The Bermuda Triangle has many creepy stories attributed to it, but this one might be the scariest.
Also dubbed the “Devil’s Triangle,” this zone is marked by three points: Bermuda to the north, Puerto Rico to the south, and the coast of Florida near Miami to the west.
It's a region long associated with disappearances, conspiracy theories, and outlandish claims - including alien abductions.
The legend really took off on December 5, 1945, when Flight 19 vanished after taking off from Florida. No bodies. No wreckage. Nothing. Between 1945 and 2017, there were around 10 reports of lost aircraft in the area.
And it doesn’t stop there. From 1800 to 2015, 14 ships are reported to have disappeared inside the same eerie triangle.
While these tales have fueled imaginations for decades, not everyone’s convinced. Australian scientist Karl Kruszelnicki has a far less supernatural take.
Speaking to news.com.au, he said that statistically, the number of missing planes in the Triangle is nothing unusual: “on a percentage basis,” it’s the same as anywhere else in the world, citing data from Lloyd’s of London and the US Coast Guard.
Meanwhile, the Channel 5 documentary Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle pointed to wild weather as a more grounded explanation. Nick Hutchings, a mineral prospector, dropped another theory rooted in geology.
“Bermuda’s basically a sea mountain - it’s an underwater volcano. 30 million years ago, it was sticking up above sea level. It has now eroded away and we’re left with the top of a volcano," he explained.
"We have a few core samples, which have magnetite in them. It’s the most magnetic naturally occurring material on Earth.”
Still, strange stories from the area keep popping up—like what happened to two members of the Ocean Research Project in 2013.
While sailing across the Atlantic, the team stumbled upon a “ghost ship” with no motor running and no sail up - just floating aimlessly about 800 miles from Bermuda and 1,500 miles from the U.S.
With no signs of life on deck, sailor Matt Rutherford climbed aboard the eerily empty yacht to investigate. He filmed as he stepped onto the mysterious vessel.
“This is one awfully abandoned sailboat. Wolfhound from the Irish Yacht Club,” he said. “I have no idea what's inside, I'm going to go and search around and I hope I don't find any dead bodies or anything crazy like that.”
Rutherford admitted feeling nervous about opening any of the doors—just in case. But, luckily, he found no bodies.
“This is absolutely crazy by the way. 800 miles from Bermuda, 1,500 miles from the US, standing on a very nice Swan 48, in the middle of the ocean,” he added.
The yacht was completely deserted.
Rutherford later contacted the boat’s owner, who promised him a reward if he could tow the yacht back to Bermuda. And so, they gave it a shot.
By the second day, they had managed to tow the yacht about 50 miles. “It's kinda funny, (towing a) 48ft boat with a 42ft boat. We're doing our best trying to get her to Bermuda,” Rutherford remarked.
But things didn’t go as planned. After 47 days at sea, the duo was running low on fuel. Though a passing freight ship shared some fuel, disaster struck when the tow line got tangled around their rudder.
With the risk of serious damage, they had no choice but to cut the abandoned yacht loose.
Internet sleuths eventually traced the yacht to a skipper from the Royal Irish Yacht Club named Alan McGettigan.
He had been sailing with three crewmates when 20-foot waves and 50-knot (57 mph) winds slammed the vessel, leaving it severely damaged.
A Greek cargo ship rescued the group 64 miles north of Bermuda, and McGettigan made the tough call to abandon the yacht for their own safety.
Nine weeks later, Rutherford and his partner found what was left of the journey.