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Three cities, three lines and a thousand mysteries.

It might be hole down in the ocean,
Yeah, or a fog that won't let go.
It might be some crazy people talking,
Or somebody that we ought to know.
Down in Bermuda, the pale blue sea,
Way down in the triangle, it's easy to believe.
Fleetwood Mac, "Bermuda Triangle"

The Bermuda Triangle is a popular place for works of fiction to place mysterious events, especially the disappearances of ships and airplanes (sometimes in connection with other Stock Unsolved Mysteries, such as the fate of the crew of the Mary Celeste). Often, it will turn out that something really weird is involved with the area, such as aliens, paranormal activity, Eldritch Abominations, Atlantis, or something even weirder. If the events are of human origin, it's still something weird like an Ancient Conspiracy or the work of a dangerous Cult.

Part of the Hollywood Atlas. The Bermuda Triangle is a region of the Sargasso Sea found in the Atlantic Ocean, much of which is south-west of the coast of Bermuda. Before it became popular in pure Speculative Fiction, the triangle started out as an Urban Legend. Although that legend has since been discredited,note  it continues to live on through its popularity in fiction.

Part of the reason it exists in fiction is that latitude was always much easier to find at sea than longitude (which required an accurate clock), so ships tended to aim for the right latitude then sail east or west as needed. Even this was easier said than done when it came to finding oceanic islands like Bermuda. In other words, it was easy to get lost on your way to Bermuda. The other problem is the geography around the island itself. The southern side of the island is relatively safe, but the northern side is rife with reefs, shoals shoulder to shoulder. The number of wrecks north of the island is an order of magnitude greater than those on the south side, giving it an unsavory reputation.


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    Anime & Manga 
  • Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil: The heroes discover that this is due to the triangle being part of an ancient force-field, home to an AI gone insane.
  • Heavy Object: The final battle of Volume 15 takes place in the Triangle. It's also revealed that the Information Alliance uses an uncharted island in the Triangle to house the Capulet system's "breaker".
  • Transformers: Cybertron: The Triangle makes an appearance as the last resting place of Atlantis, which turns out to be an ancient Cybertronian starship.
  • Lupin III: Island of Assassins uses it as a both a plot point and as one of its big reveals, since it's where the eponymous island is located. Lupin explains that the reason for all the unexplained disappearances is a Government Conspiracy to keep the island hidden, since the assassins there work for them. So any ships that come anywhere near it without clearance is taken out with a high-powered satellite weapon.
  • One Piece had the Florian Triangle which is full of fog and many ships are said to have disappeared. The Straw Hats eventually find out that an island ship called Thriller Bark was responsible for this and put a halt to it. However, the end of the story arc reveals that the disappearances started long before Thriller Bark arrived and three enormous shapes are shown looming in the fog. Several years before this, anime Filler had independently placed a time-warping Eldritch Location called "Apes' Concert" (aka the Rainbow Mist) on the Grand Line. The Bermuda connection here is a lot more obtuse: "Apes' Concert" is inspired by the Japanese pronunciation of "Sargasso" (saru gassō).
  • In Saint Seiya, Sea Dragon/Gemini Kanon can open a rift in space to throw people in the Triangle, which is a time abyss in the story's universe.

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    Comic Books 
  • D.R. & Quinch: In "D.R. & Quinch Have Fun on Earth", one of the segments of the title duo's adventure through time that sees them influence the course of history on some Insignificant Little Blue Planet features Quinch recalling a time with his buddy "while cruising just off Bermuda" and trying to pull in human aircraft towards their ship with a Tractor Beam "to get a better look at them," only for the beam's force to break apart the fragile planes.
  • Wonder Woman: Themyscira (a.k.a. Paradise Island), the native home of Diana and her sister Amazons, is sometimes located in the Bermuda Triangle, but the island can teleport to any location or time whenever the island's inhabitants desire. Pre-Crisis, it was in the Bermuda Triangle all the time. Although the DC Universe is generally a Fantasy Kitchen Sink, it was acknowledged in-story that this was a coincidence and the area is not actually paranormal.
  • In Gilgamesh the Immortal, all kinds of strange phenomena occur in that area, because there is a portal that leads to another dimension, where the descendants of Atlantis live.
  • Marvel Comics:
    • Fantastic Four: A recurring foe, Mole Man, has a home on Monster Island, which is suggested to be either somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle or off the coast of Japan, Depending on the Writer. The island first appeared in Fantastic Four #1 and was only later localized (for a time) in the Bermuda Triangle, but it more frequently linked to the Godzilla mythos (Marvel once published a Godzilla comic) and thus localized near Japan.
    • X-Men:
      • The mysterious nameless island raised to the surface of the Atlantic by Magneto in Uncanny X-Men #149 is definitely located in the Bermuda Triangle. It contains ruins of a lost civilization heavily implicated in aliens and eldritch abominations.
      • La Isla des Demonas, which connects to the Hell dimension Nightcrawler passes through, is located in or near the Bermuda Triangle. Havok and the X-Men even had to guard archaeologists there.
  • In The Perils of Penelope, the truth turns out to be that there's an ancient religious cult in the Triangle that abducts people to brainwash them.
  • In Astro City, Monstro City (where Rex Zorus of the First Family came from) is located on the sea floor of the Triangle.

