![]() ![]() Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Allen Hynek, with Project Blue Book to look into the incident. Naturally, the story made the local news, and then spread to papers all over the country. The group quickly retreated and fled down the hill in terror. The group said that despite a heavy mist they could see that the monster was hovering above the ground, spewing gas and smoke. According to a local newspaper, the group reported seeing a 10-foot tall monster with a green spade-shaped face, glowing red eyes and blood-red claws. Others showed up as well, including 17-year-old Gene Lemon, a National Guard member. May, and then went up the hill to investigate. It was right around dusk, according to news reports at the time, when the May brothers, Ed, 13, and Freddie, 12, were playing in the playground of their school near Sutton, West Virginia, when they saw a pulsing red light shoot across the sky toward a neighboring farm. The legend of the Flatwoods Monster goes back to September 12, 1952. “Their argument was that the Mothman Festival up in Point Pleasant drew immense crowds, probably more than any other festival in West Virginia…So there’s this big arrow pointing toward the fact that these things are popular…and they are easier to market because they are all hanging out in the same places, talking about the same things at these different events.” “This cryptid thing, some folks came presenting to us that there are a whole lot of these folks who love this stuff,” Six said. The idea started at the beginning of the pandemic, Dean Six, Blenko’s vice president said. ![]() The economic downturn that followed threatened to close it permanently.īut in October, the company presented a one-time only piece for sale by West Virginia Artist, Liz Pavlovic– a representation of West Virginia’s Flatwoods Monster. Last year, the Covid-19 pandemic closed the 100-year-old glass factory, renowned for its hand-blown post-modern glass pieces, in Milton, West Virginia (population 2,533). ![]() The pandemic may have closed Blenko Glass for a while, but it was a West Virginian cryptid that kept it afloat. ![]()
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