Flatwoods "Monster," 1952

By 1952, flying saucers had become a familiar topic to the American public. However, the case of the "flatwoods monster" was among the first widely-publicized UFO sightings to also involve an "alien" being, and it preceded a rise in anomalous entity encounters around the world. Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/user?u=3375417 Donate on Paypal: https://ThinkAnomalous.com/support.html Watch video version on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uZ7o2B84jtQ Website: https://ThinkAnomalous.com Full transcript: https://ThinkAnomalous.com/flatwoods-monster.html Facebook: https://facebook.com/ThinkAnomalous Twitter: https://twitter.com/Think_Anomalous Instagram: https://instagram.com/Think.Anomalous Think Anomalous is created by Jason Charbonneau. Illustration by Colin Campbell. Music by Josh Chamberland. Animation by Brendan Barr. Sound design by Will Mountain and Josh Chamberland. Sources: Frank Feschino, Jr. The Braxton County Monster: the Cover-up of the “Flatwoods Monster” Revealed. Revised Ed. USA: Lulu Enterprises, 2013. Joe Nickell, “The Flatwoods UFO Monster,” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 6, November/ December 2000. Donald E Keyhoe. Flying Saucers from Outer Space. New York: Henry Holt, 1953. Ivan T. Sanderson, Uninvited Visitors: A Biologist Looks at UFO’s. New York: Cowles, 1967, 37-52. See two of the original newspaper sources here: https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195213/http://sites.eoi.com/folder5715/index.cfm?id=187109&fuseaction=browse&pageid=27