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00:00The Bermuda Triangle, an ocean full of secrets.
00:06Something which even in this world of science we cannot fully explain.
00:12Ships disappear without trace.
00:15There's a shipwreck there, there's a shipwreck there, there's another one right there.
00:19That's just kind of strange.
00:21Airplanes mysteriously go missing.
00:24Maybe, maybe, we should have seen the moon.
00:30Stories of sea monsters and strange sightings.
00:37When I entered the tunnel, these strange lines instantly formed.
00:43The Bermuda Triangle, what's really going on there?
00:54The great myths of mankind.
00:58Mysteries passed on over thousands of years.
01:04Inexplicable events, places shrouded in legend and superhuman heroes.
01:09Even scientists are fascinated.
01:14Is there any truth to these ancient legends?
01:17Researchers across the globe are working hard to solve the greatest mysteries of our time.
01:24The Bermuda Triangle
01:27Bruce Gernon contributed a lot to the myth of the Bermuda Triangle.
01:45To this day, he cannot explain what happened to the US pilot almost 50 years ago.
01:51On December 4th of 1970, my father and I were in Andros Island in the Bahamas.
02:03We were planning on leaving early in the morning to return to Palm Beach International Airport.
02:12Bruce, who was 29 at the time, and his father often take this route.
02:16Perfect visibility, no wind.
02:21The two men don't have the slightest idea of what's to come.
02:28When I lifted off, I looked at my wristwatch, and I can remember the second hand actually struck 12, and it was exactly 3 o'clock.
02:40In his Beechcraft Bonanza A36, Bruce takes off from Andros, the largest archipelago in the Bahamas, where he is headed northwest via Bimini to Palm Beach.
02:54The flight is supposed to take 80 minutes, ETA, 4.20 PM.
03:01I reached the shoreline of Andros after flying for 10 minutes, and I could see that the storms weren't over the ocean of the Great Bahamas Bank, so that looked good.
03:12A sense of deception.
03:16Then we noticed this strange cloud right in front of our flight path.
03:23What is that in front of us?
03:26It was about a mile long, a half mile wide, and about a thousand feet thick.
03:33Clouds like this are extremely unusual at such low altitudes.
03:40Bruce pulls back the control wheel to veer.
03:43So we went ahead and climbed up over it.
03:50150 meters above the clouds, they lull themselves into a sense of security.
03:54I didn't realize that this small lenticular shaped cloud had expanded tremendously.
04:05And it was right below our airplane.
04:10I kept climbing, I'm on a direct flight to Bimini, now I'm like, say 5,000.
04:15And I'm inside the cloud, and then I break free.
04:19And I get maybe 200 feet above it, and then the airplane wasn't climbing fast enough.
04:25And here it comes again, and I go back inside it.
04:30Bruce climbs higher and higher to escape the surprising weather conditions.
04:35When we got to 10,000 feet, that's about five times that I had gone in and out of this thing.
04:41And my dad said to me, we better turn around and go back to Andros.
04:48With more than 600 flight hours under his belt, Bruce had never experienced anything like this.
04:54A force of nature.
04:56Visibility inside that storm was only maybe 50 feet.
05:00We thought maybe we could keep going until these flashes started appearing.
05:03The deeper we went, the more intense flashes became, and it almost got to the point where it was like pure black.
05:18My dad was the expert navigator, so I asked him for a position fix.
05:23Something's wrong.
05:24And he just goes, something's wrong.
05:26I don't know where we are.
05:27He couldn't tell where we were.
05:30And then I noticed that the magnetic compass was slowly spinning all by itself.
05:38What happened to Bruce Gern on that day?
05:41What forces are at play in the Bermuda Triangle?
05:43The Bermuda Triangle myth is so special because it's a modern myth.
05:49It's something which, even in this world of science, we cannot fully explain, and therefore we are curious about it.
05:56It's not the first report of this kind.
05:58Charles Lindbergh, the legendary transatlantic aviator, experienced something similar.
06:07On February the 13th, 1928, he takes off on a nonstop flight from Havana, Cuba, to his home, St. Louis, Missouri.
06:16In his logbook, Lindbergh notes,
06:21Both compasses malfunctioned over Florida Strait.
