This mysterious place is called the Bermuda Triangle. It is easy to find the Bermuda Triangle on a map. It runs from the Bermuda Islands, south to Puerto Rico, and West to Miami, Florida. The area covers about forty-four thousand square miles.

Since 1945, over one hundred ships and planes, and more than a thousand people have been lost in this strange area. There are rarely any signs of wreckage or bodies found after disappearance. It's as if the ocean has swallowed everything.

Not every ship or plane that passes through the Triangle disappears. In fact, it is a well traveled area. Planes and ships move through the waters everyday without seeing anything unusual. And yet strange events keep happening.

The Carol A. Deering was a large schooner. One stormy morning in January of 1929, it sailed into the Diamond Shoals at the Cape Hatteras coast Guard station in North Carolina. The ship had it's sails up. The rescue team tha

In October, 1971, a plane disappeared right before the eyes of a group of scientists. A four-engine plane seemed to come to a complete stop in mid air, then plunged straight down into the ocean. The ship reached the site of the crash in a few minutes. There was nothing left. The scientists aboard, who had seen the plane drop were amazed. A sharp dive like that should have smashed the plane to pieces. But there was no wreckage at all. The scientists ship had modern sonar equipment on aboard. But the graphs showed no sign of the plane. They knew there was no trace of the plane either on the surface or under the water.

Because of the weather, it took four days for the rescue team to get to the boat. When they did, they couldn't believe their eyes. Not one person was on board. On the stove was a meal of soup, meat, and vegetables. It seemed that the ship had been abandoned shortly before a dinner meal. But there didn't seem to be a reason for the crew to have left the ship. There was nothing wrong with the vessel. It seemed the crew had left in a very orderly fashion. The ships papers, records, and chronometer were missing. Also gone were some of the crews extra clothing. The captains personal belongings were also gone, along with a large trunk. It wouldn't have been possible to put such a heavy object into a life boat.

In 1967, the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth I, was moving through the Triangle. Two sailors on deck saw a small plane flying about 300 yards away. Suddenly the plane started flying straight toward the ship, they were certain that it would crash into the Queen. But one hundred yards away, the plane disappeared. There was no sound, no splash, no air bubbles. The plane simply vanished. The sailors reported the incident to the captain, but no one believed them.

The Bermuda Triangle is not the only place in the world where a strange magnetic force seems to be at work. There are nine other areas, all in the s

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