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You know all about Mothman, and you're probably familiar with the Flatwoods Monster. But have you heard of Rivesville's Morgans Ridge Monster? Do you know about the horrific events of the summer of 1964 when the headless horror known as the Grafton Monster stalked the Tygart River valley? Have you read the unbelievable reports of the strange creature called Sheepsquatch? From the Morgantown Morlock to the Kanawha County Creature to the Fort Ashby Screamer, tales are told of strange white monsters that roam the night, phantoms with fangs that lurk in our wooded hills.
Have you heard of such creatures? No? Then take a place by the campfire and get comfortable.
I have a story to tell you.
- Sales Rank: #769392 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-07-21
- Released on: 2015-07-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Kurt McCoy is a West Virginia resident and an alumnus of WVU. He grew up in Moundsville, WV and has had a life-long fascination for monsters, ghost stories and folk lore. He lives in Morgantown, WV where he is owned by two cats. He strongly suspects that the truth IS out there, but he's willing to settle for a good story.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A Wonderful Rare Cryptozoological Primer
By Tropicalwolf
"Perhaps, even now, something you've read about is already creeping down the hall, or preparing to scratch at the door."
I stumbled upon this unique book at the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant in 2009. This is a great primer on all things white and weird in the West Virginia. It is a great addition to a cryptozoological library and a MUST HAVE for any folklorist. For the serious inquirer, the writing style presents the tales in a way that leaves the reader needing to know more and encourages independent study and research. For the casual reader, the stories are presented as if the author is sitting next to you recounting "one fateful night." Stuff this book in your backpack, bring it on a camping trip and you will be an instant legend around the campfire. For those lucky enough to get their hands on a copy of this book, sit back, relax and enjoy! Highly Recommended!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A nice collection of intriguing "what if" tales
By Pikminfan
Like the previous reviewer-I also stumbled upon this book at Point Pleasant's Mothman Festival (2010) and decided to check it out. I'm glad I did.
"White Things" is a pretty interesting read if you are into Cryptozoology or just tales of intrigue in general. The author remains neutral on the subject matter throughout-merely relating the tales he has heard from witnesses and letting the reader draw their own conclusions about West Virginia's white creature phenomenon. The book describes several different creature types-some menacing, some prescient, some like phantoms-but all of them bearing a distinct white color. There's a segment devoted to the Mothman legend also and the book touches on other strange things seen in the famous Point Pleasant "TNT" as well.
"White Things" is a fairly brief read over all-but the writing is very solid and interesting and the tales themselves are full of great descriptions, intriguing moments & creepy happenings. I'm glad I picked this up. It's an especially great read right before bed time...
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Where the Wild ( And WEIRD) Things Are
By William R. Hancock
"Almost Heaven...West Virginia", sang John Denver in his 1971 blockbuster country-folk-pop record hit. Apart from some breath-taking beauty, though, there would seem to be SOME things in West Virginia that be a tad more on the hellish side; at least the SCARY side.
There are some places that are just plain PECULIAR...and I DON'T mean in terms of customs or traditions: I mean in terms of off-beat, off-the-wall, dyed-in-the-wool STRANGENESS. The wild Pine Barrens of New Jersey is such a place; full of stories of weird events and unknown lurking evils; dominated of course by the threatening presence of a bizarre "something" termed the Jersey Devil or Leeds Devil, a polyglot chimera creature combining aspects of a horse or camel, a giant bat, and God-only knows what all else. It is supposedly Devil-sired, and, if it looks like it is said to look, there might be a grain of truth in such a notion.
Another epicenter of strangeness is the valley of the San Luis River, which runs down through Colorado into New Mexico . Known as "The Mysterious Valley", this long run of rectangular real estate produces endless stories of UFOs, ghosts, demon creatures, cattle mutilations, phantom black appearing/disappearing helicopters, skinwalker shape-shifters, and...now and then...apparently the Devil Himself (cloven hoofs and all!
Northeastern Utah has its own area of high strangeness, this along a run through the Uinta National Forest and, especially, in a section of land known as the "Path of the Skinwalker" and the "Skinwalker Ranch". Here invisible entities appear to roam at will, poltergeist-like activity occurs regularly, creatures that seem not quite real (some even bullet-proof, seemingly) prowl the landscape and UFOs circle overhead.
Other zones of strangeness have names like the Bennington Triangle and the Hockamock Swamp in New England, and the Great Lakes Triangle (or Michigan Triangle) in the northern Midwest.
The renowned anomaly researcher-writer-investigator, John Alva Keel called areas like these, where concentrations of ongoing strange
incidents of many types occur frequently, "windows" or "portals" and theorized they were some type of doorways to other realities, perhaps even other dimensions; transient apertures, perhaps, that open and close, at various times to let..."somethings"...through into our own neck of the woods.
One such "window" area, some surmise, and one of the biggest of all, geographically, might well constitute a sizable chunk of the state of West Virginia. All manner of weirdness seems to have gone on in "the Mountain State" since "about forever". All the usual suspects can be fund there; Bigfoot, phantom black panthers, UFOs, ghosts, goblins, "convertible" quadru-pedal /bi-pedal dogs or wolves that act, at times, somewhat "manlike", the whole shebang.
