There are many mysterious places on Earth. Although the most famous among the anomalous zones of the Earth is rightfully considered the Bermuda Triangle, the small Pacific island of Palmyra, can make it a serious competition. The mysterious island is located about 1000 miles from the Hawaiian Islands. From the outside, the island looks like a real paradise: lush vegetation, lagoons and reefs. However, there is a sense of trouble in the atmosphere of Palmyra ...
Why is this island named mysterious? A whole chain of tragic events took place in the history of Palmyra. In 1798, the American ship Betsy, heading from America to Asia, crashed into reefs near the island. Most of the people who tried to swim to the island drowned or were eaten by sharks. The survivors said that they would never again agree to return to this cursed land. During the two months they were there, out of ten people, only three survived. The survivors claimed that everyone else was destroyed by the island. The island was mapped and became known as Palmyra in honor of the ship that crashed off its coast.
In 1816, the Spanish caravel Esperanta was caught in a violent storm that suddenly broke out. The ship hit the reefs and began to sink slowly, and the storm immediately subsided. The crew was rescued by a passing Brazilian ship. The captain of "Esperanta" carefully entered the coordinates of all reefs on the map, but, sailing a year later in the same place, he did not find them ...
In 1870, off the coast of the same mysterious island of Palmyra, the American ship "Angel" disappeared. The corpses of the team members were later found on Palmyra. They all reportedly died a violent death, but who killed them is unknown. Sailors still claim that this island is a cursed place.
Scientist Mershan Marin agrees with the seamen's statements. He is convinced that the action of a living, but evil creature is felt on Palmyra, although at the same time the island attracts like a magnet. According to the scientist, the island of Palmyra has a lot of oddities and mysteries. The weather there changes almost instantly. The nature is beautiful, but in the beautiful lagoons there are a huge number of sharks, and the fish are inedible due to the poisonous substances secreted by the algae. There are many insects, including huge mosquitoes, as well as poisonous lizards, crabs and other animals.
the mysterious island of PalmyraIn 1940, the island was taken under US control. During World War II, the American government used it to attack Japan. One of the soldiers of the garrison located on the island, Joe Brow, says that when he arrived there, he considered himself lucky, since the place looked like a real paradise. But soon his opinion changed dramatically. “Everyone on the island was scared,” recalls Brau. “Some were afraid to approach the water, as it seemed to them that sharks would certainly swallow them. Others argued that if they didn't leave the island right now, something terrible would happen. There were several mysterious suicides among the soldiers of the garrison. On top of that, the island aroused an incomprehensible malice in people. The soldiers fought, there were fights and even murders. " After the war, the mysterious island became uninhabited again, but it continued to attract seafarers.
In 1974, Hughes and his wife went to Palmyra on their yacht. At first, Hughes kept in touch by radio with dispatchers, but suddenly the connection was cut off. The authorities decided to send a boat in search of the missing yacht. She was soon discovered off the island of Palmyra. But there were no people. A few days later, the dismembered bodies of the travelers were found in the sand near the water. They were arranged in a special way. The motives for this wild crime and who committed it remain unknown.
In early 1990, Norman Sanders and his team visited the mysterious island. “I did not believe the rumors about what was happening on the island,” he later recalled. “However, I had to be convinced from my own experience that Palmyra is one of the most mysterious places on earth. We came to the island at night. Although I was not on deck, I immediately felt that we were close. A strange melancholy and loneliness seized me "- said Sanders -" The day was magnificent: the blue ocean, the blue sky and the gentle sun. However, according to some members of the crew, the mood was such that I wanted to jump overboard. " People stayed on the island for about a month, although at first they expected to spend much more time there. According to Sanders, during their stay on the island, people from friends turned into bitter enemies. The devices on the mysterious island often failed, or did not work at all. Upon returning from the voyage, all crew members found that they were behind the times. In fact, they returned on April 24, although according to their calculations, it was the 25th. The expedition members' watches ran absolutely normally and did not stop. Where the whole days disappeared remained a mystery.
Pysy: Was in that area in 2002. On the uninhabited island of Baker. It's very close.Spent 10 days there.I can say that the feelings described by the sailors are true. Even on Baker, there was always a kind of disorder and anxiety. Especially at night. Serena sang loudly from the sea side at night. You may not believe this, but I heard it myself. The weather changes in those areas instantly. I still have very vivid memories. Especially from the starry night sky. It is indescribable and beautiful.
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. The survivors miraculously 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 corpses 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 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 were 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. ”Once 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, he again became uninhabited, but continued to attract seafarers.
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 came to 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.
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 ... (website)
What mysteries the island of Palmyra hides
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 terrible 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.
From the history of the island of Palmyra
It all began with the fact that in the distant 1798 the American ship "Betsy" landed on the reefs near this "paradise island". 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, navigators could not solve the mysteries of the island of Palmyra, and also for what reason ships crashed near this, in general, quiet place with a coastal bottom favorable for navigation. However, the Spanish caravel "Esperanta" that 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. However, more strange riddles remained unsolved.
The mysterious disappearance of the crew of an American ship on the island of Palmyra
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, and fights broke out between the soldiers, which often ended in death. And suicides began to occur with terrifying frequency.
