There can be no doubt that we are in a world where some of the strangest things are taking place. You don’t need your imagination, just your perception of wrong and right to see where we might be headed if left unchecked. We are going to focus on exploring some of the more mysterious, even otherworldly, strange things that are happening and have been happening for the last several decades in two of the more unexplained places around the world. Things that in the natural world may seem, supernatural.
One of these is a place that we have heard about since we were children. A number of ships, large planes, small water craft and single engine planes have all disappeared into a void in the Atlantic Ocean called The Bermuda Triangle. Dating back for centuries, over 50 ships and 20 planes have simply vanished from the face of the sea or from the sky above this area of nearly 5 million square miles in the Atlantic Ocean. The three points of the triangle are, Miami, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda. That’s a big triangle. On July 10, 1945 the first of these vanishing was officially reported. It was a US Navy Patrol Seaplane. Aviation Machinist’s Mate, Thomas Arthur Garner and a crew of eleven men were enroute from Naval Air Station Banana River in Florida to Exuma, Bahamas just one-month before the Japanese surrender in WWII. The Martin PBM Mariner they were flying was on a training mission that took off at just after 7 pm on July 9th. The Mariner was the largest flying boat of the time, and had the most advanced technology of 1945 with a flight range of over 3,500 miles. It was the epitome of a routine flight. No enemy ships or planes or submarines had been reported in the area, and the Mariner was expected to arrive at Exuma on July 10 just after 2am. However, without warning, no distress signal or radio contact, they disappeared from radar at approx. 1:15 am somewhere off the coast of Providence Island near the Bahamas, just inside the Triangle. After a 10-day search, nothing had been found of either the crew or the plane. They were listed as haven been lost at sea. They were the first official disappearance in what was labeled, the Bermuda Triangle.
This area between Florida and the Bahamas surprisingly is not the only place in our oceans where strange happenings have been taking place for centuries. Ever since sails have been pushing men over the sea, ships, then planes and even submarines have been disappearing without a trace. Sometimes, a wreckage or debris has been recovered, but all without an explanation of what had occurred. Reports of these vanishings at times have been accompanied by strong storms, typhoons, and squalls, most of which appear and then disappear suddenly.
One such case happened 7,489 miles due east from Bermuda, nearly along the same latitudinal line. It was 743 years ago to date, on Aug. 14, 1281. A bully named Kublai Khan from the kingdom of Mongolia was bent on taking over the world, but his main prize was the Island of Japan. Khan had been trying for years to gain the Japanese country. Being the Grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai could not do any less than his grandfather. On his second attempt at invading Japan, he sent an armada of over 3,500 ships to take the kingdom. This was a mistake.
As the fleet approached Japan, without Kublai, they began to experience unusually high winds and higher than normal seas. In an attempt to come through the weather intact the ships were lashed together with enormous steel chains forming large blocks of vessels on the ocean. The rain quickly grew into typhon force winds and visibility was limited to the boat each man was on. By the time the winds subsided and the sea calmed, only a handful of the 3,500 ships were left a float. All hands on the lost ships had disappeared, and this sent fear through the remaining sailors. They turned their crippled ships around to sail back to China with tales of Kraken like sea creatures grabbing the fleet and taking it and the men on board down to watery graves. They described the area as, ‘The Dragon’s Sea’. The Japanese, however, saw this as a victory granted by their gods, and they never feared the Khans again. But they never ventured out into that area of the ocean either. Since then, there have been numerous reports of ships and planes mysteriously vanishing there.
Some local fishermen say that this is a place that starts at the coast of Japan, runs east towards the Philippines, and then west to the coast of Guam. It is in this area, called MA-No-Umi, ‘The Devil’s Sea’ that ships and planes along with their crews have gone missing. It is the Pacific Ocean’s answer to the Bermuda Triangle. An abundance of reports have come in about ships and planes missing after entering this area. Unfortunately, not much has been released to the public about these disappearances, and the lives lost. Some believe that those involved, the Japanese Navy, the Coast Guard, and the families of the missing know the truth, choosing not share it with the world. Still, the locals stay clear of these waters, avoiding the fate of ships like, Kaio Maru No.5, Toshi- Maru, Shihyo-Maru and a Mitsubishi A6M Zero during WWII and its pilot, Shiro Kawamoto who disappeared into the ocean just before Japan surrendered.
With the uncertainty of the world today, and the upside-down thinking of our leaders, reading things like this helps us to see that no matter what happens, there is always a much bigger picture being painted, with us waiting for its unveiling. Soon.
