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January 26, 2024 · 7:41 am

Residents Claim Blacktip Island Now In The Bermuda Triangle

After a series of unexplained disappearances, some Blacktip Island residents are fearful the Bermuda Triangle has expanded to include the small Caribbean island. (illustration courtesy of Danilo94)

A spate of unexplained disappearances on Blacktip Island has caused some residents to worry the infamous Bermuda Triangle has shifted to encompass the small Caribbean island.

“All kinds of things going missing all of a sudden, nothing else explains it,” Rocky Shore said. “Car keys, garden hoses, bicycles, boats, you name it. There one minute, gone the next. It’s not natural.

“Won’t be long before folks start disappearing, too,” Shore said. “Nearly got Dermott Bottoms. Dermott’s boat disappeared same night his bottle of rum did. Only way he kept from getting disappeared himself was by jumping into the ditch and grabbing hold of a mangrove. Said there was a roaring sound, then everything went dark. And wet.”

Some blamed recent climate changes for the phenomenon.

“Shifting gulf stream means more frozen undersea methane’s melting,” Molly Miller said. “That’s what makes the water less dense, sinks ships. Confuses folks flying airplanes, too, when it gets in the air. They proved that’s what happens in the Devil’s Triangle, time and again. Warmer seas, melting methane are why it’s shifting south to here.

“Been smelling lots of methane around the island lately,” Miller said. “There’s proof right there it’s the problem. Me, I worry every time I get on a boat to go fishing. Or on the plane over to Tiperon. No telling when a hole’s gonna open up in the sea or the air.”

Others disputed the claims.

“Blacktip Island is nowhere near the Bermuda Triangle,” environmental scientist Fanny Basslet said. “We’re in the Caribbean. The Triangle’s in the Atlantic. And on top of that, the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon has been utterly debunked multiple times. It can’t expand to here because it doesn’t exist.

“People are just forgetful, use bad judgement then blame something besides themselves,” Basslet said. “Dermott getting blind drunk and forgetting to tie off his boat is a much more likely scenario than some supernatural force.”

Some locals, however, embraced the idea.

“It adds a bit of excitement to your day, doesn’t it?” Reg Gurnard said. “Things get so routine and boring here. Now, you never know what to expect. Personally, I’m quite hoping Lee Helm will disappear. But then, there’s lots of folks on the island hoping for that same thing.”

Ruins Off Blacktip Island Coast May Be Atlantis Remnants

Cori Anders and other divers take measurements of the upright slab walls of the underwater ruins they discovered this week off Blacktip Island’s south coast. (photo courtesy of Vincent Lou)

Scuba divers exploring off Blacktip Island’s southern tip Wednesday discovered rocky formations some marine experts say could be the remains of a sunken city.

“We were out diving for fun and stumbled across these cool architectural features,” Cori Anders said. “They were totally obvious, but it’s right out from Mango Sound, where the currents are ripping and people don’t dive much. That’s got to be how it stayed hidden for so long.

“The vertical slabs with super tight seams between them reminded me of that Yonaguni site by Okinawa,” Anders said. “There were way too many straight lines for it to be natural—that doesn’t happen in nature. Much. And there’s weird figures scratched into them, too. They’re absolutely man-made.”

Island scientists were skeptical.

“Judging from the video, the slabs are most likely layers of sedimentary rock and the joints are natural, parallel fractures,” Tiperon University-Blacktip marine science professor Ernesto Mojarra said. “Those vertical walls likely used to be horizontal layers before the softer rock beneath them eroded and they settled upright. There’s plenty of straight lines in nature, and Cori’s photos prove that.”

Some locals say ruins off the island’s coast are no surprise.

“Always been stories about ancient civilizations on Blacktip, other cultures that thrived here ages ago,” amateur Atlantologist Antonio Fletcher said. “Ruins out there could be part of Atlantis, you know. We’re in the Western Hemisphere, and close to the Bimini Road—we know that’s part of Atlantis.