One day, Joe recalls, they shot down an enemy plane that fell on an island very close to 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. Perhaps the mysteries of the island haunted them .. For three days they told the dispatchers by radio that they were living on Palmyra and 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 explore this mysterious island was undertaken by the traveler and explorer Norman Sanders, who in 1990, together with three of the same daredevils, landed on the atoll, and this happened at night. According to Norman, they immediately felt 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 junk, computers fail ... In general, the guys fled from this damn place on April 24, but when they arrived home, it turned out that in some mysterious way they had 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 military themselves, who bring deadly waste here, sometimes tell mysterious creepy things about the island, for example, about the hordes of bloodthirsty rats that 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 mysteries 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 lures and kills travelers.
But the 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.
Palmyra Island ... A heavenly place on Earth, or a killer monster?
At first glance, this is a beautiful place, almost an earthly paradise. Everything is here: beautiful landscapes,wonderful climate, magnificent nature, wonderful beaches, azure sea ... But everything is so simple. What secrets does this island hide from us? 
History of the island of Palmyra.
The history of this atoll island began when a tragic incident in 1798 helped open this atoll 1,500 kilometers south of the Hawaiian Islands, in the very center of the Pacific Ocean. The American ship Betsy hit the reefs here. Sharks ate almost everyone on the ship. Only ten people made it to the shore. Only three were saved. And they talked about the mysterious death of the rest. 
The island was named Palmyra, mapped and forgotten about this story. And four years later, another American ship called "Palmira" sank here. Then there were the Spaniards. They mapped the underwater reefs so that there would be no more wrecks here. But after mapping the reefs to the map, they could no longer be found. 
During World War II, an American garrison was stationed on Palmyra Island. The soldiers said that after a few days on the island, people began to develop an unbridled fear of an unknown danger. It came to suicide and fatal fights. The survivors were happy to leave this “paradise” islet in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
In the future, there were many who wanted to unravel the mystery of the island of Palmyra, but few survived. And those who remained told all about the same mysterious disappearances and violent (seemingly) deaths. 
Palmyra is considered a US territory. They even have island coins (like our jubilee ones). 
Today, there are almost no people wishing to visit this beautiful island. And a visit to the island of Palmyra since 2011. permitted only with permission from the US Department of Conservation.
They say that the United States has begun to export radioactive waste here. Many scary, sometimes fabulous, mystical stories continue to appear. But the mystery of the island still remains unsolved.
About 1000 miles southeast of the Hawaiian Islands lies the island of Palmyra, which consists of many small islets. From the outside, it looks like a real paradise: untouched nature, lush vegetation, lagoons, reefs and a premonition of disaster lurking among them.
A whole chain of tragic events took place in the history of Palmyra. It all began in 1798, when the American ship "Betsy", heading from America to Asia, fell victim to coastal reefs. The blame was poor visibility due to foggy weather.
Many who tried to swim to the island drowned or were eaten by sharks. Those who managed to miraculously escape, told later that they would never again want to be on this cursed land again. During the two months they were there, out of 10 people, only three survived. The survivors claimed that everyone else was destroyed by the island.
The island was fixed on the map and became known as Palmyra after the name of the ship that crashed off its coast. And this is not the only tragedy associated with Palmyra.
In 1816, the Spanish caravel "Esperanta" was caught in a terrible storm, which broke out in a matter of minutes. When the caravel hit the reefs and began to sink slowly, the storm began to diminish and also suddenly died down. The crew was rescued by a passing Brazilian ship. The captain of the Esperanta carefully entered 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 corpses of the team members were later found on Palmyra. All of them reportedly died a violent death, but who killed them is unknown. Sailors to this day claim that this island is a cursed place and it is better to bypass it.
Scientist Mershan Marin believes that Palmyra has a strong negative aura of a living organism, and like a magnet attracts living beings to itself. According to the scientist, Palmyra has many oddities and mysteries. The weather there changes almost instantly. The nature is beautiful, but in the magnificent lagoons there are a huge number of sharks, the fish are inedible, as the algae in these places emit harmful substances. There are many insects, including huge mosquitoes, as well as poisonous lizards, crabs and other animals.
In 1940, the island was taken under the "tutelage" of the United States. During World War II, the American government used it to attack Japan. One of the soldiers of the garrison located on the island during wartime, Joe Brow, says that when he arrived there, he considered himself lucky, since the place looked like a real paradise. But in reality, everything turned out to be far from so wonderful.
“Everyone on the island was scared,” recalls Brau. “Some were afraid to approach the water, because they thought they would be swallowed by sharks. Others insisted that if they did not leave the island right now, something terrible would happen. There were 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. "
In 1974, Hughes and his wife went to Palmyra on their yacht. At first, Hughes kept in touch with the dispatchers by radio, then the connection was cut off. The authorities decided to send a boat in search of the missing yacht. She was soon discovered off the island of Palmyra. But there were no people. A few days later, the dismembered bodies of the spouses were found in the sand near the water. They were arranged in a special way. Who and why committed this crime is unknown
In early 1990, Norman Sanders and his friends visited the mysterious island. “I didn’t believe the rumors about the strange things happening on the island,” said Sun-Shchors later. - “But I had to be convinced on my own skin that Palmyra is one of the most mysterious places on earth. We came to the island at night. I was not on deck, but immediately felt that we were close. A strange melancholy and loneliness seized me, ”Sanders recalled.
The day was a magnificent blue ocean, blue sky and bright gentle sun, but all this did not please people. As one of them later admitted, the mood was such that "I wanted to jump overboard or hang myself." People stayed on the island for about a month, although at first they expected to spend much more time there. Sanders does not hide the reason: "During our stay on the island, we turned from friends into bitter enemies." Devices on the island often junked, and sometimes did not work at all. Returning from the voyage, all crew members found that they were behind the times.
