This Paranormal Life - #017 Power Crystals Under The Bermuda Triangle

Episode Date: July 11, 2017

Few paranormal mysteries are more deadly than that of the Bermuda Triangle. Thousands have gone missing in this bizarre stretch of ocean. We tackle the one question on everyone's mind - are there ancient power crystals underneath the ocean though? Rory Powers and Kit Grier investigate!Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeFollow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunityIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are the Egyptian pyramids giant radio receivers for deep space? Was Prince really a prince of an alien royal family? Answers to these... Answers... It's too paranormal, he can't even deliver it. Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life. Welcome to the podcast.

I'm your host today, Kit Greer, joined by my professional paranormal host investigator, Mr. Rory Powers. Boo! Alright, that's the end of the podcast. I'm your host today, Kit Greer, joined by my professional paranormal host investigator, Mr. Rory Powers. Boo! Alright, that's the end of the podcast. So, welcome to This Paranormal Life. This is the podcast where every week we dissect, rip apart, investigate a different paranormal claim, beast, tale, or whatever. And try and find out what is the truth behind the mystery as professional paranormal investigators yeah it's not an easy job it's not but someone's got to do it someone's got to put their life on the line their name on the line fake name on the line so i steve christopherson

will investigate with my reputation on the line well i've got a crazy one for you today, Rory. A big story. Okay. And you're going to have to pretend like I didn't already tell you the premise before we started the podcast. You told Rory. You didn't tell Chris. No, Steve Christopherson. Yeah.

That's true. Steve is dumb. Steve doesn't remember shit. What does Steve Christopherson Sound like I think Steve Christopherson would sound like this Yeah he'd be a little bit timid He's a bit stuttery he's a bit timid

But he does love his paranormal podcast I don't know why Steve is stuttering so much He used to be confident And then a ghost spooked the shit out of him Not that confident. He was such an alpha guy and then one day he got scared so bad. He used to be a jock. His name was

Brad and then he got scared down to a Chris. Chris Christopherson. You're fighting it so hard to remember his name. That's how forgettable he is. That's how scared he got. He doesn't even remember his own name the police show up and it's like it's like that sounds terrifying we're gonna get to the bottom

of this uh mr i think i'll test it to see dave will do okay so this topic actually comes as a listener submission from mr steven p thanks for the uh tip stephen thanks dude so i'm gonna take you back in time like always nice this time to 1492 hey that's when christopher columbus discovered the americas shit oh i'm gonna stop giving you so much time to interrupt me it was actually really about christopher wow it's a rough night on the Caribbean Sea. So it is Christopher Columbus. It is Christopher Columbus standing on the deck of the Santa Maria. Okay.

Sorry, I shouldn't have. I jumped it. There's so much stuff that you don't know. And you knew the specific date. That was a weirdly, yeah. It was in May, actually, as well. Christopher Columbus is standing on the deck of the Santa Maria, sailing through the Bahamas for the first time.

He's sailing towards an island, what we now know is Guanahani. Freedom. The land of the eagle. And hot-waved chicken wings. What we now know is Trash Island. Yeah, Guanahani. Okay. Which know is Trash Island. Yeah, Iguanahani. Okay. Which apparently is an island in the Bahamas.

When looking out to the ocean, he saw what appeared to be a candlelight. Flickering in the distance, it rose up into the air, slowly. Higher and higher into the sky. What in the hell? He might have thought he was imagining it, but his crewmates saw it too. And it wasn't just his ship, but also the crews of the Pinta and the Niña saw it too. All his ships saw the same mysterious light. Columbus later wrote about this journey in his journals.

He said, There exists the possibility of never leaving this legendary sea. My compass acts strangely. The sea seems to have the ability to draw things in from all over the Atlantic like a catch basin. That's because Columbus was sailing in a region of the ocean we now know as the Bermuda

Triangle. So tell me, Rory, how much do you know about the Bermuda Triangle? I mean, aside from the shape? It's a circle. First... Wait, is it really? No. Okay. Myth number a circle. First. Is it really? No. Okay. Myth number one busted. Case closed.

All I know is it's a location. Yeah. In the ocean. Yeah. Around the ocean. Yeah. That it seems to be cursed. Yeah.

There's a curse of some kind surrounding it. There's a bad there. There is a major bad. And that bad affects planes and ships and things like that that's a very vague description of a little bad area i think this is like a funny one in that it's world famous like so famous big big like paranormal mystery but actually people generally don't know any specific cases the little deets yeah exactly and that's we love bringing you guys the little deets god damn you send us stuff you're interested in and we

bring you all the little deets and little bits of info that's right you guys have busy lives we get that we have empty lives empty desperate i wake up in a pit of emptiness and despair every morning and i fill that pit with paranormal. I wake up at 3 p.m., don a cold cup of instant ramen, open my late 90s laptop and start digesting paranormal facts. I wish I was a ghost. I wish I was dead.

