This atoll is located a thousand nautical miles from the Hawaiian Islands, so beloved by tourists. At first glance, the island looks like a piece of paradise, which seems to have everything for a happy and carefree life and relaxation: wonderful climate, magnificent nature, wonderful beaches, azure sea ...
But soon people realized that Palmyra is some kind of mystical predator, which itself has the mind of a killer, and its henchmen in the form of creepy sharks, poisonous lizards, numerous mosquitoes and so on keeps only in order not to leave a person, who got to the island, not a single chance to survive.
It all started with the fact that in the distant 1798 on the reefs near this "paradise island" the American ship "Betsy" sat down. Bloodthirsty sharks immediately attacked the people in the water, as if they were waiting for this feast. Later, survivors recalled that sea predators began to circle around the ship even before it was wrecked.
Ten lucky ones still managed to swim to the shore. And although the rescue ship soon sailed to the island, he picked up only three surviving members of the Betsy's crew, who told such horrors about this atoll that many did not even believe in their horror stories.
The mysterious island has been mapped and called Palmyra since 1802, when an American ship with that name sank near it. For a long time, mariners could not understand why ships crashed near this, in general, quiet place with a coastal bottom favorable for navigation. However, the Spanish caravel Esperanta, which crashed near Palmyra in 1816, clarified something. As the captain of the caravel described that crash, a storm suddenly began near the island, which carried their ship to the reefs. The crew of the Esperanta was picked up by a Brazilian ship that was following the trail, but the Spanish captain tried to plot the coordinates of the reef on the map so that no one would crash into them later. Imagine his surprise when, a year later, swimming in this place, he did not find any reefs.
In 1870, the American ship "Angel" was wrecked near Palmyra. True, what happened to him, no one knows for sure. The ship simply disappeared, and later the corpses of its crew were found on the island. Who or what killed the people remains unknown, since no one has ever lived on the atoll.
Our time has not clarified the mystery of the island of Palmyra
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the island of Palmyra officially became the possession of the United States. When World War II broke out, the Americans deployed a military garrison here. As one of the soldiers of this unit, Joe Brow, wrote in his memoirs, at first they thought that they were very lucky - not a place, but just heaven. But the joy was premature. Within a few days, all the soldiers were seized with unreasonable fear. I wanted, Bry wrote, to leave this terrible place as quickly as possible, otherwise something irreparable will happen to you. Everyone became nervous and angry, fights broke out between the soldiers every now and then, which often ended in death. And suicides began to occur with terrifying frequency.
Once, Joe recalls, they shot down an enemy plane that fell on an island not far from them. But the soldiers could not find him, although they ransacked the entire atoll. After the war, the garrison left the mystical island, and it again became deserted.
And so in 1974, the married couple Melanie and Three Hughes decided to visit him, who went here on their expensive yacht. For three days they told the dispatchers by radio that they were living on Palmyra and that everything was in order. Then the connection ended. Rescuers, who arrived here just a couple of days later, discovered the very carefully dismembered bodies of the Hughes spouses, and their remains were buried in different parts of the atoll. At the same time, things and all jewelry remained untouched.
The last trip to the mystical island in order to study this mysterious place was undertaken by the traveler and explorer Norman Sanders, who in 1990, together with three such daredevils, landed on the atoll, and this happened at night. According to Norman, they immediately sensed fear and impending disaster. Researchers lasted only a week on Palmyra, although they planned to stay for two months. After a couple of days, they almost began to fight each other, and one of them even attempted suicide. At the same time, for some unknown reason, their on-board instruments began to fail, computers fail ... In general, the guys fled from this damn place on April 24, but when they arrived home, it turned out that they had somehow mysteriously lost a whole day. Well at least they remained intact ...
At the end of the last century, the American authorities began to place radioactive waste on an uninhabited island, so those who want to visit this terrible corner of the planet today can be counted on one hand. And the soldiers themselves, who bring deadly waste here, sometimes tell terrible things about the island, for example, about the hordes of bloodthirsty rats that have bred on the atoll. True, the military generally keep quiet, since a long language in their case can result in dismissal from service, or even worse ...
