The Bermuda Triangle 1974 by Charles Berlitz. ( the book that started Bermuda Triangle Myth)







Things are happening in the Bermuda Triangle even as you are reading these words. For over five years, Charles Berlitz has been observing and making startling discoveries about, this controversial region. And here, at last, he reveals the results of his research.

There is a section of the western Atlantic, off the southeast coast of the United States, form¬ ing what has been termed a triangle, extending from Bermuda in the north to southern Florida, and then east to a point through the Bahamas past Puerto Rico to about 40° west longitude and then back again to. This area occupies a disturbing and almost un¬ believable place in the world’s catalog of unexplained mysteries.Many of the planes concerned have vanished while in normal radio contact with their base or terminal destination until the very moment of their disappear¬ ance, while others have radioed the most extraordinary messages, implying that they could not get their instruments to function, that their compasses were spinning, that the sky had turned yellow and hazy (on a clear day), and that the ocean (which was calm nearby) “didn't look right” without further clarification of what was wrong.One group of five planes, a flight of Navy TBM Avengers, on a mission from the Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station, on December 5, 1945, were the object, along with the Martin Mariner sent to rescue them and which also disappeared, of one of the most intensive ground-sea rescue operations ever conducted, although no life rafts, oil slicks, or wreckage was ever located.Other aircraft, including passenger planes, have vanished while receiving landing instructions, almost as if, as has been mentioned in Naval Board of Inquiry procedures, they had flown through a hole in the sky. Large and small boats have disappeared without leaving wreckage as if they and their crews had been snatched into another dimension. Large ships, such as the Marine Sulphur Queen, a 425-foot-long freighter, and the U.S.S. Cyclops, 19,000 tons with 309 people aboard, have simply vanished while other ships and boats have been found drifting within the Triangle, sometimes with an animal survivor, such as a dog or canary, who could give no indication of what had happened—although in one case a talking parrot vanished along with the crew.1 The Bermuda Triangle: A Mystery of the Air and Sea 11 2 The Triangle of Disappearing Planes 25 3 The Sea of Lost Ships 57 4 Some Who Escaped 85 5 Is There a Logical Explanation? 103 6 Time-Space Warps and Other Worlds 121 7 A Suggestion from the Ocean's Past 159 8 The Surprises of Prehistory 181 9 The Watchers: Protectors, Raiders, or Indifferent Observers 231 Acknowledgments 245 Bibliography 249Author: Charles Berlitz.Publication Date: 1974