Friday, February 26, 2010
Bermuda Triangle theories
As if on cue, because Kent got us talking about it in class Wednesday, Stephen Wagner's always interesting About.com: Paranormal Phenomena newsletter this week presented this fine roundup of theories to explain the Bermuda Triangle, from the obvious to the somewhat plausible to the absurd. Note the link to the text of the apparent first print reference to a "Bermuda Triangle," an article by Vincent Gaddis in the venerable pulp magazine Argosy in 1964, the year of my birth.
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Also, I checked my bookshelves and found these three books of obvious relevance:
ReplyDeleteBerlitz, Charles. The Bermuda Triangle. Doubleday, 1974. Avon, 1975. (The best seller that briefly made the Triangle a household phrase.)
Kusche, Lawrence David. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery –- Solved. Harper, 1975. Warner, 1975. (A skeptical and therefore much less popular book.)
Spencer, John Wallace. Limbo of the Lost: Actual Stories of Sea Mysteries. Phillips, 1969. Bantam, 1973.
The university libraries, unsurprisingly, have none of these. The Tuscaloosa Public Library has the Kusche volume and several kids' books about the Triangle.
Continue to pursue these obsessions, Kent, and one day your bookshelves will look like mine!
ReplyDeleteI think for the first time in my college career, I actually enjoyed writing a research paper. Maybe it's because I'm a Biology major, and most of my research papers involve house molds or fungal pneumonias, but I genuinely enjoyed writing the Bagheera/Silas paper. Having said that, I'm actually looking forward to writing the next one. I think using these sources I could definitely write a compelling argument that the crew's misfortunes from "The Golden Baby" are due to the Bermuda Triangle.
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