The Most Mysterious Place On Earth? | Random Thursday

this video is supported by expressvpn fans of the musical hamilton are probably familiar with the song dear theodosia it's a very moving song and in this song the the characters alexander hamilton and aaron burr sing to their newborn children about this new country that they're building and how they're going to do their best to make it a good one for them to grow up in it's something i'm sure any parent can identify with in the play hamilton's son phillip would later die tragically in a duel and we never really hear what happened to aaron burr's daughter theodosia but her life was pretty tragic as well in 1801 theodosia married a wealthy landowner named joseph alston who would later go on to become the governor of south carolina they would have a child together in 1803 a boy that they named aaron burr alston sadly he died of malaria at only nine years old in 1812. this was especially hard on theodosia she had something of a mental breakdown and her health began to fail she decided that perhaps a change of scene would help her to deal with her grief so on december 31st she boarded a schooner called the patriot and left to go visit her father the patriots set sail out of georgetown south carolina and after that the patriot and theodosia vanished from the face of the earth [Music] old school viewers this channel know that i love me some mysteries of the unexplained so it shouldn't be any surprise that when i was a kid i was really into the bermuda triangle like so into the bermuda triangle i was convinced that if you stepped one foot inside the bermuda triangle you were doomed toast by felicia no seriously when i was a kid the cold war was still going on and i came up with this brilliant idea that we should trick the soviets into attacking miami because then ah then they'd have to go across the bermuda triangle and they'd all just disappear boom freedom baby except coming from russia they would probably come from the north and never get anywhere near the bermuda triangle there were some kinks in the plan this is probably why you shouldn't put eight-year-olds in charge of the military but just to back up for those of you who aren't as well-versed in the woo-woo the bermuda triangle is an area of ocean between miami puerto rico and bermuda inside of which according to legend ships and planes have a tendency to sort of disappear there are also stories of mysterious lights and compasses going haywire dogs and cats living together mass hysteria stories about unexplained events in the bermuda triangle go really way back as we'll get to in just a second but the legend of the bermuda triangle seemed to really pick up steam in the 1950s an article in the miami herald in september 1950 titled the seas puzzle still baffled men in pushbutton age by evw jones discussed the mysterious disappearances of ships and planes in the area in it jones wrote that quote it is the same big world the ancients knew into which men in their machines and ships can disappear without a trace unquote an article in fate magazine in 1952 titled sea mystery at our back door by george x sand described the area as a watery triangle which is true it is it is watery in 1962 the mystery of the lost patrol by alan w eckert appeared in the american legion magazine and this seems to be the first time a paranormal element has been invoked regarding the triangle eckhart wrote quote a lot of pilots have seen a lot of strange things they can't explain but the phrase bermuda triangle first showed up in the pulp magazine argosy in 1964. it was coined by writer vincent gaddis who described the region as a place that quote has destroyed hundreds of ships and planes without a trace a best-selling book the bermuda triangle by charles burlitz enhanced the legend in 1974. since then the bermuda triangle has shown up in music by fleetwood mac i guess you [Music] accessible only across the forbidding lime green waters of the bermuda triangle computer games [Music] movies i've lost contact with two three sierra they're in the bermuda triangle this is airport 77 and yes scooby-doo has disappeared in the bermuda triangle disappeared yeah school ships and planes have been disappearing in the bermuda triangle for years ships and planes but once the idea of the triangle is firmly established in people's minds all these crazy stories from history of things that happened in that triangle started popping up all over the place in fact one of the very first ones was from christopher columbus himself some of the things he reported were a flame of fire falling into the sea compasses acting weird and lights off in the distance now all of these do have rational explanations the the flame falling into the sea could have been a meteor and that doesn't really matter anyway because it happened way earlier in the trip before they ever got to the triangle the strange light in the distance could have been a bonfire from a native tribe they did discover land just a few days after that and the compass thing that's something that gets reported a lot in the triangle and there might be a good rational explanation for that i'll get to that later a lot of people blame the bermuda triangle for