In the early 1950s, in the small Braxton County town of Flatwoods a "fall" of some kind of "something" from the sky sent a party of locals out to a wooded hilltop where they encountered a bizarre whatsit that somehow floated in the air, seemed mechanical-looking (perhaps like an alien "probe" similar to a construction called "Nomad" on an early original Star Trek episode) which emitted a noxious-odored gas that made them all sick and even killed a dog accompanying the group. This "whatever" became known as the Flatwoods Monster (or the Braxton County Monster) and dominated strange-incident talk in West Virginia for over a decade, until the West Virginia weirdo story to end ALL West Virginia weirdo stories "hit the fan"; MOTHMAN. (Note: "Mothman" is called by that name NOT because "he/she/it" actually LOOKED like a moth...although some thought the wings DID look vaguely moth-like... but because it had oversized red-glowing eyes that reminded some people of the bulging "eyes" on the costume helmet of a "Batman" comic-book super-villain called "Killer Moth").
This is a quite well-known series of incidents that center around the town of Point Pleasant, on the Ohio River, and involve a fantastical flying monster with huge red-glowing eyes, UFOs, strange "peculiar" visitors to the town, Men In Black, bizarre telephone calls when phones weren't even connected, time slips, and other nutty anomalies. Mothman made big news and remains big news in the Mountain State.
But there ARE..."other" things. White things. White Beasts, some call them, and these oddities are what Kurt McCoy's book is all about. These are things that have been around for a long, long time, at least since the 1800s. They represent things that HAVE been seen...and ARE seen...from time to time in OTHER states, but NEVER in the kind of numbers and with such frequency as in West Virginia. West Virginia
seems to be "White Thing Base Camp" or "White Thing Central". And these are...what? Good question. They LOOK like animals, but not any kind of animals anyone is familiar with (and there are a LOT of VERY animal-savvy hunters in West Virginia). They don't all look alike, either. Some look KIND OF like bears. Others KIND OF like humongous dogs (of a sort). OTHERS look like God-knows-what. One such seen had FOUR eyes. Another had SIX LEGS. Most have a ruff about the neck and a mane. And a bushy tail (though a "reptilian" tale HAS been reported at least once). MOST walk on four legs but at times WILL rise up and walk on two. A doglike head has been reported, AND a bear-like head. The mouth has a muzzle and PLENTY of TEETH (sometimes "teeth like an alligator"). They also give out blood chilling screams in the night-time woods (AND the daytime woods); screams that sound like a woman being attacked. And, no matter WHAT their particular body configuration, they have whiteness in common. They have whiteness that ranges from the look of a Mongolian Samoyed dog ( and an almost surreal glow in the night-time darkness) on through to a polar bear to off-white yellow dinginess; but white nonetheless. They can be vicious and attack animals (stories of attacks on the underbellies of horses and disembowelings reach us from the 19th century), even humans, or they can make threatening charges that veer off at the last second (like bears). One things witnesses seem universally adamant about is that these things are NOT Bigfoot; not in any way, shape, or form. Experienced hunters in West Virginia have seen both and none of them have the slightest regard for any claim that these are just some kind of mis-identified albino bigfoot being seen. The collective register rings up "No Sale" on that hypothetical proposition.
One type of "White Thing" has acquired its own name of late, and that is "Sheepsquatch" (for lack of a better term). This is a (mostly) quadrupedal creature that seems bulky and bearlike, but has thick, CURLY looking dingy white hair (perhaps like the wool of a sheep) on it, AND...apparently in the male...large RAM'S HORNS protruding from the upper skull. This combination of horns like a ram and curly-wooly looking whitish hair are what has triggered the name "Sheepsquatch" in reference to this animal. "Sheepsqautch" was first seen...and SINCE seen..in a MOST interesting locality...OUTSIDE POINT PLEASANT IN THE SAME GENERAL AREA AS THE OLD TNT MUNITIONS PLANT, THE SITE OF THE FIRST MOTHMAN ENCOUNTERS BACK IN THE 1960s! THAT is a notion to give one pause!
You'll find "Sheepsquatch", a "Morgan's Ridge Monster", a "Kanawha County Creature, a Fort Ashby Screamer, and more interesting furry friends (NOT!) in this entertaining volume by Kurt McCoy. McCoy is a good writer, laying down a breezy narrative, and his book keeps you entertained and fascinated from cover to cover. He has a background in folklore and approaches his subject matter AS folklore, but with an awareness that folklore and legend QUITE often have decided elements of truth to them. He is not dismissive of his material (unless it is known to BE a "tall story"). In an interesting aside, McCoy reveals that, as he was researching and writing the book, his OWN FATHER came forward and told him that HE (the father) had HIMSELF seen a "White Thing" in his youth, in some nearby rural woods. He said he'd kept quiet about it all the rest of his life after the event as he didn't want to be thought a fool or someone who'd been "seeing things". What McCoy's father said he'd seen was what looked EXACTLY like a large male African Lion, mane and all, and tuft of hair on the tip of the tail (just like the real thing), strolling unconcerned and SILENTLY through nearby woods...and it was an UNREAL-looking SNOWY WHITE.
Makes you wonder. Are these things physical? Or something else. This book comes recommended by this reviewer. Take it to the beach with you this summer. Or the mountains. Or to West Virginia. Enjoy!
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