Vincent Gaddis

Vincent Gaddis
Vincent Gaddis
Alias(es)	Ernst Groth
Born	28 December 1913 ; Miamiville, Clermont Co., Ohio
Died	26 February 1997 (83) ; Eureka, Humboldt Co., California
Nationality	American
Affiliations	Borderland Sciences (BSRA)
Known for	Bermuda Triangle, misc. Forteana
Spouse(s)	Margaret Paine Rea (m. 1947)

Vincent Hayes Gaddis (December 28, 1913 - February 26, 1997) was an American writer on Forteana and saucerian matters, noted in particular for his coinage of the term "Bermuda Triangle," in reference to a region of the North Atlantic, off the coast of Florida and near the Caribbean, cited as host to varied unusual phenomena and mysterious disappearances.

Selected Bibliography

Books

Gaddis, Vincent (1965), Invisible Horizons: True Mysteries of the Sea, New York: Chilton Books, https://amzn.to/2p8g4QR
Gaddis, Vincent (1967), Mysterious Fires and Lights, Philadelphia: D. McKay Co., https://amzn.to/2qHwAbz
Gaddis, Vincent (1967), Wide World of Magic, New York: Criterion Books, https://amzn.to/2pAdk28
Gaddis, Vincent; Gaddis, Margaret (1970), Strange World of Animals and Pets, New York: Cowles Book Co., https://amzn.to/2qBUmqu
Gaddis, Vincent; Gaddis, Margaret (1972), The Curious World of Twins, New York: Hawthorn Books, https://amzn.to/2q18v3e
Gaddis, Vincent (1977), American Indian Myths and Mysteries, Radnor, Pa.: Chilton Book Co., https://amzn.to/2pK23gf
Bradley, Nancy; Gaddis, Vincent (1990), Gold Rush Ghosts: Strange and Unexplained Phenomena in the Mother Lode, Garberville, Calif.: BSRF, https://amzn.to/2q1gcXm

Articles

Amazing Stories

Gaddis, Vincent (Dec. 1945), "Giants on the Earth", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Feb. 1946), Palmer, Ray, ed., "Tales from Tibet", Amazing Stories 20 (1): 170-172, https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v20n01_1946-02.Ziff_Daviscape1736/page/n169/mode/2up
Gaddis, Vincent (Feb. 1946), "Radio’s Strangest Mystery", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (May 1946), "Energy from Beyond", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (May 1946), "When Flesh Defies Fire", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Jul. 1946), "The Truth About Tibet", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Aug. 1946), "Puzzles from Earth’s Past", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Aug. 1946), "New Evidence for Atlantis", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Feb. 1947), "Strange Secrets of the Sea", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Mar. 1947), "Tomorrow’s Chemical Geniuses", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Jun. 1947), "Notes on Subterranean Shafts", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Jun. 1947), "Visitors from the Void", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Aug. 1947), Palmer, Ray, ed., "Tunnels of the Titans", Amazing Stories 21 (8): 162-167, https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v21n08_1947-08_cape1736/page/n163/mode/2up
Gaddis, Vincent (Jan. 1949), "Shaverian Sidelights", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Sep. 1949), "The Mystery of Magic Drugs", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Sep. 1949), "The Night the Stars Fell", Amazing Stories
Gaddis, Vincent (Jan. 1949), "Weird Wonders of the War", Amazing Stories

Fantastic Adventures

Gaddis, Vincent (Feb. 1946), "Medicine Man Magic", Fantastic Adventures
Gaddis, Vincent (Feb. 1946), "The Admiralty's Strangest Mystery", Fantastic Adventures
Gaddis, Vincent (Mar. 1947), "Career of a Cursed Car", Fantastic Adventures
Gaddis, Vincent (Jun. 1948), "The World’s Most Famous Illusion", Fantastic Adventures

FATE

as Ernst Groth

Groth, Ernst (Spring 1948), "Beyond the Etheric Veil", FATE 1 (1)
Groth, Ernst (Fall 1948), "Televised in Blood", FATE 1 (3)
Groth, Ernst (May 1949), "Music of the Spheres", FATE 2 (1)
Groth, Ernst (Sep. 1949), "Disease, the Greatest Horror of War", FATE 2 (3)

