When The Funkster was just a lil tyke, I was fascinated with all things weird.  Ghosts, Bigfoot, my nocturnal vampire neighbors (I guess all vampires are nocturnal).  At the top of that list, was The Bermuda Triangle.  For those of you who don’t know, it is basically a triangle shaped section of the south Atlantic, created by connecting Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the southern tip of Florida.  Catch up on the very skeptical Wiki article here.  Nonetheless, crazy things have happened to planes, ships, etc., that fly through the area, most of them vanishing without a trace.  Large storm clouds, time warps, and geo-magnetic anomalies are often sighted as the root causes for the disappearances.  Besides the eternal Milton Bradley board game version, this phenomenon has mostly vanished from pop culture, much like so many travelers into it’s mysterious waters.

Flash forward to today and the Los Roques islands off the coast of Venezuela.  Most recently an Italian Fashion mogul Vittorio Missoni disappeared with several passengers in a small plane over this “cursed” area.  I remember hearing about this happening, but as totally unaware of the other disappearances that have occurred over the past decade.  15 mysterious disappearances, the most prominent was in 2008 where a ship carrying 14 people vanished without a trace.  The only thing found was the dead body of the co-pilot.  To this day, no ship has been recovered.