The Bermuda Triangle

Ships, small boats and airplanes have vanished in the stretch of ocean between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, an area known as the Bermuda Triangle. The book gathers these cases and sets out the possible reasons for them, both natural and supernatural.

The account counts hundreds of planes and ships and thousands of people lost since 1943. Among the incidents are a squadron of five airplanes that went missing and a ship found abandoned, with no trace of its crew or passengers.

Charles Berlitz investigates the losses himself and talks to numerous people who say they escaped the forces at work in these waters. The explanations he arrives at seem close to impossible, yet no one has offered more plausible ones.

The theories he puts forward are direct. UFOs may be responsible. Warps in space and time, left behind by civilizations long gone, may account for the disappearances. The lost continent of Atlantis has a connection to the area that the book sets out to trace.

This is non-fiction that mixes reported incidents with speculation. It suits readers curious about unexplained events at sea and in the air, and it keeps its tone investigative and open to strange theories.