Everyone has heard of the Bermuda
Triangle and the mysteries that
surround it. Theories about this area
range from reasonable to just plain
ridiculous, but whether you believe
it’s the site of time warps, alien
abductions, or just plain paranoia, it
certainly abounds with strangeness.
It’s not the only place you can find
creepy things happening, however—
here are 10 other places on Earth
with their fair share of mysteries:

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10) THE SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS

The Superstition Mountains are a
mountain range located east of
Phoenix, Arizona. Already it’s off to a
great start with the name.

According to legend, sometime in the
1800s a man named Jacob Waltz
discovered a huge goldmine within
the mountains that has since been
dubbed the Lost Dutchman’s Gold
Mine (because Waltz was German,
and eh, close enough). He kept the
location a secret until his deathbed,
upon which he may or may not
(depending on which version of the
story you’re reading) have told a
single person the secret. Regardless,
the mine has never been found, in
spite of many expeditions. Some say
the spirits of people who’ve lost their
lives in search of the gold still haunt
the mountains.

One reportedly Native American
legend goes that the treasures of the
mountains are guarded by creatures
called Tuar-Tums (“Little People”)
that live below the mountains in
caves and tunnels. Some Apaches
believe that the entrance to hell is
located in the mountains. This is, of
course, ridiculous, as we all know the
entrance to hell is in Sunnydale.

9) SOUTH ATLANTIC ANOMALY

Did you ever wonder if there was a
Bermuda Triangle in Space ? No? Well
you’re probably wondering it now,
and you’re in luck! Because there
totally is, and it’s called the South
Atlantic Anomaly. The SAA is the area
where the band of radiation known
as Earth’s inner Van Allen belt comes
closest to the Earth’s surface.

It’s an area centered just a bit off the
coast of Brazil, and it’s responsible
for numerous problems with satellites
and spacecraft, from messing up their
programs to actually shutting down
their function. The Hubble Telescope is
actually turned off from taking
observations when passing through the
Anomaly, and the International
Space Station avoids scheduling
spacewalks when passing through it
(which happens up to 5 times a day).
It’s not just technical problems, either
—some astronauts report seeing
“shooting stars” in their visual field
as they pass through.

The cause of all these problems isn’t
fully understood. The main suspect is
the high levels of radiation that
accumulate at the anomaly, but
scientists aren’t sure exactly how or
why the effects occur. So let’s just pin
this one on aliens.

LAKE ANJIKUNI

Not content with just a few
individuals disappearing, Lake
Anjikuni decided to take things to the
next level and provide the locale for
the disappearance of an entire
village.

It all happened in November
1930, when a trapper named Joe
Labelle was looking for shelter for the
night. Labelle was familiar with the
Inuit village, whose population
ranges from 30-2000, depending on
who you believe. He made his way
there and found quite an eerie scene
—the villagers were nowhere to be
found. Everything else, including food
and rifles, had been left behind.
Labelle telegraphed the RCMP and an
investigation began. In the Village
Burial Ground it was discovered that
at least one (sources vary) grave had
been opened, clearly not by animals,
and emptied. Furthermore, about 300
feet from the village, the bodies of
around 7 sled dogs were found,
having starved to death despite open
stores of food at the village. Some
versions of the story even report
strange lights being seen above the
lake around the time of the
disappearance.

So what really happened? There have
been all sorts of claims about the
cause for the disappearance,
including aliens (of course), ghosts,
and even vampires. The RCMP’s own
website disregards the story as an
urban legend, but with so many
versions of it floating around from so
many years ago, it’s hard to be
certain. Except about the vampires, I
think we can be certain it wasn’t
vampires.

7) THE DEVIL'S SEA

The Devil’s Sea (or Dragon’s Triangle ,
take your pick of which sounds more
ominous) is an area of the Pacific
Ocean as riddled with strange
happenings as its Atlantic counterpart
near Bermuda. Located off the coast
of Japan, it’s been the site of
countless claims of unexplained
phenomena including magnetic
anomalies, inexplicable lights and
objects, and of course, mysterious
disappearances. The area is even
considered a danger by Japanese
fishing authorities.

One story has it that in 1952 the
Japanese government sent out a
research vessel, the Kaio Maru No. 5,
to investigate the mysteries of the
Devil’s Sea. Naturally, of course, the
Kaio Maru No. 5 and its crew of 31
people were never seen again. Another
story tells of Kublai Khan’s disastrous
attempts to invade Japan by crossing
the Devil’s Sea, losing at least 40 000
men in the process.

The usual theories abound for what’s
really going on: from aliens, to gates
to parallel universes, even to Atlantis
(because why not). Some suggest that
high volcanic activity in the region is
responsible for some of the
disappearances (the Kaio Maru No. 5
may have been caught in an
eruption). Our advice? Just stay out
of the ocean, period.

