by Wayne Leon Learmond

Created on: December 02, 2008   Last Updated: January 16, 2009

THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE

{The Devil's Triangle}

The history of the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil's Triangle, is a long and mysterious one. Situated in the region of the NorthWestern Atlantic Ocean {which stretches from Bermuda through to Puerto Rico and Miami} the Triangle has been blamed for many mysterious disappearances of ships, boats, and planes. Indeed, on many occasions, nature seems to have played a part too, acting in such a way that it goes beyond the realms of human understanding, the realms of possibility.

It was Christopher Columbus who documented first the unnatural goings on within the Triangle itself. Indeed, in the year 1492, October 11, he wrote that 'he and his crew observed strange dancing lights on the horizon.' Apparently they viewed these 'lights' for quite some time. On other occasions he wrote about 'flames in the sky and strange compass bearings within the triangle.' The following quote from him is taken from his log book dated the same year, 1492 11th October:

'The
land was first seen by a sailor, Rodrigo de Triana, although the Admiral, at ten o'clock that evening standing on the quarter deck saw a light but so small a body. that he could not affirm it to be land. Calling to Pero Gutierrez, groom of the King's wardrobe, he told him he saw a light, and bid him look that way, which he did and saw it. He did the same to Rodrigo Sanchez of Segovia, whom the King and Queen had sent with the squadron as a comptroller, but he was unable to see it from his situation. The Admiral again perceived it once or twice, appearing like the light of a wax candle moving up and down, which some thought an indication of land. But the Admiral held it for certain that land was near...'

It had taken modern scholars to since, surmise that the lights he saw were simply cooking fires. These were the cooking fires of the Taino natives upon their canoes, or situated on the beach. Why the compass readings where wrong was simply that the false reading was based on the movement of a star.

The first articles of any description about the Triangle began to appear in newspapers during the early 1950s through the Associated Press. Since then there have been literally hundreds of reports of disappearances within this strange area. It is interesting to note that the U.S. Board of Geographic Names does not recognize the Bermuda Triangle as an official name. Also the U.S Board does not keep and maintain any official documentation about this area. Furthermore, there is an area named

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