Case file · High strangeness
SS Cotopaxi
The freighter Cotopaxi left Charleston on 29 November 1925 and vanished with 32 crew, becoming a 'Bermuda Triangle' mystery; Steven Spielberg had it reappear in the Gobi in 'Close Encounters'.
1925 CE · 29.97, -80.97 · status: explained
The account
Its radio messages reported a storm and a leak. In 2020 marine biologists identified a wreck off St. Augustine, Florida, as the Cotopaxi.
The sceptical view
It sank in a storm; no mystery remains.