And there were two places about six to eight feet in diameter where the brush was trampled down." "The odor was still there," Stewart said. Lee Stewart, co-publisher of the Braxton County Democrat, a local newspaper, returned to the site later that evening with Lemon, and also admitted to noticing an odd odor.
Subsequent investigation turned up little physical evidence, although local Sheriff Carr and his deputy Burnell Long did claim to smell the strange metallic odor while searching the area.Ī. The monster, they said, gave off an overpowering metallic odor that the witnesses found nauseating, and according to Kathleen they vomited for several hours after the encounter. The group stared at the monster in terror for a moment before screaming, turning tail, and promptly running away looking back over their shoulders to make sure that it wasn't giving chase. It was then he saw the monster, complete with its green body that he said "seemed to glow." Lemon said that he initially thought it might be an opossum or raccoon until he shined his flashlight on it.
"It looked worse than Frankenstein," she said.
Lemon's dog ran ahead, out of sight, and was heard barking at something before returning in fear, its tail between its legs.Īs they crested a hill, the group saw what Kathleen described as a "fire-breathing monster, 10 feet tall with a bright green body and a blood red face" float towards them from between the trees, backlit by a large, pulsating "ball of fire." That night, Kathleen May, her two nephews Edward, 13, and Fred, 12, along with their friend Tommy Hyer, 10, neighborhood boys Neil Nunley, 14, and Ronnie Shaver, 10, and West Virginia National Guardsman Eugene Lemon, 17, headed into the wooded hills in search of a bright object-referred to by the media at the time as a flying saucer-that Edward, Fred and Tommy said they'd seen land at a nearby farm. On September 12th, 1952, seven eyewitnesses claimed to have seen a monster "worse than Frankenstein" in the hills outside of Flatwoods, West Virginia.
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