WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.740 hey guys it's Mike Chen 00:00:01.740 --> 00:00:03.870 whether it is fighting strange chambers and a great pyramid 00:00:03.870 --> 00:00:05.970 or strange fireball shooting up from a river in Thailand 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:09.599 strange things happen around us all the time 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:11.400 but the most well-known mysteries in the world they all seem to be pretty far away from the US 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:16.139 so in this video we're gonna talk about some unexplained stuff that's more closer to you well at least my home 00:00:17.910 --> 00:00:19.619 we're gonna talk about New England's controversial Bennington triangle 00:00:23.970 --> 00:00:26.189 and the alleged a man-eating Stone of Vermont and Glastonbury mountain 00:00:26.189 --> 00:00:28.080 now the Bennington triangle may not enjoy as much media coverage and popularity as the Bermuda Triangle 00:00:32.430 --> 00:00:34.260 in the mystery surrounding this 3-pointer region in southwestern Vermont 00:00:36.360 --> 00:00:38.640 are just as compelling if not more verifiable 00:00:40.469 --> 00:00:42.239 then less or not mystery triangle is not only a part of Native American folklore 00:00:42.239 --> 00:00:44.250 it is also where rumored peculiar monsters reside 00:00:46.620 --> 00:00:48.360 and enigmatic and unexplained disappearances have supposedly taken place NOTE Paragraph 00:00:52.050 --> 00:00:53.760 the area covered by the benetton triangle is not completely defined 00:00:53.760 --> 00:00:56.760 but it is thought to include Glastonbury Mountains 00:00:56.760 --> 00:00:58.379 along with several towns such as Bennington Shaftesbury Woodforde and Somerset 00:01:00.989 --> 00:01:02.550 in the past these towns were considered to be thriving NOTE Paragraph 00:01:04.260 --> 00:01:06.299 because of their logging business and industrial operations 00:01:06.299 --> 00:01:07.860 however around the late 19th century 00:01:07.860 --> 00:01:09.689 progress in these towns began to slow down 00:01:09.689 --> 00:01:11.430 and with the decrease in population 00:01:11.430 --> 00:01:12.930 some of them ended up becoming unincorporated communities 00:01:14.880 --> 00:01:17.070 as a result they are today referred to as well ghost towns 00:01:18.659 --> 00:01:20.400 and as for where the term Binnington triangle came from 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:22.979 we have paranormal author Joseph A Citro for coining it 00:01:24.990 --> 00:01:26.939 he first used a phrase during a public radio broadcast back in 1992 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:31.530 to refer to the area in Vermont where several people have disappeared mostly without a trace 00:01:34.170 --> 00:01:36.750 between the 1920s and the 1950s he also wrote and published books 00:01:38.700 --> 00:01:40.110 about the strange happenings that supposedly occurred in Glastonbury in his neighboring towns 00:01:43.320 --> 00:01:45.210 as well as the ledges related to this region 00:01:45.210 --> 00:01:46.710 he also compared the phenomena in the benetton triangle 00:01:46.710 --> 00:01:48.329 to be somewhat similar to the more defined Bridgewater triangle and Massachusetts 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:54.030 which is also the site of various paranormal phenomena 00:01:56.520 --> 00:01:59.130 in his novel shadowchild which was published in 1978 00:01:59.130 --> 00:02:01.259 Citro wrote extensively about Glastonbury moutain in his deep-rooted connection 00:02:01.259 --> 00:02:03.299 with Native American culture 00:02:03.299 --> 00:02:05.189 and Citro was purportedly very familiar with the Algonquin people including their history 00:02:08.550 --> 00:02:10.377 as well as their traditions and folklore 00:02:10.377 --> 00:02:12.150 these indigenous habitants of North America 00:02:13.053 --> 00:02:16.053 lived in the area of the Bennington triangle all the way back to 8500 BCE 00:02:16.540 --> 00:02:18.730 and according to sighs well his population has always regarded it 00:02:18.730 --> 00:02:21.370 as a cursed site filled with darkness and must be avoided at all cost 00:02:23.739 --> 00:02:24.970 now let's talk about some of these strange disappearances as we alluded to earlier 00:02:26.860 --> 00:02:28.330 though we have no means to scientifically determine 00:02:30.099 --> 00:02:32.200 if the benneton triangle is indeed cursed 00:02:32.200 --> 00:02:34.540 the local legends of wild beasts and strange disappearances 00:02:36.370 --> 00:02:38.560 which are being told and retold by those who live in Glastonbury in his neighboring