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The Bermuda Triangle and Florida’s Springs

The Bermuda Triangle-the area between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico that is alleged to have an unusual number of plane and boat disappearances. Part of this notorious area encompasses the blue holes and springs of Florida and the Bahama Islands. My Crystal Gaze Team is based out of this area and interested in the effects of springs on energy.

I spent hours of my adolescence saving money from odd jobs to buy books about the mysterious area, wondering how accurate the research of writers like Berlitz and Winer was. From early days beachcombing near a venting blue hole, I knew that these fascinating features marched to a different tide table than the sea they flowed into.

My personal research continued to read about other areas with alleged high rates of vessel disappearances, some writers claiming as many as ’12 Vile Vortices’ that emit confusion to nearby boats and planes. Some areas of the world, the Great Lakes being one, also have a high recorded loss of vessels to the point of being described as ‘Triangles’ in their right, but with differing opinions on being a Vortex site.

What these areas do have in common is sedimentary rock with springs. Blue holes in limestone with freshwater springs have nourished sailors and manatees in Florida and the Bahamas and springs spout in profusion from the grey limestone of the Great Lakes. The southern cave passages are usually larger than those found in Ontario.

My sailing in and around Hamilton Harbor, Ontario, took me over three deep holes, similar in width and depth to blue holes, on a regular basis. Besides being a blue hole type formation, the only other possibility might be a plunge pool from a prehistoric ice age river, like those found in the Niagara River below the Niagara Falls. One day, while walking on the shore, I and other eyewitnesses, saw the water above one of the holes produce big bubbles.

I do not think that it produced sufficient methane to be recorded in the atmosphere, but I am glad that no one was sailing over the bubbles. Per oral history, one First Nations village ice fishing on Ghost Lake on the Bruce Peninsula was not so fortunate. Most of the village perished as gas vented from the lake bottom and broke the ice. Ghost Lake is spring fed with a drain to Georgian Bay below.

The other product that I collected from my visits to Ghost Lake was sand with a high iron content. Enough to sway a compass into the wild swings described by researchers of Triangles of the world? If enough were stirred up, perhaps. Is it possible that the iron is carried by springs from deep within the earth?

Odd that Cape Canaveral sends rockets and satellites to space to learn about other planets and yet know so little about the internal structure of the one they live on. No one knows how deep the springs go beneath the earth. Coleridge described them as ‘caverns measureless to man’ in Kubla Khan.

Springs have been the source of healing and spirituality. Have they also led to disappearances of planes and ships? Could they be part of an Ouroboros cycle that churns inside Earth? Questions that make a new forensic tool seem easy.

Crystal Gaze Key West

‘“On 4 August 1892, Abby Durfee Gray Borden and Andrew Jackson Borden were murdered in their home at 92 Second Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. Utilising crystals to amplify the EMF signature left by those traumatic deaths, the following graphic movies have recaptured those murders with a holographic film. 3D glasses are available. Ear plugs are not. Please dim the lights,” Toni requested.’ From Crystal Gaze-Key West Prologue.

Who would not want a new forensic tool in a fight against crime? Professor Toni Simon learns that not every crime will be solved as she works to solve a decades old series of murders in Key West, Florida over an intense twenty-four-hour day.

Crystal Gaze-Key West: Hill, Laura Lee: 9798871563823: Books - Amazon.ca