Ep.25 The Flatwoods Monster

UFO Chronicles Podcast

Nik Hunter

Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.6 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

September 12, 1952. A quiet evening in the small town of Flatwoods, West Virginia, was shattered by a flash in the sky followed by one of the most eerie close encounters in American UFO lore. In this episode of Brief Encounters, we retrace the footsteps of a group of frightened children, a local mother, and a National Guardsman who claimed to come face to face with something not of this world. What they described defied logic: glowing eyes, a metallic dress, claw-like hands, and a floating motion that suggested it wasn't walking, but gliding. Was it a government experiment gone wrong, a misidentified owl, or something much stranger? Join us as we examine why the legend of the Flatwoods Monster still haunts the hills of Appalachia.

Brief Encounters is a tightly produced, narrative podcast that dives headfirst into the world of UFO sightings, the paranormal, cryptids, myths, and unexplained legends. From ancient sky wars to modern close encounters, each episode takes listeners on a journey through some of the most mysterious and compelling cases in human history. Whether it's a well-documented military sighting or an eerie village legend whispered across generations, Brief Encounters delivers each story with atmosphere, depth, and cinematic storytelling. Episodes are short and binge-worthy perfect for curious minds on the go. In just 5 to 10 minutes, listeners are pulled into carefully researched accounts that blend historical context, eyewitness testimony, and chilling details. The series moves between eras and continents, uncovering not only the famous cases you've heard of, but also the forgotten incidents that deserve a closer look. Each story is treated with respect, skepticism, and wonder offering both seasoned enthusiasts and casual listeners something fresh to consider. Whether it’s a 15th-century sky battle over Europe, a cryptid sighting in a remote forest, or a modern-day abduction report from rural America, Brief Encounters is your guide through the shadows of our world and the stories that refuse to be explained.

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0:00.0	The Flatwoods Monster, it's early September, 1952, and in the quiet hills of West Virginia,
0:18.8	the end of summer has settled like a heavy quilt over the Appalachian
0:23.2	countryside. The days are warm, the night's crisp, and for the most part, the rhythms of life
0:30.4	here are simple. School is back in session, harvest season is around the corner, People keep to their routines. That is, until one
0:40.9	evening in the small town of Flatwoods, something cuts through the calm, an object in the sky,
0:48.2	streaking fast and low, trailing light and fire behind it. What began as an unusual flash in the heavens quickly turned into one of the strangest encounters in UFO history.
1:00.0	Not just a sighting of lights, or a report of something distant and hard to see,
1:05.5	but a face-to-face confrontation with a being that, according to witnesses, stood taller than a man, wore something
1:13.8	like armour, and seemed to glide instead of walk. This wasn't the kind of story that stayed locked
1:20.2	in a single home. It spread fast. It involved kids, neighbours, a mother, a reporter, and eventually
1:27.4	the United States military.
1:29.3	And the story hasn't faded. If anything, it's grown more famous, more curious, and more baffling as the years have passed.
1:38.3	This is brief encounters. I'm Nick. And tonight we're headed to Braxton County, West Virginia, to follow the trail
1:46.2	of the so-called Phantom of Flatwoods, also known as the Flatwoods Monster. The date was September
1:52.9	12, 1952. Just after 7pm, two young brothers, Edward and Fred May, were playing outside their home in the small community of Flatwoods.
2:03.6	With them was their friend Tommy Hire.
2:06.6	Suddenly the three boys saw something bright streak across the sky, trailing what looked like fire or glowing smoke behind it.
2:15.6	It appeared to descend behind a nearby hill, specifically near a property
2:20.1	owned by a local farmer named G. Bailey Fisher. The boys, like any curious kids might, decided to
2:27.3	check it out. They ran home and told Kathleen May, the boy's mother, what they'd seen. She didn't dismiss it as imagination.
2:37.0	Instead, she grabbed a flashlight and agreed to walk with them to investigate. Along the way,
2:43.0	they were joined by two more neighbourhood kids, plus a National Guardsman named Eugene Lemon, who happened to be visiting.
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