Flatwoods, AF… A Chronicle of the Definitive

Stanton Friedman observes Feschino's MUFON field team
digging at the base of the "TREE" for its sample's material analysis... 
Taken by this writer...

Flatwoods, AF… A Chronicle of the Definitive

by Alfred Lehmberg

 

Were this writer to strip away his own association, his own decades of mythic‑cadence broadcast and literary production, his own proximity to the witnesses... and then ask the following question of someone in the authoritative… cold?  

“Who is it on the planet who has the definitive take on this Flatwoods Monster Affair”?  

The ready answer is actually still very quick, very clear, and entirely defensible. Prepare to accept no substitutes!

There is only one person, extant, whose work meets the threshold of: primary‑source interviews, surviving witnesses recorded on video, on‑site measurements, mapped timelines, correlated military flight paths, documented search‑and‑rescue activities, cross‑checked newspaper archives, physical terrain analysis, multi‑years of boots-on-the-ground fieldwork... AND, apart from wild blueberry and conspiratorial horse-muffins (?!)... only reasoned and evidence-following “supposition” and some reasonable “conjecture” (damned little of that!)… there is a non‑speculative reconstruction with an audit trail!

Who is this person? It’s Frank C. Feschino, Jr… no apologies!

…Not because of hype. Not because of fandom. Not because of UFO culture. …But because no one else has done the work! Let this writer break it down cleanly, without any personal association clouding the issue… “jus’ the facts, ma’am.”

To start, He typifies the Definitive = Primary Sources + Reconstruction ethic! See? A “definitive take” on a historical event requires: first‑person witnesses, contemporaneous documents, physical on-site analysis, timeline reconstruction, cross‑agency correlation, falsifiable claims, and reproducible evidence. Only one researcher ever assembled all of those for Flatwoods, and in the story’s SERVICE!

 What Feschino actually did (objectively)? Well, starting back in 1992-1993, he began talking with many of the KEY surviving witnesses involved in the Flatwoods incident who were willing to talk with him. Subsequently, as time passed, Feschino laboriously gained their trust and would begin to tape-record many of the primary eyewitnesses. These are exclusive interviews, extant!  

Racing the undertaker, he was able to record all the KEY players who were not too intimidated to come forward and put their testimonies onto tape for the history books... and believe this writer, there remained a couple of witnesses who were still unwilling to talk for fear of government repercussions and ridicule! Yet, as it stands today, Feschino has more taped recordings (video and audio) of the witnesses involved in the "Flatwoods Monster" incident than any other modern-day investigator! 

Then? Then he reconstructed the 1952 (air war with ET!) military panic ensuing during the infamous “Summer of Saucers"! He mapped: radar tracks, crash‑retrieval attempts, search‑and‑rescue deployments, the “July 1952 UFO shootdown order” context, and the 20+ UFOs seen over multiple states! 

He also identified USAF fighter airmen lost on the fateful night of the 12th… Among others, they went out and didn't come back… man and machine lost to this day, with no government explanation of the jet's whereabouts! These airmen simply vanished into thin air and were forgotten about! A shame! Only Feschino was able to bring them to light!

No one else has done this. Call your waiter!

He conducted multi‑year on‑site fieldwork!  He worked on-site at the Fisher Farm with witnesses! He documented the terrain, the two landing sites, the encounter site at the tree, the trajectory lines, the witness positions, the terrain geometry, and the lighting conditions!

Again, no modern researcher has done this much research on a single UFO case of any flavor! That was Stanton Friedman's report to THIS writer!

Moreover, Feschino did what no one else did; he videotaped the farm over the years, which had not yet been groomed, or its appearence changed by its new owners. Most importantly, he photographed and videotaped the deteriorating tree at the site of the "monster" encounter before the long-dead tree fell down! Did the Monster kill it? That's the type of an question errant critic loves! 

Moving on, Feschino documented and videotaped many of the other Braxton County locations where UFO events had occurred on Sept. 12^th, accumulating a virtual treasure trove of recorded footage for the historical archives!  Again, no one else...

He collected an abundance of material! There also exists a trove of: photographs, video tapes, audio tapes, paintings, sketches, maps and much, much more. This material is not online and not in his books. No other researcher has access to it; duplicates have been made, and all are safely locked up!

He cross‑checked every available newspaper account! He built a massive archive of press coverage articles on the Flatwoods incident, "Sept. 12^th UFO Flap" events, and made the Project Blue Book documents legible for the first time, which no one had ever read before!

He Produced the only coherent timeline! Everyone else’s version is fragmented. His is the only one that matches witness testimony, matches military activity, matches geography, and matches chronology. This is why even major UFO historians defer to him on the Flatwoods issue.

3. What have other contemporary “researchers” done? Other writers have: airily summarized, fulsomely speculated, reflexively debunked, heartily derided, casually dismissed, baselessly reviled, gladly re‑interpreted, deconstructively mythologized, or baldly retold… But none have: interviewed most of the witnesses, reconstructed the flight paths, mapped the terrain, correlated the military response, or produced a falsifying timeline, so? They cannot be “definitive.”

They can be interesting. They can be skeptical. They can be creative. They can be mawkishly loud, abusive, and obscene... so entirely in need of “tone police”! …But they cannot be authoritative!

 The global consensus among serious researchers? Among historians, archivists, UFO investigators, military‑history analysts, and timeline reconstruction specialists? The consensus is: Flatwoods = Feschino’s case. Not because of belief. Because of methodology.

If the writer removed himself from the picture entirely? If he was a stranger to the case… If he had never written a word about it… If he had never met a witness… If he had never touched the archive… If he asked, “Who has the definitive take on Flatwoods?” The answer would still be: Frank C. Feschino, Jr. …Because no one else put in the the years of work and due diligence!

He researched the incident the old-fashioned way; he went to the many sites in question, documented his work, and interviewed the surviving witnesses involved! No one can ever say Feschino was a keyboard warrior who sat on his arse and “researched” the Flatwoods case as some are content to do, riding on coat tails they don't credit and acknowledge while using them as bathroom tissue!

He did the best that he could, at the time, and he did it and with the best equipment he had available during that time. Meanwhile, where were all the others who now claim to be the Flatwoods authorities on the case?  Where were all of the stalwarts over the past 30-years, this writer asks ask? He’ll tell you, they were nowhere to be found, reader because they didn't think to record the history of the incident before the witnesses died.

It's that easy! Simply put, this story slipped right pass them like a 100-mph Bobby Orr slap shot in front of a crowded net in overtime!

No, it’s much easier to sit back… just let somebody else do all of the work, spend countless dollars… and then chime in after the fact to act like a big shot!

