Thomas Benton

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Thomas Benton was a doctor born in Benton, New Hampshire. He is not too well known, but the legend of Doc Benton (for short) is very strange nonetheless. He supposedly was moved into isolation by his own means, practiced researching the secret to eternal life, and still lives today, to summarize the story very shortly.


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The Story of Doc Benton

Doc Benton was a person with well above average intelligence and many people from all over tried to obtain his services. He was known for his compassion, especially in his local community, but in 1816, something made him go into solitude. He started living the rest of his life in a cabin deep in the forest and only came out when necessary (mostly to buy necessities like food and water). Even when people came to visit him to ask and even plead for diagnosis's and treatments, he rejected them.


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The Deaths

Then began the deaths, which first began when a cow was found lifeless in a barn. Then other animals, horses, sheep, and soon humans too. It is no coincidence that these animals and humans died because all were found with a wound behind their left ear with a red swelling and a white pinprick in the middle.


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The Disappearance of Doc Benton

When a small, but brave group of people from the community came to Benton's cabin to try to find out the reason behind the mystery, they found out that he had abandoned the cabin. A search was called for, but no one could find him or his body presuming he had died.


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Encounters with Doc Benton

When sighting of Doc Benton occurred, people always described him as wearing a black cape, having long white hair, and moving quickly. In just a couple of months after the disappearance of Doc Benton, hikers and hunters would see him in the Moosilauke region (an area of 30 sq. miles). In 1825, a women from Benton, NH heard her daughter yell out and the mother saw a black-caped man stealing her daughter. The women, her husband, and neighbors all came out to join the chase the black figure. They continued until the footprints ended in Little Tunnel Ravine, a canyon where escape would seem impossible. Then, the neighbors and the mother and father heard Dr. Benton's laughter above them and saw he ascended the cliff, holding the girl. the father pleaded for Benton to stop, he threw his daughter off the cliff and that killed her most likely in an instant. Other sightings in the 1800s continued, one included two loggers disappearing. One was lost forever, but the other logger was finally found, but with the wound behind his left ear.

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Later Encounters

When the 1970s came around, there was a near deadly experience that possibly involved Doc Benton. It began when Dartmouth student took a hike alone in the Jobidunk Ravine. Search crews were called up when he went missing, lucky they found him with quite ease, but he was in a daze and in shock. Rescuers transported him to the main hospital in Hanover, NH where he recovered from his bruises and a fractured skull. When he became in better shape, he told one of his friends that when he was traversing on a ledge, someones arm went out of an opening in the rocks and pushed him. Another student had a very close encounter with the Doctor. In 2002, on a hike by himself near the peak of Moosilauke, he discovered a print of an old-style boot in the mud of a trail that has not been used. The trail has no tracks of any kind 15 minutes earlier.

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Present Day Benton

Benton lies within New Hampshire, in the county of Grafton. Incorporated in 1764 and named Coventry but soon renamed to Benton to honor Missouri Senator, Thomas Hart Benton. From a census conducted in 2006, the population in Benton is 340. Benton is made up of approximately 97% white/Caucasian race, less than half percent Asian, and about 2.5% from two or more races. Other facts include: total land area--48.2 sq. miles; total water area--.2 sq. mi; in total--48.2 sq. miles.

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Source

Source of the story of Doc Benton is from "Weird New England", where they title the legend, 'Dreadful Doc Benton'. Authors of "weird New England" are also writers of "Weird US".

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