what happened to the mary celeste which i talked about in a previous video that happened in 1872 but that also didn't happen in the bermuda triangle that happened closer to the azores then there's a story of the ellen austin which came across a derelict ship floating around in the north atlantic in 1881 they were on our way from liverpool to new york some of the ellen austin crew boarded the ghost ship and they decided to take it with them because it had a pretty valuable supply of mahogany on board even if all the crew had disappeared so they started sailing together they eventually encountered a storm it got separated and the ghost ship and its crew disappeared again weird story but again it it wasn't in the triangle what did disappear in the bermuda triangle was the uss cyclops which disappeared in 1918. it was a shipping vessel on the way from the west indies to baltimore with 11 000 pounds of manganese ore on board somewhere along the way something happened and it never quite got to baltimore 309 crew members were never seen again now recently discovered log books showed that one of their engines had gone out and they were sitting lower in the water than they were supposed to be so it was most likely just a hobbled ship that ran into some rough atlantic waters and went down into the drink as they say by the way two sister ships of the cyclops the uss proteus and the uss neurus both went down the bermuda triangle in the same year in 1941. they were both loaded with bauxite which is acidic and there's one theory that says that that bauxite might have eroded the longitudinal hull of the ship causing it to become weak and fall apart in rough seas and there's also some people that think they may have been sunk by german u-boats always a possibility in wartime now another famous case is the carol a deering in 1921. it was found washed up on a beach in diamond shoals north carolina with its sails up but his lifeboats missing the crew was gone all their personal belongings log books navigational equipment so forth apparently had been seen two days before by a light ship keeper and one of the crew members that told them that they'd lost their anchors why exactly they abandoned ship and what happened to them remains a mystery some people think it might have been a mutiny other theories suggest pirates a few other ship disappearances attributed to the bermuda triangle include the ss marine sulfur queen in 1963 a yacht named witchcraft in 1967 and the ss marine sylvia el osa in 1976. so there's clearly some unfortunate stuff that's happened to boats in this area no question about it but it was a series of disappearances of planes in the 1940s that really made the bermuda triangle famous flight 19 is easily the most famous disappearance that occurred in the bermuda triangle it was what was mentioned in those articles that i was talking about earlier and it's also what was referenced at the beginning of close encounters of the third kind at 2 10 pm on december 5th 1945 five tbm avenger torpedo bombers took off in a routine training exercise from fort lauderdale florida the plan for the three-hour flight was to fly east from florida conduct some bombing runs then turn north toward grand bahama island before turning southwest back to the base there were 14 crew members led by flight leader lieutenant charles c taylor who was experienced pilot and war veteran none of these guys were ever seen again i feel like i'm saying that a lot in this video it's just so juicy and it is a juicy story not just one plane but five planes disappearing at the same time and military planes no less it spawned a multitude of theories everything from a time and space vortex to of course but there are radio records in that day that shed a light on what actually happened things went well for the first part of the exercise and then they turned north toward grand bahama and things just went haywire from there taylor was convinced that his compass wasn't working correctly and they were going in the wrong direction and it didn't help that it was raining and there was low cloud cover so they have very little visibility a navy flight instructor lieutenant robert f cox was flying close to the florida coast and overheard the flight's radio communication so he asked if they needed help taylor responded quote both my compasses are out and i'm trying to find fort lauderdale i'm over land but it's broken i'm sure i'm in the keys but i don't know how far down and i don't know how to get to fort lauderdale this was a strange thing to say because the planes had just passed over the bombing run location now he's saying they were in the keys which was hundreds of miles away thinking they were here taylor instructed everyone to turn northeast and this only placed them further from florida over the radio one of the other pilots was heard saying i think if we turn west we could get back home so clearly not everybody was in agreement with him and they did eventually persuade him to turn west which they did for a while but then he changed his mind and went back the other direction i think he began to fear that if he was right the first time when they were in the gulf of mexico then turning west would have put them