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According to the CSICOP article, it wasn't the sheriff who said they saw an owl, it was two Air Force Investigators who said that. (3rd paragraph under The Creature section in the CSICOP article).
I've completely re-written this page and expanded all aspects of it. I've also restored the trivia item linking Amagon to the Flatwoods monster. Check out the picture half way down [[1]] page and compare it to the game screen shot. The two images are almost identical, right down to the position of the arms. The game is almost certainly a ripoff of the Flatwoods monster.
perfectblue 12:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
Isn't the ghost/aliens in The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask, based off the flat woods monster, baring striking features of the monster(glowing eyes, clawlike hands,etc)? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.229.47.92 (talk • contribs) 00:48, 3 December 2006 (UTC).
Maybe it is, maybe is isn't. But it's largely irrelevant. There is already one video game mentioned, which is EXACTLY like an artists rendering of the monster (not just a little like, it is an exact match), and we don't really need any more examples. perfectblue 09:24, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Im not sure the creatures from said game match this discription very well. They even include the red ball of light that is apperantly their ship. Not only do they have the glowing eyes and claw like hands but they seem to have the dark pleated skirt too and are around 8-10 feet tall Cillian flood (talk)
NEW APPARITION
I remember some that some years ago in Mexico a similar case was widely commented and it also was shown in serious TV news and newspaper. It happened near Monterrey, Mexico, when a police agent was attacked by the Flatwoods monster (aka "La bruja", the witch), he was interviewed on TV and there are also images and a video. There is more information in the spanish link of this article. Can someone put it on the English article? I could translate from Spanish but I do not know how to give to it Wiki format. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.159.4.69 (talk) 03:04, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:43, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
What was seen is something very similar to a creature I saw in a dream of mine which I believed to be the Devil. Vacreep3r88 (talk) 01:20, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
Someone needs to upload a picture of the monster. I have tried already, but I don’t have much luck in uploading pictures that are under the wikipedia upload files rules. This article is practically asking for one. - ReddFighter (talk) 03:48, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Where's the picture? It was up not too long ago. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.243.126.7 (talk) 05:19, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
Original images created by a Wikipedian are not considered original research, so long as they do not illustrate or introduce unpublished ideas or arguments, the core reason behind the NOR policy." There are various mentions of small claw-like hands, a round red face, glowing eyes, an "ace of spades" shaped hood/head, eight to twelve foot height, and so on, but this image has features not mentioned anywhere in the original reports or portrayals: the mechanical tubed waist, the spherical shoulders, the fringed hood, the mouth, the head texture, the more humanoid head transitioning smoothly into the hood, and so on. --tronvillain (talk) 14:30, 17 July 2018 (UTC)
This article needs to be rewritten with reliable secondary sources. Right now it looks more like the transcript of some sensationalist television show than an entry on an entity in West Virginia folklore. :bloodofox: (talk) 05:53, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
On internet Archive, under recordings 8 and 9 on the page linked below are audio recordings of Gray Barker and Ivan T. Sanderson relating their first-hand investigations of this incident. The article bears no resemblance whatsoever to what witnesses describe! Someone with more patience than myself is needed to rewrite this page. Can we shove video games and pop culture aside for the briefest of moments in order to get our facts straight people?!
https://archive.org/details/HighStrangenessGuide — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:6582:8580:c00:cc0e:eb24:79b3:178b (talk) 21:45, October 27, 2017
Nonsense. They were the only ones to actually go out there, interview every single witness multiple times and properly investigate. If you listen to the above sound archive before making snap judgements you'll find that they are giving the subject coverage which is vastly more impartial than the contemporary newspaper accounts which simply referred to the monster as "Frankenstein". Your assumption that their sober interviews should be regarded as "fringe claims" when they are quoting direct firsthand witnesses is logically flawed to say the least. To follow this line of reasoning to its natural conclusion would result in the deletion of the entire page!
For an example of how to do it correctly, have a look at a translation of the Japanese article on the Flatwoods Monster. It totally puts this one to shame. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%82%A6%E3%83%83%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:6582:8580:c00:cca3:936b:c62f:e6a2 (talk) 09:17, October 31, 2017
Did a long-needed cleanup of the article, removed non-WP:RS sources and copyedited the credulous descriptions to be more encyclopedic and less sensational. Added some of the material from the local tourism site and changed te section header to "local culture". I've left mention of Gray Barker in the text, since Nickell cites Barker's Fate magazine story as influencing the spread of the legend (so we are actually referencing Nickell, not Barker). Nickell also mentions the influence of Ivan T. Sanderson on the legend, but someone else can add that if needed. As mentioned here, the legend is apparently covered in various folklore journals. Those with access to them (I don't have any) may wish to expand the article with material gleaned from these sources. - LuckyLouie (talk) 16:37, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
With regard to historical events, older reports (closer to the event, but not too close such that they are prone to the errors of breaking news) tend to have the most detail, and are less likely to have errors introduced by repeated copying and summarizing.What the initial reports and descriptions were is relevant, which is almost entirely a 10-foot tall monster with "blood-red face and a green body that seemed to glow", the ace of spades thing, and a pleated metallic skirt. It's all consistent with being surprised by a barn owl in the dark after a meteor shower during a era where talk of UFOs was rampant. You might argue that the initial reports were "too close", but other than the interviews by Sanserson and Barker, they're most of what exists as far as I can tell. --tronvillain (talk) 21:40, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
Over 50 years later, some investigators have stated that they believe the light was a meteor and the creature was a barn owl perched in a tree with shadows making it appear to be a large humanoid.
The above version ("some investigators have stated that they believe") needlessly gives equal validity to the fringe view and the mainstream view. UFOlogist "investigators" may have concluded it was an alien, but we need not give these equal weight to independent investigators. Accordingly, I've revised:
Over 50 years later, investigators suggest the light was a meteor and the creature was a barn owl perched in a tree with shadows making it appear to be a large humanoid.
- LuckyLouie (talk) 13:37, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
Recently (May 3rd 2024) a song by a Japanese pop artist Eve was released titled: "Like the Flatwoods Monster" (Japanese: フラットウッズのモンスターみたいに). The lyrics themselves only slightly resemble the history of the Flatwoods monster, they don't talk about it directly only hint towards the same flow of thoughts that happened with the Flatwoods monster history. But the music video is definitely strongly resembling the said monster(not visually as in the looks of the monster but in the story itself). More specifically the monster, here a dark horse with red eyes like those of the Flatwoods monster, is a live prop for a local theater. In the end a young boy who works there helps the monster escape only for it to transform into a white "pegasus" without wings (similarly Flatwoods monster in the end was probably a barn owl, also white). I was wondering how much of this to add, only one sentence or so to at least say that this song exists without explaining it? Or make a somewhat longer addition above one sentence? Also should it be right next to Argyle Goolsby who is a local legacy, or along the games and TV shows? Lottaferoce (talk) 03:52, 6 May 2024 (UTC)