The Bennington Triangle
We've all heard of the Bermuda Triangle, that period of water between Bermuda, Miami and San Juan that seems to suck up ships and planes periodically. Strange triangles don't rely solely on water to power them, though. During the 1940's and 1950's, an area near Glastenbury Mountain in southern Vermont acquired the nickname of the Bennington Triangle for some of the strange things that were happening within it. The area used to be the site of burial places to Native Americans, who felt that the place was cursed. It has always been plagued with alleged UFO sightings, strange lights and the occasional glimpse of mysterious creatures, but in the 40's and 50's events took an ominous turn when people started disappearing. Some were hiking along trails ahead of others when they suddenly turned a corner and disappeared. Children playing outside their houses vanished. In the strangest episode of all, James E. Tetford boarded a bus in St. Albans and disappeared before reaching Bennington. People questioned had seen him sleeping on the bus, but when it pulled into Bennington all of his stuff was still on the seat, but Tetford had vanished, never to be seen again.
Was it the work of a serial killer? Possible, although serial killers tend to target one particular kind of victim, and the missing during this period included men, women and children. A monster perhaps, preying on people? Those pesky aliens? Whatever it was, 10 people in all had seemingly fallen off the face of the Earth when the disappearances finally stopped in the 50's. An article from Davy Russell for X-Project Paranormal Magazine goes into a lot more detail about each of the disappearances and the theories behind them.