towns 00:02:40.239 --> 00:02:42.610 seem to support this age-old claim and out of the many cases of disappearances 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:45.670 that have supposedly happened over the years 00:02:45.670 --> 00:02:48.100 five cases which took place between 1945 in1950 are the most popular and noteworthy 00:02:50.739 --> 00:02:52.810 these are the missing persons cases of Minnie rivers in 1945 00:02:56.290 --> 00:02:59.049 Hala Wilden in 1946 James tedford in 1949 and Paul Jepsen and Freda linger in 1950 00:03:01.810 --> 00:03:04.510 Minnie Rivers was a 74 year old experienced hunter 00:03:04.510 --> 00:03:06.250 who was very familiar with the area before his disappearance on 12th of November in 1945 00:03:08.290 --> 00:03:10.750 before he went missing Rivers was guiding a group of hunters 00:03:12.040 --> 00:03:13.780 who were hiking in the mountains under way back 00:03:13.780 --> 00:03:15.610 however Rivers walked ahead of everyone else 00:03:15.610 --> 00:03:17.170 and no one has seen him 00:03:17.170 --> 00:03:19.209 since serious efforts were taken to pinpoint his whereabouts 00:03:21.100 --> 00:03:22.870 unfortunately all they found was a rifle cartridge in the stream 00:03:22.870 --> 00:03:24.880 which people believe he may have dropped along the way 00:03:26.950 --> 00:03:29.140 Paula Jean Weldon an 18 year old sophomore at Bennington College disappeared a year after Rivers 00:03:31.150 --> 00:03:33.160 she went to hike on the long trail of 00:03:33.160 --> 00:03:34.959 Glastonbury mountain in December first in 1946 and was seen by several witnesses 00:03:36.790 --> 00:03:38.980 to have been walking along the trail 00:03:40.870 --> 00:03:42.370 at one point in the elderly couple who were walking less than a hundred yards behind her 00:03:44.290 --> 00:03:45.760 saw her make a turn at a corner headed them but when the couple reached the same corner 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:48.639 the girl was nowhere to be found 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:50.500 Weldon did now report to school after the hike 00:03:52.389 --> 00:03:54.639 an extensive search ensued which involved the assistance of the FBI 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.310 a reward was also offered to anyone who 00:03:57.310 --> 00:03:58.900 will be able to accurately report her whereabouts 00:03:59.590 --> 00:04:02.049 In the end no trace of her was ever found 00:04:02.049 --> 00:04:04.359 exactly three years after Welden's disappearance 00:04:04.359 --> 00:04:06.310 the veteran James Ted Ferg was the third person to go missing 00:04:08.230 --> 00:04:09.819 before he vanished on December 1st 1949 00:04:09.819 --> 00:04:12.220 tedford was riding a bus on his way 00:04:12.220 --> 00:04:13.989 back to his retirement home in Bennington after he visited his relatives 00:04:15.370 --> 00:04:17.289 he never made it to his stop in Bennington 00:04:18.440 --> 00:04:20.329 he just vanished in thin air because his belongings were still on the bus 00:04:22.310 --> 00:04:24.290 Paul Jetson vanished less than a year 00:04:24.290 --> 00:04:26.990 later on October 12th 1950 the eight-year-old was with his mother 00:04:28.760 --> 00:04:30.470 when he went missing she had left her son unattended for around an hour 00:04:32.270 --> 00:04:33.650 in order to feed a few pigs 00:04:33.650 --> 00:04:35.270 by the time she returned to the truck where she left her son 00:04:35.270 --> 00:04:37.160 young Paul was already gone without a trace 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:38.960 according to local legend the bloodhounds managed to track Paul 00:04:40.850 --> 00:04:42.530 sent all the way to a local highway which 00:04:42.530 --> 00:04:44.120 turned out to be near the location where Paul and Weldon 00:04:45.470 --> 00:04:48.410 supposedly disappeared four years earlier in just 16 days after Paul had gone 00:04:48.410 --> 00:04:50.690 missing 53 year-old Freda Linger finished as well on October 28th 00:04:53.210 --> 00:04:54.830 of the same year linga was hiking with her cousin 00:04:54.830 --> 00:04:56.960 when she accidentally slipped 00:04:56.960 --> 00:04:58.520 and throw into a stream because she was wet 00:04:58.520 --> 00:05:00.200 Langer decided to return to the campsite and change asking it for 00:05:01.970 --> 00:05:03.470 so she asked her cousin to wait for her to return 00:05:03.470 --> 00:05:04.670 so they could finish the hike 00:05:04.670 --> 00:05:06.110 realizing she was taking too long to return 00:05:06.110 --> 00:05:07.910 her cousin decided to walk back to the campsite 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:11.180 however when he got there