06:24The liquid compass card rotated without stopping.
06:29Could recognise no stars through heavy haze.
06:33Liquid compass card kept rotating until the spirit of St. Louis reached the Florida coast.
06:40So we know that the compass spun around uncontrollably.
06:45He wasn't able to navigate by the stars.
06:48When he finally found out where he was, he was 300 miles off course near Bahama Island.
06:55It's the same mysterious phenomenon that pilot Bruce Gernon would come to describe 40 years later.
07:06The waters between Florida, Puerto Rico and the Bermuda Islands have been shrouded in legend for centuries.
07:12In 1492, Christopher Columbus was the first European to cross this sea area with a surface of 1.3 million square kilometres.
07:24He reports of strange natural occurrences and unusual light phenomena.
07:28Christopher Columbus certainly saw a strange light, and nowadays, with our understanding of science, we can say perhaps it was a meteorite, perhaps it was bioluminescence from fish.
07:43Christopher Columbus didn't have that knowledge, so to him, it certainly was a mystery.
07:50In the centuries that follow, hundreds of Spanish and Portuguese ships, many laden with gold, go missing.
07:57In the 19th century, the number of reports about ships mysteriously disappearing skyrockets.
08:07Later, these reports also include airplanes.
08:10Sailors call the region the Devil's Triangle, or the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
08:15It was not until the second half of the 20th century that the waters north of the Caribbean between Miami, Puerto Rico, and the Bermuda Archipelago were famously dubbed the Bermuda Triangle.
08:33Over the last hundred years, more than 50 ships and 20 airplanes are said to have vanished here without a trace.
08:40The exact numbers are a matter of debate.
08:45The Bermuda Triangle is a mystery because of the scale of the stories associated with it.
08:52A thousand lives have all vanished in mysterious circumstances, and many questions do remain unanswered.
09:00The Bermuda Islands. This is where the myth begins.
09:04Philip Erugia knows the underwater world like no other. The archaeologist is in charge of the observation and conservation of historic shipwreck sites surrounding the islands.
09:17The thing about shipwrecks is that we forget, we sort of think of them romantically today, but actually a shipwreck is a tragedy, and some of which we know a lot about, and some of which we know very little about. And, of course, there's still many more to discover.
09:29Discovering shipwrecks, mapping the sites, and analyzing the remains. For over 16 years, Philip Erugia has been studying sunken ships.
09:42Every shipwreck is a mystery. And for all the ones that we know about in Bermuda, there's another hundred around the Bermuda platform that still haven't been found.
09:52Along busy sea routes, it's not uncommon to have areas with many shipwrecks. Oftentimes, dozens of wrecks are found next to each other.
10:03But there's no place in the world with as many shipwrecks per square kilometer as the Bermuda region.
10:10Experts know of more than 100 sunken ships that have been plotted, but believe there could be more than 300.
10:17You know, you can see we're in the middle of nowhere. And yet here we are, literally looking over, there's a shipwreck there, there's a shipwreck there, there's another one right there.
10:27And that's just kind of strange.
10:32Today, Philip Erugia and his team are exploring two well-known wrecks.
10:37You never really get a full picture of what's down there.
10:40And, you know, if you ever dive on a day like this and, you know, where the waters is clear and calm, that's particularly special.
10:49About eight kilometers off the coast, Philip Erugia prepares for his dive.
11:00His research helps scientists gain an insight into the circumstances that caused the naval accidents.
11:05Ten meters down, the Montana, a wreck dating back to the Civil War era.
11:14The ship carried weapons for the Confederates.
11:20There's a concentration of ships here.
11:24And speak to something about Bermuda that's quite curious.
11:29Directly nearby are the remains of the Constellation, a 1940s cargo ship transporting cement bags.
11:50Today, they serve as an artificial reef and are a breeding place for fish.
11:55You know, if there is a mystery, it's why does everything happen in the same spots?
12:09The large coral reef surrounding the archipelago provides a very natural explanation.
12:18It's easy to make out from the air, but not from the water.
12:22Since the 17th century, a busy trade route has been bringing thousands of ships to Bermuda.
12:29During this time, seafarers saw the island as a landmark or used it as a stopover on their way to the New World.
