Vanished Planes: The Loss of the Star Tiger and Star Ariel in the Bermuda Triangle

 

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Hey, y’all, it’s Weird Wednesday! Where on some Wednesdays, I blog about weird stuff and give writing prompts.

Today: Vanished Planes: The Loss of the Star Tiger and Star Ariel in the Bermuda Triangle

On Jan 30, 1948, a British South American Airways passenger plane called the Star Tiger took off from the island of Santa Maria in the Azores, into a growing storm. It was bound for Bermuda with 31 people aboard. It never made it.

Almost exactly a year later, on Jan 17, 1949, another BSSA passenger plane called the Star Ariel departed Bermuda bound for Kingston, Jamaica. This time there was no storm, but the 20 people on board were never seen again. Both planes had vanished into the Bermuda Triangle. 

(Okay, so actually that depends on where you draw your triangle: the Tiger was heading southwest toward Bermuda and may have vanished before it got into the Triangle proper, but that doesn’t make for a good legend.)

Check out the blog post for the whole story and some mysterious writing prompts, such as:

They look like they’re from outer space! This is probably the most popular Bermuda Triangle theory out there (pun intended). The outer space warning (“Don’t come after me. They look like they’re from outer space!”) was a later addition to the story of the disappearance of Flight 19, which was five US Navy planes on an exercise in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945.

For aliens, the Triangle could be a hunting ground, a favorite galactical vacation destination, a flying saucer race course, or a science lab. Perhaps aliens are hiding an undersea factory (possibly in the sunken city/state of Atlantis) or concealing something else that no human can be allowed to see. Or it could be benevolent: if the planes were fated to crash, maybe aliens rescued the passengers and crew and took them off-world.

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