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Since 1943 hundreds of plane and ships, and thousands of people, have disappeared in the ocean between Bermuda and the Florida coast, the Bermuda Triangle. A squadron of five aeroplanes have gone missing, a ship was found abandoned with no sign of the crew or passengers. Charles Berlitz set out to investigate and has spoken to numerous people who have escaped the terrifying forces of the Bermuda Triangle. The explanations he finds seem to be impossible but no-one has found more plausible suggestions: Are UFO's responsible? Is it due to space-time warps created by long-vanished civilisations? What is the connection to the lost continent of Atlantis?
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Charles Berlitz was one of the world's great linguists, he could speak 32 languages, and won the Dag Hammarskjold International Prize for The Bermuda Triangle.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Though some of the case stories are fascinating and there is some excellent research on the cery real elements of the Bermuda mystery, it fails to deliver any concrete conclusions by being caught up in the UFO fad that has been assosciated with the area. But then Berlitz's own research was always geared towards aliens and what conclusions he does come to seems biased by this.
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This is the 'classical' account of the phenomenon which generated the subsequent Bermuda triangle industry. Of interest to those wanting to know the early history. The field has since moved on.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I'd give it a zero, but they won't let me
3 April 2009
Format:Hardcover
If you are totally uncritical thinker, someone who still finds the Easter Bunny stories fascinating, then you'll love this book. There are so many things wrong with it that it's difficult to know where to start. He certainly plays fast and loose with the facts and doesn't let a little lie every now and then get in the way of a good story. For instance, there is the USAF Globemaster disappearance in 1950. It did disappear, but it was on a flight from Newfoundland to Ireland at the time. How in the world does this count as a Triangle disappearance since the route passes nowhere near the Triangle? And the weather always seems to be "calm," but a check with U.S. weather service records shows that this is not the case most of the time. In fact, in one instance (the cargo ship Sandra) weather records show that at the time of the disappearance winds were topping out at 73 mph, only 2 mph below hurricane force! And his co-writer (J. Manson Valentine) tried to capitalize on the financial success of this book by inventing a Great Lakes Triangle, but that book did not sell. Go read Lawrence Kusche's Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved if you would have the truth. If on the other hand you prefer to remain ignorant, well I'm sure that you can find a copy of that Great Lakes Triangle book somewhere.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
For those untroubled by falsehoods
1 April 2011
Although most of the sensational "mysteries" and disappearances of ships and airplanes in the "Bermuda Triangle" have since been proven to be the result of either human error or ordinary bad weather, this is still an entertaining read. For a while. After running to the computer every few pages to check on recent developments in the searches for these crafts and finding out that either wreckage has been found, or that recordings of distress signals have been digitally enhanced and turned out to be far less ominous than reported, I got more and more disenchanted. That this book is frequently listed as non-fiction is unfortunate. Nevertheless, Berlitz is a compelling writer, and it's not difficult to read. I'm sure if you like this genre and aren't terribly distracted by "facts" you may enjoy this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
totally preposterous but entertainng pseudo-scienceI
22 Jan 2012
If you believe in ghosts and fairies, this is the book for you. For me, it is immensely fascinating how seemingly rational persons go for this pseudo-scientific nonsense. I give it 2 stars, not zero, because it's entertaining in its own absurdity.
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