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00:00:00You've probably saw a viral video where YouTubers hit a huge treasure in the Bermuda Triangle,
00:00:06and a random guy dared to go after it.
00:00:08He scored 10,000 bucks, but let's be real, his biggest win was getting out of there alive.
00:00:15This dangerous stretch of water between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda is notorious for its chilling and unexplained events.
00:00:23They say that more than 50 ships and 20 airplanes have mysteriously disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle.
00:00:30This leads to many theories, suggesting that this area is somehow linked to mystical powers or vortices that pull objects into other dimensions.
00:00:40But an Australian scientist named Carl Krushelnitsky might have actually cracked the code on the Bermuda Triangle mystery.
00:00:46According to him, most popular legends and eerie disappearances can be explained by two main factors.
00:00:55The first factor is human error.
00:00:58One theory debunked by Krushelnitsky was about the doomed Flight 19.
00:01:03Back in 1945, a group of five planes from the U.S. Navy took off on a routine training mission from Florida.
00:01:09And everything was going well until, 90 minutes into the flight, the troop commander reported that they were lost.
00:01:17And then, poof, they just disappeared.
00:01:21One of the largest air and sea searches in history was conducted to find them.
00:01:26But to this day, no one has found any trace of Flight 19 or the 14 men on board.
00:01:32What still makes people scratch their heads about this event is that the weather conditions when they took off were actually great.
00:01:41A relatively warm day, fluffy white clouds drifting across the sky, and a breezy wind coming from the southwest.
00:01:48Pretty standard for training flights, really.
00:01:50Nothing out of the ordinary.
00:01:52So, what happened?
00:01:53It turns out that despite the flight leader having over 2,000 flying hours, he was a bad pilot.
00:02:02Actually, a really bad pilot.
00:02:05According to Krushelnitsky, the commander was such a poor navigator that he had gotten lost at sea on at least two previous occasions before the Flight 19 incident.
00:02:14On that doomed day, he even tried to get someone to cover his shift but was unsuccessful, to the misfortune of his entire team.
00:02:22After their training flight exercise was completed successfully, both compasses on board stopped working.
00:02:29On the patrol's radio, his anxious voice said they were over land, or precisely, he was sure they were flying above the Florida Keys.
00:02:37But that didn't make any sense.
00:02:40He had made his scheduled pass over hens and chicken shoals in the Bahamas less than an hour earlier.
00:02:46But now he believed his plane had somehow drifted hundreds of miles off course and ended up in the Florida Keys.
00:02:52He couldn't have been more wrong.
00:02:56According to the most plausible theories about this case, what he thought was the Florida Keys was actually some small islands in the Bahamas.
00:03:05And here's where the real mess happened.
00:03:07Instead of turning back to the west, toward Florida, he kept flying east, deeper into the Atlantic Ocean.
00:03:14His plane eventually ran out of fuel, and you already know the rest of the story.
00:03:20Okay, some theorists might argue that a malevolent force somehow interfered with the two compasses,
00:03:27causing them to fail while they were flying this supposedly cursed stretch of water.
00:03:31But, let's face it, even if that were true, human error was the main factor here.
00:03:37The pilot shouldn't have mistaken the Bahamas Islands for the Keys.
00:03:41End of that story.
00:03:44Now, let's talk about the second factor that, according to Krushalinski,
00:03:49explains many of the strange disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.
00:03:52And that's related to bad weather.
00:03:55A lot of Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes actually pass right through the Bermuda Triangle.
00:04:01So, before we had advanced weather forecasting,
00:04:04these storms had caused a bunch of ships to go missing back in the day.
00:04:08On top of that, the Gulf Stream runs through the area too.
00:04:12That's a super-strong ocean current that can make the weather change quickly and, sometimes, pretty dramatically.
00:04:18So, when you think about it, natural factors like these could explain many, if not most, of the disappearances.
00:04:24Take the USS Cyclops, for example.
00:04:28Back in 1918, this massive 500-foot cargo ship, carrying about 11,000 tons of manganese, just disappeared without a trace.
00:04:38It was sailing from the West Indies to Baltimore, with 309 people on board.
00:04:43What makes this event extra eerie is that not a single distress signal was sent.
00:04:49Over a hundred years later, we still have no idea what happened to it.
00:04:53No wreckage has ever been found.
00:04:56Of course, people have come up with all kinds of theories about the USS Cyclops.
00:05:00One popular idea is that it ran into a sudden, violent storm.
00:05:05With all that heavy manganese on board, it might have capsized and sunk really fast.
00:05:10Others speculate about underwater events, like landslides, or even a rogue wave.
00:05:18Now, this is not such a crazy theory, if you think about it.
00:05:22According to Khrushlnitsky, the Bermuda Triangle isn't just a bad weather zone.
00:05:27It is about the raw power of the ocean itself.
00:05:30The ocean floor there is way deeper than most people realize, going down nearly 30,000 feet.
00:05:37That's basically like Mount Everest in reverse.
00:05:40When the ocean water gets that deep, it tends to hide things, making it the perfect place
00:05:45for ships and planes to just disappear without a trace.
00:05:49The expert confirms that there is also a tiny chance that even stranger events could be happening
00:05:55beneath the waves of the Bermuda Triangle.
00:05:57And that is related to methane clathrate.
00:06:00This is a fancy name for an ice-like compound that forms underwater or in really cold places
00:06:06with methane gas trapped inside.
00:06:09Sometimes these structures can break free, creating bubbles on the surface.
00:06:13And this bubble shower can be fatal, at least for ships.
00:06:16Some experiments done with model ships showed that if enough bubbles rise up, the water's
00:06:23density drops, and this can mess with the ship's ability to float.
00:06:27If a large number of bubbles come up and cover a large area quickly, the ship could lose enough
00:06:33buoyancy to sink or tip over.
00:06:35But to be fair, the chances of something like that happening are very remote.
00:06:39So, human error and bad weather – those are the two factors that likely explain all the
00:06:46mysteries surrounding this so-called malevolent stretch of water.
00:06:50But the truth is, the Bermuda Triangle isn't all that special.
00:06:55Although this region is very popular, there are no official maps that clearly outline its
00:07:00exact boundaries and say, look, here precisely is the Bermuda Triangle.
00:07:05And that is part of the problem.
00:07:07Disappearances and unexplained events that happen far from the actual region end up being
00:07:13lumped into the Bermuda Triangle's list of unexplained mysteries, like the Mary Celeste's
00:07:18fate.
00:07:19In 1872, this ship was found completely intact, but with no sign of the captain, his family,
00:07:25or the crew.
00:07:27People thought, okay, creepy fact, go ship.
00:07:30So it must be related to the Bermuda Triangle.
00:07:33But one thing doesn't add up.
00:07:35The Mary Celeste was abandoned about 400 miles east of the Azores, so we're talking about
00:07:41a completely different part of the Atlantic.
00:07:43By this time, the Triangle has morphed into a trapezoid to cover that huge chunk of the
00:07:49North Atlantic.
00:07:49What I'm trying to say here is that once people start believing in a danger zone, confirmation
00:07:56bias takes over.
00:07:57But the facts are that the Bermuda Triangle sees tons of daily traffic every single day,
00:08:03both by sea and air.
00:08:05And according to experts, the number of incidents that happen there is pretty much the same
00:08:09as anywhere else in the world, percentage-wise.
00:08:12Some years the number is a bit higher, some years lower, but it averages out the same.
00:08:18With that in mind, it seems like it's time for us to finally move on from wild theories
00:08:23involving the Bermuda Triangle.
00:08:25Well, at least until the next bizarre disappearance comes along.
00:08:29A bright flash on your left.
00:08:36Boom!
00:08:37Where did that lightning come from?
00:08:39Your plane shakes.
00:08:40Your instruments stop working.
00:08:42A minute ago, the sky was clear and blue.
00:08:45Now, it's pitch black.
00:08:47Your senses go haywire.
00:08:48You don't understand which way is up or down.