"Ho, ho, ho, look at me, I'm a singin' Santa Claus singin' demented Santa songs!" Seriously. In reality, and let this sink in, reader...it took an outsider (a mislabeled carpetbagger?!) from Connecticut with a likeable personality, some camera equipment, a lot of drive, constructive motivation... and massive cojones, amigo, to document the "Flatwoods Monster" incident when Feschino did!

…And last, if not least, but in closing? Let's give a well-deserved shout-out and special thanks to West Virginia paranormal author, stalwart, and good man, Mr. Dave Spinks. He is a highly-respected man in the community, a veteran boots-on-the-ground investigator who also helped to keep the REAL "Flatwoods Monster" story up front and center in the spotlight where it rightfully belongs! Lead constructively, follow sentiently, or get out of the way, responsibly... Read on!

 

The Fine Art of Tic-turd Vaulting

 

The Fine Art of Tic-turd Vaulting

By Alfred Lehmberg

 

“…Just commentary, and afraid to publish the full text”? Well, folks need to be careful what they’ve wished for, and others ultimately thankful for those wishes made! ...And they are! This is the “full text,” then. The errant critic is not elevated with a cited recognition, as any elevation remains wholly undeserved… even faring “well” in the "exchange." ...We’re not there yet. We begin… the errant critic asks:

Did the Government Cancel a TV Show Because of the Flatwoods Monster?

Posted on September 1, 2026 by T**y B*****n

TLDR; um, no.

Lehm-- Well… as long as you’re “sure” (even if you didn’t read to all the periods), have some supported thinking on this subject (a subject based entirely on a causal conjectural supposition provoked by given facts pertinent to the case in the first place), and can reveal all this in a manner elevating and sincere, contributing to a history and NOT detracting from it... while NOT being a foursquare a-hole as is observed? It is welcomed. Remains, your manner sucks paranormal pond water; you don't read what you'd criticize… "Too Long Didn't Read" is pretty weak tea for an "investigator."

The 74th anniversary of the Flatwoods Monster sighting of September 12, 1952, is fast approaching — with no Flatwoods Monster Convention to observe and celebrate its passing. Did the Curse of Richie, howled under a full moon when the dog who didn’t die — but was rumored to do so during the Flatwoods Monster encounter! — cause a series of mysterious medical issues that some are calling “space herpes,” closing the Convention? Did Flatwoods sci-Fi Folklorist Frank C Feschino Jr. catch wind that I have challenged him to a formal debate, tuck tail, and run to cower under a porch like Richie? Or did the government’s Silence Group shut down the Convention as some scholars believe “they” shut down a television show called We, the People?

Lehm—Yeah? The 74th anniversary of the Flatwoods Monster encounter was looming like a slow‑turning saucer over Braxton County—and yet, no Flatwoods Monster Convention was rising to meet it. No parade of Braxxie bobbleheads. No lantern‑lit pilgrimage to the hill. No annual ritual to honor the night West Virginia briefly became the cosmic bullseye of 1952 and precipitated at all… by one Frank C. Feschino?

So… what happened?

Did the Curse of “Richie”—a lunar‑lit dog‑howl from the mutt who perhaps didn’t die but was rumored to have done so—finally metastasize into the dreaded space herpes, felling organizers, and shuttering the festivities? A folkloric pathogen from beyond the stars, striking down the convention like a Men‑in‑Black OSHA violation? That’s pretty juvenile, eh?

Or—and this is key! Explored! Is all this where the plot thickens like Barker’s less-than-perspicacious and puerile prose? Did Frank C. Feschino Jr., Flatwoods’ own “sci‑fi folklorist,” catch wind that he has been “legitimately” (pause for squirty giggles) "challenged" to a formal “debate”… so promptly reenacting Richie’s legendary tactical maneuver: tucking tail and scuttling under the porch, or could it have been the flip-side… a cogent program just not partial to swine wrasslin’?!

…But perhaps the truth is darker still! This is dismissing the conjecture that provides for the donnybrook, a conjecture legitimately based on, and what was provoked only by what was known of the times…

Perhaps the intimated “Silence Group”—that shadowy cabal of bureaucratic ghost‑handlers self-admitted to be holding sway on what is known and unknown about flying saucers (they're NOT there?)—would decide that even a modest rural convention was too much disclosure for the public? We all saw what happens as a result of a Roswell, or a Keck, or a Phenix Lights. ““All along, along, there were ‘incidents’ and ‘accidents’ / There were hints and allegations,” to quote a sentient bard! …BUT always a government’s heavy hand…

After all, after some poorly criticized “scholars” insist (errant critic’s sneer quotes noted!) “they” (the gub’ment) once MAY have shut down a television program (We, the People) for daring to platform Kathleen May, Gene Lemon, and A. Lee Stewart... the interested ARE alarmed! The reader will notice the use of the word, “may.” This supposition was never “insisted,” by these “scholars” it was suspected, given the UFO government’s observed (and documented) behaviors!

Still, if they could cancel a national broadcast (!!!), what’s a little convention in Flatwoods? Why not! A flick of a pen. A phone call. A memo stamped CLASSIFIED: NO FUN ALLOWED. Only… our UFO government has never been forthcoming as it pertains to UFOs, has it… that’s the history and this writer has been watchin’ since 1994!

So here we stand: A monster anniversary without a monster celebration. A town whose cosmic claim to fame is once again left to molder in a mire of the disrespected folkloric? A “folklorist” allegedly hiding under a porch. A dog’s curse echoing across the decades? And a government that—if you believe the credible mythos—still prefers its monsters unmentioned, and for obvious reasons!

No… Flatwoods deserves better. Some people make that obvious. The “Monster” deserves better. And the truth—whatever flavor of cosmic absurdity it takes—deserves its day in the sun. …And for the record? It was Ivan T. Sanderson, by report, reporting that the dog, indeed, died! A collie… was it named Ritchie? That was his report…

Gray Barker admits that when he came down to Flatwoods, WV, on Friday, September 19, 1952, to investigate the encounter,  two of the chief witnesses were away. 32-year-old beautician Kathleen May (1919-2009) and 17-year-old National Guardsman Eugene Lemon had gone off to appear on an episode of a New York television show called We, the People. 22-year-old Braxton County Democrat newspaper editor A. Lee Stewart Jr. (1930-1998) was also with them. As a result, he and cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson were only able to question the other witnesses, ages 10 to 14,  and others like Max Lockhard who’d been on the scene before the authorities as well as witnesses to the fireball that preceded the encounter.

