Part 1

As is the case with most offbeat topics, reports regarding possible portal-places first passed through the pen of high strangeness aficionado, Charles Fort. In his book New Lands (1923), the father of Forteana wrote about “a triangular region in England” that endured oddities on a regular basis. Residents had to contend with seismic disturbances, exploding lights in the sky, and unexplained rocks falling from the air. Fort revealed that these things often happened simultaneously, with “shocks of this earth and phenomena in the sky at the same time.” He cleverly dubbed the area “the London Triangle,” providing a shape-inspired naming convention for another three-sided locale located in the Atlantic Ocean.

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