    Fan Works 
  • Arrow: Rebirth: The location of Xebel, Atlantis' rival kingdom. Upon learning about them and their Fantastic Racism, it doesn't take long for the Justice League to figure out the real cause of all those mysterious disappearances.

    Film — Animated 

    Film — Live-Action 
  • Gulliver's Travels (2010) depicts the title character's adventure beginning after his ship wrecks in the Bermuda Triangle.
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind: There's a brief shot in the special edition where a ship is in the middle of the Gobi desert. It's supposed to be one of the Bermuda Triangle disappearances. The film opens with the discovery of Flight 19, a Navy aviation training exercise that disappeared out of Ft. Lauderdale (the airbase is now Nova Southeastern).
  • In Escape From Atlantis, an American family is teleported to another dimension by the Triangle, where Atlantis turns out to be located.
  • Airport '77 involves a jetliner crashing and sinking in the Bermuda Triangle.
  • Dakota Harris: The plot involves the protagonists getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
  • In The Phantom (1996), the Devil's Vortex is a serial-numbers-filed-off version of the Bermuda Triangle, a region of ocean that has a reputation for ships disappearing in it; this turns out to be because the home base of the Sengh Brotherhood is in the middle of it, and they take strong measures against anybody who gets too close.
  • The Dark Side of the Moon (1990) offers an unusual explanation that disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle happen during the roughly 28 days in a month when the orbiting moon isn't facing the location.
  • The Bermuda Triangle with John Huston and Gloria Guida is a 1978 action sci-fi Mexican-Italian film about the Bermuda Triangle, which connects the Triangle to Atlantis and heavily features a Creepy Doll.
  • Bermudas: la cueva de los tiburones a Mexican-Spanish-Italian horror-action film with the Bermuda Triangle setting. Also made in 1978.
  • Encuentro en el abismo another Mexican-Spanish-Italian flick (this one from 1979). A wealthy man organizes an expedition to investigate the Bermuda Triangle after his daughter and her fiance disapear. They discover that The Greys are conducting experiments there.
  • Not mentioned but clearly influential in the B-Movie The Lost Continent: a cruise get lost in an unknown ocean full of deadly sea weed, giant lobsters and Spanish conquistadores.
  • The Asylum's 2009 remake of The Land That Time Forgot uses the Bermuda Triangle as a Time Travel mechanism.
  • The Bermuda Triangle is where Fester Addams got lost for 25 years according to Gomez in The Addams Family.
  • In The Island (1980), Blair Maynard is a British-born American journalist who was once in the Navy and who decides to investigate the mystery of why so many boats disappear in the Bermuda Triangle of the Caribbean. He takes his estranged son Justin with him to the area on the "vacation" and, while fishing, both are attacked by an unkempt man and forcibly brought to an uncharted island. On the island, Blair discovers that the inhabitants of the island are a centuries-old colony of savage French pirates.
  • Satan's Triangle concerns an out-of-nowhere storm and a series of mysterious deaths that strike a boat in the triangle. Eva thinks the triangle is the devil's territory, but Haig explains that there's a logical explanation for everything that happened. Until the end, when it turns out Satan really was at fault for everything.