Lehm—Uh-huh… In other words, Gray Barker… That Gray Barker—patron saint of UFO fabulism and America’s nascent professional purveyor of cosmic baloney-shiznit—arrives in Flatwoods on Friday, September 19, 1952, ready to “investigate.” …And what does he find?

Nobody. Nobody of consequence, at any rate.

The actual adult primary witnesses—Kathleen May, Eugene “Gene” Lemon, and A. Lee Stewart Jr.—were already gone, whisked off to New York to appear on the contested “We, the People,” a live national broadcast that Barker somehow didn’t know was live. The man who would later claim secret knowledge of Men in Black lore couldn’t even keep track of a TV schedule. Sheesh?

So… Barker is left interviewing children—ages 10 to 14—and a handful of locals like Max Lockhard, who at least had the decency to be on the hill before the authorities arrived. Barker (to a much lesser degree) and Ivan T. Sanderson, a man who actually did the quality research (and on whose shoulders Feschino stands), are stuck piecing together the cosmic jigsaw puzzle from whoever wasn’t already on a train to Manhattan.

It’s the investigative equivalent of showing up late to a crime scene and asking the neighbor’s kids what they think happened! Barker “admitted” this writer's crepey old ass!

…And yet—yet!—Barker would go on to position himself as the authoritative chronicler of the Flatwoods Monster! Only the reprogrammable meat bags and otherwise credulous will buy into that! The man who “missed the witnesses” now claims to have captured the essence of the encounter! ROFL! It’s like writing a biography of Lincoln after interviewing only the people who saw the effin’ play!

Meanwhile? The witnesses Barker didn’t interview were on national television, being introduced to America as the bewildered participants in a cosmic close encounter of the 3^rd kind! It happened! Stewart, Lemon, and May were giving firsthand accounts while Barker was still trying to find someone old enough to drive.

This is the part of the mythos where the comedy and tragedy come together: Barker, the self‑styled “investigator,” arrives too late. The witnesses, the ones with actual adult memories, are already gone. Sanderson, the scientist, is left holding the credible clipboard. And the kids—bless their mountain-born, now deceased, little hearts—become Barker’s primary source material.

See? It’s no wonder Barker’s later retellings read like bad pulp fiction, they were! His investigation began with the narrative equivalent of interviewing the cast of The Goonies.

…But the mythos doesn’t stop there. Gird those loins… because while Barker is something less than inerrantly fumbling around Braxton County, the witnesses are being folded into the machinery of early television—a live broadcast, a national audience, and a moment of cultural imprinting that Barker would later pretend was part of his own investigative tapestry!

He wasn’t there, is the understanding!  He didn’t see it. He didn’t talk to the credible witnesses. He didn’t even know the show was live. …And yet? He would later posture as if he had the inside track on the truth!

…But what we want to discuss here isn’t the encounter or even the witnesses. It’s the cancelation of the We, the People TV show. That’s the issue. Is it "evidence" of Feschino’s journalistic "perfidy"?! Mmmmmno...

In a “not-so-wildly” conspiratorial article in which this author tries to make the case that the government publicly ignored the Flatwoods Monster case but was secretly trying to ridicule it, “Frank Feschino’s ‘Fanboy’ El Numero Uno,” this writer, a retired professional soldier with a Bronze Star and a Bachelor’s in Education (?), pens the following:

“Oh, and as a closing side note, is it just a coincidence that the “We The People” TV program was cancelled after it was aired the following week on September 26th? The Flatwoods Episode was the penultimate one! This was the most popular program on television, after all! The older reader may remember when the “Smothers Brothers” show was abruptly and inexplicably cancelled… it was bigger than that.”

As per usual,  a little actual research DID cut right through the “wild conspiracy speculation and outright misinformation” (read "justified if idle suppositions"!) provided by our errant “West Virginia Folklorist” Feschino… revealed by our “Errant Critic of the age,” but let’s give him a little more rope, a noose has 13 knots… and even correct? He has to hang for adjacent behaviors!

This television program first aired on CBS television from 1948 until 1949, when there were like two and a half, three channels! Then transitioned to NBC TV and was aired from 1949 through 1952. The final program, season 5—episode 13, was the last “We The People” show ever done. Does our aforementioned critic know the meaning of the word, “penultimate”? We might yet see!

Did the watchful eye of the government actually pull the plug on this TV show because the “monster” episode revitalized interest in the suppressed story AND scared the hell out of the country? Too, did they begin to reason that an unconstrained media should not be able to tell a story to such a vast audience without some kind of content moderation? This time, it sure seemed to upset their apple cart of deception and duplicity as regards their “Standard Operating Procedure” eh?

Lehm-- Did the watchful eye of the government pull the plug on “We, the People” because the Flatwoods Monster segment jolted the nation awake? Well—if you listen to the mythos, the answer is a resounding… it sure could have (!)… delivered with a wink and a cigarette burn on the edge of a classified memo. That was the Standard Operating Procedure of those persons involved, STILL!

Because here’s the thing: The Flatwoods episode didn’t just “revitalize interest.” It re‑ignited a story the government had spent a week trying to smother under a wet blanket of ridicule, misdirection, and “nothing to see here, folks.” ...And suddenly—suddenly—a live national broadcast beams Kathleen May, Gene Lemon, and A. Lee Stewart Jr. into millions of living rooms.

That’s not a local rumor anymore. …Now? It’s a national problem.

…And if you’re sitting in the “Silence Group’s” walnut‑paneled conference room, watching the public’s eyebrows rise in unison, you might start thinking dangerous thoughts: “Why is a talk show allowed to tell the truth?” “Why is a rural monster story trending harder than our Cold War propaganda?” “Why do these civilians have access to a live microphone?” “Shouldn’t someone be moderating this… content?” These are reasonable suppositions!

…Because nothing upsets a bureaucracy more than unmoderated reality, even “errant critics” must understand THAT!

The Flatwoods segment didn’t just scare the country—it scared the handlers and galvanized them! It reminded them that the media, when left to its own devices, can accidentally broadcast something unscripted, unapproved, and uncontained. And that’s the kind of thing that makes a Silence Group’s monocle pop out and roll across the floor into a mouse hole. SAY that is not so!

So yes—from this mythic's perspective—the Flatwoods episode absolutely upset their apple cart of deception and duplicity. It kicked the wheels out from under their very real Standard OperatingProcedure: Ridicule first, Deny second, Confuse third, and Forget fourth.

…Only Flatwoods didn’t forget. The witnesses didn’t forget. And the national audience—for one electric evening—didn’t forget either.

