Recording 72, page 101
EXTRA READING. Unsolved Mysteries. Listen and read.
The Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle or ‘Devil’s Triangle’ is located off the south-eastern Atlantic coast of the United States.
Over 100 ships and planes and more than 1,000 people disappeared between 1945 and 2000.
People, ships, and planes are still disappearing, and we don’t know why!
In December 1945, five planes from Fort Lauderdale disappeared. A rescue plane searched for them – and disappeared, too.
Then, over 500 boats and planes searched, but weren’t successful. One of the pilot’s last words were: ‘Don’t come after me… I think they are from outer space.’
The story of the ‘Marie Celeste’
About a hundred years ago, a British ship was in the Atlantic Ocean. The seamen saw another ship.
They saw that the ship’s name was the Marie Celeste but they couldn’t see anybody on board. Some of the seamen got into a small boat and rowed to the Marie Celeste.
When they were on the deck of the Marie Celeste, they shouted: ‘Is there anybody here?’ Nobody answered. They went into the cabins to look for the crew but they weren’t there.
Everything was in its proper place. But where were the crew of the Marie Celeste? Did pirates attack the Marie Celeste?
No, because everything was in its proper place and there were no signs of a fight. To this day, nobody can answer the question: Where did the crew of the Marie Celeste go?
Did aliens kidnap the crew?
The Stone Statues of Easter Island
These giant stone statues are on Easter Island in the South Pacific.
This small island is one of the most isolated places on Earth (2,000 miles away from any inhabitation).
On the island there are almost 300 giant statues. They are between five and twenty metres high.
They are all people’s faces. They have long noses and big chins. No one knows who carved them.
The people who live on the island say they don’t know anything about them. When Europeans arrived on the island in 1722, there were hundreds of statues staring out to sea.
But this is not all. There are hundreds of statues on the island that are not finished. Why did the sculptors stop making these statues?
They left their tools near the unfinished faces. Why did they stop so suddenly?
Some people believe that the stone statues are the creation of aliens.
Why would ‘visitors from outer space’ build stone statues? If only one of those strange faces could talk!
Atlantis - a sunken continent?
Did Atlantis really exist? Why did it sink?
Many ancient maps have Atlantis on them, and many ancient writings from the Aztecs, Mayas and Greeks speak of a sunken continent.
Some scientists believe that the original Atlanteans were extraterrestrials and came to earth over 50 thousand years ago.
They were of human shape, blond-haired and very tall. They lived up to 800 years.
They used crystals a lot for transferring energy. They also used a mysterious instrument called the Great Crystal.
It gathered solar, lunar, stellar, atmospheric and Earth energies.
In the end, however, the Atlanteans tuned the Great Crystal too high, and this activated volcanoes.
The ancient continent disappeared into the ocean. Some explorers believe that the ruins of Atlantis now exist on the ocean bottom in the Bermuda Triangle.
They have found many interesting underwater ruins on the sea floor off the Bahamas, for example, a pyramid, roads, rectangular buildings, ‘mysterious’ crystals, a marble acropolis, etc.
