Benjamin Boster

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Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast, where I help you drift off one fact at a time.

I'm your host, Benjamin Boster, and today's episode is about the Bermuda Triangle.

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the North Atlantic Ocean, roughly bounded by Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.

Since the mid-20th century, it has been the focus of an urban legend suggesting that many aircraft, ships, and people have disappeared there under mysterious circumstances.

However, extensive investigations by reputable sources, including the U.S.

government and scientific organizations, have found no evidence of unusual activity, attributing to reported incidents, to natural phenomena, human error, and misinterpretation.

Although the nearby Sargasso Sea already had a reputation as a mysterious region where ships may become lost, the earliest suggestion of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in an article written by Edward Van Winkle Jones of the Miami Herald that was distributed by the Associated Press and appeared in various American newspapers on September 17, 1950.

Two years later, Fate magazine published Sea Mystery at Our Back Door, a short article by George X. Sand that was the first to lay out the now familiar triangular area where the losses took place.

Sand recounted the loss of several planes and ships since World War II, the disappearance of Sandra, a trap steamer, the December 1945 loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S.

Navy torpedo bombers on a training mission,

the january nineteen forty eight disappearance of star tiger a british south american airways bsaa passenger airplane the march nineteen forty eight disappearance of a fishing skiff with three men including jockey albert snyder

the December 1948 disappearance of an airborne transport DC-3 charter flight en route from Puerto Rico to Miami, and the January 1949 disappearance of Star Ariel, another BSAA passenger airplane.

Flight 19 was covered again in the April 1962 issue of the American Legion magazine.

in it author alan w eckert wrote that the flight leader had been heard saying we cannot be sure of any direction everything is wrong strange the ocean doesn't look as it should

In February 1964, Vincent Gaddis wrote an article called The Deadly Bermuda Triangle in Argosy, saying Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region, dating back to at least 1840.

The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible Horizons.

Other writers elaborated on Gaddis' ideas, including John Wallace Spencer, Limbo of the Lost, 1969, reprinted 1973, Charles Berlitz, The Bermuda Triangle, 1974, and Richard Weiner, The Devil's Triangle, 1974.

Sand's article in Fate described the area as a watery triangle bounded roughly by Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.

The Argosy article by Gaddis further delineated the boundaries, giving its verticals as Miami, San Juan, and Bermuda.