12:37A dangerous waterway.
12:38What makes Bermuda's reef so dangerous is, in fact, these breakers, as we call them.
12:49And they literally come right up to the surface, but on a day like this, they sit just below.
12:53And by the time you see it, you're looking down, you're hitting the reef.
12:56Hundreds of ships were likely doomed by the razor-sharp reefs.
13:03But this doesn't explain why there also have been ships that sank far off the reef.
13:08One of the fundamental questions about Bermuda Triangle is, you know, what is this mystery all about?
13:16And the mystery here is, well, it's solved. We know what happened.
13:20But there are many others where we don't.
13:22The USS Cyclops is one of the unresolved cases.
13:34March the 3rd, 1918, World War I continues to rage on.
13:39It's the last time the large US Navy supply vessel is seen in the harbour of the Caribbean island of Barbados.
13:46The collier is carrying 10,000 tons of manganese ore to be used in munition manufacturers along the US East Coast.
13:58More than 300 crew and passengers are on board.
14:05In the evening hours, the Cyclops weighs anchor and disappears into the night.
14:10She will never reach her port of destination, Baltimore.
14:19To this day, there is still no trace of what was once the US Navy's largest ship and crew.
14:26No radio messages, no distress signals, no signs of life.
14:31The USS Cyclops became very important because she was such a big ship and she was also a new ship.
14:38And because she was so big, the real mystery was where did she go?
14:45Over 100 years later, author Marvin Barish is still intrigued by the disaster, not least for personal reasons.
14:55I remember when I was a young boy, my father used to tell me about his uncle who was lost on a Navy ship in the First World War.
15:04So I began to get into family history research.
15:09I started peeling back all the layers of the onion and started finding out a lot more than I ever thought I would tell.
15:17What happened to the USS Cyclops?
15:21Construction plans, freight reports, pictures.
15:24Marvin Barish collects any piece of information he can find.
15:33Following the war, the US Navy published a document that listed all the ships that were lost.
15:41The Cyclops was the only ship that right across the page was listed as mysteriously disappeared.
15:48In their official report, the US Navy concludes,
15:54there has been no more baffling mystery in the annals of the Navy than the disappearance of the USS Cyclops.
16:01It seems unlikely that the ship was sunk by German submarines.
16:05The disappearance of the USS Cyclops makes headlines.
16:11How can a ship this massive simply vanish into thin air?
16:16Part of the fame to do with the event was also associated with the war, so she was lost during the war.
16:22And there was a great deal of fear over what the Germans might be doing with their U-boats.
16:26And although the Cyclops was not in waters that should have been fought over,
16:31perhaps the Germans were operating U-boats there.
16:34So there's a lot of fear associated with the war which made this myth so powerful.
16:39Suddenly, everyone starts talking about the insidious waters.
16:44Rumors link German saboteurs, supernatural forces, and even giant sea monsters to its disappearance.
16:51Marvin Barash is convinced there's a much simpler explanation for the fate of the USS Cyclops.
17:01Well, the main business of the USS Cyclops was this, coal.
17:06Tons of this coal.
17:08On a final voyage, the business was a lot heavier.
17:13Manganese, lifting the two side by side.
17:16This is like a feather.
17:19This is business.
17:2210,000 tons of manganese ore in the hold.
17:26And the freight report reveals they had exceeded this amount by over 85 tons.
17:33The ship was well documented as having a stability issue.
17:37You have a lot of cargo on board that nobody had any experience with.
17:42And was it loaded correctly?
17:46The people that loaded the cargo take into consideration the balance.
17:51It's just like a formula for a disaster.
17:55They're just waiting for the right time.
17:59The ship's structural engineering was probably not the only problem.
18:04Marvin Barash has discovered another lead in the documents.
18:08The USS Cyclops had two engines, a port engine, starboard engine.
18:13The starboard engine broke.
18:16This is probably a significant factor as to why the ship was lost.
18:21Just not having the power maybe to fight off a storm or other sea conditions.
18:26During hurricane season, the Bermuda Triangle is often subject to major changes in the weather, which can be dangerous for even the most experienced seafarers.
