That thing is so cool!

Here's the weirdest flatwoods thing I have. I read a tip online on roadside america that if you go to a sonoco station in Flatwoods, WV ("the one across from the Shoneys") and go into the attached teddy bear gift shop, there are these ceramic flatwoods monsters you could buy. (This story was too weird not to check out, and we had already visited point pleasant earlier that day to see the Mothman!)

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/12075

Skylar and I reluctantly wandered in to this teddy bear gift shop in a gas station (it smelled like apples and vanilla candles) and we were like "this is bullshit". As we were about to walk out, we saw this:

There they were on an upside down fruit crate in front of the window standing about a foot tall. Holy. Shit. The story is real.



Inside each was a creepy photocopy of this 1952 newspaper clipping about the sighting.

No tag, no sticker, nothing else indicating where they came from or who made them or why they were for sale in this bear gift store. They were around $25-$30 each.

We bought 3 and a Sunday paper, to wrap them in. All 3 made it home safe and are in our collection.

We watch a lot of UFO documentaries, and many UFO weirdos have them in the background. Clearly they went into the same weird bear shop in WV to get one.

I felt like part of a secret club.