Flatwoods Monster
Sources attach this name to the 2 places below. The name itself is part of the folklore record.
The Flatwoods Monster — the 'Braxton County Monster' — is the spade-headed, red-eyed, hissing figure witnesses reported floating toward them on September 12, 1952. Owl or alien, the image is fixed in American cryptid iconography: the county's festival, museum and roadside markers all wear its face. The telling survives; the proof stays folklore.
The 1952 witnesses described a floating, hissing figure with glowing eyes—drawings made independently matched closely. The file calls it Flatwoods Monster. Reports in the file date to 1952-09-12. Museums collect the dead's effects by definition; Flatwoods Monster Museum's reports are the interpretation nobody scheduled. The report is preserved in sources like 'Flatwoods monster'. The file keeps Flatwoods Monster on the roster; the sightings keep the name alive.