Attempts to explain the secrets of the mystical island
Palmyra Atoll is very similar to a living monster, so many researchers tend to think of it as such, that is, an island with its strong and destructive aura that attracts and kills travelers.
But researcher Mershan Marin believes that there is some mysterious, very evil creature on the island that can control here not only the weather, reefs and even sharks, poisonous reptiles, like other aggressive animals, but also affects the consciousness of people, making their uncontrollable zombies.
Another version is a portal to another, very scary world for us. It is from there that all the evil spirits break through here, which in some way can change our reality and kill people.
On our planet, there are still a huge number of places that keep many mysteries. Literally every piece of the Earth or part of the water keeps its anomalous secrets. Among the mystical zones beyond competition, of course, the Bermuda Triangle. But few people know that ...
Palmyra Island
About a thousand nautical miles south of the Hawaiian Islands lies the medium-sized Palmyra Atoll (representative of the ring-shaped coral group of islands). I must say that in terms of the degree of anomalousness and mysticism of the events that took place on it, it is not much inferior to its famous brothers - the islands of the Bermuda Triangle.
This atoll (Palmyra Atoll) has long belonged to the Line Islands group, and got its name relatively recently, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after the American ship "Palmyra" sank off its coast on November 7, 1802.
The mystery of the island of Palmyra
The appearance of the island is beautiful: its coast is covered with soft sand, and the atoll itself is literally wrapped in amazing tropical plants. It represents two serene, at first glance, Western and Eastern lagoons. They are separated from each other by a sand bar: however, it is visible only at low tide. It looks like a real paradise of unusual beauty, but these are only seeming impressions. In fact, it is, rather, not paradise, but its complete opposite: after all, Palmyra Atoll received a notoriety for the killer island.
Palmyra Atoll and its victims
The first victims the then unnamed atoll became the crew of the American sailing ship "Betsy", which sailed to Asia and wrecked near the island at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (this was the distant year 1798). Only ten sailors were able to reach the shore, the rest of the crew either drowned or were torn apart by sharks.
Of the ten people who sailed to the island, only three were able to live to see their real salvation - when they were picked up by a passing ship. When they were rescued, everyone, as one, repeated that the rest of the sailors were killed by the accursed island and they all departed into the world in a strange, mysterious and terrible way: someone ripped open their stomachs ...
In 1816, another victim of the island of Palmyra was the Spanish ship "Esperanta", which crashed on the reefs near the atoll. The strange thing was that the storm flew in quite suddenly, and after the ship crashed, the storm immediately subsided.
The sailors from the Spanish ship were more fortunate than the Betsy's crew, as they were immediately picked up by a Brazilian sailboat. The mysticism was that when a year later the ship that rescued the sailors from Esperant again passed near Palmyra, the reefs on which Esperant crashed were no longer in sight.
However, the island demanded new victims and this time it was the American brig "Angel". After a while, the corpses of his sailors were found on the island, and they were all with traces of violent death. It is still not known for certain what or who caused their death.
Palmyra stories
1943 to 1946 During World War II, a small contingent of American troops was stationed on the island. At first, the soldiers were delighted with what they saw and were glad that fate gave them the opportunity to serve in such a beautiful place. But this was only at the beginning, as the euphoria was soon replaced by an irresistible desire to leave the island.
For example, one of the soldiers said that during their stay on the island, absolutely all the servicemen experienced fear and causeless anxiety. It seemed to the military that someone was watching them. Perhaps for this reason, quarrels, fights and even murders arose between the soldiers. The obsessive desire to quickly leave the island did not leave the military for a minute.
According to the former military garrison located on the island in those years, almost all of them saw how one day a Japanese plane fell on the atoll. However, the search for him did not lead to anything: the pilot and the aircraft seemed to have sunk through the ground. After the end of the war, due to strange events on the island, the base was closed, and people were transferred to a new duty station.
