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Charles Frambach Berlitz (November 22, 1914 – December 18, 2003) was an American polyglot, language teacher and writer, known for his language-learning courses and his books on paranormal phenomena.
He began working for the family language school, The Berlitz School of Languages, during college breaks. The publishing house, of which he was vice president, sold, among other things, tourist phrase books and pocket dictionaries, several of which he authored. He also played a key role in developing record and tape language courses. He left the company in the late 1960s, not long after he sold the company to publishing firm Crowell, Collier & Macmillan. He graduated Latin honors from Yale University.See section on Charles Berlitz in Encyclopedia of occultism & parapsychology, Lewis Spence, Nandor Fodor, Gale Research Inc, 1991.
Berlitz was a writer on paranormal phenomena. He wrote a number of books on Atlantis. In his book The Mystery of Atlantis, he claimed Atlantis was real, based on his interpretation of geophysics, psychic studies, classical literature, tribal lore, and archeology. New Scientist Mar 11, 1976 He also attempted to link the Bermuda Triangle to Atlantis.Palmer, Trevor. Perilous planet Earth: catastrophes and catastrophism through the ages, 2003, p. 316. He claimed to have located Atlantis undersea in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. He was also an ancient astronaut proponent who believed that extraterrestrials had visited Earth.Childress, David H. Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients, 1999 p. 43.
Berlitz spent 13 years on active duty in the U.S. Army, mostly in intelligence. In 1950, he married Valerie Seary, with whom he had two children, a daughter Lin, and son, Marc. He died in 2003 at the age of 89 at University Hospital in Tamarac, Florida.
Larry Kusche has accused Berlitz of fabricating evidence and inventing mysteries that have no basis in fact.Brian Regal. (2009). Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia. Greenwood. p. 37. "Bermuda (or "Devil's") Triangle". The Skeptic's Dictionary.
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