    Literature 
  • In Dean Koontz's Phantoms, Timothy Flyte proposes that the disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle are due to one of the Ancient Enemy creatures.
  • In The 39 Clues, the Ekaterina have an Island Base here.
  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians establishes that, because America is the current center of Western civilization, mythological sites that used to be around Greece and Rome are now located there. This means that the Sea of Monsters is no longer the Mediterranean but the Bermuda Triangle.
  • The Bermuda Triangle by Charles Berlitz was an instant hit because it pretended to be a real mystery, rather than fiction. The book claims many ships and airplanes have disappeared mysteriously in the Triangle, but the facts in the book were quickly discovered to be falsified. Lots of the ships and airplanes listed never existed in the first place, and others had sunk in other parts of the world. Those that remained were not many enough to be unusual and had sunk under totally normal circumstances, such as extremely bad weather.
    • Larry Kusche wrote a book of his own as a rebuttal to Berlitz, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved, where he points out the above errors. Kusche is quite willing to admit that mysterious incidents do happen in the Bermuda Triangle (the fates of the airplanes Star Tiger and Star Ariel probably the most baffling ACTUAL mysteries); the problem, he says, is that these incidents happen at roughly the same rates around the entire world and that you can't pin special blame on the Bermuda Triangle.
  • In Echoes Of The Fourth Magic, a research submarine exploring the Bermuda Triangle is dragged into an underwater temporal rift that dumps them centuries in the future. All other victims of the Triangle are present at their arrival but are dead, having emerged deep underwater.
  • Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain: The Bermuda Triangle was originally the location of early nuclear testing. In a one in a million chances, this created a stable time anomaly that has populated the area with dinosaurs and mutants resulting from the radiation. After becoming Emperor, Mollusk had since started to use the area as a dumping ground for old inventions he had no use for, in the (mistaken) belief that no-one can get access to it.
  • The Jennifer Morgue has the Triangle as one of several sites heavily colonized by the Deep Ones, a species of Sufficiently Advanced Aliens that live on the ocean floor. The disappearances of ships in the region involve the weaponization of gas deposits — when released, they can cause the water under a ship to rush out momentarily, causing the keel to sink into the void just as the water starts rushing back in. The Deep Ones do this whenever a ship gets too close to finding out about them.
  • The Bermuda Triangle shows up in Time Scout, as possibly explained by an "unstable nexus gate". Basically, one semi-permanent Time Portal that leads to a number of other semi-stable, semi-permanent gates constantly opening and closing. Oh, and it's in warm water.
  • In Curveball, there used to be an island in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. It's been mostly erased from history, now. There's still a remnant, however, that will occasionally appear in the location where the island would have been, to trap unwary ships and planes.
  • We Can't Rewind uses this as a Magnetic Plot Device which takes the characters to a Bizarro Universe where time flows backward. The narrator mentions near the end that only a very few of the disappearances in the Triangle are actually rightly attributed to this phenomenon, while the rest were (probably) from more mundane causes.
  • The Last Day Of Creation by Wolfgang Jeschke. The US Navy started the original Urban Legend as a Gas Leak Cover-Up for their experiments in time travel, held away from the continental United States for safety reasons. However it's suggested that the artificial gravity bubbles moving back in time have destroyed aircraft and ships caught up in their wake, as fragments of debris and human remains have appeared on the 'landing platform' set up in Bermuda in the past.
  • The Mer. The Big Gathering of Mer is held in a different place each year, but every few years they hold it in the Bermuda Triangle. A lot of people have drowned therenote  and humans tend to avoid it, so a large number of Mer have made their home there.
  • Lampshaded in The Takers by Jerry Ahern when a CIA agent comments regarding the ship carrying the Gladstone Log, "And yeah, it went down in the Bermuda Triangle, but that's a load of crap." The protagonists nearly disappear in the Triangle themselves, but thanks to Ruthless Modern Pirates (whose captain also lampshades the trope).