There are no less mysterious and mystical cases in the modern history of the island of Palmyra. So, in 1974 the spouses Hughes, Thomas and Melanie arrived on the island on a yacht.
For several days, communication with them was constant and they reported on the radio that everything was fine with them. But already on the third day, the Hughes couple stopped communicating. Rescuers who arrived a few days later found the bodies of the spouses buried in different places dismembered, and, which is characteristic, both, like many previous victims of the island, also had their stomachs ripped open.
In 1990, a group of researchers arrived in Palmyra led by the famous traveler and explorer Norman Sanders, consisting of four people and eager to unravel the mystery of the mysterious island. The daredevils landed on the atoll at night and planned to stay on the island for at least a couple of months. But already on the third day of their stay here, they began to row among themselves, and one of the group members even had suicide attempts.
The researchers had no choice but to leave this ominous place. It was also strange that after returning home it turned out that people were lost in time for a whole day! They believed they returned on the 24th, when in fact it was already the 25th. Of course, you can confuse the numbers if you stay away from civilization for a very long time, but in three days, and with four men at once - this is hardly possible.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century a group of scientists visited the island, which, in turn, also became convinced of the deceitfulness of this tropical paradise. The coastal waters here are teeming with sharks, the fish are inedible here, as algae near its shores emit substances that poison the water; and the weather on the island changes in the blink of an eye. But here's how to explain the murders and dismemberment of people? ..
Some researchers believe that there is a certain mystical bloodthirsty creature on the atoll, which turned out to be able to turn this paradise into a haven of horrors and nightmares, and random travelers who appear here into uncontrollable zombies and, ultimately, their victims.
This atoll is located a thousand nautical miles from the Hawaiian Islands, so beloved by tourists. At first glance, the island looks like a piece of paradise, which seems to have everything for a happy and carefree life and relaxation: wonderful climate, magnificent nature, wonderful beaches, azure sea ...
But soon people realized that Palmyra is some kind of mystical predator, which itself has the mind of a killer, and its henchmen in the form of creepy sharks, poisonous lizards, numerous mosquitoes and so on keeps only in order not to leave a person, who got to the island, not a single chance to survive.
It all started with the fact that in the distant 1798 on the reefs near this "paradise island" the American ship "Betsy" sat down. Bloodthirsty sharks immediately attacked the people in the water, as if they were waiting for this feast. Later, survivors recalled that sea predators began to circle around the ship even before it was wrecked.
Ten lucky ones still managed to swim to the shore. And although the rescue ship soon sailed to the island, he picked up only three surviving members of the Betsy's crew, who told such horrors about this atoll that many did not even believe in their horror stories.
The mysterious island has been mapped and called Palmyra since 1802, when an American ship with that name sank near it. For a long time, mariners could not understand why ships crashed near this, in general, quiet place with a coastal bottom favorable for navigation. However, the Spanish caravel Esperanta, which crashed near Palmyra in 1816, clarified something. As the captain of the caravel described that crash, a storm suddenly began near the island, which carried their ship to the reefs. The crew of the Esperanta was picked up by a Brazilian ship that was following the trail, but the Spanish captain tried to plot the coordinates of the reef on the map so that no one would crash into them later. Imagine his surprise when, a year later, swimming in this place, he did not find any reefs.
In 1870, the American ship "Angel" was wrecked near Palmyra. True, what happened to him, no one knows for sure. The ship simply disappeared, and later the corpses of its crew were found on the island. Who or what killed the people remains unknown, since no one has ever lived on the atoll.
Our time has not clarified the mystery of the island of Palmyra
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the island of Palmyra officially became the possession of the United States. When World War II broke out, the Americans deployed a military garrison here. As one of the soldiers of this unit, Joe Brow, wrote in his memoirs, at first they thought that they were very lucky - not a place, but just heaven. But the joy was premature. Within a few days, all the soldiers were seized with unreasonable fear. I wanted, Bry wrote, to leave this terrible place as quickly as possible, otherwise something irreparable will happen to you. Everyone became nervous and angry, fights broke out between the soldiers every now and then, which often ended in death. And suicides began to occur with terrifying frequency.
