Between 1945 and 1950, five people vanished without a trace in the dense wilderness surrounding Glastenbury Mountain in Vermont. An experienced hunting guide disappeared while leading a party, a college student vanished within sight of witnesses, and a veteran simply disappeared from a moving bus, his belongings still on the seat. The area came to be known as the Bennington Triangle, and its mysteries remain unsolved more than seventy years later.

In this episode, we investigate the disappearances that earned this remote corner of the Green Mountains a reputation as one of America's most unsettling mystery hotspots. From the 1945 disappearance of 74-year-old hunting guide Middie Rivers [citation:2][citation:3], who knew the terrain intimately yet vanished without a trace, to the 1946 case of 18-year-old Bennington College student Paula Welden, whose disappearance triggered a massive search and led to the creation of the Vermont State Police [citation:2][citation:6]. We examine the bizarre case of James Tedford, who boarded a bus in St. Albans and was seen by multiple witnesses, yet simply vanished before the bus reached its destination [citation:4]. And we explore the disappearances of eight-year-old Paul Jepson and 53-year-old Frieda Langer—one never found, the other discovered months later with no cause of death determined [citation:3][citation:6]. From legends of a man-eating rock to Bigfoot sightings and the ghost town of Glastenbury, this is the story of a place where the mountains seem to keep their secrets.

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