18:37There's this U.S. weather bureau chart that indicates that there's a large weather system on the east coast of the United States that could have indeed traveled with this large low system into the area where the Cyclops was on her way home.
18:57So weather was probably a major factor in her disappearance.
19:05But if the USS Cyclops was in distress, why didn't she call for help?
19:11And why has no wreckage been found?
19:13I suspect a rogue wave, the type of thing that would not have been anticipated.
19:28Without warning, no time to prepare.
19:31And I suspect likely at night.
19:36Could one single huge wave really swallow a mighty cargo vessel?
19:40For centuries, sailors spoke about waves as high as mountains coming out of nowhere, dragging ships under.
19:49For a long time, their reports were dismissed as being nothing more than a sailor's yarn.
19:58But today's scientists are sure they exist.
20:01Waves up to 30 meters high, known to seafarers as rogue or monster waves.
20:11Big fish and big wave myths have been told for as long as humans have been at sea.
20:16And scientists have long wanted to dismiss the possibility of these gargantuan waves that are talked about at pubs and fishing ports.
20:24But recent science has confirmed the existence of these rogue waves.
20:28The Coastal Research Center in Hannover, Germany.
20:31Here scientists are taking a closer look into the destructive power of the rogue waves.
20:41From inside, a wave channel 310 meters long.
20:45The largest of its kind.
20:46I wanted to see, just like in the video, which one's the right wave length when placing the boat in the water.
20:57Can one single wave sink a large ship like the USS Cyclops?
21:02Or even a modern container ship?
21:05When you make really short waves, the boat would respond in a similar way, plunge into the trough of the wave.
21:10Stefan hopes an experiment will lead to answers.
21:14Our wave machine basically allows us to produce any kind of wave.
21:20Like single waves to simulate tsunamis.
21:23Or rogue waves, as in this case.
21:30Monster waves develop when several swells of different lengths overlap.
21:34Long waves travel faster and can overtake shorter waves.
21:37As the wave heights combine, they become a rogue wave.
21:45Rogue waves can occur very suddenly.
21:48This means they can basically form at any place, at any time, by pure chance.
21:54And they vanish just as rapidly as they can.
21:59Using a model ship, the researchers demonstrate the impact of a rogue wave.
22:08The team simulates rough sea conditions using the hydraulic wave machine.
22:17While the waves cause the ship to bob up and down, it's not in any danger yet.
22:22The waves were 40 centimeters high.
22:29In nature, this would equal a wave height of 12 meters.
22:33That's quite a storm.
22:36Now they'll conduct the rogue wave test.
22:40Monster waves are defined as being extremely high and extremely short at the same time.
22:59Matthias, you can start the wave now.
23:00Okay, wave coming up.
23:03Okay, wave coming up.
23:20Within seconds, a deadly wall of water has built up.
23:23By the time the ship's crews have spotted the wave, it's already too late.
23:37What we could see here was how the ship first got sucked into that deep trow preceding the wave.
23:47And then it got pushed up.
23:50After essentially being capsized by the wave crashing down.
24:02The crew had no chance to send out a distress signal.
24:05If that had happened in real life, there probably wouldn't have been any survivors.
24:29Did the USS Cyclops fall victim to a similar rogue wave?
24:32The sunken ship falls into oblivion.
24:39But in 1941, during World War II, the sister ships of the USS Cyclops,
24:45Proteus and Nereus, disappear.
24:48Both were carrying oar.
24:51While speculations are spreading, newspapers talk about the Sea of Doom.
24:56Experts disagree in what really happened to the two sister ships.
25:04One thing is certain.
25:06The design of the freighters made them potentially dangerous vessels for the crew at rough sea.
25:11Anyway, not just in the Bermuda Triangle.
25:14Just four years later, yet another tragedy draws public attention to the mysterious waters.
25:19An entire squadron disappears for no apparent reason.
25:25Around noon on December the 5th, 1945, five U.S. torpedo bombers take off from their base in Florida.
25:33The weather is good.
25:35It's a routine training flight.
25:38Targeted bombing and navigating above open water.
25:41Halfway into it, the flight leader reports difficulties with his compass.
25:50The pilots lose orientation.
25:53Soon after, their radio transmissions end.