Did the government actually cancel the show? Historically, no—the cancellation was already scheduled it has been, and abundantly, demonstrated! …But mythically? Narratively? In the grand cosmic theater that was 1952? It remains possible, even probable, given what we all experience as regards this subject... and these others will not apologize for "supposing," based on what is known, eh.

It’s exactly the kind of thing they would do because nothing terrifies a deception machine more than a story it didn’t authorize—especially one involving a glowing, mechanical, possibly extraterrestrial entity that made a National Guardsman scream and a an entire nation... a world... gasp in wonder… just what ELSE might be out there.

You see, it was a LIVE talk show. (Lehmberg somehow missed that.) And the Flatwoods Monster witnesses (and Stewart) weren’t even the entire focus of that show. The “Air Waves” column by Budge Stretch (The Courier-Post, Camden, NJ, 9/19/52, p. 23) reveals that We, the People started out with the story of a woman who was studying commercial art after her sight was restored after 10 years of blindness.

 LEHM-- So here’s the punchline: We, the People—the show Barker treats like some clandestine, pre‑recorded, government‑massaged disclosure event—was LIVE. Live as in: no editing, no retakes, no Silence Group script doctors hiding behind the curtains. Only… Please to show this Author where he was not aware of the show being live?

…And Barker—the man who would later claim privileged insight into cosmic conspiracies—somehow missed it, too. He missed that the witnesses weren’t flown to New York for a taped segment. That they were there for a live broadcast, announced in newspapers two days prior, and aired exactly when the clocks said it aired.

That’s not a conspiracy. That’s a schedule. One a more “intrepid” Barker might have been aware of?

And here’s the kicker: The Flatwoods witnesses weren’t even the main attraction. They weren’t the headline. They weren’t the “big reveal.” They were the second act. We know that. Where was that ignorance indicated?

The show opened with a human‑interest piece about a woman studying commercial art after regaining her sight following ten years of blindness—a story so compelling it would overshadow any rural monster tale unless the monster walked onto the stage and ate the host. There was another guest that night… we know who it was. Does the errant critic?

This is the part the mythos loves: The Silence Group, the Men in Black, the shadowy handlers—all could very well be panicking, supposedly panicking, allegedly panicking, probably panicking… over a TV segment that wasn’t even the show’s primary focus! The Flatwoods witnesses were sandwiched between human triumph, one other famous person, according to Kathleen May, and some commercial breaks. They were a feature, not a takeover. Remains! This show took over the media’s attention, and globally, for months! There was no mention of the program's other participants, reader! The story was “FLATWOODS.”

I must here indulge in a side note. Both of these East Coast newspapers give two different times. The Greenville, Ohio paper gives the showtime as 7:30pm, while the Camden, NJ newspaper cites it as 8:30pm. Why is that?

Camden, NJ, was operating on Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Greenville, OH, was operating on Eastern Standard Time (EST). You see, until the Uniform Time Act of 1966, the time difference between two cities depended on a patchwork of local daylight savings rules. NBC broadcasted We the People live out of its flagship studio (WNBT) in New York City at 8:30 PM EDT. Because Camden, NJ, was on Daylight Saving Time from April 27, 1952 to September 27, 1952, alongside New York, its local papers correctly listed the show at 8:30 PM. Because western Ohio remained on Eastern Standard Time year-round, local NBC affiliates received the broadcast at the exact same physical moment, but their local clocks read 7:30 PM.

LEHM— So what? …Go into a little fugue there (?)… or getting paid by the word? Perhaps showing off an otherwise credible research effort?

Back to the point!

LEHM— Please!

Even if we assumed an applecart of deception, duplicity and whatever other alliteratives Lehmberg cares to presume it carries, it’s just laughable to suppose that a TV show that Feschino believes resulted in a misleading version of Braxxie somehow upset said apple cart. Pick a lane, Feschinions (i.e., Feschino minions); You can’t have your cake and eat it too. 

LEHM—The errant critic might need another run at that. It’s not been made clear what “lanes” are referenced… Feschino maintains that the program misled the planet regarding what the “Monster” looked like… that said, this author will not apologize for aspiring to write well, and as to the cake? The errant critic knows where he can shove that.

Furthermore, the show description from the Camden, NJ newspaper we cited describes the monster as “varying in height from seven to 17 feet” tall, exactly the sort of ridicule Lehmberg claims the Silence Group was inserting into the media. Why would you cancel a program that presented the Flatwoods Monster as a ridiculous caricature of its allegedly true nature, doing your job of ridicule for you? Why would Lehmberg cite the We, the People artist’s drawing of the Flatwoods Monster as misinformation and then claim the show was nonetheless shut down for reviving interest in the truth?

LEHM—Apples and oranges… or in this case, apples and spent adult diapers. The conjecture (all it was ever based on were the admitted government-revealed attitudes regarding UFOs) about a We The People cancellation… was that it might reasonably be conjectured by the secret-keepers that what had been allowed once should not be allowed again! That has abundant fairness! What about the NEXT UFO that “We The People” wanted to do a live show on… nipped in the bud! Our errant critic conflates different “ridicules” to make a senseless point as irrelevant as it is pointless… WTP’s drawing was misinformation and WTP could have been shut down in the cause of censorship. That doesn’t happen?!

Fortunately,  Lehmberg can spit his excuses and hamfisted attempts to patch up his silly conspiracy into the wind for all I care because,  as it turns out, his Silence Group plot also requires a TIME MACHINE and his conjecture that the cancelation of We, the People was in any was shocking is revealed to be utter dramatic nonsense!

Lehm—You insult this writer. Given what we knew about Blue Book UFO Standard Operating Procedure and a government’s official attitude regarding UFOs it seemed reasonable that WTP might get caught up in a cancellation, just given the story’s effect on the planet. That was the supposition… It remains! This writer can appreciate the facts revealed to give credit where credit is due. The actuality of it… if not their sneering delivery!

You see, the cancelation of We, the People was determined and announced well BEFORE the Flatwoods Monster event of September 12, 1952. For example,  the Ross Reports on Television for Aug 31-Sept 6, 1952 (Vol 4 No 4, Supplement A) note on page 5, reporting on Sponsor Activity:

GULF OIL thru Young & Ruble am, cancels We, The People (NBC -TV Frl 8:30-9pm) after the program of September 26, and will sponsor a dramatic program in the same time slot starting October 3.

That replacement program, Gulf Playhouse, lasted 13 weeks before being replaced on Jan. 2, 1953 by Gulf Oil with Life of Riley (Ross Reports on Television Vol. 4 No. 7 Supplement E (DEC 28 ’52 – JAN 3 ’53), p. 3.

