I don’t get why people spend so much time and effort trying to explain away things that are past explaining. People trying to work out why the Mary Rose sank, that’s bad enough when you’ve got the actual wreck to examine. But explaining the Bermuda Triangle without anything more than second hand accounts of unreliable aircraft is silly. You might as well try explaining the Marie Celeste.

That I might just be thinking that because of the book I’ve just finished. The lengths that people go to to prove extraordinarily silly hypotheses is something shocking…