# Kusche 1975: The Bermuda Triangle: A Librarian's Pursuit of Excellence

> Lawrence D. Kusche, 1975. 9 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The investigator's own statement of method and findings.

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# The Bermuda Triangle: A Librarian's Pursuit of Excellence

Lawrence D. Kusche, 1975. _North Carolina Libraries 33(4)_.

The text of a 1975 talk by the Arizona State University reference librarian who traced every Triangle case to contemporary sources. He reports that almost all incidents have ordinary explanations once researched; the few left unexplained are those for which no information exists; some vessels were never known to have vanished in the area; many incidents were not considered mysterious at the time and were misreported years later; and disappearances happen everywhere but only those in the Triangle are publicised. He calls it "a manufactured mystery".

**Bermuda Triangle** Articledoi: **[10.3776/ncl.v33i4.3125](https://doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v33i4.3125)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The investigator's own statement of method and findings.

## The document 8 pages

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## Cited by on this site 9 records

[Most cases are ordinary, and the residue is unexplained only because no information about them exists.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bermuda-triangle/answers/ANS0D6676EP7Z70/most-cases-are-ordinary-and-the-residue-is-unexplained-only)

Answer

ANS

[Kusche found logical explanations for almost all incidents once researched.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bermuda-triangle/evidence/EVD0D6675Q811PT/kusche-found-logical-explanations-for-almost-all-incidents)

Evidence

EVD

[Kusche found the mysterious details came from later retellings.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bermuda-triangle/evidence/EVD0D6677DY7F1B/kusche-found-the-mysterious-details-came-from-later)

Evidence

EVD

[Kusche reports that the few unsolved incidents are those for which no information can be found.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bermuda-triangle/evidence/EVD0D6676PG6Z1N/kusche-reports-that-the-few-unsolved-incidents-are-those-for)

Evidence

EVD

[Many incidents were not considered mysterious when they occurred and became so when misreported years later.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bermuda-triangle/evidence/EVD0D6675Z23DAA/many-incidents-were-not-considered-mysterious-when-they)

Evidence

EVD

[The case lists behind the claim include incidents that occurred elsewhere, were not known to occur in the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bermuda-triangle/evidence/EVD0D6674R04JFS/the-case-lists-behind-the-claim-include-incidents-that)

Evidence

EVD

[Lawrence David Kusche](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bermuda-triangle/people/FIG0D666Y5245G2/lawrence-david-kusche)

FIG

[The Bermuda Triangle](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bermuda-triangle)

The mystery article

MYS

[Do the famous cases have ordinary explanations?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bermuda-triangle/questions/QST0D6671T86AM0/do-the-famous-cases-have-ordinary-explanations)

Question

QST

## Cite it

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Kusche, L. D. (1975). The Bermuda Triangle: A Librarian's Pursuit of Excellence. North Carolina Libraries 33(4). https://doi.org/10.3776/ncl.v33i4.3125
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