There's the ultimate mystery. Then around six, I etch into my own skin another day alive in this miserable earth and then get back to paranormal mystery. Praying to the only god I know that I'll hit a vein and end it. Right.

Sorry. A bit carried away there. Bermuda Triangle. Bermuda Triangle. Alright, so the basics. Let's talk basics. The three points of the Bermuda Triangle are Florida. Ding! Bermuda Island. Ding! And Puerto Rico. Ding! Wait, that's how big it is yeah it's giant dude i thought it was three little islands and it's just that triangle that's that's a good point actually

i don't know what our listeners like had in mind right but yeah it's a giant area this triangle arguably borders the east coast of america right i thought it was a much smaller scale bad yeah not good and it's growing year on year now sorry i was just thinking about you know in um movies where it's like the uh like a zombie virus is spreading yeah and you're in like the war room of the pentagon and it's like this is the virus today. Within one week, it will have spread to the whole continent of the US and this is by the end of the month. This is the red. By 2015, the Bermuda Triangle will have engulfed the entire Earth

and spread to the edges of the solar system. It shows like alien life forms disappearing in airplanes. If we do not nuke it now, Mr. President. We need to nuke the earth. Steve Christopherson is in the war room. But I'm not really sure that you can... I'm just not entirely sure of the research you brought to the table. Dammit, Steve!

What are these nukes for if not to nuke the ocean itself? We must nuke the whales. Okay, it's a vast area and it's responsible for literally thousands of missing people. So the best way to explore this paranormal case is to wind the clock forward from Columbus's experience to 1881. Still pretty long ago. A ship, the Ellen Austin, is traveling its routine journey between London and New York, traveling by the Bermuda Triangle area. But in the distance, the crew sees a ship coming their way. As it gets closer they realize

it's just drifting no one's even sailing it so to inspect they anchor up beside it and send sailors aboard this mysterious ship i mean this is just like a ghost ship this is black pearl like 101 yeah it's the caribbean stuff to the confusion the ship is completely empty there isn't a single person aboard they decide to salv salvage the ship. You're not just going to let this ship go like AWOL into the distance. Unplumaged. Yeah. So they instruct some of their prize men to aboard the ship and follow them back. Seize the booty. Yeah. As pirates would say. And follow them back to New York. But the story goes that while the Ellen Austin traveled home to New York as usual and waited on the arrival of their comrades, the mystery ship and its crew never arrived. So guys, this is pre-internet, pre-conspiracy theories 1881.

We've got Columbus having mysterious circumstances and this ship, the L and Austin. Fast forward again. Captain Joshua Slocum was a world-famous sailor the first man to sail solo around the globe he built his own boat the spray by hand restoring a fishing vessel he was basically the most qualified man on the seven seas is what i'm trying to get because he built a boat out of a fishing vessel yeah it's like carving the spoon from a bigger spoon like that's not like that's not impressive clearly just a fisherman yeah pirate flag on top and call it like the ss fisherman or something and he's like brilliant

i'm like the smartest man on the seas now and in 1909 he left the east coast united states traveling south to grand cayman to spend his winter there. This meant traveling right through the heart of the Bermuda Triangle. Mm-mm. No. He never made it to the... I bet he didn't. Satnavich city mapped that route. But he never made it to the island.

He was never seen again. 15 years later, he was declared legally dead. Is that how long it takes? In 1924, in sea law? Yeah, it took a long time. Jesus. I know. I feel like that's been amended nowadays,

right? Like if you go missing at sea. Yeah. I mean, instantly you're dead basically. Yeah. I mean, it's like that show, the first 48, it's like they give up after 48 hours. Oh yeah. No one cares that much. I mean, what about this guy? Is he like a wife and kids or something? The smartest man on the oceans, bear a child to carry on the spray fortune. is what i always say about like cyclists but those people that travel crazy distances every day i always say it's like what are you running from what are you trying to get away oh right okay family life are you trying to escape yeah this guy sailed around the world no one is trying to get away from life as hard as he is okay like next step is suicide like well he literally just willingly went into the curse

ocean so i'm gonna go ahead and assume the family life wasn't all that cheesy i do like to imagine that long ago nearly 100 years ago he kind of like laid out a map of the world there's just a big skull over the caribbean he's like yep chart of course are you sure you want to go back skull island uh-huh yeah great beaches great beaches. Great beaches on Skull Island. You know, if you just go around... I know what I'm doing. And this leads us to one of the most famous Bermuda Triangle incidents. So, fast forward once again.

