Hikers Report Bigfoot Sighting at Vermont's Bennington Triangle Shelter

If you've ever wondered what really goes on in the Bennington Triangle, a recently surfaced hiking video might just give you chills. The footage comes from the YouTube channel Brian, Chewie & Annie Go Hiking, where the crew took on the infamous Glastenbury Mountain in southwestern Vermont, a place steeped in folklore, disappearances, and some seriously unsettling high strangeness. For those unfamiliar, the Bennington Triangle is a remote patch of wilderness that earned its spooky reputation after five unexplained disappearances occurred there between 1945 and 1950. The terrain is thick, the weather is erratic, and the forests are confusing enough to swallow even experienced hikers. Native American legends from local tribes have long regarded Glastenbury Mountain as cursed, with stories claiming that sound doesn't carry properly there. Some folks attribute the disappearances to UFO sightings, others to cryptids like Sasquatch, and some to supernatural energy vortexes. Honestly, when a place has that many theories attached to it, there's usually something worth paying attention to. The real reason this particular hike happened, though, is one heck of a story. The channel met a guy named George, a Vermont local who gives shuttle rides to through hikers during the busy summer "bubble" season on the Long Trail. George is the kind of trustworthy, salt-of-the-earth guy who has nothing to gain from making things up, and his story is what sent this crew packing into the woods. According to George, he picked up a woman from California who was hiking the Long Trail solo. The first thing she said when she got in the car was, "There's something wrong with your mountains." She told him she'd been staying at the Goddard Shelter, which sits a whopping 10 miles from the nearest road, deep in the Glastonbury wilderness. Around 1:00 a.m., she was woken up by the sound of a baby crying, followed by people mumbling just out of earshot. George tried to brush it off, suggesting maybe it was a baby fox or some other critter. She cut him off immediately. "It was not a fox. It was a baby crying. I heard people mumbling." The same thing happened the second night at another shelter roughly five miles away. Two nights in a row of this was enough to scare her off the trail entirely, and George ended up driving her to the airport so she could fly home to California. Now here's where it gets really interesting. The very next day, George picked up three more through hikers, a couple and their friend, from a similar area. Trying to break the ice, George shared the story of the woman from California, expecting maybe a laugh or a polite nod. Instead, the couple looked at each other and said the exact same thing had happened to them. Same baby crying. Same mumbling. And then the third guy, sitting in the passenger seat, casually dropped a bombshell: "I saw a Bigfoot." He described watching something hunched down that slowly stood up and ran. Three separate hikers, two nights in a row, all reporting the same phenomenon in the same remote stretch of wilderness, plus a possible Sasquatch sighting? That's the kind of pattern that makes even the most skeptical researcher pause. George has been running those shuttle trips for years and says this is the only time anything like this has ever come up. That alone makes it worth digging into. The channel, joined by Alex Petakov from the Small Town Monsters Channel, decided to hike the 10-mile trail up to the Goddard Shelter to see the location firsthand. The journey wasn't easy. The first stretch of the Appalachian Trail through that area is known as one of the toughest sections, and the bugs were relentless. After a couple of hours in the dense forest, they hit a power line cut that gave them a much-needed break and some gorgeous views of the Green Mountain National Forest. From there, it was smooth sailing toward the shelter. Once they arrived, they set up camp, cooked up some creamy pasta with chicken, and filtered water for the next day's hike. They met a friendly through hiker from Florida with the trail name "Chief" who planned to stay at the shelter that night. After dinner, the crew headed up to the fire tower at the summit, about 0.3 miles from camp, to catch the last of the daylight. The 360-degree views were stunning, but the real find was the remnants of the old town of Glastonbury scattered around the summit, including an old wood stove. Standing up there, looking out over the wilderness, it's hard not to think about that California hiker and what she experienced alone in the dark. The Bennington Triangle has been a hotbed of paranormal speculation for decades, and stories like this one only add fuel to the fire. Whether you lean toward the cryptid explanation, the interdimensional vortex theory, or something else entirely, there's no denying that Glastenbury Mountain has a way of getting under your skin. The full video is well worth the watch, especially if you're into hiking content mixed with genuine paranormal investigation. Check it out and see what you think.