>>1375763>>1375763>Paula Welden was a freshman at Bennington in 1946 – rumor has it that she lived in Dewey – who disappeared after telling her roommate she was going on a walk on the Long Trail. Local authorities and residents searched for her for several weeks and found absolutely nothing. Rumors abound surrounding what actually happened to her: she ran away with her boyfriend; she became a recluse in the mountains; she was murdered by a local serial killer. The only thing that has ever been established with any certainty in this disappearance is that Paula Welden disappeared, it seems, completely into thin air.Paula was not the only Bennington resident to vanish in this region. Between 1945 and 1950, six local residents disappeared somewhere within what is now federally designated as the Green Mountain National Forest in southern Vermont, including an eight-year-old boy, Paul Jepson, who disappeared from his mother’s truck within the few minutes that she left him there to tend to their pigs. These disappearances resulted in the area encompassed by Bennington, Somerset, and Shaftsbury becoming known as the “Bennington Triangle.”
Redskin legends tell of a stone on the mountain that swallows men whole and they avoided the area entirely.
