User:AndyJones/The Bermuda Triangle in popular culture

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Poster for Richard Winer's documentary film on the Triangle, offering at the time a $10,000 reward to anyone solving it.

The legend of the Bermuda Triangle has had an active life in cinema, television, literature, popular music, and elsewhere in the arts. A few samples follow.

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[edit] Cinema

  • The first documentary about the Triangle was The Devil's Triangle (1975), based on the book by Richard Winer, narrated by Vincent Price, and released to a modest number of theaters. It also offered a reward of $10,000 to anyone solving it.
  • In the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind an alien spaceship returns the crew members of Flight 19, along with many other missing humans, to Earth at Devil's Tower, Wyoming. The Avenger aircraft themselves are returned earlier, in the middle of the night to the Sonora Desert in pristine working condition, and a ship, the SS Cotopaxi, is also returned to the Gobi Desert.
  • In the 2006 film "Scooby Doo! Pirates Ahoy!" Scooby-Doo and the gang sail to the Bermuda Triangle, taken hostage by a crew of ghost pirates seeking the "Heaven's Light."
  • In the 1991 film The Addams Family, Abigail Craven tries to pass off her son Gordon as the long-lost Uncle Fester, explaining his long absence with an onset of amnesia after a vacation in the Bermuda Triangle.
  • There is a 1978 film entitled The Bermuda Triangle.
  • The 2001 film Lost Voyage is about a ship which was lost in Bermuda Triangle and returns after 30 years.

[edit] Television

  • The episode "Bad Water" of seaQuest DSV deals with four crewmembers trapped on the surface of the water in a lifeboat within the Bermuda Triangle as a hurricane passes over them.
  • One episode of Quantum Leap featured Sam as a pilot flying through the triangle. Mysterious ghost ships and odd transmissions from planes that went missing 20 years ago are featured.
  • One episode of Rocko's Modern Life featured the characters, Rocko, Heffer, along with Heffer's grandfather, going on a cruise which ended up in the Bermuda Triangle. Chaos ensues as the young become old, old become young, and a strange alien-like aircraft appyfw7ayeruyu7y7y7sdye8ygudfyufdvydurh booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
  • One episode of Danny Phantom called Infinite Realms reveals that the Bermuda Triangle is actually a portal that leads into the Ghost Zone.

[edit] Literature

  • While the triangle isn't mentioned by name, William Shakespeare's The Tempest is about fantastical events related to a shipwreck in Bermuda.
  • In Stephen King's novel Wizard and Glass, Roland's Ka-tet comes upon a "thinny" to which Eddie relates to the Bermuda Triangle.
  • Jaws author Peter Benchley wrote a novel called The Island in which a journalist investigates the Triangle and discovers the disappearances are the work of pirates — specifically the descendants of buccaneers who live isolated from civilization and raid shipping to survive. In 1980, the book was made into a film directed by Michael Ritchie and starring Michael Caine.
  • The narrator of Chuck Palahniuk's novel Diary often refers to any item which has disappeared as having been "Bermuda triangulated".
  • The British playwright Snoo Wilson won the John Whiting Award in 1978 for his dramatic fantasy The Glad Hand in which a South African millionaire hires actors to perform scenes from the history of the American West in an oil tanker while it sails through the Bermuda Triangle, in the hopes of summoning up the Anti-Christ for a shoot-out.
  • Author Clive Cussler is an avid investigator of bizarre disappearances, and wrote a fictional novel entitled Cyclops, in which the disappearance of the ship USS Cyclops (AC-4) played a prominent role.
  • A novelization of Dean Devlin's The Triangle, which is based around the Bermuda Triangle mystery.
  • Bob Mayer's (wrighting as Greg Donegan) Atlantis series involved the Bermuda Triangle heavily, especially the second in the series: Atlantis: Bermuda Triangle.
  • Author, Edwin Corley's 1977 novel, Sargasso, has the crew of Apollo 19, a fictitious second Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission vanish from their spacecraft when they land in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle.

