The Mystery of the Bennington Triangle

Some places are marked not by what is found, but by what is lost. In southwestern

Vermont, the wilderness between Glastenbury Mountain, Bennington, and Woodford has

earned such a reputation. Writers later called it the Bennington Triangle — a stretch of forested hills

where, in the mid-20th century, a series of disappearances left families without

answers and the region with a legend. The heart of the stories lies in Glastenbury Mountain,

once home to a small logging community. By the early 1900s, the town of Glastenbury had emptied,

its slopes reclaimed by forest. Against this backdrop, from 1945 to 1950, five vanishings

drew attention. The first was Middie Rivers, a 74-year-old hunting guide,