It's December 5th, 1945. A group of pilots in five U.S. military Avenger bombers take off from their base at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They're all student pilots, except their commander, Lieutenant Charles Taylor. It's a routine flight path. It was a ghastly man, sickle in hand in the cockpit. It was his idea to fly by Skull Island in the Vivida Triangle. It's just like, I'm about to teach you kids the best lesson of all. He's a defected kamikaze Japanese pilot.

I will take these students. I'll take them on a test flight, all right? Best lesson of all. He's a defected kamikaze Japanese pilot. I will take these students. I'll take them on a test flight, all right? It's just a routine flight path a few dozen miles out to sea. Perform a bombing drill, change direction, and circle back to base. But only 90 minutes into the journey, Lieutenant Taylor radios in that his compass isn't working. Uh-oh.

Flashback, flashback. Christopher Columbus says his compass wasn't working about 500 years previous. Yeah. Flash forward, flash forward. He says he believed that he was flying over the Florida Keys and Lieutenant Cox, who's on the ground, urged him to fly north and back to base. Leave the curse zone!

What? Go into the curse zone? Is that what you said? Is that what you said, chief? I mean, they've got bombs, right? Equipped. Bombing drills. Can you bomb a curse

okay our curse is killed destroyable breakable that's what i meant to say breakable breaking you feel like back in the you know you're seeing in like films and stuff it's like you know maybe you need a sham and cast a anti-spell right i think you don't think it's called an anti-spell i think it's called an anti-spell actually really do. But that was like low-grade technology. Right, right, right. Now we have nukes. Yeah. Nuke the curse.

Hashtag nuke the curse. Because what is magic but bombs, you know? Listen, nukes are magic. Merlin was just throwing bombs, essentially. That's all it was. That's true. He had like a staff that he would put place on his shoulders and point at his enemies in rpg fashion blast heat seeking spells that's it yeah

that's it like spells were just like guns before guns were invented all right isn't that isn't that a thing though like uh what's the phrase science is magic the uneducated that's right yeah i've never heard that because that's not what i believe yeah we've obviously never heard that on this podcast yeah otherwise the podcast wouldn't exist but his compass wasn't working so his bearings were just totally off so the further north and further east he flew the further out to sea he and his students went oh no two and a half hours later he was obviously lost ground control urged him to give control over to a student, but he refused. An hour later, the planes were blinking in and out of contact on the radio. By four hours after leaving, night's coming.

A boat and a plane are dispatched to find... A boat and a plane are dispatched to guide the pilot... A boat and a plane... I feel like your compass isn't working. I'm spinning around in my seat. A boat and a plane are dispatched to find... He's going working. I'm spinning around in my seat. A bob and a blade about. He's gone mad. I can't find it.

You're going to have to say it eventually. We can't just skip this line. I know. Okay. Line's freaking hard, dude. A boat and a plane and a display. We said it here first on the podcast. The range of the Bermuda Triangle is expanding.

It's reached London. How long before it comes for your children, people? North of London. Slightly north of London. They'll be stuttering in their boots. I don't know what the other effects of the curse are. So far, it seems to just be speech. I'm sweating so much.

It's because this damn room is so hot. It is mental hot here, yeah. The curse is trying to burn us out oh i feel very faint the plane and a boat are dispatched to guide the pilots home but they find nothing and even worse the plane doesn't come back either so the search parties are coming back the search party doesn't come back jesus that's bad cons i think yeah i think cons i mean but that was the thing, wasn't it? Like during the war, like radio was just... Oh, no. Smoke signals were just...

By the next day, the authorities have no choice but to assume that Flight 19... Declared war on the sea. They began firing wildly into the ocean. Just as we were joking about that, I mean, they did test nukes in the ocean, didn't they? Like, have you seen those videos? Holy shit.

Do you think they were trying to nuke the curse? That's what I'm saying. I've seen all those videos where it's like, yeah, we're dropping nukes in the Pacific Ocean. Do you ever see how rude that was? They sent American troops in those battleships out to like, yeah, get a few hundred meters away from the blast. See what happens.

Do you ever see that? The tidal waves? Yeah, I actually watched I watched a documentary. This is really like interesting and kind of sad documentary about when they originally were testing nuclear bombs in an island.

