THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE CALENDAR: July - September 1975

Those deadly Dero rays did their damnedest, but we've made it back alive with more entries from Lawrence David Kusche's Bermuda Triangle calendar of 1975! Highlights from this three month stretch include the search for the lost USS Scorpion (not found until October of 1968), the sad and bizarre story of Donald Crowhurst's doomed race against time, and some classic Triangle tales of Columbus' spooky sailing to the New World. September features a lovely painting of the Sargasso Sea by one E.S. Hodgson, a semi-obscure figure who benefits from this biographical sketch by researcher Robert J. Kirkpatrick. Here's that piece in color:

The Sargasso Sea makes a handy segue into the resolution of a minor Triangle mystery - the story of the Ellen Austin, an apocryphal entry in Kusche's The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved: 

Fortuitous happenstance has provided a solid answer to this case. The tale of the Ellen Austin and the derelict happens to match beat for beat the first half of a short story titled "The Mystery of the Water-Logged Ship" by classic horror author William Hope Hodgson. The story is a minor one from 1911 and perhaps overshadowed by his other, more fantastic sea stories such as The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" ... for despite the mysterious setup, the second half of the story reveals that perfectly corporeal pirates are to blame, utilizing a hidden chamber on the derelict to ambush victims seeking salvage! The Triangle myth simply drops the clever denouement and leaves the mystery, pregnant with otherworldly menace.

Lawrence David Kusche, 1974