My Dad pulled both hammers back and stood in front of me, told me to be ready. It stopped about 50-55 yards from us in the tree’s and went quiet. All we knew for sure was, it was big and wasn’t scared of us, the dogs or the chainsaws. Whatever it was had picked up it’s pace and continued toward us. My Dad told me to get the gun from the cab (He carried a double barrel 10 gauge with 00 buckshot). We stood there and listened, something was walking, getting closer. We had finished and we're loading the truck, when our two dogs started barking. My first encounter I was with my Father cutting wood. "I have seen the creature called 'The Grafton Monster' several times when I was a young man and it is very real.Below are two of those alleged sightings: More than twenty sightings were reported from this monster hunt, which Robert Cockrell interviewed in detail. Spurred by the commotion and by new sighting, the Grafton Sentinel interviewed some of the teenagers and produced an article about the creature on June 18th, 1964 titled " Teen-Age Monster Hunting Parties Latest Activity on Grafton Scene." Other Testimonies These roving groups of teens scoured Riverside Drive, near where where Cockrell has initially seen the creature, and soon new sightings were being reported. In very short time, monster hunting parties formed, predominantly made up of local teens armed in baseball bats or whatever they could find. Cockrell's friends however, were fascinated with the idea of a monster on the loose and went around town telling as many people as they could. Cockrell assumed that nothing more would come of his sighting after that point. The next day at work, Cockrell mentioned to his editor Grafton Sentinel of what he had seen, but the editor did not take the sighting seriously. They agreed, but when they returned to the sight all they were able to find was trampled grass and a low whistling sound that seemed to follow them around the site. Cockrell explained his sighting to them and asked them to come with him to the location of the sighting in order to investigate further. Once home, Cockrell called two of his friends: Jerry Morse and Jim Mouser. ![]() The creature moved quickly out of view, and upon realizing that the white obstruction was a living creature, he quickly accelerated down the road until he reached home. It also had white, seal-like fur, and disturbingly, didn't appear to have a visible head. ![]() Surprised by the encounter, Cockrell initially slowed down, and he was able to see that the creature was very large and appeared to be made entirely of muscle. Cockrell at the time had no explanation for the noise, but later on ufologist Gray Barker, believing the creature to be extraterrestrial in origin, suggested that the noise was being emitted from the creature's space ship. Īccording to Cockrell's account, the creature was lumbering around the side of the road while a low, whistling noise was being emitted from further way in the direction of the river. There Cockrell suddenly encountered a large, white creature on the righthand side of the road, which was the side that the Tygart River was located. ![]() ![]() On June 16, 1964, at around 11pm, Robert Cockrell, a reporter for the Grafton Sentinel newspaper, was driving along the Tygart River on Route 119, known as Riverside Drive, on his way home from work. In an article by the Grafton Sentinel published on June 18th, 1964, an anonymous teenager claimed the creature was "nine feet tall and about four feet wide." Sighting in 1964, Robert Cockrell It's unclear though if it actually doesn't have a head or if its head is simply located close to its chest. The monster is claimed to be a large, humanoid bipedal creature with no visible head, and covered in slick, white seal-like skin.
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