00:08:51It's a strange feeling.
00:08:53You're beyond time and space.
00:08:55Lightning flashes from all directions.
00:08:57Clouds envelop your plane and swirl it into a vortex.
00:09:01You grip the controls and repeat to yourself,
00:09:04I'll get out of this.
00:09:05I'll get out.
00:09:07Through the dark and thick clouds, you see a ray of light.
00:09:10It's your only chance.
00:09:12Your plane flies toward the light like a moth to a flame.
00:09:15And whoosh!
00:09:16You break out of the terrible whirlwind.
00:09:19Your instruments are back to normal.
00:09:21The plane's no longer shaking.
00:09:22You're saved.
00:09:24That's how pilots who face the Bermuda Triangle anomaly
00:09:27describe their experiences.
00:09:29Well, at least on TV shows.
00:09:31The huge chunk of ocean between Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico
00:09:35remain the planet's most mysterious area.
00:09:38But it's not alone.
00:09:41Alaska has its own triangle.
00:09:43Since the late 80s, 16,000 people have disappeared there.
00:09:47Eyewitnesses to the Bermuda Triangle anomaly talk about thick fog, lightning, balls of line, and hallucinations.
00:09:55In Alaska, everything's a bit more complicated.
00:09:58People, planes, ships…
00:10:00They just disappear without a trace.
00:10:02There's no one around to tell us what it felt like.
00:10:05In 1950, a plane took off from Anchorage, Alaska, headed for Great Falls in Montana.
00:10:10It was carrying 8 crew members and 36 passengers.
00:10:15Two hours after the start of the flight, the captain radioed in that everything was fine.
00:10:20Then, silence.
00:10:22The 100-foot-long plane seemed to evaporate into thin air.
00:10:2685 aircraft and around 7,000 people searched for the plane.
00:10:30No trace.
00:10:31Not even a screw, bolt, nothing.
00:10:35That plane mystery made the Alaskan Triangle famous.
00:10:38If you look on a map, it's a wild and mostly unpopulated zone that passes near Anchorage, Barrow, and Juneau.
00:10:45If you connect the dots on a map, you get an epic triangle.
00:10:49You can fit the whole state of Oregon in it twice.
00:10:52If you read around, you'll find a bunch of major areas on the planet where weird stuff keeps happening over land, sea, desert, and jungle.
00:11:02Scientists have many questions about these places.
00:11:04They all have extreme electrical and magnetic anomalies.
00:11:08Planes and ships disappear in them.
00:11:10People hear stuff, see stuff, and hear some of them.
00:11:14China's Black Bamboo Valley looks like a Hollywood set for a seriously scary movie.
00:11:19Here, everything's creepy and mysterious.
00:11:22Ha, perfect.
00:11:23Imagine a bamboo forest that stretches up 130 feet.
00:11:27The green plants live extremely close to each other and barely let in any sunlight.
00:11:32A strange fog hangs in the air.
00:11:35Where it comes from and why it's always there, no one knows.
00:11:39And the mysteries don't end there.
00:11:42For centuries, people have disappeared in the vast forest.
00:11:46Scientists believe the site's crazy geology is to blame.
00:11:50Cracks can suddenly appear in the ground, big enough to fall into.
00:11:53There are sharp changes in weather and maybe even poisonous steam.
00:11:58Certain trees give it off when they fall to the ground.
00:12:01There's a long road through Ladakh in India.
00:12:04It's called the magnetic road.
00:12:07It slopes upwards and seems to violate the laws of gravity.
00:12:10Here's what happens.
00:12:12You drive to the foot of the hill, turn off the engine, and get out of the car.
00:12:16The car starts rolling uphill up to 12 miles per hour.
00:12:20Why does it happen?
00:12:21Theory one, the hill has an incredibly strong magnetic pool, and it attracts cars once they get too close.
00:12:29The Indian Air Force supposedly avoids flying over it to avoid any interference with their equipment.
00:12:35Version two, it's all just an optical illusion.
00:12:39The hills around it seem to fade into the horizon.
00:12:42It looks to us like the road is sloped up, but it's actually not.
00:12:47Huge Lake Michigan looks more like a sea than a lake.
00:12:50And over the past 400 years, 6,000 ships have disappeared in it.
00:12:55Why does it happen?
00:12:57The lake has its own mysterious triangle, and there are actually more unsolved mysteries here than in the famous Bermuda Triangle.
00:13:04In 1950, Flight 2501 disappeared over the lake, en route from New York to Minneapolis.
00:13:11The fate of the three crew members and 55 passengers remains unknown.
00:13:16In 2007, an underwater archaeology professor was surveying the bottom of Lake Michigan.
00:13:23He found stones arranged in a circle 40 feet down from the surface.
00:13:27They kind of looked like Stonehenge in England, but why were they at the bottom of a lake?
00:13:33Who put them there?
00:13:35Archaeologists found a carved pattern on one of the stones.
00:13:38Its outline resembles a drawing of an animal.
00:13:41Now, that's not unusual, except that this particular animal, which looks like a mammoth, was probably carved around 10,000 years ago.
00:13:50Sleep is very difficult for the Venezuelan locals, who live near Lake Maracaibo.
00:13:56Right at the place where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake,
00:14:00there are huge electrical storms that can go up to 10 hours long.
00:14:04260 days a year!
00:14:06That's over a million lightning bolts over the lake every year.
00:14:10Scientists don't know exactly what causes the daily lightning parties.
00:14:14Some people think it's due to the gas methane which comes out of the ground.
00:14:18Other scientists blame uranium deposits in the soil.
00:14:22Nowadays, though, most researchers are sure that the lightning is caused by weather.
00:14:27Cold mountain air smashes against warm sea air.
00:14:29The result? A lot of friction and moisture.
00:14:32The perfect combo for near-nightly natural fireworks.
00:14:36It's super loud and kind of annoying if you live nearby.
00:14:39But the area is really important for the planet.
00:14:42It helps regenerate our vital atmospheric ozone.
00:14:46And the one that started it all?
00:14:48The Bermuda Triangle.
00:14:49Planes, ships, all gone without a trace.
00:14:53The theories are endless.
00:14:54Scientists even think there might be a huge meteor at the bottom of the sea that emits its own magnetic energy.
00:15:00It might have confused the navigation equipment on all those unlucky carriers.
00:15:05And it's been going on for a while.
00:15:07Researchers think that it was causing trouble even way back in Columbus' time.
00:15:12As far as Alaska is concerned, magnetic anomalies are a dime a dozen.
00:15:17Around here, your compass might be off by 5, 30, or even 60 degrees.
00:15:22But equipment malfunction isn't really enough to explain the disappearance of so many aircraft and people in this absolutely massive state.
00:15:32Alaska is wild.
00:15:33High mountains, never-ending forests, snow in the winter, and some serious heat in the summer.
00:15:39There are 3 million lakes, 12,000 rivers, and around 100,000 glaciers.
00:15:44There's only one person per square mile.
00:15:47California has over 250.
00:15:49You could walk for days, weeks, even months without seeing anyone, except maybe a bear or two.
00:15:56And the days and nights can be really confusing this far north.
00:16:00Tourists from all over the world dream of coming to Alaska to see the planet as it was before.
00:16:06No concrete jungle, no endless roads, warehouses, and cornfields.
00:16:10But this isn't just a beautiful place.
00:16:13It's also an incredibly dangerous place.
00:16:16You can get lost in the forest, run out of food, get soaked to the bone, lose your compass or GPS.
00:16:22In the harsh conditions of Alaska, danger's always just around the corner.
00:16:27Most vacationers just aren't prepared for that.
00:16:3080% of the state's communities aren't connected to the road system.
00:16:34Back in the Wild West, horses carry people, products, and information.
00:16:39In Alaska, it's all about planes.
00:16:41Alaska has 9,000 aircraft and 8,000 pilots, and counting.
00:16:46That's more than one out of every 100 Alaskans.
00:16:50Sudden weather changes, frequent in wild rain, snowstorms, and fog.
