(waves crashing) - [Johnny] In the last 200 years, 20 planes, 50 ships and hundreds of people have just vanished in a small
area in the Atlantic Ocean. This is a part of the ocean
called the "Bermuda Triangle," or the "Devil's Triangle." It's an aquatic graveyard
where over the years researchers have uncovered
hundreds of wrecks. Scientific hypotheses have been crafted to try to explain what is happening here. The idea, the fear, has spread sparking countless books and documentaries attempting to prove that
there's something strange happening in this triangle of ocean. - [Speaker] There's some kind of a anomaly going on down there that we can't explain. Something that goes on down
far, far below the deepest rays, the last rays of sunlight. - [Johnny] In this video, we're gonna explain what the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle really is, and why this perilous patch of ocean has captured the curiosity and
fear of millions of people. (ominous music) Hey, I'm excited to get into this story because it gets really juicy. But first, I need to
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supporting this channel. Let's get back to the Bermuda Triangle. It's generally regarded
as this area of water in the North Atlantic, drawn from Miami, to San Juan, to Bermuda. The mystery here kind
of started back in 1492 when Christopher Columbus
who, incidentally, is getting a lot of air
time on the channel lately, for better or worse. This is where the
biggest light bulb moment of the century goes
off in this guy's head. I know, I know. The sources are in the
description, I'm sorry. Can we move on, please? Thank you. Anyway, Columbus is out
there trying to reach Asia and he passes through
this triangle of water, and this is where things get weird. Columbus kept a very detailed journal, which I have a first edition
English translation of that I'm not freaking out
about because I love old books. Did I need to buy this for this story? No. Did I spend way too much
money on it as an excuse? Yes. But while I have it, let's look at it. God, look at this freaking book, gorgeous. Okay, anyway, on September 13th, 1492, Columbus says that as he's
going along this route something weird starts
happening with his compass. On this day, "at the
commencement of the night, the needles turned a
half point north-west, and in the morning they turned
somewhat more north-west." Whoa. Creepy, Chris. But it doesn't stop there. He also reported the sea rising and a strange light out in the distance. He described it like a wax
candle moving up and down. What is going on here? The mystery continued
throughout the centuries. In 1606, while traveling
through the triangle, a large English ship
carrying 150 travelers became wrecked at Bermuda after encountering a huge hurricane. Even though this wasn't mysterious, because it was just weather, it left an impression on how
people saw this body of water. In fact, it is supposed
that this ship wreck inspired Shakespeare's
play, "The Tempest," which often referred to
Bermuda, or Bermoothes, as being vexed or cursed. Okay, but listen to this one. Next up is 1881. This ship is sailing from
Liverpool to New York City. When it passes through the triangle, the people on board say that they came across a ghost ship
with no one on board. There are varying reports
on exactly what happened, but the people on board generally reported that some of the crew decided
to get on the ghost ship, but then the ships were
separated by a massive storm. When they were reunited with
the ghost ship the next day, there was no trace of the crew. This stuff is kind of spooky if true. But wait, we're just
getting started because when you get to the 20th Century, that's when the Bermuda Triangle, as a mysterious body of water, started to gain a lot of attention. In February, 1918, one of
the US Navy's largest ships, the USS Cyclops, was carrying 300 men from Salvador, Brazil
to Baltimore, Maryland. The route goes right through
the Bermuda Triangle, but the ship never arrived to Baltimore. Despite being able to, The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call. No wreck was ever found. As one article published a few years after the disappearance said, "Usually, a wooden bucket
or a cork life preserver identified as belonging to a lost ship is picked up after a wreck, but not so with the Cyclops." "She just disappeared as though some gigantic monster of the sea had grabbed her, men and all, and sent her into the
depths of the ocean." In an official statement,
the US Navy said that, quote, "The disappearance of the ship has been one of the most baffling mysteries in the annals of the Navy." That's an official quote. Again, kind of spooky. Oh, and the Navy boats kept disappearing. In 1941, the USS Proteus, carrying 58 passengers
and a bunch of metal, suddenly vanished within
the Bermuda Triangle. And then one month later,
another Navy ship disappears. 61 people on board totally gone. But it wasn't until 1945 when people started to
get really suspicious. This is when a bunch of
World War II airplanes were doing a three hour exercise
over Grand Bahama Island, flying out and then pivoting
back to their airbase, back in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. But these planes never returned and the disappearances
just kept happening. A long haul flight with
25 people and six crew disappeared in the triangle
without a trace in 1948. And a year later, it happened again to another plane of the exact same model. All in all, there have been over 70 mysterious disappearances here in this little patch of ocean, where all those years
ago, Columbus noticed something strange
happening with his compass. With time, more and more
people started noticing. One writer in the '50s said, quote, "There have been other disappearances in this backyard sea of ours; and always the record, when the account is finally closed, has an ominous notation:
'No trace found.'" And then in 1964, the
term "Bermuda Triangle" was actually coined in an article. Vincent Gadace asserted that, quote, "Sea distances are relatively short." Referring to the Bermuda Triangle. "And yet this relatively limited area is the scene of disappearances that total far beyond the laws of chance." People wanted answers. 10 years later, this book came out. The author goes deep and
he makes the argument that something is really
happening in the Bermuda Triangle. It's not just bad weather. This mysterious patch of water is actually a gateway to
something much bigger. And then he is not afraid to explore some alternative theories
about ancient civilizations and energy that was left
over from those civilizations affecting this area. It's magnets, it's
crystals, it's worm holes, it's the ripping of space time. These forces connect us to the physical potential of our universe. All shown to us because of the mysterious disappearances
of the Bermuda Triangle. No, no, no! Come on, guys. I hope no one was actually following me down that
rabbit hole because, you can't read a book like this, talk about a bunch of mysterious things, and call that evidence. That is not what this is. I was really into this for a moment. Actually, when I was going