In its Sept 1, 1952 issue, Broadcasting Telecasting magazine also reported that Gulf Oil was dropping We, the People and were replacing it with a show tentatively called Gulf Theatre.

The announcement made its way into newspapers as well. For example,  the Sept 3, 1952 edition of the Meridan Daily Journal (Meridan, CT), the Live Wires section of Lawrence Witte’s “Static” column (p. 3) reports:

“We, The People,” one of the oldest programs on the TV screen, loses its sponsor Sept. 26. A dramatic program will take over.

The announcement was carried even earlier in The Bedford Daily Times-Mail, appearing on the Associated Press “Radio TV Day By Day” column on page 6 of its August 29, 1952 edition.

Lehm—This! This right here! This is all that would have been needed, its point made, and there would have been congratulating back-slaps and smiles all around… …But the errant critic pivots to this:

And why would the government or the Silence Group shut down a TV program that seemingly did its job for it — and was already on the chopping block? They wouldn’t, of course. They wouldn’t need to.

LEHM—And thank you so MUCH for pointing that out… our honest conjecture didn’t pan out… but here you call apples “oranges” and oranges “apples.” A national news program announcing the “upsetting, contrary, and the unpermitted” without a filter is not ridicule per se. It’s a threat to the secret keepers, and it is entirely reasonable to wonder if this would cause a program’s cancellation. The Smother’s Brothers’ cancellation might be an illustration of that.

So in the end, despite the hyperbole and the conspiracy theories, it turns out the Flatwoods Monster had nothing at all to do with the cancelation of We, the People.

Sorry, Lehmberg. You tried.

LEHM—And will continue to do so, “adorable,” as accused! Our errant critic has made his contribution. This writer has read to the new period, accepts the facts as iterated, and is elevated for that! WTP was likely not cancelled over FLATWOODS… thank you, errant and obnoxious critic, for that journalist elevation, such as it was… Well done!

…Looking forward to our next exchange of the constructive, proactive, and productive, eh? We concede to your contribution, but not to your tone. Your tone is detestable. See, it remains that Flatwoods is a watershed moment in a field being discussed and debated in Congress at this time, right now. UFOs are real… this drives the interest.

Feschino remains to have the definitive take on Flatwoods, is more inclusive and encompassing in that take, and remains that take’s subject matter expert into the Flatwoods Affair...  

Truly! Accept no substitutes!

The anxious kerfuffle over the idle, if supported, conjecture regarding government pressure to shut down “We The People” and in which the errant critic DOES triumph? That’s a pole-vault over a suppositional tic-turd, boy howdy. Though, you seem to be trying as hard as you can… this writer will continue to do the same.

Post Script:

It would seem that the "Secret Keepers," were watching WTP closely... and over time!

The Buffalo News - Daily Ad. January 6, 1950 Newspaper (Below)

Major Donald Keyhoe appeared on the radio and television public-affairs program We, the People in early January 1950 alongside Lieutenant George Gorman. Co-guest: Keyhoe appeared with Lt. George Gorman, a Gorman Dogfight UFO witness who had famously chased an illuminated object with his F-51 fighter in October 1948.Air Force Pressure: Keyhoe noted in his book The Flying Saucers Are Real that Gorman appeared heavily constrained during rehearsals, insisting he could only repeat what was in his official report.

Censorship and Monitoring: Program officials informed Keyhoe that an Air Force denial had to be added to the script, and Keyhoe learned that the Air Force actively monitored the broadcast to manage official secrecy.

I'm Your Huckleberry...

"I'm Your Huckleberry..."

by Alfred Lehmberg

Pointed out again, of needs and causes, if tediously, it seems we must necessarily overstate the obvious, if interminably! Justifiably and indubitably, readers! We must blow our horns with forceful regularity or scurvy content thieves contrive to make funnels of them! Gird loins for some sincere Miles Davis. 

Frank C. Feschino, Jr. is a graduate of the Paier College of Art in Hamden, Connecticut, as has been reported! He is learned and knows the ins and outs of all of the finer aspects and facets of professional illustration, commercial art, and photography... as a professional. Call your waiter!

Moreover? He is surrounded by a myriad of top-notch professionals in ufology’s respected inquiry, and they are already named in previous pieces. These professionals hold him in high regard and in no small esteem… especially as a boots-on-the ground field investigator and videographer... He's no mere keyboard warrior, noisome armchair debunker, or impertinent Google "searcher"! Trade up!

So why is it, then, that Feschino is lately assailed by “anxious pretenders” sailing out of the paranormal mal-Aethra like angry Hulk-Hogan wannabe gunfighters... expulsivly aiming to defecate disingenuously on his honored reputation of many decades? 

What? ...Who has the fastest “draw”? …Pun intended.

Feschino was assiduously trained, again (!), by several world-class artists including Kenneth Davies, Jean & Rudolf Zallinger, Paul Lipp, and John Massimino. He earned his four-year Fine Arts diploma in 1981. Furthermore, reader, feel FREE to check his art background, as some have! 

Imagine their annoyed irritation finding out Feschino is everything he said he was! See, Feschino is not some hack amateur slop-artist like so many out there in these troubled and troubling times! He is the real deal, reader, and this can readily be determined in his quality illustrations! Accept no substitutes, as has been said.

Detail from Shoot them down!

Anyway, included are some of Feschino's hand-painted illustrations pertaining to the famed "Sept. 12, 1952 UFO flap" occurring over the mid-Atlantic & eastern region of the United States.  They are necessarily poor resolutions, or purloined as pointed out, eh? These highly-rendered paintings were created with acrylics and done on canvas stock and illustration board. Moreover, there are many more... actually a stockpile of Feschino's drawings, paintings and maps in his portfolio… all related to the Flatwoods case, which have yet to be seen! There are dozens of these studies and conjectures extant.

The Fireball and the Cessna! It happened!

See, unlike some cut-and-paste “authors” who pretend to be “illustrators” and who create childishly amateur drawings for their paraphrased and mawkishly forgettable chapbooks (and good on them for that, they’re productive IF unserious!) Feschino, on the other hand, is a trained artist who illustrated his own books with quality work, due diligence, and a perspicacious attention to detail. There are no amateur drawings, paintings, or simpleton artworks in his massive portfolio, nor is there any need for computer-generated illustrations. Feschino was doing all this last century so kind of pre-dates AI… No… Feschino’s hand was adequate to his monumental task!

Fireball and C-46... it happened.

In the future, respected reader? Watch the Flatwoods Monster 1952 page on Facebook. Feschino will also be releasing (as we speak!) never-before-seen video footages, interviews—numerous photographs, drawings and paintings, etc. related to his decades-long research into the Flatwoods case… as well as materials related to his 1952 UFO “air war” research...

