What do you think about this?
On the night of September 12, 1952, in the hills of Braxton County, West Virginia, a group of boys saw a bright object streak down and seem to land on a nearby farm. They ran to get a local woman named Kathleen May, gathered a few more kids and a young National Guardsman named Eugene Lemon, and climbed the hill in the dark to see what had fallen.
What they described next has haunted the town ever since. In the beam of a flashlight, they said, stood a creature ten feet tall, with a round red face that glowed, a head shaped like a pointed hood, and a body that looked like dark pleated metal. A choking mist hung in the air. Several of them fell sick that night, with burning eyes and nausea that lingered for days.
They fled down the hill in terror. By the next day the story was everywhere, and the thing had a name, the Flatwoods Monster.
Skeptics have a tidy answer. The light was a meteor, they say, and the monster was a barn owl perched in a tree, its shape and shine distorted by fear and shadow and a single shaking flashlight.
Could it be that a group of level headed locals, several of them grown adults, mistook a frightened barn owl for a towering metal figure that left them physically ill?
A startled barn owl, mass panic, or something that truly came down on that hill? What do you think those witnesses met in the dark?
What do you think about this? On January 20, 1996, three young women in Varginha, Brazil, saw a four foot creature with oily skin and red eyes crouched by a wall. The army was in town that morning. A policeman said to have handled it died a month later. Cover story, or Brazil’s Roswell?
What do you think about this? In 1800 settlers at Conneaut, Ohio, opened a four acre burial ground in rows and reported skeletons over seven feet, jaws that fit over a man’s face, double rows of teeth. The graves were plowed under within a generation. Tall tale, or a people buried twice?
What do you think about this? The Iron Pillar of Delhi is six tons of forged iron from around 400 AD. It has stood outside through 1,600 years of monsoons and never rusted, thanks to a protective film from phosphorus rich iron nobody made again. Lucky recipe, or knowledge lost on purpose?
What do you think about this? North Sea trawlers pull up mammoth teeth, flint tools and a carved harpoon from 120 feet deep. Until 8,000 years ago that seabed was Doggerland, a forested land the size of Britain, drowned by rising seas and a tsunami. The lost land of every old story?
What do you think about this? In 1974 a Florida family found a polished 22 pound steel ball in burned brush. It hummed when a guitar played, rolled across rooms on its own and changed direction. Navy X rays showed objects inside, origin unknown. Valve ball, or something that landed?
What do you think about this? The Whaley House in San Diego was built in 1857 where a man was slowly hanged five years earlier. A baby and a daughter later died inside. Visitors report footsteps in empty rooms and a pressure on the throat where the gallows stood. Old house, or long memory?
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