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Prometheus Books (1995), Edition: Reprint, 302 pages
Description
Recounts and analyzes incidents of ship and airplane losses in the mysterious Bermuda Triangle from 1840 to 1973, concluding that the mystery has been manufactured through faulty and exaggerated reports.
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LibraryThing member dwfarmer
The book has its origins in the author being approached by students wanting more information on the subject. He found plenty: the book is a revelation about sloppy reporting and the sloppy research of paranormal writers. People who had "mysteriously" disappeared had been reported as missing, but
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newspapers had never bothered reporting days later that they had been found. An "unexplained" disappearance of a training flight was only inexplicable if evidence presented at the official inquiry was totally ignored. And on, and on. An exhaustive account of how not to to do research for a book (paranormal writers) and how it should be done (this book's author). Show Less
LibraryThing member Vero-unua
Researching contemporay news reports on the missing and wrecked vessels most commonly cited as 'Devil's Triangle' phenomena, a journalist finds that the majority of accounts have been either misreported, exaggerated, or wholely invented by the paranormal advocates, leaving no remaining
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disappearances that fall outside of statistical expectations Show Less
LibraryThing member wrichard
The author (a librarian) has carefully researched eachsupposedly mysterious shipwreck and plane crash that has ocurred in the Bermuda triangle (and a few that are well away from it). He comes to some interesting conclusions.
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Original language
English
Original publication date
1975
Physical description
302 p.; 5.36 inches
ISBN
0879759712 / 9780879759711