The Trail Went Cold - Episode 300 - The Bennington Triangle

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

November 12, 1945. Bennington County, Vermont. While on a hunting trip on Glastenbury Mountain, 74-year old Middie Rivers splits off from his son-in-law, but he is never heard from again and an extensive search effort fails to find him. Over the next five years, four other individuals – 18-year old Paula Jean Welden, 68-year old James Tedford, eight-year old Paul Jepson and 53-year old Frieda Langer – all vanish within the same general area and most of the victims are never found. This leads to speculation that the cases might be connected or that something supernatural is involved in their disappearances, so the area becomes known as “The Bennington Triangle”. On this month’s final Halloween-themed episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we will be exploring five cases which all supposedly took place within a geographical area which is believed to be cursed. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennington_Triangle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Jean_Welden https://charleyproject.org/case/paula-jean-welden “Clueless in New England: The Unsolved Disappearances of Paula Welden, Connie Smith and Katherine Hull” by Michael C. Dooling https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/vt-student-body-found-1946-disappeararance-article-1.2603927 https://www.reformer.com/opinion/roberta-stone-looking-back-on-unexplained-disappearances/article_31bd0790-1a58-11ec-87d8-87b0e6965523.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/21652594/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/546066440/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/546028821/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/546028370/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/546025551/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/545381347/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/54749815/ “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon. Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on Vokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	November 12th, 1945,
0:03.2	Bennington County, Vermont.
0:06.2	While a lot a hunting trip on Glassenberry Mountain,
0:08.9	74-year-old Minnie Rivers splits off from his son-in-law,
0:12.3	but he has never heard from again and an extensive
0:14.9	search effort fails to find him.
0:17.4	Over the next five years, four other individuals, 18-year-old Paul Eugene Weldon, 68-year-old James Headford, 8-year-old Paul Jepson, and 53-year-old
0:27.3	Vita Langer all vanished within the same general area and most of them are never
0:31.7	found. This leads to speculation that the cases might be connected
0:36.4	and there is something supernatural involved so the area becomes known as the Bennington Triangle.
0:42.9	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Yeah.
1:04.0	Oh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh,
1:06.0	uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:10.0	uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our final Halloween themed episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:27.0	I am your host Robin Water and today we're going to be discussing no less than five cases which took place in an area known as the Bennington Triangle.
1:36.0	Ever since the inception of this podcast, it's been a tradition for us to count down to Halloween by spending the month of October covering mysteries which either
1:44.8	took place on Halloween or had some sort of spooky or paranormal slant of them.
1:50.1	In fact, I've been following the same pattern I used when I counted down to Halloween last year,
1:54.8	where I explore some mysteries which are alleged to have supernatural connections,
1:59.0	though this has often been the result of misinformation and sensationalistic details being spread.
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