evidence: It was 2015 and fake news was a still-mostly-undetected virus spreading through social media. In September, a particularly absurd story made the rounds on Facebook: "BERMUDA TRIANGLE: SHIP REAPPEARS 90 YEARS AFTER GOING MISSING" read the headline from WorldNewsDailyReport.com, accompanied by a photo of a rusty boat floating off the coast of Cuba. The story, which claimed Cuban authorities had intercepted the ship which had somehow been floating around undetected for a century, was shared thousands of times on Facebook, reaching hundreds of thousands of users, according to social monitoring platform CrowdTangle. The story claimed the ghost ship was the S.S. Cotopaxi, a real coal ship that went missing on November 29, 1925 while traveling from Charleston to Havana with 3,800 tons of coal and 32 passengers. The disappearance contributed to the enduring myth of the Bermuda Triangle—the section of the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico blamed for dozens of disappearances. (In Steven Spielberg’s 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Cotopaxi somehow winds up in the Gobi Desert—perfectly in tact—after going missing in the Bermuda Triangle.) The mystery of the Cotopaxi has been one of the more famous Bermuda Triangle tales even though its only appearances since 1925 have been fictional. But as that 2015 story spread across the Internet, one man knew exactly where the S.S. Cotopaxi was. The ship had been, it turns out, hiding in plain site the whole time.