I don't remember quite where it was, but this is when it was kind of just like, let's just test them. They're just big explosions. Yeah, some shitty island somewhere. Yeah, and all the soldiers

were brought out to, like it was the same thing. They would all live on the ships. Like someone would live on the beach and the whole documentary, God, I need to find it because it was great the whole documentary is this soldier there who was like narrating it and he's talking about what a great time it was you know everyone was like having fun you get to relax on the beach dropping these big bombs yeah it's a

good time uh and then radioactive coconuts dude that he started talking about the fallout from it oh no and how bad it got and like all the people that died from it. Oh, Christ. And then at the end, it like finally reveals the guy who's narrating it. And he's like super, he's been really deformed by the radiation. It's heartbreaking. I need to watch that. It was so good. But you were like, they just had no idea what they were messing with.

They had no idea. They really didn't. It's crazy. Like if you guys haven't, if you listeners haven't seen that footage, like, I urge you to look up that, like, early Nuke test footage. And they literally, they blow up these bombs in, like, the Nevada desert. And they basically, as soon as it explodes, they just go, like, the troops just jump out of the trenches and just march towards the blast.

Yeah. Never anything like that before. It's crazy. Whoa. That was a bit of a serious turn, wasn't it? Anyway, back to the iron fish. So so by the next day the authorities had no choice but to assume that flight 19 ran out of fuel and crash landed oh bullshit into a bit too a bit too excited there continue and crash landed into a storm crushed by 50 foot waves bullshit sorry okay they keep going have you got it have you got a point to make, or are you just kind of...

No, I'm just skeptical. Born skeptical. It's a good character, the skeptical. Oh, bullshit, they were. I mean, I have no idea what it was, but bullshit. I mean, all they had to do was fly east, so what happened? The next case I'm going to mention surrounding the Bermuda Triangle was the most deadly of all, though.

In 1918, the U.S US Navy's USS Cyclops, I mean already a weird spooky name, departing on a regular journey from Rio de Janeiro to Baltimore, USA. Okay, nothing weird. Just an ordinary journey through the Bermuda Triangle. Yep. Several days later, the Cyclops made a stop off in Barbados before embarking on the final leg of its journey north to Baltimore. But the USS Cyclops and its 306 crew members were never seen again.

This is not fringe shit, people. This is hardcore facts. We have the documents, government records. A goddamn US naval ship and 306 crew members were like just went... Jesus.

Oh my God, it's here. USS Cyclops in Rory's living room. Holy shit. This is why it's suspicious because usually people think it's the government trying to cover up conspiracies. Yeah.

But these conspiracies are happening to the government. The government is like filing these being like, anyone know what happened? Please help us. This boat was extremely expensive. We were actually hoping to make it a restaurant one day. If you could find it, that'd be dope.

I know. I mean, like cut to classic sci-fi scene where they start hiring paranormal investigators. Oh, that's my goal for the long term of this podcast is to eventually be invited into murder scenes to help find out what happened basically we want to be the new malder and scully yes we want to be do this podcast but from the fbi's podcast network i love as well be like brought into the crime scene. So as you can see, the assailant was shot here.

Bullshit. Please, Mr. Powers, if you'll just refrain from offending the victim. Sure. He's just weeping. It's like, we think it was a crime of passion. Yeah, right. Jesus Christ.

His wife is actually in the other room. Or mistress. Oh my God. Get him out of here. You're basically a tabloid writer. The police are like, God, I hope the other guy isn mistress. Oh my God. Get him out of here. You're basically a tabloid writer. The police are like, God, I hope the other guy

isn't as bad as this. You're just over there in the corner rubbing your fingerprints on everything. I got to get the sense. I'm trying to sense the creature that was here.

You're stabbing more people. I got to get a sense for where the perpetrator was at. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah ever heard of method acting if you're in the force and require backup

we are readily available please email us in and we'll respond in a timely manner however I would point out that the Cyclops was carrying

a cargo of metal ore which was it was considered overloaded when it left Brazil additionally the captain said that before they left the starboard engine was broken hey everyone uh great journey ahead um

fire exits on your left and right um i'm going on taking you all with me so uh yeah enjoy the catering and let's have a great ride i have lotuses up with an unbearable amount of iron we'll be sinking from the dock onward it'll be a slow decline I mean my ankles are wet

he tried to do the Captain Jack Sparrow thing where he arrives at the next port just as the boat is sinking

he made it two feet and it just capsized Titanic style snapped in half orchestra going down with the ship this was not

as I planned everyone's like well the captain's going down with the ship. This was not as I planned. Everyone's like, well, the captain's going down with the captain swimming back to shore in Brazil. It's like, we'll never know what happened to the Cyclops. Isn't it stinking out there? It's a mystery. A real mystery. 306 dead men floating stomach down in the harbor.

