Hello everybody, welcome to part two of this three-part post on the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle. This post will go over a very strange incident involving Bruce Gernon and his strange flight to Miami within the Triangle. I hope you enjoyed the last post and if you haven’t read part one, please go back here and check it out before beginning part two.

The date was December 4, 1970. Bruce Gernon, an experienced pilot, was preparing for a flight from Andros to Miami. Onboard would be Gernon and two passengers in his Beechcraft Bonanza as pictured above. Gernon had made this flight several times before and was ready for another mundane trip. Little did he know that this trip would change his life forever.

The journey was set to cover 250 miles and would take roughly one and a half hours to complete. However, shortly after takeoff, the plane was faced with a small dark cloud that seemed to grow as they got closer. Faced with no alternatives Gernon flew through the cloud with no hiccups. A weird event but nothing worth writing home about. The flight then continued for roughly thirty minutes before another similar cloud appeared before the plane again. This cloud was too large to avoid and the plane once again flew into it. What came next though is still not fully understood.

Upon entering the cloud the plane was enveloped in darkness then an electric fog seemed to envelop the aircraft. Bright flashes of light seemed to surround their plane and the cloud seemed to grow cylindrical with the plane at its center. To make matters worse, as Gernon attempted to make for a break at the end of the cloud his instruments began to malfunction. The compass began to spin counterclockwise and the electronic instruments all went haywire. Gernon had no way to know where he was or in which direction he was headed. Then according to Gernon the walls of the tunnel-like cloud began narrowing drawing closer and closer to the plane. Luckily as things seemed grimmest the plane broke through the clouds and electrical fog and found itself in a white haze. Gernon’s instruments began working again and he immediately contacted ATC to find out where he was. What he learned next was shocking.

ATC informed Gernon that he was over Miami and when the haze broke he could see he was indeed. The controllers and Gernon were shocked. The plane was only roughly halfway to Miami when it hit the strange cloud and electric fog. Then despite only being in the cloud for three minutes, the plane reached Miami. Covering roughly 100 miles in just three minutes. This would mean that the plane would have to be going 2000 miles per hour in a plane with a max speed of 180 mph. Genono made a safe landing in Miami and then began a full inspection of his plane. To his amazement, his fuel on board was much more than it should have been for the flight. It was as if the plane just skipped 100 miles of travel, so what happened?

Despite speaking with several professionals and experts no one has been able to provide a definitive explanation for the incident. Gernon would go on to write a book about the event titled, “Through the Electric Fog” but to this day the true nature of the incident remains unknown. Whether supernatural or the cause of events we do not yet understand, Gernon’s story is captivating and we wonder what secrets about the natural world and the Triangle remain undiscovered.

Thanks for reading and if you enjoy this post, please feel free to leave a comment. A big thanks to BuzzFeed Unsolved and National Geographic for the information and inspiration needed to create these posts, definitely check out their channels and website if you like this type of content. Look forward to the last and most famous story in part 3!