Wikimedia Commons hosts a media category for Fel Vortexes. International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2005. Sometimes no record of the ship could be found, because the ship never existed.īerlitz, Charles. In other cases, the locations of the dips were changed to match the location of the vortex. Some sank in storms, although vortex writers claimed the weather was normal at the time.
Sanderson first coined the term, Vile Vortices 1 in his article The Twelve Devil’s Graveyards Around the World (Saga magazine, 1972). Sanderson, a naturalist and paranormal investigator. Frequently, he found that "mysteriously missing" ships had been lost to more earthly causes (see, for example, SS Raifuku Maru). By definition, the Vile Vortices would be miserable whirlers but actually they are twelve vertex points of a planetary grid (see Figure 1) originally plotted by Ivan T. He reviewed original records of the alleged incidents.
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Paul Begg, in a series of articles for The Unexplained magazine, criticized the writers' methodology on the subject of unexplained disappearances. The idea has been picked up by other writers on paranormal phenomena, who argue that the vortices are connected to "spiritual energy", "ley lines", or "electromagnetic aberrations". The other two are the North and South poles. Five of the vortices are at the same latitude south of the equator five are at the same north latitude. Other authors include the Algerian megaliths south of Timbuktu, the Indus Valley in Pakistan, especially the city of Mohenjo-Daro, the Hamakulia volcano in Hawaii, the "Devil's Sea" near Japan, and the South Atlantic Anomaly. Sanderson collected and studied reports of the curious and uncanny from all over the world. The best known of the so-called "vortices" is the Bermuda Triangle. In this article he identified 12 key locations around the world where various anomalies have been reported such as the mysterious disappearances of ships and aeroplanes. Sanderson asserts that the twelve "vortices" are situated along particular lines of latitude. In 1972 Ivan Sanderson, a paranormal writer, published an article called 'The Twelve Devil's Graveyards Around the World. None of the vortexes is recognized by the navigators and inhabitants of the corresponding place. However, none of these cases (including the Bermuda Triangle) have been shown to have any mysterious features.Ĭlaims regarding its mystery are not taken seriously in the scientific community. 13 Ten of Ivan Sanderson's 12 vortices set at regular intervals around the. He identified them in the article "The Twelve Devil's Graveyards Around the World", published in 1972 in Saga magazine. The Vile Vortices is a term referring to twelve geographic areas or twelve.
Fel Vortexes are twelve supposed places in the world where unexplained disappearances happen, according to Ivan T.