Suttons, Flatwoods & Oompah-Loompahs
Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 6th, 2007
One reason [the Flatwoods Monster case] might remind you of the Kelly goblins is the name “Sutton.” It’s the town next to Flatwoods and the name of the family that was besieged one night by goblins, aliens, eagle owls or Oompah-Loompahs.Robert Schneck, November 6, 2007.
Don Getty, River Otters, Grand Tetons. Used with full permission of Mr. Getty.
Images and laughter sometimes are worth a thousand words.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Whatever it was that they saw, it sure as hell wasn’t owls! (although, barn owls do look and sound somewhat like aliens).
I just realized what they saw may have been Stripe and his pals from the movie Gremlins…lol.
The Flatwoods monster made a video game appearance years ago on the old NES. A game called Amagon.
How I miss those old cases when there was more variety in the description of the aliens.
Makes me wonder if those gray bastards kicked the rest of the kiddies out of the playground! 🙂
“Eagle owls”? What nationality is Robert Schneck? Isn’t “eagle owl” the British English name for what in American English is called the Great Horned Owl?
I’m going with the Oompah Loompah hypothesis. Let’s not be close minded to the possibility of Oompah Loompahs attacking people out in the woods. There’s nothing to prove in this case that they conclusively could NOT have been Oompah Loompahs, and we don’t know enough about Oompah Loompah behavior to say it is not plausible. Under the right lighting conditions, under stress, Ooompah Loompahs could absolutely be mistaken for alien creatures. That or they were otters dressed up in oompah loompah costumes. 🙂
Maybe they are mangy Oompa Loompas.
All I know is that is one hell of a beautiful owl pictured above !!!
The eagle owl is closely related to the great horned, but not the same species.
Atticus, you made my day with that comment!
as some one who lives in the area i can tell you that there is so strange things in the sky here
my grandma tell about her and her brother seeing something in the sky that night as the walked home the didn’t live far from flatwoods