langer was nowhere to be found and nobody saw her since 00:05:11.180 --> 00:05:13.580 it was only a May of 1951 00:05:17.090 --> 00:05:19.220 that lingers body was found somewhere near the Somerset reservoir 00:05:19.220 --> 00:05:21.200 making it hers the only case out of the five 00:05:21.200 --> 00:05:22.850 in which the missing persons body was later discovered 00:05:24.590 --> 00:05:26.870 now there are many possible explanations behind the strange and mystifying disappearances of these people 00:05:28.610 --> 00:05:30.470 perhaps those who have gone missing weren't really missing at all 00:05:31.910 --> 00:05:33.590 maybe they ran off somewhere and never looked back 00:05:35.150 --> 00:05:37.010 another extreme but not completely unlikely scenario is that 00:05:37.010 --> 00:05:38.600 a serial killer may have been running rampant in class berry during those years 00:05:40.280 --> 00:05:41.600 and he or she was the one responsible for the disappearances 00:05:43.700 --> 00:05:45.680 but out of all the weird explanations 00:05:45.680 --> 00:05:47.510 presented by people to explain what had happened all those years ago 00:05:48.650 --> 00:05:50.870 perhaps the most outrageous of them is the one proposed by Joseph Citro NOTE Paragraph 00:05:53.150 --> 00:05:54.620 in his book titled the Vermont monster guide 00:05:56.750 --> 00:05:58.820 Citro suggested the existence of an unknown but dangerous anomaly in the Glastonbury mountains 00:06:00.890 --> 00:06:02.900 which he referred to as the man-eating stone of Glastonbury mountain 00:06:05.060 --> 00:06:06.950 according to Sarah the Native Americans 00:06:06.950 --> 00:06:09.200 knew of his existence but avoided encountering the large rock entity at all cost 00:06:11.540 --> 00:06:13.280 the rock is supposedly large enough for a human being to step on 00:06:15.410 --> 00:06:17.120 and when someone steps on the rock 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:19.310 the heavy storm becomes more malleable and ultimately swallows a human being whole 00:06:21.830 --> 00:06:23.600 so Citro entertained the likelihood that the five people who disappeared between 1945 and 1950 00:06:26.600 --> 00:06:28.550 could have accidentally stepped on one of these beast-like stones 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:32.660 and ended up being devoured by these islands roll creatures 00:06:32.660 --> 00:06:34.640 no of course we don't know for sure whether Benetton triangle is a real thing 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.020 or that a man-eating stone really lurks somewhere in the woods 00:06:40.850 --> 00:06:42.320 I really hope that but at least for me you know 00:06:42.320 --> 00:06:44.540 what why take the risk you're going hiking in an area where you know 00:06:46.190 --> 00:06:47.900 like people mysteriously disappeared their bodies were never found 00:06:49.520 --> 00:06:50.810 maybe go somewhere else go hiking 00:06:50.810 --> 00:06:52.220 and I know maybe I watched one too many horror movies 00:06:52.220 --> 00:06:53.600 or one too many supernatural episodes 00:06:55.250 --> 00:06:57.680 but there all seems to be legends from from local natives 00:06:57.680 --> 00:06:59.450 that warned about a specific place 00:06:59.450 --> 00:07:01.700 that we seem to just just completely dismissed 00:07:01.700 --> 00:07:03.590 but for me at least every single story 00:07:03.590 --> 00:07:05.030 every single legend out there 00:07:05.030 --> 00:07:07.100 there's always some truth to them 00:07:07.100 --> 00:07:08.900 but if I was thinking about going to a place where the natives have said yeah 00:07:10.550 --> 00:07:12.830 this place is cursed there's monsters there is coming out not safe 00:07:12.830 --> 00:07:14.150 maybe don't go there 00:07:14.150 --> 00:07:15.650 you know what then I think I stay away 00:07:15.650 --> 00:07:17.210 I guess my point is you won't find me in the Glastonbury mountains anytime soon 00:07:18.860 --> 00:07:20.540 and some of these strange disappearances 00:07:20.540 --> 00:07:22.190 I did cover in a previous video 00:07:22.190 --> 00:07:23.300 I'll link it for you guys in my description box below 00:07:23.300 --> 00:07:25.760 they are really really strange but 00:07:25.760 --> 00:07:26.750 let me know what you guys think 00:07:26.750 --> 00:07:27.650 do you think there's something supernatural going on or did 00:07:29.810 --> 00:07:31.670 these people just walk into the woods get lost and couldn't find their way out 00:07:33.020 --> 00:07:35.060 do you think when they go and eating stone what do you think happened to these people 00:07:36.020 --> 00:07:36.950 alright guys thank y'all so much for watching this video I'll see you later