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This is So Bizarre, a podcast where we find the weirdest stories from history and share them with you.
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I'm Bianca.
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I'm Nicole.
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Let's get started.
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So, Nicole, how are you doing this week?
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I'm doing okay.
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I'm doing fine.
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Love to hear it.
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Yeah, how are you doing?
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Being good.
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I feel like it's uh the year has just flown by.
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But it's what it is.
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She's not done yet.
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Well, I did something really fun.
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I went to a cute little bougie sauna.
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And it was really, really nice and empty.
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And it has two things, no, three things that I find crucial in the sauna experience.
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Um, for people listening, please know that I do love a sauna, and Nicole does hate a sauna.
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True.
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Yes.
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Well, I don't hate a sauna.
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I just like I hate everything about, yeah.
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No, I hate a sauna.
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Yeah, and that's okay.
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I respect that.
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I know.
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It's okay.
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I will say this.
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This sauna, it wasn't too expensive, but it was very empty.
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The lighting was perfect, like it was very moody, dark lighting.
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It had really good music, and it was very clean.
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Okay.
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And like had like those expensive little soaps, you know, that are so expensive that they have them like locked in, sort of thing.
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Yeah.
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Is this for our listeners, or is this an attack on me not liking saunas?
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It's so much more than that.
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This is me playing long game and really looking for that sauna sponsorship.
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So that's why I'm here.
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I'm looking for Big Sauna to come in and just I would love Big Sauna to come in.
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Yeah, that's what I want.
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Get the sauna lobbyists in here.
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Uh-huh.
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I'll do whatever you want.
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Well, anyways, Nicole, speaking of wet, dark places, I think you're gonna quite enjoy today's episode.
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Today we will be
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discussing the Bermuda Triangle.
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What I actually really think about it a lot and think about how much I don't know about it.
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Yeah, wow.
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This is exciting to me.
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I'm so excited.
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Uh so it is the Bermuda Triangle, aka the devil's triangle.
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Hmm.
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So for starters, what do you know about the Bermuda Triangle?
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Honestly, not much, which is why I'm so excited.
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Uh, I just know that I just know the lore.
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That's like a pirate lore.
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Or like Okay.
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In the olden days where people were trying to discover the continents, they would get lost in there and die.
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And die.
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Okay, you're not very far off.
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In fact, you kind of hit it on the head.
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Do you know where the Bermuda Triangle is?
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Trick question.
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Nobody really does, but the general gist is that.
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Caribbeans?
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Yes.
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The Bermuda Triangle.
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Excellent.
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Thank you.
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Gold Star.
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The Bermuda Triangle is an area off the coast of the U.S.
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in the Atlantic Ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda.
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And it covers about 440,000 miles of ocean.
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It is a place where ships, planes, and hundreds of people have supposedly vanished without a trace.
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Now, the causes of these disappearances have been attributed to a ton of reasons.
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Um, I will say some of them, not all of them, but people think that it is anywhere from UFOs, magnetic fields, freak weather, freak waves, trapped methane, the lost city of Atlantis and its energy crystals, an ancient comet.
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Yes, of course, that damn lost city, an ancient comet on the seabed, USA's AUCTEC base, America's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center, uh located on Andres Island Bahamas.
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And theorists have argued that the governments have worked with aliens and the basis testing for alien technology.
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And finally, the last and my personal favorite reason a rip in the space-time continuum, creating a time tunnel.
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More on that later.
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So you kind of were right when you were saying like olden stories of you know Caribbean times.
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Basically, um stories around the Bermuda Triangle started way back in Christopher Columbus's time, toy, toy, toy, as he recorded seeing a glowing globe of light hovering over them, being like Christopher Columbus and his crew.
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At one point, his compass began spinning.
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Um, but he sucks.
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So let's take that story with a grain of sucky salt.
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The term Bermuda Triangle didn't get coined until 1964 by American author Vincent Gaddis in an article titled The Deadly Bermuda Triangle, written for later than I would thought.
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Right?
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Well, that's the way lore works.
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But it, I mean, it did get started like way back when, and I think it was only like when a guy in the 60s had like a little catchy name for it that people were like, oh, okay.
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The area's urban legend started becoming popular in the 20th century when the Navy cargo ship USS Cyclops, a ship with more than 300 people on board, went missing in the area.
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So we're gonna dig into that story, and I'm gonna also talk about a few other freaky stories.
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So the USS Cyclops, one of the Navy's biggest fuel ships, marks the largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy, not related to combat.
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Yes.
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In I know, in March 1918, the ship sailed from Brazil to Baltimore through the Bermuda Triangle, obviously stopping off in places.
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It was carrying 11,000 tons of manganese ore, and it had just over 300 crew members.
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Allegedly, it set off on a good day, and uh the ship indicated no issues.
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And then the ship was never heard from again.
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It left, I believe, somewhere around Barbados, and that was it.
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The entire area was searched, and not a single thing was ever found.
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No remains of the ship or any of the crew members.
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The captain of the USS Cyclops never even sent a distress signal, and no one responded to radio calls from other vessels.
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Weird very weird.
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Bizarre, even bizarre, if you will.
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But did they have the mains at the time?
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What do you mean?
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What year was this?
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1918.
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Yeah.
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How good were those were those radars?
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I mean, it's not that they were big.
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I think it's less about like the radar technology and more like how it's a big, big ship.
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Yeah.
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And for it to not go missing, nothing is a little crazy, no?
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Yeah, true.
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The next spooky ship thing we'll talk about is Carol A.
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Deering.
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And that was a five-masted schooner that was found aground the rocks of Hatteras Diamond Shoals in North Carolina.
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When an investigation team got to the vessel, they found a deserted ship.
