tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post6249012705891830374..comments2024-03-28T05:28:46.610-04:00Comments on NEW ENGLAND FOLKLORE: The Bennington Triangle: Strange DisappearancesPeter Muisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05939949561996555115noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-80022943774868036372015-07-12T15:42:28.349-04:002015-07-12T15:42:28.349-04:00Hi Brokeneye,
Thanks for the comment. A dimensio...Hi Brokeneye, <br /><br />Thanks for the comment. A dimensional gateway from Bermuda to China would make international travel a lot more convenient!<br /><br />Peter Muisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05939949561996555115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-73282321582402794942015-07-09T00:21:53.585-04:002015-07-09T00:21:53.585-04:00Actually, paranormal triangles come in bunches. Th...Actually, paranormal triangles come in bunches. There's between six and eleven of them, depending on who you ask. For example, the Devil's Sea near China is said to phenomenologically identical to the one in Bermuda, to the point that some paranormal-type-people believe the two may be inherently linked in some way (but alas, there are no recorded cases of something disappearing in one and reappearing in t'other).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-8869026934524526052015-04-26T11:14:32.234-04:002015-04-26T11:14:32.234-04:00"Passing Strange"is one of my favorite f..."Passing Strange"is one of my favorite folklore books!Peter Muisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05939949561996555115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-11792772863946272242015-04-23T09:45:51.903-04:002015-04-23T09:45:51.903-04:00Fair warning - reading "Passing Strange"...Fair warning - reading "Passing Strange" at night while camping alone in Vermont is not recommended... On the other hand, in the daylight the book is a great read!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-83076653183165568132015-04-20T15:39:52.365-04:002015-04-20T15:39:52.365-04:00Thanks for those sources. I'll need to follow ...Thanks for those sources. I'll need to follow up on them - when I am feeling a little braver! CLUELESS IN NEW ENGLAND looks interesting.Peter Muisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05939949561996555115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-52483277659115606352015-04-17T05:41:50.135-04:002015-04-17T05:41:50.135-04:00Thank YOU for the blog, Peter! Been reading and co...Thank YOU for the blog, Peter! Been reading and commenting for quite some time now and you always manage to find stories that strike a nerve.<br /><br />As far as further reading goes, you mention Joseph Citro's "Passing Strange" as a primary source for the Bennington disappearances. The only other book I can think of offhand where Paula Welden's case can be found is Michael Dooling's "Clueless in New England." I'd also recommend Philip Ginsberg's "Shadow of Death" about the unsolved Connecticut River Valley serial murders. It's not without its flaws but the author does a good job bulleting a number of unsolved murders from that region so it's a valuable reference.<br /><br />I've also got an account over at Websleuths and the message boards there have a ton of great info and some of the threads are quite lively.<br /><br />There are also a number of blogs for some of the more recent cases I've mentioned. An old one for Brianna Maitland is below:<br /><br />http://theslamdunktrove.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-brianna-maitland-reader-questions.html<br /><br />However, I'd take any of the internet discussion regarding the Murray case with a Gibraltar-sized grain of salt; for whatever reason, that one seems to attract a rather unsettling share of creeps, tinfoil-hatters, and agenda-driven writers. (I'll refrain here from naming names.) And whatever you do, steer clear of Topix. That place is an absolute rabbit hole.<br /><br />Hope this helps!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-36974172729810889762015-04-15T20:37:20.227-04:002015-04-15T20:37:20.227-04:00Thanks for your thoughtful comments. It sounds lik...Thanks for your thoughtful comments. It sounds like you've done a lot of research into this topic. Just the brief skim I did left me feeling very uneasy. Do you have any sources to recommend for people who want to learn more?Peter Muisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05939949561996555115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-5191090666533054052015-04-13T18:54:19.987-04:002015-04-13T18:54:19.987-04:00Paula Jean Welden was almost certainly murdered.
...Paula Jean Welden was almost certainly murdered. <br /><br />There was a strong suspect at the time, a man who was initially interviewed as a witness until he raised red flags by telling police he remembered seeing Paula around the same time he left the house following a blow-out argument with his live-in girlfriend. This same man later got drunk at a bar and bragged that he knew where Paula's body was buried.<br /><br />Unfortunately, this once-promising lead was lost to time and the Welden disappearance has since gone the same way as so many other missing women, tagged well after the fact as romantic runaways, living happily under an assumed name somewhere. Perhaps it's wishful thinking or some collective denial that the kind of monstrous instinct that leads men to do terrible things to women who walk through the world alone is as common as it really is. <br /><br />One needn't look to far from Glastonbury to find other, more contemporary examples. There's Lynne Kathryn Schulze, dismissed as a hippie drop-out when she disappeared across the street from Robert Durst's health food store in Middlebury, VT in 1971. And in more recent memory, there's Maura Murray, vanished after wrecking her car catty-corner from a reputed rapist's home in Haverhill, NH and Brianna Maitland, who left work 100 miles and a month later in Montgomery, VT and never made it home.<br /><br />The list is dreary and seemingly endless but as the old saying goes, no body, no crime. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com