The Bermuda Triangle, or Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined stretch of the North Atlantic roughly between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. The idea that ships and planes vanish there unusually often first appeared in a 1950 Associated Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones of the Miami Herald.
In 1952 George X. Sand drew the now-familiar triangle in Fate magazine, listing losses since the Second World War, including Flight 19, five US Navy torpedo bombers lost on a training flight in December 1945. Vincent Gaddis coined 'The Deadly Bermuda Triangle' in Argosy in 1964, and Charles Berlitz's 1974 bestseller added supernatural ideas.
Later research found that many of the stories were exaggerated or wrong, and that this busy, storm-prone stretch of sea does not see more accidents than others with similar traffic.
