The Bermuda Triangle
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The area of the Atlantic Ocean designated The Bermuda Triangle is so named because one of its corner points is the island of Bermuda. The Devil's Triangle, a popular alternative name for the area, has been examined extensively by journalists and filmmakers seeking either an insight into paranormal happenings attributed to the region or in need of a quick story to legitimize tax deduction expenses claimed for vacation trips to the locale. In either event, the stories abound. By the same token, the proliferation of stories means that Bermuda Triangle mysteries represent a small cottage industry wherein fact and fabrication are often inextricably melded. Are there natural explanations for the many ships and planes lost in the Bermuda Triangle, or are paranormal activities in evidence here? This paper will refute the claims to paranormal interference in human affairs by offering a contextual analysis of the region and some of the typical Bermuda Triangle phenomena. The typical Bermuda Triangle disappearance can be divided into two categories: The complete disappearance of a ship or airplane, and the disappearance of a ship's crew - but not the ship. Of the two phenomena, the former outnumber the latter, to which are attributed, in fact, only two major incidents: the discovery on the high seas of the crewless ship Mary Celeste in 1872 (Mysteries 120-122), and the grounding of the Carroll A. Deering, also emptied of human beings, in 1921 (Baumann 76-81). These limited ca
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n without its myths, superstitions and unexplained mysteries. Indeed, the home of the Voodoo and Santeria mystery religion variations on Christian-animist beliefs is rife with tales that put paranormal explanations to shame in terms of imaginative speculation. Nevertheless, the burden of being a chosen area for abnormal disaster is not an indigenous part of the inhabitants' sea lore.
Sea lore in general, however, has never been short on paranormal explanations of natural phenomena. Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the yet-unsighted Orient, passing through the Bermuda Triangle coincidentally, was disrupted by a fireball in the sky filling his crews' hearts with fear: the more educated Italian seaman recognized it as St. Elmo's fire, a form of static electricity, but calmed his men by declaring it a sign of God's favor (Hale 23). Maps of the medieval world, which was not so far removed in terms of thought patterns from that of the uneducated 19th Century sailor, routinely described routing that would enable the judicious captain to avoid sea monsters (Hale 8-9). Science could not be relied on to supply answers to the unusual occurrences seafarers encountered.
Most accounts of the Bermuda Triangle begin with the famed 1
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