25:59To this day, all 14 crew members and their bombers have yet to be found.
26:04Flight 19 became so famous because it wasn't just one plane, it wasn't just one ship.
26:08It was five planes. It was an entire squadron.
26:12And they were never found.
26:16Sylvia Riley, pilot and author, investigates the mysterious disappearance of Flight 19.
26:21Back in the 1940s, navigating a plane was much more of a challenge than it is today.
26:31We can see all the instruments here that we're really looking at.
26:34So you've got the compass up top.
26:37You've then got the directional indicator, which you're setting in line with your compass.
26:43You've got a clock there that you use to time each leg.
26:47You can see your indicated airspeed.
26:50So you're using the time that you're flying and the speed that you are flying.
26:56And you multiply them to get the distance.
26:58And that's how you work out your location.
27:04Berlin. Sylvia Riley sets out to reenact the military training operation using a flight simulator.
27:10So we're now departing from Fort Lauderdale, heading straight to the east.
27:28We'll just take off and start climbing.
27:32Flaps up.
27:42And now we're heading straight out over the Atlantic.
27:46Now, because we're in an Airbus A320, I'm able to set the power to go automatically and the autopilot on.
27:54And the autopilot is now doing almost everything for me.
27:58If you were in a 1940s plane, you would have none of this.
28:03You are flying by dead reckoning.
28:06Riley turns off the electronic instruments to simulate the flight conditions of the squadron 75 years ago.
28:12There's all these alarms going off and tones and I have lost my map.
28:19OK, the pilots of the flight also didn't have a map or the different gadgets that we've now turned off here.
28:27So at this point, this is similar to the situation that they were in.
28:31But they were probably a little bit better than I am at it.
28:33Flight 19 got into trouble when the compass stopped working and then the weather deteriorated on top of that.
28:44Sylvia Riley simulates the situation.
28:48The wind is getting worse, which means a magnetic compass bounces around.
28:53It's not really easy to use.
28:55Even with that still working, I would be hard pressed to know whether I was going due north or not.
29:00If I'm worried that my compass isn't working, it's very nerve wracking.
29:05And at this point, personally, I have no idea where we are.
29:09The brewing storm makes it impossible for the pilots of Flight 19 to know where they're going.
29:15The sun is setting, so I'm hoping that that is west.
29:20But because of this weather, it's difficult to really feel confident about that.
29:25And it's just impossible to really know where I am.
29:28The machines have been up in the air for four hours.
29:32They're running out of fuel and there's no land in sight.
29:39Sylvia Riley ends up in the same situation.
29:43At this point, I'm out of fuel. I can't climb.
29:47The only thing I can do is try and come down gently, but there's high waves out there and the thunderstorm.
29:51There's no way I'm going to land up in the water. I'm going to freeze to death. It's gone.
29:55We crashed.
29:56That was so realistic. That was frightening. I am so relieved that this is a simulation.
30:10I never want to have to go through that in real life.
30:15This was such a high-stress situation using every bit of my mental powers just then just to try and keep a plane in the air.
30:24How much worse must it be when you know that not just your life, but the life of 14 people are dependent on your making the right decision right now?
30:35Navy flying boats try to localize the missing squadron. After searching for ours, they give up.
30:41One of the machines calls in a radio message. Moments later, it also disappears without a trace.
30:56The 14 young men of Flight 19 and their bombers are missing to this day.
31:02Sylvia Riley has a theory on what exactly happened.
31:05A fateful decision by flight leader Charles Taylor might have caused the men to fly further and further out to sea.
31:16The Navy investigation is very useful. So one thing we've got here is the original transcript.
31:22We have exactly what Foxhart Tango 28 said whilst in the air to his other pilots.
31:31So he's continuously modifying the instructions for the squadron to head towards the east when the entire time what they needed to do was go west.
31:44As they run out of fuel, the pilots are left with one option, an emergency landing on the water.
31:51At rough sea, this is a death sentence.
31:55No wreckage from Flight 19 has ever been found.
31:58Even today, after plane crashes, we do not always find all the wreckage.
32:04There are natural explanations for this. For example, that they've sunken down to the bottom of the sea where they've been covered by sand.
32:10Or that they have broken to pieces so small that they can no longer be identified as wreckage.
