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10 Places As surface. It’s an area centered just a bit off the Mysterious As The coast of Brazil, and it’s responsible for numerous problems with satellites and Bermuda Triangle spacecraft, from messing up their programs to actually shutting down their function. The Hubble Telescope is actually turned off from Everyone has heard of the Bermuda Triangle taking observations when passing through the and the mysteries that surround it. Theories Anomaly, and the International Space Station about this area range from reasonable to just avoids scheduling spacewalks when passing plain ridiculous, but whether you believe it’s the through it (which happens up to 5 times a day). site of time warps, alien abductions, or just plain It’s not just technical problems, either—some 7. The Devil’s Sea paranoia, it certainly abounds with strangeness. astronauts report seeing “shooting stars” in their It’s not the only place you can find creepy visual field as they pass through. The Devil’s Sea (or Dragon’s Triangle, take things happening, however—here are 10 other The cause of all these problems isn’t your pick of which sounds more ominous) is an places on Earth with their fair share of fully understood. The main suspect is the high area of the Pacific Ocean as riddled with strange mysteries: levels of radiation that accumulate at the happenings as its Atlantic counterpart near anomaly, but scientists aren’t sure exactly how Bermuda. Located off the coast of Japan, it’s or why the effects occur. So let’s just pin this been the site of countless claims of unexplained one on aliens. phenomena including magnetic anomalies, inexplicable lights and objects, and of course, mysterious disappearances. The area is even considered a danger by Japanese fishing authorities. Continued on Page 8 A Great Christmas Gift From 10. Superstition Mountains According to legend, sometime in the 1800s a man named Jacob Waltz discovered a huge goldmine within the mountains that has 8. Lake Anjikuni since been dubbed the Lost Dutchman’s Gold Not content with just a few individuals Mine (because Waltz was German, and eh, close disappearing, Lake Anjikuni decided to take enough). He kept the location a secret until his things to the next level and provide the locale deathbed, upon which he may or may not for the disappearance of an entire village. It all (depending on which version of the story you’re happened in November 1930, when a trapper reading) have told a single person the secret. named Joe Labelle was looking for shelter for Regardless, the mine has never been found, in the night. Labelle was familiar with the Inuit spite of many expeditions. Some say the spirits village, whose population ranges from 30-2000, of people who’ve lost their lives in search of the depending on who you believe. He made his gold still haunt the mountains. way there and found quite an eerie scene—the One reportedly Native American legend villagers were nowhere to be found. Everything goes that the treasures of the mountains are else, including food and rifles, had been left guarded by creatures called Tuar-Tums (“Little behind. People”) that live below the mountains in caves Labelle telegraphed the RCMP and an Composed, Performed, Directed and tunnels. Some Apaches believe that the investigation began. In the Village Burial and Engineered by entrance to hell is located in the mountains. This Ground it was discovered that at least one is, of course, ridiculous, as we all know the (sources vary) grave had been opened, clearly entrance to hell is in Sunnydale. not by animals, and emptied. Furthermore, ROB McCONNELL about 300 feet from the village, the bodies of around 7 sled dogs were found, having starved 1. Blue Canadian Sky to death despite open stores of food at the 2. Laura’s Theme village. Some versions of the story even report 3. Mayan Prophecy strange lights being seen above the lake around the time of the disappearance. 4. Rented Silence So what really happened? There have 5. Rise Above Hate and Anger been all sorts of claims about the cause for the 6. Robbie Shuffle disappearance, including aliens (of course), 7. Genesis Grid ghosts, and even vampires. The RCMP’s own 8. UFO Concerto website disregards the story as an urban legend, but with so many versions of it floating around from so many years ago, it’s hard to be certain. ISBN: 978-0-9917799-5-6 (c) 2013 9. South Atlantic Anomaly Except about the vampires, I think we can be REL-MAR McConnell Media Company Did you ever wonder if there was a certain it wasn’t vampires. Bermuda Triangle in Space? No? Well you’re NEW AT THE ‘X’ ZONE MUSIC OF THE ‘X’ ZONE CD probably wondering it now, and you’re in luck! IS NOW AVAILABLE AT Because there totally is, and it’s called the South The ‘X’ Zone All Atlantic Anomaly. The SAA is the area where the band of radiation known as Earth’s inner New Podcast Site AMAZON.COM Van Allen belt comes closest to the Earth’s www.xzonepodcast.com