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warning.com Today's episode is about an is about an event known
as the Braxton County Monster or what some people call the
Flatwoods Monster. This happened in Flatwoods, WV,
a little town population about 300, and it happened back on the
evening of September 12th, 1952. The main witnesses in the event
were two boys, Edward and Fred May, a couple of a couple of
other neighbor kids, and the May boys mother Kathy May.
Now the boys Edward and Fred and their buddies.
They were out playing near a schoolyard and they saw what
they thought was a meteorite go flashing across the sky and
laying in a nearby pasture. Now a lot of people saw this.
It was widely reported around West Virginia and in the video
document that was made I made a a link to this on the website
ufowarning.com. There's a fellow who went back
in, I think it was in 2006 maybe or maybe even 1996.
Anyway, he did really indepth documentary where he went back
and talked to all the witnesses he could find that were still
alive. And he also went back to the
original site where the actual what there was referred to as
the Flatwood monsters or Braxton County monster was seen by the
May boys and their mom. And then he also went to a
secondary site up the hill or what they called a mountain from
that were with where the actual UFO landing occurred at.
Now according to news reports, that happened after the fact,
once the debunkers came in, they tried to claim that this was
simply a meteorite that had been spotted blazing across the sky
and had landed on top of this mountain.
But the problem is there's no crater.
And another thing you can keep in mind, I remember back, oh
gosh, maybe 10-12 years ago, there was a meteorite that
struck near a town in Texas and it makes a Sonic boom and you
know, a meteorite the size of a golf ball or a or a baseball and
it can make a a Sonic boom. So when a meteorite strikes the
ground, it's a pretty big event. And that's why when if a
meteorite of any size strikes near a populated area, it makes
a huge bang for Masonic boom. And then they're not that hard
to find because they leave a big hole in the ground.
So this obviously was not a meteorite.
That's just nonsense. And anybody that that actually
was in the area could tell you that it wasn't a meteorite
because there was no crater. But that didn't stop the
democracy from coming out and saying, oh, it was a meteorite.
So what happened was the two boys had spotted this thing and
they were curious and they run up the hill with their mother.
And what they describe is this is a twopart sighting what they
described as a monster. So what has happened is while
they're seeing this, there's being reported that a UFO has
landed on top of the mountain, and at the same time that
they're running up this hill to spot whatever this is landed.
Other people have called in thinking that there is a downed
airplane and the local Air National Guard called up a
Colonel Eugene Lemon. Now he's actually interviewed
the documentary. So he goes up and tries to find
the landing site, but before he gets there, the boys have gone
to the hill and they don't see, they don't see a UFO.
What they see is this object moving down the hill toward them
and they describe how it's floating along.
They describe the object as being about 12 foot tall kind of
has like a like a oblong triangular shape.
And it's really surreal how they describe this thing.
You almost have to go to the to the website and watch some of
the documentary on it and and watch and take a look at the at
the sketches that they've been made of it.
The way that they were able to tell to estimate the height of
it is, is because as this thing or whatever it is comes gliding
down the hill, it stops under a tree and the tree's dead now.
But you can see there there's still the remains of a pretty
tall stump and at the time this is quite a tall tree.
They describe about 100 foot tall and as they look up the
first branch is about 12 foot off the ground and this object
slides under the tree and kind of sets there.
Now as it has come down the tree, even though it's floating,
it seems like it's left skid marks coming down the side of
the hill. So we don't know if this is just
maybe there's from some kind of anti gravity levitation system
under there or maybe there's something physically touching
the ground. But whatever is going on, it's
just tall, 12 foot tall object slides down from what would have
been I guess you could call the crash site.
It's leaving tracks along along the hillside and not tracks like
a vehicle would leave just as almost as they described them as
skid marks. Skid marks, by the way that are
leaving a kind of a greasy residue that smells, has a burnt
metal smell to it. Now the boys stand there and but
you know they're they're really kind of freaked out by the whole
thing them and the mother and they in in the documentary this
fellow interviews the mother at at the time she was still alive
and you can tell she was just terrorized by it and she looks
up at this thing and I guess the best way you could describe it
for lack of a, for me lack of a better term.
I don't know if you've ever seen like the pancakes Sir but the
anch of my own bottles, you know it's got that that bottle with
the with the gal wearing the long dress that's kind of what
she describes. I mean it's a metallic like she
says it's about 12 foot tall. It has a basically like a rope
like a like a robot shape to it. The head part is doesn't have
facial features but she describes it as having she
describes the head as being shaped as the ace of spades
card. You know how that Ace of Spades
symbol on the card has has that kind of curvy shape to it?
And in the middle of that, she says.
There's these two large eyes. They're just flat.
It's like, they're not even, like, obviously not like human
or even or even organic at all. She describes the whole things
as being very mechanical. So there's no way that that this
thing could have been a a living thing, but it was obviously a
mechanical thing. It had a, it had a metal shape
to it, it had a metal quality about it.
Then she says. She describes how the the
object, I guess if you could think of us, you know, kind of
an old school Ricky robot or whatever.