Once, Joe recalls, they shot down an enemy plane that fell on an island not far from them. But the soldiers could not find him, although they ransacked the entire atoll. After the war, the garrison left the mystical island, and it again became deserted.
And so in 1974, the married couple Melanie and Three Hughes decided to visit him, who went here on their expensive yacht. For three days they told the dispatchers by radio that they were living on Palmyra and that everything was in order. Then the connection ended. Rescuers, who arrived here just a couple of days later, discovered the very carefully dismembered bodies of the Hughes spouses, and their remains were buried in different parts of the atoll. At the same time, things and all jewelry remained untouched.
The last trip to the mystical island in order to study this mysterious place was undertaken by the traveler and explorer Norman Sanders, who in 1990, together with three such daredevils, landed on the atoll, and this happened at night. According to Norman, they immediately sensed fear and impending disaster. Researchers lasted only a week on Palmyra, although they planned to stay for two months. After a couple of days, they almost began to fight each other, and one of them even attempted suicide. At the same time, for some unknown reason, their on-board instruments began to fail, computers fail ... In general, the guys fled from this damn place on April 24, but when they arrived home, it turned out that they had somehow mysteriously lost a whole day. Well at least they remained intact ...
At the end of the last century, the American authorities began to place radioactive waste on an uninhabited island, so those who want to visit this terrible corner of the planet today can be counted on one hand. And the soldiers themselves, who bring deadly waste here, sometimes tell terrible things about the island, for example, about the hordes of bloodthirsty rats that have bred on the atoll. True, the military generally keep quiet, since a long language in their case can result in dismissal from service, or even worse ...
Attempts to explain the secrets of the mystical island
Palmyra Atoll is very similar to a living monster, so many researchers tend to think of it as such, that is, an island with its strong and destructive aura that attracts and kills travelers.
But researcher Mershan Marin believes that there is some mysterious, very evil creature on the island that can control here not only the weather, reefs and even sharks, poisonous reptiles, like other aggressive animals, but also affects the consciousness of people, making their uncontrollable zombies.
Another version is a portal to another, very scary world for us. It is from there that all the evil spirits break through here, which in some way can change our reality and kill people.
There are many mysterious places on Earth. Although the palm tree among the anomalous zones of our planet rightfully belongs to the Bermuda Triangle, a small island of Palmyra, lost in the Pacific Ocean, can compete with it.
Palmyra is located about 1000 miles southeast of the Hawaiian Islands. This place seems to be a real paradise: untouched nature, lush tropical vegetation, lagoons and reefs in which life is in full swing ... And at the same time - a sense of trouble in the air ...
The history of Palmyra is a chain of tragic events. In 1798, the American ship Betsy, heading from America to Asia, swooped down on reefs near an island not marked on the maps. People who tried to swim to the island drowned or were eaten by sharks. Those who miraculously survived told later that in no case would they agree to return “to this damned land”. During the two months of their stay there, out of ten people, only three remained. The survivors claimed that everyone else was destroyed by the island, which is in fact a "living creature, a vile creature." Nevertheless, the location of the island was fixed on the map, and in 1802 it became known as Palmyra after the name of the ship that crashed off its coast.
In 1816, the Spanish caravel "Graduate", heading for Peru, fell into a terrible storm suddenly played out. Carried by the wind, she ran into the reefs and slowly began to sink. The storm died down immediately. The crew was taken on board by a passing Brazilian vessel. The captain of the "Graduates" carefully plotted the coordinates of all the reefs on the map, but, sailing a year later in the same place, he did not find them.
