Bermuda Triangle

Wednesday: "Nobody gets out of the Bermuda Triangle, not even for a vacation. Everyone knows that."
— The Addams Family

Basic Information

The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Atlantic Ocean defined by the tip of the Florida penninsula, the island of Puerto Rico and the island of Bermuda with the reputation of being a place where airplanes and ships vanish mysteriously. The idea that there was some supernatural or otherworldly cause behind these disapperances was popularized in the mid-1970s by Charles Berlitz's book The Bermuda Triangle and several other similar pieces of speculation.

The truth of the matter is that the region covers a vast area across which a lot of maritime traffic passes. The percentage of ships which sink in the Triangle is no greater than that of any other patch of ocean. And let's be frank: the ocean is a dangerous place and the area covered by the Triangle sees a lot of tropical storms. Sometimes ships do disappear without any intervention from either mystic forces, Atlantean technology, dimensional portals or space aliens.

But what's the fun of that?

See Also

• Atlantis
• Maritime Disaster
• Prominent Missing Persons
• Sargasso Sea

Sources

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia article: Bermuda Triangle

2. "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" — text of a 1964 article in Argosy Magazine first using the name.

3. Bermuda Triangle: Behind the Intrigue — article from the National Geographic website

4. Bermuda Triangle: Devil's Sea

5. Television: The Fantastic Journey (1977) — short-lived TV series about a scientific expedition into the Bermuda Triangle which winds up on an uncharted island where travelers from other times, worlds and dimensions have also become stranded.

Game and Story Use

• The Bermuda Triangle could be the location of a dimensional portal through which the players travel to unknown worlds.
• Atlantis may have exsisted in the Triangle — and perhaps still does!
• The PCs are investigating disappearences in the Triangle and discover the truth
  • Which doesn't have to be a supernatural explanation, as long as there's danger and excitement in the search