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American Folklore
Stories and accounts connected to american folklore.
UFOs & Encounters
The Flatwoods Monster: What Did They Encounter on the Hill in 1952?
On September 12, 1952, a group of children in Flatwoods, West Virginia, watched a brilliant object cross the evening sky and appear to descend onto a nearby hill. When they climbed the hill with two adults, they encountered a towering figure with a glowing face, strange eyes, and a dark hood-like shape. They ran. Within days, the Braxton County Monster became national news.
Folklore & Legends
The Jersey Devil: The Monster That Haunted the Pine Barrens
For centuries, stories have described a winged creature stalking the forests of southern New Jersey: a horse-headed, bat-winged thing supposedly born as the cursed thirteenth child of Mother Leeds. But the history behind the Jersey Devil may be stranger than the legend. Religious feuds, colonial politics, Benjamin Franklin, newspaper hysteria, hoaxes, and a remarkable week in January 1909 all helped transform the Leeds Devil into one of America's most famous monsters.
Regional Folklore
The Bell Witch
In early nineteenth-century Tennessee, stories began to surround the Bell family and a mysterious entity said to torment their household. The legend grew into one of the most enduring supernatural traditions in American folklore.