A Monster Hoax?

There can be few very people within the realms of Ufology and Cryptozoology that have never heard of the so-called Flatwoods Monster, or Braxton County Monster, of 1952 – a bizarre, giant beast that some researchers view as being definitively extraterrestrial in nature, and others perceive as having origins of a paranormal nature. But there’s a third possibility, too, to explain the diabolical entity that terrorized the good folk of Braxton County all those years ago…

Formerly-classified data now in the public domain may well have some direct and significant bearing upon what was seen at Flatwoods. That data is contained in an April 14, 1950 RAND publication titledThe Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological Warfare, written by one Jean M. Hungerford, for the top secret attention of the U.S. Air Force.

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