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The Nevada Triangle - The Nevada Triangle is an area of 25,000 sq miles, encompassing Nevada's desert and mountains region. It sits next to the infamous Area 51 military zone.

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The Nevada Triangle - In 2007, famous aviator and adventurer Steve Fossett was flying a small plane in the area before vanishing without a trace. It took rescue teams 13 months to eventually find the plane wreckage and Fossett's remains.

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The Michigan Triangle - The Michigan Triangle sits between Michigan and Wisconsin in the US.

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The Michigan Triangle - One of the most prominent disappearances that took place there was that of the Northwest Airlines Flight 2501, which in 1950 flew into the area and never again emerged.

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The Bermuda Triangle - The Bermuda Triangle is the first place that comes to everyone's minds when mysterious locations are mentioned. The area spans from southern Florida to Puerto Rico to Bermuda.

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It has been the site of multiple disappearances over the years, with both ships and boats going missing. Their wreckage are never found. In 1918, the USS Cyclops vanished there, with 309 crewmen aboard.

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Lake Superior, USA - Lake Superior is the deepest of the Great Lakes (a series of lakes in North America, spanning from northern US to southern Canada), and it has been the location of several disappearances through the years.

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Lake Superior, USA - More than a whopping 200 ships have sunk in Lake Superior, many of which have never been found or recovered.

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The Bennington Triangle - Located in southwestern Vermont, US, it was home to the strange vanishing of five people between 1945 and 1950.

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The Bennington Triangle - The creepiest disappearance was that of a man riding a bus, who vanished without anyone noticing.

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Roanoke Colony, USA - Also known as the Lost Colony, Roanoke was an English settlement in the 16th century, and home to one of the first recorded mysterious disappearances.

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Roanoke Colony, USA - When the colony's governor came back from a three-year-long trip to England to get more supplies, the whole place had been abandoned.

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The Sargasso Sea - The Sargasso Sea, located in the Atlantic Ocean, is the site of a very famous ghost ship—the Mary Celeste.

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The Sargasso Sea - The boat was found in 1872 totally deserted, but still stocked with plenty of food and fuel. To this day, no one knows what happened to the crew.

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The South Atlantic Anomaly - The Van Allen radiation belt is an area of energetic charged particles held in a planet's magnetic field, and it is closest to the Earth near Brazil, in the Atlantic Ocean.

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The South Atlantic Anomaly - The strong energetic area has been blamed for Air France flight 447's crash on June 1, 2009. Over 200 people died in the accident.

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America’s National Parks - The US's national parks comprise an area of over 84 million acres of land, so it's no wonder they serve as the perfect location for many mysterious disappearances.

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America’s National Parks - According to Culture Trip, since the National Park Service began in 1916, more than 1,000 people have gone missing in the parks, leaving no trace behind.

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Highway 16, Canada - In Canada's British Columbia region, a creepy highway hides the stories of many young women who have mysteriously gone missing there.

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Highway 16, Canada - The first recorded disappearance was that of a woman named Monica Ingas, in 1975. Since then, another 17 have vanished along the highway.

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Angikuni Lake, Canada - The lake sits in the Kivalliq Region in Nunavut, northern Canada. In 1930, a man stumbled upon a deserted village near the lake.

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Angikuni Lake, Canada - The eerie part was that there were still pots of food hung over what had been fires, and it looked like many chores had been abandoned halfway through. No one has found out where the villagers went, nor why.

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Off the coast of Scotland, the Flannan Isles (also called the Seven Hunters) are home to a peculiar lighthouse.

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In 1900, when a ship's crew noticed the light wasn't working, they set out to investigate. The three lighthouse keepers had disappeared, and no trace of them was ever found.

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Devil's Sea, Japan - The Devil's Sea, also known as the Dragon's Triangle, is famous around the world for several incidents in which ships have vanished for no reason.

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Devil's Sea, Japan - Once in 1952, the Japanese government even sent out a team of 30 people to sail there and investigate what was going on, but they also fell victims to the Devil's Sea's treacherous waters.

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Suvla Bay, Turkey - During World War I, a bizarre event took place in Suvla Bay, on the Aegean coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. When a strange cloud enveloped a hillside, a whole battalion of English soldiers marched into it—only to disappear. The Turks had no record of these soldiers being captured.

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Mesa Verde, USA - Complex dwellings, supposedly built by an ancient tribe thousands of years ago, were carved into the Rocky Mountains.

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The dwellings were then left to abandonment, and although the most reasonable reason is that the residents returned to their nomadic lifestyles, it still hasn't been explained why they would leave their permanent homes.

See also: Captivating and creepy facts about the Middle Ages

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