6) BIGELOW RANCH

Bigelow Ranch (formerly known as
Skinwalker Ranch and Sherman
Ranch) is a 480-acre property in
northwest Utah that is home to
countless UFO sightings, animal
mutilations, and other strange
occurrences. Though mysterious
happenings have been documented
since the 50’s, some of the most
bizarre stories happened to a pair of
ranchers named Terry and Gwen
Sherman after they bought it in 1994.

The first day they moved on to the
property, they saw a large wolf out in
the pasture. They even went to pet the
wolf as it seemed tame (to the
curious reader, yes, this is always a
good idea). It was docile with the
Shermans, but ended up grabbing a
calf by the snout through the bars of
its enclosure. When Terry shot at the
wolf with a pistol, the bullets had no
effect. It finally left after Terry
brought out the shotgun, though even
that didn’t do any actual damage.
The Shermans tried tracking the wolf,
but it’s tracks stopped abruptly as if it
had vanished.

And that wasn’t the end of things.
The Shermans were constantly plagued
by such events as UFO sightings,
intelligent floating orbs (reputed to
have incinerated three of their dogs),
inexplicable cryptids, and gruesome
cattle mutilations. It got so bad that
the Shermans actually sold their
ranch to Robert Bigelow in 1996, the
founder of the National Institute for
Discovery Science, who wanted to
study the mysteries surrounding the
ranch. Bigelow owns the ranch to this
day and NIDS keeps a tight lid on
their findings.

5) POINT PLEASANT

Point Pleasant was probably aptly
named at one point, but it is now so
shrouded in tales of mysterious and
creepy events as to be nothing but an
ironic alliteration. The most famous
of these events involves a creature
known as Mothman, who reputedly
terrorized the small West Virginia
community from November 1966 to
December 1967. Over a hundred
different citizens of Point Pleasant
are eyewitnesses to this creature, a 7-
foot tall broad chested man with
hypnotic, glowing red eyes, and wings
that stretch 10 feet long and drag
behind him on the ground.

The Mothman, who’s been the subject
of both a book and a movie (and
who has his own statue in Point
Pleasant), has many possible
explanations. Some believe him to be
an extraterrestrial, others a mutant
or a cryptid, and some suggest the
people of Point Pleasant were actually
being scared by owls or a Sandhill
Crane. Whatever the case, reports of
Mothman stopped after the Silver
Bridge collapsed on December 15,
1967, killing 46 people and leading
many to believe that the two events
were somehow connected.

In addition to Mothman, several
other paranormal tales from Point
Pleasant include UFO sightings and
reports of so-called “Men In Black”—
human looking creatures who unnerve
others by the sheer abundance of
peculiarities in their speech,
appearance, and mannerisms. These
“men” supposedly appear looking for
information about the paranormal
(or rather, people who have this
information).

4) MICHIGAN TRIANGLE

The Michigan Triangle is another
geographical triangle, located in the
middle of Lake Michigan. It, too, is
the site of mysterious disappearances
of both land and sea craft. Some of
the more famous ones include:
Captain Donner: On April 28, 1937,
Captain George R. Donner of the O.M.

McFarland was on his way from Erie,
Pennsylvania, to Port Washington,
Wisconsin, and had to pass through
the triangle. As the story goes, he was
exhausted and retired to his cabin,
leaving the second mate to wake him
when they neared their destination.
About three hours later, when the
second mate went to do so, Donner
was not in his cabin. Nor was he in
the galley. An exhaustive search of the
ship was conducted, but he was never
found.

Flight 2501: On June 23, 1950,
Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 was on
its way from New York to Minneapolis
at the hands of experienced pilot
Robert C. Lind, and was carrying 58
passengers. Due to bad weather, when
the flight was near Chicago it
changed course and turned over Lake
Michigan. Around midnight, Lind
requested permission to drop altitude
from 3500 ft to 2500 ft, without ever
specifying a reason. His request was
denied, and that was the last
communication Flight 2501 ever had.
It’s last known position was
supposedly within the Michigan
Triangle.

While sources vary as to what amount
of wreckage of Flight 2501 has been
found (some say nothing, whereas
others specify assorted floating debris
such as seat cushions and the like), it
seems clear that the plane crashed
into the water. Mysterious, however, is
that the plane was in perfectly good
condition and in capable hands at
the time of the disappearance. What’s
more, despite searches still being
conducted annually, neither the body
of the plane nor complete human
remains have ever been recovered.

