For years people believed that there was a part of the Atlantic Ocean where ships and planes would disappear called the Bermuda Triangle. It turned out that ships and planes didn’t disappear there at any higher rate than they did elsewhere, and it just wasn’t a thing.

However, researchers did find a place where the vessels which traveled into it had a far higher rate of catastrophe.

This area was in outer space.

Learn more about the South Atlantic Anomaly
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices