House of Strange

Between 1945 and 1950, a series of mysterious disappearances in southwestern Vermont helped create the legend now known as the Bennington Triangle. Centered around Glastenbury Mountain and the surrounding wilderness, the area has become associated with missing people, strange stories, and decades of speculation.

In this episode of The House of Strange, we explore the disappearances connected to the Bennington Triangle, including experienced guide Middie Rivers, college student Paula Welden, and James Tedford, who seemingly vanished while traveling by bus. We examine what is known about the cases, the rugged landscape surrounding Glastenbury, and how separate mysteries became woven together into one enduring Vermont legend.

From unsolved disappearances and local folklore to the later creation of the Bennington Triangle itself, we explore what happens when a place becomes as mysterious as the people who vanished within it.

In 2001, an antique wine cabinet appeared on eBay accompanied by a frightening story: it supposedly contained a malevolent spirit known as a dybbuk. The object would soon become infamous as the Dybbuk Box, one of the internet age’s most recognizable haunted objects.

In this episode of The House of Strange, we explore the story of the Dybbuk Box, the misfortune, nightmares, and paranormal activity attributed to its owners, and the Jewish folklore surrounding the concept of the dybbuk itself. We trace how an online auction transformed an ordinary cabinet into a supernatural legend and examine the questions that eventually emerged about the story’s origins and authenticity.

From Jewish folklore and spirit possession to haunted objects and internet legends, the Dybbuk Box shows how an old supernatural idea can be transformed into an entirely new kind of modern mythology.

Before UFOs became flying saucers and alien encounters became part of popular culture, a series of strange sightings helped shape how America imagined visitors from the sky.

In this episode of The Attic Files, we explore six famous events from early UFO history: the Battle of Los Angeles, Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 flying saucer sighting, the death of Captain Thomas Mantell while pursuing an unidentified object, the Roswell incident, the mysterious Lubbock Lights, and the 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO sightings.

From military alerts and radar contacts to strange lights, alleged crashes, and eyewitness reports, these cases helped define the emerging UFO phenomenon in the United States. Were they encounters with something unexplained, products of Cold War anxiety and misidentification, or stories that grew larger with every retelling?

Together, they reveal how the modern mythology of UFOs was built one sighting at a time.

In September 1952, a strange light crossed the sky above Flatwoods, West Virginia, sending a group of local children and adults searching for whatever had come down in the nearby hills. What they claimed to encounter would become one of the strangest stories in UFO history: the Flatwoods Monster.

In this episode of The House of Strange, we explore the 1952 Flatwoods incident, the mysterious object seen in the sky, and the towering figure witnesses reported encountering on a West Virginia hillside. Also known as the Braxton County Monster, the creature became an enduring part of American UFO lore and West Virginia folklore.

From eyewitness accounts and possible explanations to the cultural afterlife of the Flatwoods Monster, we examine how one frightening encounter transformed a small Appalachian town into the home of one of America’s most recognizable unexplained creatures.

In 12th-century England, two mysterious children appeared near the village of Woolpit in Suffolk. Their skin was said to be green, they spoke an unfamiliar language, and they refused nearly all food except raw beans. Their strange arrival became the legend of the Green Children of Woolpit.

In this episode of The House of Strange, we explore the medieval accounts recorded by Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newburgh, the children's mysterious origins, and their claim to have come from a strange place later known as St. Martin’s Land. As they adapted to life in England, their green coloring eventually faded, but questions about where they came from remained.

From historical explanations involving migration, illness, and malnutrition to folklore and more extraordinary theories, the Green Children of Woolpit remain one of medieval England’s most enduring mysteries.