JAMES TEDFORD - The Bus Passenger Who Disappeared into Thin Air

Freaky Folklore

Eeriecast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 840 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Bennington Triangle - In southwestern Vermont, a cluster of mysterious disappearances has haunted the region for decades. Most baffling of them all: the case of James Tedford, who vanished from a moving bus while surrounded by witnesses, leaving behind only an open timetable on his empty seat and many unanswered questions. Discover more TERRIFYING podcasts at http://eeriecast.com/ Follow Carman Carrion! https://www.instagram.com/carmancarrion/?hl=en https://twitter.com/CarmanCarrion Subscribe to Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/show/0uiX155WEJnN7QVRfo3aQY Please Review Us on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freaky-folklore/id1550361184 Music and sound effects used in the Freaky Folklore Podcast have or may have been provided/created by: CO.AG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Myuu: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiSKnkKCKAQVxMUWpZQobuQ Jinglepunks: https://jinglepunks.com/ Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Kevin MacLeod: http://incompetech.com/ Dark Music: https://soundcloud.com/darknessprevailspodcast Soundstripe: https:// Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.6	this episode of freaky folklore contains disturbing content that may not be suitable for all listeners, including
0:38.5	descriptions of unexplained disappearances, psychological horror elements, discussion of mental
0:44.4	illness, references to war trauma and veterans issues, theories about supernatural events.
0:50.8	Listener discretion is advised.
0:52.6	This episode examines real disappearances where people vanished without explanation, which some listeners may find distressing.
1:04.0	Picture this. A bus rattles down a lonely Vermont highway as daylight fades on a December evening in 1949.
1:12.0	14 passengers on board, each one accounted for at the last stop before Bennington.
1:18.4	The driver makes his scheduled stop. Passengers disembark into the cold winter air,
1:24.0	but when the headcount is taken, only 13 people step off the bus.
1:29.3	An empty seat where a 68-year-old World War I veteran named James Tedford had been sitting moments before.
1:36.3	His belongings still in the overhead compartment.
1:40.3	An open bus timetable on his vacant seat.
1:43.3	No stops were made. No one saw him leave. No one heard. An open bus timetable on his vacant seat.
1:44.2	No stops were made.
1:46.0	No one saw him leave.
1:47.8	No one heard a commotion.
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