Well I was just thinking back on a book I read from my school library back in grade 5 called "The encyclopedia of monsters" And I remembered a story about the Flatwoods monster. Supposedly there were 10 eye witnesses and they said they saw. "A giant ball of fire" and "A 10 foot tall monster" They also said something ike it had an unbearable stench.

Well I just wanted to more of the story because that is pretty much all I could find.

P.S. If this should be moved to the aliens one please indeed move it.

Attached sketch of the monster.

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Weird...

Yeah first time I saw the picture/sketch it gave me a 'butterflyey feeling'

I have NEVER heard of or seen this before. I don't know what to say...

i read about this when i was young, in one of my many mystery books..that i can't find now, where are they?

anyway i never realised before, but that picture is rather creepy

eh

Mr.Halo have you been able to find out anythnig on it? My search completly failed.

The skecth looks like a photo for a couple seconds...

In modern police parlance a long-unsolved homicide or other crime may be known as a "cold case," a term we might borrow for such paranormal mysteries as that of the Flatwoods Monster, which was launched on September 12, 1952, and never completely explained.
About 7:15 p.m. on that day, at Flatwoods, a little village in the hills of West Virginia, some youngsters were playing football on the school playground. Suddenly they saw a fiery UFO streak across the sky and, apparently, land on a hilltop of the nearby Bailey Fisher farm. The youths ran to the home of Mrs. Kathleen May, who provided a flashlight and accompanied them up the hill. In addition to Mrs. May, a local beautician, the group included her two sons, Eddie 13, and Freddie 14, Neil Nunley 14, Gene Lemon 17, and Tommy Hyer and Ronnie Shaver, both 10, along with Lemon's dog.

There are myriad, often contradictory versions of what happened next, but UFO writer Gray Barker was soon on the scene and wrote an account for Fate magazine based on tape-recorded interviews. He found that the least emotional account was provided by Neil Nunley, one of two youths who were in the lead as the group hastened to the crest of the hill. Some distance ahead was a pulsing red light. Then, suddenly, Gene Lemon saw a pair of shining, animal-like eyes, and aimed the flashlight in their direction.

The light revealed a towering "man-like" figure with a round, red "face" surrounded by a "pointed, hood-like shape." The body was dark and seemingly colorless, but some would later say it was green, and Mrs. May reported drape-like folds. The monster was observed only momentarily, as suddenly it emitted a hissing sound and glided toward the group. Lemon responded by screaming and dropping his flashlight, whereupon everyone fled.

The group had noticed a pungent mist at the scene and afterward some were nauseated. A few locals, then later the sheriff and a deputy (who came from investigating a reported airplane crash), searched the site but "saw, heard and smelled nothing." The following day A. Lee Stewart, Jr., from the Braxton Democrat discovered "skid marks" in the roadside field, along with an "odd, gummy deposit" -- traces attributed to the landed "saucer" (Barker 1953).

In his article Barker (1953) noted that "numerous people in a 20-mile radius saw the illuminated objects in the sky at the same time," evidently seeing different objects or a single one "making a circuit of the area." Barker believed the Flatwoods incident was consistent with other reports of "flying saucers or similar craft" and that "such a vehicle landed on the hillside, either from necessity or to make observations." (At this time in UFOlogical history, the developing mythology had not yet involved alien "abductions.")

In addition to Barker's article and later his book (1956), accounts of the Flatwoods incident were related by another on-site investigator, paranormal writer Ivan T. Sanderson (1952, 1967), as well as the early UFOlogist Major Donald E. Keyhoe (1953). More recent accounts have garbled details, with Brookesmith (1995), for example, incorrectly reporting five of the children as belonging to Mrs. May, and Ritchie (1994) referring to the monster's hoodlike feature as a "halo," which he compared with those in Japanese Buddhist art. However, Jerome Clark's The UFO Encyclopedia (1998) has a generally factual, sensible account of the affair, appropriately termed "one of the most bizarre UFO encounters of all time."


http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-11/i-files.html

And there is te complete story...

