CASE RT-FLATWOODS
OPEN
The Flatwoods Monster
In 1952, seven people and a dog walked up a West Virginia hill to see what had fallen from the sky. They came back down running. The Air Force said it was a bird.
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cryptid
CASE RT-FLATWOODS
CASE RT-030
OPEN
The Chupacabra
A blood-draining monster was reported across Puerto Rico in 1995. The first detailed witness had, by her own account, seen a science-fiction film a month earlier. The dead animals, on examination, still had all their blood.
CASE RT-011
OPEN
The Loveland Frog
In 1972, two Loveland police officers filed reports on a three-foot bipedal frog. One drew a sketch. The other, forty-four years later, said it was an iguana. The town sided with the frog.
CASE RT-009
OPEN
The Mothman of Point Pleasant
For thirteen months in 1966 and 1967, a small West Virginia river town kept a record of something with red eyes and folded wings. Then the bridge fell, and the sightings stopped.
CASE RT-005
OPEN
The Beast of Bray Road
A newspaper reporter in Elkhorn, Wisconsin was assigned a fluff piece about werewolf sightings in 1991. She spent the next thirty years on it. The creature's primary observed behavior was eating roadkill.