The Dragon's Triangle

by Charles Berlitz

Acknowledgments
Another triangle of doom
A role call of disappearances
Great ships that sailed into oblivion
Planes that never landed
Submarines that never surfaced
The perseverance of legend
Ghost ships of the Dragon Triangle
Mikakunin Hiko-Buttai
The shaking land, the restless sea
The uncertain islands
Sunken lands and vanished civilizations
Atomic warfare: ancient and modern
Doorway to the future...or the past?
Bibliography

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Paranormal

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 2, 1985

About the author

Born in NYC, Berlitz was the grandson of Maximilien Berlitz, who founded the Berlitz Language Schools. As a child, Charles was raised in a household in which (by father's orders) every relative & servant spoke to Charles in a different language. He reached adolescence speaking eight languages fluently. In adulthood, he recalled having had the delusion that every human spoke a different language, & wondering why he didn't have his own like everyone else. His father spoke to him in German, his grandfather in Russian, his nanny in Spanish.
He began working for the family's Berlitz School of Languages, during college breaks. The publishing house, of which he was vice president, sold, among other things, tourist phrase books & pocket dictionaries, several of which he authored. He also played a key role in developing record & tape language courses. He left the company in the late 1960s, not long after he sold the company to publishing firm Crowell, Collier & Macmillan. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale Univ.
Berlitz was a writer on anomalous phenomena. He wrote a number of books on Atlantis. In his book The Mystery of Atlantis, he used evidence from geophysics, psychic studies, classical literature, tribal lore, archeology & mysteries & concluded that Atlantis was real. Berlitz also attempted to link the Bermuda Triangle to Atlantis. He claimed to have located Atlantis undersea in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. He was also an ancient astronaut proponent who believed that extraterrestrials had visited earth.
Berlitz spent 13 years on active duty in the US Army, mostly in intelligence. In 1950, he married Valerie Seary, with whom he had a daughter, Lynn. He died in 2003 at the age of 89 at University Hospital in Tamarac, FL.

Reviews

[Greg · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Dragon's Triangle is the Bermuda Triangle's brother. Charles Berlitz discusses many theories and disappearances involving this triangle. One myth included the existence of an underwater dragon's palace. I imagine fiery columns and a golden throne. Some stories claim the waves approach from three sides, enveloping the ships, much like a triangle. My favourite quote from this book comes from a passage where Charles was talking about flights arriving to destinations earlier than expected when crossing this triangle:

“The passengers of such flights should feel congratulated not only for an unexpectedly early arrival, but for safe passage through a space-time anomaly that has sent so many other travellers on a one-way passage to oblivion.”

The author Charles is a man of science it appears and includes too many statistics rather than examining the big picture of it all. I enjoyed the more out there theories found in the later end of the book. And the final message.

What may be explained is that time is a flat circle, a spiralling circle like a caravan through space-time. Trinale + circle do not mix. Instead they create three sections of rounded humps (much like camel) and when combined these create a second circle (so two circles) leaving only one hump and the original triangle. Two circles are the two worlds and the triangle is between it, while the hump is the anomaly- the fix that changes speeds or creates a hole in oblivion.

[Ursula Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I remembered this book from years ago and was pleased to find it on a Kindle version now. The History Channel had a great special they once did about it. The Pacific Triangle is much more dangerous and has far more disappearances than the Bermuda Triangle. This book covers the history and explores some options for what may be happening. A third triangle many don't know about is the Alaska Triangle, just as dangerous as the Pacific and more prolific than Bermuda. Had a 2 year show on the Travel Chanel.

[M V Ciamaroni · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not my thing. I thought it would be an story about the dragon's triangle but it was actually a statistical account of unexplained ships disappearing and some theory with facts somewhat supporting them.
I noted myself to death trunking to finish it.

[Marko]

I have twoo different german editions.

[Araiya C · Rating 4 out of 5]

love 80s conspiracy theories! delightful!

[Vicki Gooding · Rating 5 out of 5]

A little lesser known than the Bermuda Triangle, but on the other side of the earth near Japan is an area with some similar occurrences. It's difficult to say whether it may be some magnetic force in both areas, or if there's other reasons for malfunctions and vanishings. Both triangles are located exact polar opposite of the other. Hard to really know what to think as I do not believe in coincidence, and I believe many of these have a logical conclusion, but I just do not think we understand enough about it yet.

[J Rice · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read that is built upon slices of time for the main characters from WW2 of the Allies (read Americans) and a Submarine crew involved with treasure plundered by the Japanese near the Phillipines.
The time slices of the heroine and her yacht, greedy well connected ruthless crooks and her "lost" boyfriend build the whole story well.
There are several twists that keep up the suspense along the way.

[David Koblos · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had heard about the Bermuda triangle when I first got this book into my hands. With the Dragon Triangle, however, on the opposite side of the globe, I was not familiar. So I gobbled up this book as fast as the Eyes of the Sphinx by Däniken.

[Ronald · Rating 5 out of 5]

read SOMETIME in 2008