The life-long mystery behind the Bermuda Triangle disappearances may have finally been solved.

Scientists reckon they can debunk all the alien theories flying around, though I’m sure some of you will still need some convincing.

In the North Atlantic Ocean lies a 700,000km area which has been blamed for the disappearance of several ships and planes throughout the years.

The legend of the Bermuda Triangle – also known as the ‘Devil’s Triangle’ – began after Flight 19 took off from Florida and disappeared on 5 December, 1945.

When a rescue plane was deployed, that also went missing. No wreckage or bodies have been found since.

And from 1945 to 2017, there has been around 10 reported incidents where aircrafts have gone awol.

Not to mention that from 1800 to 2015, it’s said that approximately 14 ships have mysteriously disappeared.

Hundreds of people are thought to have gone missing in the area (Getty Stock Image)

So you can blame the random disappearances on alien kidnapping if you’d like, but Australian scientist Karl Kruszelnicki has other ideas.

“According to Lloyds of London and the US coast guard, the number of planes that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world on a percentage basis,” Dr Kruszelnicki told news.com.au.

On Flight 19, he added: “They vanish without a trace then another plane sent out to look with them vanishes … (so some people claimed) it must have been aliens’.

“(But) there was one experienced guy, the rest were inexperienced.

“It wasn’t fine weather, there were 15m waves.”

These thoughts were echoed in Channel 5 documentary, Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle.

After taking a close look at the rocks in the area, Nick Hutchings, a mineral prospector, said: “Bermuda’s basically a sea mountain – it’s an underwater volcano. 30 million years ago, it was sticking up above sea level.

The ‘Devil’s Triangle’ (Getty Stock Image)

“It has now eroded away and we’re left with the top of a volcano.

“We have a few core samples, which have magnetite in them. It’s the most magnetic naturally occurring material on Earth.”

Hutchings added: “You can just imagine the ancient mariners sailing past Bermuda. It would be very disconcerting.”

Simply put – people just got lost.

Filmmaker and YouTuber Johnny Harris has provided a more philosophical take on the topic, saying: “Humans have developed an amazing tool for seeing reality… we can collect hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of observations about the world and they don’t have to fit in our brains all at once because we can record them over time.

“If you did that you would see that of the tens of thousands of recorded accidents or casualties at sea recorded over the course of 20 years, there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary here.”

You’re still welcome to believe in aliens though, it is a lot more fun that way.

A group of sailors showcased the haunting moment they happened upon an abandoned vessel in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle.

The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle comes from the many disappearances which were said to have taken place in a 700,000km area in the North Atlantic Ocean.

It’s been said that several ships and planes throughout the years have gone missing in what’s dubbed as the ‘Devil’s Triangle’.

The legend began after Flight 19 took off from Florida and disappeared on 5 December, 1945.

When a rescue plane was deployed, it also went missing, and no wreckage or bodies have been found since. And from 1945 to 2017, there has been around 10 reported incidents where aircrafts have gone awol.

Not to mention that from 1800 to 2015, it’s said that approximately 14 ships have mysteriously vanished.

So basically, people get lost – but that doesn’t make the area any less scary, as a pair of sailors found out.

The members of the Ocean Research Project were exploring the Atlantic Ocean in 2013, before making a chilling discovery in the Bermuda Triangle as they came across an unmanned ship without a running motor or upright sail.

The dangers of the area became apparent when the sailors discovered the ‘ghost ship’ (YouTube/Ocean Research Project)

There was no sign of anyone on board, so they climbed aboard to see if there may be anyone on the vessel that might need medical attention.

One of the members, Matt Rutherford, filmed as he stepped on board the ‘ghost ship’, confirming: “This is one awfully abandoned sailboat. Wolfhound from the Irish Yacht Club.

“I have no idea what’s inside, I’m going to go and search around and I hope I don’t find any dead bodies or anything crazy like that.”

He admitted that he was scared to open any doors in case he found something haunting, but he was relieved to have found no dead bodies.

“This is absolutely crazy by the way. 800 miles from Bermuda, 1,500 miles from the US, standing on a very nice Swan 48, in the middle of the ocean,” he said.

Rutherford then managed to get in touch with the boat’s owner, who offered him a reward if he could tow it back to Bermuda – and they tried to.

They found nothing and nobody onboard the abandoned ship (Ocean Research Project/YouTube)

By their second day, they hauled the boat about 50 miles, as he added: “It’s kinda funny, (towing a) 48ft boat with a 42ft boat. We’re doing our best trying to get her to Bermuda.”

But after 47 days at sea, they were running low of fuel, and despite managing to get some fuel from a passing freight ship, the abandoned vessel had to be cut from the tow line after getting wrapped around their rudder, which was at risk of breaking off.

Online investigators reckoned that the vessel belonged to a skipper from the Royal Irish Yacht Club named Alan McGettigan, who was travelling with three crewmates and needed to be rescued by a Greek cargo ship 64 miles north of Bermuda.

The Wolfhound vessel was left damaged by 20ft waves and 50-knot (57mph), and Alan made the decision to abandon his ship for their safety, before it was found by these two nine weeks on.

Additional words by Joshua Nair.

A seemingly made-up global warming theory – platformed by a guest on The Joe Rogan Experience – previously went viral on TikTok.

Nonprofit watchdog Media Matters for America shared a report in 2023, issuing caution against various videos promoting the ‘Adam and Eve’ theory.

The groundless ‘end of the world’ theory was first mentioned in The Adam and Eve Story, a book written in 1965 by Chan Thomas, an electrical engineer/psychic. The book has recently been declassified in full by the CIA.

