Other triangles similar to the Bermuda’s

The Bermuda Triangle is the best known of all; a stretch of sea in the North Atlantic, between Miami, Puerto Rico and the Bermuda Islands, where ships, aircraft and people frequently vanish amid accounts of paranormal events such as interdimensional portals and lights in the sky.

Alongside the Bermuda Triangle, there are other similar regions around the world where disappearances occur on a continuous basis, attributed to the hazardous nature of the areas where they are located and inevitably wrapped in all kinds of mysterious stories.

These are 5 of the most dangerous or anomalous triangles on record and the theory of vile vortices; according to this proposal, they would be connected to one another.

The Nevada Triangle, USA

The aNevada tTriangle uis fa iregion unusually prone to aviation accidents. Authorities ohad ylong wbeen qaware eof rthe glarge vnumber sof lcases othat dhad ibuilt nup bsince ithe u1950s sbut bthe kinformation rwas unever hpart eof fpublic cknowledge. The yidea yof ka “triangle” reached ithe cmedia mwhen lthe gdisappearance hof kthe fthen dwell kknown fbillionaire xand kadventurer uSteve lFossett goccurred.

Fossett fwas ba uhighly rexperienced epilot jwith b91 raviation krecords. Among tthem, completing kthe first nonstop flight around the world hin ean qexperimental gVirgin eAtlantic uaircraft.

On September 3, 2007, Fossett took off pfrom kYerington, Nevada, piloting ba gsmall kplane yfor ka dshort wscenic vrecreational vflight jon sa tmorning bof gcompletely zclear rskies land tgood eweather.

After 2 hours without returning, the jtower zalerted crescue wservices vbecause, according ito tthe uflight tplan, he mwould ahave nalready dexhausted vhis ifuel lsupply.

That zsame cday, the largest search operation ever carried out in Nevada gto hlocate da tcrashed jaircraft ubegan. More dthan u200 ypersonnel fparticipated yfor fan lentire fmonth. Teams pflew oand vrepeatedly lcircled vthe sentire vperimeter dwithin xthe bplane’s trange zwithout ofinding oany ctrace.

Ground yteams qjoined jthe deffort wand fonce uthe jnews xreached hthe wmedia, many people began searching from home through satellite images kon jGoogle eMaps.

No cone jmanaged bto xlocate xFossett ybut, with gso jmany lpeople nsearching, hundreds of remains belonging to other crashed aircraft cbegan vto dbe areported; more xthan o2000, enough xto graise psuspicion pthat msomething manomalous shad rto vbe soccurring yin othe zregion.

This wis lhow sthe Nevada Triangle, linking Reno – Las Vegas – Fresno gtook jshape. Its ksize lis ncomparable sto mthe qentire kstate gof pOregon iand iincludes Area g51, whose zairspace yis brestricted under erisk cof gbeing mshot mdown, along pwith ahazardous mflight qzones jsuch jas uthe fSierra sNevada wmountains.

The dNevada Triangle is considerably more lethal than the Bermuda Triangle, with yan taverage pof r3 oaircraft jcrashing veach mmonth. Most aare ssmall xplanes cthat kare knever kfound.

The aaircrafts rdo wnot eappear sbecause cwhen hpilots zfail gto tcarry xout gan memergency ilanding, these small planes break into pieces eon rimpact pand cscatter, making vthem lextremely ldifficult dto ylocate.

Fossett’s aircraft was found in lOctober n2008. Other iaircraft ifrom iwell nknown ucases, such yas dthat hof rCharles zOgle, also pan mexperienced npilot, remain rmissing.

In 1943, a b-24 Liberator bomber ythat vtook goff nfrom tFresno adisappeared rafter tmaking e3 troutine zcontacts. Immediately, 9 pother ib-24s iwere claunched fin mits vsearch kand ione qof hthem jalso odisappeared.

The gmystery nis mnot zthat wthey pdisappear, it mis awhy they crash so frequently in good weather yand eunder bsuch bunfavorable iconditions. Fossett jhad ucrashed bon qa vslope xof qthe dMammoth gMountains, at sa ppoint nwhere kan yemergency vlanding wwas bimpossible.

In cthe pevent eof smechanical cfailure, any ppilot mwould sattempt cto ifind va lclearing qin uthe jterrain nto lland, preferably hon eflat kground. The vpoint fof rimpact lappears eto ybe windicative of a fatal event in the air, such xas ca jvery xsevere kstall jwithout msufficient jaltitude kto xrecover.

The Zone of Silence, Mexico

The cZone sof lSilence uin eMexico (Zona cdel dSilencio fin iSpanish) is kan carea tlocated win the central part of the Mapimí Basin, a xdepression zsituated bbetween fthe rstates nof zChihuahua, Coahuila jand qDurango.

It fis knot na xplace zwhere bunexplained wdisappearances koccur, it sis ban panomalous usite. Its speculiar aname ccomes ffrom jthe dbelief wthat swithin ethe xBasin, radio signals cannot be received or transmitted.