00:16:54Not a great recipe for a smooth flight.
00:16:57The wings on Alaskan planes can get covered with ice.
00:17:00The fog can hide the snowy mountaintops, and strong gusts of wind can knock a tiny plane way off course.
00:17:07That's what those pilots have to deal with every time they take off.
00:17:11So, that plane that disappeared?
00:17:14Investigators believe that the Douglas C-54 Skymaster disappeared due to bad weather,
00:17:20and any debris was covered with snow or fell into a lake.
00:17:245% of Alaska is covered in glaciers, and there are loads of cracks in them,
00:17:28some big enough to fit a person, a few people, or even a whole airplane.
00:17:37The legend of the Bermuda Triangle.
00:17:40It's one of the few mysteries we still can't solve.
00:17:43Let's rewind back about 600 years.
00:17:46The story begins with an Italian man.
00:17:49He wanted to sail across the ocean to reach Asia,
00:17:52a continent rich with spices, silk, minerals, you know, that kind of stuff.
00:17:56Getting there by land would take ridiculously long, so he figured,
00:18:01hey, why not build some sturdy ships, gather a couple of sailors, and set off to Asia?
00:18:06What could go wrong?
00:18:08That man was Christopher Columbus, by the way.
00:18:11In 1492, with a little help from Spain's royal family, he embarked on his journey.
00:18:17Everything was going well.
00:18:18I mean, apart from totally going the wrong way.
00:18:21But as he got to the end of his voyage, he noticed something very strange.
00:18:26He didn't know it at the time, but he was sailing through the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
00:18:32The BT.
00:18:33The point of no return.
00:18:35The scary place between Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Florida.
00:18:39There are loads of stories of ships, boats, and planes disappearing into this mysterious realm.
00:18:44Some were found years later, and some disappeared off the face of the earth,
00:18:49lying undiscovered at the bottom of the ocean.
00:18:52Maybe.
00:18:54We know one thing for sure.
00:18:55We have no clue what's going on over there.
00:18:58People have been trying to figure it out for years.
00:19:01But nothing.
00:19:02Zip.
00:19:03Nada.
00:19:04So what was it that Christopher Columbus saw that fateful evening?
00:19:08What freaked him out so bad?
00:19:11According to his logs, Columbus saw a huge flash in the sky.
00:19:15I don't care how tough you are.
00:19:17If you're sailing around with no clue where you are,
00:19:20then you see a massive flash right in front of you?
00:19:23You'd find me hiding below deck, chewing on a lemon or something.
00:19:27That's not the only sea mystery out there.
00:19:29Not by a long shot.
00:19:31Heard of the kraken?
00:19:32A giant squid that can swallow a whole ship.
00:19:35No?
00:19:36You're lucky.
00:19:37Imagine cruising on a ship, wind in your hair, hands on your hips,
00:19:42like, you know, those old pirate movies.
00:19:44Then a huge squid creeps up on you from deep down in the cold, dark water.
00:19:49It wraps its tentacles around the ship and drags the whole thing to the bottom of the ocean.
00:19:54Good thing you packed a life raft.
00:19:56How about a colossal sea serpent chasing your boat at full speed looking for a midday snack?
00:20:02That thing is called a leviathan, and you better hope it's not real.
00:20:06Or sirens, mean but beautiful creatures of the sea.
00:20:11They like to hang out on rocks and sing karaoke.
00:20:15Their magical voices attract sailors who sail their ships right into the sharp rocks.
00:20:20Now, mermaids, on the other hand, totally awesome.
00:20:24They like karaoke too, but they're not into the whole ship smashing thing.
00:20:28Good old mermaids.
00:20:29They're real, right?
00:20:31And let's not forget, peg-legged pirates.
00:20:35Arr!
00:20:35Looting, raiding, saying arrr every two seconds.
00:20:39Arr!
00:20:40What else do those guys do all day?
00:20:42So, back to our Italian friend, Columbus.
00:20:45Maybe he just saw a thunderstorm.
00:20:48Duh!
00:20:48Why didn't he think of that?
00:20:50Well, I'm not 600 years old, and I wasn't there.
00:20:54How on earth would I know?
00:20:55Weird thing is, he never mentioned any huge waves or heavy rain.
00:21:00No strong winds either.
00:21:01Just a single flash in the sky.
00:21:04Maybe some dolphins were setting off fireworks or something.
00:21:08After the flash, Columbus wrote that his compass needle started dancing all over the place.
00:21:13This keeps getting weirder and weirder.
00:21:15His report ends with a friendly turtle with sunglasses jumping out of the water, pushing the three ships to shore, and everyone went out to get hot dogs.
00:21:24Only kidding.
00:21:25So, what happened?
00:21:28Scientists now think they've got the answer.
00:21:30Drum roll.
00:21:32Brrrr!
00:21:33An asteroid crashed into the ocean.
00:21:36Case closed.
00:21:37But wait, what about that stuff with the compass?
00:21:40What does that have to do with an asteroid?
00:21:41Asteroids come in all different shapes and sizes, but they're like chocolate eggs, the best parts on the inside.
00:21:49They're packed full of minerals and metals worth trillions of dollars.
00:21:53Scientists are even trying to figure out how to land on a big one and mine it.
00:21:57It'd have to be a really big one.
00:21:59I'm talking about an asteroid the size of Rhode Island.
00:22:03Why?
00:22:03Because chances are, it'd have a magnetic field around it, making it way easier to land on.
00:22:09Scientists think that the magnetic fields around some asteroids can last for millions of years.
00:22:15Mystery solved.
00:22:17Maybe.
00:22:18Captain Christopher Columbus's compass went cuckoo crazy because of an asteroid crashing right in front of him.
00:22:25That actually might explain some other strange Bermuda tales.
00:22:28About a hundred years ago, the USS Cyclops left Barbados on its way to Baltimore and sailed right through the middle of the Bermuda Triangle.
00:22:38It never arrived.
00:22:40Search teams spent ages looking, but they couldn't find anything.
00:22:44It just vanished.
00:22:45Just like that.
00:22:46In 1945, five military planes vanished without a trace.
00:22:52They flew right over the Bermuda Triangle.
00:22:55So if there is an asteroid sitting at the bottom of the sea somewhere, why is it still causing problems 500 years later?
00:23:03Radar and old-school compasses rely on the Earth's magnetic field.
00:23:07Radar's how they track flights all around the world.
00:23:10A faulty radar reading?
00:23:12That would be a problem.
00:23:13Try putting a magnet near a compass and see what happens.
00:23:17The compass needle is its own little magnet, always pointing north.
00:23:21But if you put it next to a strong enough magnet, the needle will spin around to face it.
00:23:27What if that compass is all you've got to guide you to shore?
00:23:31Chinese ship captains were the first to invent compasses.
00:23:34Before that, people used to sail along the shore, or just to islands that they could see.
00:23:39Having compasses meant those early sailors could write down where they went, so other people could get there too.
00:23:47So now that we have all this new tech, the question is, is that asteroid even still down there?
00:23:53How would we get down there to find out?
00:23:55It wouldn't be the first ever deep sea dive.
00:23:58We've already been down the Mariana Trench, the deepest one on Earth.
00:24:03The Mariana Trench makes climbing Mount Everest look like a joke.
00:24:07Only two people have ever been down there.
00:24:10Because it's so deep, the water pressure is insane.
00:24:14The only way down is in a high-tech tank, something that won't crush in on itself under pressure.
00:24:19And that kind of thing doesn't come cheap.
00:24:22Down there, just a lot of darkness, quiet and beauty, and a bunch of weird animals.
00:24:29The Bermuda Triangle isn't as deep as the Mariana Trench, so we might get down there one day.
00:24:35We might see that asteroid that Columbus saw.
00:24:38This time, with millions of tiny fish on it, who've made it their home.
00:24:43All those lost ships and planes that disappeared should be down there somewhere.
00:24:47Or we might see something we were never expecting.
