Part 2 Warning, Stay Away from the Devil's Triangle! Part 1

The Triangle of the Lost and the Bermuda Triangle

The Triangle of the Lost. It starts at port of Norfolk, Virginia, crosses the Atlantic Ocean to the 40^th parallel, then makes its way down to Venezuela and Trinidad, and then down to Florida. It is not a true triangle because its western edges are disrupted by Florida’s coastline. There isn’t much research information about it, either, because it’s more renown for the Bermuda Triangle. So, yes, a triangle within a triangle.  The Bermuda Triangle, itself, encompasses Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Miami. And both triangles are certainly calmer than the triangle thousands of miles away across the other side of the planet in chopper, steeper water- The Dragon’s Triangle, which is a triangle on steroids. The Triangle of the Lost and Bermuda Triangle are located, instead, within a body of translucent, calm water and there are not nearly as many casualties to them (think hundreds if not thousands compared to hundreds of thousands that disappear into the Dragon's Triangle). Naturally, these triangles have sparked tales and superstitions of their own. One particularly prudent one being that pilots and sailors should avoid these triangles...at all costs.

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But not everyone adhered to that superstition. That certainly wasn’t the case for the Sandra’s overconfident captain in June, 1950, when he decided to brave the Florida coastline.  The ship, which was filled with 350 tons of pesticides, was sailing from Savannah, Georgia on a business venture to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. The weather was perfect, the ship had up-to-date state of the art navigational equipment; it should have made its destination without a hitch. Instead, it vanished into thin air, and its disappearance took the U.S. Coast Guard off guard. They never received any communication from the captain that would indicate the Sandra was in trouble, which is peculiar.

“A ship’s captain usually has advance warning about a possible disaster,” said the spokesman for the U.S Coast Guard. “This occurs when you lose engine power, punch a hole in the bottom [of the ship], or something like that. A ship doesn’t sink in a moment or two. There’s always enough time to get a radioed messaged off before abandoning the vessel.”

An intense aerial and marine search was conducted, to no avail. They found nothing- no ship, no debris. According to the spokesman, there’s usually plenty of debris after a ship sinks. What’s more, the ship had plenty of life preservers, lifeboats, and other life-saving equipment. In short, it shouldn’t have simply disappeared without a trace, and because of the lack of evidence, they can’t even form a picture of what really happened to her. She was, just, gone.

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The City of Glasgow met a similar fate in March, 1954. Considered one of the best ships in the world at the time,  she had an iron hull for safety, several strong sails, and auxiliary power to power the ship when the wind died down.

“You’ll get there all right with time to spare,” said an agent for the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steamship Company in Liverpool, England to a hopeful Irish immigrant.

But The City of Glasgow and her 480 crewmen and passengers never made it out of the Triangle of the Lost. This was a particularly tragic loss too, because most of the passengers were European immigrants leaving their country in the hopes of pursuing a better life in America. Some of them even had anxious relatives waiting in Delaware Bay for them. However, as hours went by, they never appeared. They disappeared, instead, as they glided into the Triangle of the Lost like the Sandra. But this disappearance sparked a flurry of imaginative speculation about what happened to the ship and its 399 passengers and 81 crew members, such as being attacked by murderous pirates or being eaten by a native cannibalistic group. None theories of it panned out, however (or clearly).  

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There are people who made it out of the Triangle of the Lost alive, and one of them is Samuel Otis.  The 62 year old retired clerk from New York State was also adamant that he’ll never go through it again for a million dollars. The fishing trip that took him there started off well enough, and it was supposed to help him heal from his depression that was brought on by losing his wife and child to an automobile accident. That was the initial intent of his doctor. So he decided to sail to Miami on July 7, 1973 and fish along the coastline.

At night, he took refuge in a cove where he would eat his catch for the day, then go to sleep. On his third night, he camped out in a bay. He had just finished eating his meal and was putting out his camp fire, when a huge reddish- orange glowing ball of light the size of a ranch home materialized near his boat. According to Otis, the ball of light was so bright, he had to turn away from it. Naturally, he was scared out of his wits, so he scrambled for his boat as the ball of light followed him.

He had just reached his boat when, “The light dimmed and the whole thing took on the appearance of an old sailing ship,” claimed Odis.

And not just any type of ship either- a translucent ship through which you can see trees across the bay. Yet he insists the ship could be seen by anyone and he could see people in the ghost ship preparing for battle as it sailed passed him. Some sightings are impossible to confirm. When it reached the mouth of the bay, it turned south and headed deeper into the Triangle of the Lost. But what was the intent of the glowing orb? Was it trying to communicate a message to poor ole Otis? Perhaps it was warning him that he’d face something foreboding, if he were to meander through the triangle in his boat. Perhaps it was trying to scare him away from the area in general. He wouldn’t be the first scavenger in the Triangle of the Lost who was warned to stay away (read part 2 for that story). 

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