    Live-Action TV 
  • Eerie, Indiana: In "The Retainer", Marshall and Simon discover that Eerie's town borders create the exact same geometric shape as the Bermuda Triangle.
  • Mystery Hunters: One episode investigates the disappearance of boats and planes within this area.
  • The X-Files:
    • The episode "Triangle" sees Mulder investigate a luxury passenger liner that mysteriously appears on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle. Once on board the ship, Mulder finds himself in the year 1939 as Nazi soldiers are fighting the British crew for control of the ship.
    • In "Dreamland", Area 51 Man in Black Morris Fletcher claims to be the one who originally coined the term and insists that powerful, primal, otherworldly forces are hidden beneath the waves, waiting to be plucked by man.
    • The tie-in comics had a story about a suspiciously young man claiming to be John Lawrence, one of the pilots from the famous Flight 19.
  • One of Spike Milligan's Q shows included a headline which read "Bermuda Triangle Disappears in Bermuda Triangle".
  • In a "Mathnet" segment from Square One TV titled "The Case of the Bermuda Triangle," Pat and George debunk the Bermuda Triangle myth on television, leading to a case where a sunken boat could prove a man's innocence of treason.
  • An original miniseries on the Sci Fi Channel titled The Triangle focused on a team of researchers hired to discover the secret of the Bermuda Triangle. Their mission sees the team go above and beyond just finding out the truth as they eventually aim to destroy the anomaly that causes those who enter the region to vanish.
  • In an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, when Sabrina is on a cruise ship that enters the Bermuda Triangle, she discovers that her powers no longer work but can instead make wishes that are instantly granted.
  • The dimension-hopping escapades on The Fantastic Journey begin in the Bermuda Triangle.
  • The Key West episode Crossroads featured the paranormal activity of the Bermuda Triangle as a plot point.
  • For his tenth television special, Stage Magician David Copperfield used the power of the Bermuda Triangle, channeled aboard a ship via a pyramid-shaped frame, to make himself disappear. A light from within the pyramid yanked him inside, and he soon emerged from the ocean along with a long-vanished ship (which quickly burst into flames). Or at least, that's his story and he's sticking with it.
  • An F-14 fighter plane disappears in the Bermuda Triangle in JAG's third season episode "Vanished".
  • Behind the scenes on Lost, the original plan if the show was Cut Short 13 episodes or so in was to reveal that the island was the Bermuda Triangle.
  • Was the focus of one episode of The Suite Life on Deck. Bemoaning their upcoming shared birthday both Zach and Cody wished they were an only child and they enter a Bizarro Universe where Cody was raised by their father and Zach was raised by their mother.
  • The Quantum Leap episode "Ghost Ship" featured USS Cyclops (which was lost in the Triangle) and picked up a WWII aviator, 26 years after it was lost.
  • One episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. had Coulson give a throwaway line about how SHIELD had figured out what was going on with the Triangle and stopped it back in the eighties. No details were provided.
  • Season 3 of Star Trek: Enterprise takes place in the Delphic Expanse, a region of space compared to the Bermuda Triangle because of its Negative Space Wedgies.
  • The Bermuda Depths is a 1978 Japanese-American fantasy Made-for-TV Movie dealing with the Bermuda Triangle mistery.
  • 1975 ABC's Made-for-TV Movie Satan's Triangle is about the US Coast Guard attending a distress call from inside the Bermuda Triangle.
  • Lost Voyage, a Syfy Channel Original Movie has angry spirits from the Bermuda Triangle killing people in a TV studio.
  • The Librarians went there in the season 3 episode "The Trial of the Triangle". The disappearances are because a previous Librarian magically set up a Pocket Dimension there as safekeeping for a MacGuffin. Dates of entry and vessels lost there are themed after his love of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Vessels never return because the wormhole that leads there is impassable, without magically changing ones own particles for transit, and they disintegrate on the way through.
  • The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries episode "The Mysterious Fate of Flight 608" subverts this to pieces. The Hardys board a plane that will be flying over the infamous area; Joe finds out about the flight path from a scared passenger and freaks out, though Frank scoffs at the idea, saying science has debunked the whole thing. But the plane runs into trouble: a hurricane hits, the pilots collapse, Frank ends up crash-landing the plane into the ocean, and the passengers take refuge on a deserted island, with the scared passenger saying they're now in another dimension and lost for good. Psych! Nothing mysterious about it — the pilots were drugged by a diamond smuggler, and the island is within spitting-distance of Bermuda, with rescue crews heading their way.
  • The unsold Aquaman pilot from the producers of Smallville featured the Atlanteans abducting famous missing pilots and ship crews from the Bermuda Triangle and defending the area with a huge Death Ray that shoots up out of the ocean to blast nosy visitors.
  • SeaQuest DSV had an episode that explains ship disappearances in the region are specifically caused pockets of fresh water in limestone aquifers, and occasionally, they would breach, with catastrophic results for anything above them due to density differences between salt water and fresh water.
  • Referenced in the CSI: NY episode, "The Triangle," when Mac disappears from a crime scene in the area around the Empire State Building known for bizarre happenings in-universe. In this case, a security guard was electrocuted to death while alone in the back of an armored car robbery just prior to it being robbed. Once they debunk the theory:
    Mac: We may be guilty of creating an urban legend, but there's no way this building is guilty of murder.