00:24:52We might find ancient species of squid, sharks, and turtles, with special skills like night vision.
00:24:59We might find gold.
00:25:00Loads of ships full of gold and silver sank on their way back to Europe from the Americas.
00:25:06Some wrecks had evidence of fire.
00:25:08Some were split in two.
00:25:10Most of them are still out there.
00:25:12Japanese divers once found an ancient underwater pyramid-looking thing.
00:25:18They don't even know for sure if it was natural or man-made.
00:25:22Up in the Baltic Sea, someone snapped a bizarre sonar image of...
00:25:27A spaceship?
00:25:28Or just a strange-looking rock?
00:25:31A Swiss lake was hiding a sweet vintage car.
00:25:34After it was dragged to shore and cleaned, it was sold for over $350,000.
00:25:40And the tires still had air in them.
00:25:43Japanese fishermen once found a small round boat that had a glass top on it.
00:25:48There was a red-haired woman inside.
00:25:50Some thought it was a fairy tale come true.
00:25:53Some thought she was a magical creature.
00:25:55And some thought she was a spy.
00:25:58The Bermuda Triangle sounds scary, but the islands near it are awesome.
00:26:03Bermuda is a tiny island where they speak English.
00:26:06And the other points of the Triangle are the tip of Florida and the American island of Puerto Rico.
00:26:13The airplane involved was a Beechcraft Bonanza single-engine aircraft.
00:26:18On board, pilot Bruce Gurnon had two passengers, his father and business partner.
00:26:24They took off from Andros Island in the Bahamas and headed northwest for the Florida coast.
00:26:30It was December 4, 1970.
00:26:33If you draw up a map, trace a line connecting the island of Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Miami, and back to Bermuda, what do you get?
00:26:42Yes, it's a triangle.
00:26:44A sinister polygon known for mysteriously swallowing over 2,000 ships and 200 aircraft over the centuries.
00:26:52Bruce Gurnon's plane was within its hungry grasp.
00:26:55But this was a typical flight Bruce had made dozens of times before.
00:27:00The trip usually took about an hour and a half, with no hiccups or mysterious phenomena whatsoever.
00:27:07The men were no more concerned than you would be during your daily commute to work.
00:27:12Oh, but this time would be different.
00:27:14They would face very unusual circumstances indeed.
00:27:18Bruce took off and started gaining altitude.
00:27:22Strange things started happening right from the get-go.
00:27:25At an altitude of about 1,000 feet, he noticed a small cloud up ahead.
00:27:30But it kept growing.
00:27:33Not from the plane getting closer.
00:27:34This thing was actually getting bigger in size.
00:27:37Bruce had to fly through it, and he came out the other end just fine.
00:27:42Another mysterious cloud appeared at 11,500 feet.
00:27:46This one was massive, and Bruce had no other choice but to fly through it, too.
00:27:52So he concentrated, took a deep breath, and in they went.
00:27:56At that moment, it got dark as night all around the aircraft.
00:28:01Not a single sliver of sunshine got through.
00:28:04But this wasn't a storm cloud, and it wasn't raining.
00:28:07Bruce was starting to get worried.
00:28:09And then, bam, he saw flashes of white light.
00:28:13They would appear and vanish quickly like lightning.
00:28:16But this pilot knew this certainly was no lightning.
00:28:20The flashes were so bright, they lit up the whole space around them.
00:28:24Bruce kept flying for another 30 minutes,
00:28:27when he realized this was the same cloud he had gone through earlier when he started to climb.
00:28:32But now, the cloud was cylindrical, and the plane was flying through its center.
00:28:37It was about one mile wide and seemed endless.
00:28:41Bruce thought he could never get out of that trap.
00:28:44But a minute later, he saw light at the end of the tunnel.
00:28:47He kept that yoke straight ahead.
00:28:50He was almost out of this nightmare.
00:28:52But all of a sudden, unexplainable things started happening again.
00:28:57The walls of the cloud tunnel began to narrow.
00:29:00They were closing in on the plane.
00:29:02The navigational instruments started wigging out.
00:29:05The compass was spinning by itself counterclockwise.
00:29:09The electronic instruments were all malfunctioning.
00:29:12It was like the plane was being operated by something else.
00:29:16Or it was moving inside some kind of current.
00:29:20All of Bruce's attempts to take control were to no avail.
00:29:23He kept flying through that tunnel, bound and determined to get out of this thing and live to tell the tale.
00:29:30The walls kept narrowing, smaller and smaller, wrapping like a vortex.
00:29:35Bruce was running out of time.
00:29:37He had to get out of this place fast.
00:29:40The next 20 seconds were the most intense of his life.
00:29:43But then, he burst out of this foggy trap.
00:29:47As Bruce described later, he felt weightless for 5 seconds as his plane left the tunnel.
00:29:52The clouds dispersed, and now the aircraft was in a grayish haze.
00:29:58The men let out a big sigh of relief.
00:30:01He immediately grabbed the radio and contacted ground control.
00:30:05Bruce wanted them to determine his location.
00:30:08But when the dispatcher looked at the green screen, his face became contorted with confusion.
00:30:14Bruce's plane wasn't on the radar.
00:30:16It was as if the thing was invisible.
00:30:18But then, the dispatcher said the aircraft was already in Miami airspace.
00:30:25Bruce was utterly shocked by this information.
00:30:27It just couldn't be true.
00:30:29The distance the beach craft was supposed to cover was about 250 miles.
00:30:34Remember, the whole trip usually took around 90 minutes.
00:30:37But this time, it took just 47 minutes to get to the destination.
00:30:43This model of aircraft can only cruise at about 180 miles per hour.
00:30:48Do the math, and anyone would understand that this was physically impossible.
00:30:53The dispatcher must have made a mistake.
00:30:56But when the clouds parted, Bruce saw that he really was over Miami.
00:31:00The plane landed safely, and it was time to try and solve this mystery.
00:31:06So what happened on that flight?
00:31:08Bruce checked the remaining fuel and his watch.
00:31:11After a short calculation, he was only more confused.
00:31:15The plane hadn't gone through the amount of fuel it should have.
00:31:19Bruce couldn't have been wrong.
00:31:21He was a very experienced pilot.
00:31:23By his early 20s, he already had 600 hours of flight under his belt.
00:31:27And he was all too familiar with this airspace he'd flown countless times.
00:31:33All the evidence in hand seemed to indicate that Bruce's plane just skipped over almost half the entire distance.
00:31:41The man thought about this bizarre occurrence for a long time.
00:31:45He even consulted with professors and experts.
00:31:48But none of them could give an exact answer to what happened that day.
00:31:52So he came up with his own theory, and even wrote a book about it.
00:31:56Bruce thought it all came down to this electric fog with white flashes.
00:32:01Others, however, theorized that dark energy was responsible for this time leap.
00:32:07Yes, that same dark energy responsible for the expansion of the universe.
00:32:12This energy could have curved time-space like a black hole, forming this strange tunnel.
00:32:18Bruce accidentally hit it, but he was lucky to get out of there.
00:32:22That's how he got into Miami airspace so fast.
00:32:25But dark energy is just a theory attempting to explain the unexplainable.
00:32:31To this day, there is no real answer for how Bruce was able to travel that distance in such a short time.
00:32:38But some details still can be explained.
00:32:41Archive records show that 84 sunspots were recorded that day,
00:32:45as well as a huge solar wind moving almost 440 miles per second.
00:32:50This would cause disturbances in the Earth's magnetosphere that could throw off the plane's instruments and radars.
00:32:58So Bruce's version that he was in an electronic fog could be right.
00:33:02And about these weird clouds.
00:33:05The thing is, they're pretty commonplace things in this area.
00:33:08Zones with low and high pressure are constantly colliding there.
00:33:12The result, storm clouds.
00:33:15Perhaps that cloud growing before Bruce's eyes was simply two massive air currents crashing into each other.
00:33:21But so far, no one has been able to explain how the plane got to Miami so fast.
