Have you Heard About the Mysterious Bermuda Triangle in Oklahoma?
People have reportedly been disappearing from here for centuries, which could have something to do with abnormalities in the ground.
Last year, you may remember me telling you about the creepy Texas urban legend known as the Candy Lady. Oklahoma, it's your turn to tell us a scary tale. This urban legend is a place called Shaman's Portal, also known as the Bermuda Triangle of Oklahoma.
It's located in Beaver Dunes Park, which is just northwest of Oklahoma City. This place was built on top of an Indian burial ground. If horror movies have taught me anything, it's NEVER build anything on top of an Indian burial ground. Stories go as far back as the 1500's for Shaman's Portal. Spanish conquistadors were traveling through this area looking for gold and disappeared without a trace.
Natives told the Spaniards to avoid the dunes where this supposed portal is located. The Spainairds ignored these warnings and were never seen again. Other disappearances have been reported as well over the years and no one knows where they go.
But this story is a lot bigger than just people disappearing.
People also claim that a UFO crashed into this area at some point. A group in the 90s actually came out to the Beaver Dunes area to investigate this claim. They tested the soil for the supposed crash site and they found something. They honestly don't know what is in the soil, but they called it abnormal. They say it contained such anomalies as constant electromagnetic interference and ionized soil cores.
Some people believe the UFO is buried deep under the soil and the ship is still running giving off the electromagnetic interference. If you want to go check out Shaman's Portal, just head to Beaver, Oklahoma. Be careful, you could disappear into another dimension.
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SAND DOOM: Beaver Dunes Park is home to some of Oklahoma’s most mysterious unexplained occurrences
SAND DOOM: Beaver Dunes Park is home to some of Oklahoma’s most mysterious unexplained occurrences
BEAVER, Okla. — In a state famous for its waving wheat and sweeping plains, Beaver Dunes Park is a true Okie anomaly.
Located a few miles outside Beaver, in Oklahoma's Panhandle, the sand dunes of this former state park resemble more Arabia than the Arbuckles, offering 520 acres of golden desert perfect for an afternoon of dune-buggy joyriding, as well as other outdoor activities in the surrounding areas such as fishing, hiking and camping.
There is a, however, a secret side to Beaver Dunes, one that even the locals are wont to speak of; a darker side that has been quietly dubbed the “Bermuda Triangle of Oklahoma.” A sacred land surrounded by and even built on top of ancient Native burial grounds, a number of unexplained occurrences that have happened are indicative of the area’s bizarre history, one that dates back to the 1500s.
According to well-versed legend, the notorious Spanish explorer and conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, always in search of gold, gold, and more gold, ignored the warnings of his Native American guides to avoid the dunes, only to have a handful of his men disappear in what has been described by the accompanying friar as “flashes of green light” and, by Coronado himself, “the work of the Devil.”
Welcome to what has been dubbed the Oklahoma's very own “Shaman’s Portal.”
Since that time, there have been numerous unverified claims of similar disappearances, as well as wild tales of hidden Spanish gold, vortices to an alternate dimension and, most popularly, the remnants of a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle of some sort, all, of course, unsubstantiated but wholly believed in by those that study and explore the paranormal and beyond.
While it is not exactly what the park, or town for that matter, wants to be known for, still, every year numerous explorers of the unexplained flock to the park, drawn in by the “eerie sensations” and “strange feelings” the park elicits, all hoping to catch a glimpse of the rumored green ghost lights, military men digging in the middle of the night or, most famously, an appearance by the notorious Men in Black, warning inquisitive campers about looking too deeply into the camp’s mysteries.
Supposedly, in February of 1995, a group of geologists from an unnamed Oklahoma university hiked to the area where the Portal is supposed to be and took numerous samples of the area, discovering such anomalies as constant electromagnetic interference and ionized soil cores.
With one online writer hypothesizing the portal is, to his belief, a buried UFO with its “star drive” still intact and running, there has actually been surprisingly very few recent personal pieces written about Beaver Dunes in the past 20 years; most articles and entries written about the tourist area instead recycle the same info time and time again.
With seemingly so little actually known about this legendary Oklahoma journey into the unexplained, it seems high time for a new expedition to come out to the camp and test these theories, both ancient and more recent, either professional or amateur. Luckily, the park was saved from closing when it fell out of government hands and into the city’s, allowing Beaver to take hold and manage it, preserving the legends for another generation. If the truth is out there, hopefully, they’ll soon find it.