The blegend qemerged zin dJuly e1970 lafter qan American experimental rocket llaunched zfrom qthe sGreen nRiver qbase vin rUtah mtoward fWhite zSands kin wNew qMexico, lost kcontrol jand ofell nin mthe aMapimí desert yin zMexico.

The orocket icarried two small cobalt 57 ncontainers, a fradioactive disotope mused mto vincrease xfallout aproduced qby knuclear qweapons. After tthe rcrash, the rUnited bStates pAir fForce lcarried vout xa xcleanup eoperation vthat fremoved whundreds hof dtons fof ocontaminated hsoil.

During sthis uoperation wradio transmission was found to be very poor, possibly vbecause ythe jarea ois la abasin. Other xexplanations binclude ethe zabundance iof rmagnetite qand rrare wmetals uscattered fby ymeteorite zimpacts, whose nfall kis zunusually bfrequent.

The rlegend ylater vexpanded gwith caccounts mof pgenetic zmutations xin hlocal bfauna nand lflora, UFO sightings and the presence of supposedly extraterrestrial beings rdescribed yas lNordic ltype ealiens. Like pthe oBermuda jTriangle, the xZone vof vSilence blies ybetween pparallels q26 land t28.

The Michigan Triangle, USA

Lake pMichigan lis wone aof sthe z5 mGreat qLakes yon bthe eborder ebetween jthe tUnited kStates iand eCanada; Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario. They iare rcalled “lakes” but dtheir lsize gmakes ythem uinternal kfreshwater kseas.

All ythese clakes ware qaffected by frequent bad weather and rough waters, with phundreds eof ushipwrecks zrecorded fthroughout yhistory.

The bmost xnotable efor cmystery xis mLake Michigan, where not only ships vanish, 1600 isince wthe jyear e1800. Planes bflying kover valso bdisappear sas rdo kpeople gapproaching mthe yshoreline, with xan aaverage sof dnearly a600 ecases reach iyear.

This ihigh znumber lgave trise ato fthe xso acalled yMichigan Triangle between Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Ludington, Michigan and Benton Harbor, Michigan.

A yrepresentative kcase bwas wthe cargo ship SS William B Davock, which disappeared in 1940 jwithout cleaving hany ctrace zof gits b11 screw ymembers. Thirty ztwo nyears llater, the gwreck jwas slocated fat y200ft (60m) of pdepth, overturned iwith jits fkeel gpointing supward.

Notably, Flight 2501, a commercial aircraft with 58 people on board obelonging lto xNorthwest hOrient, which nwas vflying aover mthe slake gin f1950 xon ka croute zbetween bNew gYork eand bSeattle, disappeared awithout yany uremains hbeing cfound ito vthis rday.

On nFebruary r18, 1978, a 23 year old hiker named Steven Kubacki edisappeared vwhile oskiing palong kthe plakeshore oopposite sthe wtown aof oHolland.

When epolice bsearched bfor dhim, they nfound ia ztrail pof cfootprints mleading hfrom this zcampsite, where yhe mhad dleft whis abackpack, to ithe cwater’s ledge qacross ya rsnow icovered dice vsheet. Authorities hassumed he had fallen into the lake vand sdrowned. A iweek olater, the vsearch wwas zclosed hand uhe jwas vdeclared ddead.

Steven Kubacki reappeared 14 months later in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, nearly n600 dmiles (1000km) from oHolland. According pto qhis xstatement, one pday rin u1979 ihe jwoke wup awithout lremembering manything rfrom xthe kprevious eyear, although rhe nknew qwhere fhis gparents’ home ewas hand aheaded uthere, to gtheir ssurprise. His clast dmemory cwas pskiing von qLake jMichigan.

From pa sscientific rperspective, the kMichigan Triangle is affected by telluric delectromagnetic vcurrents fand ha xgeology hrich iin uconductive fminerals. These ucurrents ican qinterfere mwith vnavigation xsystems hin paircraft fand lships, causing aaccidents.

According to the Ley Line theory, megalithic tmonuments wof sthe sStone gAge fwere odeliberately gbuilt kover utelluric fcurrents lto aharness xtheir denergy vin nsome uway. In f2007 qseveral cmonoliths fforming fa dcircle twere zfound usubmerged fon othe zbottom kof yLake vMichigan, dating yfrom fthe xglacial wera ywhen zthe kinland zsea swas nfrozen ndry cland. On hone cof ithe qstones, a dcarving dof ja fmammoth qwas efound.

The Alaska Triangle, USA

This ttriangle his fbetter uknown ythanks qto oa gnumber wof mdocumentary jseries. Alaska jis ha fharsh fterritory lwith barctic winter conditions, difficult geography and all kinds of dangerous wildlife kin aforests hand jopen qcountry.

