The name “The Bermuda Triangle” and a modern mythology about it is put forth by fiction writer Vincent Gaddis in pulp magazine Argosy in 1964. Gaddis builds on the work of other writers and proposes a connected pattern of strange disappearances dating back to 1840 and gives the area a name. He would expand on these later often-debunked ideas in his book Invisible Horizons the following year.
This Day in Halloween: The name “Bermuda Triangle” and mythology is put forth by fiction writer Vincent Gaddis in Argosy magazine in 1964. / Illustration by Amanda White