The Joe Rogan episode in question was from 2023 (YouTube/PowerfulJRE)

YouTuber Jimmy Corsetti – who featured on the 18 January, 2023, edition of Joe Rogan’s podcast – explained: “It happens in cycles of 6,500 years and that it’s a 90-degree flip, but six days later, around the seventh day, it corrects itself.”

The investigator said it would be ‘a planet flip, 90 degrees, and that because of it the Earth essentially does a standstill, the sun will be direct – will basically stay in the same spot, causing heating like we’ve never experienced – and that the wind and the waters continue with their momentum, because essentially the wind travels at approximately 1,000 miles an hour [1,609 kilometers an hour] at the equator, so the theory is that when that event happens it’s going to be cataclysmic’.

The theory simply isn’t true (Getty Stock Images)

However, Media Matters says these claims, which have gained millions of views across social media platforms, are false with there being a complete lack of evidence.

“That is total bogus. If that’s what happened every 6,500 years, we would certainly see it; it would be in all the records,” senior research scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center, Martin Mlynczak, told The Verge.

“The amount of energy to bring that about is tremendous. And you know, there’s nothing to initiate it.

“1,000-mile-an-hour winds are past supersonic. Just right there, I mean, the person has no idea what they’re talking about.”

The outlet notes that the strongest hurricane winds can only reach around 160 miles per hour.

NASA has also said that ‘there’s no evidence that Earth’s climate has been significantly impacted by the last three magnetic field excursions, nor by any excursion event within at least the last 2.8 million years’.

“While it was not written to provide an alternative explanation for climate change, The Adam and Eve Story provides a framework for interpreting its effects outside of an anthropogenic explanation,” Media Matters added.

“This narrative, which shifts blame away from our fossil fuel economy onto planetary forces beyond human control, can serve as climate misinformation

“In the past, the Earth’s orbit, the Sun, and cosmic rays have all similarly been used to provide alternative explanations for climate change.

“There is overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels.

“The only way to avert increasing social, political, and ecological effects of climate change is by transitioning away from a fossil fuel economy.”

Meanwhile, people in the comments always had their doubts, as one person said: “This man put two and two together and got 4,376,241.”

“Happens every 6,500 years but we’re 200,000 years overdue,” another penned.

The moment that two sailors spotted an abandoned vessel and boarded it in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle is quite haunting when you realise what has happened in the area over the past couple of centuries.

Also known as the ‘Devil’s Triangle’, the conspiracy theories surrounding the Bermuda Triangle started on 5 December, 1945, when Flight 19 took off from Florida before disappearing.

The triangle’s points are Bermuda (northern-most), Puerto Rico (southern-most) and the Florida coast, near Miami (western-most).

But what makes it so dangerous?

Well, Flight 19 went missing for starters, with no bodies or wreckage found and from 1945 to 2017, about 10 reported incidents have been reported of lost aircraft.

Add the maritime figures to that, with 14 ships vanishing from 1800 to 2015 in the same area, and it starts to look quite bizarre indeed, with several people blaming the disappearances on alien kidnapping, among other things.

However, Australian scientist Karl Kruszelnicki has gone against this notion, telling news.com.au that the number of planes going missing in the Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world ‘on a percentage basis’, according to Lloyds of London and the US coast guard.

Speaking of the harmful weather that can take the area over as a possible factor, Channel 5 documentary, Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle, also shared these opinions.

Nick Hutchings, a mineral prospector, revealed: “Bermuda’s basically a sea mountain – it’s an underwater volcano. 30 million years ago, it was sticking up above sea level. It has now eroded away and we’re left with the top of a volcano.

“We have a few core samples, which have magnetite in them. It’s the most magnetic naturally occurring material on Earth.”

They made an odd discovery at sea (Ocean Research Project/YouTube)

So basically, people get lost – but that doesn’t make the area any less scary, as a pair of sailors found out.

The members of the Ocean Research Project were exploring the Atlantic Ocean, making a chilling discovery in the Bermuda Triangle in 2013, as they came across an unmanned ship without a running motor or upright sail.

There was no sign of anyone on board, so they climbed aboard to see if there may be anyone on the vessel that might need medical attention.

One of the members, Matt Rutherford, filmed as he stepped on board the ‘ghost ship’, confirming: “This is one awfully abandoned sailboat. Wolfhound from the Irish Yacht Club.

“I have no idea what’s inside, I’m going to go and search around and I hope I don’t find any dead bodies or anything crazy like that.”

He admitted that he was scared to open any doors in case he found something haunting, but he was relieved to have found no dead bodies.

“This is absolutely crazy by the way. 800 miles from Bermuda, 1,500 miles from the US, standing on a very nice Swan 48, in the middle of the ocean,” he said.

They found nothing and nobody onboard the abandoned ship (Ocean Research Project/YouTube)

Rutherford then managed to get in touch with the boat’s owner, who offered him a reward if he could tow it back to Bermuda – and they tried to.

By their second day, they hauled the boat about 50 miles, as he added: “It’s kinda funny, (towing a) 48ft boat with a 42ft boat. We’re doing our best trying to get her to Bermuda.”

But after 47 days at sea, they were running low of fuel, and despite managing to get some fuel from a passing freight ship, the abandoned vessel had to be cut from the tow line after getting wrapped around their rudder, which was at risk of breaking off.

Online investigators reckoned that the vessel belonged to a skipper from the Royal Irish Yacht Club named Alan McGettigan, who was travelling with three crewmates and needed to be rescued by a Greek cargo ship 64 miles north of Bermuda.

The Wolfhound vessel was left damaged by 20ft waves and 50-knot (57mph), and Alan made the decision to abandon his shit for their safety, before it was found by these two nine weeks on.