Additionally, the USS Cyclops had two sister sister ships the proteus and nereus which both sank in totally separate circumstances so they might have just been shitty ships right okay they didn't sink in circumstances close to the bermuda triangle no right just in general and the list of victims just goes on and on every year without fail planes trains and automobiles well not automobiles presumably not automobiles enter the mysterious triangle and never return so what's going on there are several different schools of thought here so one commentary that we're seeing across some of these stories is that in each story navigation equipment stops working right christopher columbus's compass back in 1492 just starts spinning around in a big circle so magnets i guess rely on the earth's magnetic field

sorry yeah it's kind of off topic yeah yeah so they rely on the earth's magnetic field so magic field yeah magnets are drawn to magic yeah yeah the north of the pole being the most magical place on earth aka that's where santa is yeah you know see you know you know goblin santa so you know there's a magnetic north and a true north so actually depending on where you are in the earth there can be up to a 20 degree variation on what north actually is this is actually changing by one fifth of a degree every year like magnetic north that you get on your compass is not super accurate is what we're trying to say here. But wait, then what about the North Star? How does that work in correlation with a north that's constantly shifting by degrees?

The North Star would be more in relation to true north. Because true north is the literal like center of the globe on the top earth. Okay. Whereas magnetic north. Magnorthic please. Magnorthic the literal, like, center of the globe on the top Earth. Okay. Whereas magnetic... Magnorthic, please. Magnorthic... Excuse me. Magnorthic Earth is...

Magnorthic Earth is determined by some sort of electromagnetic field surrounding the Earth. Okay. And that's why the magnet pin is drawn to it. Yeah. It's not drawn to the, like, center of the top of the Earth. Exactly. And, like, they say that Magnorthic Earth flips every 50,000 years or something. It just completely 180s.

Wow. So we have some scientific basis here that it's possible ships could have entered the Bermuda Triangle and their compass just starts playing up due to the geography of where they are. What I would say to that is that's not a sexy enough answer, so let's go deeper. Yeah, here we go. What if it's more powerful in effect than the magnetic changes, fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field? What if there's some alien shit that's tampering with electronics in this region? I like this. Is the Bermuda Triangle a giant receiver for UFO communications? People have suggested that there could be electromagnetic disruption caused by something in the sea at the bottom of the sea we know that atlantis throwback to another episode

was thought to have been an advanced ancient race so did they use energy crystals is what i'm saying to power their civilization that are now underneath the sea and disrupting technology above the ocean i mean where did energy crystals come from is that a is that something that's established what's what's throwing all these electronic navigation systems out of whack there's some sort of powerful electronic system force underneath the sea that's just blasting everything out of out of whack and i guess they think what would that be or maybe if there is an underwater civilization maybe they had something super powerful some energy source kind of like the way we have nuclear power stations now. It's like these weird just spots in the earth where we're generating massive astronomical levels of energy.

Yeah. And I know what you're thinking. This seems far-fetched, but unlike some of these other theories, there might be some evidence to back it up. I cannot wait to hear this i run out the door with me a crystal my face starts melting in 2001 off the coast of eastern cuba marine engineer pauline zalitsky discovered along with the cuban government some mysterious geometric stone structures about 2 000 feet underneath the sea. Oh. When they scanned the region with sonar, they reconstructed an image that you can Google at home. So I urge everyone to look up the Cuban underwater city.

I'm going to show you this, Rory, in just a second. There's goddamn pyramids underneath the sea. Wait, what? You look at those images and tell me there aren't energy crystals inside those pyramids. How can I know if there's energy crystals inside of the pyramids? What I'm showing you here is image reconstructions of the sonar that was taken by the Cuban government and these marine researchers. Feast your eyes on this. Hand it over here.

My God, it's real. Well, legends are true. Okay. Well, damn. That's underneath the ocean of the bermuda triangle i mean there's no there's no i don't really have like a reference to scale it to like there's not a penny in the shot that i yeah i mean i guess man's thumb yeah compare it to the great pyramids of ancient egypt how about that uh it definitely does look fishy. You're underselling this. There are pyramids underneath.

How are you not seeing this, dude? There are pyramids under the ocean. I'm seeing it. Look at that. I don't know. Everyone at home, stop being a goddamn jerk like Rory and Google this shit. It does look like an underwater city. I mean, that's not a natural formation.

