Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe: The Devil’s Triangle

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EPISODE 103 | Down in Bermuda, It’s Easy to Believe: The Devil’s Triangle

Back in the 70s, the Bermuda Triangle was all over the place but today, not so much. Whatever happened with that? Did it go away? Was it debunked? Or did the woosphere simply get bored and move on to juicer subjects?

A bit of both. Plus, the are lots of other supposed interesting/mysterious/dangerous triangles out there. They do have sharp corners, after all.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:29 - New Frontier - How it all starts: Edward Van Winkle Jones gets the ball rolling in 1950, Allan W. Eckert picks it up in 1952, Vincent Gaddis expands the idea in 1962, as does John Wallace Spencer in 1969, and in 1974, Charles Berlitz and Richard Winer go all in on the Triangle; Larry Kusche thoroughly debunks it all in 1975, Hitchens' Razor and the Sagan Standard (ECREE)
2. 11:31 - Strange Brew - Cayce's people weigh in as do plenty of other knowledge garglers, better woo comes along, Lloyds of London investigates, Gian J. Quasar tries to revive Triangle interest in the Noughties
3. 15:17 - Your Haunted Head - The Sargasso Sea - an oceanic gyre surrounded by four currents, Donald Crowhurst gets stuck there and goes insane
4. 19:36 - Long Way Down - Ocean farts, the Gulf Stream, the Milwaukee Deep, the agonic line and the North Poles (both true and magnetic)
5. 24:59 - Hunting High and Low - The Dragon's Triangle near Japan, Ivan Sanderson develops his Twelve Vile Vortices theory:
6. 27:31 - "Hamkulia Volcano", Hawaii; the Ring of Fire
7. 29:14 - Jeddars in the Atlas Mountains, Algeria; fungoid rock art in the Tassili n'Ajjer
8. 29:57 - Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley, ancient nuclear war, chicken city
9. 34:00 - The Wharton Basin, Indian Ocean, Flight MH370
10. 34:44 - The Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia; Sandy Island
11. 35:52 - Easter Island, Rapa Nui, Szukalski's Zermatism, Miroljub Petrović
12. 37:26 - The Southern Atlantic Anomaly, the Mozambique Channel
13. 38:22 - Fever to Tell - Ley lines, Ramsey's Theorem, the Bridgewater Triangle near Boston (home of the Pukwudgie), the Bennington Triangle in Vermont, the Nevada Triangle, the Lake Michigan Triangle and yet another "America's Stonehenge"
14. 41:45 - The Marysburgh Vortex in Lake Ontario, the Matlock Triangle and Falkirk Triangle in the UK, the Broad Haven Triangle in Wales, the Hoia Forest in Romania
15. 42:47 - The Mapimí Silent Zone in Mexico's Chihuahuan desert

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info

• Sea's Puzzles Still Baffle Men In Pushbutton Age by Edward Van Winkle Jones, Miami Herland, 1950
• Sea Mystery at our Back Door by George X. Sand, Fate Magazine, 1952
• The Mystery of the Lost Patrol by Allan W. Eckert, American Legion Magazine, April 1962, page 12
• The Deadly Bermuda Triangle by Vincent Gaddis, The Argosy, February 1964
• Invisible Horizons True Mysteries of the Sea by Vincent Gaddis
• Limbo of the Lost by John Wallace Spencer
• The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz
• The Devils' Triangle by Richard Winer
• The Devil's Triangle 2 by Richard Winer
• From the Devil's Triangle to the Devil's Jaw by Richard Winer
• Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved by Larry Kusche
• The Case of the Bermuda Triangle episode of NOVA
• What is the Bermuda Triangle? on the National Oceanic Service website
• Bermuda Triangle on Britannica
• What Is Known (and Not Known) About the Bermuda Triangle on Britannica
• Bermuda Triangle: Where Facts Disappear on LiveScience
• Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery by Gian Quasar
• Mysteries of the Sargasso Sea in The Bermudian
• The Mystery on the Sargasso on How Stuff Works
• Donald Crowhurst: The fake round-the-world sailing story behind The Mercy in Yachting World
• They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did by Shannon Proudfoot on Big Reads
• Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea by Nic Compton
• Bermuda Triangle mystery solved? It's a load of gas on The Age
• 7 Chilling Conspiracy Theories About the Bermuda Triangle in Popular Mechanics
• Down in the Milwaukee Deep
• Magnetic Declination Varies Considerably Across The United States on USGS
• The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Delusion: Looking Back after Forty Years by Larry Kuche for Skeptical Inquirer
• Mysterious waters: from the Bermuda Triangle to the Devil's Sea on CNN
• Beyond the Bermuda Triangle: The Devil's Sea documentary video
• Unexplained Mystery: The Devil’s Sea – The Dragon’s Triangle on Marine Insight
• The Vile Vortices Of Ivan T. Sanderson on History Daily
• Vile Vortices Part 2 – Hamakulia on CryptoVille
• Algeria's ancient pyramid tombs still shrouded in mystery on France24
• What Happened to Mohenjo Daro? on Wonderopolis
• Rediscovering the lost city of Mohenjo Daro on National Geographic
• Uncovering the Secrets of the Indus Valley Civilization and Its Undeciphered Script
• The Mythical Massacre at Mohenjo-Daro
• Top Things to Do in the Loyalty Islands
• Now You See It, Now You Don't - Finland Doesn't Exist episode
• The Secrets of Easter Island on Smithsonian
• Easter Island - the Mystery of the Moai on Mountain Kingdoms
• Rapa Nui on IMDb
• What Lies Beneath - The Hollow Earth episode including Zermatism
• Weird behavior of Earth's magnetic field over South Atlantic dates back 11 million years
• NASA Is Tracking a Huge, Growing Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field
• 10 Mozambique Channel Facts You Might Not Know
• Madagascar's Menagerie Floated from Africa from the University of Hong Kong
• It Happens Here: A look at the 'weirdness' of the Bridgewater Triangle
• Bennington Triangle, Vermont on Legends of America
• Mysteries of Flight: The Nevada Triangle
• Lake Michigan Triangle on Atlas Obscura
• What Is the Great Lakes Triangle? classroom activity
• Stonehenge-like Structure Found Under Lake Michigan
• ‘Strange things out there’: Inside Lake Ontario’s ‘Bermuda Triangle'
• The Great Lakes and the mystery of the Marysburgh Vortex
• Gateway to Oblivion: The Great Lakes' Bermuda Triangle by Hugh F. Cochrane
• The Falkirk Triangle in Scotland
• Why Is a Small Village in Scotland the UK's UFO Hotspot?
• What’s inside Hoia Baciu Forest, the world's most haunted forest?
• Romania’s Bermuda Triangle: The Creepy Hoia Forest of Transylvania
• What does the Mexican Bermuda Triangle look like
• Enter The Mapimi Zone Of Silence: Where Science Fiction Meets Reality
• The Zone of Silence in Northern Mexico: scientific marvel or just fiction?
• Zone Of Silence Mexico video
• Mexico: UFOs, magnetism, army: The strange zone of silence

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