32:15But there are unanswered questions to this day. Why did the flight leader become so disoriented? And why didn't his compass work?
32:28There's only a few true mysteries that are connected to the Bermuda Triangle, but Flight 19 is absolutely one of them.
32:38I find it amazing that with so many people interested, with the mystery that started the Bermuda Triangle and from which so many of our Bermuda Triangle myths are created, that we still don't know what happened, that there's just no way of finding out an answer.
32:56And I find that bewildering, but also fascinating.
33:02The report from the US Navy's final investigation states the disappearance of Flight 19 is one of the greatest mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle.
33:13A legend is born.
33:15Flight 19 is such a powerful part of the myth, partly because it was the loss of a group of young men who mythically become heroes.
33:24And they are the main characters in this particular saga. So as a consequence, they have huge power.
33:32Hollywood capitalises on the story.
33:35Author Charles Berlitz writes a bestseller.
33:38The whole world is captivated by the enigmatic events taking place in the Sea of Doom.
33:47The Bermuda Triangle first became popular when the American author Charles Berlitz wrote a book in the 1970s.
33:54Some 20 million copies were sold. It was translated into 30 different languages.
34:00And he identified a number of alleged incidents which happened in the Bermuda Triangle.
34:05The problem was, however, that a lot of Charles Berlitz's evidence was wrong.
34:11And indeed, many of Charles Berlitz's examples are fake news.
34:15Statistics show there are just as many accidents in the Bermuda Triangle as in any other highly frequented maritime area.
34:23But the myth takes on a life of its own.
34:26Soon, rumours spread saying aliens or the crystal energy from the lost city of Atlantis are responsible for the sinking of countless planes and ships.
34:35Many people don't want to believe in a world without miracles because this, conscious or not, means that it's a world without soul or free will.
34:44And so we project our desire for there to be a soul or free will onto a desire for there to be miracles, not events.
34:51If this strange stuff can't happen there, then maybe it can't happen anywhere.
34:55What's not a myth are the compass anomalies often experienced in the Bermuda Triangle. They're real.
35:04But what causes these interferences? For decades, scientists were in the dark about this.
35:10Today, they've found a plausible explanation at the bottom of the sea.
35:19The Bermuda Islands are the remnants of an ancient volcano that formed more than 30 million years ago.
35:29Witnesses of an apocalyptic moment in the history of our planet.
35:33Nick Hutchings explores this region.
35:45If we were standing in this exact spot 33 million years ago, we would be under 3000 feet of lava.
35:52This was a big volcanic island then.
35:55Over millions of years, the volcanic rock is eroded by wind and weather and washed into the sea.
36:01It probably took about 19 million years to erode away down to nothing, down to sea level.
36:08Most of that is now spread out around Bermuda.
36:15Today, a layer of lava sand 150 meters thick covers the ocean floor around the islands.
36:22Hutchings believes the volcanic floor could explain some of the phenomena observed in the Bermuda Triangle.
36:36You can see it very clearly here now, this black sand.
36:39This is the volcanic remains of the old volcanic island.
36:43This is really the only place that we can see this now up on dry land.
36:46The rest of it is all washed into the sea and is in a big layer.
36:52And in that layer is about 500 billion tons of magnetite.
36:58And magnetite is the most magnetic naturally occurring mineral on Earth.
37:04And the magnetite in these heavy minerals here, this is enough to affect a compass.
37:11Just this little bit here.
37:13And as you can see, as we move the compass over here,
37:20it moves.
37:22It's not a lot.
37:24Three or four degrees.
37:25But that would be enough to cause a disaster.
37:28You can imagine what 500 billion tons might do.
37:35Official nautical charts warn seafarers of compass anomalies with deviations of up to 14 degrees.
37:46I mean, essentially, Bermuda is just a huge magnet sitting right out in the middle of the ocean.
37:51Conventional magnetic compasses have been known to suddenly point in a different direction.
38:00This can cause ships and planes to go off course or accidentally fly into storms.
38:06This likely explains many disasters.
38:10Yet the myth of the Bermuda Triangle lives on.
38:14For some, it's more about believing than knowing.