No, no, no, no, no. This is made by human or alien. Absolutely. I'd love to know where in relation to land this is. If this is at a point where it could have quite clearly fallen into the sea or water levels could have easily risen above it. This is one of the bones of contention regarding the Cuban underwater city. If you look up this, it is legit. It was like covered in Nat Geo, major publications, but

scientists are like very divided over it because on the one hand, we have these obviously not natural formations. On the other hand, it's 2000 feet underneath the sea. The ocean has not risen that much in a really reasonable time frame i mean it might have risen that much like when the dinosaurs were around or something but right but not since humans or anything like that was kicking about so people are very reluctant to give in to that being a possibility so one of the speculations is maybe was there some sort of earthquake or tectonic shift and that caused it to rapidly drop yeah but remain intact yeah it's definitely fishy all right so you say there's a rift in the scientific community like half people being on its side

and half against all right let's play it out you're a scientist you've made this discovery i'm a skeptical scientist i'm one of the ones that don't want to move past it. You come to me and explain it to me. Explain to me what you found. Okay, I like it. Well, George, you'll never believe what I found this time. I have proof for you for once. And I'm going to get in that journal of yours this time,

whether you like it or not. What we have found. What we have found. We found an underwater city. Energy crystals. Fish people. You look at these images and you tell me these aren't, this isn't an underwater civilization. I think you should let this go, David. This is clearly not real.

No, you... I am a human scientist and I believe you should move past it for your own species benefit. Your journal will take this once and for all. No. No. Why do you always get the last say? Why does no one respect me like they respect you? Just because you found the power crisp pyramids at the bottom of the ocean.

What did you say? I said pyramids. My species does not make mistakes. I meant my human species. Foiled yet again. Shut down by the journal. Go back to your office, little bitch. Go find.

I love that. He's just having a conversation with a nine foot scientist with giant glowing eyes. And you're like, one day I'll make it in that journal of yours. He's so focused on the competition. Yeah. He's like, what about my next paper? There's been animals abducted move on david go past it humans aren't interested in your quarrels yeah stick to researching soil yeah so

there's a rift in the community i admit this is just one theory and it's based on you know some evidence but a good degree of speculation but there is one man who actually claims to have entered the eye of the storm and survived. To have clawed back from the brink of destruction inside the triangle. His name is Bruce Gernon. It was a clear morning and Bruce takes off in a plane from Andros Island in the Bahamas. He can't help but think about the cloud formations that day. There were lenticular clouds, which looked like big UFOs, with soft, silky edges. Oh, how coincidental. Yeah, but they did.

Bullshit. Bullshit. I'm calling it out now. But the weird thing was, like, they're not that unusual, but they're usually at very high altitudes, but not today. He was flying with his father and a friend and they flew over the cloud. But no sooner had he passed it by when the clouds started changing shape slowly, reaching around their flight path, pulling him into the eye of a hurricane. Flying through the thick cloud he struggled to find a way out, no room above it or below it. But eventually he

saw a tunnel in the cloud, like a light at the end of the tunnel he could see kind of blue skies it must have been 10 miles long taking a chance he dove into it expecting to exit in approximately three minutes for travel time instead he just passed through the tunnel in seconds but there was no blue sky he was in a gray fog that spread out for miles and miles all of his electronics were totally fried. His compass just spun around and around slowly. Eventually, the radio kicked back in and he called the air traffic controller in Florida. They said he had just vanished off the radar, but was now just coming into sight in Miami Beach. Impossible, he thought. How could

he have arrived so soon? He had only been in the sky minutes and when he landed he checked his fuel there was way too much fuel left in the tank he had jumped ahead in time and space oh my gosh he calls this the electric fog people claim to have witnessed it and seen portals through the cloud that he described we do know that funnel clouds exist you can google those folks they look totally bizarre but they're very rare and i don't know if there's any other reports necessarily of flying through them right that's just a look presumably right but it we do know that i mean there's thunder clouds is it possible they could create conditions that fry electronics create a wind tunnel kind of effect and push bruce through the tunnel at breakneck speed because if you remember like during the war pre-discovering the jet stream that like totally threw their flight paths and

bombs out of whack because they had no idea there was this like super fast airflow yeah at a very high altitude so i mean it's not outside the realms of possibility that i mean literal like forks of lightning come out of the sky, that those could fry your electronics, that there could be a wind tunnel effect that gave him a crazy like wind and sail. I think if it was like a little boost, that might be okay. But God, like flying across oceans in minutes, I mean, that's pretty. Well, in that instance, he did think he would get through the cloud in three minutes

and he instead went through in a few seconds okay so that's like not too crazy that's not too bad yeah that's what I kind of

garnered from Bruce and he's written about this since he doesn't seem to be making any compared to what we've talked about in the podcast right

he's not making like outstandingly ridiculous claims yeah he's an honest guy he doesn't want to make a big deal he's Yeah, he's an honest guy. He doesn't want to make a big deal out of it. He's a pilot. He's smart.

