Lee Kuhnle

And it's just a short article, and it's just noting that, hey, isn't it weird that, like, boats and planes are going missing?

And they, of course, cite Flight 19.

Yeah.

Now, it gets more interesting in the next couple of articles, because the publications today are maybe less known, especially if you're not, you know, spending all your days thinking about conspiracies.

Fate magazine is one, and in 1952, there's an article, See Mystery at Our Door, S-E-A, See Mystery at Our Door.

And here we start getting into publications and we start to get into speculation.

That's the kind of stuff that, look, I mean, you and I, we see this all over the place.

It's just some of the stuff makes good money.

And, you know, you got to publish some stuff.

And, hey, so that's how these articles get started.

Now, in 1964 is when we first get the concept of the Bermuda Triangle.

from an article called The Deadly Bermuda Triangle.

But the real moment, like the kind of thing that kind of crystallizes the entire story as we know it today, it's 1974, Charles Berlitz's book, The Bermuda Triangle.

Now, Berlitz, he's one of these guys that, and I'm glad, David, that you started with sort of your childhood, because your childhood was full of Berlitz's fantasies.

He's one of these guys that a lot of us don't know, but we know his stories.

He's behind or partly involved with the MJ-12 alien papers, apparently.

Yeah.

He talks about the Bermuda Triangle.

He's got his fingers in all these kind of 1970s, 1980s conspiracy cryptid pots or, you know, interests.

And he's making good money off of it.