DISASTERS IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE by Eileen Sperber

Eileen Sperber gives the basic Triangle rundown, including testimony from skin diver and oceanographer Jim Thorne, a quote from Charles Berlitz, and a reference to John Wallace Spencer's "limbo of the lost." This article is also available to read and download at archive dot org. 

Courtesy Front Page Disasters magazine, Vol. 1 - Issue 1, October 1977.

MAPS OF THE UNKNOWN: A Trio of Triangles

A useful comparison of three versions of the Bermuda Triangle. From Is There A Bermuda Triangle? by Michael J. Cusack. Courtesy Julian Messner (a division of Simon & Schuster), 1976.

TRIANGLE OF THE LOST by Warren Smith

Another wild ride from Warren Smith, this time through the Bermuda Triangle. Highlights include a Cuban counterrevolutionary's UFO/USO sighting while on business for the CIA, some vicious hairy dwarfs that launch a freakish attack on a Venezuelan hunter, and Smith's now de rigeur detour through the Hollow Earth by way of Shamballah.

Smith extends John Wallace Spencer's Limbo of the Lost (calling it the Triangle of the Lost) to capture shoreline territories, allowing him to include the aforementioned vicious hairy dwarfs and Ivan T. Sanderson's infamous giant penguin, here identified as a dinosaur. Globsters and a spooky bigfoot are given brief mention as well. Triangle buster Lawrence David Kusch likely had Smith in mind (among others) when he tracked down the radio transcript for Flight 19's flight to oblivion, which Smith claims is nonexistent in this text.

Once again, Smith isn't above recycling. This time it's his chapter on Shamballah and Theosophy, lifted from his collaboration with Brad Steiger on This Hollow Earth, which would turn up again next year in The Hidden Secrets of the Hollow Earth. There's also a chapter made up of one of the shabbiest of the paranormal subgenres, psychic predictions about a given subject. Next year Smith would reuse his story of Cuban exile Raymond Fernandez's "UFO contact" for an issue of Saga magazine:

Table of contents:

1.  The Mysterious Triangle of the Lost (5)

2.  Christopher Columbus in the Triangle of the Lost (17)

3.  Sea Serpents and Maritime Monsters (31)

4.  Mystery of Underwater UFOs (44)

5.  An Undersea City for the New Race (61)

6.  Bizarre Giants in the Triangle (74)

7.  Shamballah: Land of the Smoky Gods (88)

8.  Monsters, UFOs and Bizarre Beings (110)

9 . Flights to Doom (123)

10. The Evidence for Alien Intelligence (138)

11. Mysteries of Ancient Mariners (157)

12. Psychics Predict Triangle Mysteries (170)

13. Mysteries of the Devil's Island (182)

14. Ghost Ships in Satan's Sea (193)

15. What's Happening Out There? (205)

16. Mysteries of the Devil's Sea (216)

Triangle of the Lost is available to read and download at archive dot org.

Zebra Books, 1975

THE DEVIL'S TRIANGLE by Richard Winer

Spends some time in the final chapter taking John Wallace Spencer and others to task for spreading Triangle hokum. Winer himself is not above some good scare mongering as can be seen in the copy excerpt and dedication.

Bantam Books, 1974

MAPS OF THE UNKNOWN: The Limbo of the Lost

From Limbo of the Lost, by John Wallace Spencer. Courtesy Bantam Books, 1974.

LIMBO OF THE LOST by John Wallace Spencer

 

 

Dig that artsy cover! Book author John Wallace Spencer for your graduation!

Available to read and download at archive dot org.

Bantam Books, 1974 (original pub. 1969)