I mean this, this metal goes down to what we would think of
where the waist would be at. It angles out in the metal, the
the metal is still metal, a material, but it has A and
almost like like drapes, she says.
The metal, the the shape of the metal, like a very curved just
imagine like a pleated dress. But it's made out of metal and
if you think about it, you know it doesn't seem to make sense
and there's no way. Why would somebody even make up
this object? And when you listen to her talk
to the interviewer, I think this is part of the reason that it
was such a frightening experience for her and the boys
is because of the object was so otherworldly.
I mean, it didn't even, it didn't even resemble something
that was alive. They called it the monster, but
it really didn't. It really wasn't a monster so
much. It was as if it was maybe this
UFO phenomenon had taken on this helter skelter shape.
To me it's more of a shape shifting thing where maybe that
maybe when the UFO came in and landed it was a saucer shape or
an orb shape, but as it as it lost energy or whatever, it
transformed itself into this thing that that maybe it was
trying to take on the appearance of a human.
I mean, and that was this haphazard attempt to place eyes
at the top and to have and, you know, an attempt to make it look
like it was wearing clothing, you know, and This is why you
have this pleaded looking metal. I mean this this really strange
appearance that didn't make sense to the human mind.
And she describes how they just stand there flabbergasted
pointing at the thing. Now it didn't have arms, and a
lot of the sketches show that it has arms sticking out, kind of
like little T Rex arms off this thing, she says.
They were antennas that came out of the side near the top where
what we would have been to say a head or neck would have been.
But at the top of that machine, this tall robot like machine, it
had antennas sticking on each side of, I guess what you would
call the neck. And she said they absolutely
were not arms. So it wasn't like it was
reaching out, trying to attack him or anything.
And the behavior of it almost sounds more like it would like a
space probe is what I'm thinking of.
It sounds like a space probe sent here from somewhere down
our space or from some other dimension.
And the the shape of The thing is not so important.
The shape of the thing seems like it happens.
It's almost like this thing is changing shape.
It's shifting, it's shifting shape as it moves through our
dimension, and it's taking on whatever appearance it takes on
to to to meet our expectations. And I fully believe that if
somebody else would have happened to discover this crazy
thing, and maybe their expectations wouldn't have been
that it was a robot, maybe their expectations would have been it
was a Bigfoot or some other legendary creature.
And this thing might have might have just as easily assumed that
shape at any rate. They they stand there and they
they look at this thing levitating under the tree.
They all three. Well four boys actually.
And and the and the mother of the two boys.
They I they just sat there. They look at it for quite a
while and then they go back to the house or scared to death,
they call a neighbor. Eventually a local reporter gets
called and his name was his name is a Lee Stewart I believe Now
this guy is also interviewed in the documentary it's really it's
it's fun to watch a documentary where someone's gone back to the
to this he actually went back to the site was occurred at and he
interviewed all the people he could get a hold of.
He interviewed one of the boys had grown up.
He's he's you know middle-aged man now or elderly man and he
explained to him exactly what he saw.
He took him to the tree where they saw it at.
He had he had gotten hold of a recorded conversation or maybe
he'd done it with the the mother I believe she'd passed on and he
interviewed her. She told what she saw, which is
exactly what the boy saw. And then he he interviews this
Ailey Stewart who went out and talked to the family and
interviewed everybody and he described what they said at the
time. And their descriptions of what
happened were exactly the same today as they were 6065 years
ago. So they printed it up in the
paper and it got quite a bit of attention.
But what kind of falls in between the cracks here is that
while the boys were, you know, they had, they had seen all
this, this whole UFO account, other people in Braxton County
had reported what they thought was a downed airplane.
So the next day, the local Air Force Reserve commander there
and he interviews this man, this Eugene Lemon, he's told to go
out and do a recovery. So he gets 30 of the local
guardsmen. They go out, they they cordon
off the area and and then they get another 30 people.
I think that he'd talked to the kids anyway, they weren't sure
what they were looking for. They go up to the mountaintop
where the UFO was supposed to have been sighted at and where
people had thought there had been a plane crash.
And they found out that there was no plane crash.
There was a flattened down area where something had landed at,
and they described this kind of acrid metallic smell.
And they found out something else.
They found out that the kids got real sick after they had had
witnessed the UFO and they had, they had come in contact with
this kind of greasy slime that the thing had been, had been
emitting and they were sick. So the Colonel wanted to find
out what was going on and what had made them sick.
And some people that went with him, the some of the slime stuff
was still at the scene. They touched the stuff and they
had the same reaction. They were vomiting, intense,
intense flu like symptoms. So the Air Force ordered him to
take soil samples all around there.
Now what's cool is this guy goes back and talks to this gentleman
and I think it must have been like must have been like 1996.
You can watch the YouTube video. It's like UFO warning.com.
There's a link and he describes himself.
He says, well this wasn't a meteorite.
He says there was no crater and no evidence for meteorite and he
said there was no airplane crash.
This guy is an old World War 2 vet a fighter pilot.