Yeah. Bullshit. Get him in. How high were you, sir, when you flew? I only had three edibles. So,

as I say, these are just a taste of the hundreds of cases of missing people. They think that the Bermuda Triangle has claimed over a thousand lives over the last like hundred years.

Is that including those shitty boats that just fucking sank? Hell yeah, dude. Like two drips into the ocean. Something's going on here, folks. But the question is, is it paranormal? Hmm.

And that's the only question that matters. Absolutely. In terms of bruce's uh situation you know it happens a lot in paranormal stories where people are allegedly quote-unquote abducted by aliens what happens to them is they just lose pockets of time yeah where you know they'll be driving down the street and then um you know they'll see something up in the clouds and be like that's weird and then they'll keep on driving and then they'll look down at the clock and it's like three hours of time has passed.

Yeah. And it's like, what? What just happened? Obviously they're not really jumping any certain amount of distance. They've just had a stroke or something awful. They just blacked out. Yeah.

But that's what's kind of interesting about him is because- Because he would have died. He would have died. Yeah, he's a great player when he just smashed into the rocks. He obviously was completely copus mentis the entire time.

What do his, you said he was with his father or friend or something like that? Yeah, I mean, aliens. I don't know. Keep driving, Bruce. Don't look down.

It was the two bickering scientists. We're going to see some evidence of these aliens. No, we won't. Shut the blinds. Foil. Keep driving, Bruce. It's like we said when we were talking about curses. Okay? going to see some evidence of these aliens no we won't shut the blinds foil keep driving bruce it's like we we said when we were talking about curses okay so bad things happen to people all

the time yes but as soon as someone says something like there's a curse yes that means that every time from that point on if something happens you're like it's the curse yes you know people die in the ocean all the time yeah boats crash like like freaking all the time all the days planes as well not so much anymore but like back like 1800 and stuff it was a pretty regular occurrence i would have assumed um so i mean they could have happened anywhere in the ocean yeah but i think because of the bermuda triangle having the reputation it does if anything happens in that area yeah it's the bermuda triangle curse and it's a pretty generous area. I think statisticians would probably make that case and say that the number of deaths and missing people

is not statistically that different. Right. On the scale of how many people have died at sea. Exactly. That's probably quite a small number. Because if we're saying a thousand people have died in like, let's say the last even 50 years there, it's like, well, yeah, I mean, that's a large portion of ocean. How many people have died in the sea? say the last even 50 years yeah there it's like well yeah i mean that's a large portion of ocean how many people have died in the sea the rest of the ocean yeah

yeah it's a lot of people uh i now we usually come to a conclusion at the end of our episodes right and i'm going to base some of my conclusion on some research i'm going to do right now on the fly jesus because uh you didn't do your damn job that's irresponsible as hell uh what i'm gonna do is find out where exactly america was nuking in the ocean yeah and see if it has any correlation to the bermuda triangle what are they trying to kill what are they trying to shut down where did america nuke i'm just gonna put in a side effect of a nuke slowly falling on us yeah if you look at the like just numbers like, like flat numbers of how many nukes each country has dropped, it's astonishing.

Like, you've no idea. In fact, I'm going to look it up right now. I mean, that's not going to be good for the earth, is it? No. Like, that's bad. That was back when people were like... Eating tobacco. I was going to say, like, children were smoking.

Yeah. People had no idea. They just did not care. Now we've got to say like children were smoking. Yeah. People had no idea. They just did not care. Now we got to deal with it. Thanks, guys. Folks at home, you can guess for yourselves. Think in your head. Think of a number of how many nukes you think have been dropped on planet Earth.

Think of a number in your head right now. Okay, well, the answer is 2,120. Good Lord. Wow. I don't know. So we just looked at a map there but it doesn't seem like at any point america or any country was specifically targeting the bermuda area with nuclear weapons i'm not sure what we were expecting i don't know yeah like a smiley face or like a warning message right now in nuke drops yeah you can only see from space um yeah i don't know it's a difficult one.

I mean, you've investigated obviously more than I have. So where do you kind of land on this? Yeah, it definitely seems like a treacherous part of the ocean. You were pretty into those pyramids. Yeah, dude. All right. Sell it to me. Sell it to me.

