The Flatwoods Monster (the Braxton County Monster, or the Green Monster) is an American cryptid — a tall, strange, robotic or alien-like creature with a spade-shaped or hooded head and glowing eyes, said to have been encountered near Flatwoods, West Virginia, in 1952, in a famous incident connected to a reported crashed UFO. The alien-like monster of Flatwoods, the strange hooded creature of the famous 1952 incident, the Flatwoods Monster is one of the most famous and strange of the American cryptids, the alien being of the West Virginia hills.
The Monster of Flatwoods
The Flatwoods Monster is described as a tall, strange, alien-like or robotic creature — a great creature, around ten feet tall, with a strange, spade-shaped, ace-of-spades-shaped, or hooded head (a pointed hood or cowl around the head), large glowing (orange or red) eyes, a dark, robe-like or metallic, pleated body (sometimes described as a dark green, robe-like or armoured lower body, seeming to float or glide rather than walk), and clawed or talon-like hands — a strange, towering, hooded, glowing-eyed, alien-like or robotic creature. It was encountered near Flatwoods, West Virginia (Braxton County) in September 1952 — the strange creature of the famous Flatwoods incident. As the monster of Flatwoods, the tall, hooded, glowing-eyed, alien-like creature of the famous 1952 incident, the Flatwoods Monster is the strange alien being of the West Virginia hills.
The Incident of 1952
The Flatwoods Monster became famous in a single dramatic incident in September 1952. On the evening of September 12, 1952, a group of people in Flatwoods, West Virginia — including several boys and a woman and her sons — saw a bright object streak across the sky and apparently crash or land on a nearby hill (a reported UFO). Going up the hill to investigate, the group encountered, in the dark, a terrifying creature — the tall, hooded, glowing-eyed Flatwoods Monster — which loomed before them, hissing or emitting a strange sound and (in some accounts) a foul mist or odour, and which terrified the witnesses, who fled in panic. The witnesses reported the encounter, and the incident — the crashed UFO and the terrifying alien-like creature — became a famous sensation, the Flatwoods Monster becoming one of the most famous cryptid-and-UFO incidents in American history. As the subject of the famous 1952 incident, the alien-like creature of the Flatwoods encounter, the Flatwoods Monster is the strange being of the famous West Virginia incident.
The Alien-Like Cryptid
The Flatwoods Monster is one of the most famous and strange of the American cryptids, and one most closely connected to the UFO and alien phenomenon — for the creature, encountered after a reported UFO crash, with its strange, hooded, glowing-eyed, robotic or alien-like appearance, has been most often interpreted as an alien or extraterrestrial being (a being from the crashed UFO), bridging the cryptid and the UFO/alien phenomena. It is a famous figure of American cryptid and UFO lore, a beloved local legend of Flatwoods and West Virginia (which embraces its famous monster), and an iconic alien-like creature. Skeptics explain the incident as a misidentification — the “UFO” being a meteor, and the “monster” being a misidentified barn owl (perched in a tree, its shape and glowing eyes appearing monstrous to the frightened witnesses in the dark) combined with fear, mist, and the power of suggestion — but the legend endures, famous and beloved. As the alien-like cryptid, the strange hooded creature of the famous Flatwoods incident and a famous figure of cryptid and UFO lore, the Flatwoods Monster is the iconic alien being of the West Virginia hills. As the monster of Flatwoods — the tall, hooded, glowing-eyed, alien-like Flatwoods Monster of the famous 1952 incident — it stands as one of the most famous and strange of the American cryptids.
Legacy
The Flatwoods Monster endures as one of the most famous and strange of the American cryptids, the tall, hooded, glowing-eyed, alien-like or robotic creature of the famous 1952 incident near Flatwoods, West Virginia, connected to a reported UFO crash, a famous figure of American cryptid and UFO lore and a beloved local legend. As the alien-like monster of Flatwoods — the Flatwoods Monster, the Braxton County Monster, the tall hooded creature with the spade-shaped head and glowing eyes, the strange being of the famous 1952 UFO incident — the Flatwoods Monster stands as one of the most famous and strange of the American cryptids, the iconic alien being of the West Virginia hills, the strange creature of the famous Flatwoods encounter.
