But with Paula Welden, a pattern seemed to emerge. Welden, 18, was a sophomore at Bennington College who came from an affluent Stamford, Connecticut, family. By all accounts she was a typical ...

On Sunday, Dec. 1, 1946, Paul Welden left her college campus in Vermont, telling her roommate she was going for a hike. She never returned. Nearly 80 years later, the disappearance of the 18-year ...

Stamford 18-year-old Paula Welden has been lost in the woods since Dec. 1, 1946. It’s no wonder the Bennington College sophomore caught the attention of author Shirley Jackson. Jackson ...

Then there was Paula Jean Welden, 18. The college student left campus to go ... Vermont. He boarded a Bennington-bound bus only to disappear just before his stop in the town – his luggage ...

Paula Jeen Welden would be nearing 88 years old today ... What’s known for sure is that she was a student at Bennington College, with interests in painting and the outdoors, and that on Dec ...

1946 when 18-year-old Paula Jean Welden disappeared. A sophomore at Bennington College, where Jackson's husband Stanley Edgar Hyman was employed at the time, Welden worked at the school's dining hall.

Ryan got her MFA in fiction at Bennington College. While she was there, she read “The Missing Girl” by Shirley Jackson. In her research, she found that Jackson’s story was presumed to be based on the ...

In 1946, 18-year-old Bennington College student Paula Jean Welden took a solo hike in the area and disappeared without a trace. In 1950, eight-year-old Paul 'Buddy' Jepson, who had special needs ...

The most famous case in this list is that of Paula Welden. On December 1, 1949, the 18-year-old student, a student at Bennington College, set out for a hike on the Long Trail. Because it was ...