The Bennington Triangle’s biggest and longest-running mystery is the disappearances that raged in the area from 1945 to 1950. A newspaper reported the disappearance of the Bennington Triangle. (Photo: Internet) First up is a 75-year-old man named Middie Rivers, a tour guide. Rivers led a group of climbers back to their camp in November 1945. In a moment Rivers overtook the group, just enough to get out of sight, he disappeared completely with the winds of Glastenbury. Paula Welden, an 18-year-old college student, decided to explore Glastenbury on his own in 1946. Welden’s journey began with warnings from the locals, that with only a thin red coat, Beware of this mountain’s unusual weather. Welden 1 day later was reported missing. Although Paula’s red coat was easily identifiable, every attempt to find the whereabouts of the freshman girl was fruitless. 18-year-old schoolgirl Paula Welden – one of the missing victims. (Photo: Internet) In October 1946, 8-year-old Paul Jepson disappeared from a farm. Paul’s mother let the boy play near a pigpen while she was taking care of the animals. When she returned later, she was unable to find her baby. A great search took place, but the boy was still silent. In 1949, three hunters went missing in the mountains. That same year, veteran James Tetford is believed to have disappeared from a crowded bus on Albans Road. Fourteen passengers testified that Tetford was falling asleep and then suddenly disappeared when the bus reached the terminal. A lengthy investigation has been organized, but the whereabouts of the man remains a mystery. The bus where Tedford had mysteriously disappeared. (Photo: Coolinterestingstuff) The year 1950 was the case with Frieda Lander. Lander’s clothes got wet during the hike with her friends and she decided to go back to the camp alone to change. Since then, no one has seen Lander anymore. Police, firefighters, the army and hundreds of volunteers, all rummaged through Glastenbury but it was not until May 1951 that Lander’s body was found. The above events are just six widely known unexplained disappearances among the other mysteries in the Bennington Triangle. (Photo: Internet) The unexplained facts associated with the Bennington Triangle have led many to speculate crazy. The story becomes even more thrilling with rumors of UFOs and giant Bigfoot in the area. The pattern of the disappearances led some to assume that there was a serial killer at Glastenbury. However, the lack of evidence and the diversity of the age and sex of the victim (excluding the common types of serial killers) reject this hypothesis. (Photo: Internet) Without a solid basis for the existence of a serial killer, the next interesting theories regarding a supernatural phenomenon such as a cursed rock that swallows strangers come close into the ravine. . These disappearances coupled with strange lights, sounds and odors led to conspiracy theories about the UFO’s arrival. People try to chain the disappearances together in hopes of finding explanations for the mysteries. The only similarity between these cases is that it happens in the Bennington Triangle. The time of day the victim was last seen is between 3 and 4 pm and is mostly in the last three months of the year. (Photo: Internet) Of all the research that has been done to uncover the mystery of the Bennington Triangle, a number of scientifically based answers have been provided. They still have some meaning, even if not completely satisfactory. One explanation is hypothermia. Temperatures in the mountains can drop very low, especially in winter – a time when the majority of mysterious disappearances occur. With hypothermia, humans tend to dig holes on their own – this is a survival behavior that causes one to find somewhere small and stay away from the crowd. It keeps the wind out and can keep the body warm enough, slowing the frostbite process, but often ends up dying and making the person harder to find. Another interpretation concerns the history of the area – a mining town. The mountain slopes are dotted with unmarked mines that can put hikers at risk. Both of these ways can explain why missing people are never found. (Photo: Internet) However, many people still believe that the above argument is not strong. Perhaps the most practical answer is that not all of the disappearances are the same way. Some may have met the killer, while others dug holes or fell. But if so, why did the disappearances last for only five years and stop so suddenly? To this day, the Bennington Triangle is still the topic of discussion for those who love mysterious stories. And the answer to the events surrounding this land remains a mystery.

The fate of Captain Briggs and his family and the crew of the Mary Celeste ship is still an unanswered question. Artwork: Vessel Finder.

Journey from New York (USA), to Genoa (Italy) is a relatively short journey, but Briggs has good reason to be cautious. Not only did he use his savings to buy a ship, but his wife, Sarah, and 2-year-old daughter, Sophia, followed Briggs during the trip.

On November 3, 1872, Briggs sent a letter to his mother in Marion, Massachusetts. “Our ship is beautifully decorated,” he wrote. “I hope we will have a good journey.” Four days later, he and his crew and family set out. But they never returned.

Eight days after the Mary Celeste ship left New York Harbor, the escort ship Dei Gratia of Canada set sail on the same voyage to Genoa. The trip was not special until the afternoon of December 4, when the crew saw a ship drifting between the Azores archipelago and the Portuguese coast in the North Atlantic. After signaling to the Mary Celeste but received no response, Captain David Morehouse sent three people to inspect. They see the scene like in a ghost story.

The ship was not silhouetted. The rudder rotates indefinitely on the empty deck. One sail was damaged while the other sails were out of shape. The only lifeboat is gone and one of the ship’s pumps has been disassembled. Except for a few damaged boxes, the cargo on board was intact. The hull was about a meter in depth, not to worry. The warehouse is fully stocked to last up to 6 months. The crew left their cigarettes and pipes behind. In the captain’s room, everything remains in place.

