The Bennington Triangle (page 3 of 3)

There are other rumors of children, hunters and others disappearing around Bennington during this period, but all disappearances seem to have stopped at the end of 1950. What caused all these disappearances, in such a small geographic area and over such a short timeline? Theories abound, of course. Bigfoot, who gets blamed for so much, seems to be a leading theory with Internet groups that discuss such things (as is the aforementioned Bennington Monster). Indian legend holds that there is an "enchanted" stone that consumes anyone who gets near it. Others believe that the area is home to some sort of inter-dimensional gateway that people cross, never to be seen again. In his book Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors, Joseph A. Citro expands on this by touching on local speculation that this is some sort of a "Yankee Shangri-La," where people pass from one reality to another. And of course, there's always alien abduction.

Those looking for less fanciful solutions to the Bennington Triangle look to the possibility of a serial killer, although this creates problems of its own. While the short time frame and geographic consistency seem to indicate that some form of "Bennington Ripper" could have been operating in the area (given the autumn time-frame of all disappearances, perhaps an out-of-state hunter?), serial killers tend to target a certain type of person, and the disappearances ran the gamut from young male to older woman.