13-06-2013, 03:07 PM
The Bermuda Triangle: Reasoning of the Unknown
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What is the Bermuda Triangle?
The vast three-sided segment of the Atlantic Ocean bordered by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Spans an area of around 500,000 square miles, but some estimates are up to three times larger.
Reports of strange occurrences have been recorded as early as the days of Columbus.
Sometimes the Coast Guard answers more than 5,000 distress calls within the Triangle per year.
Also Known As:
“The Devil’s Triangle”
Who the heck started this?!
1492 – Columbus’s compass went haywire and it’s reported that he and his crew saw “weird lights” in the sky.
1892 – The Mary Celeste is discovered abandoned on the high seas about 400 miles off its intended course from New York to Genoa. There was no sign of its crew of ten or what happened to them.
Why do we still believe this?
In a study of related material, Larry Kushe found that few people do any investigation into the mystery whatsoever. They simply passed on the speculations of their predecessors as if they were passing on the mantle of truth. (AKA – Word of Mouth & Tell A Friend)
In short, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle became a mystery by a kind of communal reinforcement among uncritical authors and a willing mass media to uncritically pass on the speculation that something mysterious is going on in the Atlantic.