Luckily for us, it's pretty unusual for a person to disappear into thin air, so to speak, and to have three of those in a relatively rural area is scary. I think it makes sense for this to start to become a kind of folklore.

When the Bennington 5 disappeared in southwest Vermont between 1945 and 1950, the local refrain became,

don't go into the woods of the surrounding mountains while wearing the color red, or you may never come back out. For part one of this series, we learned about the case of

Bennington College student Paula Weldon, the most famous of those who had vanished from what

became known as the Bennington Triangle.

For part two, Sarah Marshall of Your Wrong About joins me again as I explain the circumstances

of the other four disappearances, as well as the different paranormal explanations that have been

floated over the years. UFOs, forest monsters,

bizarre structures hidden in the mountains. And as always, I go back through old newspapers to try to find

more evidence of any strange happenings around the town of Bennington, stretching all the way back to the

1800s, and then try to explain how the legend of the Bennington Triangle actually formed over the last 70 years.

So now, lace up your hiking boots and head back with us into the dark forested mountains of the Bennington

Triangle to see what we can uncover together. But whatever you do, make sure that you are not

wearing red. I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and this is American Hysteria.

And we are back together again to get into some of the more mysterious paranormal aspects of this thing we're talking about called the Bennington

Triangle. And with me again, of course, is Pennington correspondent Sarah Marshall. Thank you for

being here. Thank you for having me. Isn't it amazing that we're not talking about polyamory today? Can you

believe it? Barely. So as just a

little recap, we talked about the first of five disappearances that happened in the 1940s,

the disappearance of Paula Weldon, who was a college student at Bennington. And we just kind of went through beat by beat,

following kind of the newspaper's direction of how the case went. So after that, we get this

kind of snowball effect as these other people start disappearing from the area and from there,

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