Andrew's world West Virginia history

  Photo sourced from Pintrest.com          Britannica.com defines “paranormal” as very strange . Not able to be explained by what scientists know about nature and the world..     We have had several things in the mountain state that would fall under that category. Usually, when people hear “paranormal ”, they think of ghosts, but you can’t forget the cryptids. “ Cryptid” is usually defined as an animal that is said to exist but isn’t proven to.     We have had at least a couple of those over the years, but one is unique to West Virginia. I’m of course talking about the Flatwoods monster AKA the Braxton County monster AKA Braxxie .   Back in 1952, in the small West Virginia Village of Flatwoods, something terrified six kids, a mother and a dog. The story goes two young brothers had been playing in their school yard on September 12 th, 1952, the boys were 12 and 13 years old. They were playing there with their friend, who was ten years old. The three boys saw a red light

     A few months ago, I visited the town of Thurmond, West Virginia. This was after watching a documentary about it, everybody knows me and my dad will nerd out about a documentary.      Thurmond is an old railroad town that sits on the bank of the new river. It's said to be the "heart of the gorge".As of 2020, the population was 5. This wasn't always the case, back in the 1920's, Thurmond was a Thriving town. At its peak, it had a population of 500! Nowadays, the park service owns about 80% of the town.      The town was originally founded in the 1880's  and was incorporated in 1903, by  Captain William D. Thurmond on land he received as payment for surveying the North side of the New River. William served as a captain during the civil war. Captain Thurmond died in 1910 and sadly didn't get to see the height of the town.Until 1921, the town was only accessible by train. Alcohol was banned by Captain Thurmond, but just outside the incorporated part of tow

Photo sourced from nationalww2museum.org      Everybody knows about the attack on pearl harbor on December 7th, 1941. If you don't, you need to read up on that. Did you know one of the ships on "battleship row" was named for West Virginia? She was actually the second battleship to be named for the state.      Built in Newport News, Virginia, the West Virginia was commissioned in December 1923. She spent much of her life in the pacific.       West Virginia's base was moved to pearl harbor, Hawaii in 1940. She was still there in 1941 when the Japanese attacked. The West Virginia was hit by at least seven torpedoes, maybe nine, which blew huge holes in one side and she quickly sank. Over one hundred of the West Virginia's crew were lost.      Things were looking up for the USS West Virginia when she was raised from the shallow harbor and was repaired temporarily at the Pearl Harbor Navy yard. In 1943, she went to the Puget Navy yard for final repairs and