Due to the strangeness of these events, Vermont broadcaster and author Joseph A. Citro dubbed the wilderness area northeast of Bennington ``the Bennington Triangle'' -- a reference to unexplained disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle. Author Shirley Jackson (1916--1965) was inspired by Welden's vanishing when she wrote her novel Hangsaman (1951), as indicated by Jackson's papers in the Library of Congress.
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