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UFOs
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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.
UFOs & Encounters
The Hopkinsville Goblins: The Night Something Surrounded a Kentucky Farmhouse
On August 21, 1955, a terrified Kentucky family arrived at the Hopkinsville police station claiming that small, strange creatures had surrounded their isolated farmhouse for hours. Police found bullet holes, frightened witnesses, and no creatures. Nearly seventy years later, the Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter remains one of the strangest close-encounter cases in American UFO history.
Folklore & Legends
Mothman: The Winged Creature That Haunted Point Pleasant
In November 1966, two young couples near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, reported a towering winged figure with glowing red eyes beside an abandoned World War II munitions plant. Over the next thirteen months came more sightings, UFO reports, strange phone calls, Men in Black stories, and warnings of disaster. Then the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River, killing 46 people. The creature became known as Mothman.