45. A search plane sent after the bombers failed to return,” (Encarta, 1997: 1).
Other famous losses that have contributed to the Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Limbo of the Lost, mystique are the disappearance of a 542-foot US Navy Ship, Cyclops, and two US Air Force KC-135s. There are many other stories that fill the imagination with possibilities of ghosts, space aliens, undersea beings, other-dimensional vortexes and a host of plausibilities to explain the unexplainable disappearances of many planes, ships and boats in the area. One if the story of the Mary Celeste. It was a 103-foot Brigantine that weighed almost 300 tons. It sailed for Genoa on November 7, 1872 and was found in the triangle, about 400 miles off its course, completely abandoned, “The Dei Gratia sighted the ship sailing erratically. When the Captain went to investigate, he found that the only life boat had been launched, yet the ship was in perfect shape, with sails set. Numerous stories about the Celeste abound; the stories cover everything from bloody swords under the Captain’s bed to strange vortexes sucking off the crew, to an underground world,” (The Stories, 1997: 1).
The story of Flight 19 is the most popular one told about the Bermuda Triangle, however. It is the disappearance that finally began the cult phenomenon we know today as the Devil’s Triangle myth. In the 1950s, a slow news day prompted a reported to begin covering the disappearances of the many vessels that had been lost in this mysterious
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