The story will continue to be told with respect for the legitimate history as it is respectfully outlined, and that outline will always be knowledgeable of the responsibility incurred in a contribution to that history… while aspiring NOT to detract from it… as others, anxious "gunfighters" trying to boost flagging reputations (?) seem complacent to do. Not at this station, only… don’t ambush this writer in a public street… he won’t suffer obnoxious bullies thinking themselves literary wits or loutish fools believing press releases they’d have written for themselves, eh? There’s been a long evidentiary reputation, in evidence, for that lack of suffrage. He’d strike the sun if it offended him…

But… Feschino meeting them in the streets at high noon for some shootout "debate" used as a coercive and uncalled-for bludgeon? It may be determined, and quickly, that these “up-and-comer gunsels” brought ill-maintained weaponry and dud ammunition to such an exchange… but there can be no shootout at high noon… for NOTHING, reader. Debate will be impossible sans an opponent suspected of an inability to follow the rules of the debate, one, and two? Nothing will be gained from the proposed donnybrook but the elevations of reputations undeserving of such an elevation, eh?

We ask, how many "researchers" and "writers" out there today have worked and interviewed as many primary witnesses involved in the Flatwoods case as Feschino has? How many have even set a contemptuous foot on the Fisher Farm last century, risking life and limb in the initiative? Verily, how many have actually read the entire Sept. 12 and 13th Blue Book case files (which had to be reconstructed from fading documents (virtually illegible!), holding the truth of the UFO events that night?

Touchdown at Flatwoods! It happened!

Besides… Debate schmate! There is THIS writer to bring abusive persons into… focus. He’s 78 and a retired professional soldier, “with time on his hands and no child to raise”... He makes it his pastime bringing “things” into "focus"… Do a DEEP dive on HIM. ...Then? Forewarned so forearmed? ...We can play.

As was pointed out before… these ostensible and erstwhile Flatwoods “gunslingers” lack, at the end of their tedious day, any standing, their credible reputations, any professional references, and their own credibility at the start. Even “big guns” with names have yet to give a better explanation for Feschino’s assertions, explaining, for example, the findings he exhibits on his "Master Map"! This map displays the "September 12, 1952 UFO Flap." This took YEARS to consolidate!

Remember, Flatwoods was only a small part of the mindblowing "events" occurring that night... an event at the END of a long bizzare story. Flatwoods was not a singular UFO one-off! You see, Feschino looked outside of Flatwoods and its "monster" mythos! He discovered the prelude and aftermath of the entire Flatwoods incident! Air war with ET! It boggles the mind!

This is what the likes of an unserious Barker, a serious Sanderson, and an intrepid Keyhoe, among others, were never able to do as regards Feschino’s assertions and findings… Too? Well, we’ve already talked about the consequences of “swine wrasslin’”! Come to it? This writer will step up for that... and is. This is how it's done. It is the way. Read on...

...We Get "Comments"

...We Get "Comments"

by Alfred Lehmberg

Lately, this writer gets the limpest, if risibly threatening, commentary from the nastier cheap seats vis-à-vis the Flatwoods thing! It arrives like a wet paper spear thrown at a tank column... wholly unwarranted spitballery—spirited, arguably, but ultimately as drolly ineffective as it is substantively indecorative. Neat trick... that.

It brazenly announces itself, currently, with the fatuous opening “You’re hilarious!” This is as though one's tone was somehow a substitute for substance... as though a less-than-appropriate and dismissive chuckle could remotely stand in for the hard labor of an actual decades-long research! ...And this writer only aspiring to write some truth as it is sensibly perceived, about that decades-long research.

It’s a familiar, if intellectually dishonest, move... a projection, a deflection, a diversion... like the priest of a shrinking orthodoxy trying to laugh off the threatening heretic rather than confront the new text presented in good faith!

Then comes the self-aggrandizing flourish—“I’m not even sure whether to take it seriously.” like the attentive seriousness alluded to was ever asked for, desired, or even superficially appreciated ...But, it remains! He did take it seriously! Proof is in the proffered pudding!

He took it seriously enough to write a paragraph about it. He took it seriously enough to invoke Feschino’s "downfall" like a campfire ghost story told to keep the dim-bulb acolytes in line! He took it seriously because the arguments, as produced, struck a low-watt and amateur nerve! Well, nerves don’t lie and Feschino is so far up this abusive commenter's nose he can feel Feschino's knees scrubbin' his top lip!

Then? The senselessly insensible objection to “conjecture posing as research” is the most mythic part of this monumentally mawkish missive! Hurled like shiznit are accusations of material error... without a single counter‑fact, citation, or engagement with the material as presented... being made!

It’s a curious thing to watch! ...An anxious little man of little dimension swinging at his own self-invented shadows, himself, while publicly insisting that he’s defending the light, right and true! Now, THAT's hilarious! No... If conjecture is the crime, then the referenced recent comment is the accuser's confession.

...But then—comes the odiously ominous benediction! “Remind Frank when this is all over that he had people like you to thank for his downfall.”

...Ah. ...And there it is. The tribal oath. The invocation of Feschino as a "fallen king" whose ruin must be pinned on anyone who dares to read the record without bowing to "Barker’s sainted gospel," eh? Is that where we are?

The commenter is not critiquing the work... he's policing allegiance to the discredited, debunked, and dismissed! He's not debating the facts; he's defending the myth, and with stale bupkis. ...Buyer beware?

So, closing? Let this writer return the favor in admonition! Know this, reader! When the dust settles at the end of the tedious day and all karmic seeds are planted as laid to rest? The "commenter" (such that it was?) might be reminded that it wasn’t people like this writer, only honesty's aspirant, who caused a "downfall"—it was the weight of the evidence, honestly sought and recovered, refusing to kneel to obnoxious bullies & web weasels, or those beneath concern, consideration, or contempt! Read on.

2 Shades of Gray

 

2 Shades of Gray

...Observed, then, as a less-than-constructive investigative breed, enfeebled AND enfeebling, ensorcelled AND ensorcelling—enblightened AND enblightening ! Resent! Reject! Revile! ...Of needs and for cause!

by Alfred Lehmberg

This is the cover for "Gray Barker's Newsletter," a fatuously fabulist and facile publication, No. 4 from 1976. The portrait illustrates a much more respected John Keel sitting studiously at a table ostensibly... perhaps reading a book of the arcane while surrounded by his "Eight Towers" denizens.

