You all know the story of Flight 19, how in December 1945, five Grumman
Avengers took off from Ft Lauderdale, Florida, on a training flight, and
never returned. Supposedly, they disappeared somewhere in an area trian-
gulated by Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda. That was the beginning.
Writers discovered they could make money doing articles, even books, about
the Dread Bermuda Triangle where various craft disappeared without a
trace, for no known reason. Admittedly it is an area of sudden squalls,
treacherous currents, even occasional
pirates. Identifiable flotsam was
sometimes found, and occasionally
the points of triangulation had to be
stretched from Liverpool to New
Bedford to Rio to include some
particular incident, but this seldom
deterred anyone who was really
determined to make a buck writing
about vessels being mysteriously
swallowed up by the Bermuda Triangle.
We followers of Fortean Phenomena have long been aware that
mysterious disappearances are by no means unusual or limited to a
particular locale. In any state of the union, any nation in the world, a
pencil or a set of keys ignored for a trice can disap-
pear without a trace. It is, of course, the work of the
Peripetatic Black Hole.
The first of the missing Avengers from Flight
19 was reported found in the depths near
Marquesas Key by Mel Fisher in February, 1987. In
September, 1990, John Myhre announced that he' d
found one of the planes about 35 miles off Cape
Canaveral. Then in May, 1991, the Scientific Search
Project located the entire flight scattered in a cluster
on the floor of the Atlantic, about 10 miles off Ft Lauderdale. That' s seven
out of the five planes that have been found in or near the Bermuda Triangle
so far, and undoubtedly more to come.
There' s certainly more to all this than meets the
eye. Last week, I found the keys to the sliding glass
door and yesterday I came across my missing
Autopoint pencil. There' s only one logical explanation.
The wormhole has turned. Where the Peripetatic
Black Hole has played, its complementary White Hole
now roams. Things long gone are beginning to come
back. The navigator' s locker from Amelia Earhart' s
plane has been reported found. So has what may be 2
part of Nungesser and Coli' s plane. According to a recent super-
market tabloid, an astronaut lost in space 18 years ago has
returned. Soon it will be Judge Crater and the crew of the Mary
Celeste and before you know it, we will be inundated with
Ambroses.
Now the turning of a wormhole is not something that
happens every day. It is a cosmic event, and something cosmic
must have precipitated it. I have a theory.
As you know, assuming the proper mass, when the universe reaches the
extent of its expansion, it is to collapse in upon itself again, and time will
go into reverse. Or more properly, it did collapse in upon itself and time has
gone into reverse.
Yes, friends, we have begun the return
trip. Even as you think you read this,
you are unreading it. All the things you
remember have yet to happen, and all the
things you think lie in the future are over
and done.
So if you are one of the people who should have
received the 1981 issue of SFFY but didn' t, hang in
there. If my theory is correct, you' ll have another
chance at it in about ten years.
--Lee Hoffman
1991
The Chinese say that if you wait long enough by the bank of the river,
the bodies of the other Hugo nominees will come floating by
At the risk of jeopardizing LeeH' s theory, we would like to point out that
you don' t have to wait ten more years for the 1981 issue of SFFY. Dan
Steffan writes:
For a genuine photocopy of SFFY # 7, drop a note to Dan at 3804 S. 9th St. ,
Arlington, VA 22204. If you can, please include $3 or so to cover copy and
mailing costs. And watch out for that White Hole. You never know what it
will leave in your mailbox .
--GFS
Data entry by Judy Bemis
Hard copy provided by Geri Sullivan
Data entry by Judy Bemis
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