“Close to the Bermuda Triangle, too,” Fletcher said. “Could be something similar, that zaps you to another dimension. The Blacktip Trapezoid, maybe. That’s why folks on this island get so crazy sometimes. The university already did thorium tests that show the ruins are 10,000 years old. Ernesto just won’t release the results. And how does he explain the drawings?”

Mojarra rebutted Fletcher’s claims.

“No tests were done because no tests are needed,” he said. “Those ‘drawings’ are natural scratches where parrotfish nipped at the algae. And the only place those rocks are zapping anyone is to the bottom of a rum bottle.

“It’s more likely to be a part of Atlanta than Atlantis. At least Atlanta’s real,” Mojarra said. “Why don’t we exhaust natural, scientific explanations before we jump to UFOs, aliens and Bigfoot?”

Dive operators, meanwhile, are primed to capitalize on the find.

“We got Ruins Diver and Atlantis Diver specialty courses drawn up,” Sclub Scuba Doo dive manager Finn Kiick said. “Plus special ‘Dive Atlantis’ trips. For an up charge, of course. And t-shirts. Nothing like this anywhere else in the Caribbean. We’re all over that.”

Blacktip Island Plane Wreckage Could Be Amelia Earhart’s

The Lockheed Electra’s broken wings rest upside down in the shallow waters off Blacktip Island’s northeast coast. Aviation experts say the airplane could be that of Amelia Earhart, who disappeared along with the plane in 1937.

Recreational scuba divers Wednesday discovered the remains of a 1930s twin-engine aircraft off Blacktip Island’s rugged northeast coast local authorities say could be that of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

“The aircraft looks to have been a Lockheed Model 10 Electra,” said local aviation expert Whitney Pratt. “It was modified with a large fuel tank, and some of its windows were intentionally obscured.

“An Electra with those modifications fits the description of the one flown by Amelia Earhart on her unsuccessful attempt to circumnavigate the globe,” Pratt said. “There’s also the matter of the initials ‘A.E.’ scrawled on the fuselage.

“If it is Earhart’s plane, the big question is how it got here,” Pratt said. “She disappeared over the South Pacific.”

Marine scientists say the soft coral growing on the wreckage deepens the mystery.

“The wings have live carnation coral on them that’s indigenous to the southern Pacific ocean,” Tiperon University-Blacktip biologist Goby Graysby said. “We’re 5,000 miles from where any Dendronephthya should be. I can’t speak to the aircraft details, but yeah, there’s a South Pacific connection somewhere.”

The find has sparked talk of the so-called Blacktip Triangle where hundreds of boats and aircraft are reported to vanish, sometimes reappearing years later.

“All kinds of compass variations out there, you know,” longtime resident Antonio Fletcher said. “Space and time work different in the Triangle. Boats go missing. Lots of scuba divers get lost, too, but that’s something else. Bloody Marys, mostly.

“Plane could’ve crashed somewhere else and been transported here, like those Flight 19 bombers that got zapped to Kathmandu,” Fletcher said. “Happens all the time, you just don’t hear about it.”

Island officials are skeptical of the Blacktip Triangle theory.

“Most of those disappearances are exaggerated, or flat out made up,” Island Police Constable Rafe Marquette said. “Civil Aviation divers are examining the wreckage. If this is Miss Earhart’s airplane, there’s lots of non-supernatural explanations.

“If someone wanted to fake their death and disappear forever, transmitting a false position and then flying halfway around the world’d be a great way to do it,” Marquette said.

Blacktip Island community leaders, meanwhile, are drawing up plans for an interactive educational facility devoted to Earhart.

“We’re gonna soak visitors in what it was like to be Amelia Bedelia. I mean Earhart,” local entrepreneur Rich Skerritt said. “The centerpiece’ll be a life-sized mockup of that plane linked to a flight simulator so folks can have a feel what flying it was like. We’ll have shirts and caps and coffee mugs for sale, too.

“Our goal’s to make Blacktip Island the hottest destination in the Caribbean. Or the South Pacific,” Skerritt said. “You got to have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?”