through all of the disappearances until it started to become
about freaking crystals and alien life coming to save
humans from nuclear fission. We can't do this. We can't present a handful of data points, even if they're factually accurate, separated by hundreds of
years and call that proof that this patch of ocean is cursed. What blows my mind is that this book, the one that really put the
Bermuda Triangle on the map, sold over 14 million copies worldwide. It was translated into 22 languages, despite being riddled with
completely invalidating errors. I mean, what? Come on. I'm actually not surprised. I mean, look at us. Look at what we're doing here. We're sitting here eating this
stuff up like it's ice cream. People love this stuff. Mysterious stories and finding connections in observations that we
can see and understand. I know that at least for me, no matter how data minded
and objective I am, I kind of get intoxicated
by a good mysterious story. Our brains are like built for this stuff. Especially when the storyteller throws in little embellishments like- Despite being able to,
The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call. This tendency is really concerning to me. And honestly, more and more as I realize how powerful of a tool storytelling is. Especially visual storytelling, where I can layer in the
music and the visuals to make your brain think that it is real. Okay, wait a minute, you're asking, "Is this a video about
the Bermuda Triangle?" "Or is this Johnny Harris's
current soul searching about factual accuracy and
storytelling on the internet?" It's both. But let's keep going on
this Bermuda Triangle story because there actually
is a very satisfying evidence based answer to what is really going on
with all these disappearances. Here we go. (tense music) There have been some serious
scientific hypotheses developed on what's going on here. They range from things like, the Bermuda Triangle having a
disturbance in geomagnetism, which throws off compasses
and other navigational tools. Remember, Columbus, creepy Chris? Or methane blowouts,
which is a real thing. We have these huge
deposits of like methane under the ocean floor,
and if these blow up, you get this massive explosion, and then a huge crater
that just sucks down anything that is floating on top of it. That could easily explain it, right? Okay, but then there's
the plane disappearances. Here's another more simple
explanation, hurricanes. The Bermuda Triangle is in the Caribbean, which does seem to have an abnormal number of high intensity storms. That kind of makes sense. And one popular theory
is that these storms can cause what are called rogue waves, which are massive waves that
reach a hundred feet or more. Maybe it's those that lead
to the disappearances. See, this is making more sense. You've got methane gas, geomagnetism, tons of storms in the Caribbean. It makes sense that
this is a perilous place for planes and boats. These are scientific explanations that validate the Bermuda Triangle. We don't need Atlantis,
and crystals, and aliens. We have geomagnetism and weather systems. Rational explanations
for the Bermuda Triangle. No, no, no, no! Shine the light, folks Do not fall for this, again. No, another trap. Me saying sciency things like "geomagnetism" and "methane blowouts" can sound like I'm presenting
strong evidence to you, but I'm not. I'm saying words. I'm speculating. Okay, so will we ever get
to the bottom of this? Well, yes we can. But not by listening
to me tell you stories about ghost ships and
mysterious Navy disappearances, or even 100 foot waves. Instead, we need to
approach this differently. Humans have developed an
amazing tool for seeing reality. Instead of relying on
our own observations, which usually need to
be couched as stories, and that are limited by how much we can hold in our brain at once. Instead of this, we can
collect hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of
observations about the world, and they don't have to fit
in our brains all at once because we can record them over time, and then process and aggregate
them with math or maps. And if you did that, you would see that, of the tens of thousands of recorded accidents or casualties at sea recorded over the course of 20 years, there wasn't anything
out of the ordinary here. It doesn't even make the top 10 most dangerous ocean regions in the world, at least according to another
analysis, another data set. We wanted to make sure on this, so we reached out to Lloyd's List, which is a shipping publication who graciously spent
months aggregating data, tons of data about marine
casualties out to sea. We found that 1.8% of all
vessels everywhere in the world have some casualty, including
mysterious disappearances. 1.8%. And that of the 8,634 boats that passed through
the Bermuda Triangle, there were only two casualties. 0.02% of the boats that passed
through here had an accident. 90 times lower than the global average. That was for 2021. So yeah, that's the evidence we should actually be
looking at and talking about. It's not as tantalizing as
the stories told in this book that sold 20 million copies. But it's true. It's what actually happened. And the beautiful thing is, you can then go and look at my sources, look at the data sets that I used, and you can interrogate them. And you can come back and
tell me that my data is weak because of the way it was
collected and what was left out. That's called "discourse." And it is the foundation of how we know what we
know about the world. All of us need to be vigilant of this, perhaps me more than
anyone, I'm a storyteller. But I also want to be a communicator of true information about the
world, to communicate to you. And yeah, we'll definitely disagree on what that information means, and how important certain things are. Interpretation, opinion, et cetera. But I'm here to make a further commitment to going the extra mile to gather the best truth I can to make sure that it's actually real. So, thank you for being here. For being a part of my
discourse, my learning, and to check me on this when I get loose. And to make sure that together we don't let the power of story get in the way of the power of truth. (low tempo music) Hey, thanks for watching. Something I didn't show in the video was this model plane that
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interesting to you, check out the links below. Thank you for watching. Subscribe if you haven't already, and I will see you in the next video. "Several investigators of
the Bermuda Triangle mystery have suggested that alien intelligences may be interested or even concerned in the possibility that our development of nuclear fission for
warfare may be threatening the existence of
civilization on our planet. As it may have previously destroyed other civilizations on
this and other planets." "The time span of rational
man on this planet of the intelligence
potential and comparable to that of today may extend
back 40 to 50,000 years." Oh, this is good shit, dude.
