Society Lore
Find out more about the society, and its origins.
The Real Story of the Society*
No one can say with certainty when the Bermuda Triangle Society first came into being. The earliest surviving references appear in scattered journals from the late nineteenth century, though even those entries speak of the Society as if it had already existed for many years. Whether it began as a formal organization or simply as a correspondence between readers, librarians, sailors, and scholars has long since been forgotten.
What remains consistent throughout every surviving account is its purpose. The Society did not seek to explain the strange, nor to prove it beyond doubt. Instead, it quietly gathered stories, eyewitness accounts, forgotten manuscripts, and curious books that seemed to brush against the edges of the unknown. Most were ultimately explained. A few resisted every attempt. Those were carefully preserved.
Leadership of the Society has traditionally fallen to an Archivist, whose responsibility extends beyond maintaining the collection. Each Archivist inherits the accumulated notes, annotations, and private observations of their predecessors, adding their own before passing the Archive to the next keeper. Much has been lost over the years through fire, storms, neglect, and deliberate destruction, leaving only fragments of the earliest records.
The Society’s surviving register identifies only three confirmed Archivists. The First Archivist is recorded simply as A. Mercer, whose full identity has never been established. The Second Archivist, Elias Thorne, is credited with reorganizing the collection after several significant losses and introducing the cataloging practices that remain in use today. The current custodian of the Archive serves as the Third Archivist, continuing the work of preserving and discussing unusual accounts for those willing to look beyond the ordinary.
Among the oldest traditions of the Society is a simple warning, repeated in countless margins and handwritten notes throughout the Archive:
“Curiosity is welcome. Certainty is discouraged.”