Bennington Triangle

"Bennington Triangle" is a phrase coined by American author Joseph A. Citro to denote an area of southwestern Vermont within which a number of people went missing between 1945 and 1950.

[2][3] The first disappearance occurred on November 12, 1945, when 74-year-old Middie Rivers vanished while hunting in Bickford Hollow, about four miles west of Bennington and north of Vermont Route 9 near Woodford.

[6] A search party leader anticipated finding Rivers' remains, noting that numerous people has been lost in the region in recent decades but all had eventually been recovered.

Welden, a freshman at Bennington College, left campus early in the afternoon, walking and hitchhiking six miles to the Long Trail which, at that time, crossed Route 9 near Harbour Road.

[22] Authorities initially focused their search on the dump and surrounding woods, but a bloodhound later tracked Jepson’s scent along an adjacent road to an intersection where the trail abruptly ended.

A skilled hiker and hunter, Langer had accompanied her husband, Max, and cousin, Herbert Elsner, that morning from their home in North Adams to the family cabin on the shores of Somerset Reservoir.

[26] On May 12, 1951, fishermen found Langer's body three and a half miles southeast from the campsite on the shore of eastern branch of the Deerfield River in an area that had been only lightly searched previously.

While no cause of death could be determined because of the condition of her remains, an investigator theorized that Langer had fallen down an embankment into a deep pond where she drowned and her body had then been flushed out months later by a spring freshet.

The episode, title "Unnatural World" told the stories about the reportedly missing persons in a five-year span, and local lore of the "Bennington Monster", a Bigfoot-like creature that supposedly roams these wooded areas.