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Why do ships keep sinking in the Bermuda Triangle?

“Hexagonal clouds,” according to a U.S. documentary that quickly became one of October’s most explosively shared English-language news stories.

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“These types of hexagonal shapes over the ocean are in essence air bombs,” said Randall Cerveny, an Arizona State University climatologist, speaking in an episode of the Science Channel series What on Earth?

These “deadly air bombs,” a narrator quickly concludes, could “solve the riddle of the Bermuda Triangle.”

But despite hundreds of “Bermuda Mystery solved!” news stories and tens of thousands of Facebook shares, the theory is complete and utter malarkey.

Just ask one of the scientists from the show.

“There are no mysteries behind the patterns at all,” said Colorado State University research scientist Steven Miller.