Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
Between 1945 and 1950 five people disappeared around Glastenbury Mountain and were never satisfactorily accounted for: a 74-year-old hunting guide who walked ahead of his party and was gone, a Bennington College student who stepped off a trail, a man who vanished from a moving bus, and two others. Searches with hundreds of volunteers and aircraft turned up almost nothing. The writer Joseph Citro later gave the area its name. The disappearances are documented fact; the explanation is not. Glastenbury is still there, remote, steep and mostly trailless except where the Long Trail crosses it, and it deserves respect rather than bravado.
Glastenbury Mountain, near Bennington (Vermont). Source: Five documented, unexplained disappearances, 1945-1950. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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