In 1870 the American ship "Angel" disappeared off the coast of Palmyra. The bodies of the team members were later found on this island. They all died a violent death. But who killed them is unknown. Sailors today claim that Palmyra is a cursed place and it is better to bypass it. Mershan Marin, a passionate yachtsman and scientist, absolutely agrees with them. He believes that Palmyra has the aura of a living being, and it is very strong and undoubtedly black; but at the same time, the island attracts like a magnet or the strongest drug. Marin notes that Palmyra has a lot of oddities and mysteries. The weather there changes almost instantly. The nature is beautiful, but the magnificent lagoons are teeming with sharks, the fish are inedible, since the algae in these places emit special harmful substances. Many insects, including huge mosquitoes, as well as poisonous lizards, crabs and other unpleasant living creatures.
In 1940, the island was taken over by the United States. And during the Second World War, it was used by the American government to attack Japan. Joe Brow, one of the soldiers of the garrison located there during wartime, says that, having arrived in Palmyra, he considered himself lucky, since the place where he was supposed to serve looked like a real paradise. But the reality turned out to be far from so beautiful. “Everyone on the island was scared,” recalls Brau. - Some were afraid to approach the water, as it seemed to them that they would certainly be swallowed by sharks. Others insisted that if they didn't leave the island right now, something terrible would happen. There have been several mysterious suicides among the soldiers of the garrison. In addition, the island aroused an incomprehensible anger in people. The soldiers quarreled, there were fights and murders. ”One day an enemy plane was shot down over Palmyra, which began to smoke and, falling, disappeared behind the palm trees. The military tried to find the wreckage of the plane, but found nothing, although they searched the entire island. After the war, it again became uninhabited, but continued to attract sailors.
In 1974, Trem Hughes and his wife Melanie went to Palmyra on their yacht. At first, Hughes kept in touch by radio with dispatchers in the Hawaiian Islands. Then the connection was cut, and the authorities decided to send a rescue boat in search of the missing yacht. She was soon discovered near Palmyra. But there were no people on it. A few days later, the bodies of the spouses were found in the sand near the water. They were dismembered and arranged in a special way. Who and why committed this crime is unknown.
Palmyra Island in the Pacific Ocean
In early 1990, the mysterious island was visited by amateur yachtsman Norman Sanders and three of his friends. “I didn't believe the rumors about the oddities happening on the island,” Sanders said later. - But I had to make sure on my own skin that Palmyra is one of the most mysterious places on Earth. We approached the island at night. I was not on deck, but immediately felt that we were close. A strange melancholy and loneliness seized me ... The sun rose, and a small crew gathered on the deck.
In the Pacific Ocean, about 1,000 miles south of the Hawaiian Islands, there is an island palmyra atoll... To a person who sees it for the first time, the place may seem like an earthly paradise. The atoll is notable for its amazing appeal: white sandy beaches, dense vegetation, picturesque lagoons amaze with their beauty. But, behind all the splendor, there is an inconspicuous road to the world of horror and pain.
Island monster
Taking a closer look at this anomalous place, you can find that a large number of sharks live in the waters near the island, and the fish is saturated with poison secreted by local algae. The island's fauna also does not spoil. Poisonous lizards are abundant here, and there are many annoying insects such as mosquitoes. The good weather on the atoll can deteriorate in the blink of an eye.
Since its inception, the island has gained a bad reputation. People who land on the beaches of Palmyra are exposed to an unknown force. Not many lucky ones manage to get out of the lost place alive. The island even got its name from a ship that suffered a disaster off its coast.
The history of the place knows many examples. In 1798, while the atoll was not yet marked on maps, a ship was wrecked in the waters near the island. The ship "Betsy" en route from America to Asia, hitting the reefs, gave a leak and began to sink rapidly. Of the entire large team, only ten people got to the saving land. The rest were either eaten by sharks or simply drowned.
The lucky ones who escaped from the water element faced other trials. Only three of them managed to escape on board another ship, passing near the atoll a month later. From their words it turned out that the remnant of the surviving team was destroyed by a monster living on the island.
