THE SECRETS OF THE BENNINGTON TRIANGLE: MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES

The Bennington Triangle "Bennington Triangle" is a phrase coined by New England author Joseph A. Citro to indicate an area of ​​Southwestern Vermont within which several people have disappeared.

Frieda Langer disappeared on October 28, 1950. Like dozens of others before her, Frieda disappeared completely as if the stellar enterprise had radiated her.

To stay in touch and receive our latest news

On that autumn day, Frieda and her cousin set off walking from their desert camp near Glastenbury Mountain.

The sun shone near the horizon and the air had a pungent taste for the coming winter. Everything seemed normal and peaceful until Frieda abruptly vanished from the wooded track.

Despite several searches of the area by thumb, no trace of the young woman has been found. Then seven months later her body appeared, lying on the track from which she had disappeared. He wore the same clothes, the body had not decomposed and no cause of death could be determined.

It was as if a shed had fallen dead from shock ten minutes earlier, a police chief said at the time. Nobody saw where it came from, nobody saw where it came from. It's disturbing.

At least in the end Frieda is back, even if dead. In most other cases in the Bennington triangle, victims have never been found. They have disappeared from their gardens, from their beds, from petrol stations, from huts. One man, James Tetford, even went missing while sitting on a bus.

That disappearance, on December 1, 1949, involved a highly skeptical man who had always mocked the idea of ​​something supernatural. If he has changed his mind we will never know.

After visiting relatives in St Albans on a freezing afternoon, Mr. Tetford boarded his return bus for the journey to Bennington, where he lived in the soldiers' house. There were another 14 passengers on the bus on his way to Bennington and all testified that they saw the ex-soldier dozing sitting in his seat.

However, when the bus arrived at its destination five minutes later, Mr. Tetford had disappeared. His belongings remained in the trunk and a calendar was open on the seat where he had been sitting. There was no trace of the man himself. It has never been seen since.

His disappearance came three years after an equally strange disappearance. Eighteen-year-old student Paula Welden set off for a walk on the Long Trail on Glastenbury Mountain, followed by a middle-aged couple 100 meters away.

What happened to Paula Jean Welden?
The couple saw Paula follow the path around a rocky outcrop and out of their sight. By the time they reached the spur, she was gone and no one has seen or heard her since. It had become yet another statistic of the Bennington triangle.

The youngest known victim of the Triangle was eight-year-old Paul Jepson, whose disappearance occurred 16 days before that of hiker Frieda Langer.

Paul's mother, a caretaker, happily let him play outside a pigsty while he went inside to take care of the animals. By the time he surfaced, the boy had disappeared and, as in most other cases, no trace of him has ever been found despite extensive research.

In 1975, a man named Jackson Wright was driving with his wife from New Jersey to New York City. This required them to travel through the Lincoln Tunnel. According to Wright, who was driving, once he got through the tunnel, he pulled the car to clean the condensation windshield.

His wife Martha volunteered to clean the rear window so she could resume the trip more easily. When Wright turned, his wife was gone. He did not hear or see anything unusual happen, and a subsequent investigation found no evidence of a foul. Martha Wright had just disappeared.

So where did these and many other people go, and why did this seemingly harmless part of America near the Canadian border become the center of sinister activity?

Nobody has an answer to either question, but it seems that the malignant reputation of the areas dates back to a long time ago. It is known, for example, that in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries Native Americans avoided the Glastenbury desert, believing it to be haunted by evil spirits. They only used it as a burial place.

According to the native legend, all four winds met something there that favored experiences out of this world. The natives even believed that the desert contained an enchanted stone that would swallow everything that passed.

Only superstition? This is what the first white settlers thought and what they kept thinking until their friends and families started disappearing.