Mystery Lab / Rumours & reporting
30 and 20 Incidents—Out of How Many Journeys?
Keep fictional incident counts fixed and change journey totals. Compare what happens to the shares and their ranking with matching and different denominators.
Why examine journeys in a Bermuda Triangle story?
The Bermuda Triangle is a North Atlantic name famous for stories of lost ships and aircraft. Documented individual losses and a claim of greater frequency than elsewhere need separate examination.
Use invented Areas A and B. Over the same period, A has 30 journeys with recorded incidents and B has 20. First change both journey totals together; then hold B fixed and change only A. Compare denominators, percentages and bars that keep the same scale.
① Give both areas 1,000 and then 2,000 journeys; compare shares and ranking. ② Fix B at 1,000; compare A at 1,000 and 3,000 to see which area has the higher share.
Continue with the story and its records
Explore how the difference you noticed connects with the surviving records of the historical story.
Read the Bermuda Triangle and its recordsOpen the source
Sources and scope
Based on NOAA’s Bermuda Triangle explanation and the U.S. National Archives guide to Flight 19 records. Institutional statements about boundaries and frequency remain distinct from documented individual losses. We have not compiled an exhaustive real incident-and-traffic dataset.
- 01What is the Bermuda Triangle? NOAA · National Ocean Service · original text published 2010 · Checked 2026-10-22
- 02The Official Record and the Loss of Flight 19 U.S. National Archives · Pieces of History · 2017 · Checked 2026-10-22
Text, cards and bars are original. No real map, aircraft photograph, investigation scan or radio recording is embedded. Areas A/B and every number are invented. The model determines neither individual causes, actual regional safety nor statistical significance.