00:33:28Well, maybe in the future the truth will be revealed.
00:33:31In the meantime, it remains another mysterious riddle of the Bermuda Triangle.
00:33:36But it's still, by far, not the most shocking incident there.
00:33:41In 1945, a total of five planes went missing in the Bermuda Triangle all at once.
00:33:47On December 5th, some Navy student pilots were training in the area.
00:33:52The day's lesson?
00:33:53Navigation.
00:33:54Ironically enough, they couldn't find their way back to the base and got lost.
00:33:59Many people assume they ran out of fuel.
00:34:01This is likely to have caused the incident, but the circumstances were very strange.
00:34:07The students were under the supervision of an experienced lieutenant who had 2,500 flight hours.
00:34:13He would never let a bunch of newbies go so far that they'd get lost.
00:34:18The incident was called Flight 19.
00:34:21Even now, there's a debate about how it could have happened.
00:34:24Three years later, a passenger jet headed to Miami from Puerto Rico disappeared in the same area.
00:34:31There were 29 passengers and three coup members on board.
00:34:35The weather was clear throughout the flight.
00:34:37But experts believe that when the plane was about 50 miles off the coast of Miami,
00:34:42it could have been hit by a strong wind that knocked it off course.
00:34:46Years later, divers found a similar-looking plane in the waters.
00:34:51But since it was lacking certain details and registrations,
00:34:54no one could confirm that it was the missing Miami-bound aircraft.
00:34:58The next month, in January 1948, another plane went missing in Bermuda.
00:35:0525 passengers and six crew members just vanished somewhere between Azores and Bermuda.
00:35:12The mystery of this plane's disappearance, along with countless others, remains unsolved.
00:35:18Hmm, can we estimate how many ships and airplanes were lost in the Bermuda Triangle?
00:35:26Have their disappearances resulted from human error or weather phenomena?
00:35:30Let's try to find out.
00:35:32We have a curious story of the SS Cotopaxi.
00:35:35This ship vanished in 1925, traveling from Charleston, South Carolina, to Havana, Cuba.
00:35:42It never reached its destination.
00:35:45Years later, in the 1980s, a wreck was found 40 miles off St. Augustine, Florida.
00:35:51Since specialists could not precisely determine what and where it came from,
00:35:56they nicknamed it Bear Wreck.
00:35:58It took many additional years of work, done mainly by marine biologists,
00:36:03to identify that this ship was indeed the missing SS Cotopaxi.
00:36:08This was confirmed in January 2020.
00:36:11How did the ship just reappear?
00:36:14And how did it get there, since this mysterious shipwreck isn't even in the Bermuda Triangle?
00:36:20Now, let's see who came up with this term, Bermuda Triangle.
00:36:24Can you actually pinpoint the triangle on a map?
00:36:27No, it's not an officially recognized location either.
00:36:31The Bermuda Triangle does not appear on any world map.
00:36:35Nobody has agreed on its exact boundaries.
00:36:37There are only assumptions with approximations of the entire area,
00:36:42ranging between 500,000 and 1.5 million square miles.
00:36:47By all approximations, the region has a vaguely triangular shape.
00:36:51In 1964, an American author named Vincent Hayes Gaddis
00:36:57first came up with the idea when writing an article for Argosy magazine.
00:37:02He used the Bermuda Triangle to describe a triangular region
00:37:06that has destroyed hundreds of ships and planes without a trace.
00:37:10It is pretty hard to get the number of lost ships and planes
00:37:14because some ships and aircraft have gone missing without leaving a trace.
00:37:19Their wreckage in the region has not been recovered.
00:37:22But the recorded story should help us.
00:37:25Legends about the Bermuda Triangle date back to the 15th century,
00:37:29like that of the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.
00:37:32When sailing through the Atlantic waters,
00:37:35he passed by this location in the late 1400s.
00:37:38In what we now know as the Bermuda Triangle,
00:37:41he saw a huge flame that seemed to just crash into the ocean.
00:37:46Later, he saw an unusual light flashing in the distance at the exact location.
00:37:51Like many other sailors since then,
00:37:53his compass had severe malfunctions.
00:37:55Flight 19, a Navy plane on a routine schedule back in 1945,
00:38:01also started the Bermuda Triangle legend.
00:38:04It was commanded by Lieutenant Charles Taylor,
00:38:07and it's recorded that he just got lost in the triangle for no reason.
00:38:11Since pilots had no GPS back then,
00:38:14they had to trust their compasses
00:38:16and keep track of how long they'd been flying in a specific direction and their speed.
00:38:22Shortly after completing the task,
00:38:23both of the compasses on board stopped working correctly.
00:38:27Records found after the plane's disappearance
00:38:29also indicate that Taylor didn't have a watch on that particular day.
00:38:35The initial report stated that pilot error was to blame for this unfortunate event.
00:38:40However, because people weren't satisfied with this outcome,
00:38:44it was changed to
00:38:45One surviving pilot named Bruce Garrett
00:38:52suggested he went through an electronic fog while passing above the triangle,
00:38:57making him travel through time.
00:39:00In 1970, when this incident happened,
00:39:03he was flying his aircraft
00:39:04when it was surrounded by two huge clouds that formed a whirlpool and spiraled.
00:39:10Like many others before him,
00:39:12he noticed that his navigation devices were malfunctioning.
00:39:15When he eventually made it out of those clouds,
00:39:18he discovered that his flight had only taken 35 minutes.
00:39:22It should have taken 75 in total.
00:39:25Since he had no other reasonable explanation for what he went through,
00:39:29he believed he must have been pushed forward in time.
00:39:33It's not only strange-looking clouds that have been seen above the Bermuda Triangle.
00:39:37In 2014, a pilot recalled almost colliding with a flying object
00:39:43that he could not identify whatsoever.
00:39:45Some of these strange encounters were even caught on tape.
00:39:49It's the case of an early 2015 flight
00:39:52whose passengers noticed a curious object just floating over the ocean.
00:39:57The pilots have yet to figure out what they actually saw back there.
00:40:02Okay, not all of the possible explanations have been this unusual.
00:40:06Oceanographers, for example,
00:40:08have also tried to explain why ships disappear around here.
00:40:12So, they recently came back to one of their old theories.
00:40:16Rogue waves.
00:40:17These are immense walls of water that just pop up suddenly.
00:40:20If multiple such waves rise simultaneously,
00:40:24they overlap like a wave sandwich.
00:40:27If one single wave can reach over 30 feet tall and happen simultaneously,
00:40:32it can create a rogue wave that can surpass 100 feet high.
00:40:37These types of waves can quickly overtake even the biggest of ships.
00:40:41Meteorologists came up with their own explanation, too.
00:40:45Hexagonal clouds.
00:40:46These unusual types of clouds can generate winds of up to 170 miles per hour.
00:40:52And they're pretty significant, too,
00:40:54some reaching 20 to 55 miles across.
00:40:58As such, waves inside these wind giants can go as high as 45 feet.
00:41:04The Earth's own magnetic force might also have something to do with it.
00:41:09Within the Bermuda Triangle,
00:41:10compasses point to true north,
00:41:12the geographic north pole,
00:41:14rather than magnetic north,
00:41:16the shifting magnetic north pole.
00:41:19Some have even explained that,
00:41:20since these two perfectly overlap in the Bermuda Triangle,
00:41:24it can cause a magnetic phenomenon
00:41:26that could make navigational devices malfunction.
00:41:30It's called the agonic line.
00:41:32The problem is that scientists have discovered
00:41:34that this line moves each year.
00:41:37It might have passed through the Bermuda Triangle at one point,
00:41:40but it's now through the Gulf of Mexico.
00:41:42Other strange natural phenomenon found along the coast of Norway
00:41:47could help explain why the Bermuda Triangle has claimed so many ships.
00:41:52There are some deep craters there,
00:41:54measuring up to half a mile wide,
00:41:56and are 150 feet deep.
00:41:58Scientists believe they were created by methane gas bubbles.
