Atlantis: The Lost Continent Revealed

Charles Berlitz, author of many popular books on the paranormal and unexplained phenomena, researched Atlantis and wrote a 1969 book titled "The Mystery of Atlantis." Berlitz not only became convinced that Atlantis was real but also that it was the source of the Bermuda Triangle mystery, a subject he explored in his 1974 best-seller The Bermuda Triangle. Illustrated in the book he strongly believed Extraterrestrials were in some way involved in Atlantis and the Bermuda Triangle. All of his theories were developed through arm chair Theoretical research, not significantly scientific. Berlitz's wild ideas about the Bermuda Triangle — and, by extension, Atlantis — were definitively debunked the following year by researcher Larry Kusche, author of 1975 The Bermuda Triangle Mystery — Solved. In 1984 Berlitz wrote Atlantis: The Lost Continent Revealed Thousands of books to counter his shot down theories with new arm chair discoveries. Magazines and websites are devoted to Atlantis, and in recent years has been surmounting scientific evidence of its location, and therefore the cities existence.

Book Summary

Atlantis: The Lost Continent Revealed is a book by Charles Berlitz. He lists several alternative theories on where the possible mythical Atlantis may have been situated, and cites different legends and stories that may support the different theories. All areas are and theories are covered starting with Plato, Crete(Thera), the Azores and Edgar Cayce's involvement in the story. (Unknown user 2009)

Theories

Nuclear Disaster

"Goes so far as to promote the belief that the people of Atlantis possessed nuclear weapons many thousand of years ago and it was a large scale nuclear war that destroyed their culture."

Natural Causes

"Berlitz believed that the Azores held the key to the Atlantis puzzle and wrote ‘Volcanic activity is constantly occurring in the Azores area, where there are still active volcanoes… The islands of Corvo and Flores in the Azores, which have been mapped since 1351, have constantly changed their shape, with large parts of Corvo having disappeared into the sea.’

• In this theory he presumed Atlantis was in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, and due to natural causes slowly sunk through the years.

Magical Submergence

In his last theory, Berlitz claimed the scenario presented by Plato was essentially correct. Although most of his evidence was thought provoking, his had evidence was slim to nonexistent. Here a diver had supposedly located a massive submerged pyramid near the Bahamas, but would not tell the coordinates. "An island supposedly emerged from the Atlantic Ocean in 1882, complete with bronze artifacts, but was never found again, and the log of the ship which discovered it was destroyed in the London blitz in 1940. He was presumably referring to the Cuicuilco pyramid, discovered by Byron Cummings of the University of Arizona in 1922. "

• On this account he claims Atlantis is located somewhere in the Bermuda triangle, and would be located between 1968 and 1969, as Edgar Cayce had predicted before his death in 1945.

Debunking Charles Berlitz

The Truth About The Triangle

• "However, critic Larry Kuscheno, who published The Bermuda Triangle Mystery: Solved in 1975, argued that other authors had exaggerated their numbers and hadn’t done any proper research. They presented some disappearance cases as "mysteries" when they weren’t mysteries at all, and some reported cases hadn’t even happened within the Bermuda Triangle.

After extensively researching the issue, Kusche concluded that the number of disappearances that occurred within the Bermuda Triangle wasn’t actually greater than in any other similarly trafficked area of the ocean, and that other writers presented misinformation—such as not reporting storms that occurred on the same day as disappearances, and sometimes even making it seem as though the conditions had been calm for the purposes of creating a sensational story. In short: previous Bermuda Triangle authors didn’t do their research and either knowingly or unintentionally "made it up."

The book did such a thorough job of debunking the myth that it effectively ended most of the Bermuda Triangle hype. When authors like Berlitz and others were unable to refute Kusche’s findings, even the most steadfast of believers had difficulty remaining confident in the sensationalized Bermuda Triangle narrative. Nevertheless, many magazine articles, TV shows, and movies have continued to feature the Bermuda Triangle."

Atlantis 2014

• In the twenty-first century increasing evidence of some sort of civilization, similar to that of Plato's reports of Atlantis, and ideals of a per-existing people of higher intelligence/technology has been accumulating around the seas and canals from Spain, to the Black Sea. Although nothing has be conclusively said about exact geological location of the civilization, the probability of its existence in this region is more likely than anywhere else in the world for multiple reasons.

1. The Bermuda triangle is basically a world pool. a land mass would not form nor would survive in the center of it.
2. The isolation of the seas and controlled climate by the surrounds lands mountain ranges, like a valley, but surrounded by water to fish, would be an easy place to prosper quickly as a civilization.
3. The primary function of the human being is to survive, but with no natural predictors, or fear of starvation, due to their isolation, mental progression and complex thought would have been more likely to occur.
4. Even though they are not here any more, with advanced skills for their time, does not mean they could have predicted what ever caused their home to be destroyed, or even calculated the possibility that a whole city would disappear into the sea one day.
5. last point... How did Plato ever reach the Bermuda? Even with rising sea levels and continental drift, the chances the Greek philosopher saw into the mid Atlantic, given the strength of the human eye, is slim to none. Logic would dictate he was just told the wrong name of body of water he gazed upon, or the people of Atlantis had the technology to move the landmass through the straight from Portugal to Spain and through the seas, and when it went to far off into the ocean it sank. Like a hover craft in deep water. Either way, this would not have been the first time in history someone reported looking in one direction, when they were actually looking somewhere totally different. Indies?

Additional Resources To follow Up On

Websites

• http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/archaeology/atlantis/
• http://www.livescience.com/23217-lost-city-of-atlantis.html
• http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/atlantis-legendary-metal-found-in-shipwreck-150106.htm
• http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/episodes/finding-atlantis/

Videos

• www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GORExcmYS4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiWIYNhs878

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