[Music] this week on BuzzFeed solve we discussed the enduring mystery of the Bermuda Triangle what is it is it real only one way to find out any any thoughts going in before I'm I love airplanes this I bet there's a lot of airplanes in this one oh there's a whole lot of airplanes if you're a fan of airplanes I got news for you this is going to be a great day sign me up the Bermuda Triangle is an area of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami Puerto Rico and Bermuda though its actual range is debated some estimate it covers between 500 ,000 to a million square miles I guess I thought it was further north are you about to Beautiful Mind this or I know put some graphics over there there's a glaze that's come over your eyes I don't know what's the term Bermuda Triangle actually didn't come into use until 1964 when it was coined by Vincent gtis for a cover story for arosi magazine it was used to describe an area where there seemed to be an uncommon amount of disappearances of ships and planes according to Time Magazine between 1946 and 1991 alone there were over 100 disappearances of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle quick thought is it is it annoying that I hold this pen oh yeah it's really annoying well it's here now forever you're always you got your paper I'm sitting over here just twilling my thumbs it's nice to have a little p I think your douche meters is usually a half Mass right now it's about 3/4 full through the roof through the roof the douche roof Shane douche roof mday that being said let's discuss some of the more mysterious incidents in the Bermuda Triangle allegedly the first recorded account was made by none other than Christopher Columbus during his famous Journey to discover America oh he discovered it all right just to be fair [ __ ] Christopher Columbus while in the Bermuda Triangle Columbus along with crew noted a variety of odd occurrences the ship's Compass began malfunctioning there were mysterious lights over the water the sea was rougher than it had been the entire Voyage oh he's choppy here must be haunted I'm not saying you're saying this full of G saying it was no I did not say that I just said the what you taking notes over there this isn't a debate or it kind of is what Ryan is an idiot that that you proud of yourself and at one point he may have even seen a fireball fly through the sky and crash into the sea let's jump forward closer to Modern Times keep in mind all of the events we will discuss were followed by failed rescue attempts on March 4th 1918 the USS cyclops one of the Navy's largest fuel ships at the time disappeared somewhere north of Barbados one of the more chilling details is the fact that the captain never sent out a distress signal and nobody aboard answered any of the calls from the hundreds of ships that were reportedly in the vicinity as the USS Cyclops seemingly drifted out of existence H H you don't think that's strange it was in one of the Navy's largest fuel ships that doesn't just disappear doesn't sink I mean it maybe the Titanic she was a mighty one I suppose but there lying at the bottom but there was also a lot of like oh we're drowning help us kind of thing I don't know ships sink you know okay on December 28th 1948 A Douglas Dakota DC3 airplane carrying 26 people disappeared 50 mi from its destination in Florida after the flight sent out its final radio call to indicate its nearby position it was never heard from again honestly this one I you know these don't do much for me cuz they don't do much for you planes crash boats sink they they literally radioed in like I I read it was 20 minutes away from the airport yeah and then a goose flew into the propeller and they just [ __ ] NOS dived into where the ocean in October 1951 a ship called the southern districts disappeared after being seen near the Bermuda Triangle 4 years later in 1955 the only piece of evidence in regards to the ship's whereabouts was discovered on the Florida coast a life preserver eerily bearing the missing ship's name on December 22nd 1967 a 23t cabin cruiser called the Witchcraft which was built to be virtually Unsinkable disappeared along with its two passengers one of whom was an experienced sailor named Dan Barack the boat sported a flotation device in the hole that should have allowed part of the Witchcraft to remain afloat even if the boat was filled with water about a mile out from Miami Beach Barack called the Coast Guard after hitting something in the water and requested a toe back to shore Barack was reportedly calm in the call nor did he say his boat was sinking however when the Coast Guard arrived Barack his passenger and the Witchcraft were nowhere to be found and never seen again many wonder how two men aboard an unsinkable ship equipped with life jackets floatable seat cushions and flares could go missing let alone the ship itself so what what are you positing here that it's in an alternate Dimension some of these they actually sent out parts of the Navy the whole nine yards they sent everyone out nothing this found I'm going to need some documentation on this need some documentation look up the stories I'm just saying I'm got to look them up what else disappeared like you're seething I can't believe you think this is not weird I can't believe you don't think that boats sink the last and arguably most famous encounter we'll discuss is the story of Flight 19 on December 5th 1945 five military TBM Avenger torpedo bombers departed Fort Lauderdale Florida at roughly 2:10 p.m. on a routine training Mission supports say that the planes had been checked before the mission and the weather was supposed to be favorable also significant is the durability of the TBM Avengers they were piloting which were nicknamed iron Birds on account of their rugged design and their propensity for holding up in battle known as Flight 19 the five TBM Avenger airplanes carried 14 men led by instructor Lieutenant Charles Taylor shortly after completing their training Mission Lieutenant Taylor became lost in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle since this was was an era before GPS Taylor and his Pilots relied heavily on compasses both of which were malfunctioning an emergency transmission sent by one of the pilots was picked up by a control tower we can't find West everything is wrong we we can't be sure of any direction everything looks strange even the ocean everything looks strange okay wait a second here hold hold hold the phone okay before you said there was the only thing was missing here was the actual transmission I just gave you the transmission you don't think that's strange now oh certainly it's a strange case about 20 minutes later the pilot sent flight 19's last transmission his voice allegedly distressed quote we can't make out anything we think we may be about 225 M Northeast of Base it looks like we're entering White Water we're completely lost several minutes after the last transmission a PBM Mariner flying boat took off on a rescue mission that boat would radio the control tower once before also Vanishing choppy choppy out there are you bracing yourself I'm after a widespread search attempt failed the