Kraken Cans and the Flatwoods Monster

Kraken Cans and the Flatwoods Monster

From Chumming with the Spirits by Para-Chum, J.D.

March 6, 2026 · 1h 6m

About this episode

This episode explores the legend of the Flatwoods Monster, a cryptid sighted in West Virginia in 1952.

The Flatwoods Monster, also known as the Braxton County Monster or "Braxxie," is a famous West Virginia cryptid reported on September 12, 1952, in Flatwoods, WV. Witnesses described a 10-foot-tall, hovering creature with a spade-shaped head, glowing red eyes, and a green, metallic body, often associated with a UFO sighting. At 7:15 p.m., on September 12, 1952, two brothers, Edward and Fred May, and their friend Tommy Hyer, said that they saw a bright object cross the sky and land on the property of local farmer G. Bailey Fisher. The boys went home and told their mother, Kathleen May. The four of them, accompanied by local children Neil Nunley and Ronnie Shaver, and Kathleen's cousin West Virginia National Guardsman Eugene Lemon, went to the Fisher farm in an effort to locate whatever it was that Edward and Fred had claimed to see. The group reached the top of a hill, where Nunley said they saw a pulsing red light. Lemon said he aimed a flashlight in that direction and momentarily saw a tall "man-like figure with a round, red face surrounded by a pointed, hood-like shape". For more information regarding the Flatwoods Monster be sure to visit…

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Host: Para-Chum, J.D.

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Places: Flatwoods, WV

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