Is the Bermuda triangle mystery solved ?
1. The ghastly tale of Marie Celeste
On the fateful day of December 5, 1872, Marie Celeste set sail from New York Harbor to carry cargo to a specified destination. But unfortunately, the ship never made it to the point. After several search and rescue efforts, the ship was found adrift in Bermuda Triangle, but sans its crew of 11 people. Personal belongings, food containers, precious cargo, and lifeboats were still there on the ship. What’s more speculative is that there was rotten food on the plates in the dining area. What happened to these people to make them abandon their safe haven, in the middle of the violent sea, that too right in the middle of a meal?
2. Ghostly presence and disappearance of Ellen Austin
Out of all the accounts of Bermuda Triangle stories, this one is really spooky and unnerving. This is the story of a ship – Ellen Austin, falling trap to a ship that was considered to be a bad omen. In 1881, while Ellen Austin was on its way, the crew came across an abandoned ship that had all the amenities intact but not a single crew member onboard. In an effort to salvage the ship, some of Ellen Austin’s crew hopped on to the nameless ship to maneuver it to New York.
During the course, Ellen Austin’s crew lost track of the abandoned ship. When they came across it again, the ghostly ship was again crewless. That is when Ellen Austin transmitted for a rescue ship. It was communicated that Ellen Austin was again dispatching a few of its crew members to the nameless ship. Upon reaching the communicated point, rescue ships never found any of the two. Both Ellen Austin and the ghostly ship had disappeared.
Hitherto, there are several accounts of sightings of Ellen Austin with that ghostly ship, trying to mislead the ships or just trying to capture the dispatched crew members.
3. The fateful end of USS Cyclops
The USS Cyclops was a beast of a ship, commissioned by US government to aid the British forces, during World War I. The collier ship set sail to Brazil at the break of dawn in late February, 1918. However, it never reached its destination. It was last seen off the coast of Barbados on March 4th. Search teams were sent out to salvage the iron giant but as we know, it was of no avail.
When the families of 306 crew members started asking questions, the US government doubled its search operations. But just when there was no hope left, the government disclosed that there were no SOS calls, no wreckages, no sudden storms, and no remains of the ship. With sincere poignancy, the government declared the ship to be lost and its inhabitants to be dead. Needless to say, it was the greatest loss ever to the US Navy.
What makes this more interesting, or creepy, is that two other collier ships USS Proteus and USS Nereus were doomed with the same fate in the year 1941. There were no accounts but just memories left of these ships too.
4. Disappearance of Flight 19
The most infamous of the disappearances in the Triangle is of Flight 19. On the eve of December 5, 1945, five of the best Avenger Bombers of the US Navy vanished into thin air, while carrying out a routine mission. The squadron’s commander, Lieutenant Charles Taylor was constantly in touch with the base until his frequency broke down, mid-sentence. There was no static or lost signal, just complete breakage in the link. Those five aircrafts were never seen or heard of again.
To top it all, the rescue force dispatched to recover the planes too never returned. The rescue force vanished in a similar fashion when their frequency broke down mid-sentence. After years of investigation, the case was closed with a tag of ‘cause unknown’.
5. Mystery of Marine Sulphur Queen
In 1960, Marine Sulphur Queen was converted into a carrier of molten Sulphur from being a T2 Tanker. It was a 600 feet giant built in 1944 for the purpose of storage. On the ill-fated day of February 2 in 1963, it set sail to its concluding journey. At that time it was carrying 15,000 tons of molten sulphur and 39 valued crew members.
Its existence was last acknowledged on February 4th. Just like in many cases, its radio transmission broke mysteriously mid-sentence. What’s more intriguing is that during the transmission, the commander was briefing about good weather conditions and helpful navigation, just before the reporting was cut short. It was sad to see such a monstrous tanker meet its end like this, after years and years of successful operations.
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