The Legend of the Bermuda Triangle - Part Two: Dead Reckoning

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In the conclusion to my season premiere, I investigate the genuinely puzzling disappearance of Flight 19, 5 bombers on a training run in 1945 whose vanishing, along with the rescue plane sent to find them, led to the creation of the Bermuda Triangle urban legend. Direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. Visit www.airwavemedia.com to find other high-quality podcasts! Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode. Pledge support on Patreon to get an ad-free feed with exclusive episodes! Check out my novel, Manuscript Found! And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts! Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness. Some music on this episode is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), including "daemones," "Remedy for Melancholy," "periculum," "September," "daedalus," "Wake Up," and "Delirium." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Airwave History Plus, the essential audio destination for history lovers. Music In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. This is what we're taught as children, along with numerous myths that I've addressed previously, such as that the Earth was largely
1:30.0	believed flat before Columbus's voyage. We can thank prolific myth-maker Washington Irving for this
1:37.7	myth, as well as many others, such as the character of Santa Claus as we've come to imagine him,
1:44.7	and the popular notion that Ponce de Leon came to Florida in search of the fountain of youth.
1:51.8	Well, thanks to Washington Irving, we also find Christopher Columbus all wrapped up with the myth complex
1:59.7	of the Bermuda Triangle.
2:02.6	It started with Irving's account of Columbus Crossing the Sargasso Sea.
2:08.1	Like a horror story, we learned that his ships were becalmed in a strange expanse,
2:14.9	with seaweed all around them, yet no sight of land. Moreover, his crew witnessed
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