"Driving home at 11pm on a clear June night in 1964, local reporter Robert Cockrell saw something truly chilling along a road near Grafton, West Virginia. In the car's high beams, he glimpsed a massive, headless creature between seven and nine feet tall and roughly four feet wide, with smooth, seal-like skin that glistened in the moonlight. Though terrified, he felt a duty to investigate and returned with two friends to search the area."
"They found no trace of the creature itself, but the brush where it had appeared was mashed down, and a low, eerie whistling seemed to follow them along the river. Over a hundred local teenagers soon took up the search, with more than twenty claiming they caught glimpses of the same headless figure. Adults reported sightings as well, adding to Cockrell's belief that something unexplained had occurred."
"Grafton is a small town in Taylor County in the North Central region of the state. It experienced its boom as a railway town between the mid-1850s and the first half of the 20th century. The city's peak occurred around the 1920s before beginning a steep decline after World War II. The current population is 4,500, but it was about double that in the 1960s when the Grafton Monster first appeared to Cockrell."
Robert Cockrell saw a massive headless creature near Grafton, West Virginia, on a clear June night in 1964. The creature measured seven to nine feet tall and about four feet wide with seal-like skin. Cockrell returned with two friends but found only mashed brush and an eerie low whistling along the river. Over a hundred teenagers searched the area and more than twenty claimed glimpses; adults also reported sightings. The entity became known as the Grafton Monster and entered local cryptid lore. Grafton was a railway boom town whose population was double in the 1960s. Cockrell feared being labeled a hoaxer; his editor ran the story with a cynical tone.
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