The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle
If someone tells a lie enough times they themselves will start to believe the lie they started to be true. And that is what I think happened with the myth of The Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle is an area in the Atlantic Ocean where many people believe it to be an Invisible black hole on earth. There are many stories of planes, ships and people disappearing but most have been made up. But how the author put it many of these stories can easily be explained. “A number of the vessels that vanished without a trace were known to be at risk from structural failure” which logically explains why some ships were never seen again.
Before I read this excerpt on the Bermuda triangle I thought it was real because of all the different stories but I’ve come to realize don’t believe everything you hear. For example there is a story of Flight 19. Flight 19 was a training flight of fighter planes that went missing in 1945 while flying over the Atlantic. To this day the official report of what happened is listed as unknown. The pilot of the missing plane was known to have gotten lost during flights before. So it is very possible he landed somewhere else and died or crashed into the ocean. All these theories are logical but no one knows for sure. But to say it disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle only furthers the myth. Although there are stories that support the possibility that The Bermuda Triangle could exist. For example the disappearance of the USS Cyclops. This warship of about 300 men disappeared in 1918 after leaving Barbados. There is no explanation on this could of happened. To this day there has been no trace of ship or the bodies of the men.
In conclusion I choose this excerpt because it proved to me that many of the Bermuda Triangle stories weren’t true. I guess there is a possibility that it could exist but I would need more facts to really believe it.
U.F.Os
U.F.O’s are flying objects in the sky that can’t be identified. There have been U.F.O sightings all over the world. There have been thousands of sightings in the last century. Just because we don’t know what they are does that mean they are aliens? I thought people that claimed to have seen UFOs were just lying but after reading this excerpt I learned that President Jimmy Carter claimed to have seen one in the sky.
Jimmy Carter saw a U.F.O in Georgia in 1969. One night he was about to give a speech, someone in the crowd pointed out to him something in the sky. He looked up and saw something in the distance as bright as the moon. Then it started to change colors first blue, red and then back to white, which is funny to me because those are the colors of the American Flag. Than it slowly disappeared in the night. Carter and a dozen more people witnessed the U.F.O. Since this happened before he became president he said “One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky. If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists.” If a one time president can accept the possibility of U.F.O why we are all so quick to dismiss the ideas that U.F.Os actually exists. Or is it possible that Carter and a bunch of his campaign supporters made up the whole thing for free publicity. There is no proof to support that nor is there any proof to support that they actually saw what they claim. But just because there is no proof doesn’t mean it’s not true.
In conclusion I like this excerpt because it shows different cases in which there is a possibility that U.F.Os can exist. When it comes to finding the truth in these stories it’s like pulling a needle out of the hay stack.
Night Invaders
We all have had night invaders at one point in our lives, maybe not to the extreme like some of these stories. I think most night invaders are really just dreams that we believe to be reality. I know we have all had dreams that seem so real that we wake up in cold sweats. Dreams are just a mixture of ideas left over from the time before we go to sleep. For example I only have bad dreams if I watch a scary movie I go to sleep.
I know that night invaders don’t really exist. I believe if someone is invading your room at night they are a living person trying to rob or kill you. Night invaders are in my opinion characters of a persons own imagination. I believe this because of self misdirection. Misdirection is simply what the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes. So if you force yourself to see and hear something that you know is not there you will soon believe it. Night Invaders are just extreme nightmares. Nightmares are just real fears that you have that come to life in your mind while you are asleep. I remember when I saw the exorcist for the first time I couldn’t sleep for three days. Thinking back on it today I realize that the movie didn’t make me scared I did that to myself. Scientist say that eating before bed causes nightmares because it increases the body's metabolism and brain causing nightmares.
In conclusion there are no ways to prevent having nightmares but people should try to distinguish there nightmares from reality. Because of misdirection what the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.