Could A Discovery Off The Northern Coast Of Norway Finally Solve The Mystery Of The Bermuda Triangle?

You youngins may consider the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 to be unprecedented in our times, but us old folks remember there used to be an entire part of the ocean that would suck up airplanes and ships, all of them disappearing without a trace.

Shit was normal as fuck.

That’s right, I’m talking about the Bermuda Triangle, one of the most mysterious spots on Earth. Just go through this list of disappearances. It’ll freak you out.

No one knows why or how such a small strip of sea can be responsible for so many incidents, but scientists in Norway at least have a theory now.

Exploding methane.

In the Barents Sea, researchers with the European Geosciences Union found huge craters on the sea bed, which they believe are from build ups of methane that combusted, reports the Sunday Times.

The craters are up to half a mile wide and 150ft deep and appear to have been caused by gas leaking from deposits of oil and gas buried deeper in the sea floor. The gases are thought to accumulate in sea-floor sediments before bursting through the sea bed into the water above.

Details of the discovery will be released next month at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union, with a key question being whether such bubbles could threaten ships. One idea is that they may explain the disappearance of ships in areas such as the Bermuda Triangle.

Ugh. I hate when people bring logic and science into mysteries. What’ll it be next? An electrical fire disabled Flight 370?

BOOOOORING.

[H/T Unilad]