{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/681b97905acb8b715fd2fae2/6954b5dfcb029db7576130f1?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"#39 The Flatwoods Monster: The Case That Refuses to Be Explained","description":"<p>On September 12th, 1952, a strange red light streaked across the sky over a quiet town in West Virginia.</p><p>Seven people followed it. What they encountered on a dark hillside would leave them violently ill, traumatized for life, and at the center of one of the most disturbing close-encounter cases in American history.</p><p>They described a towering figure with a glowing red face, self-illuminating eyes, a metallic body, and a presence that didn’t move like anything living. The air burned their throats. The smell lingered for hours. One of them, the dog, didn’t survive.</p><p>The U.S. Air Force investigated and closed the case as a meteor, a barn owl, and mass hysteria.</p><p>But the details don’t line up.</p><p>The size.</p><p>The movement.</p><p>The chemical-like symptoms.</p><p>And the pulsing red object that drew them up the hill in the first place.</p><p>This is the story of the Flatwoods Monster: one of the most documented, dismissed, and unresolved encounters ever recorded.</p><p>And seventy years later, no explanation accounts for everything that happened that night.</p><p><br></p><p>Patreon</p><p><br></p><p>patreon.com/ParanormalDirective13</p><p><br></p><p>Tiktok</p><p><br></p><p>tiktok.com/paranormaldirective13</p><p><br></p><p>Instagram</p><p><br></p><p>instagram.com/paranormaldirective13</p><p><br></p><p>Youtube</p><p><br></p><p>youtube.com/paranormaldirective13</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Music:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.purple-planet.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.purple-planet.com</a></p>","author_name":"Paranormal Directive 13"}