    Music 
  • Mojo Nixon's song "Elvis Is Everywhere" attributes several unexplained phenomena to Elvis, events in the Bermuda Triangle being among them. As it is explained, "Elvis needs boats."
  • Metal band Rage mentions disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle in the song "Without a Trace."
  • "Bermuda Triangle" by Barry Manilow. "It makes people disappear" is Barry's insightful take on the matter.
  • Fleetwood Mac also did a "Bermuda Triangle" song, on their Heroes Are Hard to Find album.
  • The songs "Without a Trace" by Sabbat and "Flight Nineteen" by Angel Witch are based on the Flight 19 incident.
  • The title track of Parliament's Mothership Connection mentions it.

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    Tabletop Games 
  • In Illuminati, one of the Illuminati Conspiracies is named "The Bermuda Triangle". This is not what they call themselves; they are so secret that no one knows the organization's real name. The others have nicknamed it after the geographical area because they know that it's behind the disappearances there. In both card game versions of the game, this Illuminati conspiracy is one of the playable factions. In the Tabletop RPG version, it's one of the mysterious forces that the characters might have to investigate.
  • Rifts: Ocean triangles are anomalous stretches of the sea created when three Ley Lines intersect to form a triangular shape. The resulting triangle is subject to natural and supernatural storms, surges in ley energy, warped time, random rifts formation, rains of frogs, fish, fire or debris, attacks by predators or Sea Monsters, banks of toxic fog and similar events, making sailing through such as area extremely dangerous. The Bermuda Triangle itself — known as the Demon Sea — is the most infamous, but five other major triangles exist: one off of South America, one south of Madagascar, one between Australia and New Zealand, one off of Japan and one covering most of the Mediterranean. A small triangle over Lake Michigan is believed to be the only freshwater triangle in the world.
  • A 1970s Milton Bradley board game called The Bermuda Triangle involves players guiding magnetized game pieces ("cargo ships") through the Triangle without getting them "consumed" by the ever-shifting "cloud" that moves along a grid of dots that is determined by a spinner.

    Theme Parks 
  • SeaWorld once had a ride, called Mission: Bermuda Triangle, that took travelers into the Bermuda Triangle and showed an image of the USS Cyclops (lost in the Triangle in 1918).