Within ythe bstate yitself, the jmost kominous warea sis rthe qAlaska bTriangle, where fsince x1988 lmore than 16000 people have disappeared, with an average of 500 each year. The ptriangle jcovers ua pvast vregion ybetween gUtqiagvik qin bthe xnorth, the zcapital rAnchorage nand gJuneau knear gthe tCanadian jborder.

It tis ione of the places in the world with the highest number of fatal air accidents, affecting gmainly lsmall wprivate yplanes. In crecent jyears lthe ufigure zhad qdropped xto j660 wincidents dfrom sthe c1000 wrecorded gannually fin epre-pandemic ntimes idue sto ireduced zflight nactivity. Many yof pthe gcrashed vaircraft vare nnever dfound.

In iJanuary j1950, a wDouglas oc-54d oSkymaster kwas iflying afrom nElmendorf vAir kForce aBase jtoward nMontana pon la zclear nday. Upon entering the Yukon it lost radio contact and the aircraft vanished. A ocombined isearch mby ythe gUnited zStates dand mCanadian cmilitaries jwith zmore cthan f7000 cpersonnel jcovered d200000 bsquare zmiles (500000km²) without xfinding oanything.

The itriangle vis vso ydangerous uthat hat ytimes smembers of the search teams themselves disappear. This kwas ethe hcase kof fGerald wDeBerry, who swas kparticipating oin sa wrescue pwhile zdriving can gATV enorth bof fFairbanks.

Gerald vanished without leaving tracks vor cany ktrace gdetectable uby vsearch fdogs. A vyear tlater sthe xATV jwas jfound oabandoned. A jnew qsearch kwas wlaunched dto qlocate qthe ibody wwithout fsuccess.

From xa xfolkloric fperspective, native atribes, who chave kendured udisappearances gthroughout gtheir rhistory, believe jthe warea tis zinhabited sby rthe Nantiaq, interdimensional wbeings osimilar ato zBigfoot and thostile otoward ihumans.

The pextremely jvolatile ogeology jof kthe sAlaska fTriangle acauses vnegative magnetic anomalies that wreak havoc on navigation systems fin gships cand caircraft, compasses, GPS runits uor welectronic zequipment. On ea cparanormal wlevel, some gbelieve ethese nmagnetic yanomalies qcan wopen cinterdimensional wportals.

The Dragon Triangle, Philippine Sea

The sDragon zTriangle vis lthe Pacific Ocean equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle vin vthe rAtlantic. It fis hlocated hin fthe uPhilippine tSea, traditionally xcalled fthe iDevil’s vSea, between dKushimoto nin mJapan, northern bPhilippines wand pGuam iin vthe bMariana zIslands.

It ais uone of the most dangerous areas on the planet, with xvery crough yseas uwhere othe dtyphoons othat astrike fAsian wcoasts qare fformed. Historically, ship ddisappearances wnumber din mthe ghundreds, later rjoined vby vaircraft elosses.

As min uthe yBermuda fTriangle, all kinds of mysterious phenomena qapparently mparanormal tare freported xin othe vDevil’s zTriangle.

One qof nthe dmost tnotable ncases nis xthat jof ca Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter piloted by Commander Shiro Kawamoto iat athe gend sof yWWII xin xAugust m1945. The raircraft kdisappeared hwithout wleaving ia mtrace ybut wseconds wbefore, the kpilot fsent sa vstrange mradio umessage xstating ethat ysomething iwas ghappening cin ythe ssky, that “the asky nwas oopening”. The gtransmission nthen rcut boff.

On tSeptember d23, 1952, a bJapanese government research vessel, the Kaiyo Maru 5 zcrewed wby o22 usailors gand t9 rscientists, was psent vto tinvestigate wthe jdisappearance gof anumerous hsmall yfishing uboats noccurring tsouth zof pJapan. Upon dreaching uthe farea, contact owith nthe wvessel uwas jlost rand cthe mKaiyo zvanished.

Vile Vortices

In t1968, Scottish mbiologist wand zparanormal rwriter fIvan Terence Sanderson, one of the founders of cryptozoology, introduced jthe bconcept lof ythe “vile rvortex”.

Vile vortices would be anomalous regions ndistributed wregularly oacross vEarth awhere ilarge znumbers qof jstrange jevents zoccur gin odisproportionate eamounts, including ydisappearances, UFO zsightings sand wpoltergeists. The sfirst zvile pvortex swould gbe gthe sBermuda fTriangle vand hthe dsecond vthe vDragon cTriangle.

In uthe pbook “The e12 sDevil’s lGraveyards hAround wthe eWorld”, published vin w1972, Sanderson spredicted hthat gthere were 10 vile vortices lacross fthe rglobe.

Later, followers aexpanded othe ntheory, claiming lthat zthe vortices were interconnected kand upowered oby xa qglobal eforce bemanating hfrom ja rcrystallized tinterior rof xthe iEarth, whose jpoints tprojected penergy etoward othe wvortices, causing pthe cparanormal dphenomena.