The “Bermuda Beast” is a giant sea monster sometimes proposed online as an explanation for disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle, capable, in some versions, of dragging down ships or even snatching aircraft. Unlike most entries in this index, it has no history of reported sightings, folklore or eyewitness accounts. As far as we can find, it is a modern invention: a “hypothetical” monster of internet forums and a villain in a 2014 TV movie.[1][2]
| Type | Modern fictional or hypothetical sea monster |
|---|---|
| Associated with | The Bermuda Triangle (roughly Miami–Bermuda–Puerto Rico) |
| Reported sightings | None documented |
| Best-known appearance | The 2014 TV movie Bermuda Tentacles |
| Status | Not a recognized cryptid or folklore figure |
A note on this entry
An earlier version of this page described a scaled, winged, tentacled creature hundreds of feet long, linked to Caribbean Indigenous legends and to a mid-twentieth-century cargo-ship encounter. We could not find any of this in published sources. We have rewritten the entry to explain where the idea actually comes from.
Where the “Bermuda Beast” comes from
- Online “hypothetical” monsters. Descriptions circulate of a creature more than a thousand meters long, able to leap from the sea to take planes from the sky. Writers who have looked into it describe it as purely hypothetical, with no photographs or sightings, and note that an animal of that size could not exist.[1]
- Bermuda Tentacles (2014). A made-for-television film produced by The Asylum for the Syfy channel, in which a rescue mission after Air Force One crashes in the Triangle awakens an ancient sea monster.[2]
- Monster-hunting television. Documentary-style series about the Triangle have featured episodes on supposed sea monsters, helping to keep the idea in circulation.
The Bermuda Triangle itself
The Bermuda Triangle is a stretch of the western North Atlantic where ships and aircraft are said to vanish mysteriously. The name was coined by the writer Vincent Gaddis in a 1964 magazine article, and the legend grew through popular books in the 1970s. The librarian Larry Kusche, who went back to newspapers, weather records and official reports, showed in 1975 that many of the famous “mysteries” had been exaggerated, misreported or had ordinary explanations such as storms. Insurers and the US Coast Guard do not regard the area as more dangerous than other heavily traveled stretches of ocean.[3]
Because the Triangle’s disappearances are not unusual in the first place, there is nothing that a monster needs to explain.
Real giants of the deep Atlantic
The waters around Bermuda are genuinely home to large and little-seen animals. Giant squid, sperm whales that dive to hunt them, large sharks and deep-sea fish all live in the region. Real deep-sea animals, and occasional decomposing carcasses washed ashore, are the true source of most sea-monster stories, as described in our entries on the Kraken and Lusca.
References
- “Decemystery 2019 #6: Bermuda Beast,” Vertigo22 (December 2019).
- “Bermuda Tentacles,” Cryptid Wiki.
- “Bermuda Triangle,” Wikipedia; see also Lawrence David Kusche, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery—Solved (New York: Harper & Row, 1975).
Correction note (October 2026): This entry was completely rewritten. The earlier version described the Bermuda Beast as a scaled, winged, tentacled creature linked to Indigenous Caribbean legends and to a twentieth-century cargo-ship encounter. We could not find any source for these claims and they have been removed. The illustration above is an artistic impression.