The Braxton County Monster: A Wrap-Up

This past week, Theresa’s Haunted History has been dedicated to sharing some newspaper articles dating back to the early 1960′s involving a Bigfoot-type creature, roaming the hills of West of Virginia. For lack of a better term, these sightings were all lumped under the name, The Braxton County Monster, and for some inexplicable reason, local newspapers tried making connections between these sightings to the infamous Flatwoods Monster sighting of 1952. As terms such as Sasquatch and Bigfoot entered the public vernacular, hairy man sightings across the country started being classified under one big umbrella. Still, here in West Virginia, mentions of the ‘Braxton County Monster’ lasted well into the 1960′s. Here are two final articles that mention the monster—neither of which actually were reported in Braxton County, lol.