Man-Eating Stone of Glastenbury Mountain Vermont and The Bennington Triangle

hey guys it's Mike Chen

whether it is fighting strange chambers and a great pyramid

or strange fireball shooting up from a river in Thailand

strange things happen around us all the time

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

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

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

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

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

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

are just as compelling if not more verifiable

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

it is also where rumored peculiar monsters reside

and enigmatic and unexplained disappearances have supposedly taken place

the area covered by the benetton triangle is not completely defined

but it is thought to include Glastonbury Mountains

along with several towns such as Bennington Shaftesbury Woodforde and Somerset

in the past these towns were considered to be thriving

because of their logging business and industrial operations

however around the late 19th century

progress in these towns began to slow down

and with the decrease in population

some of them ended up becoming unincorporated communities

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

and as for where the term Binnington triangle came from

we have paranormal author Joseph A Citro for coining it

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

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

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

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

as well as the ledges related to this region

he also compared the phenomena in the benetton triangle

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

which is also the site of various paranormal phenomena

in his novel shadowchild which was published in 1978

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

with Native American culture

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

as well as their traditions and folklore

these indigenous habitants of North America

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

and according to sighs well his population has always regarded it

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

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

though we have no means to scientifically determine

if the benneton triangle is indeed cursed

the local legends of wild beasts and strange disappearances

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

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

that have supposedly happened over the years

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

these are the missing persons cases of Minnie rivers in 1945

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

Minnie Rivers was a 74 year old experienced hunter

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

before he went missing Rivers was guiding a group of hunters

who were hiking in the mountains under way back

however Rivers walked ahead of everyone else

and no one has seen him

since serious efforts were taken to pinpoint his whereabouts

unfortunately all they found was a rifle cartridge in the stream

which people believe he may have dropped along the way

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

she went to hike on the long trail of

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

to have been walking along the trail

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

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

the girl was nowhere to be found

Weldon did now report to school after the hike

an extensive search ensued which involved the assistance of the FBI

a reward was also offered to anyone who

will be able to accurately report her whereabouts

In the end no trace of her was ever found

exactly three years after Welden's disappearance

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

before he vanished on December 1st 1949

tedford was riding a bus on his way

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

he never made it to his stop in Bennington

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

Paul Jetson vanished less than a year

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

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

in order to feed a few pigs

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

young Paul was already gone without a trace

according to local legend the bloodhounds managed to track Paul

sent all the way to a local highway which

turned out to be near the location where Paul and Weldon

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

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

of the same year linga was hiking with her cousin

when she accidentally slipped

and throw into a stream because she was wet

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

so she asked her cousin to wait for her to return

so they could finish the hike

realizing she was taking too long to return

her cousin decided to walk back to the campsite

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

it was only a May of 1951

that lingers body was found somewhere near the Somerset reservoir

making it hers the only case out of the five

in which the missing persons body was later discovered

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

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

maybe they ran off somewhere and never looked back

another extreme but not completely unlikely scenario is that

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

and he or she was the one responsible for the disappearances

but out of all the weird explanations

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

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

in his book titled the Vermont monster guide

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

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

according to Sarah the Native Americans

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

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

and when someone steps on the rock

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

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

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

and ended up being devoured by these islands roll creatures

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

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

I really hope that but at least for me you know

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

like people mysteriously disappeared their bodies were never found

maybe go somewhere else go hiking

and I know maybe I watched one too many horror movies

or one too many supernatural episodes

but there all seems to be legends from from local natives

that warned about a specific place

that we seem to just just completely dismissed

but for me at least every single story

every single legend out there

there's always some truth to them

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

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

maybe don't go there

you know what then I think I stay away

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

and some of these strange disappearances

I did cover in a previous video

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

they are really really strange but

let me know what you guys think

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

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

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

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