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Archae

(47,245 posts) Sun Mar 13, 2016, 07:42 PM Mar 2016

Green Bay, WI ABC affiliate runs with a woo story...

"Michigan Triangle?"

Mysterious “Lake Michigan Triangle” touches land in Manitowoc County

http://wbay.com/2016/03/13/mysterious-michigan-triangle-touches-land-in-manitowoc-county/

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Green Bay, WI ABC affiliate runs with a woo story... (Original Post) Archae Mar 2016 OP

So that "triangle" is really a rectangle that encompasses most of the lake. progressoid Mar 2016 #1

And like the "Bermuda Triangle," the fact that weckage actually IS found sometimes gets ignored. Archae Mar 2016 #2

The Chesapeake Bay Triangle is even less well known. yellowcanine May 2016 #3

progressoid

(51,780 posts)

1. So that "triangle" is really a rectangle that encompasses most of the lake.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Mar 15, 2016, 05:45 PM

Mar 2016

According to one "expert"

Imagine that, ships and shit get lost in a big deep lake.

Archae

(47,245 posts)

2. And like the "Bermuda Triangle," the fact that weckage actually IS found sometimes gets ignored.

Reply to progressoid (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 15, 2016, 06:56 PM

Mar 2016

Not to mention radio distress calls, people rescued, etc.

Charles Berlitz was notorious for twisting facts out of wack on the "Bermuda Triangle" and in a couple cases, simply making up ships and planes out of whole cloth.

PBS' "Nova" demolished that stupid legend of the "Bermuda Triangle."

yellowcanine

(36,596 posts)

3. The Chesapeake Bay Triangle is even less well known.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Fri May 6, 2016, 03:08 PM

May 2016

Probably because I just made it up.

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