Monday, February 16

True Mystery Stories

Shadows in the Green Mountains: The Vanishing Souls of the Bennington Triangle
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Shadows in the Green Mountains: The Vanishing Souls of the Bennington Triangle

  The Green Mountains of Vermont are known for two things: their breathtaking autumnal colors and a silence that, in certain places, feels heavy—almost intentional. In the southwestern corner of the state, nestled around the shadow of Glastenbury Mountain, lies a patch of wilderness that locals have whispered about for centuries. Long before the 1940s, the Native American tribes of the region warned that the mountain was "cursed ground," a place where the winds changed direction without reason and where the earth itself seemed to swallow those who stepped off the path. Between 1945 and 1950, those ancient warnings stopped sounding like folklore and started looking like a police blotter. During those five years, a series of disappearances occurred that defied logic, exhausted search parties...
The Ghost of the Atlantic: The Untimely Fate of the Mary Celeste
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The Ghost of the Atlantic: The Untimely Fate of the Mary Celeste

  The ocean has a way of swallowing secrets, but on December 4, 1872, it spat one back out. When the crew of the Dei Gratia spotted a brigantine drifting aimlessly about 400 miles east of the Azores, they didn’t see a shipwreck. They saw a ship that looked, from a distance, like it was being guided by a ghost. Captain David Morehouse, commanding the Dei Gratia, recognized the vessel immediately. It was the Mary Celeste. Only eight days earlier, he had shared a farewell dinner in New York with its captain, Benjamin Briggs. Briggs was a seasoned, teetotaling mariner—a man not given to panic or superstition. He had his wife, Sarah, and their two-year-old daughter, Sophia, on board for the voyage to Genoa, Italy. The Boarding Party’s Discovery When Morehouse’s boarding party climbed the wooden...