John Keel, in a small digression, was a quality journalist and Fortean writer who was the author of the well-known book, "The Mothman Prophecies." In Ufology and Fortean subcultures, the flaccid phrase "The Eight Towers denizens" was popularized, in all wit’s paucity, by Gray Barker, himself. Meaning nothing, actually? It was referring to the paranormal "ultra-terrestrial beings" in John Keel's books and writings. Full stop!

This short essay is not about John Keel! It is going to be about West Virgina "author" Gray Barker.

Indubitably? Barker became "well-known" for being one of the first persons to investigate the "Flatwoods Monster" incident back in September of 1952. Oddly enough, though, even as Barker investigated and wrote extensively about the "Flatwoods Monster" case, he never knew what the figure actually looked like... nor was he able to derive anything substantive about the "Monster's" affair! This can be demonstrated by his own hand!

Observe… even 24-years later in 1976, the cover of his publication still shows the so-called "monster" of Flatwoods incorrectly! They just didn't know, didn't WANT to know, and were incapable of knowing! 

Moreover? The comical twist to this cover illustration is that the silly figure depicted, as such, is actually based on the comically ceramic "Braxton County Monster" lantern! THAT was innovative… not so much! Too? Remember that the lantern itself was based on the incorrect drawing shown on the "We The People" TV program featuring the "monster" on September 19, 1952! 

Even as the skirt-wearing "monster" was not taken seriously by most locals and still considered a joke, the lantern was created as a money maker, a fund raiser actually, for the civic group, the Jaycees, "The United States Junior Chamber" in the late 60's. The so-called "monster" of Flatwoods was simply considered to be a West Virginia folklore story, a local legend!

These lanterns? They came with a paint can lid! This lid was used as a base for a candle to sit on, and a paint can wire was attached to both sides of the head, providing a way to carry it around... The figure also had openings in the eye and chest areas for the candlelight to shine through. Note the same pattern appears in the chest area of Barker's cover drawing. Revealed, eh? It is apparent that Gray Barker and his associates NEVER knew, had no clue... as to what the so-called "Monster" actually looked like—even by 1976!

Figurine mold used for construction
at The Sutton Flatwoods Museum...

Notice the holes in the eyes and chest...

…Which brings us to the point of this essay. Gray Barker, a professionally vacuous man, was very easy to humiliate in a debate (as one Jackie Gleason was able to effortlessly demonstrate; link below). He was a dodgy fabulist more interested in lurid story details than he would ever be in the factual details of the story. 

Verily! He contributed nothing to very little for the Flatwoods Affair, only “investigating” it for a day and a half of his “reported” three days. …He had to get back to a job he held 9 to 5! ...Stout investigator HIM!

No... That's amateur... at best. Remember, reader, that Frank Feschino, Jr. picked up the Flatwoods case where Barker and Sanderson had both left off, and investigated the case, singularly, for decades. 

Remember that he actually worked with and interviewed more KEY people and witnesses involved in the incident than anyone EVER did, has, or will interview! Remember, finally, that Feschino, being a college-trained forensic illustrator, gave us an accurate portrayal of the so-called "monster," something Barker nor Sanderson were never able to do!

Back to Barker, remember his own notes, letters, and later recollections show this journalistic perfidy, plainly! He arrived in Braxton County already looking for a “story,” not the “facts.” He spent most of his time interviewing locals in bars, not witnesses. He left early because he had to return to his 9‑to‑5 job at WV's Department of Education. 

He never followed up with witnesses; Kathleen May ran him off when he tried, it's said! He never cross‑checked testimony. He never examined the physical evidence. He never returned, meaningfully, to the site. His “three‑day investigation” was a marketing phrase, not a timeline. All Barker was interested in was salacious grist for his equally salacious and duplicitous "grist" mill! There would be others following him.

Again! Gray Barker, for all his questionably dubious notoriety, contributed almost nothing of substance to the Flatwoods Affair! His “three‑day investigation” was, in truth, a day and a half of casual inquiry squeezed between barroom conversations and the obligations to his 9‑to‑5 job, as was pointed out.

Resolved! Barker was not a researcher or an investigator; he was an embroidering sensationalist—a myth‑mongering confabulator! He was a man more enamored with his errant and duplicitous embellishments than any factual fidelities... his only interest was the money and not givin' a sucker an even break. Jackie Gleason famously humiliated him in debate, revealing how shallow Barker’s facile grasp of his cases truly were. This can be found on YouTube… 

This is worth the listen! During this November 16, 1958 radio interview with Barker and UFO enthusiast Jackie Gleason on Long John Nebel's talk show (this writer was 10 and might have heard the show live!), Gleason effortlessly demonstrated Barker was nothing but a two-color fictioneer. He showed that Barker was more interested in ghoul-lit story details printing money—and a name for himself in the book publishing business—than in being a credible journalist! This was evident by Barker's initial Flatwoods investigation when he was cast to the sidelines after a bona fide investigator, Ivan T. Sanderson, came on the scene at Flatwoods to conduct a serious and in-depth investigation!

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Yet Barker’s sensationalized account, thin as presented (!), became the popular "goto" version of the Flatwoods tale for decades, obscuring the sober testimony of living witnesses and burying the real, more global (and ignorantly mocked of late), "air war story"… beneath sordid layers of meaningless theatrical invention. He shaped the “myth” while “ignoring the reality.” 

It would take Frank Feschino, decades later, to excavate the truth that Barker never bothered to seek OR countenance! Such was so!

Be it also Resolved: because Barker was one of the first to publish on Flatwoods, his sensationalized woo-woo version became the default narrative endured for decades! The monster only became more monstrous. The encounter only became more insensibly dramatic. The witnesses only became more frightened. Observers only became more confused! The details only became more ridiculously explicated as Sci-Fi B-film cinematics... 

See? All this entirely overshadowed the actual witness testimony, come to find out later… which was: consistent, sober, intelligent, and far less theatrical... if profoundly astonishing, STILL! See? The story was REAL! Feschino was able to bring all that to light, and it's precisely why Flatwoods can be measured "BF" and "AF"!

Barker’s exaggerations created a discrediting fog that serious researchers—including Feschino—had to cut through decades later for any "story" legitimacy at all! ...Know that Barker’s own colleagues—our John Keel from above, that mocking pelicanist Jim Moseley (don’t get this writer started on him!), and named others—repeatedly described him as: a prankster, a hoaxer, and a man who too willingly “embellished,” his stories too freely. He was well-known for someone who valued sales over truth, and someone who enjoyed misleading the UFO community for effin’ SPORT! ...And purloined profit, one might presume. ...Gleason took him to task for it in the video above! This writer wants to whack Barker with a wet pine board!