further out to sea and looking at their fuel gauges and seeing those get lower and lower he began to panic and think that if he was going the wrong direction then he was dooming them so he turned them back around to go back the other direction which ironically created the very situation that he was trying to avoid bottom line for one reason or another he didn't know what side of florida he was on and he had very little visibility because of all the rain so it was kind of a coin toss in the last radio communication from the squadron taylor told everybody to prepare for a water landing and he told them to do it as close together as possible so they could stay together in the water the radio signal then became increasingly garbled and at 704 it went silent search planes were immediately dispatched including a pair of pbm mariner flying boats and amazingly one of those disappeared it's believed that it exploded after takeoff a passing ship saw a fireball on the sky and there was an oil slick in the ocean but either way there were 13 crew members on that plane which effectively doubles the loss of life that day the navy searched 300 000 miles of ocean over five days and no wreckage or crew members were ever found three years later another plane went missing called the star tiger the star tiger was an avro tudor mark iv passenger aircraft operated by the british south american airways it was commanded by captain bw macmillan it was carrying 25 passengers and six crew members it departed london england on january 27th for a trip to bermuda it experienced cabin heating and compass problems that were fixed during an overnight stop in lisbon portugal and then continued on to the santa maria azores the next day where they stayed overnight because of poor weather conditions when they left for bermuda they did so following another plane called the avro lancastrian who were radioing weather information back to him the lancastrian landed safely at kindly field bermuda an hour past its scheduled arrival time because of a strong headwind that also sent the plane 109 kilometers off course but the star tiger never arrived the captain did not send out a stress signal never reported any adverse weather conditions just nothing search and rescue teams didn't find any wreckage didn't find any signs of passengers anywhere it just vanished now one theory is that the star tiger was flying extremely low only 610 meters above sea level because they wanted to fly in warmer air for some reason it's thought that flying so low through much denser air caused it to burn more fuel than usual that combined with an excessively strong headwind they may have just run out of fuel and a year after that in 1949 the star ariel met a similar fate so guys if there's anything you learned from this video it's don't fly across the bermuda triangle in a plane with the word star in the name okay the plane was an avro 688 tudor 4b passenger aircraft also operated by british south american airways there were 13 passengers on board and seven crew members departing from bermuda on january 17 1949 on its way to jamaica the pilot was captain john clutham mcphee the weather was clear the flight was on track cruising at 5486 meters and then it disappeared the last radio contact came from mcphee at 9 42 when the crew told bermuda that they were switching their radio to the kings and jamaica frequency this one really is a mystery the search and rescue team found no trace of the airplane the investigators were able to rule out inclement weather pilot error there weren't any issues on the plane that anybody was aware of the official report comes in no firm conclusion it lists the reason for the accident as unknown a similar story involved an unnamed douglas dc-3 flying from san juan puerto rico to miami florida in december of 1948. it had 29 passengers and three crew members on board and it was piloted by captain robert e lundqvist they were supposed to arrive in miami at 405 but at 413 he radioed the tower saying they were about 50 kilometers south of there and then radio silence the us coast guard navy and an air force squadron searched for the plane with help from the governments of nassau dominican republic in cuba and yet no wreckage was found no bodies nothing washed up on shore nothing the only aberration that may or may not have had something to do with it was that they needed to charge their batteries at the beginning of the flight so there was actually a little bit of a delay they flew around san juan for about 11 minutes charging their batteries so i guess it's possible that the batteries didn't fully charge or maybe there was some kind of short in the electrical system that could have caused the plane to go down i don't know now those are just a few of the standout stories around the bermuda triangle there's no way to have an exact number of how many planes and ships have gone down but it's thought to be somewhere between 20 planes and 50 ships now that's not nothing but ships go down all around the world all the time and they do tend to go down more in some places than others and those places are usually very highly trafficked shipping lanes because there's more ships to go down and the triangle just