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Guaranteed Human.

Hello, it's Richard McLean Smith here.

With unexplained on a short break for the holiday season,

we'll be dipping back into the archive for one more week.

In this week's episode, we returned to Bennington, Vermont,

where between 1945 and 1950,

four people vanished without trace, in an area dubbed the Bennington

Triangle, so called, because of the many strange and weird occurrences said to have taken

place there. In 1946, 18-year-old Paula Jean Weldon became the second of those four people

to disappear. In a case, one investigator

described as the most baffling he'd ever come across. This is Unexplained, Season 6,

episode 11. Slide Away. In southwest Vermont in the United States, it was sometime around 3pm on December 1, 1946,

when a truck pulled up to the bottom of the long trail road, a few miles

east from the town of Bennington at the edge of the Green Mountains National Forest.

A light snow had just begun to fall as a young woman with dark blonde hair wearing a red

parker jacket, blue jeans and white trainers jumped out.

She thanked the driver for the lift, then shut the door and continued on foot down the

mile and a half stretch of road, leading her deeper and deeper into the forest.

On and on she walked as the snow continued to fall, her hands thrust into the forest. On and on she walked, as the snow continued to fall, her hands thrust

into the pockets of that red parker jacket. From off in the distance, the sound of a car

approaching draws nearer and nearer. The young woman walking in the red parker, now just an imperceptible echo from

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