Home The legend of the Vegetable Man: How a bloodsucking alien left its mark on West Virginia Detail from eyewitness sketch of Vegetable Man

Detail from eyewitness sketch of Vegetable Man

In the wooded hills of northern West Virginia, Vegetable Main appeared in 1968. (Detail from an eyewitness sketch.)

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