Scientists reveal new theory that could solve the Bermuda Triangle mystery after years

The Bermuda Triangle has long left scientists baffled due to the alarming number of mysteries associated with it.

Although plane crashes and disappearances are fairly regular, there perhaps isn't anywhere in the world where it's more common to disappear than in the Bermuda Triangle, the region between Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.

While official sources have always put these vanishings down to extreme weather, the internet loves a conspiracy theory, to the extent where many believed it to be the home of alien abductions on planet Earth.

But another mystery associated with the area is more baffling to geologists than the people with Reddit, and that is why the triangle is visible at all, and how the island that sits above the sea's surface (Bermuda) is able to host over 60,000 inhabitants.

This is surprising because volcanic islands such as Bermuda usually rely on heat from active geology deep below the surface in order to stay elevated, yet Bermuda's volcanoes stopped erupting around 30 million years ago, which you'd think is enough time for the island to sink back below the surface.

Despite this, the island has stayed elevated for all that time, and scientists now think they've found out why.

The disappearances weren't the only mystery (Getty Stock)

Researchers William Frazer and Jeffrey Park have been recording earthquake data in Bermuda for more than two decades and that hard work has paid off with a potential answer to this geology headache.

Their study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, revealed that there is an enormous slab of lighter volcanic rock sitting beneath Bermuda.

The secret layer sounds cool enough already before you realise that it's around 12 miles thick, with the slight difference in denseness allowing Bermuda to essentially float on top of this volcanic rock.

That ancient eruption is continuing to benefit Bermuda (Getty Stock)

This was likely formed by an ancient volcanic eruption many millions of years ago and it's still doing a top job to this day, so the people of Bermuda probably don't need to fear about their beloved island sinking any time soon.

Researcher William Frazer said this in a statement about it: "Bermuda is an exciting place to study because a variety of its geologic features do not fit the model of a mantle plume, the classic way for deep material to be brought to the surface.

"This suggests that there are other convective processes within Earth’s mantle that have yet to be well understood."

If you were hoping for an answer to the theories about the disappearances then fear not, because a Channel 5 series, titled The Bermuda Triangle Enigma, answered that exact question last year.

In the documentary, University of Southampton oceanographer Simon Boxall proposed that rogue waves were the obvious explanation for the number of ships that have gone missing over the years.

He said: "There are storms to the south and north, which come together. And if there are additional ones from Florida, it can be a potentially deadly formation of rogue waves."