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- [Johnny] In the last 200 years,

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20 planes, 50 ships and hundreds of people

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have just vanished in a small
area in the Atlantic Ocean.

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This is a part of the ocean
called the "Bermuda Triangle,"

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or the "Devil's Triangle."

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It's an aquatic graveyard
where over the years

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researchers have uncovered
hundreds of wrecks.

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Scientific hypotheses have been crafted

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to try to explain what is happening here.

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The idea, the fear, has spread

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sparking countless books and documentaries

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attempting to prove that
there's something strange

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happening in this triangle of ocean.

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- [Speaker] There's some kind of a anomaly

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going on down there that we can't explain.

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Something that goes on down
far, far below the deepest

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rays, the last rays of sunlight.

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- [Johnny] In this video,

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we're gonna explain what the mystery

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of the Bermuda Triangle really is,

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and why this perilous patch of ocean

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has captured the curiosity and
fear of millions of people.

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Hey, I'm excited to get into this story

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because it gets really juicy.

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Let's get back to the Bermuda Triangle.

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It's generally regarded
as this area of water

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in the North Atlantic,

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drawn from Miami, to San Juan, to Bermuda.

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The mystery here kind
of started back in 1492

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when Christopher Columbus
who, incidentally,

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is getting a lot of air
time on the channel lately,

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for better or worse.

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This is where the
biggest light bulb moment

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of the century goes
off in this guy's head.

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I know, I know.

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The sources are in the
description, I'm sorry.

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Can we move on, please?

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Thank you.

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Anyway, Columbus is out
there trying to reach Asia

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and he passes through
this triangle of water,

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and this is where things get weird.

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Columbus kept a very detailed journal,

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which I have a first edition
English translation of

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that I'm not freaking out
about because I love old books.

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Did I need to buy this for this story?

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No.

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Did I spend way too much
money on it as an excuse?

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Yes.

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But while I have it, let's look at it.

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God, look at this freaking book, gorgeous.

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Okay, anyway, on September 13th, 1492,

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Columbus says that as he's
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something weird starts
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On this day, "at the
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the needles turned a
half point north-west,

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and in the morning they turned
somewhat more north-west."

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Whoa.

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Creepy, Chris.

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But it doesn't stop there.

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He also reported the sea rising

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and a strange light out in the distance.

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He described it like a wax
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What is going on here?

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The mystery continued
throughout the centuries.

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In 1606, while traveling
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a large English ship
carrying 150 travelers

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became wrecked at Bermuda

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after encountering a huge hurricane.

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Even though this wasn't mysterious,

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because it was just weather,

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it left an impression on how
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In fact, it is supposed
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inspired Shakespeare's
play, "The Tempest,"

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which often referred to
Bermuda, or Bermoothes,

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as being vexed or cursed.

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Okay, but listen to this one.

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Next up is 1881.

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This ship is sailing from
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When it passes through the triangle,

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the people on board say that they

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came across a ghost ship
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There are varying reports
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but the people on board generally reported

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that some of the crew decided
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but then the ships were
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When they were reunited with
the ghost ship the next day,

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there was no trace of the crew.

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This stuff is kind of spooky if true.

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But wait, we're just
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when you get to the 20th Century,

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that's when the Bermuda Triangle,

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as a mysterious body of water,

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started to gain a lot of attention.

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In February, 1918, one of
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the USS Cyclops, was carrying 300 men

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from Salvador, Brazil
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The route goes right through
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but the ship never arrived to Baltimore.

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Despite being able to, The Cyclops

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never sent out an SOS distress call.

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No wreck was ever found.

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As one article published

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a few years after the disappearance said,

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"Usually, a wooden bucket
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identified as belonging to a lost ship

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is picked up after a wreck,

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but not so with the Cyclops."

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"She just disappeared as though

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some gigantic monster of the sea

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had grabbed her, men and all,

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and sent her into the
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In an official statement,
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"The disappearance of the ship has been

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one of the most baffling mysteries

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in the annals of the Navy."

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That's an official quote.

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Again,

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kind of spooky.

