# Ask the guy who doesn't believe in the Bermuda Triangle. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-doesnt-believe-in-the-bermuda-triangle/23755 "2000-06-27T19:01:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-doesnt-believe-in-the-bermuda-triangle/23755/1 "2000-06-27T19:01:37Z")
Got a harebrained, idiotic, New-Age Mumbo-Jumbo belief that we can pound into cracker crumbs with a numbing cudgel of fact? If not, please post to the e-less thread instead. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-doesnt-believe-in-the-bermuda-triangle/23755/2 "2000-06-27T19:04:01Z")
What happened to all the planes and boats that disappeared? ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-doesnt-believe-in-the-bermuda-triangle/23755/3 "2000-06-27T19:08:22Z")
The missing Avengers: They left with a hung-over flight commander and no compass. It was a training flight. They got lost and crashed into the ocean. The “missing” ships: The number of ships lost in the Bermuda Triangle isn’t any greater, statistically, than any other heavily trafficked part of the ocean. The Bigfoot film: That’s a guy in a suit. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-doesnt-believe-in-the-bermuda-triangle/23755/4 "2000-06-27T19:28:09Z")
What? Bigfoot not real? Then how do you explain this [field guide](http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=22I0ME0B54&mscssid=97HX6QWB94S92NGE0017QUW4XBL4E0HB&isbn=0380802635)? ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-doesnt-believe-in-the-bermuda-triangle/23755/5 "2000-06-27T19:31:41Z")
The Puerto Rican myth of the chupacabra means “goat sucker”. Do they really… ya know? suck goats? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-doesnt-believe-in-the-bermuda-triangle/23755/6 "2000-06-27T19:39:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > The Puerto Rican myth of the chupacabra means “goat sucker”. Do they really… ya know? suck goats? > \*\* The guy who translated chupacabra wasn’t well versed on the meaning of the word “felcher”. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-doesnt-believe-in-the-bermuda-triangle/23755/7 "2000-06-27T20:46:48Z")
Chupacabra is actually a nice little resort town just south of Tecate. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-guy-who-doesnt-believe-in-the-bermuda-triangle/23755/8 "2000-06-27T23:22:30Z")
Unclebeer - someone drank too much beer.