595 // Bennington Triangle Disappearances - Part 3 - James Tedford

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In this episode, Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with ⁠⁠Worcester State University ⁠⁠archives librarian Ross Griffiths about the mysterious Bennington Triangle disappearances of Vermont and the disappearance of James Tedford. 68 year-old World War I veteran James Tedford went missing on December 1st, 1949. Tedford had been visiting relatives who accompanied him to the local bus station and observed him boarding a southbound bus. The last confirmed sighting of Tedford was at the bus depot in Burlington, Vermont where he had a brief conversation with an acquaintance before he boarded to a Bennington-bound bus at about 6:15 PM. This episode was previously published on Missing on June 5th, 2025. Music for the Bennington Triangle series provided by Jonathan Santarelli. Check out his other work: IG: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/santarelli_dj⁠⁠⁠. YT: ⁠⁠⁠http://www.youtube.com/@freakscomeout⁠⁠⁠. Sources: ⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennington_Triangle⁠. ⁠https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2023/10/12/the-bennington-disappearances-vermonts-very-own-bermuda-triangle/⁠. ⁠https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/2025-03-06/the-bennington-triangle-how-5-mysterious-disappearances-developed-a-cult-following-online⁠. Follow Missing: IG:⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠. Spotify:⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447⁠⁠. Follow Crawlspace: IG:⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod.⁠⁠ Spotify:⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/7iSnqnCf27NODdz0pJ1GvJ⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340⁠⁠. Check out our entire network at⁠⁠ http://crawlspace-media.com/⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The In this episode, we continue our deep dive into the Bennington Triangle Disappearances and discuss the mysterious disappearance of James Tedford.
0:46.2	We have a return guest. He's one of the favorites. He's one of the best storytellers that we have on this show.
0:52.3	And we've been embarking on this journey covering
0:55.8	the Bennington triangle in Vermont and he's joined us two other times to cover other
1:02.2	disappearances. This is a third appearance here and there will be more. We are joined once again by
1:07.7	Ross Griffiths, the Worcester State University Archives Librarian.
1:12.8	He's joined us here on the airwaves to speak about these Bennington Triangle Disappearances.
1:17.9	But he also joined us to speak about Ed Aereel back in September of 2024.
1:22.6	So yeah, we spoke about Middy Rivers, who disappeared in 1945.
1:26.8	Paula Weldon, who disappeared in 1946.
1:29.3	And today we're speaking about the disappearance of James Tedford from 1949,
1:35.3	specifically December 1st, 1949.
1:39.3	And so these three cases are part of the Bennington Triangle disappearances.
1:44.5	There are a couple more that we will speak with Ross about.
1:48.4	But this disappearance lands very mysterious.
1:51.2	James Tedford was 68 years old.
1:53.8	He was a World War I veteran.
1:56.5	And he went missing basically from a bus.
1:59.7	And there is a lot of information out there about
2:04.5	James Tedford's case if you look into it but a lot of it is is not super accurate and we'll talk
2:12.4	about that more in final thoughts after we go through the case with Ross.
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