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hey guys it's Mike Chen

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whether it is fighting strange chambers and a great pyramid

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or strange fireball shooting up from a river in Thailand

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strange things happen around us all the time

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but the most well-known mysteries in the world they all seem to be pretty far away from the US

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so in this video we're gonna talk about some unexplained stuff that's more closer to you well at least my home

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we're gonna talk about New England's controversial Bennington triangle

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and the alleged a man-eating Stone of Vermont and Glastonbury mountain

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now the Bennington triangle may not enjoy as much media coverage and popularity as the Bermuda Triangle

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in the mystery surrounding this 3-pointer region in southwestern Vermont

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are just as compelling if not more verifiable

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then less or not mystery triangle is not only a part of Native American folklore

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it is also where rumored peculiar monsters reside

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and enigmatic and unexplained disappearances have supposedly taken place

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the area covered by the benetton triangle is not completely defined

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but it is thought to include Glastonbury Mountains

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along with several towns such as Bennington Shaftesbury Woodforde and Somerset

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in the past these towns were considered to be thriving

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because of their logging business and industrial operations

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however around the late 19th century

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progress in these towns began to slow down

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and with the decrease in population

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some of them ended up becoming unincorporated communities

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as a result they are today referred to as well ghost towns

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and as for where the term Binnington triangle came from

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we have paranormal author Joseph A Citro for coining it

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he first used a phrase during a public radio broadcast back in 1992

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to refer to the area in Vermont where several people have disappeared mostly without a trace

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between the 1920s and the 1950s he also wrote and published books

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about the strange happenings that supposedly occurred in Glastonbury in his neighboring towns

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as well as the ledges related to this region

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he also compared the phenomena in the benetton triangle

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to be somewhat similar to the more defined Bridgewater triangle and Massachusetts

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which is also the site of various paranormal phenomena

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in his novel shadowchild which was published in 1978

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Citro wrote extensively about Glastonbury moutain in his deep-rooted connection

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with Native American culture

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and Citro was purportedly very familiar with the Algonquin people including their history

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as well as their traditions and folklore

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these indigenous habitants of North America

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lived in the area of the Bennington triangle all the way back to 8500 BCE

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and according to sighs well his population has always regarded it

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as a cursed site filled with darkness and must be avoided at all cost

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now let's talk about some of these strange disappearances as we alluded to earlier

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though we have no means to scientifically determine

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if the benneton triangle is indeed cursed

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the local legends of wild beasts and strange disappearances

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which are being told and retold by those who live in Glastonbury in his neighboring towns

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seem to support this age-old claim and out of the many cases of disappearances

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that have supposedly happened over the years

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five cases which took place between 1945 in1950 are the most popular and noteworthy

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these are the missing persons cases of Minnie rivers in 1945

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Hala Wilden in 1946 James tedford in 1949 and Paul Jepsen and Freda linger in 1950

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Minnie Rivers was a 74 year old experienced hunter

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who was very familiar with the area before his disappearance on 12th of November in 1945

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before he went missing Rivers was guiding a group of hunters

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who were hiking in the mountains under way back

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however Rivers walked ahead of everyone else

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and no one has seen him

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since serious efforts were taken to pinpoint his whereabouts

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unfortunately all they found was a rifle cartridge in the stream

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which people believe he may have dropped along the way

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Paula Jean Weldon an 18 year old sophomore at Bennington College disappeared a year after Rivers

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she went to hike on the long trail of

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Glastonbury mountain in December first in 1946 and was seen by several witnesses

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to have been walking along the trail

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at one point in the elderly couple who were walking less than a hundred yards behind her

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saw her make a turn at a corner headed them but when the couple reached the same corner

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the girl was nowhere to be found

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Weldon did now report to school after the hike

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an extensive search ensued which involved the assistance of the FBI

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a reward was also offered to anyone who

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will be able to accurately report her whereabouts

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In the end no trace of her was ever found

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exactly three years after Welden's disappearance

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the veteran James Ted Ferg was the third person to go missing

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before he vanished on December 1st 1949

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tedford was riding a bus on his way

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back to his retirement home in Bennington after he visited his relatives

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he never made it to his stop in Bennington

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he just vanished in thin air because his belongings were still on the bus

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Paul Jetson vanished less than a year

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later on October 12th 1950 the eight-year-old was with his mother

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when he went missing she had left her son unattended for around an hour

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in order to feed a few pigs

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by the time she returned to the truck where she left her son

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young Paul was already gone without a trace

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according to local legend the bloodhounds managed to track Paul

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sent all the way to a local highway which

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turned out to be near the location where Paul and Weldon

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supposedly disappeared four years earlier in just 16 days after Paul had gone

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missing 53 year-old Freda Linger finished as well on October 28th

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of the same year linga was hiking with her cousin

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when she accidentally slipped

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and throw into a stream because she was wet

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Langer decided to return to the campsite and change asking it for

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so she asked her cousin to wait for her to return

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so they could finish the hike

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realizing she was taking too long to return

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her cousin decided to walk back to the campsite

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however when he got there langer was nowhere to be found and nobody saw her since

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it was only a May of 1951

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that lingers body was found somewhere near the Somerset reservoir

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making it hers the only case out of the five

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in which the missing persons body was later discovered

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now there are many possible explanations behind the strange and mystifying disappearances of these people

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perhaps those who have gone missing weren't really missing at all

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maybe they ran off somewhere and never looked back

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another extreme but not completely unlikely scenario is that

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a serial killer may have been running rampant in class berry during those years

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and he or she was the one responsible for the disappearances

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but out of all the weird explanations

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presented by people to explain what had happened all those years ago

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perhaps the most outrageous of them is the one proposed by Joseph Citro

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in his book titled the Vermont monster guide

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Citro suggested the existence of an unknown but dangerous anomaly in the Glastonbury mountains

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which he referred to as the man-eating stone of Glastonbury mountain

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according to Sarah the Native Americans

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knew of his existence but avoided encountering the large rock entity at all cost

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the rock is supposedly large enough for a human being to step on

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and when someone steps on the rock

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the heavy storm becomes more malleable and ultimately swallows a human being whole

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so Citro entertained the likelihood that the five people who disappeared between 1945 and 1950

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could have accidentally stepped on one of these beast-like stones

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and ended up being devoured by these islands roll creatures

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no of course we don't know for sure whether Benetton triangle is a real thing

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or that a man-eating stone really lurks somewhere in the woods

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I really hope that but at least for me you know

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what why take the risk you're going hiking in an area where you know

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like people mysteriously disappeared their bodies were never found

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maybe go somewhere else go hiking

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and I know maybe I watched one too many horror movies

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or one too many supernatural episodes

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but there all seems to be legends from from local natives

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that warned about a specific place

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that we seem to just just completely dismissed

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but for me at least every single story

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every single legend out there

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there's always some truth to them

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but if I was thinking about going to a place where the natives have said yeah

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this place is cursed there's monsters there is coming out not safe

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maybe don't go there

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you know what then I think I stay away

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I guess my point is you won't find me in the Glastonbury mountains anytime soon

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and some of these strange disappearances

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I did cover in a previous video

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I'll link it for you guys in my description box below

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they are really really strange but

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let me know what you guys think

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do you think there's something supernatural going on or did

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these people just walk into the woods get lost and couldn't find their way out

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do you think when they go and eating stone what do you think happened to these people

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alright guys thank y'all so much for watching this video I'll see you later