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  Bermuda Triangle Theories and Counter-Theories The Bermuda Triangle is a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found. Other boats and planes have seemingly vanished from the area in good weather without even radioing distress messages. But although myriad fanciful theories have been proposed regarding the Bermuda Triangle, none of them prove that mysterious disappearances occur more frequently there than in other well-traveled sections of the ocean. In fact, people navigate the area every day without incident. By the time author Vincent Gaddis coined the phrase “Bermuda Triangle” in a 1964 magazine article, additional mysterious accidents had occurred in the area, including thr...

  These are certainly mythical tales. But  the Kraken legends may have been based on a real creature: the giant squid . Giant squid have long tentacles and can grow up to 40-50 feet in length. They usually live deep in the sea. The Kraken was said to haunt the seas of  Norway, Greenland, and Iceland . Seafarer sightings of the Kraken took place in the 1700s, but it was first recorded by King Sverre of Norway in 1180. Kraken mythology said that the Kraken was a creature so large that it could be mistaken for an island. There have been several reported sightings of mysterious sea creatures over the last hundred years, but  there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that any of these sightings were of the legendary Kraken  or another similar monster.

  The source of a mysterious rumble recorded in the ocean in 1997 is now known to have originated from an icequake.  "The Bloop" is the given name of a mysterious underwater sound recorded in the 90s .