Editing Bermuda Triangle — Key Persons Directory (section)

=== Writers and Researchers — Pro-Triangle ===

==== Charles Berlitz ====
Author of ''The Bermuda Triangle'' (1974), the book that transformed the Triangle from a regional curiosity into a global phenomenon. Berlitz's bestselling account has been criticized for inaccuracies and selective reporting but is credited with creating the modern Bermuda Triangle legend.

==== Vincent Gaddis ====
Writer who coined the term "Bermuda Triangle" in his 1964 ''Argosy'' article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle." Gaddis was among the first to treat the pattern of disappearances as a defined, named phenomenon.

==== Ivan T. Sanderson ====
Paranormal researcher who proposed the "Vile Vortices" theory — twelve equally spaced points of anomalous activity around the Earth, of which the Bermuda Triangle was the primary example.

==== John Wallace Spencer ====
Author of ''Limbo of the Lost'' (1969), an early Bermuda Triangle book that promoted paranormal theories including the possibility that the missing ships and aircraft had been taken by extraterrestrials.