Thanks Gaz, weird I wonder what it would have looked like? And yes that sketch looks very much like a photo.

no problem mate...and yeah i think it look's like a photo too

god yeah it does look like a photo, is it a sketch of the monster added to a photo background or something

I think it is. But I don't think they had photoshop then...

just looked at it again, it looks rather flat, like a cardboard cut out in front of a real landscape...

I don't think they had cardboard back thenb either

That's kind of creepy.

Defenitely a real background with a detailed sketch.The creature looks very real for a sketch.I believe this story...

Yea, real background, fake story.

I don't think its a fake story.

I don't either...

http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-11/i-files.html

The flatwoods monster and the mothman have many similar sighting characteristics. Many of the first mothman reports were even said to be linked to the flatwoods case a couple years previous in a different part of west virginia.

Both had red eyes,
Both were experienced in unision with wild lights in the skies
Both in West Virginia woodland

And both were definately unexplainable.

Hmmm... Could they be the same creature? Find out next time on...


TALES OF INTREST!

theres another topic on it here! maybe a couple! search!

Someone probably thinks they are the same species... *cough* fakes *cough*

The creature and the description are interesting because I haven't heard anything about it before.

i think it's intresting too

in mexico recently like 7 months ago there was a similar case. a creature that was dress like a witch attacked a police officer. the officer said tha he was driving and a creature jump on his policer, the officer called for back-up and then he fainted. later they told him to describe the creature and it was exactly like the one above

Thats interesting...

mr_halo believes this story to be a true one

Strange....I recall something on this sketch that an F.B.I. agent that used to live in my neighborhood talk to me about it....I can't remember what........

But I do agree that it does look like a photo at first glance but once you look at the alien(monster), it doesn't.

Y U'LL BELIEVE ANYTHING!!!!!!

evilsongwriter next time you are going to put 2 posts in a row, have a heart and use the edit button, because everytime you make a double post, god kills a kitten. You don't want a kitten killed do you?

What was tis picture that this 'FBI' agent told you about? And why would he tell some person about it?

Hmm intriguing story (or however you typ that).
Why is it that these things mostly occur in America? Sure it's a big country with a variety of landscapes and such, but still.

I live in Belgium (between The Netherlands and France), it's a pretty small country where nothing 'strange' ever happens besides some child rapers who get arrested *points @ Marc Dutroux *

Anyway, this myth, legend is very interesting and needs to be analyzed further.

Greetz from Belgium.

I just got a book out of the library entitled: { Unexplained! } new edition
By: { Jermone Clark } on page #427 they have a short peice on the flatwoods monster. They have had sightings in Va. or W.Va. and where there were sights of ufo's they spotted the flatwoods monster. I recently heard on the coast to coast radio show with George Noory and Art Bell
several call-ins on the subject matter as well as witnesses accounts on having seen this creature/monster.Who knows the drawing in this book looks pretty creppy and scary to me. Wouldn't wanna come face to face with this glowing re-eyed monster thats for sure.

thats not true at all....

*shudders*

I'm sorry but I highly doubt that this Flatwood monster is true. I'll go check it out today though. Most people just dress up into these odd costumes and ask their wife or friend to take a picture of them and they could then sell it. Just to make money - they'll do it.

Yes it is true, more than your tiny mind could ever comprehend...

Inuyasha rocks!!! Anyways, The F.B.I. lady told me that the people who saw it spent time in jail like a week after the incident. She said they did nothing wrong but they were there because they were forced to go there. I don't think she told me anything else...

Looks like a cardboard cutout! Just like this one!

indeed it does

rude for the sake of rude is pointless...

Wait - the witnesses of the Flatwood Monster were sent to jail, for no reason - just witnessing the events of this Flatwood Monster? Someone fill me in...

every time i see it, it freaks the crap out of me

I can't get the pictures or video - not sure what it is? Is there a better site to see the Flatwoods Monster? Please send it to me, I'm very interested.

Oh sorry! here is a link for you and anyone else who can't see the picture.

YEah it does look like a cradboard cut out... But I still think this story is guinuine... But it does need a bit more proof if olnly there was more documentation on it..

(BTW Inuyasha rocks! )

Thats the flatwoods monster! Oh come on that is really hard to believe! Thanks for the pic. by the way.

Creepy story but to me the picture still looks kinda like a sketch.

That may be because it is a sketch