Quest for the Flatwoods Monster

To pay homage to this classic UFO and Alien sighting I have added a new drawing to our set of Believe It Tour Characters. Click the photo to order.

It was last October, while driving home from the Texas Bigfoot Conference, that we decided to make a stop in Flatwoods, which is located in Braxton County, West Virginia. That’s right we stopped to see the home of the legendary Green Monster or, perhaps better known as, the Flatwoods Monster.

It was way back in September of 1952 that the legend started and changed the face of this small town forever. On a late summer evening there was a reported sighting of an alien type creature that was 10 feet tall with a blood-red face, fiery eyes, and green lizard-like skin.

Was I expecting to come across such a sight myself? I didn’t think it was likely, but anything is possible. However, that made me question what it is that drives us to want to go out of our way to catch a glimpse of where something reportedly took place so many years ago. After I asked myself why I stopped in Flatwoods I didn’t have just one answer.

The explorer in me just enjoyed seeing something new, but the investigator in me wanted to grasp what the area was like to better understand the reports. However, the kid in me just wanted to be a little scared at the idea of the 10 foot tall creature that once stood there!