People have reportedly been disappearing from here for centuries, which could have something to do with abnormalities in the ground.
Last year, you may remember me telling you about the creepy Texas urban legend known as the Candy Lady. Oklahoma, it's your turn to tell us a scary tale. This urban legend is a place called Shaman's Portal, also known as the Bermuda Triangle of Oklahoma.
It's located in Beaver Dunes Park, which is just northwest of Oklahoma City. This place was built on top of an Indian burial ground. If horror movies have taught me anything, it's NEVER build anything on top of an Indian burial ground. Stories go as far back as the 1500's for Shaman's Portal. Spanish conquistadors were traveling through this area looking for gold and disappeared without a trace.
Natives told the Spaniards to avoid the dunes where this supposed portal is located. The Spainairds ignored these warnings and were never seen again. Other disappearances have been reported as well over the years and no one knows where they go.
But this story is a lot bigger than just people disappearing.
People also claim that a UFO crashed into this area at some point. A group in the 90s actually came out to the Beaver Dunes area to investigate this claim. They tested the soil for the supposed crash site and they found something. They honestly don't know what is in the soil, but they called it abnormal. They say it contained such anomalies as constant electromagnetic interference and ionized soil cores.
Some people believe the UFO is buried deep under the soil and the ship is still running giving off the electromagnetic interference. If you want to go check out Shaman's Portal, just head to Beaver, Oklahoma. Be careful, you could disappear into another dimension.
AND MORE
SAND DOOM: Beaver Dunes Park is home to some of Oklahoma’s most mysterious unexplained occurrences
SAND DOOM: Beaver Dunes Park is home to some of Oklahoma’s most mysterious unexplained occurrences
BEAVER, Okla. — In a state famous for its waving wheat and sweeping plains, Beaver Dunes Park is a true Okie anomaly.
Located a few miles outside Beaver, in Oklahoma's Panhandle, the sand dunes of this former state park resemble more Arabia than the Arbuckles, offering 520 acres of golden desert perfect for an afternoon of dune-buggy joyriding, as well as other outdoor activities in the surrounding areas such as fishing, hiking and camping.
There is a, however, a secret side to Beaver Dunes, one that even the locals are wont to speak of; a darker side that has been quietly dubbed the “Bermuda Triangle of Oklahoma.” A sacred land surrounded by and even built on top of ancient Native burial grounds, a number of unexplained occurrences that have happened are indicative of the area’s bizarre history, one that dates back to the 1500s.
According to well-versed legend, the notorious Spanish explorer and conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, always in search of gold, gold, and more gold, ignored the warnings of his Native American guides to avoid the dunes, only to have a handful of his men disappear in what has been described by the accompanying friar as “flashes of green light” and, by Coronado himself, “the work of the Devil.”
Welcome to what has been dubbed the Oklahoma's very own “Shaman’s Portal.”
Since that time, there have been numerous unverified claims of similar disappearances, as well as wild tales of hidden Spanish gold, vortices to an alternate dimension and, most popularly, the remnants of a crashed extraterrestrial vehicle of some sort, all, of course, unsubstantiated but wholly believed in by those that study and explore the paranormal and beyond.
While it is not exactly what the park, or town for that matter, wants to be known for, still, every year numerous explorers of the unexplained flock to the park, drawn in by the “eerie sensations” and “strange feelings” the park elicits, all hoping to catch a glimpse of the rumored green ghost lights, military men digging in the middle of the night or, most famously, an appearance by the notorious Men in Black, warning inquisitive campers about looking too deeply into the camp’s mysteries.
Supposedly, in February of 1995, a group of geologists from an unnamed Oklahoma university hiked to the area where the Portal is supposed to be and took numerous samples of the area, discovering such anomalies as constant electromagnetic interference and ionized soil cores.
With one online writer hypothesizing the portal is, to his belief, a buried UFO with its “star drive” still intact and running, there has actually been surprisingly very few recent personal pieces written about Beaver Dunes in the past 20 years; most articles and entries written about the tourist area instead recycle the same info time and time again.
With seemingly so little actually known about this legendary Oklahoma journey into the unexplained, it seems high time for a new expedition to come out to the camp and test these theories, both ancient and more recent, either professional or amateur. Luckily, the park was saved from closing when it fell out of government hands and into the city’s, allowing Beaver to take hold and manage it, preserving the legends for another generation. If the truth is out there, hopefully, they’ll soon find it.