00:42:02This gas seems to be leaking from deposits hidden deep in the seabed.
00:42:06Once the gas reaches a certain quantity,
00:42:09it bursts to the surface and causes eruptions.
00:42:13So, do pilots and ship captains actually avoid this area today?
00:42:19Could this explain why there are fewer ships that get lost there nowadays?
00:42:22But, if you've ever flown from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico,
00:42:27you probably know that's not true.
00:42:29As for ships, if people would avoid the Bermuda Triangle,
00:42:33nearly all Caribbean vacations would be spoiled.
00:42:37To this day, there are a lot of flights that go over the Bermuda Triangle,
00:42:41so it's clear nobody is avoiding it.
00:42:44This place is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world.
00:42:48Nowadays, the Bermuda Triangle has heavy daily traffic,
00:42:52both by sea and air.
00:42:54But, the Bermuda Triangle is indeed subject to tropical storms and hurricanes
00:42:58that happen very often.
00:43:01Let's also keep in mind that the Gulf Stream,
00:43:03a strong ocean current that causes sharp changes in local weather,
00:43:07passes through the Bermuda Triangle.
00:43:10Besides, the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean,
00:43:13the Milwaukee Depth,
00:43:14is also located in the Bermuda Triangle.
00:43:17The Puerto Rico Trench reaches almost 27,500 feet at the Milwaukee Depth.
00:43:24So, if you think about it,
00:43:26the whole mystery is a perfect combination of human error,
00:43:30bad weather, and a lot of ship traffic.
00:43:32This was confirmed by data provided by the U.S. Coast Guard.
00:43:36If you look at percentages,
00:43:38the number of ships or planes that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle
00:43:42isn't different from anywhere else.
00:43:44Disappearances do not happen more often than in any comparable region of the Atlantic Ocean.
00:43:49Official statistics say around 50 ships and 20 airplanes have vanished while traveling through this region.
00:43:57So, that's another reason why the total number is so hard to pinpoint.
00:44:02Nobody could describe its rescue in official records if a boat was reported missing.
00:44:07There were also some events that, it turns out, didn't happen at all,
00:44:12adding to those false reports.
00:44:15Like that of a plane crash back in 1937 off Daytona Beach, Florida,
00:44:19that local papers surprisingly revealed nothing about.
00:44:23December 4th, 1970.
00:44:27Pilot Bruce Gernon had two passengers on board his Beechcraft Bonanza single-engine aircraft,
00:44:32his father and business partner.
00:44:34They took off from Andros Island in the Bahamas
00:44:37and headed northwest for the Florida coast.
00:44:40Sure, they were in the infamous Bermuda Triangle's airspace,
00:44:43but this was a typical flight Bruce had made dozens of times before.
00:44:48The trip usually took about an hour and a half with no hiccups whatsoever.
00:44:53Bruce took off and started gaining altitude.
00:44:58Strange things started happening right from the get-go.
00:45:01At first, he noticed a small cloud up ahead, but it kept growing.
00:45:06Not from the plane getting closer.
00:45:08This thing was actually getting bigger in size.
00:45:11Bruce had to fly through it, and he came out the other end just fine.
00:45:15He gained altitude, and yet another mysterious cloud appeared.
00:45:19This one was massive, and Bruce had no other choice but to fly through it, too.
00:45:23At that moment, it got dark as night all around the aircraft.
00:45:28But this wasn't a storm cloud, and it wasn't raining.
00:45:32Bruce was starting to get worried, and then...
00:45:34BAM!
00:45:35He saw flashes of white light!
00:45:37Bruce kept flying for another 30 minutes,
00:45:39when he realized this was the same cloud he had gone through earlier when he started to climb.
00:45:45But now the cloud was cylindrical, and the plane was flying through its center.
00:45:49It was wide and seemed endless.
00:45:52Bruce thought he could never get out of that trap.
00:45:54But a minute later, he saw light at the end of the tunnel.
00:45:58But all of a sudden, the walls of the cloud tunnel began to narrow.
00:46:02They were closing in on the plane!
00:46:04The navigational instruments started wigging out.
00:46:06The compass was spinning by itself, counterclockwise.
00:46:10The walls kept narrowing, smaller and smaller, wrapping like a vortex.
00:46:14The electrical instruments still going haywire!
00:46:17Bruce was running out of time!
00:46:19He had to get out of this place fast!
00:46:21A grueling 20 seconds later, he burst out of this foggy trap.
00:46:26As Bruce described later, he felt weightless for 5 seconds as his plane left the tunnel.
00:46:32The clouds dispersed, and now the aircraft was in a grayish haze.
00:46:36The men let out a big sigh of relief.
00:46:39He immediately grabbed the radio and contacted ground control to determine his location.
00:46:44But when the dispatcher looked at the green screen, his face became contorted with confusion.
00:46:50Bruce's plane wasn't on the radar.
00:46:52It was as if the thing was invisible.
00:46:55But then the dispatcher said the aircraft was already in Miami airspace.
00:47:00Bruce was utterly shocked.
00:47:01It just couldn't be true!
00:47:03Remember, the whole trip usually took around 90 minutes.
00:47:06But this time, it took just 47 minutes to get to the destination.
00:47:11His plane didn't magically gain some supersonic speed beyond the model's limited max cruising speed.
00:47:18This was physically impossible.
00:47:20The dispatcher must have made a mistake.
00:47:22But when the clouds parted, Bruce saw that he really was over Miami.
00:47:27The plane landed safely, and it was time to try and solve this mystery.
00:47:31Bruce checked the remaining fuel and his watch.
00:47:34After a short calculation, he was only more confused.
00:47:38The plane hadn't gone through the amount of fuel it should have.
00:47:42Archive records show that 84 sunspots were recorded that day, as well as a huge solar wind.
00:47:49This would cause disturbances in the Earth's magnetosphere that could throw off the plane's instruments and radars.
00:47:55But so far, no one has been able to explain how the plane got to Miami so fast.
00:48:01Maybe in the future, the truth will be revealed.
00:48:03In the meantime, it remains another mysterious riddle of the Bermuda Triangle.
00:48:08So, look at this map.
00:48:12This is not the Google Maps you open on your way to work.
00:48:15Here, you can see the world's most mysterious places.
00:48:18From the Bermuda Triangle to the Pyramids of Giza.
00:48:22From the Islands of Dolls to Easter Island.
00:48:25So, grab your pith helmet and let's go!
00:48:28You're venturing deep into the Sahara.
00:48:31What's that on the horizon?
00:48:33It looks like the remains of a once thriving civilization.
00:48:37Near the city of Tiaret, 150 miles southwest of Algeria's capital, you can find 13 monuments shrouded in mystery.
00:48:46You see underground vaults and other constructions made of stone.
00:48:50They were built between the 4th and 7th centuries CE.
00:48:54Some chambers are interconnected with a labyrinth.
00:48:57Walking through it takes about two hours.
00:49:00People who once inhabited this place carve hunting scenes and animal figures on the walls.
00:49:06Researchers believe the place was built as a final resting place for the Berber royalty.
00:49:11But there's no way to prove it.
00:49:13And the abandoned city in the desert remains a mystery.
00:49:16Now, how about the Island of the Dolls?
00:49:19If this name doesn't give you the heebie-jeebies, I don't know what will.
00:49:23While moving down an ancient Aztec canal, you find this mysterious island.
00:49:29Hundreds of abandoned dolls are hanging from trees.
00:49:32There are so many, you lose count.
00:49:35Legends say it was a man who hung them there.
00:49:38He decided that one wasn't enough.
00:49:40So, he spent his life hanging dolls on trees.
00:49:44Yeah, that's creepy.
00:49:45Speaking of creepy, in Mexican desert land, there's a spot called the Mpimi Silent Zone.
00:49:52People say no radio or any other kind of signal can be received there.
00:49:56I definitely wouldn't want to get lost there.
00:50:00In the far north of Canada lies inhospitable Lake Anjikuni.
