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Mystery of the lost island
- mysterious world
- Apr 23, 2022
- 1 min read
Bermeja is a phantom island of the North Coast of yucatán peninsula according to several maps of gulf of Mexico from 16th to 20th century.
The island was first mentioned by “Alonso de santa Cruz ” in a list of islands of the region published in Madrid 1539.
The island was what Mexico needed to extend its claim on offshore oil and stop the USA’s enroachment on Mexico’s interest in that department.
However, in the 1990s the island disappeared without a trace leading to the rise of many conspiracy theories, that the CIA had something to do with the vanishing island, ensuring that US would get all the oil and increase the US economic zone. Some people actually believe that the CIA blew up the whole island.
Bermeja island was found on historical maps between 1535 to 1775, after which it vanished from geographical records, appearing once again in the 1857 when a US map once again included it.
Wikipedia
The island was first reported missing in 1997 when a Navy fishing expedition was unable to find it. Due to the disappearance Mexico’s economic zone was greatly reduced.
Further research in 2009 also didn’t turn up any missing island creating even more confusion as to whether the island actually existed. However, most rational explanation of the disappearance could be an erroneous observation by early cartographers or shifts in the geography of the ocean floor.
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