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FT28 to Lauderdale, do you have a fix yet?

The myth of the Bermuda Triangle

began on the 5th of December 1945

when a group of five aircraft mysteriously disappeared.

Everything is wrong.

Even the ocean looks different.

Flight 19 was a routine training mission

of five Avenger torpedo bombers.

The three sitter Avenger

was the US Navy’s top ship and submarine killer.

It could carry up to 2000 pounds of ordnance

and had a range of a thousand miles.

The Avenger was robust and reliable.

The doomed flight 19

left Fort-Lauderdale at 2.10

on a clear winter’s afternoon.

Four hours after they took off,

they vanished into thin air.

Fearing the worst,

a navel air search rescue plane

took off into the darkening skies.

Twenty minutes later at 7.47 p.m.

the rescue plane also disappeared.

After a massive search

no wreckage was found

and nothing was ever heard from them again

until now.

Over the last sixty years

this mystery has sustained the wildest theories

about what strange forces could be at work out here.

Legend has it

that the Triangle covers the seas between Miami,

the islands of Bermuda,

and Puerto Rico -

an area of one and a half million square miles.

Since 1492

when Columbus first sailed into the area

and saw strange lights in the sky

the list of unexplainable disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle

has grown.

Thousands of ships and planes have simply vanished.

No warning,

no distress calls,

no wreckage.

Richard Winer has written

many best selling books about these strange disappearances.

We don’t know our planet.

We know more about the Moon.

We’re probably learning more about Mars

than we know of our own planet.

We know about the Earth.

We don’t know about the sea.

The boat yards of Key West

hum with stories about those

who were lost in the Triangle:

stories of giant sea monsters,

cosmic time warps,

spinning compasses

and holes in the ocean that swallow ships

have echoed throughout the world.

Yet the disappearances continue.

I would say there’s some kind of

anomaly going on down there

that we can’t explain.

Something that goes on

down far far below the deepest... uh raise,

the last raise of sunlight.

Way down there’s something going on down there.