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Post by auntym on Jan 11, 2014 14:40:13 GMT -6
ufomagazine.squarespace.com/ufo-magazine/2014/1/10/frank-feschino-and-the-incident-at-strange-creek.htmlFrank Feschino And The Incident At Strange Creek!Posted on 01.10.2014 Alfred Lehmberg in Feschino Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River. Well, the 2014 iteration of the New Year got off to a fast start for researcher Frank Feschino, Jr! He received a phone call from still another witness in West Virginia who claimed, and convincingly, that he may had seen the so-called "Flatwoods Monster" in Braxton County back in September of 1952, too. Verily and meat appears to be on that bone. For Frank, it was a new first-hand witness to personally come forward and speak to him in several years. Frank called me almost immediately and explained the series of events. . He explained that this current "Monster" sighting report, according to the eyewitness, did not occur in Flatwoods at the time Mrs. May and the boys saw it on the Fisher Farm at 8:00 pm. Moreover, it did not even occur on the night of September 12, 1952! . Frank said the witness claims to have seen a tall "metallic-looking" figure in the small town of "Strange Creek" during the early morning hours of... September 13, 1952! This was about 3:00 am EST the day after all previous days history known! . Strange Creek, where, in 1952, this witness was a boy, is a small unincorporated little town located just southwest of Frametown and Glendon along Route 4 and the Elk River in southern Braxton County. This is near the Clay County border. This town is about 21-miles southwest of Flatwoods. CONTINUE READING: ufomagazine.squarespace.com/ufo-magazine/2014/1/10/frank-feschino-and-the-incident-at-strange-creek.html
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Post by swamprat on Jan 15, 2019 14:21:17 GMT -6
New episode tonight, 10 Eastern, 9 Central, the History Channel: "The Flatwoods Monster".
In 1952, the Flatwoods Monster Terrified 6 Kids, a Mom, a Dog—and the Nation
It prompted a U.S. Air Force UFO inquiry, part of an initiative called Project Blue Book.
Roy Wenzl
The Flatwoods Monster has not hissed at boys in the little village of Flatwoods, West Virginia, since Sept. 12, 1952.
People grin about it now—and take Monster souvenir money, from hundreds of Monster tourists every week. But it scared people plenty back then, including the eyewitnesses: six boys aged 10 to 17, a dog and a Mom.
“One of the boys peed his pants,” said John Gibson, a high-school freshman at the time, who knew them all. “Their dog (Rickie) ran with his tail between his legs.”
The encounter made the local and national news, scaring a wider swath of people. Then it prompted a U.S. Air Force UFO inquiry, part of a project called Project Blue Book that dispatched a handful of investigators around the country to look into such claims.
It also became a local legend, a Southern spook story that defined the tiny village of less than 300 people for more than six decades. To this day, tourists come out of their way to Flatwoods—secluded in the low, timbered Appalachian hills of central West Virginia—to visit its monster museum and buy Green Monster tchotchkes and T-shirts.
What they witnessed It was dusk when they saw it. The May brothers Ed, 13, and Freddie, 12, had been playing in their schoolyard with their 10-year-old friend Tommy Hyer. After noticing a pulsing red light streak across the sky and crash on a nearby farm, the three youngsters ran to grab the Mays boys’ mother, then high-tailed it up that hill to check out where the light had landed. A few other boys, one with a dog, showed up too.
They ran back down—in sheer and credible terror.
“Seven Braxton County residents on Saturday reported seeing a 10-foot Frankenstein-like monster in the hills above Flatwoods,” a local newspaper reported afterward. “A National Guard member, [17-year-old] Gene Lemon, was leading the group when he saw what appeared to be a pair of bright eyes in a tree.”
Lemon screamed and fell backward, the news account said, “when he saw a 10-foot monster with a blood-red body and a green face that seemed to glow.” It may have had claws for hands. It was hard to tell because of the dense mist.
The story made the local news, then got picked up by national radio and big papers all over the country, said Andrew Smith, who runs the Flatwoods Monster Museum and the Braxton County Convention Visitors Bureau. “Mrs. May and the National Guard kid ended up going to New York to talk to CBS,” Gibson said.
This article was originally published in July of 2018. Source: The History Channel.
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Post by auntym on May 7, 2021 11:43:02 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/05/the-flatwoods-monster-saves-a-west-virginia-company/The Flatwoods Monster Saves a West Virginia Companyby Paul Seaburn / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/paulseaburn/May 7, 2021 “Feel-good monster story” sounds like an oxymoron and for good reason – there just aren’t many instances of monsters performing good deeds or cryptids saving lives … especially ones whose appearance generated headlines like “Monster Terrifies 6 Kids, a Mom and a Dog,” spawned books and movies and ended up as part of the Project Blue Book investigation. If you haven’t figured out the monster from all of those not-so-subtle hints, today’s caring creature story concerns the Flatwoods Monster, and its good deed involves saving a company in West Virginia from shutting down for good due to the pandemic. “People are maybe getting into what makes the state unique and our folklore. Other than that, it’s still somewhat of a mystery.” Designer and illustrator Liz Pavlovic could be referring to the Flatwoods Monster, but she’s actually describing her surprise at how well the handblown glass Flatwoods Monster figurine she designed for the Blenko Glass Company is selling. (See it here.) At 16.5 inches tall, it’s quite a bit smaller than the estimated 10-foot-tall being seen in its only appearance on Sept. 12, 1952, in Flatwoods, West Virginia, to mom Kathleen May, her sons, their friends and a local man after a UFO sighting. They claimed it was a “man-like figure with a round, red face surrounded by a pointed, hood-like shape” with pulsating, glowing eyes, claw-like hands and a nauseating odor. There were no other witnesses and skeptics said the UFO was a meteor, the monster was a big owl with a bigger shadow, and the eyes were aircraft warning beacons. That didn’t stop believers from believing and the incident inspired an annual festival, books, video games and documentaries. “The two-piece, 16.5-inch tall figurine, in the company’s signature clover green and ruby red colors, was the first in a planned series of decorative cryptid sculptures. The roughly 800 monsters in the limited-run series were priced at $129 — more expensive than most of Blenko’s products, including its water bottles ($53), small bowls ($33) and suncatchers ($16-18). Yet the monsters turned out to be hugely popular among millennials, helping to propel the company to its most profitable year in two decades.” According to The Washington Post, Blenko was founded in 1893 as a flat glass maker and produced stained glass for New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Space Window at Washington National Cathedral in Washington. It has managed to outlast its local competition but the pandemic caused serious problems for the company whose target market is women age 30-50. Blenko had to shut down its furnaces and furloughed all 48 employees. Fortunately, it had recently begun selling its products online and that’s where the Flatwoods Monster saved the company. Bryson Cutler, the company’s marketing and accounting lead, said the Flatwoods MOnster figurine was not Blenko’s usual “grandmother’s glass” and instead hit a “home run” with a younger customer base. That not only kept money coming in until they could get a loan and the pandemic subsided enough to reopen, but it convinced Blenko management to create an new monster line of glass figurines, including West Virginia’s other famous monster – Mothman. Coincidentally, Blenko made the red glass eyes for the famous Mothman statue in Point Pleasant. mysteriousuniverse.org/2021/05/the-flatwoods-monster-saves-a-west-virginia-company/
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