Reece was a fisherman living in the small community of Addison, West Virginia, in the early 1970s. Most days, you could find him out on the Ohio River in his old boat, working the water for a good catch. Like everyone else, he’d heard the strange stories coming from nearby Point Pleasant back in ’66…
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud?This encounter is up on our Spooky Appalachia YouTube channel. 👉 Watch the Witness tell the story them-self! It was well after midnight, somewhere between one and two in the morning, when I found myself winding back toward Wetzel County on Route 7. If you’ve ever traveled that stretch of…
The Flatwoods Monster Museum if you’ve ever traveled through the small town of Sutton, West Virginia, you may have noticed a little building tucked away on Main Street with a strange green-eyed figure staring out at you. That’s because Sutton is home to the Flatwoods Monster Museum, the only museum in the world dedicated to…
In April 1967, I was a teenager living in Pomeroy, Ohio, right across the river from Mason, West Virginia, about 20 miles north of Point Pleasant, where the Mothman legend began. Growing up in the 1960s, life was laid-back, and kids like me had the freedom to explore. The previous November, stories of a winged…
Grafton Monster origin and history on Grafton: Tucked into the hills of northern West Virginia lies the small town of Grafton, about 35 minutes from Morgantown. With roots dating back to 1852, Grafton began as a work camp for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and was officially chartered just a few years later in 1856….
🎥 Prefer to hear this story told aloud?This encounter is part of our Spooky Appalachia West Virginia Cryptids video, featuring eyewitness accounts and regional folklore. 👉 Watch the Ogua story on YouTube below The dark, murky waters of the Monongahela River—flowing through both West Virginia and Pennsylvania—have long held a terrifying secret known to locals by several names: the…