00:50:05It's covered with snow and ice for half of the year.
00:50:08It was once home to the Inuit people.
00:50:10But something terrifying happened to this entire village.
00:50:13What exactly?
00:50:15This mystery is still unsolved.
00:50:18In 1930, Joe LaBelle was passing through a village that seemed deserted.
00:50:23He noticed that something was off there.
00:50:25There was no noise or any sign of human activity.
00:50:29He opened doors, one after another, but nobody was home.
00:50:34The inhabitants of the entire village were gone.
00:50:36They left behind seven sled dogs.
00:50:39Those were still tied to their posts.
00:50:41No one has been able to explain this disappearance so far.
00:50:46One of the world's biggest mysteries is the Pyramids of Giza.
00:50:49The Great Pyramid of Giza itself was built as a final resting place for Pharaoh Khufu around 4,500 years ago.
00:50:57It remains unexplained how the Egyptians managed to build the pyramids without any of the technology available to us nowadays.
00:51:06Interestingly, the pyramids align with Orion's belt and all face toward the north.
00:51:11Yellowstone National Park is known for its beauty, but also for some bizarre accidents.
00:51:18For example, in the summer of 1929, hundreds of people visiting the site fell sick.
00:51:25It all began with six employees, but quickly spread to the staff and guests of different hotels.
00:51:31Until today, it's unknown what happened.
00:51:33People didn't eat the same food, nor did they drink from the same water source or stay at the same hotel.
00:51:40So, make sure to keep an eye out for anything strange if you're ever in the area.
00:51:45The River Nid in North Yorkshire is said to turn things into stone.
00:51:50People from all over the world come to see this phenomenon with their own eyes.
00:51:55Tourists and locals travel there to leave different items in the well.
00:51:59A bicycle abandoned in the well turned into stone several days later.
00:52:04An old teddy bear became a piece of rock.
00:52:07Many believe that whoever stepped into this water would have a similar fate.
00:52:12But, according to scientists, this is just a natural phenomenon.
00:52:16Local water is rich in minerals that form a coating around objects.
00:52:20It's this hard shell that makes them look as if they're made of stone.
00:52:24Now, how can rocks slide across the ground on their own?
00:52:29At Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed at Death Valley National Park in California, they do.
00:52:36These moving rocks, called sailing stones, have been observed since the early 1900s.
00:52:42Locals believe that strong winds push them around.
00:52:45Other theories involve magnetic fields.
00:52:47In 2014, researchers discovered that the rocks were actually pushed by melting panels of floating ice driven by winds.
00:52:56Way to go, science!
00:52:58The Bermuda Triangle is a world-known notorious place.
00:53:03That's where over 50 ships and 20 airplanes have allegedly disappeared.
00:53:08Rescue missions never came back.
00:53:10It's located off the coast of Florida, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
00:53:14Unexplained disappearances there date back to the mid-19th century.
00:53:19There are different theories about why ships and planes vanish into thin air in this region.
00:53:24Some of them claim that the area is just extremely foggy, which makes it difficult for navigation.
00:53:30Another theory states that methane rising to the surface of the ocean can be the answer to this mystery.
00:53:36But no theory has been proven yet.
00:53:38In the mountainous country of Pakistan, you'll find the lost city of Mohenjo-daro.
00:53:45This ancient archaeological site dates back to 2500 BCE.
00:53:51Scientists believe the city was built by the Indus Valley civilization.
00:53:55Here, we see a well-planned street grid.
00:53:58And look at this elaborate drainage system.
00:54:00Nobody knows what happened to the people living in this town.
00:54:04The only thing scientists are almost sure about, it looks like something ended their lives all at once.
00:54:11Has the mystery of Easter Island finally been solved?
00:54:15You've probably heard of the fascinating monolithic statues standing on this Polynesian island.
00:54:20The statues, called Moai, weigh up to 90 tons.
00:54:24They were built by the Rapa Nui people.
00:54:27How they managed to transport the statues remains unexplained.
00:54:30Researchers from the University of California believe the statues were built to make the soil on the island more fertile.
00:54:38And the coolest thing?
00:54:39The analysis has shown that the areas where the Moai sculptures stand are indeed more fertile.
00:54:46The crooked forest in Poland is weird, to say the least.
00:54:50A grove of oddly shaped pine trees looks like something straight out of a sci-fi movie.
00:54:55The grove is home to around 400 pines that were planted in 1930.
00:55:00They all first bend toward the north and then continue growing upright.
00:55:05No one knows for sure why this happened.
00:55:08The surrounding forest is full of perfectly straight pine trees.
00:55:12Is there a monstrous creature living at the bottom of Loch Ness in Scotland?
00:55:18Whether it's a myth or reality, it sure is spooky.
00:55:21The legend of the Loch Ness Monster appeared somewhere around 1933.
00:55:27Since then, people have been claiming to have seen dragons, prehistoric monsters, and sea serpents in the lake.
00:55:33Will we ever know the truth?
00:55:36The Wharton Basin, off the western coast of Australia, is home to odd geological phenomena.
00:55:43Huge earthquakes happen there, one after another.
00:55:46This would be unsurprising if the area was located above a fault line, which is where two tectonic plates meet.
00:55:53But that isn't the case.
00:55:55The area is located on the Australian plate.
00:55:58But researchers believe that a new fault line might be forming there.
00:56:02This is the only reasonable explanation for what's happening in that area.
00:56:06One of the most isolated places on Earth, the North Pole, is as mysterious as it gets.
00:56:14A land of ice and odd disappearances.
00:56:17In the late 1840s, an expedition of more than 130 people, known as the Franklin Expedition, vanished in that region.
00:56:25Some evidence was found 150 years later.
00:56:28A leather shoe and snippets of journal entries.
00:56:31Yes, my own theory?
00:56:33They were all hired by Santa Claus to work in his toy factory.
00:56:36Yeah, no one else bought it either.
00:56:39Machu Picchu is also known as the Lost City of the Incas.
00:56:44It's a testament to the power of the Inca civilization.
00:56:47But the purpose of the site is still a mystery to be unraveled.
00:56:51The citadel was constructed at 7,000 feet above sea level, around 1450 CE.
00:56:57The question remains, why did the Incas build a city like this in a place so inaccessible?
00:57:04Archaeologists have discovered that most of the city is built underground.
00:57:08And about 60% of the place remains unexplored.
00:57:12So, who knows what might be hiding down there?
00:57:15The Mariana Trench is the world's deepest, darkest place.
00:57:19Imagine this.
00:57:20No sunlight, freezing waters.
00:57:22There seems to be little to no chance of life existing so deep under the surface.
00:57:27Yet, sea explorers claim to hear a bizarre sound coming from the depths of the trench.
00:57:33The records of this mysterious noise lead some to believe that a deep-sea monster is calling the trench its home.
00:57:41All right, too spooky.
00:57:43I'm out of here.
00:57:44The notorious Bermuda Triangle in the North Atlantic Ocean makes people, ships, and airplanes vanish into thin air.
00:57:54Some experts blame bad weather conditions.
00:57:57Others are sure the reason is heavy traffic in the area and human error.
00:58:02Many people believe in conspiracy theories, aliens, the lost city of Atlantis, or even a massive meteorite lying on the ocean floor.
00:58:12There are also those who deny there's anything unusual about the Triangle.
00:58:16And still, the mystery remains.
00:58:19But few people know that the South Atlantic Ocean has an enigma of its own.
00:58:26Well, not the ocean itself, but a patch of space above this area.
00:58:31It's dubbed the Bermuda Triangle of Space, or the South Atlantic Anomaly.
00:58:38There, Earth's protection against solar radiation is much weaker than anywhere else.
00:58:43When spacecraft get into this region, all kinds of serious problems occur to them.
00:58:49For example, their equipment can fail or break down out of the blue.
00:58:54When NASA was launching its $2.5 billion Perseverance rover in July 2020,
00:59:00the space agency planners had to do their best to avoid the Space Bermuda Triangle.