    Video Games 
  • ANNO: Mutationem: The Bermuda Triangle is mentioned to exist at a unspecified location in a lab document. The document details that the area serves as one of many focus points for the Limen crater to bring about supernatural anomalies through unprecedented extrapolation.
  • The Battle Cats: Bermuda is one of the stages. The enemy base is shaped like a crashed plane, and the treasures you get in the Bermuda stages are either Recording Boxes (Empire of Cats) or Hurricane Winds (Into the Future). Also, Bermuda in Into the Future is underwater.
  • Civilization VI includes the Triangle as a Natural Wonder. The area surrounding the Wonder itself grants an large amount of Science but is usually too far out for any city to take advantage of it. It also gives naval units extra movement, but any unit, naval or otherwise, that crosses the wonder are teleported to an random Ocean tile halfway across the map.
  • The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: The Secret of the Living Volcano takes place in an area where ships have been disappearing, albeit one located in the South Pacific rather than the Atlantic. The conclusion of the mystery is that aliens are behind it, which is very reminiscent of the pop-culture lore surrounding the Triangle.
  • The Conduit:
    • In the first game, the radio host Conspiracy Theorist Gordon Wells makes increasingly more extreme and bizarre theories as the Drudge invasion progresses, at one point suggesting that the Bermuda Triangle is a "defense mechanism of fallen Atlantis."
    • In Conduit 2, the first level takes place on a deep-ocean platform in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle, which is later attacked by a giant serpentine Leviathan who's guarding Atlantis underneath it.
  • In Dark Void, this region is apparently a gateway to an Another Dimension (The Void), but it's not the only gateway of its kind. You even get to loot the USS Cyclops.
  • Flight Simulator X has a mission where you must drop off emergency supplies for a yacht stranded in the Bermuda Triangle. If you fly in the right place at the right time, you may see the ghostly green apparitions of Flight 19 and the Marine Sulphur Queen.
  • Mega Man Star Force 2: The Bermuda Maze area is located above the Bermuda Triangle, consisting of The Maze by following a wandering machine.
  • Nexus War: In the original game, St. Germaine is located here. There isn't anything particularly paranormal about it until the end of the world, at which point the entire nation vanishes to become Valhalla, the eternal battleground.
  • The Omega Stone: Although not specifically named, one of the lost civilizations is situated near Bimini, a location linked to both the Bermuda Triangle and Atlantis in pop culture. It's represented by the symbol of a triangle containing ocean waves in various clues and Plot Coupons.
  • Pirates: Legend of the Black Buccaneer have your attempts to locate the mystical La Borge's Isle, an island filled with Pirate Booty. Turns out said island can only be accessed by entering the Devil's Triangle, where a storm destroys your ship early on before you barely survive to the island's beaches.
  • Prehistoric Isle in 1930 is set on a dinosaur populated island situated in the Bermuda Triangle, the Under the Sea level shows the wreckage of all the ships that have gone missing in the area.
  • The Bermuda Triangle features in Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, though here it is a triangular portal through space. In Moai Better Blues, it takes the duo to Easter Island.
  • In Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild, one of the tracks is Bermuda Blast. In the beginning, it's displayed as a short track set surrounded by tropical islands under sunny weather. Once the player nearly reaches the end of the lap, they're warped to a stormy open ocean world where lost and wrecked ships and airplanes clutter the map and new ones spawn from the sky. Near the end of the final lap, the player warps back to the sunny island world to end the race there.
  • Star Trek Judgment Rites: The Antares Rift serves as the space equivalent of this, with multiple ships sent to explore it in the past having all disappeared. The Enterprise is sent there during the game, and is nearly destroyed. Nevertheless, they discover that the Rift is so dangerous because it is full of hard-to-detect holes in reality leading to other dimensions. As the ship tries to navigate its way out, Spock gets kidnapped by an Energy Being living inside one of those dimensions.
  • In Super Mario Land, The Muda Kingdom is based on this, as the levels from this games are named after locations associated with Ancient Astronauts theories.
  • Tomb Raider (2013) takes place in the Dragon's Triangle, which is basically the Bermuda Triangle of Japan, and dialog in the game explicitly draws comparison between the two locations.
  • Shows up as an unlockable level in Tony Hawk's Underground 2, complete with shipwrecks, plane wreckage, UFOs and portals in the sky.
  • In Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, you simply fly to the triangle whenever you want to get abducted by the aliens. This is actually very convenient.

    Web Comics 
  • Kevin & Kell: The Bermuda Triangle is revealed at one point to be a portal between the human and animal worlds (which the humans have been using to get rid of garbage, until a trampoline is set up on the animal side to block the path). It's how baby Lindesfarne and adult Danielle crossed into the animal world, and another arc has Ralph and Martha temporarily end up in the human world through it. Danielle later tries to go back through, only for Lindesfarne to pre-empt her by planning to send her mice instead (and even up the balance between the worlds)... and then for Ms. Aura and Nigel to pre-empt that and cross over instead.
  • Magick Chicks: In chapter 16, Cerise said she mass teleported the Artemis Student Council into a volcano, but she didn't divulge its location. However, after Light Melissa saves them, Jacqui speculates that they might've been somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle because of the octopus faced monsters they saw there.
  • Polandball: The character of Bermuda is portrayed as a triangle.

