Vincent Gaddis

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Vincent Hayes Gaddis (born December 28, 1913 in Ohio , † June 14, 1997 in Eureka (California) ) was an American reporter and author.

He worked as a newspaper reporter and 1947-1952 for a radio station in Warsaw (Indiana) . He also provided short stories to SF writer Raymond A. Palmer . 1952-1959 he was a columnist for the daily Elkhart Truth in Elkhart (Indiana) . He then did public relations work for the Studebaker-Packard Corporation and Mercedes-Benz in South Bend (Indiana) . From 1962 he was a freelance writer.

In February 1964 he published the article The Deadly Bermuda Triangle in Pulp magazine Argosy about 20 cases of missing planes and ships. It later became famous through Charles Berlitz .

Works

  • Ghost ships. The Bermuda Triangle and other unsolved riddles of the seas , Munich (Heyne) 1976. ISBN 3-453-00634-8

Web links

  1. http://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/BermudaTriangle/vincentgaddis.txt