Bruce Gernon - Beyond the Bermuda Triangle: True Encounters with Electronic Fog, Missing Aircraft, and Time Warps

BEYOND
the
BERMUDA TRIANGLE

True Encounters With Electronic Fog, Missing Aircraft, and Time Warps

BRUCE GERNON AND ROB MACGREGOR

Copyright 2017 by Bruce Gernon and Rob MacGregor

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Special thanks to David Pares and Joe McMoneagle for their expertise, and many thanks to all those who contributed stories.

Bruce Gernon

To my beloved wife, Lynn, who has believed in my Bermuda Triangle experience for 44 years, and to my lovely daughter, Keely, who has believed in my experience for 38 years.

Rob MacGregor

To fellow writer and wife, Trish, and fellow writer and daughter, Megan.

We want to thank all of those who have written to us through the years about their extraordinary experiences inside and outside of the Bermuda Triangle. Many of those stories appear in this book.

I was 23 years old when it happened: the mind-boggling event that changed my life. Id been flying airplanes with my dad since I was a young teenager and I got my pilots license when I was 18. Five years later, I was at the controls flying with my dad and his business partner as we departed from Andros Island in the Bahamas. Thats when I encountered something strange and frightening, something that literally swallowed our new Bonanza A36 and spit us out a hundred miles from where wed just been flying.

That was December 4, 1970, and Id encountered what later became known as the Bermuda Triangle mystery. For months, I puzzled over this seemingly unbelievable sequence of events. I put my story to memory, precisely as I remembered it, and documented the details.

I didnt speak to anyone about it for a little more than a year because I felt like it was impossible to explain exactly what happened. Then I heard there was a mysterious area offshore of Miami where planes and boats were disappearing and I realized what I had flown through must have been the cause of their disappearance. I told everyone I met about it, but at first, it was as if they didnt hear me, except for my dad and our business partner. They always backed up my research.

I was like a tree in the forest that falls and no one hears its thunderous crash. So did it make a sound? Likewise, if teleportation or time travelor a combination of the twonever happened to anyone else, did this event really occur as I remembered it? What I was saying didnt make sense. It couldnt possibly be true. But I knew what I experienced, and I couldnt stop thinking about it.

After a couple of years, everything changed as I began hearing about the lore of the Bermuda Triangle, the now-legendary zone of mystery outlined by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Through the centuries, thousands of vessels large and small, as well as aircrafts, have vanished in the great expanse. Researchers gathered stories and statistics, and soon articles and books were published.

I discovered that I wasnt alone, that others had encountered this mysterious phenomenon. Their compasses had started spinning, their electronic equipment shut down, and some had leaped through space and time.

People were finally listening to my story and that eventually led to my participation in cable-channel documentaries and my first book, THE FOG, coauthored with Rob MacGregor. My story is unique because I flew into the heart of the mystery and lived to tell about it. This is my story. But its also the story of others who, like me, apparently penetrated a rift in the space-time continuum and found themselves in unexpected places at unexpected times.

Is the Bermuda Triangle a dangerous place? On an average day, hundreds of people fly over it and cruise through it on ships. They dont crash, sink, or disappear. Yet, sometimes it happens, and you never know when the compasses will suddenly start spinning wildly and a fog will surround your crafta fog that you cant escape. There is no season for the Bermuda Triangle effect. It could happen any time, to anyone.

I recognize that many skeptics and debunkers view the Bermuda Triangle as a non-mystery. They attribute all the missing airplanes and ships to mechanical failures, human error, or bad weather. They reject anything that exceeds known physical laws. Certainly, in some cases, they are correct.

However, to dismiss all that has occurred as a non-mystery shows a lack of willingness to look closely at cases such as mine. As William James once said, If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustnt seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

It only takes one white crow to prove that all crows are not black. As Ive often said, if any of those researchers had been flying with me on that day in December 1970, they would have a considerably different view on the matter.

Skeptics also point out that similar disappearances involving planes and ships have taken place outside the boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle. In this case, I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, the Bermuda Triangle story is like the final twist in a good mystery in which the vanquished antagonist surprisingly reappears elsewhere, setting up a sequel.

Thats exactly the case. Rather than turning into a non-mystery, the phenomenon extends well beyond its triangular boundaries. Ive received dozens of stories from people who have encountered what I call electronic fog, and some of the people have experienced time warps and teleportation. Some of the events occurred in the legendary waters off the east coast of Florida, but others happened elsewhere, including the Pacific Ocean, Lake Michigan, and on land. In essence, there is no actual Bermuda Triangle, but places throughout the world where warps in the space-time continuum appear on occasion, sometimes with baffling consequences. From my years of research, Im convinced these mysterious events that seem outside the realm of possibility could happen virtually anywhere. That includes the Indian Ocean where Malaysian Flight 370 disappeared.

In Beyond the Bermuda Triangle, Ill take you first-hand, step-by-step, through my experience. Youll read what I saw, what I felt, and how I reacted. Ill also tell the stories of other pilots and boat captains, as well as the tales of people who have encountered the fog while walking at night on a golf course or driving their cars in remote areas. Ill include stories from famed pilot Charles Lindbergh and aeronautical author Martin Caidin, and even Christopher Columbus.