Qualla: Flatwoods Monster https://qualla.com/flatwoods-monster en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:07 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/s/flatwoods-monster-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Flatwoods Monster https://qualla.com/flatwoods-monster Flatwoods Monster: Introduction https://qualla.com/flatwoods-monster/ Photo credit Don Woods, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the evening of September 12, 1952, a meteor crossed the sky over Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, and a group of frightened boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, climbed a hillside to find where it had landed. What they found - or what they thought they found - is now stitched into the official identity of Braxton County. Five enormous green chairs shaped like the creature serve as roadside attractions; the town welcomes visitors as the 'Home of the Green Monster'; an annual convention draws cryptid enthusiasts; and the figure called Braxie has been referenced in video games, History Channel episodes, and decades of UFO literature. The story holds together because the witnesses described what they saw in detail, and because the most sober explanation for what they saw is, in its own way, almost as strange as the monster itself.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/s/flatwoods-monster-wp/dnys-flatwoods-monster-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Flatwoods Monster: September 12, 1952 https://qualla.com/flatwoods-monster/ Photo credit Tim Bertelink, CC BY-SA 4.0. At 7:15 in the evening, Edward and Fred May - brothers, ages 13 and 12 - were playing on a school playground with their friend Tommy Hyer when a bright object crossed the sky and appeared to land on G. Bailey Fisher's farm a short walk away. They ran home and told Edward and Fred...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/s/flatwoods-monster-wp/dnys-flatwoods-monster-september-12-1952.mp3 0:06 2 full Flatwoods Monster: What They Described https://qualla.com/flatwoods-monster/ Photo credit Tim Bertelink, CC BY-SA 4.0. Accounts of the figure vary by witness and by interview, but a recognizable creature emerges. It was tall - estimates ran around ten feet. Its face was round and red, like a clock face, surrounded by a pointed hood that came up behind the head in a peaked shape. Eye-like openings...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/s/flatwoods-monster-wp/dnys-flatwoods-monster-what-they-described.mp3 0:06 3 full Flatwoods Monster: Meteors, Beacons, and Owls https://qualla.com/flatwoods-monster/ Photo credit Tim Bertelink, CC BY-SA 4.0. The skeptical investigation came much later. Joe Nickell of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry took up the case in 2000 and worked through it piece by piece. The bright light in the sky was almost certainly the meteor reported across three states that night. The pulsing red ligh...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/s/flatwoods-monster-wp/dnys-flatwoods-monster-meteors-beacons-and-owls.mp3 0:06 4 full Flatwoods Monster: How the Story Took Hold https://qualla.com/flatwoods-monster/ Photo credit Tim Bertelink, CC BY-SA 4.0. Whatever happened on the hill, the story spread fast. A UFO writer named Gray Barker interviewed the witnesses with a tape recorder and wrote up the encounter for Fate Magazine, where it joined a growing post-Roswell genre of saucer-and-creature stories. A. Lee Stewart Jr. of the...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/y/s/flatwoods-monster-wp/dnys-flatwoods-monster-how-the-story-took-hold.mp3 0:06 5 full Flatwoods Monster: Braxie, Inc. https://qualla.com/flatwoods-monster/ Photo credit Tim Bertelink, CC BY-SA 4.0. Modern Flatwoods has made peace with its monster and turned it into civic identity. The Braxton County Convention and Visitors Bureau erected five tall chairs shaped like the creature - a pointed green hood, a round red face - at locations around the county. Visitors who photogra...

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