The twelve areas were first proposed by biologist and researcher, Ivan Sanderson, in the article The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World, first published in Saga magazine. He credited Charles Hapgood, who referred to them in his book. Sanderson, a naturalist and paranormal investigator. Sanderson first coined the term, “Vile Vortices” 1 in his article “The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World” (Saga magazine, 1972). The best-known Vile Vortices are the Bermuda Triangle, the Dragon’s Triangle (Devil’s Sea), and the South Atlantic Anomaly. However, each of these twelve geographic areas is credited with instances of magnetic anomalies and other unexplained phenomena.Īll of this and more on this weeks installment of Expanded Perspectives! Show Notes: The first of these was the Devil’s Sea, off the coast of Japan.
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