He famously helped fabricate the ominous “Men in Black” mythos. He published hoaxes knowingly. He encouraged others to exaggerate their stories. He once admitted privately that he wrote things “because they sold.” What sensible person hangs their hat on the memory of such as that?! Barker was not a villain, so much... but he was NEVER a journalist or a credible researcher! 

Consider, now! ...Any persons pondering the placental attachment of their own “reputation” or “credibility” to the legacy and likes of Gray Barker (?)... should proceed with extreme caution! Cut a chogey, reader! Pull a one eighty! Cease and desist with prejudice!

See? Barker was never a reliable investigator of cryptozoology or the UFO phenomena; his "legacy," such as that is, is that he was a sensationalist storyteller whose work routinely blurred, embellished, or outright replaced fact with theatrical invention! That's the report. 

His “investigations” were risibly shallow, often consisting of brief visits, barroom interviews, and hurried departures back to his day job, leaving him with but fragments of testimony… These fragments were then inflated into lurid narratives designed to sell his equally lurid books! 

...It would even seem Barker established a "business plan" for others going forward! Those currently paraphrasing Barker's moldy and incompetent coattails, so those further entertaining salacious inconsequentials, immaterials, and irrelevancies as potentially factual, are abounding in a loud minority! Credible Service is not performed by these. Feschino, on the other hand, provides that service.

...Selling fanciful and throwaway books of no consequence or relevance... rather than documenting any truth a researcher’d "sought." …That will be the polar opposite of Feschino. Accept no substitutes, as was written before!

Friedman, Feschino, Hastings, and Dolan

The reader should recall that America and the rest of the planet are on the very precipice of a full-blown ufological disclosure that will have significant, if not seismic, consequences going forward. The late Stanton Friedman, Richard Dolan, Robert Hastings, and Frank Feschino, researchers of that ilk and caliber, can provide a history and a reasoning foundation for that disclosure. The others, the substitutes aforementioned... not so much.

Know that Barker openly admitted to fabricating details, encouraging hoaxes, and treating the UFO community as an effin’ stage for pranks and myth‑making, and NOT as a worthy field deserving rigor, best practice, or due diligence... qualities Feschino demonstrates in proverbial spades and for decades!

As a result, anyone leaning on Barker’s fatuous materials inherits not his “notoriety” but his methodological weaknesses, boy howdy—his exaggerations, his omissions... his too casual relationship with real evidence, and his sordid reputation for preferring drama over accuracy...(!) ...His—lies?!

Yes, his influence on popular lore is undeniable, but not in a good way! His contribution to any factual understanding of "things" is beneath the incorrigibly negligible. So? Building one’s credulity or credibility on Barker’s work is like building a house on dollar-store carnival scaffolding: eye‑catching for a while, but structurally unsound when the foundations are thumped, then it crashes to ruin to be wholly forgotten at the end of the day!  

Serious researchers should treat Barker as a sad cultural artifact, not a factual foundation. That’s Feschino’s approach, reader, and unwashed critics with interesting reputations and remarkable histories demanding “equal time” and “respect”… well, they just lack standing, credible reputation, and their own credibility. ...Beneath concern, consideration, and contempt as the crow flies. 

Too? One deigns to wrestle with pigs to get just as dirty... but providing only for the pig’s enjoyment. Not at this station! Read on!

Flatwoods, AF!

Feschino, the May family, and a bearded Ron Shaver...

Flatwoods, AF!

by Alfred Lehmberg

 

This writer had written earlier that a timeline regarding Flatwoods can be measured demonstrably as Flatwoods BF and Flatwoods AF… Before Feschino and After Feschino. That is going to be minus all histrionics or any hyperbole. Everything that has come to be substantively known about the Flatwoods affair has Frank C. Feschino on the "blame-line," full stop! Accept no substitutes!

Remember that Feschino spent three decades ferreting out the details, substantiating and time-stamping the “real” and unfanciful time-lines, interviewing and video-recording the surviving first-person witnesses (now all deceased!), and establishing an earned credibility with Ufology’s leading writers and researchers. There was the late Stanton Friedman. There is Richard Dolan. There is Whitley Strieber. There is Robert Hastings. There is Bill Birnes. These professionals see Feschino's value and worth, and all of the preceding bespeaks Feschino's panoramic scope of subject-matter expertise regarding the affair, how it plugs into history, and how it all so desperately matters NOW given new official and public interests in the subject of UFOs. 

Too? This but begins a list of named persons who have appreciated Feschino’s work… Consequently?

People sans all provenance, principle, or creative paradigm pirate his images and photographs unconscionably, like they did the research, rendered the drawings, or made the discoveries... themselves! This is unconscionable… when all Feschino requires is credit for his substantial efforts made at HUGE personal cost!

Only, there’s a rub for these pirates! Feschino, one discovers, reports a massive trove of material that is not in his books or on the internet. All this unreleased material helped substantiate the actuality and existentiality of the Flatwoods story… so he is able to demonstrate how he came to his conclusions and was able to make his astonishing assertions!

Feschino DEFIES anyone else to be able to remotely do what he has done! …This is forgetting that credible material revealed by these "persons," but adding to the Flatwoods Story (and not fallaciously detracting from it?) would be accepted as welcome even if Feschino’s well-crafted assertions and superbly supported conjectures were nullified and DESTROYED! Feschino aspires to the “science” and the “journalism”! If he’s wrong, so be it. Only, SHOW him! Show THIS writer. Show your work! Feschino has!

This trove alluded to demonstrates the provenance and the providence of only Feschino’s initiative. It can be gotten no other way!

It could be safe to say that any subsequent claim of “the true story of Flatwoods, REVEALED,” from maliciously fallacious follow-ons or “wannabe-Gray Barkers” (and one suspiciously anxious “debater”) going forward, is only a tedious example of more piracy of copyrighted material… or a complete and utter fabrication, a mechanism of distraction… for a thoughtless cash or power grab! 

Feschino will countenance or facilitate none of this. His only interest is the story and the memory of the good people who endured it.

Want a revelation, reader? REVEALED! Extensive video and photographic material exists that could be shown to an interested public, but for these unethical scurvy content pirates, aforementioned! These materials will be held back, therefore, but gleefully used to dismantle the weak arguments and facile assertions of these identified pirates who publish their insulting, inaccurate, and contrarious… “works.” 

Feschino delightedly anticipates these “new truths” about Flatwoods that are “avowed” to be soon reported, eh? Only, we caution that they shouldn’t be part and parcel of Feschino’s work of 30 effin’ years of effort, due diligence, and PRODUCTIVE initiative… or risk effusive literary embarrassments, follow?  Read on.