So he knew a thing about or two about, you know, airplane
crashes and he's looking around and sees nothing there.
And but the only evidence they had was 4 kids that had gotten
real sick that have been exposed to this greasy substance that
had been dispersed in the skid marks that went from where the
UFO landed down maybe 20-30 yards to where this robot
creature was sighted. And like I said, they went
ahead, they got soil samples from this.
And he sent those soil samples into the Air Force.
And he said, well, that's the last we've heard of it.
Now, it would be interesting enough if the story ended there.
You know, you have what appears to be some people thought it was
a meteorite. A lot of people thought it was a
thought. It was a crashing airplane.
You had young kids run to the scene, they run to work, they
run to the scene of the crash, but there's nothing crashed.
But what they do see is this 12 foot tall robotic, robotic
looking strange creature that is levitating down the hillside
stops in front of them. They observe it.
They get exposed to this kind of a greasy metallic substance that
is expelling at the bottom of the of of this robot thing.
They get sick from it. This is witnessed by a local
newspaper paper reporter. He sees the skid marks.
He knows something's been here. The Air Force sends out an
investigator with 60 guardsmen. This is all recorded.
They investigate the scene. They find no crash debris.
They don't find this robot anywhere, but they do find the
skid marks. And they do find this greasy
type of metallic stuff that's been excremented, for lack of a
better word, from this machine. People touch it, they they
immediately display the same flute like symptoms.
Vomiting. The Colonel goes ahead, takes
soil samples and sends them into the Air Force to try to find out
what's what this stuff is. And that's it.
He doesn't hear a word. Apparently he's not in the loop,
has no need to know. And that's the end of the actual
event that it got a big write up in the paper.
And of course, you know the paper went to put the twist on
it that it was some sort of imaginary monster And then the
debunkers come out and they really tried it to try.
They tried to really convolute the story to mix up the facts.
And it's it's pretty clear from the sightings of what happened
was is that you had a UFO that was disabled for some reason,
that it crash landed, that was witnessed and that it appears as
though, as a lot of these things do, it shifted shape.
I mean it was witnessed as a flaming wall of fire.
And then it's between the time that it lands and the time the
kids get there, its shape has shifted into this robotic thing
and then it just simply disappears before anybody can go
back and get a second set of ice on it.
Well, this is not a this is not an unheard of thing today.
By now, when we study a UFO phenomenon, shape shifting is a
really common thing that happens.
But at that time, shape shifting wasn't even considered.
So it seems like when you read the debunkers accounts or even
some of the newspaper accounts, they completely disregard the
part about the UFO crash itself. They almost want to act like it
was and it like it never happened.
Or they'll claim that it was simply a meteorite that landed
and the boys ran up there to check it out and what they saw
was a Hudel sitting in a tree. Now that's that's pretty
ridiculous in the face of it. I think that even 4 kids and a
mom can tell the difference between a Hudel perched 12 foot
up in a tree and a 12 foot tall robot that's releasing some kind
of toxic substance. So when you go back and you read
some of the debunking articles or some of the old newspaper
articles, you see what what happens with a lot of these
cases immediately. Instead of just approaching them
logically and reporting the facts of what happened, you know
a disabled UFO that shape shifting witnesses, they they
report an event that didn't happen that couldn't have
happened and that's a meteorite lands.
That doesn't leave a crater and doesn't leave a Sonic boom.
And then they take the part of the actual UFO sighting and they
just claim that never happened. So it's a little bit of a
complicated case, but I think that there's still a lot of
interest in it, by the way. And I think that if you really
want to understand this case, you need to go watch that
documentary. It's about 50 minutes long and
watch this fellow interview, the actual witnesses that were there
in 1952. He talks to Colonel Lemon.
He talks to one of the boys and then he has.
He plays the the audio interview with the mom and then you're
able to really get to the bottom of what of what the Braxton
County monster was and it wasn't a monster at all.
It's obviously what it was was was a disabled UFO and somehow
had managed to get self righted and out of there before anybody
could captured. And it also when you when you
watch the interview brings out how important that the Air Force
thought it was. The fact that they would send
someone up there to take a look at it and I realized it was 1952
but they were interested in what was going on and to confirm
whether or not this was an airplane garage.
So the only way to get to the truth of these, to these events
really, is to go back and talk to the people that witness the
events. And that's what this guy does.
And he goes back to the actual location of the event.
He shows you exactly where the UFO landed and he shows you
exactly where the UFO slash monster was cited at by the
witnesses. And then he actually takes a
couple of those witnesses out there to the very site they were
at, you know, 50 years before, whatever it was.
And they explained exactly what they saw.
And when you listen to these people and you listen to them
relive what they saw, it really completely deflates everything
the deep munkers try to say about it.
And it shows you what actually happened and gives you a way to
understand in the best possible light.
I guess. I would say anyway, a very
fascinating case. I definitely do.
Go to the website, take a look at the documentary.
It's worth your time. A real fun case to look at.
That's all for now, over and out.
Ufowarning.com.