Story Claims 90-Year-Old Bermuda Triangle Ship Washed Up In Cuba

The legend of the Bermuda Triangle is as complex as it is hard to believe. Depending on who you ask, the Caribbean seaway has lost an ever-expanding list of ships and planes to such menaces as UFOs and cranky Atlanteans who wish the passing traffic would stop disturbing them while they tend to their octopus gardens.

The problem with this legend is that so many writers want to get in on it. Many have invented ships out of whole cloth to meet their end in the infamous triangle. I guess it is pretty easy for a ship to be lost if it never existed in the first place. When the dust settled, however, it always turns out that the main culprit for the area's many shipwrecks is simply the amount of traffic that goes through there. When enough ships go through somewhere, the law of averages dictates that some of them are going to sink.

Still, there's excitement to be found when one actually does come back from the brink of oblivion. At least, that's what the World News Daily Report excitedly claimed about the 90-year disappearance of the SS Cotopaxi.

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It's only one of many lost ships, but the SS Cotopaxi was surprisingly popular.

Back in 1977, Steven Spielberg featured the doomed ship in Close Encounters of The Third Kind, where those wacky extraterrestrials apparently got bored of it and dropped it in the Gobi Desert.

The new claim, however, has located it in a Cuban military zone with authorities excitedly reporting they found the tramp steamer.

The ship seemed to be taking its time since it set out for Cuba back in 1926.

Back then, the crew reported taking on water in the hold so it was very neighborly of those Atlanteans to fix that up for them.

So how did they know it was really the SS Cotopaxi?

Apparently, Cuban expert Rodolfo Salvador Cruz was on hand to look through the logbook and he said it was authentic. What he was an expert of, exactly, they didn't bother to say.

Yeah, this is where their report gets a little fishy. Ha! I kill me.

That man I showed you just now isn't a Cuban expert reading a logbook. He's actually a British man named Lee Smale who's reading something completely unrelated.

Sorry, but it turns out that story never happened.

We still don't know where the SS Cotopaxi is, but based on its last messages, it probably just sank. 

So this is quite a black eye on the World News Daily Report, right?

Not really, they're actually a fake news site that spreads fake news stories on social media. There's a disclaimer on their site saying their articles are works of satire.

One of their past fake stories concerned an "eyewitness" account of the miracles of Jesus.

It turns out the document was really an ancient collection of Roman military letters called the Vindolanda tablets.

Another mentioned an ancient 15-ton shark caught by Pakistani fishermen.

This would have been really cool, but yeah. It's bogus too. 

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