38:17The Bermuda Triangle myth persists partly because scientists haven't been able to categorically explain what happens in the triangle.
38:27And therefore, it's fulfilling the function of all myths throughout the time.
38:31And that is to explain the inexplicable.
38:33Like the experience of Bruce Gernon and his dad on their flight from the Bahamas to Palm Beach on December the 4th, 1970.
38:44At 3500 meters altitude, the aircraft is suddenly surrounded by a mysterious cloud.
38:49And then I see this horizontal tunnel.
39:02But I thought that would be the only way to escape the inside of the storm.
39:07When I entered the tunnel, these strange lines instantly formed.
39:21And then I noticed that the lines were slowly rotating counterclockwise.
39:35And they went all the way to the other end of the tunnel.
39:38All the navigational instruments were malfunctioning.
39:42Even the compass was slowly spinning all by itself.
39:45The plane disappears from the air traffic control radars.
39:56The Miami radio couldn't find our location.
40:00So my dad got on the radio and he said, what do you mean you can't find our location?
40:06And he started cussing at the guy, which is something that he's never done before.
40:10Trying to get out of the tunnel, Bruce Gernon pushes a 300 horsepower machine to its limits.
40:33When I looked back after we got out of the tunnel, I watched it collapse right behind us.
40:40And at the same time, I felt this incredible sensation of zero gravity combined with the feeling of hydroplaning, like skidding forward at zero gravity.
40:57The air traffic controller comes back on the radio and he's really excited.
41:02And he says, he's got an airplane directly over Miami Beach.
41:07And so I look at my watch and, well, I've been flying just over 33 minutes.
41:12I told him, no, that's not us.
41:15And, and then my eyes started to focus.
41:20And I look below and there's Miami Beach, right below us.
41:23And we're at 10,000 feet.
41:24Once Bruce Gernon reaches Palm Beach as planned and checks the time, he realizes that only 47 minutes have passed since takeoff.
41:35I had made that identical flight at least a dozen times on a direct course, and it took an hour and 20 minutes.
41:43And this was an indirect course, maybe 50 miles longer.
41:47And it took only 47 minutes.
41:50I didn't quite understand what had happened, but I, I realized that something amazing had happened.
41:56Bruce Gernon believes he got sucked into a time tunnel.
42:04To this day, there is still no evidence corroborating his theory.
42:11But he's not the only one who believes in mysterious unknown forces.
42:18John Cousar has been investigating mysterious events in the Bermuda Triangle for over 30 years.
42:23He was the first to systematically study the accident reports of the U.S. Transportation Safety Board.
42:32This is the entire computer database printout at the National Transportation Safety Board from 30 years ago.
42:40And I made a request for them to give me a database search of all aircraft listed as missing or not recovered.
42:48Nowadays, the records are available in digital form.
42:54The database lists every incident that took place in U.S. airspace since 1964.
43:04What's important is to compare cases and data over a long period of time instead of just one incident and speculating on it.
43:12I discovered aircraft that had vanished while coming in for a landing on radar that had essentially eyewitnesses and that vanished close to shore that vanished over shallow water and left no wreckage.
43:27Cousar claims he has identified 75 mysterious events in the database that happened in the Bermuda Triangle.
43:34It's not subjective like sighting Bigfoot or flying saucers or Loch Ness Monster.
43:41These were real aircraft and real ships.
43:44They're in the records.
43:45The people were really aboard them and they all vanished.
43:48Like flight NH3808, a light sport aircraft flown by Maldonado Torres and his friend Jose Pagan Santos.
43:57One of the most interesting cases is the documented case of the encounter with a UFO.
44:06This was on June 28, 1980.
44:07This was an air-coup, a twin-engine, small light aircraft that was owned by the passenger's father.
44:15That's the passenger.
44:17The aircraft is presumed ditched at sea and both occupants deceased.
44:22And the transcript was completely preserved.
44:28And here it is.
44:29Cousar has the radio messages.
44:32Cousar has the radio messages.
44:44This is Jose Maldonado Torres and Gonsanto's last words, where they transposed into mystery.
44:51This is the mayday he sent off Puerto Rico.
44:54June 28, 1980, the two men are on their way from Santo Domingo to San Juan in a small sports aircraft
45:05when they suddenly see an unidentified flying object.
