my grandma was in Braxton County the night of the Flatwoods Monster (idk what to believe)

Family story, take it for whatever it's worth. My grandmother grew up outside Flatwoods, West Virginia and was a teenager in Sept 1952 when the whole town lost its mind over the Green Monster / Flatwoods Monster. What actually happened, as she told it and as it's written up: Sept 12 1952, some boys……