Back when, through the ’70s, the Bermuda Triangle is raging anger, several writers have argued that the region of legend missing aircraft and ships has its counterpart somewhere off the coast of south and southeast of Japan – space which was named “Sea Devil” – where disappearances would have happened so suddenly that ships and aircraft involved did not even have time to launch a single signal and help.

As with the Bermuda Triangle have been made all sorts of theoretical speculation on the reasons which caused the disappearances: abnormalities of space and time, or magnetic or gravitational origin, or – according to the theory proposed by Ivan T. Sanderson – a raceunderwater on Earth. It also stated that the Japanese government was alarmed because of this situation.

After a period during which time her fame was maintained scandal newspapers and magazines and books with sensational nature, Sea Devil became the subject of the first research conducted to clear up the legend, action initiated by Larry Kusch, Arizona State University librarian. Kusch has established that early legend dates back 27 and September 30, 1952, data from the New York Times reported unusual disaster, when two Japanese vessels sank in the ocean because waves caused by an undersea volcano known. On January 15, 1955, the same newspaper informed about another shipping disaster, using the term “Great Satan” that qualify as “mysterious cemetery of nine ships in recent five years.

In the first years after 1979, Kusch made an intense exchange of letters with officials from Japan and adjacent islands. Nobody ever heard the term “Great Satan“, in contrast, all officials argued that diving was not mysterious or unexplained. Absence call in radio in some cases occurred in the early 1950s was due simply to the fact that many owners did not have poor vessels transceiver stations.

In 1975, Kusch concludes by writing: “The story is based only on the loss of some fishing boats, twenty years ago, on a strip of 750 miles in the ocean, the spell of 5 years. The story was repeated so often that eventually was accepted as fact. “