The last entry of the log was dated November 24 with common information, but the location of the Mary Celeste was about 400 nautical miles west of where the Dei Gratia discovered it. There is no explanation as to why Captain Briggs left the ship in the middle of the ocean and how it could travel so far with just one sail. Captain Morehouse decided to bring the Mary Celeste to the port of Gibraltar. Under the maritime law, he is entitled to a share of the total value of the ship and the amount of cargo it carries. This is a decision he and the crew will later regret.

The hearing to determine the fate of the derelict ship was conducted by Attorney General Gibraltar Frederick Solly-Flood. He believes that a serious crime took place under the influence of alcohol, despite the fact that the cargo that the Mary Celeste was carrying was mainly toxic industrial alcohol.

The Flood hypothesis was that the crew destroyed and killed the captain and his family in a drunken stupor. In order to conceal their crimes, they damaged the bow of the ship to look like it had collided, then left on the lifeboat with most of the captain’s navigation and papers.

Morehouse and the crew of the ship Dei Gratia were also questioned by Flood. According to him, they lied about where the Mary Celeste was found and falsified the ship’s log. Although Flood’s hypotheses were later disproved, doubts remained with Captain Moorehouse and his crew for the remainder of his career.

For more than a century, countless theories about the disappearance of the family of Captain Briggs and the crew of the ship Mary Celeste have been put forward, whether they were attacked by pirates, hit by giant killer squids or even is being kidnapped by aliens.

More plausibly, the damaged barrels in the ship’s bunker sparked speculation that a concussion caused the leak of flammable alcohol vapors. An explosion could panic Captain Briggs and order the ship to abandon the ship too soon. However, if so, the Dei Gratia’s crew must smell strange when boarding or detect signs of fire.

Up to now, questions about the whereabouts of 10 people aboard the Mary Celeste that disappeared in the North Atlantic between November 24 and December 4, 1872 have not been answered. The available data is so meager and the possibilities are almost limitless.

The fate of the Mary Celeste ship, though, is clear. In January 1885, it was sunk on a reef off the coast of Haiti. The ship’s captain, Gilman C. Parker, conspired with a group of Boston shippers to cheat insurance money. The ghost ship will never set sail again.

The Bennington Triangle is a relatively large area in the US state of Vermont, the most prominent of which is the “ghost town” of Glastenbury, which used to be a small logging community concentrated on the mountain of the same name in southwestern Vermont. Abandoned in the late 19th century after the logging boom was over, the Glastenbury area is now relatively secluded and unspoiled.

Starting with a series of mysterious disappearances more than 70 years ago, this abandoned town has become the bizarre scene of countless unexplained disappearances as well as unsolved murders.

Paula Welden before going missing. Photo: The Lineup.

In 1945, a series of strange mysterious disappearances began to appear in the Bennington Triangle. Middle Rivers, a 74-year-old local hunting guide, led a group of four hunters scouting around the Hell Hollow area in the forest southwest of Glastenbury before suddenly disappearing.

After the initial unsuccessful search, many still believe that with adept experience, the hunter will survive and soon reappear in town. However, he was still “unsubstantiated”. Soon, more than 300 locals and military soldiers were dispatched from Massachusetts Fort Devens to the area in search of Rivers for eight days. But they did not find any traces.

The following year, the town witnessed the most famous mysterious disappearance in Vermont history as Paula Welden. Welden is an 18-year-old student from Bennington University who decided to give it a try on the Long Trail trek during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Welden was last seen on December 1, 1946, wearing a striking red shirt and walking down the trail near Mount Glastenbury. Welden was later absent from the school, prompting a large-scale search with more than 1,000 participants and the reward for the information that helped find her amounted to $ 5,000. However, officials still do not have any clues about Welden’s fate. The case is still open to this day.

Exactly three years after Welden “evaporated”, the Bennington Triangle saw a more supernatural disappearance.

On December 1, 1949, a 68-year-old man named James E. Tedford took a bus to Bennington after visiting relatives in St. Petersburg. Albans, Vermont. Many witnesses, including the driver, said that Tedford was still in the seat before the last stop at Bennington. However, when the bus arrived, they could not see him.

The bus where Tedford had mysteriously disappeared. Photo: Coolinterestingstuff.com.

Passengers were even more surprised to discover that the luggage and the bus timetable were still open where Tedford sat. If the witness’s testimony was correct, Tedford would have disappeared from her seat while the vehicle was moving along Route 7 through the Bennington Triangle.

Nearly a year later, around mid-October 1950. Paul Jepson, 8 years old, continues to be missing. When he was last seen, Jepson was happily playing with his mother in the family pickup truck. After the mother left to feed the pigs, by the time he returned, the boy was gone.

In addition to hundreds of people involved in the search, a police chief from New Hampshire also brought a sniffing dog. The dog could recognize the boy’s scent but suddenly lost sight at a nearby intersection.

