♪ Bermuda, Bahama ♪
♪ We're gonna disappear, pretty mama ♪
- Let's talk about that.
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Gooooood Mythical Morning.
- You've heard of the Bermuda Triangle,
that mysterious ocean region
where planes and ships inexplicably go missing?
What is going on there?
Well, today we're gonna take a deep dive
into a few specific instances.
We're gonna examine those
and see if we can surface
(imitates water bubbling)
some answers.
- All right, first of all, just to refresh your memory,
'cause I didn't know this,
exactly where is- - If you don't know,
how you're supposed to remember?
- Well, 'cause I learned. - Oh.
- Exactly where is the Triangle?
Well, it's huge.
It's actually 1 million square miles
going from Bermuda to Puerto Rico to Miami.
That's a lot of space and stories go back very, very early.
Even Christopher Columbus said
that his compass stopped working
when he was in the Bermuda Triangle area.
He was also known to be addicted to opiates.
(Link chuckles)
- I've flown through here. So have you.
- Are you addicted to opiates?
- No. And I also wasn't lost.
I mean, do ships avoid this area?
- No, it's actually one of the busiest shipping areas
in an entire world.
So people don't professionally or commercially
avoid this area. - Avoid the Bermuda Triangle.
- But there's lots and lots of stories.
And despite the fact that scientists
have given lots of great explanations,
natural explanations for what has happened,
there are lots of supernatural explanations,
paranormal, even extraterrestrial explanations
for some of the stuff that has happened.
- Is that right? All right.
- Yes. - Well, let's get into
some specifics here.
I wanna take you on Flight 19.
This instance made the Bermuda Triangle very popular.
- Okay. - Okay?
It wasn't just one plane though.
It was five torpedo bomber planes,
a squadron, if you will.
- I will. - I use the term loosely.
On December 5th, 1945,
those five planes took off from Fort Flauderdale, Florida
for a training exercise.
Did I say Fort Flauderdale? - Fort Flauderdale, yeah.
That's right next to Fort Lauderdale.
(Link chuckles)
- And the guy in charge, Lieutenant Charles C. Taylor,
started to report that his compass was malfunctioning.
And then, that his other compass
was also malfunctioning.
- Backup compass.
- So, they're both going out.
He became disoriented and got lost inside of the Triangle.
He looks down and he's using land masses
to orient he and his team.
And he's like, well I think that's the Florida Keys.
So, I'm like southwest of Florida.
We gotta start heading east. Okay?
Well what he doesn't know
is that he's going out into the ocean.
He doesn't know what's going on.
Towards the end, the last thing
that was reported that he said was,
"When the first plane drops below 10 gallons of fuel,
we all go down together."
- No, not me.
- It's the last they heard of him.
The Navy sent two search search planes out there.
Then they conducted a massive search.
No planes were found, no wreckage, no debrees, no body.
No debris or debrees.
- Yeah, both. Both of those.
- Were ever found.
So, what actually happened?
I mean what's the most feasible explanation?
Well, first of all, two compasses going out,
it's a little bit weird,
but it happens. - It can happen, yeah.
- Faulty equipment, yeah.
Plus it was severe weather that made navigating worse
and they ran outta gas.
But, where did they go once they hit the ocean?
Well, the prevailing theory is that
the, what's it called, the Gulf stream?
Okay, the Gulf Stream took them away
just like Dexter's dead bodies.
- [Dawkins] Do you wanna know
what really happened to Flight 19?
- Yes.
- Hi. - Who are you?
- I'm Dawkins.
(Link chuckles)
What really happened to Flight 19 was the compass.
Both compasses were not malfunctioning.
They had reoriented themselves
towards a different electromagnetic field
that was being given off by an alien mothership.
- There it is.
- The alien mothership of the alien people.
Very difficult to pronounce
but the closest you can get in English is
(gasps dramatically).
So the (gasps dramatically) people drew them in.
- Are you all right?
- Yes. To their ship.
They brought Charles and his boys into the ship,
where they poked and prod them.
Emphasis on prodding. There's a lot of prodding.
- You're into that. - No.
I'm just giving you the facts.
Anyway, and then they took 'em to their home planet,
again difficult to pronounce,
but I like to call it (clicks tongue).
And I know what you're asking.
Yes, they did interbreed with (gasps dramatically) women.
They're still there though,
their damn half breed (gasps dramatically) human children.
That's what really happened.
- Is that a superior race or?
- It's great.
- I don't mean to burst your bubble
but I didn't follow half of that,
and the half that I understood, I just don't believe.
I mean- - Well, that's fine, Link,
'cause I've got another one from the USS Cyclops.
Actually, this was a massive carrier ship
that supplied fuel to American fleets during World War I.
In 1918, it set sail from Rio, Brazil,
where they had the Olympics recently.
- One eye.
- It was filled with 309 passengers
and a load of manganese ore.
