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The Atlantic Ocean between the 20th and 40th parallels has always had a reputation for strangeness. For one thing, there is a large area of very little wind there that includes the Horse Latitudes and the Sargasso Sea.In the days of sailing ships this area was feared with good reason. Sh..."
The Atlantic Ocean between the 20th and 40th parallels has always had a reputation for strangeness. For one thing, there is a large area of very little wind there that includes the Horse Latitudes and the Sargasso Sea.In the days of sailing ships this area was feared with good reason. Ships were often becalmed in these waters for long periods.Drinking water supplies got lower and lower as the crews waited for a wind to allow them to sail out of the sea with its large clumps of seaweed.
As drinking
water dwindled, ships carrying horses sometimes had to throw them
overboard as they died of thirst, sometimes while the horses were still
alive. Because of this, the largecalm area north of 30° became known
as the Horse Latitudes.
Superstitious sailors used to believe that not
only the ghosts of sailors and ships, but the ghosts of those horses
haunted the area, too.As you go east out of the Sargasso Sea and the Horse Latitudes, things don't necessarily get better. The waters off the eastern coast of the U.S. are in the middle of hurricane alley. Before electronic communication, hurricanes and smaller storms blew in without warning. Untold millions in Aztec gold lie under the blue waters in the remains of Spanish galleons that were sunk by hurricanes while en route from Mexico to Spain. How did the story of "The Bermuda Triangle", in which UFOs are frequently seen and in which ships and airplanes mysteriously disappear, get started? But is it so? How did the story get started? When I was was a kid, mydad used to buy magazines with names like True and Argosy and Saga. These magazines were popular among young men in the 1950's, and 1960's. They featured factual and fictional adventure stories, and some stories that were mixtures of both fact and fiction, along with a variety of articles and pictures aimed at their target audience. In the early fifties, Major Donald Keyhoe, perhaps the first modern ufologist, wrote several articles about flying saucers for True, beginning with "The Flying Saucers are Real" in 1950. It was also in 1950 that an Associated Press writer named E.V.W. Jones wrote an article hinting that there was something mysterious about the disappearance of five Navy Avenger torpedo bombers off the coast of Florida in 1945. In 1952, the Avengers' disappearances were written about again in Raymond Palmer's Fate magazine in 1952 in an article titled"S......
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