3) SAN LUIS VALLEY

San Luis Valley, in southern
Colorado, is an area high in
inexplicable phenomena including
UFO sightings and hundreds of
unexplained farm animal
mutilations. UFO sightings are so
common that a woman named Judy
Messoline has even set up a UFO
watchtower on her property, which has
witnessed over 50 UFO sightings since
2000 alone. Some of these are
observed by dozens of people at a
time.

For the UFO skeptics out there, far
more chilling are the tales of animal
mutilations from the region. They
began in 1967, with a horse named
Snippy. Snippy was found one morning
with her brain missing, and her neck
bones completely cleaned. Since then,
hundreds if not thousands of
inexplicable animal mutilations have
occurred in the region, sharing
several things in common—firstly,
there is never a trace of blood
around the animals, and secondly,
the animals are all damaged with
precise cuts, distinctly not the work of
predators. Finally, all of the
mutilations happen overnight to
otherwise healthy creatures.

Investigations into the incidents
haven’t wielded any results, yet they
continue to this day. Some farmers
report seeing strange lights in the sky
the nights before finding a carcass,
leading some to believe that
extraterrestrials are involved. Though
it’s hard to imagine aliens caring so
much about farm animals in
Colorado, the alternative isn’t much
more appealing—that humans are the
so-called “Phantom Surgeons of the
Plains”. Personally, I’d rather it was
aliens.

2) BENNINGTON TRIANGLE

Oh look, another triangle. This one is
found in southwestern Vermont, and
is the site of a string of 5 mysterious
disappearances between 1945-1950,
related in no way but geographic
location. These include:
Middie Rivers, 75 years old, was out
leading a group of hunters on
November 12, 1945. On their way
back, he got ahead of his group and
was never seen again. Only a single
rifle shell found in a stream was
recovered as evidence.

Paula Welden was an 18 year old
sophomore of Bennington College who
was out hiking on December 1, 1946.
She never returned and no trace of
her was ever found.
Exactly 3 years later, on December 1,
1949, a veteran named James E.
Tetford was taking a bus back to his
home at the Bennington Soldier’s
Home, returning from a visit with
relatives. Witnesses saw him on the
bus the stop before this, but when the
bus arrived at his destination he was
nowhere to be seen. His luggage was
still on the bus.

Eight year old Paul Jepson
disappeared on October 12, 1950,
while his mother was busy feeding the
pigs. Despite having a highly visible
red jacket, none of the search parties
formed were able to find the boy.
The last disappearance was a woman
named Frieda Langer. On October 28,
1950, she was hiking with her cousin
on Glastenbury Mountain when she
slipped in a stream. She decided to go
back quickly and change her clothes,
and, if you’ve been paying attention
so far, you’ll surmise that she was
never seen again. Well, not exactly—
she’s the only victim whose body was
ever recovered, though it was only
found on May 12, 1951 (about 6
months later), in an area that had
been thoroughly searched after her
disappearance. The body was in such
a mangled shape that no cause of
death could be determined.

Though many theories abound,
including aliens, bigfoot-like
monsters, or some unknown serial
killer, there’s one thing we know for
sure: it’s a good idea to stay the hell
away from triangles.

1) BRIDGEWATER TRIANGLE

No, seriously—stay away from
triangles. Especially this one. The
Bridgewater Triangle , an area of
about 200 square miles in
Southeastern Massachusetts just south
of Boston, is like an all you can eat
buffet of the supernatural.

Among other things, the area has
been subject to numerous
cryptozoological sightings. Since the
1970’s there have been several reports
of tall, hairy, ape-like creatures
roaming the swamp. There have also
been numerous sightings of
Thunderbirds, giant Pterodactyl-like
creatures that have been seen fighting
in midair. In 1976 there was a report
of a man who saw a giant, ghostly,
red-eyed dog rip the throats out of
two of his ponies.

Besides these cryptids, there have been
numerous reports of mutilated
animals (mainly cows and calves) in
the region. Some credit these
mutilations to satanic cults, but no
one has come forward and no one
even knows where the animals came
from.
As if all this weren’t enough, the
Bridgewater Triangle is a hotbed of
UFO sightings, dating all the way
back to 1760, when a “sphere of fire”
was reportedly seen hovering over
New England. Since then there have
been numerous sightings of
unexplained objects in the sky—
including mysterious black helicopters.

One from 1976 describes two UFOs
landing along Route 44 near the city
of Taunton, and another from 1994
recounts a strange triangular object
with red and white lights seen by a
Bridgewater Law Enforcement Officer.
In 1908 on Halloween night, two
undertakers who were traveling to
Bridgewater noticed in the sky what
looked like a “giant lantern”. They
watched it for almost 40 minutes
before it disappeared.

Bermuda isn’t looking so bad
anymore.

And The Source?

http://listverse.com/2013/05/10/10-places-as-mysterious-as-the-bermuda-triangle/