Spooky Bennington Triangle: Vermont

Spooky Bennington Triangle: Vermont
Paul Dale Roberts, HPI’s Esoteric Detective / Wish Fire, Psychic Medium
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When Wish Fire aka Deanna Jaxine Stinson and I, went on vacation to Boston, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, we tried to stop at every known haunted location. We went to the Lizzie Borden House; Harvard (yes, Harvard is haunted), Salem, MA and the Bennington Triangle in Vermont. The Bennington Triangle is another strange place where people disappear and there is no trace of them. When we were in Boston, we did a small promo for our local news station, you can see that here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4zps1_73U

Joseph A. Citro, an American author coined the phrase Bennington Triangle after the disappearances of several people from 1945 to 1950. The disappearances are just plain weird. A lot of people compare the Bennington Triangle to Bridgewater Triangle in Southeastern Massachusetts. There have even been sightings in the Triangle of a Bigfoot creature, that they call the Bennington Monster. The Bennington Triangle is centered on Glastenbury Mountain. There are towns near the Triangle that used to be successful logging towns. Those logging towns went in decline and became ghost towns towards the latter part of the 19th century.

Let’s talk about some of the disappearances at the Triangle. The first one happened on November 12, 1945. 74-year-old Middie Rivers, an experienced hunter and outdoorsman was walking around the vicinity of Long Trail Road and Vermont Route 9. Rivers was on a weekend hunting trip with four other hunters up in the mountains. Rivers and his son-in-law Joe Lauzon were walking together. They then split up at a crossroads. Rivers decided to take the shorter route back to camp. Rivers never showed up at the camp. An extensive search was conducted, but the only evidence discovered was a single rifle cartridge that was found in a stream. To this day, there has been no trace of Rivers. It would almost seem like he vanished.

Law enforcement authorities mentioned that the missing people of the Triangle have wide ranges of age and gender, it is thought that the possibility of them being victims of a serial killer is unlikely. Locals have come up with some paranormal explanations. Some of those explanations are that they have been abducted by UFOs/Aliens. They vanished in an interdimensional wormhole, they went into a time slip or they were attacked by the “Bennington Monster.” The trails from the Triangle stop partially up the mountain, suggesting that no one goes up there. When you walk into the woodlands of Glastenbury Mountain you don’t hear anything. You don’t hear birds chirping, squirrels chattering, crickets, nothing. It’s almost like the animals don’t dare venture in this area. There have been several UFO/UAP sightings in and around Glastenbury Mountain and the trails inside Bennington Triangle.

Notable Missing People:
On December 1, 1946, we have Paula Welden who disappeared in the Triangle. She was 18 years old and a sophomore at Bennington College. She set out for a hike on the Long Trail and several people saw her on the trail. An elderly couple was hiking behind her. The elderly couple was no more than 100 yards behind her. According to the elderly couple, she turned a corner on the trail, and when they reached the same corner, she had disappeared. An extensive search was conducted, which included the posting of a $5,000 reward and help from the FBI, but no evidence of her was ever found. The Welden disappearance does not make any sense. How can someone just vanish like that, especially when she had an elderly couple hiking behind her, only a mere 100 yards behind? According to the FBI, this case is baffling. Then we have James E. Tedford, a veteran who went missing on December 1, 1949. Tedford got on a public bus and was still aboard at the last stop before arriving in Bennington. Somewhere between the last stop and Bennington, he vanished. Yes, he actually vanished inside a moving public bus! His belongings were still in the luggage rack and an open bus timetable was on his vacant seat. Where did Tedford go? Another case is Paul Jepson who disappeared on October 12, 1950. Jepson was a special needs child, age 8. He was left a few minutes inside a truck while his mother fed some pigs. When she came back, he was gone.

The last two cases are Frieda Langer who vanished on October 28, 1950. She was 53 years old. She was hiking with her cousin and slipped in the creek. She tells her cousin to stay at the spot and she would hurry down to their campsite and change clothes and that they can continue their hike. The distance from the camp to where she fell in the creek was a very short distance. When Frieda didn’t show up, her cousin went to the campsite and learned she never arrived at the campsite. On May 12, 1951, Frieda Langer’s body was found three and a half miles from the campsite in the eastern branch of the Deerfield River, an area that had been only lightly searched seven months previously. No cause of death could be determined because of the condition of her remains.

Hikers who have walked the trails at dusk, claim that they sometimes see strange orbs hovering about and strange lights in the sky. One hiker we talked with said that on one particular day when he was hiking, he was followed by a strange yellowish orb. He was able to see the orb through the trees. The orb seemed like it was under intelligent control and would dart behind the trees, like it was hiding. The hiker got on his cell phone and was directly looking at the orb. As soon as the hiker got on the phone, the orb vanished, it simply blinked out. The hiker told us that he will never do hikes in this area by himself. He doesn’t want to be a “missing” hiker.

More High Strangeness at the Bennington Triangle
There have been several plane crashes that have occurred along the Long Trail between 1944 and 1973. Some of the high-profile crashes were a B-24 Liberator bomber crash in 1944, a two-engine aircraft crash in 1969, and a Cessna crash in 1973. The wreckage can still be seen near the trail. Hikers have claimed that at times the ghosts of these pilots are seen walking along the trail. The Abenaki people, who once inhabited the region, believe that the Glastonbury Mountain is cursed. The Abenaki people say the cursed mountain is haunted by an evil spirit known as the Stone Man aka the Glastonbury Giant. Legend has it that this entity brings misfortune to those who venture into his domain. The Abenaki will not set foot on the mountain. The only way that they would set foot on the mountain is to bury their dead. As mentioned before, the Bennington Triangle has been a hotspot for UFO sightings and strange lights, particularly during the 1960s and 1990s. Reports often describe glowing orbs, disc-shaped objects, and triangular craft moving silently through the sky or hovering above the treetops before vanishing suddenly. Many locals believe that these UFOs/UAPs disappear into portals. Wish Fire felt a vibrational energy at the Bennington Triangle and felt this energy could be dangerous.

One of the most notable and fascinating UFO encounters happened at the Buff Ledge Camp in 1968. According to the account, 16-year-old Michael Lapp and his 19-year-old camp counselor, Janet Cornell, witnessed a cigar-shaped object from which three smaller craft emerged. The two claimed to have experienced telepathic communication with two figures that appeared in the craft’s dome, who stated they were not going to hurt the people and that they were on a mission on Earth to obtain a type of energy. The incident, which involved a beam of light and missing time, was investigated by UFO researcher Walter Webb, who spent five years attempting to unravel the truth behind the Buff Ledge Camp case.