Cursed island
In 1802, the atoll was mapped. It got its name from the name of the ship that wrecked in the same year in the water area of \u200b\u200bthe island. The place continued to claim the lives of sailors in the future.
In 1870, the ship "Angel" (Engel), passing on a course past the island, disappeared. Later, the bodies of the team members were found on the coast. All the victims showed signs of a violent death, while the killer was never found.
During World War II, the island fell into the US sphere of influence. The US military has established its base on the atoll. One of the soldiers who served there later shared his memories. According to him, the people who were at the facility were in a constant state of gratuitous fear. Some were frightened by the presence of a large number of sharks in the waters, others in panic rushed to defect from the island, citing the inevitability of disastrous events.
Some of the servicemen interrupted their torment by committing suicide. For many, uncontrolled attacks of aggression were recorded. In the garrison, every now and then quarrels broke out, ending in fights, and sometimes murder.
Navy Officer Hal Horton, who served on the atoll from 1942 to 1944, shared his memories of the war:
“One day, a patrolling plane crashed into the water near the island. Although all forces were thrown into his search, no wreckage was found, which was suspicious.
Another plane, in clear weather, having risen from the runway to a height of 60 meters, chose the wrong direction of flight. According to the flight plan, he was supposed to head north. Instead, he turned in the opposite direction and disappeared over the horizon. Two experienced pilots disappeared along with the car.
The hell was going on on the island. Experienced sailors called the place just cursed. We were constantly unlucky. There was a case when a plane, after circling over the island for a long time, could not find the runway and eventually crashed into the water. The sharks found the pilot faster than the rescue team. "
An island with a mind
At the end of the war, the military stopped trying to populate the atoll, non-combat losses exceeded all permissible limits. After the garrison left, not a single living person remained on the island. But, the anomalous zone stubbornly continued to remind of itself.
In 1974, on Palmyra, there was a bloody double murder of sailors. The trial of the case established that San Diego residents Malcolm and Eleanor Graham were killed by a previously convicted offender living on the island. The motive for the crime was an expensive yacht "Sea Wind" with provisions.
The remains of the woman who died on the island of Elionora Graham were discovered in 1980 by another pair of sailors Sharon and Robert Jordan. Walking along the shore, Sharon discovered a war-era metal container thrown out by a wave. Human bones lay nearby. It was an amazing coincidence that the woman managed to make a find. On the next high tide, there would be no evidence left.
As a result of the investigative actions, it was established that the victim was first shot dead. After - the body was burned with a burner, dismembered, folded into a metal box and drowned in the lagoon. Mack Graham's body could not be found.
John Biden acted as a witness at the trial. The owner of a coconut plantation in Palmyra. He spent over 14 months on the island. It seemed that this man was difficult to scare, but his testimonies refuted this assumption. He was sure that all the people who set foot on the island would be in trouble.
The second witness in the case was Tom Wolfe. Shortly before the tragedy, he also visited Palmyra. The mystical powers of the island continued to affect this person even after many years.
A month before the end of the trial, at the time of the greatest tension of events, he was at his home located on the Pugit Sound coast in Washington.
After the storm, Tom went for a walk along the shore. Examining objects thrown from the ocean by the elements, twelve meters from his house, he found a sealed metal bottle. Inside was a map. Wolfe could not believe his eyes and was greatly shocked and frightened. The map depicted the ill-fated island of Palmyra. What forces this message brought him, one can only guess.
Sharing his impressions, he noted that the find plunged him into superstitious fear. The island's tentacles were able to reach it over three thousand miles.
According to marine biologist Marchand Morin, the island can be a living organism with powerful negative energy. It is this dark aura that attracts and destroys people. According to other versions, adherents of a dark cult settled on the island, and a portal to another dimension is also located.
The last reports about Palmyra date back to 2011. Rats bred in large numbers on the island. The invasion of rodents was stopped with the use of poisons. But the ecosystem was also partially affected. The site is currently closed to tourists. To visit, you must obtain a special permit from the US environmental organization.
