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Subject: Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend From: kittenz posted Sun, Sep 20 2009, 10:08am  You can draw an imaginary triangle of similar size & shape over the ocean anywhere on the globe, and the number of "mysterious disappearances" is about the same no matter where the triangle is. Subject: Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend From: GeneralVeers posted Sun, Sep 20 2009, 10:16am  prove it. Subject: Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend From: MJLehde posted Sun, Sep 20 2009, 12:43pm  Easy enough. Several different writers have tried to establish a "Great Lakes Triangle" and site several different ships and planes that have been lost in their mystery zone on the Great Lakes. The same has been done in the Pacific with what some other writers call "The Devils Sea". That's not to say that there is really anything mysterious about the areas or that the vanished ships and planes can't be explained or accounted for but the object is to sell the books after all. Telling of a made up mystery sells much better then explaining that there really isn't one to begin with. Most people, mores the pity, prefer to be scared and spooked and will pick parlor tricks and fabrication over science and eduction whenever given the choice. One of the listed victims of the Great Lakes Triangle was the Edmund Fitzgerald that went down Nov 10 1975. It becomes more mysterious if you leave out, as several books do, the terrific storm that was raging that night on Lake Superior. If you take any heavily traveled area of the world covered with water and look back over it's history you can find mysteries. Ships and planes have been lost without survivors or bodies in the English Channel and the Black Sea and yet they aren't tagged as some sort of Limo of the Lost. If you're looking or ghost stories to send a chill up your spine then well and fine but the Bermuda Triangle legend isn't serious history nor is it written by serious historians. Subject: Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend From: tonyc posted Sun, Sep 20 2009, 3:34pm  The story of the 'Erebus' and the 'Terror' which were lost searching for the North-West Passage always chills me. Because it's true. I mean, to set out on a route regarded by most as certain death and then spend the best part of three years sat locked in pack-ice coming to the conclusion they were right is downright nasty. Plus, in desperation those surviving then tried to walk 600 miles over the ice to the nearest settlement, Fort Resolution. Years later all that was ever found was three graves and a pyramid of empty tin cans. Subject: Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend From: MJLehde posted Sun, Sep 20 2009, 5:37pm  The three graves were found on Beechy Island nut the last of the men died some considerable diatance away at a place called Starvation Bay where their bones were found strewn across the ground. The lead levels in both the bones and the bodies in the graves suggest that they were suffering from lead poisoning, probably from those cans you mentioned, and their minds were probably affected to the point that it made making lucid judgements impossible. That is why they tried to walk out to the forst instead of heading east and trying to find a sealer or whaler for help. Excellent point though and it make you wonder why there isn't a Artic Triangle spoken of in hushed tones. Subject: Re: I guess the bermuda triangle is considered a myth or legend From: Guodzilla posted Sun, Sep 20 2009, 6:29pm  That's exactly what I said above in my first post. Statistically, the Bermuda Triangle is no different than any other body of water with regard to disappearances, save for the fact that that area is highly populated. One may also mention the Dragon Sea of the South Pacific, but again, the numbers are similar. However, there are two factors in the Dragon Sea: One, that it is set squarely on the "Ring of Fire," which circumscribes the border of the Pacific Ocean with active (some EXTREMELY active) volcanoes, and the South Pacific was the site of some HELLATIOUS battles in WW2. I'd be extremely surprised if some of the disappearances of ships in the Dragon Sea might not be attributed to the accidental (and disastrous) encountering of some long-forgotten Japanese or Allied sea-mines.

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