Conspiracy Thinking in the Middle East w/Adel Aali

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