10 Strangest World War II Unsolved Mysteries

7. Flight 19's Disappearance Over The Bermuda Triangle

The legend of the Bermuda Triangle still exists (albeit in a lesser capacity) to this day - and Flight 19 was one of the first and most-famous disappearances near the east coast of Florida. On December 5, 1945, - yes technically a few months after the war ended, but it still counts - five TBM Avenger Torpedo bombers - who came to be known as "Flight 19" - and the crew members of a PBM Mariner flying boat sent to find them all disappeared during a US Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

In all, 27 men disappeared, presumed dead, including the 14 original airmen. The Navy's original report into the incident determined that Lieutenant Charles Taylor, who was leading the group, had a habit of getting lost and that he had led the junior members around in circles until they all ran out of fuel. It even alleged that the junior pilots knew where they were, while Taylor didn't, but they felt compelled to follow their leader further into the Bermuda Triangle instead of back to Florida. This ruling was later changed to "Cause Unknown", and Navy investigators have since been unable to determine the reason for the disappearance of Flight 19.

No bodies or aircraft have ever been discovered - leading to the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. Many supernatural theories have arisen as a result - could Flight 19 really have been destroyed by some other-worldly force?