Jepson’s father told local Albany Times Union newspaper that the boy had “said nothing” days before his disappearance.

Just about two weeks later, Frieda Langer, 53, an experienced hiker and survivalist, went missing in the Somerset area, near the Long Trail, bordered east of Glastenbury.

After walking nearly a kilometer with nephew Herbert Eisner, Langer fell into a stream and had to return to the camp to change clothes, where her husband was resting with his injured knee. However, neither my husband nor I could see Langer again.

Helicopters from the Connecticut Coast Guard and the US Army in Massachusetts and local planes and the Vermont Aviation Commission helped with the search. About 400 people participated in tracing Langer’s tracks in nearby areas but the result was still 0.

Six months after Langer’s disappearance, Langer’s body was found near Somerset Reservoir, where numerous searches have been conducted before. The body was decomposed so badly that the authorities could not determine the cause of the death. The case went to a standstill.

The unexplained disappearances have aroused many speculations about the mystery of the Bennington Triangle. It is widely believed that some “paranormal force” took action and this theory is further reinforced by UFOs and strange Bigfoot creatures in the area.

Others believe that the disappearances could have been caused by a serial killer. But the age and sex diversity of the victims contradicts this theory because serial killers tend to focus on a certain group of people.

Some have speculated that the victims died under the claws of a lynx or wildcat. However, lynx and lynx do not tend to be aggressive towards humans, and they have barely been around since before 1940.

To this day, the Bennington Triangle is still an attractive destination for those who love mysterious stories.

In 1971, a man who claimed to be Dan Cooper stole a passenger plane from Oregon to Seattle, USA. In Seattle, he agreed to release 36 passengers in exchange for a cash amount of $ 200,000. After receiving the money, he asked the crew for the plane to take off south and then suddenly parachute with all the ransom money. Since then, no one has seen this man again, according New York Times.

After 45 years, in 2016, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) decided not to pursue the search for Cooper anymore. Until now, his whereabouts are still a big question.

Portrait of DB Cooper. Photo: FBI.

Nobody knows who Cooper really is or someone who does, but refuses to speak. The FBI describes Cooper as an “information-free” object. At the time of the daring robbery, he seemed to be over 40 years old. If yes and now Cooper is still alive, then he is over 90 years old. In the media, he is often referred to as “DB Cooper”.

On November 24, 1971, “Dan Cooper” approached the Northwest Orient Airlines ticketing counter in Portland, Oregon, wearing a business suit and carrying a suitcase. The man paid for a one-way ticket on a flight numbered 305 to Seattle and this was the beginning of “one of the biggest unknown disappearances in the history of the FBI.”

Cooper was described by witnesses as a “quiet” man. He ordered a glass of bourbon and soda while he waited for the plane to take off. When the plane was in the air, after three o’clock in the afternoon, from seat 18C, he handed the flight attendant a small piece of paper saying he had a bomb in his suitcase. The hostess takes note of his request, 4 sets of parachutes and $ 200,000 in cash including $ 20 dollars, and then passes it to the captain.

In Seattle, Cooper releases passengers for money and parachutes. When the exchange ended, he made the crew take off again, heading for Mexico City. Cooper also ordered the aircraft not to fly more than 10,000 feet (3,048m).

After 8:00 pm, while the plane was somewhere between Seattle and Reno, he suddenly jumped off the tail of the plane with the ransom in a wooded area and disappeared. All that’s left is just his tie with a clip.

The mission to life of “Dan Cooper” is the subject of lucrative exploitation of American popular culture. It is so dramatic that it has become a source of writing inspiration for many authors, directors and composers. But unanswered questions must be patched up by guesswork.

In 1980, a boy found a rotten $ 20 bank on the Columbia River worth $ 5,800 matching the ransom serial number assigned to Cooper by the authorities. If measured in terms of inflation, the ransom of $ 200,000 in 1971 would be equivalent to about $ 1.2 million today. It is not clear what happened with the remaining money.

The FBI said it interviewed hundreds of people, followed countless leads across the country, and scrutinized the plane for evidence. Five years after the robbery, the FBI examined 800 suspects. Like newspaper New York Times reported in 2011, FBI files on the case to more than 12 meters long, cataloging more than 1,000 suspects.

At one point the FBI believed that the jump killed Cooper. At that time, snow covered the mountains in the area, which was unfavorable for any skydiving, especially at night. It was a cold night, the clothes Cooper wore was not warm enough and since then, no notes of money given to Cooper have been circulated by the authorities.

One of the suspects questioned is Richard Floyd McCoy. He committed a similar robbery and also escaped with even five months after Cooper’s flight. But McCoy was identified as not Cooper for not matching the descriptions provided by the flight attendant and for other undisclosed reasons.

The plane robbery carried out by DB Cooper is a prime example of the beginning of the era of hijacking. By the mid-1970s, at least 150 aircraft had been robbed in the US alone.

The FBI said that even if it no longer pursues the investigation, “countless items” that it has collected over the years will still be preserved for historic purposes at the agency’s headquarters. Residents can still contact the FBI if there are specific leads.