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Sep 25, 2026
Steve StocktonHOST
Reports of strange events in this area date back to the time of Christopher Columbus.
Steve StocktonHOST
In March 1918, the USS Cyclops, a collier that assisted U.S. warships in different areas, vanished with all crew members during World War I.
Steve StocktonHOST
The possibility of the Cyclops being sunk by a German submarine led to numerous search efforts, but the wreckage has yet to be found, leaving its disappearance a perplexing enigma.
Steve StocktonHOST
The lack of a distress signal and any sign of its location further adds to the mystery.
Steve StocktonHOST
Reports of strange events in this area date back to the time of Christopher Columbus.
Steve StocktonHOST
In March 1918, the USS Cyclops, a collier that assisted US warships in different areas, vanished with all crew members during World War I.
Steve StocktonHOST
The possibility of the Cyclops being sunk by a German submarine led to numerous search efforts, but the wreckage has yet to be found, leaving its disappearance a perplexing enigma.
Steve StocktonHOST
The lack of a distress signal and any sign of its location further adds to the mystery.
Steve StocktonHOST
Reports of strange events in this area date back to the time of Christopher Columbus.
Steve StocktonHOST
In March 1918, the USS Cyclops, a collier that assisted US warships in different areas, vanished with all crew members during World War I.
Steve StocktonHOST
The possibility of the Cyclops being sunk by a German submarine led to numerous search efforts, but the wreckage has yet to be found, leaving its disappearance a perplexing enigma.
Steve StocktonHOST
The lack of a distress signal and any sign of its location further adds to the mystery.
Steve StocktonHOST
A sound that shouldn't exist, coming from a source that cannot be found.
Steve StocktonHOST
Next up, let's take a look at the USS Cyclops.
Steve StocktonHOST
The disappearance of the USS Cyclops is a mystery of such staggering scale that it remains the single largest loss of life in the history of the United States Navy, not directly resulting from combat.
Steve StocktonHOST
On a calm sea in March 1918, a ship the size of a city block, carrying over 300 souls and 10,000 tons of manganese ore, simply vanished.
Steve StocktonHOST
No wreckage, no oil slick, no bodies, and, most hauntingly, not a single distress signal.
Steve StocktonHOST
It's the cornerstone of the Bermuda Triangle legend, yet the logic of the tragedy is found in a perfect storm of structural failure, eccentric leadership, and the brutal physics of the deep ocean.
Steve StocktonHOST
Now, the USS Cyclops was a Proteus-class collier, a massive bulk cargo ship designed to refuel the Navy's coal-burning fleet.
Steve StocktonHOST
Commissioned in 1910, she was nearly 550 feet long and was one of the most sophisticated ships of her time.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
Reports of strange events in this area date back to the time of Christopher Columbus.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
In March 1918, the USS Cyclops, a collier that assisted U.S. warships in different areas, vanished with all crew members during World War I.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The possibility of the Cyclops being sunk by a German submarine led to numerous search efforts, but the wreckage has yet to be found, leaving its disappearance a perplexing enigma.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The lack of a distress signal and any sign of its location further adds to the mystery.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
Yeah.
Olly MannHOST
Okay, so planes, but what about cargo ships, gigantic cargo ships like the USS Cyclops?
Arion McNicollHOST
The sea is big.
Rebecca MessinaHOST
It's bigger than ships.
Arion McNicollHOST
Yeah,
Olly MannHOST
exactly.
Olly MannHOST
March 1918, the cargo ship USS Cyclops vanished after leaving Barbados for Baltimore, along with all... 306 passengers on board and it weighed 20 000 tons the theory at the time was that the germans might have sunk it because it was during world war one but they denied any attack the theory is that she may have been overloaded with coal however this is a bit weird she had three sister ships two of them proteus and nereus also vanished without trace in the caribbean sea both of them in 1941
Arion McNicollHOST
The actual phrase Bermuda Triangle wasn't arrived at until February 1964, when a chap called Vincent Gaddis wrote an article that was called The Deadly Bermuda Triangle in this pulp magazine that was called Argosy.
SasquatchHOST
I mean, there, I, I w- as I was reading up on this, there were stories that said, uh, Columbus, uh, noted it, I guess, in his books or whatever.
SasquatchHOST
But I guess the real sort of time it came into the forefront was the 20th century, and that's because a Navy cargo ship, the USS Cyclops, with more than 300 people on board, went missing inside the B- Bermuda Triangle.
EinorHOST
Okay.
SasquatchHOST
Uh, USS Cyclops was the second of fourth Proteus-class, uh, ships built for the United States Navy several years before World War I.
SasquatchHOST
Named after Cyclops, a race of giants from Greek mythology, she was the second US naval vessel to bear that name.
SasquatchHOST
The loss of the ship and the 306 crew and passengers without a trace occurred sometime after the, after March 4th of 1918.
Steve StocktonHOST
So until science can develop a sensor that mimics the specific sensitivity of the human hearer, the hum remains a ghost in the machine, a sound that shouldn't exist coming from a source that cannot be found.
Steve StocktonHOST
Next up, let's take a look at the USS Cyclops.
Steve StocktonHOST
The disappearance of the USS Cyclops is a mystery of such staggering scale that it remains the single largest loss of life in the history of the United States Navy, not directly resulting from combat.
Steve StocktonHOST
On a calm sea in March 1918, a ship the size of a city block carrying over three hundred souls and ten thousand tons of manganese ore simply vanished.
Steve StocktonHOST
No wreckage, no oil slick, no bodies, and most hauntingly, not a single distress signal.
Steve StocktonHOST
It's the cornerstone of the Bermuda Triangle legend, yet the logic of the tragedy is found in a perfect storm of structural failure, eccentric leadership, and the brutal physics of the deep ocean.
Steve StocktonHOST
Now, the USS Cyclops was a Proteus-class collier, a massive bulk cargo ship designed to refuel the Navy's coal-burning fleet.
Steve StocktonHOST
Commissioned in 1910, she was nearly five hundred and fifty feet long and was one of the most sophisticated ships of her time.
Carol AnnHOST
And South American Airways promptly stops manufacturing the Tudor 4 model.
Carol AnnHOST
During World War I, the USS Cyclops is tasked with sailing to Brazil with coal to refuel allied ships.
Carol AnnHOST
On its way back home, with 309 people on board, the ship leaves Barbados and is never heard from again.
Carol AnnHOST
This disappearance is the single largest loss of life in US naval history not involving combat.
Steve StocktonHOST
Reports of strange events in this area date back to the time of Christopher Columbus.
Steve StocktonHOST
In March 1918, the USS Cyclops, a collier that assisted US warships in different areas, vanished with all crew members during World War I.
Steve StocktonHOST
The possibility of the Cyclops being sunk by a German submarine led to numerous search efforts, but the wreckage has yet to be found, leaving its disappearance a perplexing enigma.
Steve StocktonHOST
The lack of a distress signal and any sign of its location further adds to the mystery.
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