Bennington Triangle
An area of southwestern Vermont, centered on Glastenbury Mountain, within which a cluster of people went missing between 1945 and 1950 — a string of disappearances later popularized by author Joseph A. Citro.
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Origin Story
Between 1945 and 1950, several people vanished without explanation in the rugged, sparsely populated terrain around Glastenbury Mountain in southwestern Vermont, including 18-year-old Bennington College student Paula Jean Welden in December 1946. Writer Joseph A. Citro later grouped these cases together and coined the "Bennington Triangle" name in the 1990s.
Evidence & Claims
Several of the disappearances, including Welden's, were never solved despite extensive searches, and local folklore had already described the area's woods as unsettling well before the 1940s cases, drawing on older Native American and settler-era stories about the mountain.
Skeptical Explanations
The region's dense, disorienting forest, harsh winter weather, and genuinely difficult search terrain are cited by historians as a sufficient mundane explanation for several unrelated disappearances becoming linked together in retrospect under a single dramatic name.
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Sources
- Bennington Triangle— Wikipediasecondary