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Many individuals, including Welden's father, have criticized the lack of sophisticated methods in handling the case, which actually catalyzed the establishment of the Vermont State Police seven months later. This case still remains unsolved to this day.
Exactly three years after Paula Weldon disappeared, the Bennington Triangle witnessed another seemingly supernatural disappearance. On that day, a 68-year-old man named James E. Tedford boarded a bus to Bennington after visiting relatives in St. Albans, Vermont. Numerous witnesses, including the bus driver, later confirmed that Tedford had been in his seat. However, when the bus stopped in Bennington, Tedford vanished without a trace.
After Tedford mysteriously disappeared while aboard a moving vehicle, perplexed passengers noticed that Tedford's luggage and an open bus schedule were still on his seat. If what the witnesses say is accurate, then Tedford vanished from his seat while the bus was traveling along Vermont Route 7 through the Bennington Triangle.
Nearly a year later, in mid-October 1950, 8-year-old Paul Jepson went missing. The last time he was seen, the boy was happily playing in the family's pickup truck.
In addition to the hundreds gathered for a search party, a police chief in New Hampshire brought along a bloodhound to track the missing boy. The hound may have picked up the boy's scent, but suddenly lost it at an intersection nearby, indicating the possibility that the boy was abducted by a driver.
As the case prolonged without resolution, some speculate that Jepson met his demise.
The intriguing mysteries and unexplained events surrounding the Bennington Triangle have led many to speculate wildly about the possibility of nefarious forces at work, perhaps even the mystical, a belief bolstered by sightings of UFOs and Bigfoot in the area.
Others believe that the surge in disappearances from 1945 to 1950 could be the work of a serial killer. However, the complete lack of evidence to support this, as well as the diversity in age and gender of the victims (despite typical serial killer patterns), may rule out that theory.
Still, others contend that the missing individuals fell prey to the claws of a local mountain cat such as a lynx or a mountain lion. However, lynxes are known to be non-aggressive towards humans, and mountain lions have not been sighted in this area since before 1940.
The only known similarity among the most clearly documented cases within the Bennington Triangle is the close proximity of the disappearances, the time of day when most were last seen (from 3 PM to 4 PM), and the time of year when most disappearances were last seen (the last three months of the year).
