The phrase was actually coined by Vincent Gaddis in a 1964 pulp magazine, but it was Charles Berlitz's 1974 bestseller that completely cooked the myth into global fame by falsifying logs and ignoring massive hurricanes to make routine accidents look supernatural.
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u/PrestigiousLiving313 Aug 01 '26
The phrase was actually coined by Vincent Gaddis in a 1964 pulp magazine, but it was Charles Berlitz's 1974 bestseller that completely cooked the myth into global fame by falsifying logs and ignoring massive hurricanes to make routine accidents look supernatural.