Flatwoods, West Virginia (town/area landscape)
Flatwoods, West Virginia (town/area landscape) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (Don Woods / Folklore1 / Wikimedia Commons) · Image source

Trailhead / site map

Address / place search: 208 Main Street, Sutton, WV 26601 (not a published decimal pin — verify on official maps before travel)

Flatwoods Monster Museum

Civic museum in Sutton, WV — 1952 ‘green monster’ press history on a public Main Street address, not a private encounter-site trespass list.

Region West Virginia · Appalachia Location 208 Main Street, Sutton, WV 26601 Added

Access

Civic museum ~2 miles from I-79 Exit 62. Visit Braxton lists free admission and hours (Tue–Fri / weekend hours — call 304-765-6533 to confirm). Public street address only; no private-property ‘encounter site’ directions in this file. No museum-published lat/long — use the street address for Maps search; do not treat geocoder decimals as museum-published coords. Open in Google Maps (address query): https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=208+Main+Street%2C+Sutton%2C+WV+26601

Safety & respect

Standard small-town visit. Do not publish or follow private-property ‘landing site’ trespass lists.

Lore note

1952 Flatwoods incident / ‘green monster’ mid-century press history. Museum interprets local folklore and UFO-adjacent reporting — stick to museum and county tourism framing.

Map links

Sources

  • Visit Braxton — Flatwoods Monster Museum
  • Braxton County WV museum visit page

A compact I-79 corridor stop: Main Street museum hours, county tourism copy, and a 1952 story that lives better as press history than as a backyard dig.

Archivist’s margin

Museum first. Private yards never.