The Flatwoods Monster

One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This story has everything: alien activity, a green phantom and/or creature, Project Blue Book — even West Virginia. Yes, strangers, it's time for that one-hit wonder, the Flatwoods Monster…and all the trouble it caused in mid century Appalachia. One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stories and baffling mysteries that made headlines. Dive into our Episode Mystery Archive — a curated, topic-organized source for documented hauntings, UFO sightings, cryptids, folklore, and bizarre true mysteries. Check it out here! https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/episodes-by-topic-mystery-archive Laurah's book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OSTPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Hosted and Written by Laurah Norton Researched by Bryan Worters and Laurah Norton Engineered by Bill Bertschinger Produced and Script-edited by Maura Currie Interested in advertising on our show? Contact Glassbox Media: https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Copyright One Strange Thing Podcast LLC 2022

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0:00.0	I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.
0:19.0	Strangers, it's rare that we can bring you a story that has, well, everything.
0:24.6	But we can confidently say that today's tale really brings it to the table.
0:30.6	We have alien activity.
0:33.6	We have a creature.
0:36.6	We have Project Blue Book. We have West Virginia.
0:41.3	Yes, it's finally time for us to take on a singular event that occurred on September 12,
0:48.3	1952, and shaped both a town and a legend. The night the story of the Flatwoods monster was born.
0:58.0	Some consider this beast, also known as the green monster, wore the phantom of the Flatwoods,
1:04.0	to be extraterrestrial, and those who claim to have spotted it as having experienced a close encounter of the third kind,
1:11.8	complete with physical after effects.
1:15.0	Others grouped the apparently giant creature,
1:17.7	who gave its one-night-only performance 70 years ago,
1:21.9	firmly in the crypto camp.
1:24.7	Personally, we feel like West Virginia has been through enough. What with that
1:30.2	moth and all? But we're here to report on it anyway. Because folks have been arguing about
1:36.3	this one for more than half a century, and the town of Flatwoods, population 264, according
1:43.1	to the 2020 census, has been thriving on monster memorabilia ever since.
1:49.3	So let's get started, shall we? Imagine this. It is the fall of 1952, and as History.com points out,
1:58.9	the American public is primed and paranoid for the extraordinary.
2:03.6	The Cold War is well and truly underway.
2:06.9	And as reporter Roy Winsel writes, alien mania is everywhere.
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