The Bermuda Triangle

• The Bermuda Triangle is also called Devil's Triangle.
• It is a mysterious triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.
• This area is noted for a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats, and aircraft
• Over 100 airplane disappearances and over
  1000 lives have been lost since 1945.
• The Bermuda Triangle has become popular through representation by the mass media, in which it is a paranormal site in which the known laws of physics are either violated, altered, or both.
• Many theories have been given to explain the extraordinary mystery of these missing ships and planes. Evil extraterrestrials, residue crystals from Atlantis, evil humans with anti-gravity devices or other weird technologies are favorites among fantasy writers.
• Even though the disappearances are mysteries, the number of incidents are not larger than the rest of the world.
• Even the US Coast guard claims that this is no mystery and the number of disappearances are same as the rest of the world.
• 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.