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Oh, and the Navy boats kept disappearing.

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In 1941, the USS Proteus,

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carrying 58 passengers
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suddenly vanished within
the Bermuda Triangle.

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And then one month later,
another Navy ship disappears.

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61 people on board totally gone.

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But it wasn't until 1945

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when people started to
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This is when a bunch of
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were doing a three hour exercise
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flying out and then pivoting
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back in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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But these planes never returned

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and the disappearances
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A long haul flight with
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disappeared in the triangle
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And a year later, it happened again

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to another plane of the exact same model.

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All in all, there have been over

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70 mysterious disappearances here

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in this little patch of ocean,

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where all those years
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something strange
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With time, more and more
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One writer in the '50s said, quote,

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"There have been other disappearances

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in this backyard sea of ours;

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and always the record,

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when the account is finally closed,

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has an ominous notation:
'No trace found.'"

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And then in 1964, the
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was actually coined in an article.

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Vincent Gadace asserted that, quote,

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"Sea distances are relatively short."

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Referring to the Bermuda Triangle.

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"And yet this relatively limited area

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is the scene of disappearances that total

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far beyond the laws of chance."

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People wanted answers.

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10 years later, this book came out.

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The author goes deep and
he makes the argument

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that something is really
happening in the Bermuda Triangle.

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It's not just bad weather.

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This mysterious patch of water

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is actually a gateway to
something much bigger.

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And then he is not afraid to explore

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some alternative theories
about ancient civilizations

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and energy that was left
over from those civilizations

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affecting this area.

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It's magnets, it's
crystals, it's worm holes,

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it's the ripping of space time.

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These forces connect us

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to the physical potential of our universe.

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All shown to us because of the

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mysterious disappearances
of the Bermuda Triangle.

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No, no, no!

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Come on, guys.

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I hope no one was actually

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following me down that
rabbit hole because,

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you can't read a book like this,

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talk about a bunch of mysterious things,

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and call that evidence.

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That is not what this is.

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I was really into this for a moment.

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Actually, when I was going
through all of the disappearances

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until it started to become
about freaking crystals

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and alien life coming to save
humans from nuclear fission.

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We can't do this.

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We can't present a handful of data points,

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even if they're factually accurate,

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separated by hundreds of
years and call that proof

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that this patch of ocean is cursed.

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What blows my mind is that this book,

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the one that really put the
Bermuda Triangle on the map,

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sold over 14 million copies worldwide.

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It was translated into 22 languages,

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despite being riddled with
completely invalidating errors.

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I mean, what?

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Come on.

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I'm actually not surprised.

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I mean, look at us.

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Look at what we're doing here.

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We're sitting here eating this
stuff up like it's ice cream.

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People love this stuff.

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Mysterious stories and finding connections

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in observations that we
can see and understand.

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I know that at least for me,

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no matter how data minded
and objective I am,

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I kind of get intoxicated
by a good mysterious story.

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Our brains are like built for this stuff.

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Especially when the storyteller

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throws in little embellishments like-

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Despite being able to,
The Cyclops never sent out

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an SOS distress call.

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This tendency is really concerning to me.

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And honestly, more and more as I realize

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how powerful of a tool storytelling is.

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Especially visual storytelling,

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where I can layer in the
music and the visuals

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to make your brain think that it is real.

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Okay, wait a minute, you're asking,

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"Is this a video about
the Bermuda Triangle?"

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"Or is this Johnny Harris's
current soul searching

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about factual accuracy and
storytelling on the internet?"

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It's both.

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But let's keep going on
this Bermuda Triangle story

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because there actually
is a very satisfying

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evidence based answer

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to what is really going on
with all these disappearances.

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Here we go.

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There have been some serious
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developed on what's going on here.

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They range from things like,

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the Bermuda Triangle having a
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which throws off compasses
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Remember, Columbus, creepy Chris?

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Or methane blowouts,
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We have these huge
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under the ocean floor,
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you get this massive explosion,

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and then a huge crater
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anything that is floating on top of it.