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All of the crew members were missing, along with their personal items and navigational equipment and life grafts.
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But the ship itself was fine besides it being upon rocks.
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And they also discovered food in the middle of being prepared in the empty galley.
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Next one, Witchcraft.
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On December 22nd, 1967, a cabin cruiser called Witchcraft left Miami with its captain, Dan Barak, and a friend.
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After making it just one mile offshore, the captain called the Coast Guard and said the ship hit something, but there was no substantial damage.
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The Coast Guard set off and got to the location within less than 20 minutes.
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But the area was empty and there was no sign of any vessel having been stranded or previously present.
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No sign of life jackets, lifeboats, flare, distress signal devices.
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Let's see.
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Great.
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In we're gonna talk about now a flight.
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In December 1970, Bruce Gernan flew from Andros Islands in the Bahamas towards Florida with his father and an associate.
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Whatever that means.
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He was an experienced pilot and very familiar with the route.
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Not long after takeoff, he got into a strange cloud that grew into what seemed like a storm.
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He said that he saw a tunnel through the clouds, maybe 10 or 15 miles long, and he decided to fly through it.
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According to him, the tunnel collapsed around the plane as he flew through it, and he felt a sensation of weightlessness.
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His compass started acting up, and when he finally realized where he was, he discovered he was over Miami Beach, effectively traveling 100 miles in three minutes.
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An impossible feat.
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In 1948, a commercial flight DC-3 disappeared, taking off from San Juan with two crew members and 29 passengers heading for Miami.
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The plane was 50 miles away from Miami when the captain radioed the Miami airport for landing instructions.
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The airport
replied, and nobody responded.
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The plane was never seen again.
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And a final one, this is one of the biggest ones, um, possibly what really set off the whole Bermuda Triangle notion, right?
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Um, it is Flight 19.
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So in 1945, a five-plane squadron, Flight 19, with 27 men, set out on a training mission from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and never made it back.
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Radio transmission from the crew members indicated that they may have become disoriented, apparently believing that they were somewhere they weren't.
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The pilots began reporting problems determining their position and direction.
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Now, what makes this really, really, really crazy is that a rescue mission of 13 men were subsequently sent to search for flight 19, but those men too never returned.
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Spooky.
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Very spooky.
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It's October.
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So Nicole, I've told you told you some certainly spooky things.
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Um what do you think?
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What are your thoughts?
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I think well now.
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Do you I guess my real question is?
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I would not I would not stand there if I had a boat.
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Do you not?
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Okay.
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I would that's question that's question one.
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Question two.
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Do you or do you not believe there is a rip in the space-time continuum?
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It's a yes or no question at all.
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It's complicated to be on God.
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It's a yes or no question.
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It's hard for me to say yes or no to this.
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I believe whatever people believe is the reality of their lives.
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How's that?
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I think I do it well.
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I think you said I nailed it.
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I think that was a yes.
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Um, however, you want to interpret the Bermuda triangle, it's a real choose your own adventure.
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You decide.
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It's just a mirror.
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It's just a mirror held up against you guys.
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Um, let's talk a little bit about what might be going on from a non-spooky angle.
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Even though I love spooky.
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We're doing science.
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We're bringing in science.
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We're gonna talk about brass tacks.
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So the number of ships and aircrafts reported missing in the area are not significantly greater, proportionally speaking, than any other area of the ocean.
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Well, okay, so the area is also prone to tropical cyclones, and the number of disappearances that did occur were for the most part um apparently not that mysterious.
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Um, there's sensationalism, stories exaggerated by sloppy journalism and research to get more buzz.
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There's even some evidence that the journalists, and this is going to be shocking for everybody, who wrote about the events happening in calm weather, um, actually, when they did further research, determined that the records say otherwise, that it was crazy weather.
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So it's not as otherworldly as we're led to believe.
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It is also worth noting that the Marine Insurers, Lloyds of London, were asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bremita Triangle area.
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Lloyds determined that large numbers of ships had not sunk there, and they do not charge higher rates for passing through the area.
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The United States Coast Guard records confirm this conclusion.
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Hmm.
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Now what?
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Now what?
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Now what?
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Well, okay, so my conclusion is yes, maybe the Bermuda Triangle isn't extra crazy, maybe, but I think there's enough really weird things that happen there, like things that just like disappear.
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Maybe the crazy thing is just like horrific scary weather.
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Like, sorry, but a freak wave is still fucking spooky.
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I don't want to hear about that.
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I think that the world always has to have some mystical story.
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I agree.
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I do too.
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I need a mystical story about something I think it's important for us as humans to get out of our human state.
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And I think there are other funner, magical things.
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So yeah, I'm a little, I'm a little perturbed.
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On like the spectrum of things, I'm not gonna put it all the way at like absolutely not, but I'm gonna put it on.
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I've got my eye on you.
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I'm looking at you, Bermuda Triangle.
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I see what you're doing, I don't like it.
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Yeah, but I guess my question to you is do you want to go with me?
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Do you want to come with me to the Bahamas tomorrow?
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All inclusive?
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Yeah, but I'm flying the plane.
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Fuck yeah.
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I'm a poor person.
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If it's all inclusive, I have nothing to lose.
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If I die, I would die being so hopeful that I'm gonna get an all-inclusive.
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If I don't die, I'm getting an all-inclusive.
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Either way, I will be happy at the end of this.
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It's a winner's mindset.
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Yeah, I like it.
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Or a loser's mindset.
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No, because you know what?
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I think that you could be the richest person in the world and you would still do it because you love a you love a good time.
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You love a good deal.
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So, yes, Bianca.
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Let's go to the Bermuda Triangle together.
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