Joseph Citro

Now, this is rather interesting considering how people have vanished without a trace from within the triangle.

New England author Joseph A. Citro is the person considered to have coined the term Bennington Triangle in 1992 while doing a radio broadcast about paranormal and other unusual activity in the area.

According to Citro's findings, he states that the area has similar characteristics with the equally strange Bridgewater Triangle in the bordering state of Massachusetts, which has been written about extensively by cryptozoologist Loren Coleman.

The Bennington Triangle is centered around the heavily wooded forest of Glastenbury Mountain and also includes the small towns of Bennington, Woodford, and Shaftesbury and also the abandoned or ghost towns of Somerset and Glastenbury.

And I started highlighting things that you'd written throughout, and then I made a list.

And I said, these are things that I wonder, you know, people outside of Vermont, do they get it? And I know Joe Citro, and I want to read his quote in a moment, but, you know, he talks specifically about how you picture Vermont.

And I'm going, yeah, it's exactly what he does.

And, you know, here's some of the words.

We will in just a moment.

We'll take a break and we'll be right back.

But first, I want to read a quote from your fellow author, Joe Citro, when he writes about your book.

His engaging, true-to-life characters and a wonderfully optimistic plot magically transport the reader to a quintessential Vermont, one that some of us

One of the eerier theories points to the Bennington Triangle, a notorious section of southwestern Vermont where five people, including Paula, vanished between 1945 and 1950.

Individuals such as New England author Joseph Citro believe that Paula's disappearance has an otherworldly explanation.

Officially, the unsolved case of Paula Jean Weldon remains open, though it is unlikely that it will ever be solved.

Since teenagers started driving, one of the rites of passage, at least for those who live near real dark country, are nocturnal drives down creepy old roads.

All right.

Now, the Bennington Triangle is a phrase coined by American author Joseph A. Citro, like I said before, to detonate an area of the southern southwestern Vermont area.

within which a number of people went missing between 1945 and 1950, a nice five-year span there.

This was further popularized in two books, including Shadow Child, in which Citro devoted chapters to discussion of these disappearances and various items of folklore surrounding the area.

Now this is rather interesting considering how people have vanished without a trace from within the Triangle.

New England author Joseph A. Citro is the person considered to have coined the term Bennington Triangle in 1992 while doing a radio broadcast about paranormal and other unusual activity in the area.

According to Citro's findings, He states that the area has similar characteristics with the equally strange Bridgewater Triangle in the bordering state of Massachusetts, which has been written about extensively by cryptozoologist Lauren Coleman.

The Bennington Triangle is centered around the heavily wooded forest of Glastonbury Mountain and also includes the small towns of Bennington, Woodford and Shaftesbury, and also the abandoned or ghost towns of Somerset and Glastonbury.

But we still haven't explained how the Bennington Triangle got its name.

And this is the point in the story where famous Vermont folklorist Joseph A. Citro enters the chat.

Joseph A. Citro has written several books on the Green Mountain National Forest and the Binnington Triangle.

And according to his research, what really shot this region into folklore infamy is not the paranormal stories we just covered, but the tendency of people to vanish without a trace while hiking through it.

For now, we'll have to end the story here, but make sure you tune in next week because the creepiest tales associated with the Bennington Triangle are yet to come.

Also, there's an article called A Creepy Ghost Town in Vermont, Glastonbury is the Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of, written by Kristen Grimes for OnlyInYourState.com. Then there's the Wikipedia page on the Bennington Triangle and TheBenningtonBanner.com, an article entitled Lost in Glastonbury by John D. Waller.

The Wikipedia page on Glastonbury Mountain and listverse.com, an article called 10 Creepy Mysteries of the Bennington Triangle by Renee Chandler.

And finally, two books by Joseph A. Citro that I bought on Apple Books.

The exact geographic area of this supposed triangle isn't well-defined, and a lot of the cases we'll discuss were in the Glastonbury area, which makes some people wonder why it's not called the Glastonbury Triangle.

But it was author Joseph Citro who coined the name Bennington Triangle, not to be confused with the Bridgewater Triangle.

The Bridgewater Triangle, made up of roughly 200 square miles and located in Southeastern Massachusetts, has some pretty strange occurrences of its own.

There have been many UFO and Bigfoot sightings there.

Or maybe they're all real.

So one thing I'm curious about is what listeners think.

What's going on in the Bennington Triangle? Is this a series of accidents separated by miles and years? Is there something mysterious and supernatural? Is there some kind of giant hairy monster? Joseph Citro, the author who started calling the area the Bennington Triangle, told the Bennington Banner that the area is dangerous for a number of reasons, including this aura of spookiness that people bring with them when they go there.

It's become a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Now this is rather interesting considering how people have vanished without a trace from within the Triangle.

New England author Joseph A. Citro is the person considered to have coined the term Bennington Triangle in 1992 while doing a radio broadcast about paranormal and other unusual activity in the area.

According to Citro's findings, He states that the area has similar characteristics with the equally strange Bridgewater Triangle in the bordering state of Massachusetts, which has been written about extensively by cryptozoologist Loren Coleman.

The Bennington Triangle is centered around the heavily wooded forest of Glastonbury Mountain and also includes the small towns of Bennington, Woodford and Shaftesbury, and also the abandoned or ghost towns of Somerset and Glastonbury.

Her mother also claimed that she frequently heard waltz music echoing from the top of the stairs, and every time she crept up the steps to see who was playing, the music would instantly cut out the moment her foot touched the top landing.

Now, if you talk to folklorists like Vermont's Joseph A. Citro, the Hayden House was the quintessential haunted New England mansion, a monument of hubris undone by an ancestral curse.

But in 1976, right before he died, a real Hayden descendant named Dwight Dow gave an interview that cut through the romantic ghost story.

When the interviewer asked Dwight if the Hayden house was truly haunted by the spirits of his cursed ancestors, Dwight didn't mince words.