February 22, 2012

Vermont Ghosts

Stories and VT Haunted Houses & Inns, oh my!

You can find plenty of ghosts haunting the Green Mountains of Vermont. If you’re really bold, spend a night at a haunted Vermont inn or hotel. If you’re spending the night alone, maybe you’ll appreciate the company (or perhaps not).

Ghosts still visit the Cahoon Farm in Lyndon

My children swear I didn’t tell them about the ghosts before we settled into what I’ve come to learn is one of Lyndon’s most famous haunted houses. Maybe that’s true. Their father had died, and I was eager to move from Connecticut, and didn’t feel that a few spirits lingering about should deter us. But in truth, I didn’t put much stock into the stories the realtor told me anyway. By Denise Brown.

The “Bennington Triangle”

The term “Bennington Triangle” was coined by New England author Joseph A. Citro during a public radio broadcast in 1992 to denote an area of southwestern Vermont within which a number of persons went missing between 1920 and 1950.