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16*T!be Charleston Gazette Monday, Sept. 15, 1952S»;1X'SvX*■S'THS MONSTER STOOD right on the spot where Mrs. Kathleen May and these six boys pose for the photographer, according to their stories. Shown are Mrs. May, her two sons. Edward and Theodore, and Eugene Lemon, Ronald Shaver, Theodore Neal and Neal Nunley, all of Flat-woods, Braxton County. They’re standing pat on their story thatBraxton Monster Left Skid Tracks Where He LandedfContinued From Pag* 1)flashlight. Coming to the top of a ridge, he turned the beam down the slope. He stood, frozen, for a moment, then unloosed a frightened cry and fell backwards to the ground. Mrs. May and the children said they could easily see what had frightened young Lemon. But they all retreated hastily.According to the beautician, who ■ aid I got a good look at it, a monster was striding up the slope toward them, its orange-green pupil-less eyes glowing.Welt Tit Up Although Lemon had dropped hts flashlight, it didn’t matter, for the monster carried its own illuminating system.‘Tt lit up like a Christmas tree/* Mrs. May said, with some sort of interior lighting system.The six other witnesses gave less-elaborate descriptions, but swore to state police officers and to Sutton published A. Lee Stewart that they, indeed, had seen the “thing. Only Lemon could gather enough, courage to accompany a shotgun-armed posse back to the scene: Friday night, and ha, said Stewart, i was visably frightened.Mrs. May went back to the scene; today—and saw the 'footprints.1 She, as well as Stewart, described. them as skid-like depressions in the, hillside brush, about six or eight; feet apart. The sickening, piercing , odor, which the witnesses said accompanied the monster’s appearance Friday was still slightly in evidence, Mrs. May said. She also pointed out that she had acquired some grease or oil stains on her; white beautician's uniform while, in the area today. Searchers could 1 find no other evidence of a visit, by the phantom. ]Stewart, co-publisher of the Brax- j ton Democrat at Sutton has prom- \ ised, however, to keep himself in- j formed of any new developments! in the case—unless a strange, green,' claw-like hand mysteriously lifts' his notes from his desk.they saw a huge, green monster on this spot Friday night following the flight of a meteoritethrough West Virginia skies. (Photo for The Gazette by A. Lee Stewart)
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Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Mon, Sep 15, 1952
Page 16
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