You think you’ve seen this kind of documentary before. Quiet forests, ominous music, someone talking about “energy” in the land. From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle starts there—sure—but it doesn’t stay put. It sort of drifts. Lingers a beat too long in certain places. And before you realize it, you’re not just watching a spooky rundown of weird events, you’re…leaning in a little. Waiting. That’s when it gets under your skin.
Seth Breedlove doesn’t push. That’s the thing. A lot of filmmakers in this space go hard—dramatic narration, big claims, constant escalation. Here, it’s looser. More patient. Working through Small Town Monsters, he lets the interviews breathe, even when they wander a bit or circle back on themselves. At times it almost feels too casual, like you’re eavesdropping instead of being guided. But weirdly, that works. It feels less like a presentation and more like a conversation you stumbled into.
Then there’s Glastenbury Mountain itself, which the film treats less like a location and more like…something with a pulse. People go missing there. Not hypothetically—actually missing. Search parties, reports, dead ends. The film doesn’t sensationalize those cases, which I appreciated, but it also doesn’t separate them cleanly from the stranger stuff. UFO sightings slip in. Phantom lights. The occasional “something was watching me” story that you can’t really fact-check but also can’t quite shake.
And yeah, some of it sounds familiar. You’ve heard versions of these stories before, especially if you’ve dipped into paranormal docs. But it’s the stacking that gets you. One account, fine. Two, okay. By the fifth or sixth, told in slightly different ways by people who don’t seem like they’re trying to impress anyone, it starts to feel…messier. Less like folklore, more like fragments of something no one fully understands. Or maybe that’s just the film doing its job.
It doesn’t wrap things up. Not really. There’s no grand reveal, no tidy theory tying it all together. Which might annoy some people—I get that—but honestly, it fits. The Bennington Triangle, whatever it is, isn’t neat. The film leaves you sitting with that. Maybe a little unsettled. Maybe a little skeptical. Probably both. And then you move on…except a small part of your brain doesn’t.
From the Beyond: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle will launch on streaming platforms, including Apple TV, Prime Video and Google Play, on April 28, 2026. DVDs of the documentary will be available exclusively from the Small Town Monsters shop.
MPAA Rating: Unrated.
Runtime: 70 mins
Director: Seth Breedlove
Writer:
Cast: Paul Dulski
Genre: Documentary | Mystery | Sci-fi
Tagline: High Strangeness in the Bennington Triangle
Memorable Movie Quote: "Over the years, I've seen the connectivity between the phenomena."
Distributor: Small Town Pictures
Official Site: https://www.smalltownmonsters.com/
Release Date: April 28, 2026
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Synopsis: Deep in the forests of Vermont, the Bennington Triangle has become a hotspot for the unexplainable-UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters, eerie light anomalies, and a string of mysterious disappearances that defy logic. This chilling documentary blends dramatic, stylized recreations with gripping eyewitness interviews to unravel the dark and perplexing history of this enigmatic region.
