Although it was just a few yards to camp, little Bruce Kremen never made those last few steps. For some terrible, inexplicable reason, Bruce Kremen vanished without a trace just nine days before his seventh birthday.
More than three hundred volunteers continued to comb every foot of the forest within ten square miles for twelve days before they regretfully called a halt to their futile search. Bruce Kremen had become another tiny victim of whatever devil inhabited the Devil's Gate region of the 690,000 acres of wilderness.
In each of the four mysterious disappearances in that four-year period the exhaustive efforts of hundreds of experienced volunteer and professional searchers produced not a single trace of clothing, not a single identifying possession, not even a skeleton or skeletal fragment. The authorities were forced to discard every possible lead. Wild animals, sex maniacs, kidnappers, freak accidents all were eliminated as a result of meticulous investigation. [On March 6, 2007 some researchers theorized that Mack Ray Edwards, a convicted pedophile who hanged himself while on death row in 1972, might have somehow snatched Tommy Bowman without being seen by the boy's family who were walking only a few feet behind him. However, Tommy's name had not been mentioned among his eighteen victims during Edwards' confession to the police.]
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In the period of November, 1945, to December, 1950, seven people disappeared in the Mt. Glastenbury region near Bennington, Vermont. There are no records of any disappearances in that area before 1945, but now area residents nurture theories of demons, monsters, or UFO occupants who that lay in wait for unsuspecting victims out for a hike on a nature trail.
Middie Rivers, the first person to vanish from Mt. Glastenbury, seemed a most unlikely candidate to become lost for an hour, let alone forever. Rivers was a seventy-five-year-old hunting guide who knew the region as thoroughly as any person alive. On November 12, 1945, Rivers led four hunters into the mountain region, then, while he was returning to camp a bit ahead of the other men, he vanished completely.
Within hours of his disappearance hundreds of volunteers and local and state police began to scour the area. . The search was continued for a month without their discovering even the slightest trace of the missing guide.
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