The legend of the Braxton County or Flatwoods Monster arose near dusk on September 12, 1952, when a group of local youths were startled from a game of football by a fireball streaking across the sky. The fireball fell to earth just beyond a hillside at Flatwoods.
Joined by Kathleen May, a local beautician, the boys went to investigate. The group consisted of Mrs. May, Eugene Lemon, Teddy May, Ronald Shaver, Neal Nunley, Teddy Neal, and Tommy Hyer.
The group of seven approached the top of the hill where the fireball had landed. Beyond the hill, they reported seeing a pulsating light. Then suddenly, to their left, two powerful light beams pierced the darkness.
Turning their own flashlight in that direction, they saw a large man-like creature nearly 12 feet tall and about four feet wide. Making no sound, it floated toward them. The creature had a red face and bright green clothing, which hung in folds below the waist.
Its head was shaped like the ace of spades and there was an almost sickening metallic odor emanating from its body. The witnesses quickly fled the scene. A later investigation found only a lingering odor, two large skid marks, and trampled grass.
Although the Monster has never reappeared, Flatwoods celebrated its 50th anniversary with a community festival in 2002. An annual convention is now held in Flatwoods.
Ron S
From the first movie robot in 1921 “The Mechanical Man” to 1945 “The Monster and the Ape”and later, there have been a host of movie monsters and posters for them that featured similar character type monsters to the the Flatwoods Monster that featured glowing or laser shooting eyes and portions of the lower torso that looked like a skirt or miniskirt.
The Flatwoods monster for appearance has 1952 written all over it. But why?
What I find interesting and wonder about is if a human group or various individuals are perpetrating a hoax for either personal attention or for publicity (to sell future media or toys)… Or, if some-thing non-human is monitoring human fear response to the then current media and simulating a monster according to the times, technology and imagination. It might be all of these.
It seems the same things that have caused fear since before the first movie I mentioned are still causing fear today… Robots (tech), Ape-like human-like creatures, Creatures from Black Lagoons (lizard/human), wearwolves (dogman), Aliens, insect creatures and prehistoric things, ghosts, demons etc.
These creatures obviously are a fear formula that works, but is it always for fame or money, or are there instances where the motivations could be much darker yet?
Personally I have seen things that shouldn’t be here that would be very hard to hoax, making the darkest aspects of some sightings potentially covered up by layers of things we’d easily (and maybe foolishly) pass off as other people’s hallucinations, hoaxes, or publicity stunts. With a failing reliability that our technology is 100% honest, the last determining factor we have left is our own intuition. With this push for mankind ti be integrated with technology the increasing likelihood of getting duped drastically goes up, and intuition becomes sidelined, right along with faith.