I'm not sure if this topic fits the bill of an urban legend. Nevertheless, let's throw the topic out there for discussion. Who knows if any of the hype about the Bermuda Triangle has any truth? Also, I've heard there's another place on the opposite side of the globe similar to the Bermuda Triangle. It's as if you were to pierce the world at the point of the bermuda triangle, and where the point emerges on the other side, there's supposed to be another place on earth where weird stuff happens. I've been told it's got to do with magnetic fields, but who knows?

The number of ships and planes lost in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle is not any more than in any other area of the ocean.

Many gullible authors (who have absolutely no interest in "solving" any missing ship mystery--but rather want to further add to a non-mystery) will (and have) included any ship or plane that left on one side of the world and failed to show up on the other side of the world, and automatically include them as being lost in the Bermuda Triangle, when their loss at sea could have happened anywhere along the route.

"...the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery by a kind of communal reinforcement among uncritical authors and a willing mass media to uncritically pass on the speculation that something mysterious is going on in the Atlantic."
From this site.

Here are some websites about the Bermuda Triangle.

Site One

Site 2

It is total folklore BS....No truth whatsoever...

Think about it. You have an area of ocean which forms not actually a triangle, but a rough trapezoid, in which many accidents occur.

This also is an area in which:

there are many pleasure craft

there are many pleasure aircraft

it is crisscrossed bu the paths between the mainland and many islands noted for their partying attractions

it is not policed for 'drunk boating'

it is not policed for 'drunk flying'

it is used for military training exercises

it is also a busy shipping area

it is an escape route for political dissidents, many of whom are not expert boaters and who leave at night without proper equipment

it is a drug runners route

it is very crowded.

What do you expect?

I know of a true story of the Bermuda Triangle.

There was a ship, I think it was called Discovery, and it was cruising along. About a mile away there was a plane and the people on the ship saw it suddenly stop in mid-air and fall down into the water. When they got to the spot where the plane had disappeared they saw that it was gone. The plane was going fairly quickly too.

A plane can fall out of the sky. I got a big lengthy expiation of this from a pilot I was treating at the rehab I was working at. That's exactly what happened to him because of air shift and weather condition. His plane literally dropped straight down to land. It's amazing he lived through it.

I'm thinking anything the weight of an airplane dropped from a high altitude would go splat on impact of water. I'm thinking small pieces flying for miles. I don't think the people on the boat were necessarily mistaken at all by what they saw. I see it as more a coincidence of location is all.

Now, what about Big Foot? I remember him being a big deal when I was a kid. He couldn't be captured. Lots of people report seeing UFO's. My dad is even convinced he saw one. People interpret what they don't understand incorrectly at times.

Thats the thing though. There was no debris or oil. There should have been some debris or oil at least but there was nothing.