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Fact check

Is it true: The Bermuda Triangle?

Debunked88% confidence

No — this has been debunked.

Debunked. Lloyd's of London found no anomalous insurance risk in the region. Larry Kusche (1975) demonstrated that the cited disappearances were misreported, occurred outside the claimed area, or had documented mundane explanations. US Coast Guard incident rates show no statistical anomaly given the region's high traffic volume.

The claim

Claims that an area of the North Atlantic bounded roughly by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico experiences an anomalous rate of ship and aircraft disappearances attributable to supernatural forces, extr

Key evidence

Flight 19 disappearance (1945) is documented

Larry Kusche found systematic misreporting in triangle mythology

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