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That could easily explain it, right?

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Okay, but then there's
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Here's another more simple
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The Bermuda Triangle is in the Caribbean,

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which does seem to have an abnormal number

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of high intensity storms.

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That kind of makes sense.

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And one popular theory
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can cause what are called rogue waves,

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which are massive waves that
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Maybe it's those that lead
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See, this is making more sense.

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You've got methane gas, geomagnetism,

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tons of storms in the Caribbean.

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It makes sense that
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for planes and boats.

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These are scientific explanations

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that validate the Bermuda Triangle.

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We don't need Atlantis,
and crystals, and aliens.

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We have geomagnetism and weather systems.

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Rational explanations
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No, no, no, no!

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Shine the light, folks

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Do not fall for this, again.

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No, another trap.

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Me saying sciency things like

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"geomagnetism" and "methane blowouts"

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can sound like I'm presenting
strong evidence to you,

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but I'm not.

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I'm saying words.

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I'm speculating.

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Okay, so will we ever get
to the bottom of this?

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Well, yes we can.

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But not by listening
to me tell you stories

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about ghost ships and
mysterious Navy disappearances,

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or even 100 foot waves.

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Instead, we need to
approach this differently.

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Humans have developed an
amazing tool for seeing reality.

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Instead of relying on
our own observations,

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which usually need to
be couched as stories,

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and that are limited by

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how much we can hold in our brain at once.

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Instead of this, we can
collect hundreds, thousands,

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or hundreds of thousands of
observations about the world,

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and they don't have to fit
in our brains all at once

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because we can record them over time,

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and then process and aggregate
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And if you did that, you would see that,

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of the tens of thousands of recorded

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accidents or casualties at sea

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recorded over the course of 20 years,

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there wasn't anything
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It doesn't even make the top 10

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most dangerous ocean regions in the world,

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at least according to another
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We wanted to make sure on this,

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so we reached out to Lloyd's List,

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which is a shipping publication

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who graciously spent
months aggregating data,

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tons of data about marine
casualties out to sea.

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We found that 1.8% of all
vessels everywhere in the world

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have some casualty, including
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1.8%.

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And that of the 8,634

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boats that passed through
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there were only two casualties.

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0.02% of the boats that passed
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90 times lower than the global average.

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That was for 2021.

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So yeah, that's the evidence

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we should actually be
looking at and talking about.

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It's not as tantalizing as
the stories told in this book

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that sold 20 million copies.

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But it's true.

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It's what actually happened.

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And the beautiful thing is,

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you can then go and look at my sources,

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look at the data sets that I used,

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and you can interrogate them.

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And you can come back and
tell me that my data is weak

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because of the way it was
collected and what was left out.

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That's called "discourse."

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And it is the foundation

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of how we know what we
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All of us need to be vigilant of this,

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perhaps me more than
anyone, I'm a storyteller.

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But I also want to be a communicator

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of true information about the
world, to communicate to you.

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And yeah, we'll definitely disagree

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on what that information means,

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and how important certain things are.

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Interpretation, opinion, et cetera.

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But I'm here to make a further commitment

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to going the extra mile

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to gather the best truth I can

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to make sure that it's actually real.

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So, thank you for being here.

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For being a part of my
discourse, my learning,

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and to check me on this when I get loose.

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And to make sure that together

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we don't let the power of story

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get in the way of the power of truth.

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Hey, thanks for watching.

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Something I didn't show in the video

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was this model plane that
Nick, our studio manager, made.

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- [Nick] It's a TBM Avenger,

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one of the Flight 19 planes.

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- Nuances, man.

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"Several investigators of
the Bermuda Triangle mystery

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have suggested that alien intelligences

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may be interested or even concerned

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in the possibility that our development of

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nuclear fission for
warfare may be threatening

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the existence of
civilization on our planet.

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As it may have previously destroyed

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other civilizations on
this and other planets."

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"The time span of rational
man on this planet

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of the intelligence
potential and comparable

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to that of today may extend
back 40 to 50,000 years."

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Oh, this is good shit, dude.