The Bennington Triangle
Between November 1945 and October 1950, five people disappeared in and around Glastenbury Mountain in Bennington County, Vermont. The area is dense, dark and largely uninhabited. A former logging town named Glastenbury was abandoned in the 1930s. The disappearances ranged from an 18 year old on a hunting trip to a 74 year old found dead in an area searchers had already covered twice. The writer Joseph Citro named the zone the Bennington Triangle in 1992. The disappearances had stopped forty two years earlier with no explanation.
The disappearances
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"Five people in five years in a small mountain area. And then nothing. Whatever it was, it stopped.
"Joseph Citro
The Abenaki people considered Glastenbury Mountain cursed land and avoided it. The abandoned logging town adds to the area's documented history of being left alone by those who knew it.
Frieda Langer's body was recovered, but badly decomposed. The cause of death was never determined. All other cases remain officially unsolved.