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EPISODE · Jun 5, 2026 · 27 MIN

Bennington Triangle: Five Vanishings Explored Triangle: Five Vanishings Explored

from Snarkives: The Fire · host Professor Angie Bouma PhD

Between 1945 and 1950, five people disappeared in the wilderness of southwestern Vermont near Glastenbury Mountain. A 74-year-old hunting guide who knew the area well. An 18-year-old college student in a red coat. A 68-year-old veteran on a bus. An eight-year-old boy. A 53-year-old hiker taking a shortcut to camp. None of them came back. In 1992, a writer named Joseph Citro called it the Bennington Triangle. The cases are still open.   If you want to help keep the lights on, Moxie in treats, and me caffeinated enough to keep posting episodes, you can toss a few dollars in the tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/snarkives    Sources Joseph A. Citro, Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996). Bennington Banner, November 1945; December 1946; October and November 1950. Burlington Free Press, December 1949. Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (New York: Liveright, 2016). Tyler Resch, Glastenbury: The History of a Vermont Ghost Town (Charleston: History Press, 2009). Sharon A. Hill, "Bennington Triangle Cases," Doubtful News, doubtfulnews.com. Vermont State Police, institutional history and Welden case records, available at vtrooper.com.    

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Between 1945 and 1950, five people disappeared in the wilderness of southwestern Vermont near Glastenbury Mountain. A 74-year-old hunting guide who knew the area well. An 18-year-old college student in a red coat. A 68-year-old veteran on a bus. An eight-year-old boy. A 53-year-old hiker taking a shortcut to camp. None of them came back. In 1992, a writer named Joseph Citro called it the Bennington Triangle. The cases are still open.   If you want to help keep the lights on, Moxie in treats, and me caffeinated enough to keep posting episodes, you can toss a few dollars in the tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/snarkives    Sources Joseph A. Citro, Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996). Bennington Banner, November 1945; December 1946; October and November 1950. Burlington Free Press, December 1949. Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (New York: Liveright, 2016). Tyler Resch, Glastenbury: The History of a Vermont Ghost Town (Charleston: History Press, 2009). Sharon A. Hill, "Bennington Triangle Cases," Doubtful News, doubtfulnews.com. Vermont State Police, institutional history and Welden case records, available at vtrooper.com.

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