as Vincent Gaddis

Gaddis, Vincent (Spring 1948), "Radio's Strangest Mystery", FATE 1 (1)
Gaddis, Vincent (Spring 1948), "Wyoming's Ship of Death", FATE 1 (1)
Gaddis, Vincent (Summer 1948), "With Brain Destroyed - They Live and Think!", FATE 1 (2)
Gaddis, Vincent (Fall 1948), "America's Most Famous Ghost Story", FATE 1 (3)
Gaddis, Vincent (Fall 1948), "Hollywood Superstitions", FATE 1 (3)
Gaddis, Vincent (May 1949), "Caravan of the Lost", FATE 2 (1)
Gaddis, Vincent (July 1949), "Valentino, Was His Death Foretold?", FATE 2 (2)
Gaddis, Vincent (July 1949), "Men of Mystery: Morgan Robertson", FATE 2 (2)
Gaddis, Vincent (Mar. 1950), "Cape Cod's Strangest Mystery", FATE 3 (2)
Gaddis, Vincent (May 1950), "The House That Spirits Built", FATE 3 (3) — on the Winchester House of San Jose, Ca.
Gaddis, Vincent (Jan. 1951), "The Phantom Priest of Bel", FATE 4 (1)
Gaddis, Vincent (Mar. 1951), "From the Mouths of Babes", FATE 4 (2)
Gaddis, Vincent (Mar. 1951), "The Marlborough Mystery (1890)", FATE 4 (2)
Gaddis, Vincent (Mar. 1951), "Mystery of the Mystified Magician", FATE 4 (2)
Gaddis, Vincent (Apr. 1951), "Electrical Ghosts", FATE 4 (3)
Gaddis, Vincent (Apr. 1951), "Puzzle of the Pigmy Flints", FATE 4 (3)
Gaddis, Vincent (July 1951), "Nan Matol, Fortress of a Lost Race", FATE 4 (5) — on Nan Matol, Pohnpei (Ponape) in the Caroline Islands (today part of the Federated States of Micronesia)
Gaddis, Vincent (Sep. 1953), "Psychic Detective", FATE 6 (9) — on Arthur Roberts
Gaddis, Vincent (May 1958), "Fourth Dimensional Homicide", FATE 11 (5)
Gaddis, Vincent (Aug. 1963), "Mystery of Houdini's Death", FATE 16 (8)
Gaddis, Vincent (Jan. 1973), "Ships That Sailed the Desert", FATE 26 (1)
Gaddis, Vincent (Jun. 1973), "The Face on the Kitchen Floor", FATE 26 (6)

Other Periodicals

Gaddis, Vincent (Feb. 1964), "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle", Argosy (New York: Popular Pub.)
Gaddis, Vincent (May 1965), "The Ghost That Rode No. 1706", Argosy (New York: Popular Pub.)
Gaddis, Vincent (Jul. 1969), "Mentalist Becomes Mystic", Beyond (Hicksville, N.Y.: Beyond Inc.) 2 (11)
Gaddis, Vincent; Gaddis, Margaret (Jul. 1972), "Twin Natural Telepathists", Psychic (San Francisco, Cal.: Psychic Inc.) 3 (6)
Gaddis, Vincent (May/Jun. 1974), "The Town That Died Accursed", Beyond Reality (New York, NY: Beyond Reality Magazine, Inc.) (9): 26-27, 44, https://archive.org/details/Beyond_Reality_No_9/page/n25/mode/2up — re: Jacksonboro, Georgia
Gaddis, Vincent (May 1975), "When TV Tunes to Another Dimension", Probe the Unknown (Los Angeles, Cal.: Rainbow Publications) 3 (2)
Gaddis, Vincent (Oct. 1975), "UFO Theories: Outer Space Animals - Fish of the Atmospheric Sea", Official UFO (New York: Countrywide Pub.) 1 (3)
Gaddis, Vincent (Mar. 1976), "The Strange Visitor of the Hopi Indians", Ancient Astronauts (New York: Countrywide Pub.) 1 (2)
Gaddis, Vincent (May 1976), "Human Lightning Rods", Probe the Unknown (Los Angeles, Cal.: Rainbow Publications) 4 (3)

References

↑ "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q236-9RPY : 23 December 2016), Vincent Hayes Gaddis, 28 Dec 1913; citing Birth, Miamiville, Clermont, Ohio, United States, county courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 327,585.
↑ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGTF-8MG : 26 November 2014), Vincent Hayes Gaddis, 26 Feb 1997; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.

[1] "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q236-9RPY : 23 December 2016), Vincent Hayes Gaddis, 28 Dec 1913; citing Birth, Miamiville, Clermont, Ohio, United States, county courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 327,585.

[2] "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGTF-8MG : 26 November 2014), Vincent Hayes Gaddis, 26 Feb 1997; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.

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