10 SHOCKING FACTS ABOUT BERMUDA TRIANGLE

1. The Bermuda Triangle is not small. In fact, it is quite large and covers an area of 440,000 miles of sea.

2. The triangle is certainly not fixed and its effect can be experienced outside of the triangle too.

3. The disappearances are ascribed to UFO's and alien activity, city of Atlantis lost under the the triangle, and various other technical, natural and geographical reasons. But, these do not have any clear evidence and some of these are pure rumors.

4. Whenever any plane or ship disappears in the Triangle, its debris cannot be found. The reason behind this is the Gulf Stream runs near the triangle, which quickly gets rid of the debris.

5. At least 1000 lives are lost within the last 100 years. On average, 4 aircraft and 20 yachts go missing every year.

6. Inside the Bermuda Triangle, US Government have AUTEC (Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center), which is located on the Andros Island of Bahamas. Here US Navy tests their submarines, sonar and other weapons.

7. People have experienced electronic fog in the triangle, which can be a Time Travel Tunnel too. Pilot Bruce Gernon claims he lost 28 minutes after flying through a time warping cloud tunnel. The plane went missing from radars, only to re-emerge in Miami Beach.

8. One of the biggest and famous losses of US Military occurred in 1945. Five US Navy Avenger torpedo bombers flew from Fort Lauderdale, Florida for a sortie to the island of Bimini. However, after about 90 minutes, the compass stopped working and the bombers were never found.

9. The first person to report about Bermuda Triangle was Christopher Columbus. He wrote in his journals that inside the triangle, the ship's compass stopped working and he also saw a fireball in the sky.

10. Bermuda Triangle is one of the rare places on earth where the compass does not point towards Magnetic North. Instead of that, it point towards true north, which creates confusion and that's why so many ships and planes lost its course in the triangle.