The Bermuda Triangle: Difference between revisions

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Part of the [[Hollywood Atlas]]. The triangle is a region in the Atlantic Ocean, much of which is south-west of the coast of Bermuda. Before it became popular in pure [[Speculative Fiction]], the triangle started out as an [[Urban Legends|Urban Legend]]. Although that legend [[wikipedia:Bermuda Triangle#Larry Kusche|has since been discredited]], with the number of disappearances being no higher or lower than any other part of the ocean of similar size and weather, it continues to live on through its popularity in fiction.

** Larry Kusche wrote a book of his own as a rebuttal to Berlitz, ''The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved'', where he points out the above errors. Kusche is quite willing to admit that mysterious incidents do happen in the Bermuda Triangle (the fates of the airplanes ''Star Tiger'' and ''Star Ariel'' probably the most baffling ACTUAL mysteries); the problem, he says, is that these incidents happen at roughly the same rates around the entire world and that you can't pin special blame on the Bermuda Triangle.

* ''[[The Laundry Series|The Jennifer Morgue]]'' has the Triangle as one of several sites heavily colonized by the Deep Ones. The disappearances of ships in the region involve the weaponization of gas deposits - when released, they can cause the water under a ship to rush out momentarily, causing the keel to sink into the void just as the water starts rushing back in. The Deep Ones do this whenever a ship gets too close to finding out about them.