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    Western Animation 
  • The Fairly OddParents!: Cosmo and Wanda put Unwish Island, one giant Continuity Nod that holds all of Timmy's un-wished wishes, inside the Bermuda Triangle.
  • Scooby-Doo: The Bermuda Triangle is a recurring series locale — The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo has an episode set there, as is the original series' "A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle" (with skeleton men and plane-swallowing UFOs) and the animated film Scooby Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (with mysterious fog and ghost pirates being the focus).
  • Rocko's Modern Life: One episode involves Rocko boarding a cruise ship with Heffer and his grandfather, which passes through the Bermuda Triangle. After some Deranged Animation, it turns every old person on the ship young, and every young person old. (Well, it turned Rocko & Heffer old. The captain was deaged to a baby.)
  • In Extreme Ghostbusters, the Bermuda Triangle is revealed to be a huge, all-devouring spiritual entity.
  • The Real Ghostbusters episode "Venkman's Ghost Repellers" also dealt with "the New Jersey Parallelogram", a (fictional) location off the Jersey coast that's equally mysterious but overshadowed by its more famous counterpart. It turned out to be a gateway to Another Dimension, from which they had to rescue Peter's estranged father.
  • Danny Phantom: "Infinite Realms" shows that there are portals to the Ghost Zone that naturally appear throughout the world, once of which being the Bermuda Triangle. And not only do these natural Ghost Portals transport people and objects into the Ghost Zone, but those who leave the Ghost Zone through these portals can also be transported through time as well.
  • In DuckTales (1987), many of Scrooge McDuck's ships were disappearing in the Triangle. Scrooge points out how well-traveled the area is and sets out to find his fleet. He finds it, along with other ships, trapped in a huge mass of seaweed.
  • Ben 10: One episode has the characters visiting a prototype underwater hotel being built in the triangle and uncovering the secret — a colony of aliens bent on collecting everything that comes within reach.
  • Futurama gives us the Bermuda Tetrahedron, where spaceships mysteriously disappear. Turns out they are attacked by a fourth-dimensional Space Whale that feeds on spaceship captains' obsessions.
  • The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius has the "Bahama Quadrangle", which Jimmy, Sheen, and Carl visit so that Jimmy can prove them that nothing supernatural is going on there. They end up running into a super villain/scientist that appears to be the cause for odd sightings and disappearances... though the ending leaves us questioning it. Sheen once refers to the Bermuda Triangle as the mythological North Dakota.
  • Ultimate Spider-Man (2012): In "Snow Day", the team goes to a remote island for some fun on the beach. Nova fails to inform them that the island he chose for their holiday is a classified site inside the Bermuda Triangle that is acting as the prison for the Sandman.
    White Tiger: So you're saying we're in the Bermuda Triangle?
    Nova: You guys got something against triangles?
  • TaleSpin: One episode had Baloo fulfilling one of his life's checklist items of flying across the Bearmuda Trapezoid, where several noted aviators had vanished. The reason was that eccentric plane maker Howard Huge had pulled them out of the sky with a giant magnet and cannibalized them for parts to make a giant aircraft he called the Titanium Turkey.
  • Peg + Cat: This is the subject of "The Bermuda Triangle Problem", in which the Pig, who is obsessed with triangles, goes into it and finds it to be a world full of triangles. Peg and Cat have to convince him to come out before the portal in which they're all trapped closes and he gets stuck there forever.
  • Camp Candy: The lake had the Bermuda Shorts Triangle. Which naturally was shaped like a pair of shorts rather than a triangle.
  • Zak Storm: The entirety of the show centers around the titular Zak accidentally being transported to the Bermuda Triangle and teaming up with others to not only fend off the dangers found in the Triangle, but to also find a way back to his home.
  • Histeria! has a sketch parodying The Twilight Zone (1959) that explains how Bermuda got its name, along with some of the disappearances that occured over the years. It's also revealed inside to have a mystery meat cafe and some terrible looking shorts for sale. The episode ends on a Brick Joke where a ship the cast is on spontaneously vanishes into thin air the moment it enters the Bermuda Triangle.
  • Danger Mouse and Penfold head for the Bermuda Triangle ("Close Encounters of an Absurd Kind") where Greenback is threatening to destroy a government tracking station. Once there, they are abducted by an alien spacecraft whose captain DM thinks is Greenback in a mask.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants has an episode called “The Bikini Bottom Triangle.” In it, things start mysteriously disappearing. When SpongeBob and Squidward accidentally get sucked into it, they end up on an island with all of the missing items, and everything gets sucked up by a vacuum. It turns out that the vacuum is being controlled by a few sirens and their song. The sirens act like typical teenage girls and they were just looking for cool things to get. When Pearl tells them about the mall, they agree to return everything and join Pearl.


 
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The Bermuda Triangle

Leonard Nimoy introduces the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.

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