It's probably the most famous of all the Bermuda Triangles alleged disappearances.

Five Grumman TBM Avengers on a training flight from Florida in 1945.

No trace was ever found, and the story has all kinds of spooky elements like all their

flight instruments were going wild.

Spoiler alert, some of this is true, some of it is purely the fictional invention of

an imaginative author.

Today we're going to figure out where to draw the line and learn what really happened.

The truth behind Flight 19 is coming up today on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

The riddle of Flight 19.

Nearly everyone has heard of the Bermuda Triangle, the supposedly mysterious region

off the United States southeastern coast, where planes and ships were believed to disappear

at an alarming rate.

Its story began in 1946, when a training flight of five U.S. Navy aircraft disappeared,

leaving no trace.

Also lost without explanation was a large Navy flying boat that went to search for them.

Some believe they were swallowed up by whatever strange forces are at work in the triangle,

perhaps some magnetic or weather anomaly, or perhaps something intelligent and more sinister.

Today we're going to examine all the evidence to see if we can solve what happened to the

missing planes and their crew.

The aircraft were five Grumman TBM avengers, the same type of plane in which George H.W.

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