The Bermuda Triangle is famous for its ghastly amount of disappearances of airplanes and ships that find themselves in that specific area of the Atlantic waters. But there is a similar, and perhaps even more dangerous, mysterious triangle located right in the heart of the US. The Great Lakes Triangle!
The Great Lakes Triangle allegedly accounts for even more unexplained disappearances than the far more famous Bermuda Triangle. This is interesting considering that the Bermuda Triangle is over 15 times larger than the Great Lakes. Centered over Lake Michigan, the Great Lakes Triangle remains a strange mysterious place where a striking number of ships and aircraft have been lost.
This northern triangle shares many of the same characteristics of the Bermuda Triangle in that sightings of “ghost” ships, strange disappearances, and even several UFO sightings have transformed waters surrounding Michigan into a hotbed of unexplained mysteries. The wicked waters of these lakes at their very worst have famously taken ships to the bottom and countless aircraft have also been lost. Many wrecks have never been found.
The Great Lakes have an irregular shape that allow for pilots to never be any more than 20 minutes from land at any time. It is possible at any point over any of the Great Lakes for a pilot to shut down the engines on their aircraft and simply glide to landfall. Because of this, the amount of lost aircraft over the lakes seems strangely large. Planes simply seeming to vanish, never to be seen or heard from again, are still occurring today despite the safety measures that have been put into place in response to so many inexplicable accidents.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have received so many extraordinary incidents over the Great Lakes that they instituted a special “Lake Reporting Service” where pilots flying over the lakes make continuous reports to any of the hundreds of ground-based, sea-based, or air-based monitoring stations. As little as a 10-minute delay in reporting from an aircraft automatically launches search and rescue. While this service has saved many lives from ordinary accidents, the extraordinary and inexplicable disasters remain at such high incidences.
One of the most famous incidences occurred in 1950 when Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 departed from New York City due for Minneapolis – the flight never made it. The last radio contacts happened shortly after flying over Battle Creek, Michigan, on the east coast of Lake Michigan claiming that bad weather near Chicago is forcing the plane to change course. Somewhere over Lake Michigan, in the heart of the Great Lakes Triangle, the plane disappeared and went completely radio silent. Light debris and human body fragments were recovered weeks after the plane was lost however the full wreckage has never been located.
