to have been recently abandoned.
It should've been manned by two lighthouse keepers,
but both had vanished during a storm.
A number of other strange occurrences
have been documented there, including unusual sounds
which are heard during a full moon,
and the apparition of a shipwreck victim
known as the Grey Lady, who has said to haunt the island
looking for her child.
The infant was alive and well
and was taken from the shipwreck to a safe location,
but the apparition is said to wail and scream regardless.
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(dramatic music) And number one
is the Sulfur Queen's disappearance.
(water splashing) The disappearance
of the SS Marine Sulfur Queen,
remains one of the most controversial
Bermuda Triangle mysteries in history.
At the time of its disappearance in 1963,
it was carrying 39 crewmen
and a huge cargo of molten sulfur.
After a search for the ship, only a few pieces
of innocuous debris were found at first,
but eventually two life preservers were discovered.
Investigators concluded that the life preservers
had been worn by two sailors.
Not only that, but one man had a man's shirt tied to it.
The shirt had large tears across it
and the only explanation was that a large, predatory fish
had attacked the sailor, however,
some believe that the Bermuda Triangle
contains far greater monsters than sharks in its depths,
and that the Sulfur Queen was pulled under water
by something hideous, and as of yet,
unknown to modern science.
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