- How many eyes did it have?
- It's headed for Baltimore
and it never gets to Baltimore, Maryland.
Massive search is initiated but it was never found.
So what actually happened?
This is a huge ship. How does it just go missing?
Well, it actually turns out
that there were other ships just like this,
that transported this type of corrosive material,
and they were known to be
completely just ratted out on the inside.
No structural integrity because the stuff was so corrosive.
There's actually accounts of ships like this
just being out on the open seas
and just splitting in half and sinking.
There's also something really interesting though
that happens in this part of the ocean
where there are these huge methane gas bubbles
that come out of these canyons that come up
and they can actually come under a ship.
And then the ship,
because the density of the water changes under the ship,
it drops down into the bubble,
waves go over the side and then the whole ship sinks.
That's a very likely explanation, also.
- [Link] Would you like to hear what really happened
with the USS Cyclops?
- Yeah, I would. Welcome to the show.
What's your name?
- Thanks for having me. My name doesn't matter.
(Rhett chuckles)
I'd rather be mysterious.
I'd rather draw your attention to the facts.
- Okay. What are the facts?
- I know.
Listen, you were very close
when you were talking about the methane,
but you hadn't connected all the dots.
Shall I? - You shall.
- Shall I? - Please.
- Okay, first of all, have you heard of Atlantis?
- Oh yeah, I've heard of it.
It's stories. - Lost City of Atlantis?
And do you know who lives and rules
and is friendly over Atlantis?
- Who's that?
- Aquaman. And you know what he loves, Aquaman?
- What does he love?
- Manganese.
(Rhett laughs)
He uses it as a supplement.
Did you know that there's a side effect
of manganese consumption in high quantities?
- What is that side effect?
- The methane release from the anus-
- Oh gosh. - Up into-
- I know how a fart works, man.
You don't have to explain it.
- Well, that it did. That does explain it though.
That's why it's important.
Because his fart bubbles sunk the ship, The Cyclops.
- Okay.
- Aquaman versus Cyclops. Who wins?
- That's a great explanation
of what really happened to the USS Cyclops.
Link, do you have another story?
- I do. Of course, I do.
I've just been over here
waiting for my opportunity to share it.
- Okay. - Haven't been doing anything.
- All right. - The SS El Faro.
I mean, all of these things happened a long time ago.
- Yeah. - You know, people say,
oh long time ago, people things happen.
And then you're just like, I don't believe it.
- Right.
- But, what if it happened last October?
- Oh, gosh. (chuckles)
(Link laughs)
- I know.
Some of the words I say, like people things happen.
- Yeah. Yeah.
But we all know what you mean.
It's fine. - As long as you know
what I mean. - We know what you mean.
- Huge cargo ship going from Jacksonville, Florida
to Puerto Rico, skirting the edge of the Bermuda Triangle.
290 cars and trailers, microwaves on board and 33 people.
But you know what whoops up?
- What? (Link whoops)
- Joaquin, the tropical storm.
Main engine fails. There's no power.
The ship was taking on water
and then they lose contact.
They go on a massive search using sonar.
They locate the ship, okay.
They locate the ship down at the bottom.
It's just nestled down there,
15,000 feet on the ocean floor.
But no crew were found except for one guy.
Only one guy was found.
All the rest of the crew,
we don't have a clue what happened to them.
I mean, your guess is as good as mine.
The point is-
- [Gorton's fisherman] Do you want to know
what really happened?
(Gorton's fisherman mumbles)
- Absolutely.
- USS El Faro?
- Yes, you got your pipe in there.
- I'm the Gorton's fisherman and you can trust me.
Do you ever wonder why...
Sorry, I have a hernia.
(Link laughs)
- Okay. What have you been lifting?
- Fish.
- (laughs) Yeah.
- Do you ever wonder why they called Tropical Storm Joaquin,
Tropical Storm Joaquin?
- No, why? I haven't wondered.
- Because of the man behind it.
- Okay. Who's that? - The man behind Joaquin
is Joaquin Phoenix.
- Oh.
- I Googled Joaquin Phoenix with car
and do you know what came up?
- With car? - With car.
- Car? - You know what came up?
- What? - Joaquin Phoenix with cars.
- Okay. - He loves cars.
- All right. I'm not following.
- He started the hurricane
to acquire the cars from the El Faro.
- Oh, from the ship? Yes.
- Yes, he did it.
He started the hurricane with a special technique.
His special technique.
He started the hurricane and until he could get to the cars-
- He's right. I was there.
- I remember seeing you there.
- Yes, yes I was. - Mr. Dolphin.
- I was swimming round
and I saw Joaquin put his flipper hand into the ocean
and he started shaking it like this.
He whipped up a hurricane.
- I was there, yep.
- The hurricane brought down the ship
and all the crew were eaten by me.
(Dolphin laughs)
- Anyway, that's what really happened with USS El Faro.
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