The Bennington Triangle: Vermont's Vanishing People Explained

Between 1945 and 1950, five unconnected people, from an eight-year-old boy to a 74-year-old woodsman, vanished into the same pocket of southwestern Vermont wilderness. The cluster fueled decades of supernatural legend about a place later dubbed the Bennington Triangle.This episode separates the real true-crime and missing-persons cases from the folklore that swallowed them, examining how confirmation bias and the desolate terrain of abandoned logging towns turned tragedy into a paranormal myth. Each disappearance, it turns out, has a grounded human explanation.How the unincorporation of Glastonbury and Somerset left desolate ghost towns and unforgiving terrain around Glastonbury MountainThe cases of expert woodsman Middie Rivers and college student Paula Welldon, whose only common thread was geographyHow the James Tedford bus mystery dissolves once you account for a week-long reporting gap by the soldiers homeGrounded explanations for the others: a possible hit-and-run, camouflaging clothing, and a seizure disorder in freezing waterThe 2008 survivor case proving the area is rugged and indifferent terrain, not a supernatural vortex