[edit] Comics

  • DC Comics' Paradise Island city-state, controlled by Amazons and the home of Wonder Woman, is located in the Bermuda Triangle.
  • The Marvel Comics series Skull the Slayer was set in a world inhabited by people who had been swallowed by the Triangle, which was actually a trap created by aliens.
  • A one-off edition of the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip, "Follow That TARDIS!" (featuring the Sleeze Brothers), saw the Meddling Monk's badly-damaged TARDIS explode after landing in Bermuda, creating a time-space distortion resulting in the disappearance of Flight 19.
  • Starlord, a British comic book, ran a story called "Planet of the Damned", which portrays the triangle as a vortex in space and time leading to a hostile planet where survivors struggle against the alien environment. The story relies on a number of documented disappearances for its background. The story began 13 May 1978.

[edit] Music

  • in 1980, American New Wave band Talking Heads were not content with just recording their album Remain in Light in Nassau (in the Triangle), they also put a picture on the back cover of four TBM Avengers - the type of plane that comprised Flight 19.
  • 70s and 80s New Wave rock group Blondie's album Plastic Letters features the song "Flight 45 (Bermuda Triangle Blues)" about the mysterious disappearance of an aircraft which was "leaving for some fun in the hot tropic sun, back next Monday."
  • Barry Manilow sang a UK no. 15 hit in 1981 titled "Bermuda Triangle".
  • Fleetwood Mac had a song called "The Bermuda Triangle" on their 1974 album Heroes are Hard to Find.
  • Buckethead released an album named Bermuda Triangle in 2002.
  • Japanese electronic music artist Isao Tomita in 1979 released an album titled "Bermuda Triangle".
  • Hard rock band Vengeance released an album named Back From Flight 19 in 1997.
  • Mojo Nixon's song Elvis Is Everywhere asks "You know what's goin' on down there in the Bermuda Triangle?" The answer: "Elvis needs boats!"

[edit] Games

  • Milton Bradley released a board game named Bermuda Triangle in 1975.
  • In the first level of the game Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild, Bermuda Blast, the racers are sucked into the Triangle at the beginning of the race.
  • There is a Bermuda Triangle level that you can play in the game Jet Ski Pro.
  • In the Rifts role-playing game, Atlantis was located at the present-day location of the Bermuda triangle before they disappeared in a dimensional shift the Atlanteans created. Atlantis has returned with extra-dimensional creatures in charge. Extra-dimensional creatures would be indistinguishable from aliens to most.
  • In the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2, there is a level of the Bermuda Triangle which includes aliens, flying saucers, wrecked ships and planes, and other elements of the supernatural.
  • The triangle is featured as the final level in the video game Impossamole by Core Design.
  • The Bermuda Triangle is one of the possible destinations in the videogame Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders. After entering it on a small biplane, Zak and the pilot will be kidnapped by "The King", leader of the aliens.
  • In the game Spy Fox in Dry Cereal, the weasel near the S.S. Deadweight tells you to "do me a favor and get lost in the Bermuda Triangle" if you ask him enough questions.
  • In Microsoft Flight Simulator X, there is a mission called "Lost in the Triangle", which involves flying a Learjet into the Bermuda Triangle. Throughout the course of the mission, the lost tanker SS Marine Sulphur Queen and missing Flight 19 can be seen, both giving off a green glow.

[edit] Other references

  • A region of the city of Vienna, Austria stretching between Schwedenplatz, the Hohermarkt and Morzinplatz is nicknamed the Bermuda Triangle (Bermuda Dreieck) originally as a local joke on account of its steep, winding, small alleys and numerous bars where visitors could be lost for days.
  • American illusionist David Copperfield's tenth television special was titled "The Bermuda Triangle." In it, the magician performs a visual trick by supposedly entering the "dark dimension" of the Bermuda Triangle at one spot and coming out, seconds later, at another spot hundreds of feet away.
  • The Bermuda Triangle is a popular Sea World or SeaWorld ride in which aliens are used as an explanation for the strange events.

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