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| ATLANTIS |
| During World War Two, scores of American pilots on submarine duty in the Caribbean reported sightings of artificial underwater structures. Many of these geometrical constructs were seen in the coastal vicinity of Mexico, Yucatan and British Honduras, and seemed to fly in the face of the text book history of the Americas...
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| ATLANTIS
or UFO? -- 960' high black pyramid in Atlantic Ocean |
| Sometime around 1884, a
Lancashire adventurer by the name of James T. Morgan "had been
returning to Liverpool from Brazil, where he had been exploring the Matto
Grosso and the Amazon for gold. When the ship was in the middle of the
Atlantic, about 900 miles from the Azores, a lookout spotted a strange
sight. A dark triangular object was visible in the sea, about 80 miles
away. By early evening the ship was within a mile of the object, and the
Captain and crew could not believe their eyes. The tip of an enormous
black pyramid structure was sticking out of the water. The ship's compass
started spinning, as if the pyramid was magnetic. The Brazilian captain
intended to sail past the strange object, but Morgan urged him to drop
anchor. The captain did this, and he allowed Morgan and four of the crew
to row a lifeboat over to the pyramid. The structure was made of basalt,
and was estimated to have been twice as high as the Great Pyramid in
Egypt. Morgan and the navigator on the ship estimated that the pyramid was
a staggering 960 feet in height. The pyramid had ledge-like steps going
halfway up the structure, and Morgan tried to climb the steps but they
were coated with slippery sea vegetation. Morgan and the crewmen returned
to the ship and made further measurements of the pyramid. The structure
obviously continued downwards under water for quite a distance, so
establishing its true dimensions was impossible. During the night, a
strange faint glow like St Elmos fire gathered around the tip of the
pyramid, and at three in the morning, the captain of the ship insisted he
had to continue to Liverpool to keep his deadline. When other ships
surveyed the location near the Azores months later, there was no sign of
the pyramid. It was as if it had plunged back into the depths of the
Atlantic." -- Tom Slemen's Mysteries of History |
| FROZEN
VOYAGE |
| In icy waters off Newfoundland in 1775, sailors on
The Herald climbed aboard the battered ship Octavius. A chilling sight greeted them below deck. The captain had frozen to death slumped over his log and behind
him were his crew, frozen in their bunks, huddled in blankets. The captain had written the first part of the journey when it sailed north of Alaska into frozen waters in his log, 13 years earlier. The log ended there. The
Octavius, with frozen cargo on board, continued the voyage sailing thousands of miles before drifting into the icy waters off Newfoundland. The voyage of
Octavius, sailing the north-west passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the first ship ever to have done so, has been considered a nautical miracle. |
| REVENGE
OF THE MARTHA DUNN |
| It is well known that many a
captain has had much love for his ship. But is it also possible for a ship
to love its captain? It certainly seems as if the Martha Dunn loved
her captain -- loved him enough to avenge his murder! |
| SEA
MONSTER SPOTTED IN 1997 |
| A snorting, twin humped rocky-faced 6 metre sea monster was spotted by students on Vancouver Island in July 1997, surfacing twice before disappearing back into the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Experts thought it was a member of the Cadborosaurus family of living dinosaurs, a carcass of which was found in the 1930s in the same area. There could be a family of sea monsters still around this area! |
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