happens to be at a crossroads of shipping lanes that service north america south america the gulf of mexico the caribbean and the panama canal it's one of the most highly trafficked shipping areas in the world and on top of this the fact that they call this area hurricane alley because you know all the hurricanes the gulf stream flows through this area bringing with it warmer more turbulent water that can easily whip up storms and hurricanes especially during the time of year when the air up north is colder so generally rough season storms but this active current can also cause navigation problems because according to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration quote the gulf stream flows at a rate nearly 300 times faster than the typical flow of the amazon river that might make a ship or two go off course remember earlier when i mentioned the compass issues yeah it turns out there might actually be a good rational explanation for this too so you probably know the magnetic north pole is not the same as true north the magnetic north pole moves around quite a bit actually and old-timey navigators that used compasses had to correct for that and that correction is known as declination so navigators always had to keep this in mind always applying the declination to what their compasses were telling them so the compass was pointing at due north they knew that they had to add a few degrees whichever way the declination told them to well there is a line known as the agonic line that wraps around the planet that lines up the true north with the magnetic north so if you're on the agonic line and your compass points to the magnetic north you are looking at true north zero declination basically and that line historically has often passed through the bermuda triangle now is that enough to send a ship off course would a seasoned navigator know to expect something like that would this be something that could throw off later you know navigational instruments and whatnot i don't know enough to say but i can't help but notice that there haven't been any major incidents in the bermuda triangle since gps became a thing just saying and yet despite that and despite its notoriety it's not even the most deadly place in the ocean a 2013 study by the world wildlife fund didn't even list the bermuda triangle in the top 10 naming places such as the south china sea the black sea in the north sea is high risk areas for shipping accidents but yeah look there have been some tragedies that have occurred in this particular part of the ocean no question about it but it's just not as unusual as the legend would have you think it was it turns out planes and ships disappear all around the world all the time perhaps the scarier thought is that the whole world is a bermuda triangle but that legend it's strong and it's it's easy to get sucked into it and that's why as i pointed out before some of the most famous cases in the bermuda triangle didn't even take place in the bermuda triangle in fact theodosia burr who i started this video talking about she was sailing from south carolina to new york she didn't go anywhere near the bermuda triangle and you thought that was crazy didn't you you probably tweeted that out before you ever got to the end of this video shame on you and yeah shame on me for toying with you but mostly shame on you but that's how this works when people find out that something happened in the bermuda triangle it just becomes a whole thing even if that thing wasn't that unusual or didn't even take place there so maybe the only thing about the bermuda triangle is it's just a very highly trafficked area of ocean that happens to have some extreme weather and lie along a navigational anomaly that produces the exact number of downed planes and ships that one would statistically expect from such an area so yeah as much as my eight-year-old self would hate to hear this there's probably nothing paranormal whatsoever about the bermuda triangle it's just another spot in the ocean with a cool name it is a dope name triangle bermuda triangle the bermuda triangle the bermuda triangle so you probably don't have to fear disappearing in the bermuda triangle but you don't have to go anywhere for hackers and bots 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Keywords: answers with joe, joe scott, The bermuda triangle, flight 19, mysterious disappearances, USS Cyclops, mysteries, random thursday, hamilton, theodosia burr

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Length: 20min 37sec (1237 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 22 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/SBInCB]

The Bermuda Traingle was definitely high on my list of childhood paranormal interests along with UFO’s and ghosts.

[u/ForRedditFun]

Damn, I never though of the Bermuda triangle as a generational thing. I think everyone knows about it.

[u/OUBoyWonder]

Maaaan, BT, ghosts, Nessie, UFO's, Bigfoot....those shits were my JAM when I was a kid. Used to walk home from the library loaded down with those books, locked myself in my room and dove in. Damn those were some good times. Wait, what was it, Flight 49, right? Yea, that and the mystery of Amelia Earhart as well, lol.