Navy's final report of the incident allegedly concludes quote we are not even able to make a good guess as to what happened end quote that's the Navy saying that not me that's the [ __ ] Navy saying that I gotcha so the Navy it's inconclusive now that we've discussed some of the incidents let's go over some of the theories as to what the Bermuda Triangle actually is the first theory is that the Bermuda Triangle is not an area of the supernatural but rather a naturally dangerous place for sailing most hurricanes and other tropical storms in the Atlantic pass through the Bermuda Triangle storms in unpredictable atmospheric conditions can cause phenomenon such as water spots which look like water tornadoes the bermudo triangle also has some of the deepest underwater trenches within it so wreckage could have potentially Fallen far beneath the ocean surface finally scientific research shows that there is no evidence that disappearances happened more frequently in the Bermuda Triangle than any other part of the ocean uhoh oh no that doesn't explain how it's happening in high concentration in the one small area high concentration it's a million square miles in comparison to the ocean that's a that's a small area all right yeah million square miles tiny the second theory is that the Bermuda Triangle is home to a magnetic phenomenon it's been proven to be a place where true north and magnetic north line up some Research indicates that this may affect Compass readings some science also indicates that the lightning during storms may further affect or intensify the magnetic fields which could account for Compass and electrical Machinery failures and radio interference in fact the rare phenomenon of ball lightning may also form such electrical storms accounting for the strange lights seen by Columbus and in other Bermuda Triangle accounts so is is this is another one of those cases where is this all one Theory or two these are two theories now first one seems pretty reasonable yep second one seems even more reasonable so judging by my patterns of how I present theories we're about to enter some choppy territory here what do you think is going to happen next the third theory is that those lost in the Bermuda Triangle are actually now residents of the legendary law civilization of Atlantis no no no they're not nope now all the frustration I had in the first half of this is now equally composited on top of you are they breathing underwater Atlantis was written about by Plato and was supposedly an ancient Naval power but according to Legend the entire Kingdom disappeared into the sea in just one day in the 1970s a writer named Charles berlitz hypothesized that the entire city of Atlantis was actually a victim of the Bermuda Triangle and now resides and thrives Under the Sea within the triangle's bounds berlet's theorized that the techn techology and weaponry of Atlantis was so Advanced that it continues to contribute to the mysterious sinking of ships and planes some believe that which is lost in the bermo Triangle continues to exist in Atlantis Beneath the Sea I could see your face on just fuming and this is absurd the fourth theory is that the Bermuda Triangle is actually a gateway to another universe or in scientific terms a black hole of sorts I think if there were a black hole anywhere near our solar system everything would cease to exist well we don't know anything about black holes yes we know a fair about black I mean we haven't able be able to actually experiment on them or have any quantifiable data black holes aren't unicorns ran I mean they could be who knows I think there's a lot that you don't know some say this would account for the fact that travel times through the region are unpredictable with some flights getting to their destination faster than usual in the 1970s pilot Bruce Gan testified that he had escaped an incident in the Bermuda Triangle which he described as an electronic fog his plane was submerged in a gray Haze and his compasses failed he flew blindly for 3 minutes before his radio informed him he was flying over Miami when he looked down at his watch 40 minutes had passed but he had traveled a distance comparable to 90 minutes of flight have you thought about a black hole that could possibly only be opened up when it's uh when someone wants it to like a cosmic uh um trickster yeah a cosmic trickster a cosmic Chester cat yeah okay I'd buy that more than I buy Atlantis Cosmic Chesire Cat sure also in the 1970s an unconventional Canadian scientist John Hutchinson found in his work that electromagnetic fields could interfere with each other and when such a phenomenon occurred astonishing things could happen including making Metals glow change form or become disfigured some theorize that this effect appropriately named the Hutcheson effect could conceivably create a wormhole the fifth and final theory is a classic the disappearances within the Bermuda Triangle are the result of extraterrestrials abduct ction by aliens would certainly explain sudden and absolute disappearances some claim there is a secret US Navy base in the Bahamas linked to Aquatic alien activity referred to as underwater Area 51 oh Jesus Christ okay tell me about underwater Area 51 oh that's it that's it about that's it no there's nothing else but how you why in 2014 at least two passengers on a Carnival Cruise within the Bermuda Triangle said they saw a UFO F over them in the middle of the day to be fair not trusting anybody on a Carnival Cruise what happened to you on a Carnival Cruise I've never been on one and I will never go on one I assume they were drunk or high probably just out of their minds I was going to say there's even reported footage but unfortunately because of Rights we can't look at the footage you know what I could show it to you right now my i' love to how about that I'll show it to you right now this is shopped to high heaven makes you say that just look I mean look at it this is that is the shittiest footage I've ever that is so fake I forgot turn that opacity down as it gets into the cloud somebody somebody really busted out Windows Movie Maker for that one regardless whatever may be causing these mysterious events the bermo triangle is actually a highly traveled region mostly without incident but for the Curious the numerous and bizarre disappearances continue to Vex them what could be causing these incidents is the Bermuda Triangle a thing of the supernatural or is it simply an area with a high concentration of unnerving coincidences the answer will remain unsolved I'm saying you don't know how black holes work I I think you I think I've got a better understanding than you do sir I actually do understand how they work how we perceive them and our scientists perceive them I'm saying there's other science that we don't know about there's other science that we don't know about yes that's aliens are the perfect example of that 2017 Ryan burgara there's other science that we don't know about that makes me sound like Donald Trump well you're presenting alternative facts so was an alternative reality let's not get political I don't know it's too sad let's just talk about ghosts okay [Music]