Episode 13: Bennington Triangle: Shirley Jackson’s Missing Girls

Shirley Jackson is one of my favorite authors - dead authors that is. She is famous for her works The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived at the Castle and scads more. 

But when living in Southern Vermont with her husband and four kids, a girl goes missing, and Shirley starts writing (not that she ever stopped). Over several years people would simply disappear in the wilderness sometimes referred to as The Bennington Triangle.  Did any of these disappearances influence the subtle, terrifying writings of Jackson? 

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Sources and more!

 

 

http://www.benningtontriangle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/p9353068.jpg

http://ruthfranklin.net/author/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/10/shirley-jackson-ruth-franklin-review-a-rather-haunted-life

 

https://www.christianscience.com

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/lifestyle/legacy-of-author-shirley-jackson-lives-on-in-sonoma-county/

https://twitter.com/LaurenceJH99

By Joseph Citro: 

https://www.amazon.com/Passing-Strange-England-Hauntings-Horrorsebook/dp/B007QUU6XS

Bigfoot!  https://www.bfro.net

Rebecca Robinson (SPJ freelancer page): https://www.spj.org/fdb-detail.asp?cmd=&ref=1088

 

 

 

 

Other stuff:

 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/29/shirley-jacksons-son-talks-to-his-fictional-mom-elisabeth-moss

 

https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2019/12/12/the-strange-disappearance-of-paulajean-weldon-in-the-bennington-triangle

 

https://crossettlibrary.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/11209/12086/31October2003BFP.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

 

https://bookriot.com/shirley-jackson-books/

https://www.ttbook.org/interview/laurence-jackson-hyman-we-have-always-lived-castle