All I'm saying is those are legit pyramids. That's weird. that's weird but to be fair i'm more excited about the pyramids than i am about their connections the bermuda triangle i right it's kind of a jump i mean we both earlier on um in the running of this podcast agreed that atlantis was real yeah so we're already sold on that idea so there's no going back now we might as well say the pyramids and the power crystals are real yeah it's funny actually how the perception of the bermuda triangle plays in to more incidents happening yeah there was a recent case i believe in 2015 or so very recently recently recent yeah a ship called the el faro and the ship was reported missing after being caught in a hurricane off the southern coast of the bahamas so that's not necessarily

paranormal no um that's just sad i mean it's a borderline tragedy 33 crew uh missing mostly american yeah and kids so yeah believers in the paranormal have kind of attached to this and said, well, this is in line with the Bermuda Triangle. Author and self-proclaimed paranormal expert Jeff Belanger. Jeff said, who sails a cargo ship into a Category 4 hurricane? You wonder if the legend of the Bermuda Triangle played a part and if the El Faro captain said, I'll be damned if I'm going in. Which actually, I think, Jeff, that's a really astute observation. played a part and if the el faro captain said i'll be damned if i'm going in which actually i think

jeff that's a really astute observation he's not saying there's anything paranormal about the thing going missing he's just like i think this guy got spooked and wanted to go through the hurricane before he wanted to go through the triangle right okay which yeah but inadvertently just died killed 33 people yeah 100 he's like, we got two routes ahead of us here. One of them. Uh-huh. One of them is a hurricane. Uh-huh.

All right. Not good for sailing. Uh-huh. Not good for boats. No. The other option, though, is the triangle itself. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's open seas.

The weather looks great. Right. Cursed open seas. I mean, it's just here. The weather looks great. Right. Cursed open seas. I mean, it's just here. Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Yeah. We'll say it on three. One, two, three.

The hurricane. What? What? Hard cut to you on the plank and like me and 300 sailors like poking you off. You don't even get to jump into the ocean. The hurricane just lifts you off the plank. Sailing. Everyone on the deck is just hovering in this tornado.

We're all chained down at this point. It was funny. So, I mean, I guess even the myth itself is killing people. Yeah, yeah. Essentially. I don't know. I'm actually pretty torn. On the one hand, as you saw that Wikipedia list,

a lot of people have died in this thing. Yeah, in some suspicious circumstances too. And on the other hand, it's freaking hurricane county. Yeah, it's the ocean. It'll also kill you. I mean, it's the goddamn Caribbean. It's like just times of year, it's going to get crazy. So I think if we're to start drawing any conclusions,

where do you come down? I would have liked to see more of the paranormal side of this mystery. so i think if we're to start drawing any conclusions where do you come down i would have liked to see more of the paranormal side of this mystery uh we saw some light with christopher columbus uh we've seen some compasses yes being interfered with but aside from that pyramids and crystals go on yeah it's it's a spread out this is a wide net of paramour paranormal goings on and i would almost rather it be a concise consistent effect narrative yeah exactly yeah i think this is maybe people's imagination playing into the rumors and the legends a little bit here i'm going to go ahead and say that this one the curse the

legend of the bermuda triangle is not. And that's after seeing the pyramid. Bullshit. Bullshit, dude. He's completely flipped. He really believes in all this. Yeah. I'm saying not real. It's my profession on the line, you know?

I got to stay true to my little paranormal heart. So not real. Tiny, cold, icy. Tiny, cold, dead, lifeless, paranormal heart. Stolen by a ghost years ago. Stolen by a hot ghost years ago. Sexy she-devil of a ghost. Yeah, it's a tough one. As you say, this is so broad, we may never know.

And for that reason, Jesus, it could be, there could be some bizarre fact that no one's even speculated yet. Yeah. But I think with the data that we got to work with, I'm saying not real. Yeah, unfortunately. We've had a couple weeks of not reals now. Yeah. Which is a bit of a shame.

I might purposefully throw a questionable one in there. Because it's always fun to do the ones. I'm always torn because I want a good podcast. I want a lot we can chat about and a lot of like comedy mixed with good paranormal history uh but then if you want to just do comedy a lot of the time it's like uh like the goblins the killikens are goblins you know things you're like this isn't real yeah uh so who knows maybe we'll mix it up next week and get like a real i don't think you've got to worry because i feel like with every episode as we get more and more experienced in this field our iq just drops plummets just more and more and more experienced in this field, our IQ just drops.

Plummets. Just more and more and more. I mean, if today's episode was anything to go by, our brains are melting in our skulls. I mean, my God. So I think as time goes on, we're probably going to see like a crazy exponential rise in true paranormal events. We'll probably even start backtracking to older stories

and confirming them as real. So I think that about wraps it up for the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle in this episode. But if you happen to have traveled in that region, if you've heard first-hand tales, hell, second-hand tales, hell, internet creepypastas of the Bermuda Triangle. We're not picky people. You must have read that by now. Please email them in to this paranormal

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