Did the Flatwoods Monster Exist?

Another cryptozoology video! Today we examine a rather strange and famous cryptid from West Virginia, the Flatwoods Monster. We will go over everything from owls to aliens to giant salamanders to psychology. Hope you enjoy!

Special thanks to Joe Nickell

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Footage Recorded in the countryside of Point Pleasant! All footage by me, including the red eyes in the dark and car driving scenes... so Copyright Trey the Explainer; same with the various sketches used within the video.

[Melonhii]

Plot twist: it wasn’t a barn owl, it was a BASKING SHARK

[centsproductions]

Barn Owl: I created the Mothman
Brown Owl:I created the Flatwoods Monster
Basking Shark: I created *every* globster
Both owls: Woah

[robertmarshall]

One extra thing is that if you've ever driven along and spotted a barn owl in your headlights they are really spookily reflective. That or I've seen aliens eating mice

[aaronmarks]

Imagine being a random barn owl defending her chicks, not knowing that humans will talk about you for the next century as some awe-inspiring alien monster.

[richardbourton]

Scared or aggressive barn owls actually fold their wings together above their head and lean their head down to appear larger. It would have looked just like a pointed ace of spades head.

[Danquebec]

That poor owl must have been so frightened. All of sudden humans arrive and start screaming as loud as they can.

[snowpawwolf]

Plot twist: The Flatwoods monster was Trey the Explainer. He never shows his face, so it can't technically be disproven.

[mattisvov]

Honestly, if I hade worked myself all up, then taking a stroll through a dark wood with only a flashlight, and then a friggin owl (an animal with a famously scary hiss) hissed at me, you'd probably see me come running out with some incoherent stories too.

What I'm saying is: No wonder those kids saw friggin monsters.

[Paraves]

must have been fun being an owl in West Virginia in the 50s-60s

[Werrf]

On the subject of barn owls - in the Monster Quest episode that talked about Flatwoods, they found that the tree where the 'monster' was seen was dead and hollow. They interpreted it as the tree being killed by the monster; I interpret it as being a very good nesting site for a barn owl.

[CrazyPangolinLady]

West Virginia
Mountain monsters!

Take me home
Cryptid roads

[alanloveless]

"How was your trip, Zoltar?"
"A mob of primates discovered me stuck up a tree after having crashed my intergalactic vehicle... boy, was my face red!"

[uncivilizedelk]

"The owls are not what they seem."
-Twin Peaks

[IWasaTeenageTeenWolf]

Real or not, you gotta admit the design is badass.

[Silkendrum]

Looks to me like a nun wearing Elton John glasses.

[planescaped]

I miss when I was 14 and could actually believe in monsters. Now I just think "lol eyewitness testimony"

[juanimolina]

this serie should be called ¨it was an owl¨

[joshuaperry]

Something unknown and potentially dangerous? Better bring the kids."
golf clap for mom of the year.

[adamlastnamenotmentioned]

Every single drawing of the flatwoods monster looks like what you would draw if someone were describing an Alien Space Nun to you. Alien Space Nuns exist, dude. That's why every eyewitness drawing or painting looks almost the same.

[timothymclean]

13:40: "I'm not saying Mothman and the Flatwoods Monster are the same creature."
25:40: "This was an owl, too."