00:59:05Otherwise, it could have easily wreaked havoc on the spacecraft headed for Mars.
00:59:11This bizarre region stretches from Zimbabwe to Chile.
00:59:15The anomaly itself seems to be connected with one of the two Van Allen radiation belts.
00:59:23These belts are zones of intense radiation that comes from the solar wind.
00:59:28Charged particles get caught by our planet's magnetic field.
00:59:32They form two rings that surround Earth,
00:59:35stretching from 400 to 36,000 miles above the surface.
00:59:39The inner Van Allen belt is made up of mostly protons,
00:59:43while the outer is mainly electrons.
00:59:46By trapping the particles, the two belts protect you and our planet from getting harmed by solar radiation.
00:59:54The South Atlantic Anomaly lies in the region where the inner Van Allen belt
00:59:58comes very close to the planet's surface.
01:00:01In this place, Earth's magnetic field is especially weak.
01:00:06Nothing prevents cosmic rays from reaching as far as a mere 120 miles above the surface.
01:00:12The more solar radiation,
01:00:14the more high-energy particles gather over the South Atlantic Ocean.
01:00:18The problem is that this radiation hotspot sits so low
01:00:22that many satellites have to travel through it while following their orbits.
01:00:26There, they get bombarded by protons at a speed of 18,000 hits per square inch per second.
01:00:34No wonder it affects all the electronic systems on board the spacecraft.
01:00:38For example, the Hubble telescope passes through the Space Bermuda Triangle more than 10 times a day,
01:00:44and it can't collect information when it's in that region.
01:00:48If the equipment isn't put into safe mode,
01:00:51all spacecraft systems can fail.
01:00:53Plus, the more complicated electronics become,
01:00:57the more problems occur in the area of the South Atlantic Anomaly,
01:01:01and the more costly the damage is.
01:01:05The SpaceX CRS-1 Dragon spacecraft almost went out of control in October 2012.
01:01:13Attached to the International Space Station,
01:01:15it had serious problems while passing through the magnetic anomaly.
01:01:19Luckily, those issues were short-lived.
01:01:23In March 2016,
01:01:25the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency lost contact with its satellite, Hitomi.
01:01:31It was launched about a month before to study processes happening in the universe.
01:01:36Later, it was found out that the spacecraft had broken into pieces and crashed down to Earth.
01:01:42One of the motion sensors reported that the satellite was rotating.
01:01:48But in reality, it was stable.
01:01:51When the control system tried to prevent the unwanted and non-existent spin,
01:01:56the spacecraft fell to pieces.
01:01:59This accident cost almost $280 million and three years of preparation.
01:02:04But returning to the Earth's magnetic field,
01:02:08why is it weaker above the South Atlantic Ocean?
01:02:11Rather than being a perfect sphere, our planet bulges in the middle.
01:02:16If you measured Earth's diameter at the equator,
01:02:18it would be 27 miles wider than the pole-to-pole one.
01:02:22In the areas where there's a dip,
01:02:24charged particles from space can get closer to our planet's surface.
01:02:28The magnetic field is created when liquid metals flow in our planet's outer core.
01:02:34This generates electric currents and also gives Earth its south and north poles.
01:02:39But these poles aren't constant,
01:02:41because our planet's magnetic field is constantly shifting.
01:02:45Sometimes it's getting weaker,
01:02:47and at other times, it's growing stronger.
01:02:52Right now, the Earth's magnetic field is weakening.
01:02:55This process started more than 1,000 years ago.
01:02:59Scientists don't deny that one day,
01:03:02Earth's magnetic poles might flip.
01:03:05Then, the north pole will become the south, and vice versa.
01:03:09Such a phenomenon has been happening all the way throughout the history of our planet.
01:03:14The last time, it occurred around 780,000 years ago.
01:03:18Experts are still unsure if such a flip is going to happen this time.
01:03:22After all, it's not an instant change.
01:03:26This long process can even reverse all of a sudden.
01:03:29Something like that happened 40,000 years ago.
01:03:33At that time, Earth was really close to renaming its north magnetic pole to the south.
01:03:38But that brisk event turned out to be not a full reversal.
01:03:42While scientists were trying to figure out how long the south Atlantic anomaly had been around,
01:03:49they made a curious geological discovery.
01:03:53It showed what our planet's magnetic field looked like several thousand years ago.
01:03:58The Bantu people were a tribe of ancient Africans
01:04:02who lived about 1,000 years ago in the region of the Limpopo River Valley.
01:04:06Nowadays, this area is inside the South Atlantic anomaly.
01:04:11Bantu people had an odd ritual.
01:04:14During droughts, they burned their own clay huts.
01:04:18They hoped such a sacrifice would make it rain.
01:04:21But when clay burned at high temperatures,
01:04:23the magnetic minerals in it aligned with Earth's magnetic field.
01:04:27That's why when the substance cooled down,
01:04:30the minerals showed the planet's magnetic field pattern.
01:04:33It helped the scientists learn that the process of the weakening of the magnetosphere started long ago.
01:04:42The clay patterns even specified certain periods of time
01:04:46when the process was especially active.
01:04:49400 to 450 CE,
01:04:51700 to 750 CE,
01:04:53and 1225 to 1550 CE.
01:04:57Even better,
01:04:58the researchers likely found the answer to the mystery of the Space Bermuda Triangle.
01:05:03They noticed there was something unusual about the boundary
01:05:06lying between our planet's silicate mantle
01:05:09and its liquid iron-nickel outer core.
01:05:12This region is almost 1,800 miles beneath Earth's surface.
01:05:17And that's where a huge reservoir of super-dense rock sits.
01:05:22Some experts state that the thing might be tens of millions of years old
01:05:26and thousands of miles wide.
01:05:28It's not 100% clear how a rock,
01:05:32even if it's that big,
01:05:34can interfere with the magnetic field of the entire planet.
01:05:38It might be because it's located right between Earth's boiling outer core and the mantle,
01:05:44which is much stiffer and cooler.
01:05:46The enormous boulder might be disturbing the layer of iron.
01:05:50And it's the very thing that helps to form our planet's magnetic field.
01:05:56Whatever the reason is,
01:05:57exactly under Africa,
01:05:59the magnetic field is reversed.
01:06:01And that's what's likely to cause the anomaly that affects spacecraft.
01:06:06At first,
01:06:08the scientists thought their discovery
01:06:09meant the magnetic field was about to flip again.
01:06:12If it was true,
01:06:14our planet would go through several catastrophic events.
01:06:17The continents would start to lurch in different directions.
01:06:21It would trigger catastrophic earthquakes,
01:06:23lead to the disappearance of many species,
01:06:26and provoke climate changes.
01:06:30Luckily,
01:06:31there's no evidence that the consequences of the pole reversal would be that bad.
01:06:36Even better,
01:06:37it might not happen at all.
01:06:39After more research,
01:06:41it became clear that the Bermuda Triangle of space
01:06:44isn't a sign of an upcoming pole reversal.
01:06:47The events taking place under the continent
01:06:50are more likely to be part of a bigger scale pattern.
01:06:54But the South Atlantic anomaly is scary enough on its own.
01:06:59If this area keeps growing,
01:07:01it'll cause problems not only in space,
01:07:03but also on Earth.
01:07:05Computers and other electronic equipment
01:07:07will fail or stop working altogether.
01:07:10Right now,
01:07:11the radiation is less intense
01:07:14in the lower layers of the anomaly
01:07:15than in its upper part.
01:07:17But over the past 150 years,
01:07:20the magnetic field in the region
01:07:22has lost more than 15% of its strength.
01:07:25It doesn't mean Earth will be left unprotected
01:07:28from the Sun's radiation in the nearest future.
01:07:31Experts are sure this won't happen
01:07:33for at least another billion years.
01:07:35Plus,
01:07:36some kind of magnetic field
01:07:37always existed
01:07:39during the times of the magnetic poles reversal,
01:07:42even though it was weaker
01:07:43and more complicated than the modern one.
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