45:08The pilot tries repeatedly to get away from the object, but to no avail.
45:29You're listening to a man die, basically.
45:40Or more accurately transposed into mystery.
45:47It's the last time anyone heard from the men.
45:50After that message, their aircraft vanishes from the radar.
45:53Nobody knows what the two men encountered.
46:05The ultimate fate of flight NH3808 remains unknown to this day.
46:11Time and again, reports and videos surface, allegedly documenting similar encounters with UFOs.
46:17An amateur video taken aboard a cruise ship in the Bermuda Triangle in 2009.
46:25Okay, two UFOs on the damn...
46:28What ship we on, what boat is this?
46:30Carnival Sensation.
46:32Carnival Sensation, what's the date?
46:35It's the first of October.
46:37October the 1st, 2009.
46:39Two fucking UFOs.
46:40One of them moving to the left.
46:41Look, look, come here.
46:43This one on the left is moving.
46:44Come check it out, look.
46:45Are you watching?
46:46I'm coming, I'm looking.
46:48There's a helicopter, there's an airplane in the clouds up to the right.
47:01From perspective to see how low these things are.
47:03Look at the one in the right, you're moving, it's disappeared, you see it?
47:06It's very commonplace what they're reporting.
47:10Lights floating on the horizon.
47:12He mentions that they're pacing the ship.
47:15Look at the one in the right, you're moving, it's disappeared, you see it?
47:17It just went away.
47:19And the one on the left is still here.
47:22Oh my God.
47:25It's impossible to prove the authenticity of the footage, just as it remains unclear what it really shows.
47:31But to Kusar, online findings like this support his theories.
47:37They put this up on YouTube.
47:39And so it seems authentic.
47:43You know, it's reporting things that are commonly known.
47:46It's reported since the earliest UFO investigations that when aircraft approach these, they'll wink out or zip away.
47:54And that's the case here, an aircraft is approaching on the right of the screen.
48:01And then the one closest to it zips out.
48:03Ufologists like Kusar can now even refer to official US government releases.
48:14Recently, the US Navy declassified footage supposedly documenting encounters between UFOs and their fighter jets.
48:29Remarkably, the Pentagon released the footage of all this.
48:41It's just yet another sighting that Pentagon is refreshingly admitting to.
48:48People have tried to explain UFO sightings like these.
48:52Theories range from weather balloons to hang gliders and secret weapon systems.
48:57John Kusar doesn't have a logical explanation for the events either.
49:08But he doesn't believe in little green men.
49:11The ships and planes do vanish and they obviously have a cause.
49:14And so if you uncover real mystery, it should be considered a little more unnerving because there's a real cause behind it that you have to deal with.
49:23A dark cloud, malfunctioning instruments and a mysterious time tunnel.
49:33Now Bruce Gernon thinks he knows what happened to him 50 years ago above the Bermuda Triangle.
49:38It took me 30 years of researching this thinking about it every day before I finally came up with the theory that this fog and I call it electronic fog connects to the aircraft.
49:54If it attaches to you, you can become disoriented and it can induce spatial disorientation into your mind.
50:06A theory without any evidence.
50:10But Gernon is convinced it will be proven one day.
50:14It's been tough sometimes when people try to debunk me.
50:18But I'm always willing to talk to anybody that wants to challenge me about it because I know exactly what happened.
50:29So this is an incredible event that happened.
50:33So it's going to take incredible proof to prove it.
50:36And I know it will be proven in the future.
50:39It may be another 50 years or so.
50:41The Bermuda Triangle, a place for speculation of every kind.
50:50The Bermuda Triangle doesn't stand out statistically as much as it stands out in our imaginations.
50:55It becomes a place where we project whatever our myth is.
50:59If your myth is that everything's explainable, you're projecting that onto the Bermuda Triangle.
51:04If your myth is that there are aliens or Atlantis, that also is then going to be what you project onto the Bermuda Triangle.
51:12Whether it's a dark force or a force of nature, paranormal activity or physical forces,
51:20people won't stop trying to solve the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle.
51:25And the myth is sure to be the subject of wild speculations and extraordinary theories in the years to come.
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