The Bermuda Triangle is an (seen left) imaginary triangle stretching from Norfolk to the island of Bermuda and back to Puerto Rico. Ever since the passage of Columbus through these lime green waters countless stories have been told (and re-told) of curses, balls of fire, swooping dragons, methane gas, sea monsters, and deadly tides. What is true? No one knows for sure. No one. But, we can speculate, we can hypothesize. Columbus was the first to record strange occurrences in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. Specifically he saw a ball of fire in the sky. Later these islands were stalked by pirates and even in the oldest maps you will see them referred to as "the Devil's Islands".

 As the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria sailed through the area in 1492, it is reported that Columbus's compass went haywire and that he and his crew saw weird lights in the sky, but these events have mundane explanations. From the account in Columbus's journal, it is thought that his compasses slight inaccuracy stemmed from nothing more than the discrepancy between true north and magnetic north. As for the lights, Columbus wrote of seeing "a great flame of fire" that crashed into the ocean -- probably a meteor. He saw lights in the sky again on October 11, which, of course, was the day before his famous landing. The lights, brief flashes near the horizon, were spotted in the area where dry land turned out to be.
Another historical event retroactively attributed to the Bermuda Triangle is the discovery of the Mary Celeste. The vessel was found abandoned on the high seas in 1892, about 400 miles off its intended course from New York to Genoa. There was no sign of its crew of ten or what had happened to them. Since the lifeboat was also missing, it is quite possible that they abandoned the Mary Celeste during a storm that they wrongly guessed the ship could not weather. But what makes it even harder to call this a Bermuda Triangle mystery is that it the ship was nowhere near the Triangle -- it was found off the coast of Portugal. But of course this means it might have sailed that far alone (even, though it's not likely).
     Like this there are numerous vessels which got lost at that spot under mysterious circumstances. So far no particular theroy has been conclusive enough.
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